Anthony L. Fisher
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If colleges have policies with zero tolerance for microaggressions, reflexive deference to the feelings of the offended, and a primacy on safetyism—but make an exception when its Jewish students and faculty feeling threatened—well, there's a word for that.
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Funny story about Rod Ponton, the "Zoom cat lawyer" that everyone's talking about today.
I reported on him in 2014, when he was a local prosecutor used the power of his office — and roped in federal law enforcement — to harass a former lover.
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Norm MacDonald absolutely called it like it is on Bill Maher
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This is too funny.
James Lindsay, the "ok groomer" guy, is begging Elon Musk to stop people from sharing a photo of him posing with one of his pals—a LITERAL GROOMER from the NXIVM sex trafficking cult.
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Uh,
@jack
, does this tweet promote violence? Because I'm pretty sure it promotes government-sponsored genocide.
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Getting myself ready for the next three days of "Libs of TikTok/Taylor Lorenz" discourse
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TL;dr: Ponton was briefly sexually involved with the woman who ran the head shop. (He denies this.)
During his time as DA, local and federal cops repeatedly tried to bust her for selling illegal synthetic marijuana (they never found any).
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I spent months reporting out this story as a written feature and a video doc — every stone overturned was creepier than the last.
I went down to Texas, where Ponton said he would give me an interview, before reneging. But it was a small town and everyone knew what happened.
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I had read about a violent, militarized raid on a small Texas college town's head shop.
The shop's owner was forced to sign an incriminating statement before she could post bond.
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When a person misrepresents who they are and what they stand for, in the pursuit of profit, they’re grifting.
In the case of Jordan Peterson, there’s no mistaking it. He’s working a grift.
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Dave Rubin got roasted by his own homophobic audience that likes him as their token gay, but they couldn't abide him having children, and now he's telling them he understands why they're homophobic because the left is *that bad*
Tonight, I have a hard & honest conversation with my friend and fellow
@BlazeTV
host
@RubinReport
about his decision to have kids through surrogacy. He tells me "I get why the right has these often legitimate fears." But that CAN'T stop us from having respectful discussions.
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"Musk is a right-wing culture warrior...less interested in policy debates and outreach than he is in whipping up outrage and scoring online dunk points—all while disingenuously positioning himself as a 'rational centrist' or above all the partisan rancor."
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About a year ago I tweeted that post-Trump libertarianism was in a really bad place and a lot of the responses were from very defensive libertarians.
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"Libertarian" congressman snitch-tags a libertarian journalist's employer because cancel culture, ideological purity, and doing the bidding of ultra-rich right-wing donors
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*rips bong hit*
If we don't talk about kids not learning how to read or do math...then it really didn't happen
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Flipping out over someone saying "Let's Go Brandon" is precisely what people saying "Let's Go Brandon" want you to do.
Maybe...don't?
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Jordan Peterson literally sues people for calling him mean names
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Three young right-wing commentators were recently outed for putting Nazi imagery in a DeSantis campaign video, sending antisemitic messages, and writing for white nationalist sites.
But these aren't fringe kooks, they're rising stars on the right.
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"Randi Weingarten said the unions have been 'trying to reopen schools since last April.'
If words mean anything, that's true. But it flies in the face of every action taken at local and national levels.
Let's just call this what it is: gaslighting."
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Someone on Dave Rubin's staff game him a photo of the justice who openly says he'd like write the SCOTUS opinion that would make Dave's marriage illegal
Dave's response: lol
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I know it's all "LOL no he can't you idiot" but this is some legitimately dangerous behavior by a defeated president intent on poisoning half the country's faith in the democratic process.
If Vice President
@Mike_Pence
comes through for us, we will win the Presidency. Many States want to decertify the mistake they made in certifying incorrect & even fraudulent numbers in a process NOT approved by their State Legislatures (which it must be). Mike can send it back!
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Born rich, elite boarding school-educated, well-connected in media—he never missed a meal or dirtied a fingernail in his life.
If there was a Gen Xer who had no financial incentive to sell out, it’s Tucker Swanson McNear Carlson.
Yet, sell out he did.
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If you get the sense that post-Trump libertarianism has devolved into a shrinking cult catering to anti-vaxxers, voter fraud dead-enders, and clout-chasing grifters — check out some of the *keynote* speakers at this week's FreedomFest
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The story goes on and on with badness. But you can watch the doc here and judge for yourself:
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James Lindsay's fans say he's a "brave" intellectual voice of the anti-woke movement who was "censored" by Twitter.
In reality, the "Ok Groomer" guy is a bigot, bully, conspiracy theorist, and demi-fascist.
What he is *not* is a free speech martyr.
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Eric Swalwell represents California, you'd expect he's read about FDR's internment of Japanese-Americans but it looks like he took the wrong lessons.
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I sure do hope
@elonmusk
's culture of free speech extends to people sharing this photo of James Lindsay posing with a literal groomer
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If a guy said he's going to punch you in the face, told his buddies to punch people in the face, then said they're going to start punching people in the face, then punched many people in the face—you’d take them literally if they "warned" you again, right?
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Ben Shapiro and Elon Musk think the ADL characterizing Twitter/X as a cesspool of antisemitism is defamation, and calls for boycotts are an attack on free speech.
But it's Musk's bogus defamation lawsuit threats that are the real assaults on free speech.
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Witnesses said they were personally intimidated by Ponton over social media posts describing the raid.
A local reporter told me she was personally scolded by Ponton for her coverage of the raid — and her editors wrote their own pro-law enforcement followups, using *her* byline.
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Apparently this needed to be said, because mainstream right-wing commentators keep pushing the fiction:
The Deep State Didn’t Frame Russell Brand, You Idiots
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James Lindsay would cancel all of his political adversaries if he could.
Shame on every "heterodox thinker" who promoted this guy as some kind of free speech ally.
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Yes, the media, govt, institutions get it wrong—a lot.
But the solution isn't: “Promote every psychotic conspiracy theory and trust every charlatan that’s disapproved of by ‘the cathedral’ because at least they're pushing back on the powerful.”
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When the Obama administration was staging a "day of raids" to nab synthetic marijuana sellers who were funneling money to Middle Eastern terrorists, somehow they ended up raiding this Jewish woman's head shop — guns drawn, "SWAT-team style."
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Chris Rufo's QAnon-ing of Disney is a big vindication for those of us who saw him (and James Lindsay, et al) as unhinged, bad-faith culture war maniacs back when they were still being pushed as brave muckrakers by the rational-centrist/politically-tribeless/heterodox brain trust.
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After three years and 100-ish dispatches, I’ve hung up my
@wethefifth
producer hat.
I’m forever grateful to my comrades for inviting me to join for an incalculable number of laughs, a few dozen hangovers, and expanding my booklist to an unmanageable length.
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imagine quoting tony soprano unironically
"He discovered America is what he did! He was a brave Italian explorer. And in this house Christopher Columbus is a hero—end of story."
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Just heard James Lindsay got banned.
As his free speech tourist buddies bleat and sob over "unjust censorship," please always recall that Lindsay did not believe in free speech and in recent months has basically been an open fascist.
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DeSantis is two inches taller than Fauci
Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) escalates his ridiculous attacks on Dr. Fauci:
"Someone needs to grab that little elf and chuck him across the Potomac."
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The most important public intellectual of our time is so deranged by his obsessive culture war rage-panic that he got fooled by a Babylon Bee article from 2 years ago
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The “facts don’t care about your feelings” GOP is banning the teaching of "divisive" aspects of US history—to protect the delicate sensibilities of “patriotic” parents.
If you love America—don't fear kids will learn the good, bad, and ugly of its history.
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They're posting a picture of me posing with a groomer seven months ago...and that's MAOISM.
#Resist
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This is totally true I saw it happened at a hipster coffee shop
My wife walked up to the server at our local cafe. The person was possibly transgender. She wanted to engage the individual but was frozen in fear that she might use a pronoun that might offend. Therein lies the problem with this language policing. It takes perfectly natural
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I'm a staunch free speech advocate, so I don't say this lightly: Trump's "Stop the Steal" speech directly incited deadly violence and is therefore not protected by the First Amendment.
Arrest Trump.
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Ben Shapiro—free speech tourist—was a vocal supporter of corporate boycotts against Target and Bud Light.
But he thinks Musk is "correct" that the ADL's call for advertisers to pull their business from X is "defamation."
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I'm reading your tweets
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I'm pretty sure no flight info was shared in that Twitter Space last night. Is Elon even bothering to give a reason anymore?
It seems my account is banned… but only from Spaces. (This is what I get if I try to join or start a Space)
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I watched Dinesh D'Souza's stupid, vile, easily debunkable Big Lie documentary "2000 Mules" so you don't have to (and please don't).
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"We lobby to criminalize vapes and we are absolutely shocked that police used force to arrest people who violated the laws we demanded be passed."
Our statement on the disturbing law enforcement incident that occurred in Ocean City, MD.
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Eric Weinstein was triggered by a joke he misinterpreted, then used it as an example for why journalists should be easier to sue.
In the running for ultimate free speech tourist.
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Women's March co-chairs Linda Sarsour, Tamika Mallory, and Carmen Perez were accused of anti-Semitism. Then, their PR firm asked journalists to delete their tweets about the story. Now many local chapters are breaking away.
My latest for INSIDER:
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MAUS wasn't "banned," but that doesn't mean its removal is a "manufactured outrage" or "fake news" as some on the right have claimed.
It is, however, an example of how great, affecting art gets buried by parents who think their kids need a "safe space."
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Annual reminder that NO ONE is giving their expensive THC edibles away to children as Halloween candy. This isn't a thing and it never was.
New York parents should be on the alert for deceptive cannabis products that look like standard snacks and candy but contain dangerously high concentrations of THC.
Any New Yorker that has encountered these products should contact my office immediately:
1-800-771-7755
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The Critical Race Theory guy just coming out and mocking the gullible folks who helped legitimize him in his activist infancy
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"I would kick out every single Chinese in this country that is loyal to the CCP."
Racist psychopath, Republican member of the US Congress.
Marjorie Taylor Greene talks about what she would do to the CCP if she was in charge.
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Now it's not just Maoists, it's occultists.
From 1950s McCarthyism to the 1980s Satan panic to QAnon to the CRT and groomer panics—James is playing all the timeless hits.
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The stridently pro-masks-in-school contingent in the US absolutely does not want to talk about the lack of data proving the benefit for young children to be constantly masked.
And they really don't want to talk about European countries not requiring masks for kids in school.
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Opposing mask mandates is one thing, a powerful person publicly berating college students for wearing masks indoors is another.
This kind of behavior is a Covid theater of its own — it's anti-mask vice signaling.
NEW:
@GovRonDeSantis
annoyed with USF students—
"You do not have to wear those masks. Please take them off. Honestly, it's not doing anything. We've gotta stop with this Covid theater. So if you wanna wear it, fine, but this is ridiculous."
@WFLA
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5 years after Charlottesville, contrarians and MAGA cultists keep pushing the idea that Trump ACKSHUALLY condemned neo-Nazis without equivocation, and the outrage over his "very fine people" comments was just a "media hoax."
Here's why that's ridiculous.
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It used to blow my mind that people who claimed to be nonpartisan, politically tribeless free speech advocates were so easily duped by mediocre shitposters like James Lindsay.
Now I realize "politically tribeless" is a tribe defined by a common enemy, and they defend their own.
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No, Tucker Carlson isn't "idiosyncratic" or a genuine populist.
He's a clout-chasing hack who thinks his audience is stupid, and he spread lies he knew weren't true.
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"Musk’s culture warrior turn is the apotheosis of the Intellectual Dark Web's faux-centrist schtick: 'I voted Dem but the left got too woke, now I giggle at fascists’ jokes, ramp up moral panics, and call for the imprisonment of my political enemies.'"
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The right bans YA novels with LGBTQ characters and books with antiracist perspectives.
The left bans books because of authors'
"problematic" personal conduct, and for insufficiently woke content.
This is why we still have "Banned Books Week" in America.
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Good on JBP for this
Banning CRT is impossible and a bad idea. It can't be defined or policed. All such attempts will backfire. Ideas are defeated by better ideas.
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Jordan Peterson thinks plus sized models are "authoritarian," public ads about composting are "tyranny," and apple cider nearly killed him. That's why we laugh at him.
Jordan Peterson encourages men to make noble sacrifices, take responsibility, and live with honour. That's why they hate him.
Link 👇
🗣️
@KonstantinKisin
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Viral Twitter threads blamed "the media" for "normal people" believing lies about voter fraud and the COVID vaccine.
They conveniently ignore the real culprits of brain-poisoning conspiracy theories: Trump and his media allies.
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Republicans *love* cancel culture. They're just jealous when the left wields their favorite weapon.
.
@SyracuseU
is rated one of the WORST colleges in the nation for free speech. They only care about it when it protects the radical views of one of their insane leftist professors. This woman should be FIRED.
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Cancel culture is a "moral obligation," says anti-cancel culture intellectual cosplayer
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Bloggers who write about Florida government officials would quite literally be more regulated than guns.
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Are you aware your life is puppet-mastered by George Soros, the humanity-hating supervillain? If not, you’re entranced by lies of the globalist/RINO/Deep State.
This is the "nuance" that Elon Musk, Joe Rogan, and other "centrists" push to vast audiences.
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"We need to have less awareness about millions of kids' lost educations" is quite the social justice take
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(Democratic governor and legislature does something conservatives and libertarians support)
Dave Rubin: Democrats are a blend of totally insane, mentally challenged, deeply insecure and profoundly evil.
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My life’s better for knowing the
@wethefifth
comrades. Keep downloading, subscribing, and patreonizing.
Anyway, we’ve been at this for a while. We should get out of here. Bye.
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The 3,000 murdered people aside, I'm pretty sure al-Qaeda's preferred system could aptly be described as "heteropatriarchal"
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"Why is the corporate mainstream media too cowardly to write about me and my brave genius friends?"
ALSO
"Any journalist who works on a non-sycophantic story about me or my brave genius friends is a pathologically bad person."
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Dave Rubin had Milo, Stefan Molyneux, and numerous other racists on his show for paddycake interviews.
But now that Trump is damaged goods (and he's found a new master in Ron DeSantis), Dave's finally found the spine to criticize Trump—for not vetting his guests!
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Let's check in on the Intellectual Dark Web, see what's on the minds of our generation's bravest heterodox thinkers.
Jordan Peterson is still losing his shit over a plus-size model on the cover of Sports Illustrated
My dad
@jordanbpeterson
’s comments on the recent Sports Illustrated cover - podcast coming tomorrow!
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Trump's impeachment defense lawyer essentially warned that the people who threatened political violence, and then committed political violence, might commit more political violence if displeased about the trial's outcome.
My new Insider op-column:
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@elonmusk
I think you're very much a partisan loyal to one side of the culture war, invested in framing the other side as the sole bad actor in the culture war, while disingenuously positioning yourself as above all the rancor of the culture war.
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Big city teachers unions in Democratic-run cities swear they want to reopen schools.
But at every turn, they reject inconvenient science guidelines and demand impossible zero-risk environments.
Let's just call it what it is: gaslighting.
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RFK Jr. is the Alex Jones of Tulsi Gabbards
RFK Jr went on Jordan Peterson’s podcast and claimed that “sexual dysphoria” was caused by chemicals in drinking water.
He specifically mentions Atrazine, a pesticide.
Atrazine has been hotly debated, but there’s no evidence as RFK claims linking it to human “sexual dysphoria”
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"I know you are but what am I?"
GOP election deniers like Ted Cruz have co-opted Pee Wee Herman's catchphrase to excuse their cynical support for the Big Lie.
But there's no equivalence between Stacey Abrams' sour grapes and Trump's coup attempt.
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Be appalled by Trump supporters' violent attempted coup at the Capitol, but don't be surprised.
Trump has always encouraged violence and said he won't accept losing an election.
"Take Trump seriously, not literally" hasn't aged well.
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Star pundits of the “centrist, heterodox, politically tribeless” tribe are whatbout-ing their way into promoting RFK Jr.'s candidacy.
But whitewashing his idiocy and penchant for spreading lies isn’t “nuance”—it’s reflexive contrarianism.
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Pizzagaters, QAnoners, Seth Rich truthers, Stop the Steal liars, and anti-vaxxers clearly don't understand this but it is possible to have been vocally critical of MSM coverage of Covington, Jussie Smollett, antifa, riots and Russiagate without buying into psychotic conspiracies.
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I read Dave Rubin's new book, "Don't Burn This Country."
It's a lot like his first book—vapid and repetitive—but this time "the last liberal" finally admits he's a hardcore Trumpist who'll endure any homophobic abuses to stay in MAGA world's good graces.
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Cannot wait to hear the triangulating justifications from Elon-stans for why this is totally ok but the Hunter Biden's laptop thing is the end of western civilization.
Journalists who cover Elon Musk have been suspended on Twitter tonight:
@Donie
O'Sullivan from CNN, Aaron Rupar and the Washington Post's
@drewharwell
.
Rupar tells me he has "no idea" why it happened.
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Conservatives showed in two recent cases at Stanford that they can play "cry-bully" and "hall monitor" just as well as "snowflakes" on the left.
It's part of a larger trend on the right — using power and authority to shut down political opponents.
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Two things that can be true at once:
1) Twitter's handling of the Hunter Biden laptop story was genuinely disturbing corporate censorship.
2) There are far bigger threats to free speech and democracy coming out of the GOP/MAGA world every day.
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51% of never-vaxxers said it was "definitely" or "probably" a govt plot to put microchips in the population's bloodstream. That's not "cautiously waiting for more information."
Let the unvaccinated have their safe spaces, let the rest of us live life.
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Yes,
@Kmele
is as brilliant and infuriatingly stubborn IRL as he is on the show. It’s his exacting vision that keeps TFC ever-improving.
His talent for being able to challenge both ally and opponent, and have them (usually) leave the room smiling, is the bedrock of the Fifth.
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@mcmoynihan
is the quickest-witted person I’ve ever known, capable of talking both high and low culture with seemingly anyone on the planet.
There’s a reason I’ve run into scores of people around the world who “know Moynihan.” He breathes life into any room and reaches people.
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