A lot of journalism startups are going to be on here raising money for #GivingTuesday. Have you ever noticed that every big-money reinvention of journalism at the national level looks and sounds pretty much the same? White boys backed by tech bros doing the same five stories as every other white boy-tech bro outfit, hiring their friends and burning through cash while promising reinvention. Constantly rebranding in public. All of them on the verge of shutdown after six months.

There's a toxic pipeline of anti-journalist sentiment from the GOP to the police, and it's going to result in more attacks like the one on the #MarionCountyRecord. I wrote about the war on journalists for @damemagazine this month:
damemagazine.com/2023/08/22/the… Since the days of the Civil Rights movement right-wing politicians have used the idea of political bias to sidestep media criticism. Journalists covering marches in Selma were “outside agitators” & police showed no qualms about beating and arresting reporters alongside activists.

Everyone yelling about Dick Van Dyke still driving ... are you gonna be the one to take his keys away? He's 97, let him finish his fuck-it stage the way he wants to. I would not try it with anyone in their 90s, they could all drink you under the table and fight you in the street and win.

Interior, Twitter HQ. Elon swaggers in, to be met by Twitter's leadership team, one of whom carries a large plastic bin wrapped in duct tape.

Elon: Sup, 'fuckers.

Twitter exec: Congratulations on your purchase of this bin of squirrels. Some of them are rabid. Elon: Gimme. *rips tape off*

Twitter exec: I really don't recommend you do that.

Elon: Before I open this, cut a hole in the top and give the squirrels cocaine.

Twitter exec: Even the rabid ones?

Elon: Especially the rabid ones. It's not like you can tell the difference.

I am 47 and I would ask what's wrong with people my age but I know how many of my fellow travelers spend their time glued to media glibly telling them Democrats haven't done anything to help them and it's all a big scam so why bother.

https://twitter.com/dellavolpe/status/1590190476334096386

Filling up the audiences at totebag events listening to assholes tell them both sides do it, buying their dumb airport books, getting a little money and a couple of kids and deciding that's a great excuse to be a cock.

This month in @damemagazine I wrote about how male-dominated media immediately downplayed misogyny after the attack on @SpeakerPelosi's husband.
damemagazine.com/2022/11/08/the… @damemagazine @SpeakerPelosi Nancy Pelosi is only the latest target of the misogyny woven into the MAGA tapestry like a bloody thread. The Right set their sights on @HillaryClinton when she dared defy the cookie-baking, story-reading, stay-at-home-mom stereotype of America’s First Lady.

I'd be more sympathetic to the bleating about cancel culture if any of these assholes actually fucking went away.

https://twitter.com/maydaymindy9/status/1580201752015478787

I was at a doctor's appt. yesterday and Dr. Phil was on in the waiting room, LOUD. He had on a series of increasingly unhinged-looking guests to talk about the crisis of free speech on campus because "comedians don't want to tell jokes there anymore."

This month in @damemagazine I wrote about how men just can't stop vomiting terrible Roe takes all over the TL. damemagazine.com/2022/05/10/oh-… Male lawmakers already treat women, cis and trans, as an exotic constituency they know not of, whose bodies should be subject to regulation like dangerous animals or narcotic drugs.

If anybody has any GIANT FUCKING PILES OF MONEY THEY'D LIKE TO SET ON FIRE I have some ideas that sure as fuck aren't called "Quibi."

https://twitter.com/DiscussingFilm/status/1333516133832519686

Jesus Tits. This is the kind of shit that makes me ragey when it comes to all our thousands of "future of journalism" panels and blue-ribbon commissions and studies and digital paradigms. You could have used all this money to buy out and run independently 1,000 community papers.

This hearing is wild. The judge is like, "You attached none of the required documents and even so, this is a catastrophic fuckup on your part."

https://twitter.com/KlasfeldReports/status/1324402059559477248

"Your entire case is that a person told another person something, but we don't know anything about either person, what they said, or if any of it's true." JUDGE CYNTHIA STEPHENS FOR PRESIDENT 2024