Timothy P. Wood

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Wichita Kansas Longtime political junkie. Independent thinker.
It's beginning to look like Jim Jordan may make it by the skin of his teeth with his bullying and cowardly colleagues. Hope I'm wrong. #SpeakerOfHouse #jimjordan

JUST PUBBED. An examination of Tucker Carlson's long strange journey from self-declared crusading journalist to right-wing demagogue and promoter of conspiracy theories & racist notions. Was it all one big con? Please read/share my latest.

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2023/04/tucker-carlson-long-con-fox-news-trump/

Tucker Carlson's long con

Was his long, strange trip a put-up job?

Mother Jones
Scott Adams’ routine: feel yourself getting inadequate attention, so troll hard, and then wrap yourself in a mantle of victimhood and cry censorship when people react — is so painfully obvious and predictable of a grift that it’s appalling that people fall for it.
This is very good from @tchambers: tracking the migration from the dustbowl that is Twitter: https://www.deweysquare.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/DSG-Snapshot-of-the-Twitter-Migration-December-12-2022.pdf
I will give big points to the first news organization, big or small, that:
* Sets up an instance for its newsroom,
* Sets up an instance for the community it serves,
* Enables rel=me for staff,
* Creates a boost-on-Mastodon sharing function,
* Enhances that function so headlines/images (with alt-text) appear in the toot,
* Covers the Fediverse as more than a geeky curiosity or alt-Twitter,
* Listens to and joins in the conversation here.