A.J. Bauer
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Prof @ua_jcm | researching conservative news | News on the Right () | PhD @SCAatNYU | | he/him
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New followers and prospective followers! Here's a quick introduction to what you're getting yourselves into:
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That Eli Lilly prank changed the Twitter game:
New goal isn't getting more and more people to laugh at terrible puns, it's getting Elon Musk sued by bigger and bigger multinational corporations until he files for bankruptcy.
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Academics talking about boycotting the South as if four of the five monsters who overturned Roe didn’t get their degrees from Harvard and Yale.
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I have been in Germany a week and somehow I am only now learning that this country has a beloved children’s character that is a clinically depressed piece of bread — in space.
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Find you someone who loves you as much as the New York Times loves conservative students at Ivy League colleges.
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Real fans will get the subtext of this joke: Section 230 makes it impossible for Eli Lilly to sue Musk for that parody account. And the laws of humor make it impossible to get more than a few people to laugh at a pun.
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“Both sides” is right-wing advocacy.
NEW: Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav said CNN is rebuilding itself to be a news network that presents “both sides” of every issue rather than an “advocacy network”.
@Variety
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Finding transcripts of phone sex calls at the Ronald Reagan Presidential archive.
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Lots of people arguing over whether to boycott the South in the comments. Why aren’t we talking about boycotting Harvard and Yale?
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Whether it's Abraham Lincoln getting shot in the balcony or Lauren Boebert groping in the orchestra, Republicans have a hard time staying focused while attending theater.
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And Barrett went to Notre Dame. Indiana may be a Klan state but it’s north of the Mason-Dixon.
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Redder means banning health care for women and trans people. Also banning books and drag.
Bluer means expanding health care access and making it slightly harder to buy semi-automatic weapons.
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Hey man this site is dying anyway, what’s the harm in giving me a follow?
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The First Amendment says I can’t see Hulk Hogan’s penis but I HAVE TO see Hunter Biden’s penis? Got it.
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“Slavery was basically an unpaid internship” is a hell of a rhetorical move.
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Men will literally lose the House speaker election 6+ times in a row instead of going to therapy
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Say what you want about Truth Social, they know their audience.
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Republicans in several states are working to ban entire fields of study.
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What followed was stunning.
So-called “liberal” media outlets like the Times and Atlantic stoked the flames of the moral panic, amplifying the issue among liberal and moderate audiences.
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Should I get Bernd das Brot as my first and only tattoo, is the real question on the table.
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Also this Tweet really nails it:
@ajbauer
This is geekiest grammar joke I have ever seen on Twitter and everyone thinks it’s about ageism.
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Newark naming its train station Penn Station when it is only two stops away from New York Penn Station is exactly the sort of Grade A trolling that earns New Jersey my begrudging respect.
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I want to watch a Veep episode about the two hours between these two emails.
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Donald Trump is on trial for rape. Here’s why that’s good news for Donald Trump.
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Won’t somebody please think of the anti-abortionists in states that haven’t outlawed abortion!?
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It’s not fascism unless it’s from the fasc region of Italy. Everything else is just an “anti-democracy experiment.”
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[Elon Musk buys Twitter, immediately re-platforms neonazis, racists. Endorses Republicans in the midterms. Attacks “woke ideology.”]
NYT: Elon Musk invents a new type of liberalism.
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Y'all worried about check marks when you should be checking out Marx...
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University of Austin has done the impossible: united Academic Twitter.
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Anyone ever wonder why you never read of massive layoffs at right-wing media outlets?
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The New York Times has spent the better part of eight years trying to get non-conservatives to "understand Trump's appeal."
I have never read an article urging for conservatives to understand the appeal of liberal or left politicians/ideas.
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Still waiting for
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to write one goddamn word about my state's decision to ban the teaching of "divisive concepts" in higher education.
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Why are people circulating a study about the impact of Invermectin on sperm function that had a sample size of 37 and was published in a sketchy journal?
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Why do these sorts of stories always seem to focus on out-of-state students?
My queer students from Alabama don't necessarily have the luxury to leave, nor should they have to. They're here. They're staying. We need to focus on supporting them.
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“It means not conflating it with sex trafficking, Pam.”
“But then how will we maintain our beloved moral panic!?”
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The bat shit both-sides coverage of Jordan Neely's murder got me wondering:
Have major newspapers and the Associated Press ever issued formal apologies for their horrific coverage of lynching in the 20th Century?
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"I mean, say what you want about the tenets of National Socialism, Dude, at least it's an ethos."
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Andrew Yang’s favorite NYC pizza place is the Sbarro near Penn Station.
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NEW: Twitter has suspended the launch of Twitter Blue and is actively trying to stop people from subscribing "to help address impersonation issues," per an internal note. 1/
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Dear students: Just call your professors whatever they prefer you call them. Just like every other person you meet in your life.
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What if, knowing what we know now, we pretend like we’ve never known anything about how Republicans vote?
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Using only your social security number, tell us where you went to college!
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SpaceX public relations played journalists like a fiddle with the counter-intuitive “it exploded but here’s why that’s a good thing!” spin.
This kind of detailed analysis shouldn’t be relegated to Twitter threads.
This is what happens to your launchpad when you think it would be funny to launch to the world's largest rocket on 4/20, instead of when it's ready.
It will probably be at least a year before the FAA will approve another Starship launch.
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Conservatives have been building an “alternate media universe” for 70 years, though. And they’ve had a fully functioning one for 30 years.
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Big picture: Conservatives really starting to build alternate media universe
— Elon is buying Twitter
— Trump building his own platform
— Peter Thiel and J.D. Vance are funding Rumble
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Their secret?
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The Times wants you to think that students are the triggered ones when really it’s the Republican politicians who graduated college 20-50 years ago and can’t handle cutting edge research and pedagogy around race and gender.
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Hey,
@smithsonian
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Preach.
Economists should be advocating for holding conferences in places where all attendees are safe.
But we must also grapple with how support for pushing the judiciary to the right has often come from economists trained and employed at elite institutions in blue states.
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Stunning that the Times still attempts to cover this issue as though it isn’t an active player in the campaign against trans folks.
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Biden failed to deliver on his promise of chaos at the border. Here’s why that’s good news for Ron DeSantis.
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“Oh you do disinformation studies? We’re looking for more of a practitioner…”
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Interesting...
@ajbauer
Section 230 would generally bar a suit against Twitter. However, the damage is from the verification badge which is a product of Twitter and not user generated. They could still face liability for putting the verification badge on accounts engaged in impersonation.
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I don't have a Soundcloud but you can also buy my book or whatever:
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To be clear: I support conferences making decisions to reduce the vulnerability to harm of attendees. That includes not only pregnant ppl, but ppl with disabilities, ppl who are immunocompromised, and ppl who cannot travel across certain borders due to document issues, etc.
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Whether it’s conservatives leveraging state power to literally ban books and fire people who teach anti-racist ideas, or leftists saying mean things on Twitter, both sides have a censorship problem.
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@TejNagaraja
with the best reply:
🎶 ‘Yale Law, has gotten me so upset /
Harvard’s Kennedy, made me lose my rest /
Everybody knows about the Ivy Leagues, goddamn!’ 🎶
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The Internet is a series of tubes incapable of shame. The Firm is a group of very real incompetents who put Middleton in this position by not understanding how the Internet works.
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A “Dunkin’ Deez Nuts” poster may seem like fun and tasteful bedroom decor, but then a tree comes through your roof and the local weatherman shares the footage.
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Bipartisanship is a relic of an era before ideologically sorted parties. Journalists asking why a bill isn't "bipartisan" today might as well be asking why no Mugwumps are supporting it.
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Begging journalists to grasp the difference between exterminationist policy and expanding social welfare.
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Opinion | Mitch McConnell has learned his lesson
By Dianne Feinstein
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This: "What is it going to take for liberals to understand that 'hypocrisy' is not a charge for which right-wing authoritarians must answer at the risk of losing clout, but a tenet of and testament to their power?"
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All joking aside, this column is deranged and if the Times keeps this shit up we are all totally fucked.
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Rupert Murdoch purchased the New York Post in 1976.
It announced its first profitable quarter in 2021.
Their secret?
Conservative news in insulated from the vicissitudes of the market by philanthropists and businessmen who put ideological dissemination ahead of profitability.
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