1/ Just want to put this news in plain language for people.
Senior people at Twitter have resigned in the last 48 hours. We now now why. They said in private Slack channels that
@elonmusk
is so desperate to recoup his money, he’s taking crazy risks with YOUR privacy and safety.
When you are dying of internal bleeding from an ectopic pregnancy, furious that even though any doctor could save you, you will have to die - leaving lifelong agony for your spouse and children
please think of the sanctity of Brett Kavanaugh’s driveway - which is the real victim
Not even being provocative but if you think Greta Thunberg has the maturity to guide global policy-making then you cannot object to Jeffrey Epstein paying 16-year-olds for sex.
Fun Fact: Hans Christian Andersen wrote The Little Mermaid at the same time a man he was in love with became engaged to a woman, and he was overcome with sorrow.
The whole thing is 100 percent queer allegory.
I believe we should eliminate President’s Day as a holiday and make Election Day a national holiday in its place.
I can think of no better way to honor our Founding Fathers than to make it easier to participate in the democracy they founded.
1/ I am convinced the disillusioned young men that will lose everything in the upcoming cryptocrash will turn to fascism, not socialism, as they look for someone to blame.
To them, crypto is a way out of the American trap of nonexistent wages for a generation.
Real talk for younger voters. Biden delivered on two major policies I never thought I’d see: Student loan forgiveness and marijuana pardons.
If you don’t vote in midterms, you’ll be telling every politician in America passing policies younger voters care about doesn’t matter.
Fun fact: At Theranos, the engineers HATED Sunny Balwani and would make up words just to see if they could trick him into using it.
So, they kept using the phrase “crazing” until he confidently repeated it.
Anyway, enjoy this Elno Tweet. No, this does not make technical sense.
2/ Right now, Twitter is extremely hackable. That puts every user here at extreme risk for DM leaks, identity theft and surveillance.
Elon doesn’t care. He wants his money. So they resigned. And top lawyers told Twitter employees to get whistleblower protections.
3/ The FCC just announced they are investigating. They have power to fine Twitter billions.
Add this to historical pattern of
@elonmusk
endangering the public by unleashing a half-baked autopilot on public streets without basic technology, and one concludes he feels invincible.
Elon tried to sell his acquisition of Twitter as a free speech issue.
But the reality has been proven to be the opposite. He is using it algorithmically to censor ideas he doesn’t like, and promote ones he does.
Exactly as his critics said would happen.
Tesla is going to be the next WeWork.
If you look at the history of Tesla's stock price, it was never based on car sales. It's always been based on hype from Musk and a vision for a future.
That vision was appealing to many, including liberal environmentally-conscious nerds.
Look, I don’t have kids - so I don’t get anything out of it.
But sending parents direct cash every month for their kids nearly HALVED child poverty. Since the Republicans forced us to give it up, it’s nearly doubled again.
That is a MASSIVELY effective policy.
Kamala Harris was never my first choice, but MY GOD was she a better choice than:
Michael Bennet
Joe Biden
Michael Bloomberg
Pete Buttigieg
John Delaney
Tulsi Gabbard
Deval Patrick
Tom Steyer
and
Marianne Williamson
This looks like Theranos level fraud. The last 16 years of Alzheimer’s research looks to have been built on deliberately falsified data.
It’s why Alzheimer’s drugs have a 99% failure rate in trials. The thing they’re trying to fix isn’t the problem.
THREAD: Here is a list of all the 22 women who have credibly accused Trump of rape and sexual misconduct. Please Retweet.
1. Jill Harth says she was groped and kissed in a bedroom at Mar-A-Lago.
Here’s the thing. I liked Greta Thunberg before this. Yeah, she was annoying, but she was a girl trying to make an impact for a cause she believed in.
But now she’s leading some antisemitic hate mob of 20,000 people to harass a young woman? No, fuck you.
Good afternoon.
Elno had to testify in a trial today about his allegedly excessive compensation at Tesla.
He said a lot of crazy stuff we need to go over. It spooked the market, and Tesla is trending towards the toilet again.
I’m watching
@elonmusk
speak at the Tesla investor day. It’s so clear the train wreck of Twitter is having a massive psychological effect on him.
He’s clearly tired. His answers are completely incoherent. There’s no vision here. He seems really unhappy.
NYT OPINION: Yes, the Empire destroyed Alderaan, killing two billion. But the Rebels won’t wait for the justice department to investigate Emperor Palpatine, so neither side respects democracy.
Tesla stock now firmly at $149.08 in after-hours trading.
This is huge. And according to Fortune, the value is only going to plummet from here.
Folks, we’re well on our way to Elon getting margin called on the Tesla stock propping up Twitter, meaning multiple companies crash.
1/ Here’s everything we know about the mass Twitter advertising exodus in plain language.
So, Elno acquires Twitter and advertisers are FREAKED. Would be a good time to reassure them, right?
Except Twitter’s Chief Revenue officer
@SEP
quits on Friday. Literally walks out.
Why did the Trump boats sink? Because of poor boating etiquette.
Responsible boat owners are thoughtful with what their wake does for smaller craft.
Trump supporters just didn’t care, which is perfectly on brand for a political movement signifying selfishness.
Confession: I’ve incorrectly assumed the far left doesn’t have an antisemitism problem. I believed our ranks were filled with people like me that opposed Netanyahu’s far right policies, not Israel itself.
That is clearly not true.
I’m embarrassed I didn’t see this sooner.
I am begging every journalist from a major publication, please cover sexual abuse in the game industry. Every other industry is having a moment of reckoning but not us.
Please. Without your help reporting this, nothing will change. There's a reason the Alt Right started here.
I have long believed forcing gun owners to carry liability insurance is the most pragmatic way to reduce gun violence.
You want expensive, dangerous toys - you’ve got to carry insurance proportionate to the risk it poses based on your background.
As of Jan 1, all San Jose gun owners will be required to have proof of insurance covering “accidents” involving their firearms - a new ordinance supported by California
@MomsDemand
volunteers.
3/ They’ll blame it on media. They’ll blame it on banks run by you know who. They’ll blame it on people like me that pointed out how it was a scam.
And they will support anyone that taps into that anger and promises them the status they feel entitled to.
2/ The meme culture, the in jokes, the worship of Musk. To a generation of undersocialized boys, this isn’t just an investment. It’s how they make sense of the world.
And it’s going to be a bloodbath.
They’re not going to join a union in response, they’ll go full fascist.
This morning, there’s a survivalist in Texas, prepared for anything with his 37 machine guns. He’s trapped at home because he doesn��t own a snow shovel.
I had lunch a few weeks ago with a friend who grew up in Israel. And I remember thinking to myself, “Wow. She is aggressively dismissive of public opinion.”
But after the last 72 hours and seeing a heroic rescue of hostages turned into yet another round of, “Hamas are justified
If you’re asking my opinion, the Tesla board probably had a “come to Jesus” meeting with Musk.
The stock is plummeting. If something doesn’t change, he’ll lose both companies.
This is a way for him to quit and blame it on someone else. Calacanis is my bet for new CEO.
Exploding number of male incels *IS* a feminist issue. Not because women owe men sex, but because these lonely, maladjusted men cause damage to every part of society.
There are no easy answers. But it’s clear we need to invest in social institutions and guidance for young men.
I genuinely don’t know how anyone can look at the hate on JK Rowling’s Twitter and still hold any love in their heart for Harry Potter.
She’s not just a transphobe. She’s THE transphobe. And she normalizes it daily to 13 million people on Twitter.
It’s so painful to watch.
🧵 Remember: Apple’s App Store rules were VERY SPECIFICALLY DESIGNED to stop an Elon Musk. A rich, giant corporation that COULD do the right thing for users, but decided it would be cheaper and easier not to.
These rules protect your children from being served porn, for instance
Real Talk: If Kanye doesn’t have his career ended for threatening to kill Jewish people on Twitter and people look the other way AGAIN, we are a failure as a culture.
RIP Progressivism: 2015-2024
When the history books of the progressive era are written, the Sanders campaign will be the first chapter and the Watermelon Freaks will be the final chapter.
We were a quirky, but well meaning political movement that started as a push for
I just spent two hours on a panel listening to Republicans screaming Hillary Clinton conspiracy theories at me. Y'all better fucking vote in 2024 because these people are nuts.
Hi. I’m been an Apple pundit for a decade. Elno’s latest war against (spins wheel) Apple contains quite a few distortions which make this functionally a lie.
Let’s go through them. 🧵
Can’t handle this much free speech.
Can’t criticize a billionaire. I can’t post Mastodon links. Can’t post information public info about FAA flights. Nothing happens when I report death threats and rape threats. And I’m assuming my account will get banned any second now.
Marriage Protip: something that was very eye-opening for me was learning the most successful marriages never really solve their problems.
Right now it’s 9:21 am. I’ve biked 10 miles and done an hour of yoga. Frank is still asleep because he stayed up all night on his phone. I
OK I’m actually angry. If you wanna go after me, that’s fine. I’m a public figure.
But I married my husband and took his last name because I love him. Leave my fucking marriage out of the delusional fan fiction you’re writing in your head about me.
I’m hardly the first person
TESLA STOCK PRICE OFFICIALLY AT $139. Tesla's most famous investors calling for the board to fire Musk. "This stock price reflects the value of having no CEO."
Musk's response? "Please tell us your great ideas."
You'll never guess what Musk did next...
Angry.
@BostonGlobe
publishes a guide to the election.
They choose pictures of my opponents wearing suits. They pick one of me from Gamergate where I’m wearing a t-shirt and have bright anime hair.
I literally did a photo shoot with them wearing a dress and heels a week ago.
Warning: Sincere post to follow.
I cannot tell you how many people have come to me over the last 8 years telling me they wanted to take down Kiwifarms.
Their efforts never went anywhere. Some were well-funded legal efforts.
@keffals
succeeding is a HUGE, HUGE DEAL.
October 7th was the end.
Seeing progressives treat rape as a valid political tactic and turn literal terrorists slaughtering civilians into the Real Victims™ made it crystal clear I was standing beside actually evil people.
I’m done. Any decent person should be done too.
It’s so depressing. Six Israelis were murdered by terrorists yesterday, one of whom is an American citizen.
Every Jewish person I know is tweeting about it. But it’s radio silence almost everyone else, so including people who stood with me on women’s rights, LGBT rights and
I’m not going to share the video of human rights activist
#Hervin_Khalaf
after she was raped and stoned to death.
But I will say, I never want to hear a DAMN WORD out of
@IvankaTrump
’s mouth about women’s rights. She is Lady MacBeth, and this blood will not wash off her hands.
Unpopular opinion: Nude pics of women being leaked without consent is a violation, and that’s still true when it happens to men like Chris Evans.
This isn’t entertainment. It’s creepy and inappropriate.
My feeling is Musk is in a much more precarious financial state than is commonly understood, and it’s affecting his judgement in extreme ways.
It’s not commonly understood just how leveraged his stock is.
Even billionaires can only have so many cash burning machine companies.
For peace to happen, you need to accept the truth. Palestinians lost a war they started in 1948. It wasn’t land theft, they tried to genocide their Jewish neighbors and lost. War leads to tragedy, so it’s unwise to start them.
The other truth is, Palestinians will never defeat
@BriannaWu
People are finally rebelling that this country has supported the land theft and ethnic cleansing of Palestinians for 75 years. That’s what’s happening in your country.
In the last 24 hours:
✅ A list of Jewish writers was created for non-Jews to boycott
✅ Almost 20,000 people protested a Jewish woman in Eurovision
✅ an avalanche of LGBT clubs declined to host Jews
Tell me again, how all of this isn’t devolving into antisemitism.
1/ A high-profile journalist writing a book about online radicalization told me recently that all his research kept pointing back to Gamergate, and he regretted not taking it more seriously.
I'd like you to imagine an alternate timeline where we took it seriously.
Are people just unaware Biden has dedicated his entire State Department to pursuing a ceasefire for many months?
What do you think our Secretary of State Anthony Blinken has been doing with these repeated trips to the Middle East? Pretending to work?
It's already our policy.
-biden won michigan in 2020 by 150K
-100K+ voters voted uncommitted in the dem primary
-77% of dems want a ceasefire in gaza
-69% of independents want a ceasefire
-56% of gop wants a ceasefire
this campaign is urging biden to do the right thing AND the democratic thing
Honest question. Why are so many Free Palestine accounts silent about the successful operation to rescue the hostages?
Is it because you support kidnapping if it helps your political project?
Is it the same reason you want Biden’s peace plan to fail?
Do you want an end to
There’s a defensive style of writing where you can tell someone has spent too much time on Twitter.
You write a normal sentence, then ask yourself how an asshole could interpret it in bad faith and use it to attack your reputation publicly. Then you add caveats.
Thread: The story of how
@mattgaetz
became a target of the Trump justice department is even crazier and weirder than you can imagine.
It involves blockchain, blatant fraud by a local tax collector, and a scheme to steal people’s government ID.
This is NOT AN APRIL FOOLS JOKE.
People sometimes ask me, “What happened to you, Brianna?” October 7th happened.
I used to believe the entire progressive storyline about Israel. But when I started seeing people on my own side claiming that women tied up in the backs of jeeps, pants covered in blood were not
If you’re reading about the Epstein case, please know you have Julie Brown from the
@MiamiHerald
to thank. She has been covering this case before Trump and the
#metoo
movement.
@jkbjournalist
, I hope a Pulitzer is in your future for this outstanding work. Thank you.
Louis CK just won a Grammy, so I don’t want to hear any more whining about cancel culture.
Men can sexually prey on women, the victims can have their careers and confidence destroyed, it can all go public - and there will still be no real consequences.
23/ I believe these women.
And I believe Trump is a serial sexual assaulter. Do you know why? BECAUSE TRUMP ADMITTED TO BILLY BUSH THAT HE SEXUALLY ASSAULTS WOMEN.
I grew up in FRAKING MISSISSIPPI in the 90s, and I never would’ve imagined hearing someone say this garbage out loud with their name attached.
We got to this point because decent people did not speak up and shun the people spouting this garbage.
Real talk: We’ll never get progressive policies like universal health care if we don’t nuke our growing extremism.
No one is going to toss the government keys to a movement screaming, “Globalize the Intifada!” and pretending Houthis are oppressed and not terrorist fanatics.
If any reporters reach out to me today, I will share the stories I’ve kept private about the fight to improve Twitter moderation policies at the Trust and Safety team over the last ten years.
Because this is what we’re going to lose if this deal goes through.
I want an apology from all the mansplainers that mocked my belief that privatizing NASA and relying this heavily on SpaceX would undermine the national security policy of the United States.
One of the organizers of the march targeting a cancer ward says it’s because she expects a hospital to turn down $400 million because it’s from a “Zionist.”
She adds that the cancer ward is not an “innocent bystander.”
These are not serious people.
Sloan Kettering accepted a *400 million dollar donation* from billionaire Zionist Ken Griffin, the largest in their history. This was *after* he threatened pro-Palestine student activists at Harvard with revoked job offers. Our medical institutions are not innocent bystanders.
Fun fact: If you are keeping civilian hostages in your home, you become a military target under international law and it’s entirely reasonable to kill you!
If this sounds unappealing, don���t hold hostages in your home!
Before October 7, I believed a lot of negative things about Israel because I’ve gotten all my news about their conflict from loaded sources like these.
So I did the responsible thing. I took time to read the history. Was this progressive storyline of noble Palestinians standing