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Elon Musk’s X goes full pro-Trump with custom hashtag emoji icons

#MAGA now appears with a pic of Trump with his fist in the air

#Trump2024 appears with an American flag

if you click on the last hashtag, American flags rain down on the search page

read: https://mashable.com/article/elon-musk-x-twitter-pro-trump-custom-hashtag-icon

Elon Musk's X adds pro-Trump icons for Trump hashtags

The move comes after Musk publicly endorsed Trump

Mashable
Journalists who remain on Twitter at this point will be remembered for their capitulation to the forces that are working to end democracy, and by extension freedom of expression. https://mashable.com/article/elon-musk-x-twitter-pro-trump-custom-hashtag-icon
Elon Musk's X adds pro-Trump icons for Trump hashtags

The move comes after Musk publicly endorsed Trump

Mashable
And there it is, the always awful @kwelkerNBC tells the equally awful Lester Holt that “something has shifted in our politics.” (A classic way of making nothing sound pithy.). Cue the @nytimes columnists, or maybe @ruthmarcus, to find some way to blame Biden for this. Wait for it.

“We are in the process of the second American Revolution, which will remain bloodless — if the left allows it to be.”

do not get it twisted: American fascists have killed millions since the Reagan/Bush era. when they kill with weapons it's by proxy, with mass shooters & cops.

American Fascists kill with prisons, la migra, austerity, banned abortions, denial of health care, planned pollution, food deserts, climate crisis.

American Fascists are killing us NOW. fighting back is self-defense.

Congrats to my British breathren (not you Farage). Democracy is reasserting itself across the world. It’s our turn next.

What do we say to fascism?
Not today.

Just a reminder that demographics are not on the Republicans side. The reason they’re choosing now to enact their scheme is because they will never get another opportunity.

They are 7 & Goal, down by 4 with 5 seconds left on the clock. It’s now or never.

Ignore the noise, stay the course, and speak out as much as possible.

Don't Let a Biden Succession Crisis Create a Succession Crisis - emptywheel

The calls for Biden to resign the Presidency at which, by most measures, he continues to have historic success, only to leave Kamala Harris without a Vice President are as silly as calls for 71-year old Sherrod Brown to replace Biden on the presidential ticket.

emptywheel

Today we're launching a new #Mastodon feature that will highlight writers and journalists that are active on the fediverse when their their articles are being shared.

https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2024/07/highlighting-journalism-on-mastodon/

Highlighting journalism on Mastodon

Today we're launching a new feature that will highlight writers and journalists that are active on the fediverse when their articles are being shared.

Mastodon Blog
i think we should stop giving our ai bots female names (alexa, siri) and give them names from the old white boys club (john, james, chad) in honor of how overconfident and annoying they are even when they’re completely wrong or making stuff up
The fact that you can follow the president of the United States (@[email protected]) from your Mastodon account instead of being forced to have an X or Threads account for it is a huge W in my book. Of course our team is fully available to help if they'd want to set up Mastodon on whitehouse.gov. I believe governments should not rely on 3rd party platforms to connect with their constituents.