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Whichever speechwriter thought to tie in the Hannukah story to this speech deserves a raise.
We have reached the stage of "The Twitter Files" where the FBI looking at public social media posts without a warrant is a big scandal and JFC HOW IS IT ONLY TUESDAY?
https://twitter.com/mtaibbi/status/1604656041127514113?s=20&t=KlIhYtUjKwbegK6GBABJEg
Matt Taibbi on Twitter

“Once we had a standard in this country that the FBI had to at least have some indication of possible crime to initiate investigations. No longer. They can “pre-assess” at will, with no chargeable crime in sight, and people like you are fine with it.”

Twitter
Fascinating. According to observers Musk's blocking of #Mastodon may be considered an anticompetitive action against a rapidly growing "rival", triggering U.S. federal government involvement.

This is an absolutely outrageous course of action by @[email protected] to take in response to a an unprecedented attack on journalistic freedom

Free @[email protected]

RT @[email protected]

NBC News temporarily suspended tech reporter Ben Collins from NBC and MSNBC airwaves, saying his Musk criticism was not editorially appropriate: @[email protected] reports https://www.semafor.com/article/12/16/2022/newsrooms-are-scrambling-to-counter-elon-musks-bans

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/TasneemN/status/1603796486344658947

Newsrooms are scrambling to counter Elon Musk's bans | Semafor

News organizations are considering the alternatives to the industry's Twitter addiction.

There are many legitimate reasons to track Elon Musk's flight coordinates, for example to offer him ads more relevant to his interests

Many of the journalists Elon suspended today on Twitter are here on #Mastodon. Please follow and boost:

Drew Harwell, Washington Post
@drewharwell

Donie O’Sullivan, CNN
@donieosullivan

Steve Herman, VOA
@w7voa

Micah Lee, Intercept
@micahflee

Tony Webster
@tony

Matt Binder, Mashable
@MattBinder

#freepress #journalism #journalists #news

It only took ~8 months but I finally got the mastodon app to work on my phone.