when you go home tonight, there's going to be another story on your house

live look at clarence thomas

I don't like this, but it's true. Twitter is where I still have the largest nominal reach, and probably largest reach among various people in the public eye, and there's an argument for the uses of that... but it would be far better for "X" to become irrelevant, and my use slows that down.

Ladies: before you quit your high paying ad exec job in the city and move in with the handsome charming flannel-wearing Christmas-loving man who runs an adorable small business in your hometown, remember to ask where he was on January 6 👀

Pretty quiet night tbh

Advertisers Flee X as Outcry Over Musk’s Endorsement of Antisemitic Post Grows Disney, Apple and Lionsgate halted marketing on X, formerly Twitter, as Elon Musk faced a furor over antisemitic abuse on his social media platform.

Literally all musk had to do was enjoy being rich and not be a Nazi, and that was too difficult. www.nytimes.com/2023/11/17/t...

Trump Takes Veterans Day Speech in a Very Different Direction The former president said that threats from abroad were less concerning than liberal “threats from within” and that he was a “very proud election denier.”

Trump says he's going after "radical left thugs that live like vermin within the confines of our country." That kind of rhetoric has preceded every genocide in history.

Am I saying Trump is planning a genocide? No. But don't be surprised when the brownshirt violence starts.

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How it started/how it ended

The demonization of DC in right-wing rhetoric has always been racist and aimed to justify the disenfranchisement of DC as a state. But in the last year it's been matched by efforts to strip DC of home rule and make us an "example" of how the GOP would run cities and it terrifies me

Yeah. The "14" is a completely fake number, with no connection to the Secret Service's actual practices (which involve the number "120").

The "88" is his own chosen number.

And I don't see any reason to give him the benefit of the doubt on it.

Google Tests A.I. Tool That Is Able to Write News Articles The product, pitched as a helpmate for journalists, has been demonstrated for executives at The New York Times, The Washington Post and News Corp, which owns The Wall Street Journal.

Google is reportedly testing a product that uses AI technology to produce news stories, pitching it to news organizations, including The New York Times, The Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal’s owner, News Corp

Bad Headlines Made Better News outlets need to come to terms with reality: most people don't read past the headline.

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Lara Logan tweet: "I want you to know I have nothing to do with Q Anon & never would as there is no way I would associate with Media Matters for America or Gen Stan McChrystal’s group or the Lincoln Group or any of those involved in this psyop/set-up. I would rather stick needles in my eyes. Pretty sure Jim Caveziel & Tim Ballard feel the same way."

Contrary to what Lara Logan claims (besides falsely claiming MMFA is behind QAnon), she's previously:

-echoed Q's call to deny QAnon exists
-collaborated with QAnon influencer Juan O. Savin
-endorsed the QAnon-connected adrenochrome conspiracy theory

So she does have something to do with QAnon.

literally my nightmares are haunted by these

100% to this: “responding to disinformation is not about playing whack-a-troll or censoring. It’s about providing, surfacing, and teaching people how to find correct information. It’s about more speech, not less speech.”

at this point, “are you willing to let Libs of TikTok continue to spew terrorist filth on your platform” is a remarkable litmus test for if a company has a spine

Yep, at Media Matters we’ve been saying this for years as soon as the right started screaming about anti-conservative bias at the platforms. They’re very effective at working the refs even when the data shows their claims are absolutely untrue

Fox's response to Dominion is to promote the dime store Tucker Carlson

Why are they mint flavored

Omg Bobby that background doesn’t even look real! Hope you’re having an amazing time

The position articulated here is “if enough powerful people purport to believe a lie, we have no choice but to give it as large a platform as possible” bsky.app/profile/mtsw.bsky.social...

Spoiler: their obsession with Pride has nothing to do with the kids

The right wing Sinclair broadcasting video they played across all their stations warning about fake news becoming a right wing talking point is so dystopian and bleak.

Throwback pug photo seems like the right first post move