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Corporate Security Chief, former Special Agent, Psychologist, US Army combat veteran (CID/MP). 
US/Australian citizen currently living in Ireland.
If you drew a Venn diagram of those who think Hunter Biden and his laptop is America’s biggest story and are outraged that Volodimir Zelensky didn’t wear a suit, you’d find in the intersection quite a crew of Trump- and Putin-loving “patriots.”

What news publications have you seen set up shop on Mastodon?

I've come across the following that are active & appear to be legit:

- LA Times @losangelestimes
- NBC News @nbcnews
- ProPublica @ProPublica
- VOA @VOANews
- The Intercept @theintercept
- The Conversation @TheConversationUS
- Meduza @meduza_en
- Global Voices @globalvoices
- Grist @grist
- Die Tageszeitung (in German) @tazgetroete
- Le Monde diplomatique (in French) @mdiplo

(ping me if you know more!)

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#media #news #journalism

Every major decision Elon Musk makes about Twitter, reminds me of Trumps Muslim ban - in the early days of his Presidency. Ill conceived, power trips, from a rich entitled, narcissist who has no f-ing clue what he’s doing or how the world outside his bubble actually works.

Wake me up when Musk says one critical word about COVID policy in China

RT @[email protected]

My pronouns are Prosecute/Fauci

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1601894132573605888

Elon Musk on Twitter

“My pronouns are Prosecute/Fauci”

Twitter
Besides Russia, the UK has the weakest economic growth prospects of any G20 country. https://t.co/ADJkixWxY9
UK’s growth prospects worst among top economies, OECD warns

News, analysis and comment from the Financial Times, the worldʼs leading global business publication

Financial Times
New Bill Barr interview on Trump: “I personally think that they probably have the basis for legitimately indicting the president .. They probably have the evidence .. I think it’s becoming increasingly more likely.”

A former senior aide to Mitch McConnell and RandPaul was convicted after being found guilty of helping to funnel illegal foreign campaign contributions from a Russian national into Trump's 2016 campaign. The aide was previously pardoned by Trump in 2020 for bribery charges after trying to hide $73,000 in payments to an Iowa state senator, Kent Sorenson, for his endorsement of Paul in 2012..

https://t.co/pNL7JmI0r0

GOP operative convicted in scheme to funnel Russian money into Trump campaign

Benton, the husband of Rand Paul's niece and a veteran GOP staffer, faces up to 20 years in prison, but plans to appeal.

Axios
And then there’s this from the Murdoch owned New York Post
Biden: "I think that Elon Musk’s cooperation and or technical relationships with other countries is worthy of being looked at. Whether or not he is doing anything inappropriate, I’m not suggesting that. It warrants being looked at."

Really important thing you need to know about Mastodon: You don't need to use the official app!

There are some good third party apps listed on Mastodon's own site:

➡️ https://joinmastodon.org/apps

The third party apps have more features and had way more development time.

 Android users might want to start with Tusky and Fedilab

 iPhone/iPad users might want to read this: https://transponderings.blog/2022/05/21/eight-mastodon-apps-for-iphone/

Mastodon is an open platform, so third party apps can use its features fully.

Get an app for Mastodon

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