When you refer to Musk's site, you should call it "Saudi-funded Twitter" just for the sake of consistency. Bonus: You'd be 4x more accurate than his claim that NPR, which gets about 1% of its money from taxpayers (well, their grandchildren), is "government funded".

(Corrected to fix Saudi ratio; Qatar also owns a chunk of Twitter, so Middle Eastern oil sellers hold about 5% of the shares together.)

What is wrong with The New York Times? Instead of reporting on what proposed radical measures in Florida represent for civil liberties, education and the state’s residents, this long-delayed report focuses on… what it means for #DeSantis’s presidential campaign.

Gift link: http://bit.ly/3SPenXY

We need better national reporting in the public interest. Our major outlets are locked in partisan framing and fixated on predicting election outcomes.

#journalism #USPol #Florida #NewYorkTimes

I've studied the lead up to the Holocaust seriously. I'm lucky to have met survivors and am committed to preserving their memories.

So let me state this plainly: Republican policy toward trans people is genocidal. And silence from Republicans who don't directly support this policy is complicity.

No pasaran.

https://www.businessinsider.com/florida-anti-trans-bill-court-custody-kids-gender-affirming-care-2023-3

Today in “neither our media nor our political system is designed to deal with a far right authoritarian party”

The Papers of Record are running back the 2016 normalization playbook, as if nothing has changed. 🤷‍♂️🤦‍♂️

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/03/05/desantis-california-reagan-library-speech/?utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=wp_main&utm_medium=social

Elon Musk and Donald Trump both refuse to pay their bills.

They don’t keep their word, stiff other people, and then position themselves as “geniuses” in business.

This seems like a pattern.

And they don’t seem like geniuses. They just seem like shitty people? 🤷‍♂️

I've talked about this in smaller contexts, but I haven't found any traction and time is getting short. When the Nazis passed the enabling laws for the book burning on April 8th, 1933 — exactly 90 years ago in 34 days — the first thing they burnt, the same day, were the archives of the largest trans and gay research institute in the world. When they say now that we didn't exist until after the war, the only reason they can get away with it is that they burned all the accumulated evidence. 

https://assemblag.es/@hugo/109972631252644527

RT @BadBalticTakes
Baltics: As we repeatedly see, Russia keeps escalating its aggression when the world fails to robustly support international law. Only a Ukrainian victory can end Russia’s war and prevent it spreading.

Commentators: Why do those hawkish Baltic states want war so much?

A must read:

"In spite of all the evidence for caution, we are now tossing children into a world with nearly zero protections. Without new silver bullet scientific discoveries, young children will be pretty much guaranteed to contract new COVID variants over a dozen times by the time they reach adulthood."

#CovidIsNotOver #covid

Opinion: Treating kids as invulnerable is treating them as disposable | https://calgaryherald.com/opinion/columnists/opinion-treating-kids-as-invulnerable-is-treating-them-as-disposable