Don Moynihan
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New, from me: University administrators are undermining their leadership of the campus community by inviting a militarized response to peaceful protests.
When police are assaulting professors, hard to claim they are just dealing with outside agitators.
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Justy a sample of what NRA supporters are doing to teenagers who survived a massacre (real picture on the right).
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Musk refusing to pay the $1 billion fee to get out of buying Twitter is my new favorite example of the sunk cost fallacy
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Verification worthless as of next week, so some are choosing to go out like heroes
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Extraordinary: Musk believes that the company he owns has shadowbanned him, holds a meeting to complain he is not getting enough action on his tweets.
Engineer provide some data showing people are losing interest in his antics. He fires them.
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@DouthatNYT
Worth noting that unemployment rapidly dropped after Britney Spears released “Work Bitch”
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A chorus of local news reporters reading, word-for-word, from the same Sinclair script to attack the media and defend the President. This is not what an independent media looks like.
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Barnes lost by 27K votes; was outspent by outside groups by $27 million.
$29 million of that spending came from one group, funded by three billionaires that Johnson personally created a massive tax break for.
No reporting of this race is complete without these basic facts.
NEW THIS AM: With 100% in, Sen. Ron Johnson is leading Lt. Gov. Mandela Barnes by 27, 374.
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Has there been a bigger bad faith tell than “I’m a free speech absolutist”?
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Update: the library apologized for suggesting that there was any attack on books after an elected official told them to take down the sign.
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Worth noting that it was losing, rather than authoritarianism, that made right-wing elites turn on Trump.
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Posting a lie, acknowledging you lied, and making clear you don’t care all in the same thread
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Holy shit, its the original Avocado Toast guy!
Gurner Group founder Tim Gurner tells the Financial Review Property Summit workers have become "arrogant" since COVID and "We've got to kill that attitude."
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This is what Twitter is now. Musk peddles white nationalist conspiracy memes, and when a community note corrects him, it is removed
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It's not just famous people. When anyone dies they are stalking the family to try and make a vaccine connection
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“The New York Times requested copies of the documents from Mr. Musk, but did not receive a response”
Musk et al complain about journalism but want media to repeat their claims w/o verification or context. So much for transparency.
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Turns out that the Content Moderation Council was just Andy Ngo telling Elj Musk which left wing accounts to ban
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I am begging the NY Times to look at other perspectives about campus speech.
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“Don’t worry about the guy who led the failed putsch, inflation is the real issue!” is a special kind of historical ignorance.
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It's amazing how quickly anti-democratic practices were normalized in WI. It took less than a decade.
Here, the GOP Senate refuses to give the Dem Governor's appointees a hearing, holdover GOP appointees refuse to leave, and the GOP state supreme court says all of this is fine.
18 months after terms expired, GOP appointees to Wisconsin's technical college board continue to serve and deny Democratic Gov. Tony Evers' appointments (via
@KellyMeyerhofer
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This is pretty much what Twitter is now. A gamergate guy who has never left Malaysia posts toxic memes about US schools for money, and the richest man in the world boosts it as part of an ongoing attack on US public institutions.
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Biden literally running up to reporters to let them know the UK economy is "not that consequential"
President Biden responds to our questions today as he left for PA. He spoke about the sudden resignation of UK PM Liz Truss.
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Back-to-back "I am not a drag queen" and "I did not kill that dog" is immediate Hall of Fame level posting
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It’s important to remember that the elites are the professors and journalists, not the people toasting their coup efforts with $5K bottles of wine
By the way, it seems like that's a very nice bottle of wine Ginni and Justice Thomas are enjoying. I see it listed online for $5,135.
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Musk fired the twitter teams dealing with human rights and facilitating disability access.
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The Clintons were accused of murdering their friends and being involved in a child sex trafficking ring. Obama was accused of being born in Kenya.
Romney was mocked for things he actually said or policies he adopted. It wasn't particularly mean even by normal US politics.
If I had to pinpoint a moment, when Mitt Romney spent his entire campaign being accused of killing Big Bird, building binders full of women, torturing the family dog, etc etc.
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@waitbutwhy
Obama's party is led by Obama's Vice President, and the other party is led by the guy who tried to orchestrate a coup, but sure, its the Dems who are extremists.
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There is more immigration in the UK than there was pre-Brexit but people are no longer worried about it.
What happened? Media and political framing of immigration as a problem to be solved disappeared post-Brexit, and so did public opposition.
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I am begging the NY Times to stop being People magazine of campus speech issues
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Amazing stuff. What the Founding Fathers intended was to restrict online polls to people paying $11 to the (former) richest man in the world.
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The gunman who killed at least 10 people in Buffalo is a self-described white supremacist who advocates for the Great Replacement Theory.
He left a manifesto. See if you can tell the difference between it and standard fare on the Tucker Carlson show.
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She did not know what CRT was: but when she accepted a job as DEI administrator white parents accused her of implementing it in schools. She resigned. Then they kept harassing her until she left her next job.
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Weird how "we just want to block obscure legal theories about race" morphed into "we want to exclude Black authors" and now "we want fewer Black teachers"
Here's a newly elected anti-CRT school board member at CyFair ISD, the third largest school district in Texas, suggesting at a meeting on Monday that Houston ISD has worse student outcomes because the district has more Black teachers.
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Yesterday: Disney has declared war on America’s children. Time to fight back.
Today: Wife is out of town so raise that white flag.
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Just a reminder that when you hear that the left has become more radical, actual cross-time measures of Congressional ideology shows the opposite. Polarization reflects a shift rightward among Republicans.
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Full process of confirmation bias in 90 seconds:
*makes a claim
*contradicted by an expert
*”That’s not what I read”
*asks for evidence
*contradicted by evidence
*says the evidence can’t be trusted
We probably won't see Josh Zepps on Rogan's podcast for a while 😂
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Then: Biden clearly has the power to cancel all student debt. Why isn't he doing it?
Now: Biden pretending to cancel student debt when he clearly doesn't have the power to do so is the ultimate act of political deception.
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Biden's age has become such a trope in coverage that even when he undertakes a whirlwind diplomatic tour and a 40 minute press conference, these are the headlines.
Actual demonstration of his fitness is used to raise questions about his fitness. All of this is a choice.
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New from me: a viral news story accused a school of race-based grading. The only problem was it wasn't true.
I dug deeper: There was no journalist to hold accountable. The story reflects of how partisan "pink slime" media has replaced local news. 🧵
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The US has never had, at a national level, any serious lockdowns, unlike say, China.
For some reason Musk won't criticize China on this.
Instead uses twitter to attack the government here while complaining about censorship.
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NEW: leaked Kremlin docs asking Tucker and Greenwald to tone it down a bit to be a little more credible
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Yes, this is definitely the issue that sane people were talking about in the aftermath of Abe's assassination
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That Supreme Court decision that allowed a coach to pray with players also told the school to reinstate him. Trouble is, he prefers being a conservative cancel culture icon to working.
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The DeSantis takeover of New College was meant to offer a model of a conservative-run higher ed.
The result is chaos, which is what happens when incompetent people who don't actually care about organizational mission take over public services.
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They are going to switch from complaining about supply chain issues to actively sabotaging the supply chain
Tucker: A group of American truckers announced they will begin a nationwide truck convoy in protest against Joe Biden’s vaccine mandates
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This has become sort of folklore but The Post did a detailed analysis of the laptop hard drive, including hiring two independent security experts, in a way the NY Post did not. I know this because they wrote about it.
This post has 10.5K likes & counting.
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If these people win, if they return to power, be under no illusion that it’s the end of American democracy
A video played by the January 6 committee shows how the tweet Trump posted after the Capitol had been breached criticizing Pence for not helping him overturn the election prompted "hang Mike Pence!" chants
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Congrats to Byron York and others who are discovering our harsh criminal justice system now that a rich, white fellow-partisan is enduring it.
New court filing: Paul Manafort is being held in solitary confinement in Virginia jail; locked in cell 23 hours a day.
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Late stage twitter will be Elon Musk, sole remaining employee, wondering why he is not getting more likes
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@elonmusk
@IFNY2775
@micsolana
Personal safety violation on twitter: Linking to an account that is scraping publicly available information on jet use.
Not a personal safety violation: stoking fake pedophile allegations to the point someone flees their home.
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Account now suspended. Most likely a bot (the eight digits in the name is a tell apparently - thx
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#EmmaGonzalez
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@twitter
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Verified account posted a fake gif of Gonzalez tearing up the constitution. Plus the original shot. Its not a very good fake, but if you want to believe, you will believe. Underlines how vulnerable social media is to lies.
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We are expected to treat Trump family members who worked with the President and took an oath to defend the constitution as real public officials, right until the moment it becomes inconvenient for them
The Ivanka Trump clip has gotten a lot of attention, but its inclusion was entirely gratuitous and clearly meant simply to embarrass her—a committee purportedly devoted to saving our democracy shouldn’t be so petty and should do better
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If wokeness was really was in control of major journalistic institutions I am pretty sure Ann Coulter would not be writing for the New York Times.
The New York Times opinion section is now publishing Ann Coulter.
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"we don't have a racial quota in my office"
Reporter: “How many Black women do you have on staff and how are they informing your decision” on Biden’s SCOTUS nominee?
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell: “I haven’t checked, we don’t have a racial quota in my office.”
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-The Dems have been hijacked by extremists!
*Joe Biden is an extremist?
-uh…not him specifically. More what the party as a whole is doing.
*what are the radical policies they’ve implemented?
-it’s not so much any particular policy, it’s more, y’know, vibes.
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There is something amazing about a company that has a vax mandate propagandizing for an anti-vax protest against a government that doesn’t actually have a vax mandate
UNITED IN PURPOSE: US' own 'Freedom Convoy' forming to take fight against COVID mandates to Biden's front door
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Uh, so the stalker thing Musk is misusing to justify his bans on journalists is bullshit? Did not happen near an airport or on a day his jet was flying per this report.
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Some US states are not functioning democracies, and the reason is not mobs, but people in suits and robes deciding to ignore the voters.
In WI, state Supreme Court works with co-partisan GOP legislature to block Dem Governor from making appointments.
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@elonmusk
@eltonofficial
You routinely boost election deniers and conspiracy cranks by treating them like legitimate sources of information.
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Feel like we are getting a real time lesson that thin-skinned billionaires can't be relied on to defend our values
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For the sake of its own credibility, I am asking the NY Times to stop publishing these essays
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Biden: in last two decades more kids have been killed by guns than the combined number of cops or military killed by guns in the line of duty.
Absolutely horrifying statistic.
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People went out, put this on the ballot, and voted for it. And now the GOP legislature is nullifying their votes. This is, increasingly, the GOP brand.
Michigan GOP cuts paid sick leave, repeals minimum wage increase in lame-duck session
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Sounds bad: school has different grades for black and white students!
Reality: literal conservative fake news is laundered by mainstream actors like Sullivan, who are perfectly willing to suspend their credulity when the story matches their priors 🧵
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The state of Tennessee gerrymandered Nashville out of existence. A mid-sized American city will no longer have an elected official in Congress who represents it's constituents.
Tennessee's new political maps approved by Republicans dismembered Nashville’s solidly blue House district — held by a Democrat for 147 years — and scattered its remains among three new districts that stretch deep into Republican rural areas.
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Easy solution: do your coup in West Virginia if you want a West Virginia jury.
Trump lawyer John Lauro on CBS: "We would like a diverse venue, a diverse jury ... I think West Virginia will be an excellent venue to try this case. Close to DC and a much more diverse--"
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Remarkable, how in a couple of years we have gone from misrepresenting CRT to AP African American studies as indoctrination, a lie, and damaging to children.
“We cannot perpetuate a lie to our students and push this propaganda leftist agenda teaching our kids to hate America and hate one another.”
— Gov. Sarah Sanders (R-AR) rejects criticism after the Arkansas Education Dept. removed credit for an AP African American studies course
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The very next day after this speech the White House banned a reporter because it deemed her questions about Cohen & Russia to be disrespectful.
Jeff Sessions: Some universities "are doing everything they can to create a generation of sanctimonious, sensitive, supercilious snowflakes."
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A goal of terrorism is to draw attention to the cause of the terrorist, bringing their ideas to a wider audience. In this, the incel who murdered ten people in Canada has been remarkably successful, thanks to opinion columnists eager to offer up A Provocative New Idea
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Its actually a good thing when the people who embrace neo-Nazis don't want to be associated with you
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) and Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) turn their backs and refuse to applaud Biden's cabinet.
#SOTU
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