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So it looks like I was wrong about them releasing Trump’s taxes. But it looks like they’re the returns from 2017-2020 - his years in the presidency. It still feels squinky to me from a tax standpoint, but just to me from a moral standpoint.
Infuriating that journos are allowing themselves to take the bait of that non-statement as a policy, when the actual story is "Elon Musk says he isn't ready to quit yet; despite poll saying he would"

#mastodon #fediverse
With talk growing about going back to 🐦 since man child 🤡 is talking about "not being CEO" (also revealed in his now public texts weeks ago), this excellent article by @mmasnick from 2019 about building protocols & not platforms needs to be surfaced again to avoid the social silos that dominate much of the internet that lack portability & interoperability 👇🏾

https://knightcolumbia.org/content/protocols-not-platforms-a-technological-approach-to-free-speech

Protocols, Not Platforms: A Technological Approach to Free Speech

Knight First Amendment Institute
Disconcerting to see House Democratic Leadership not having any plan of attack to hold reported con artist and criminals like George Santos vulnerable. Given how vulnerable the Republican majority is going to be on the House side - imperative for House Democrats to be on offense instead of lollygagging when presented an opportunity. #uspolitics
BREAKING: President Zelensky is coming to the US Capitol in Washington, DC on Wednesday. It is his first international trip since the start of Putin’s failed war against Ukraine.
Made this for all the people who pay Elon Musk $8/mo to feel important:

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

To understand the roots of the current neo-Nazi explosion, including Atomwaffen, you have to look at the website it came from, Iron March, which was an incubator for numerous violent Nazi groups.

The creator of the website is a Russian national whose family is well-connected to the Kremlin and was educated at MGIMO which is well known as a Kremlin spy school. Among the groups incubated there was the earliest version of Azov Battalion which since denounced its roots.
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https://jimstewartson.substack.com/p/iron-march-how-a-russian-sparked

Iron March: How a Russian Sparked a Global Neo-fascist Emergency

The website that created Atomwaffen and Azov Battalion and incorporated Julius Evola, O9A and Satanic rituals was founded by a Russian spy school graduate

MindWar: The Psychological War on Democracy
When I see Senator Sinema go on about the border, I think back to 2010 NN when she trashed then-AZ Governor Jan Brewer for border hysteria. That was when she pretended to be a progressive. Now we all know she has no core beliefs. She's a craven narcissist. Watch the video if you can bear to listen to her for one minute and 46 seconds
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9MasSFCRMY&t=14s
Rep. Kirsten Sinema on AZ Governor Jan Brewer

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