Christine Monnier

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Remarkable how many "genius billionaires" turn out to be frauds:

Elizabeth Holmes (Theranos)

Adam Neumann (WeWork)

Sam Bankman-Fried (FTX)

DeSantis follows in Trump's authoritarian footsteps: https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/ron-desantis-follows-donald-trumps-authoritarian-footsteps-rcna56505 By @ruthbenghiat Also, read her book, Strongmen.
Ron DeSantis follows in Donald Trump's authoritarian footsteps

The Florida governor has made the former president's lines and lies his own.

MSNBC
@drvolts They'll find something else. It's just a sub-topics from the "dems in disarray" trope they like so much.

Press critic has an exchange with the New York Times about election coverage:

Hounshell: Are you saying we didn’t do enough of this? Our polling has found that voters evidently have other priorities, even when they’re aware of the issues at stake.

Froomkin: Yes of course I’m saying you didn’t do enough. And the proof is right there in the poll results you use to defend yourself. If people are not alarmed about [democracy in peril] then you have failed to do your job...

https://presswatchers.org/2022/11/i-win-an-argument-with-blake-hounshell/

I win an argument with Blake Hounshell | Press Watch

The author of the New York Times's marquee political newsletter asked if I really think the Times failed to adequately cover the threats to democracy.

Press Watch
Time to put the myth of the billionaire genius to rest: https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/11/11/billionaire-worship-crypto-bankman-fried-musk/? "Time and time again, Americans fall prey to the myth of the billionaire genius, the man (because it is almost always a man) who is better than us mere mortals, able to solve any business or political or philanthropic problem that comes his way — till, suddenly, he is not."
Let’s put the myth of the billionaire genius to rest

Sam Bankman-Fried? Elon Musk? The Powerball winner? Having a billion dollars doesn't mean you're uniquely smart.

The Washington Post

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Turns out normies are turned off by rightwing fever dreams and hate mongering. Who could guessed? https://twitter.com/BenjySarlin/status/1591141844851003392

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/maxasteele/status/1591143500153864192

Benjy Sarlin on Twitter

“Conservative groups spent over $50m on attack ads targeting transgender issues, there’s little evidence it did anything on Tuesday, and now some R’s are pointing fingers https://t.co/RJTGrMGwm8”

Twitter
All right, all right, I get it, Masto's likely to win! Good news.
@Teri_Kanefield And thank you for this informative thread.

Even though this is a super fun thread reading Trump's latest legal filing in his Special Master case, I will try the CW function so that the whole thread doesn't pop up at people.

If I did this wrong, please tell me.

Trump's lawyers filed their response to the DOJ's 11th circuit appeal in the Judge Cannon special master case.

Here's Trump's response: …https://docs-cdn-prod.news-engineering.aws.wapo.pub/publish_document/f36d85e3-6ea5-4df2-add1-1903f07f832b/published/f36d85e3-6ea5-4df2-add1-1903f07f832b.pdf…

Shall we read it together? 🤓

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