Well, Musk’s Twitter seems to have finally and decisively shot itself in the face. The app and site no longer work for me in any capacity, and don’t appear to be coming back soon.
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Stefan Plattner
My parents inadvertently booked a stay at a gay resort in the Caribbean.
They are 72.
They are not gay.
One of the pools is clothing optional.
Excited for them.
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/BenjiSJones/status/1620180692654231552
Today in Microsoft Flight Simulator, I'm flying the DHC-2 Beaver, the closest thing Canada has to a national airplane.
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/prchovanec/status/1620416678214639616
How about AP Economic History and AP Progress (covering the past 200 years of sci-tech innovation)? You should not go through high school and never learn about the impact of electrification, shipping container and microchip.
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/JimPethokoukis/status/1620403624252956672
Or the 1992 riot Rudy Giuliani accidentally invited that nearly toppled City Hall-with cops out to overthrow the city’s government.
Consider former Wisconsin governor Scott Walker, who used his authority to end collective bargaining for many public sector unions.
Very quickly, the police “unions” made it very clear to him that such treatment for them would end badly for him. And so it didn’t happen.
American police forces, large and small, have become totally insulated from the slightest hint of civilian control, and it’s fast becoming an even larger danger than the thousand or two they leave dead each year. Whatever one’s political beliefs, this dynamic endangers democracy.
American policing lies largely outside of any meaningful democratic control. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/31/opinion/tyre-nichols-police-accountability-democracy.html
highly recommend you just become emperor of japan https://twitter.com/natalia_barbour/status/1619885318945251328
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/Ian_Gay_briel/status/1620125379016146946
There was a time a few years ago when the center-left and center-right agreed in the spirit of liberalism that it was bad when activists acted like Maoists tearing down institutions in a cultural revolution. But now the right says, "Hell yea, we gotta get us some of that!" https://twitter.com/deonteleologist/status/1619883181335007232
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/DamonLinker/status/1620064159198056450
Sam Hoadley-Brill 🙏 READ CHARLES MILLS. RIP 🐐 on Twitter
“BREAKING: Eddie Speir, whom Gov. DeSantis recently appointed (alongside Chris Rufo) to the @NewCollegeofFL Board of Trustees, publicly announces intention to seek legal approval to immediately terminate the contracts of all faculty, staff, and administration at the university.”