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23 Oct, 5 tweets, 2 min read
What a low bar for celebration. High-fives for (they thought) *not* spreading misinformation and hate. It’s like congratulating your coworker for not stabbing the UPS guy.

washingtonpost.com/technology/202…
Facebook shutting down its (inadequate) efforts to stop election-related misinformation after Election Day is particularly stupid if you keep in mind that we all should have known since 2016 that Trump would claim victory if he lost.
This isn’t hindsight; here’s one example (of many) from me, in 2017, predicting that Trump would lose in 2020 and declare himself the winner and his supporters would turn violent. And I’m just Some Guy; if I knew this why the fuck didn’t Facebook?

Facebook will tell you with a straight face they have the best, smartest people in the world working there, and they didn’t know that the guy who spent years inciting violence would incite violence? Comethefuckon.
Apropos of nothing in particular, I’ve occasionally wondered if Facebook deploys tools like this to suppress content that criticizes Facebook.

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22 Oct
Honestly I would be pretty fucking angry if I found out Joe Biden *doesn’t* routinely say “Why the fuck isn’t this happening?” or “What the fuck are we doing?” or, most of all, “Fuck them.” Image
holy shit I just noticed “too” Image
Joe Biden’s mom is dead you dicks. Image
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18 Oct
Carole King sold 187 bazillion records to baby boomers is it really that hard to figure out why she might be a useful fundraising ally for Democrats?

More people bought Tapestry than any album by Billy Joel or James Taylor. It’s hard to imagine a political reporter expressing incredulity that either of them could be useful in a fundraising context. I wonder what might be different about Carole King to cause skepticism?
(Also Tapestry is great. Carole King is a national treasure.)
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13 Oct
Since the commission was formed in April, the Supreme Court has gutted the Voting Rights Act, let Texas ban abortion, made it harder for workers to organize, blocked an eviction moratorium, and forced asylum seekers to remain in Mexico. All since April.

It is not a good sign that the WH Supreme Court commission has released its “discussion materials” and the section on court expansion opens by repeating — but not correcting — a Republican lie.

A Democratic senate confirmed a Reagan SCOTUS nominee in 1988.
The White House commission *knows* that Republican lie is a lie — it received testimony from @AaronBelkin correcting the lie back in August. Yet they repeated it anyway, without correction. whitehouse.gov/wp-content/upl…
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17 Sep
Imagine thinking that posting this reflects well on you.
I basically never read Rubin and back when I did I was critical of her; I have no opinion on whatever evolution she has or hasn't undergone. But if The Nation did this to some National Review writer Politico would publish three pieces about the Left's "Jewish Problem" by Tuesday.
(also, having a few times given reporters quotes blasting their news company and the existence of the article for which they were seeking comment, only to see my quote excluded from the article, it's hilarious to think that putting the quote off the record might've gotten it in.)
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13 Sep
Hi @jack @TwitterSupport I don't follow this anti-vax crackpot who you've endorsed with a verification badge but for some reason you're promoting his anti-vaccine nonsense by inserting this tweet into my feed. Why?
At the end of a 2-year-old thread about Oberlin's dining hall and at the end of the thread, Twitter added a "More Tweets" recommended module full of anti-vax tweets, Ben Shapiro rants, and endorsements of Newsom recall. I don't follow any of these people. @TwitterSupport @jack
What a trash company.
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13 Sep
Silly puff piece that pretends the abortion ban is the work of a tireless genius whose meticulously-crafted legislation is impervious to judicial review, rather than the inevitable result of *Republicans packing the courts with anti-abortion activists.*
lol read a book
Congratulations on convincing Clarence Thomas, Amy Coney Barrett, Samuel Alito, Neal Gorsuch, and Brett Freaking Kavanaugh to allow your abortion ban to stand, truly a work of staggering genius, you must be a legal mastermind like no other.
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