Jared Holt
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Senior researcher studying US hate + extremist movements for @isdglobal // sometimes reporter or photographer or musician
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Local news station deserves a medal for the script on this segment
NEW: GOP Rep Lauren Boebert denied vaping during a Denver Center for the Performing Arts musical before being kicked out Sunday.
@Marshall9News
got the video. Take a look.
#copolitics
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I think it's cool that in the US the ultra rich can be like "I just gave $20 million to this politician" and that we have legalized this practice so it is not widely understood as a form of bribery
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>man with actual swastika tattoo on his chest kills eight people
internet brain rot conservatism: “hmmm I don’t know about all these claims this guy was a Nazi. Maybe the worlds most successful secret conspiracy is at play and I’m the only one who knows about it.”
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CREW/The Guardian got a look at emails (via FOIA) that show a network of county election officials in Georgia are already coordinating to cast doubt on the results of 2024 elections.
Not a single vote has been cast yet
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The Libs of TikTok lady is mad because Tyler can absolutely destroy looks that her rotten heart couldn’t even imagine. One of the kindest and warmest people I’ve ever had the pleasure of knowing, and a good DJ, too!
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As a guy who goes to the grocery store and buys food with money I think those who are writing off concerns about the ever-diminishing purchase power Americans have with their money as fabrications of national news media are misunderstanding what the complaints are
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What Steven said is true but I cannot stress enough how pathetic it is to try to rescue the world's richest man with $250K of your own money. The saddest "pick me" behavior. Twitter can turn to dust and Musk will still have more money than God. That's expensive virtue signaling!
This will only accelerate the transition of this platform into Gab 2.0
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Key context here is that Candace Owens’ husband George Farmer is the CEO of Parler.
NEW
@Axios
: Ye, formerly Kanye West, plans to acquire Parler
Big picture: Conservatives really starting to build alternate media universe
— Elon is buying Twitter
— Trump building his own platform
— Peter Thiel and J.D. Vance are funding Rumble
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According to a plagiarism checker, the activism manual for this "anti groomer" activism group plagiarized about a third of its materials from an explicitly white supremacist organizing campaign manual. And half of that plagiarized material was a direct copy/paste job
The following comparisons of the WLM activist manual 2.0, and the January 2023 Project 171 Anti Groomer Action manual show identical format, organization, and in many cases, cut and pasted text from one to the other. /5
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One thing is clear to me, a guy who has been on vacation: if Biden loses this fall, his refusal to make way for a stronger candidate will be his entire legacy.
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A modern day story of Icarus, wherein the Harris/Walz campaign flies too close to the shitposting sun
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@AlanVRK
My problem is paranoid projection of the worst possible faith onto someone because they voiced a tame show of solidarity to innocent people in Gaza who are killed and have their lives upended by state violence. It’s despicable and speaks volumes more for one making the accusation
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There is also no way to deport 15 million people at once without massive amounts of state violence. I don’t know why this isn’t stated explicitly in media coverage. Do they expect 15million people to just waddle down to the local “deportation depot”?
GOP wants to deport 15 million people.
Just think for a second. What will that do their mixed status families? What will that do to our economy? Who will fill those roles?
How will it make America great again?
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Wow. Absolutely nothing going on in that mind. Just a collection of catchphrase and buzzwords, with no care for what they actually mean. If I was a Chaya fan I’d be embarrassed.
"Sounds like you do want to tell people what to do in their house": Taylor Lorenz presses Libs of TikTok creator Chaya Raichik to explain her issue with trans adults.
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"The blue octopus is a well-known anti-Semitic trope. I deeply hope this is a weird accident, but the prominent placement is concerning."
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I was locked just for posting the name of the person revealed to be “Stonetoss.” As Hannah points out, this is not what Twitter’s rules are. Which makes you wonder: what’s going on, then? Why is the company so invested in protecting the name of a racist, antisemitic cartoonist?
twitter (or "x") locked my account for a now-deleted post from a member of the anonymous comrades collective who has since been suspended. the post had the name and city of the neo-nazi cartoonist stonetoss
twitter says it's doxing. it isn't by their own rules. here's why
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The "Democrats need to turn down the rhetoric" commentary is some of the most disingenuous hackery I have seen in politics. We still don't know why the assassination attempt happened, let alone what "rhetoric" had to do with any of it. It's pure fantasy.
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Shoutout to Musk for creating what has got to be the highest profile case study of online radicalization.
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Harris campaign needs to take all the consultants the Democratic party normally relies on and shove them in a locker because whatever it is they're doing now is clearly effective and getting the Dem base stirring in a way I haven't seen in, well, many years.
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Elon Musk displaying classic scam behavior, announcing a steady stream of “changes” to Twitter at a pace just fast enough to make sure most of his fans don’t take a minute to pause and reflect on how bad he’s failing at the prior plans. He’s running around the room jangling keys
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Bending the knee to empty legal threats is a great way to get more legal threats and surrender control of your org to outrage bait mongers
The Anti-Defamation League says it temporarily removed the anti-LGBTQ+ hate account Libs of TikTok from its glossary after the account's owner, Chaya Raichik, threatened legal action. Read more ⬇️
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I think Kamala Harris should choose Connor O’Malley as her running mate
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Absolute banger tweet for this story
Mark Robinson, the Republican candidate for governor in North Carolina, reportedly watched porn in private booths up to five days a week in the ’90s. He strenuously denies that as well as the Holocaust.
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Is there any other media job that pays $400,000 per month for recording four videos a week, or is it just doing "anti-woke" conservative clickbait
(From DOJ indictment involving Russian state media funneling millions to right-wing video mill Tenet Media)
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Free speech is when advertisers are forced to subsidize the product you have absolutely ruined and when you file frivolous lawsuits against people who write about that
Elon Musk is so mad about all the advertisers fleeing X, he announced he’s going to sue Media Matters
and in his statement, he appears to confirm the accuracy of their reports in an attempt to downplay it
good luck with that lawsuit
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@TheMadDimension
Or what, Jason? Are you gonna write another article where you get half the details about my family wrong? Give it a break dude. No one cares.
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Some of you guys don't have 5D chess business genius brains so you might struggle to understand how filing a lawsuit against advertisers, hoping the government will compel them to hand you buckets of money, will actually make you really appealing to advertisers again.
Elon Musk's X sues advertisers, alleging a “massive advertiser boycott” deprived the social platform of billions of dollars.
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Moral bankruptcy.
I cannot fathom how the ADL is ever going to repair its credibility after enthusiastically wrecking its public image this year. And all for what? To suckle up to the planets stupidest epic bacon lad billionaire?
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Most of America does not have a high degree of financial literacy and will use words like "inflation" and "recession" to describe the fact their dollars don't get them the same amount of stuff anymore, even if those terms are wrong. Also, housing costs are totally bananas
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Typing this series of words should trigger a mandatory psychiatric review
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I don’t think a lot of reporters understand how severe a belief it is. If you tell people there are child molesters after their kids and they believe it of course they will be violent. Child sex abusers are brutalized in prison bc even mega murderers see them as unforgivably evil
it's pretty obvious that if they believe all of their political opponents are bloodsucking pedophiles, violence is a rational response -- they can't maintain a nonviolent stance forever. at some point that tension has to resolve itself, and here we are.
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Baffling that so many news stories about the acquisition are missing this context. This is why the news desk needs to talk to its beat reporters for these stories! The headline is that Owens used her friendship with Kanye to offload a dying platform. Not another celeb tech buy!
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Shedding followers since the Elon takeover. Is this the part where I claim I’m being suppressed by big tech and make the rounds in conservative press?
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My wife thought JD Vance was a character on The Office. I will defend this amazing woman from the brain rot as long as I'm able.
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When I worked at Media Matters back in the day, I can almost promise you someone would have had this printed on a cake to put in the kitchen
This sort of thing doesn’t exactly make Media Matters journalists *less* interested in covering you. It tells them / affirms they’re on to something.
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This is a lie. He took a breath to finish the sentence which was: “We stand here as men who refute their Jewishness and the Holocaust being hijacked by an occupation which has led to conflict for so many innocent people.”
I simply cannot fathom the moral rot in someone's soul that leads them to win an award for a movie about the Holocaust and with the platform given to them, to accept that award by saying, "We stand here as men who refute their Jewishness."
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Why is NYT just regurgitating the university's lacking recount? Why did NYT ignore video of McInnes supporters showing up and pepper spraying peaceful but loud students and members of media?
How are we supposed to confront the far-right when power holds the door open for it?
Pennsylvania State University canceled a planned comedy event that was to be co-hosted by the founder of the Proud Boys after a demonstration against the speakers turned violent.
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One story I would like to see explored is the one about how nearly every race TPUSA touched this cycle underperformed
I've seen enough: Sen. Mark Kelly (D) wins reelection in
#AZSEN
, defeating Blake Masters (R).
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The left is afraid of Black women supporting Trump, which is why conservatives have to use poorly done AI images to make their point
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We're about to see some really pathetic shit from partisan media. I truly cannot wait.
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Another awesome day on this website, where a post claiming that some guy's vape is actually federal ID badge was retweeted more than 13,000 times.
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US politics is an absolute joke and it remains astounding to me how little respect the American people have for themselves that they tolerate a status quo that is so regularly insulting to their intelligence
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So this week from the conservative hive mind we have had:
1. Kamala Harris, a Black woman, is not a Black woman
2. Imane Khelif, a female boxer, is secretly male
Wonder what they’ll do tomorrow to nail the hat trick
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If you want to feel worse about this, to win this she beat someone who has a degree in nuclear engineering and a PhD in urban planning 🙃 like easily the smartest guy to run for AR gov in a hot minute
Republican Sarah Huckabee Sanders, Trump’s former press secretary, has been elected governor of Arkansas.
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Listening to the Beach Boys in a cyber truck given to me by a live streamer who would eat my boots if I asked him to, doing what I can to lock down the 12-15 year old boy voting block
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There is not a material difference between this and the last 40+ years of white supremacist propaganda. This isn’t even veiled. It’s just mass shooter styled “race war” ideology.
The owner of this platform weighs in on the unrest currently unfolding in the UK.
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Yes. This shit reeks. Meta in particular has been pushing for a TikTok ban since forever. Tech money is all over politics and this whole ordeal strikes me as a thinly veiled financial gift to the industry. TikTok has undercut US social companies' market share in a huge way
Just a gentle reminder that US tech lobbyists for corporations that do more to harm US teens are behind this push to ban tiktok. Their hope is that it’ll force young Americans to go back to Instagram and YouTube for their entertainment.
Its time to regulate the whole industry.
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Sort of incredible that a lot of these guys have clenched so tight to Trump after he led them to prison like cows to slaughter. It’s hard for me to imagine being in that position and not feeling completely suckered. Life ruined forever because you can’t accept you got scammed
JUST NOW: After saying he'd accepted responsibility and sobbing for mercy in front of Judge Kelly — and receiving a 10-year downward variance — a smiling Dominic Pezzola raised his fist and shouted "Trump won!" as he was led out of the courtroom.
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A fun fact about Lauren Chen, the YouTuber who was part of the alleged Russian operation that put MAGA stars on payroll, is that she is a Turning Point USA contributor
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It is amazing how these folks just crumble under basic questioning. They dodge the questions because they know their honest answers would be understood by most people as repulsive and concerning. It makes the coddling they get from some outlets that much more embarrassing
NEW: The Moms for Liberty 60 Minutes interview was such a disaster that their right-wing media allies are scrambling to do damage control
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How can Matt Taibbi ever call himself a journalist again after collabing w the wealthiest guy on Earth, doing PR work that could otherwise spur legal issues at Twitter. It’ll be how a lot of people remember him going forward. A lackey to the ruling class, cosplaying otherwise.
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the downfall of us politics is that most people have been trained over decades to treat them like sports instead of... you know... things that can shape your life and future. always strikes me as a type of dissociation and one of the biggest obstacles to actual change
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Media has a problem across the board with using euphemisms when talking about bad things cops do, but this is a particularly heinous example.
JUST IN: CPD is investigating allegations that a group of officers had improper sexual relations with newly arrived immigrants, including at least one facing accusations of having sexual contact with a minor and impregnating her.
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You order a sandwich for $5. The shop makes the sandwich. You claim the sandwich is moldy and that you won’t buy it. Shop says it’s not, you ordered it, and owe them $5. You scream the shop is filthy, pause, and then offer to buy the sandwich for $5. That’s billionaire mindset.💪
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I like how every few weeks we get a new story about Project 2025--a plan to fill a new Trump admin with loyalists who will obey the Oval Office--and it's reported as a scoop of some kind. The plan is published in full online. They are proud of it. You can order it as a book.
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Democrats’ saving grace this fall might just be that the GOP has turned over their media keys to people who are so insanely weird and broken that it creeps normal people out. That they’ll get so ahead of the skis they wipe out. We’ll see
it’s cool that they’ve completely given up on appealing to normal people
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“He’s a registered Republican” and “he made a donation to this Democrat-aligned group” is not the kind of info that tells us anything about motivation. It is near useless as a data point for answering “why.” The dash to red-team/blue-team after events like this is so stupid.
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Something that doesn’t seem to be making its way into coverage of these university protests: they are voicing what is the overwhelming majority American opinion
It’s now a media circus, which will attract the idiot brigade. But this is not fringe stuff.
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If you were wondering how the debate is going, right wing media world is already doing “MODS?! MODS?!” bit.
What planet do you have to live on to think these ABC hosts are acting as “executioner” to Trump? How fragile could you possibly be? It’s all such a joke
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In the wake of news like this, it is worth all the extra effort to double and triple check your sources. There is going to be a lot of insane conspiracy theories and speculation flying around. Pause, think, and exercise healthy skepticism. The facts will come out eventually
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Cool that they’re just telegraphing their intentions straight into the DC press
👀 "It's not over on election day. It's over on inauguration day," says Trump campaign senior advisor
@LaCivitaC
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@politico
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@jmart
#RNC
#POLITICOconventions
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"These guys are... weird" is powerful messaging in the same way that telling one of your friends "hey, that's not cool" is powerful. It is not overly confrontational or dramatic, but very effective. And the person who is like "I am NOT weird, stop saying that" never looks good!
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Nothing about Candace Owen’s arc is surprising if you know about her come up in conservative media. Her big initial hit was claiming white supremacy wasn’t real after Heather Heyer was murdered in Charlottesville. She cohosted episodes of Infowars with Alex Jones, etc.
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Ted Cruz wants to probe a private business because it did not adequately ostracize LGBTQ people. Hope we all understand the "small gov, max freedom" stuff is utter horseshit (and always was). Deeply fucked up that pols are running such a naked hate campaign without shame
Day 58 of the Right melting down over a trans woman being sent a can of beer with her face on it: Senator Ted Cruz demands an investigation
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Pre-Musk Twitter: "We're going to limit visibility on stuff that might break the rules"
(boos, hisses -- screams that diamond and silk are shadowbanned)
Musk Twitter: "We're going to limit visibility on stuff that might break the rules"
(cheers, praise -- calling musk 'daddy')
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could not have put it better than this -- dead on
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If this was actually against the rules, the likes of Andy Ngo, Libs of TikTok, and many others would be banished. Instead, it’s selectively applied.
Who decides when it’s time to do mass takedowns like this? Given how this place runs now, should we assume this is an Elon order?
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I swear people overthink this. He’s a narcissist with a drug habit. All of this tracks pretty clean with the arc here
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I think it's pretty safe to say the judge was not happy with Elon Musk/Twitter's lawsuit against anti-hate research nonprofit CCDH.
Calls the case "unabashedly and vociferously about one thing ... punishing the Defendants for their speech."
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All jokes aside (the drink was 80% of the bill, according to the restaurant) it’s always really odd to me when people bullshit on small, inconsequential stuff like this. That’s a sketchy reflex to casually have, especially as a writer for the paper of record
This meal just cost me $78 at Newark Airport. This is why Americans think the economy is terrible.
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Gavin McInnes was going to speak at Penn State tonight. Students protested in the hundreds. It's not happening anymore.
Police say the event has been cancelled (!!!) small group of students outside an entrance rejoice
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Conservative media on hate speech: "If you don't like it, just don't listen to it. It's a marketplace of ideas!"
Conservative media on random things for sale: "This is THE DEVIL why is this allowed?!?!?!"
“I think the majority of people… they can acknowledge that Gay Nutcracker and Black Disabled Santa has gone way too far”
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I don’t work there anymore. I haven’t for 8 months. These people are next level stupid. Not curious at all. Just churning out dogshit because they know what I do threatens the bottom line
Specifically,
@ggreenwald
points to Jared Holt, who now works for the Atlantic Council, as one of the new censorship gurus claiming to be a “disinformation expert”.
Jared refuses to engage with his critics, and previously had proclaimed himself as an "extremist expert"
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Yes. Candace Owens and Kanye West are friends.
You may think friendship is calling people on their birthdays, going to their weddings, or asking how they're doing. Only a few reach the "grift them out of a lot of money to buy a struggling tech venture your husband runs" stage.
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The anti-trans stuff is so poisonous. Transphobes on here going absolutely nuts today over an Olympian who is not, in fact, transgender. Hate just completely rots the mind.
Imane Khelif is a cisgender woman.
She was born female, was registered as a girl at birth, is legally a woman, & continues to identify as a woman.
Is transphobia now so bad that even cisgender women cannot be women if they don’t comply with a certain woman ideal-type?
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The answer to this question was apparently millions of dollars
how do guys like this not look in the mirror every day and become insanely depressed with what their lives have become
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“a source at the company confirmed to The Verge that there wasn’t actually a denial-of-service attack. Another X staffer said there was a ‘99 percent’ chance Elon was lying about an attack.”
There appears to be a massive DDOS attack on 𝕏. Working on shutting it down.
Worst case, we will proceed with a smaller number of live listeners and post the conversation later.
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It will be hard to think of a bigger tech moderation failure than if Trump uses the platforms he’s been allowed back onto (FB, YouTube, Twitter) to incite protests again.
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"Audiophile" gear is one of the best tricks that stereo companies ever came up with to separate fools from their money. I have this "piece of crap" Denon receiver and it is perfectly fine. I am a music nerd and I listen to records through it all the time without feeling sick
He's using a piece of crap Denon receiver from Best Buy (he has it set to the DVD channel) and a $150 turntable with a built-in phono preamp arranged on top of a radiator. This is like Kamala talking about listening to Snoop Dogg in "college" or Kerry wearing hunter orange.
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Mentions of “white genocide”—the white supremacist conspiracy theory behind many racist mass murders—have skyrocketed on Twitter since Elon Musk lent his voice to the bullshit idea that there’s one of these mythical genocides happening in South Africa (there’s not).
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I spent a good chunk of last year looking hard at gun YouTube channels and echo this. Demolition Ranch is not an extremist channel and people claiming the shirt signifies a right-wing extremist bent don’t know what they’re talking about
to be extra clear, if I were to name Gun YouTubers who repeatedly made irresponsible increments to violence, Demo Ranch would NOT be the guys. They are closer to Hollywood, big business entertainers, not culture warriors.
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"95 percent of NFTs wouldn’t fetch a penny today ... The study estimates that some 23 million investors own these tokens of no practical use or value."
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Libs of TikTok had a profile published in SPLC’s extremist files. Their ruling: “Anti-LGBTQ” hate figure
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For additional context, Gavin is dressed as one of his radio show/content characters: "Miles McInnes," his imaginary leftist brother. He's there to cash in on the content mill this shitshow is providing.
SPOTTED: Gavin McInnes, the found of the 'Proud Boys' and co-founder of VICE, spotted at the Columbia University Encampment Protest.
Video by
@yyeeaahhhboiii2
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@freedomnews
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The conservative wingnut welfare program is as healthy as ever. Struggling to hold an audience? Don't worry! People with practically infinity money are there to help as long as you will do what they say
Tucker Carlson and his team are reportedly in talks with conservative mega-donors Rebekah Mercer and Peter Thiel about funding a new media company he is launching with Republican political adviser Neil Patel.
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Lmao that Fox had to pull in a legal *student* to get the commentary they wanted. This is not a news network.
In other thoughts, stay in school and finish the degree! What you learn may shock you! Attorneys who do crimes also face consequences after all!
As a law student, seeing attorneys named as co-conspirators and threatened to have their licenses revoked only because they gave legal advice to former President Trump worries me. This is against the very nature of the American justice system I’ve long aspired to be a part of.
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There’s nothing for media to apologize for. The bomb threats were “hoaxes” in the sense that there were not actual bombs, not in the sense they did not occur. Police must respond like there are bombs until all-clear is given. The details don’t absolve anyone.
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Health insurance. Massive slimeball scam industry, and the only thing worse than dealing with it is not having insurance. (And sometimes insurance can even make prescriptions MORE expensive! Why do we put up with this? Who actually likes their insurance?)
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