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Eric Blair🔥- protecttruth@mastodon.online Profile picture
@protecttruth_
Apr 20 • 8 tweets • 5 min read Twitter logo Read on Twitter
I look forwarding to Musk changing course after all of us start blocking all the paid blue checks.
(He might try to pivot to business-subscription gold/gray/whatever color checks but it seems like that trial balloon is out of gas.)
Let's check back in three weeks.
I am having trouble with this but I just can't support paying for Musk's Twitter.
So heads up: I have gone through and unfollowed anyone I followed who has paid for Twitter.

You can get that list yourself and unfollow paid-Blue checks, with this search
twitter.com/search?q=filte…
I love you @econliberties but it's bad you're paying Elon Musk. Image
@econliberties Ben is blocking all the blue checks he sees.

@econliberties Block block blocking the paid blue checks @oneunderscore__
@econliberties @oneunderscore__ Another paid-blue blocker
#Block

@econliberties @oneunderscore__ Not @rgoodlaw too! 😭
@econliberties @oneunderscore__ @rgoodlaw Blocker

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Eric Blair🔥- protecttruth@mastodon.online Profile picture
Apr 21
This is a good sign. Blumenthal has the power to subpoena Roberts too. He runs the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations inside the Sen committee charged with government oversight. That includes oversight of the courts.
Now, Chris Coons might try to block such a subpoena. But Blumenthal should try anyway.
Here’s the Senate D PSI membership. The jurisdiction they’ve published for themselves this Congress doesn’t obviously include court corruption. But let’s push @ossoff and @AlexPadilla4CA and @SenatorCarper and @Maggie_Hassan to do this. Image
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Eric Blair🔥- protecttruth@mastodon.online Profile picture
Apr 21
These Republican leaders in Texas and Florida are colossal fools who don’t understand the simplest things about how economies work. “I don’t think so. We’ll turn UT into MD Anderson.”
What a fucking moron. A guy who’s been on the billionaires’ teat his whole career.
…and doesn’t even know he’s a rank mediocrity who got ahead in life because of billionaires — who own Fox and talk radio and fund his campaigns and SPN thinktanks and happy hours and nice dinners.

Fool.
Just a hint: MD Anderson has a big sparkling hospital attached to it. Scratch that. MD Anderson IS a big sparkling hospital.

Tell the UT Physics or Computer Science dept that they need to build a hospital to support themselves instead of teaching.

Republicans are fools.
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Eric Blair🔥- protecttruth@mastodon.online Profile picture
Apr 20
Please read the replies to this tweet! Amazing.
(They're not about baseball.)

I do want to acknowledge that it is disappointing that tax dollars are again being used to enrich billionaire sports team owners. But yes. The replies are not about baseball.
spoiler alert: Image
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Eric Blair🔥- protecttruth@mastodon.online Profile picture
Apr 20
To fix Fox squeezing everyone, we could simply pass a law saying “channel bundling is illegal”: that cable companies must offer all channels a la carte.

The radical rightwing judges would strike it down— and then we use that to expand the courts. The Warren court /1
would have upheld such an anti-bundling law.

Things to think about when we have control of Congress next.
In fact we almost got there due to a consumer/class action suit.

But, guess what, a rightwing Fed Soc appellate judge (Ikuta, 9th Circuit) threw out the case.

hollywoodreporter.com/business/busin…!
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Eric Blair🔥- protecttruth@mastodon.online Profile picture
Apr 19
Dick Durbin is not smart enough about American politics in 2023 to lead a committee.

This isn’t 1961, Mr. Durbin. Please resign. You must resign.
This is not a smart person we have leading the Judiciary Committee.
I don’t know how he thinks the world works, but Durbin needs to resign. This is crazy.

Durbin is 78 or 79. Senators should have mandatory retirement at 75 if not younger.
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Eric Blair🔥- protecttruth@mastodon.online Profile picture
Apr 18
This, times one hundred. We should not expect a private corporation to solve the problem that Fox attacked our democracy with the Big Lie.

Instead, we should empower the FCC to represent us and stop lies, using a very very high actual malice standard. /1
This is how we got to a situation where we have no public entity representing democracy and the people that can defend all of us against fascist defamation.
If Congress passed a law empowering the FCC to act on behalf of the public to sanction cable news that told lies (w/ actual malice), the Warren Supreme Court would have upheld it.

This radical libertarian Court would likely strike it down. But we shld still try.
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