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I tried to explain what drove a reporter like me to quit #Twitter (even if it’s temporary) after years and years of thriving on the site.

Looking forward to really seeing what Mastodon has to offer the next few weeks. https://dandiamond.substack.com/p/i-quit-twitter

I quit Twitter.

For a few weeks, at least

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Taliban has banned women from seeing male doctors AND banned women from seeking medical education to become doctors. This is a sure fire way to kill women. It’s beyond barbaric.

Moreover, Prophet Muhammad (sa) declared education incumbent upon women AND declared medical knowledge as the most worthwhile knowledge. Taliban extremists ignore that entirely—because they fear truth, justice, and empowered women.

Taliban are enemies of all humanity.

This is genius Albert Einstein who refused to speak at white colleges and at the end of his life spoke exclusively at black universities
"The separation of races is not a disease of colored people but a disease of white people. I do not intend to be quiet about it.

#Einstein #Racism #Integrity #Equality

Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell struck a particularly somber note at his press conference earlier this week when he mentioned that one reason the labor market is so tight right now is that many workers died from COVID-19.

https://www.axios.com/2022/12/16/the-missing-workers-who-are-never-coming-back

The missing workers who are never coming back

Close to half a million working-age people lost their lives to COVID.

Axios
Matt Gaetz is demanding that McCarthy give him the chairmanship of the armed services subcommittee. Gaetz would use that seat to undermine America’s support for Ukraine, and help Vladimir Putin.

Guys, I *want* to write about other stuff. But, since no one else seems to be doing the debunking... I will explain why Elon is full of shit when he says that the FBI is paying Twitter to censor.

https://www.techdirt.com/2022/12/20/no-the-fbi-is-not-paying-twitter-to-censor/

No, The FBI Is NOT ‘Paying Twitter To Censor’

Sigh. Look. I want to stop writing about Twitter. I want to write about lots of other stuff. I have a huge list of other stories that I’m trying to get through, but then Elon Musk does someth…

Techdirt

What the so-called “Twitter Files” actually reveal.

“It isn’t Twitter’s fault that so much conservative discourse in the Trump era is so deeply, fundamentally dishonest.”

https://slate.com/technology/2022/12/elon-musk-twitter-files-bari-weiss-matt-taibbi-shadowbanning.html

This is one of the best cut-through-the-noise pieces I have read in months. Seriously. It's that good.

#journalism #journalists #USpolitics

The Great Internet Grievance War the Right Has Wanted Is Here. It Ain’t Going Well.

The “Twitter Files,” and the journalists hand-picked for them, don’t reveal what Elon Musk wanted.

Slate