it is sort of hard for me to comprehend how much time i've spent thinking about this man and this tool/website. and it is not a thing that exists anymore. wow.
i obsessed over how his account was so big it created a cottage industry of growth hackers trying to use his replies to grow their accounts/spread propaganda/sell shit buzzfeednews.com/article/charli…
i probably wrote like a dozen or more stories about how he tested the limits of the platform's rules. like this one. buzzfeednews.com/article/charli…
and i wondered again and again if this would happen. (i've always thought they wouldn't do it or that he'd just use the presidency and its various podiums to draw attention).
maybe this is a me thing but anyone else notice that their text histories w/ their partner during the pandemic are bizarre. It used to be...conversation! now it's just like contextless recipe links & peculiar life detritus bc we've been in the same space for 9 months straight
you don’t have to retweet our lame duck president for many reasons but especially because he lost and it’s over and he’s a lame duck president and did i mention he lost the election and will no longer be president?
imo what is way more fun than dunking on the lame duck president is treating him like the lame duck president that he is
reading this makes me just achingly sad. i get concerns about shutdowns and fears about the economy. i get that this feels unfair and oppressive and painful. i am scared & sad, too. but the anti-mask behavior is effectively holding the country hostage to score culture war points
i've reached the point where i don't know what to do about any of it. there are so many heroic healthcare workers who are ringing the alarm bell as loud as they can. they're saying we're entering a living nightmare that could dwarf the spring. we seem determined to ignore them
i spent 3 weeks this summer talking to people about the best way to reach anti-maskers. and how to treat people with empathy and dignity. but when this becomes wrapped up in political identity it seems almost impossible to bridge the gap. dunno what to do nytimes.com/2020/07/22/opi…
why must the news now always be both dumber and more serious than whatever scenario my brain was anticipating
just once i wanna be like...'lol this is so dumb...im gonna never think about this dumb thing again!' w/o worrying that it will metastasize into something that threatens to erode our shared reality or democracy
you need a phd in 'the dumbest shit on the internet' to really understand like a 1/3 of what's happening in the country at a given time. my personal wish for a biden presidency is to not have to care abt the dumbest shit imaginable. to be clear i dont think my wish will come true
i listened to a montana court hearing in late sept where the trump campaign was trying to sue to stop mail in voting in the state and what struck me was how the legal team barely provided a legal argument and weren’t really even trying beyond complaining that it didn’t feel fair.
i feel like the answer to @ezraklein's question here on how to cover this rn is to report on the actual legal challenges. show how the campaign is unable to marshal credible arguments/facts. and then give no oxygen to it beyond that. vox.com/2020-president…