Brendan Nyhan"Trump has left no doubt that he is a violent authoritarian who intends to reject any election that does not restore him to power, that he will pardon scores of criminals, and that he will never willingly leave office. This should be said every day, in every medium." https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2023/03/trump-sings-a-song-of-sedition/673535/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
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Amish Super ModelWeird how mental illness hardly shoots anyone in Canada.
Casey NewtonEvery day is like "starting tomorrow only people who post ‘Elon is cool' will be eligible to have their tweets appear in English" and the entire press corps and all of my friends continue to post there like nothing has changed
There's a secret list of Twitter VIPs whose accounts and tweets are getting boosted over everyone else's. And @zoeschiffer got it https://www.platformer.news/p/the-secret-list-of-twitter-vips-getting
Charlotte ClymerFolks do know that David Koresh raped numerous teenage and pre-teen girls in his cult, right? He was a rapist. He called these girls his "wives" and raped them. Girls as young as 11. I know there's this bizarre effort to paint him as a martyr, but he raped children.
Dan Gillmor1. Big Journalism is shocked, shocked to discover that the Murdoch family's Fox "News" is a completely partisan propaganda outlet, spewing lies and injecting poison into our civic bloodstream.
2. Big Journalism has known this for many years. The sudden surprise is a pretense that only highlights the way the craft has treated -- will continue to treat -- Fox as if it had a shred of legitimacy.
3. Big Journalism will be shocked, shocked the next time a court case reveals what was already known.
#TuckFrumpAdam Schiff Goes After GOP For Threatening Medicare & Social Security https://bipartisanreport.com/2023/02/27/adam-schiff-goes-after-gop-for-threatening-medicare-social-security/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon
Seth CotlarThis story is wild. Jack Anderson was a pretty amazing journalist back in the day who exposed a ton of far right chicanery, but I had no idea that G. Gordon Liddy and Nixon had explicit conversations about how to murder him. https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2022/03/25/nixon-jack-anderson-assassination/
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randsTwitter isn’t going to die, it’ll be around for a long time in some sad MySpace fashion, but Mastodon has 99% replaced Twitter for me.
My people are here, we’re engaged and sending interesting bits and stupid memes, and it just works.