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i love my job at an airplane-tracking company in ohio tracking elon musk's airplane and posting its location to twitter
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New: has paused advertising on Twitter, co-founder tells me, marking the first news organization (that I'm aware of) which has suspended advertising on the platform since Musk banned several high-profile journalists from the site.
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President Biden intends to tap former congressman Joe Kennedy III as the U.S. special envoy for Northern Ireland for Economic Affairs, per
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A great reporter at Business Insider who published an important investigation of Tesla. businessinsider.com/tesla-faulty-b
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I'm looking for recommendations for a children's book agent! I have a draft of a nonfiction kid's book co-written with an astronaut that I'd love to pitch to folks but am slightly overwhelmed figuring out where to pitch it 😅
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"I made it real clear the United States Congress, if they didn't pass this damn burn pit bill, I was going to go on holy war. Not a joke," President Biden says.
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#Avatar superfan Raymond Knowles, who says he's 95% inked at this point, tells Rolling Stone: "People think I’m obsessed."
Story: rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv-m
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Most recent NYS influenza report is absolutely bananas.
This year's red line looks relentless.
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JUST IN: Trump's lawsuit against the select committee has stalled because he has yet to serve it properly on .
Judge wants up update by next week. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco
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In first address to a Jewish group since West, Fuentes dinner, Trump claims to be "the best ally" the Jewish people "ever had."
And, again, he complained about the lack of Jewish support in 2020. "How do you do that?" he asked.
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Newly unsealed opinions from DC Chief Judge Howell indicate that federal investigators have obtained access to certain communications/writings of Scott Perry, John Eastman, Jeff Clark and Ken Klukowski. (via ) cnn.com/2022/12/16/pol
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NEWS: A jugde has unsealed new details about DOJ investigators' efforts to access contacts between Rep. Scott PERRY and Trump-era lawyers Jeff Clark and John Eastman.
Details TK w/
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I have wondered whether the smartphone explains some of the post-Gen X decline in smoking for exactly this reason
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Crazy to think that like 20 years ago if you were late to meet someone for dinner, you’d arrive and they’d be just sitting there staring into space. Maybe folding their napkin into different shapes
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“Sanders has already met with his incoming GOP counterpart,Bill Cassidy, about what they can do together. He’s also had a conversation with Collins about rural health care policy. Cassidy mentioned addressing the nursing shortage as a top priority”
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LA's new mayor fulfilled her campaign promise to declare an emergency to tackle homelessness, let's see how Fox is covering it.
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Friday night and the lights are low …
A Dancing King was spotted earlier as King Charles joined the Jewish community at in North London as they prepare to celebrate #Chanukah
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News from : NBC News has suspended from appearing on air, over Musk criticism it thought crossed the line
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The Jan. 6 rioter who chased Officer Eugene Goodman through the Capitol while wearing a Q-Anon shirt has been sentenced to 5 years in prison. Doug Jensen will additionally be on probation for 3 years after his release and will have to pay $2,000 in restitution.
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It makes a lot of intuitive sense, if you joined the party for the first time over the last 6 years you knew exactly what you were getting
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After six elections in six years of Dems living on (and often flourishing with)Trump backlash, the person running against Trump's hand-picked chair is...also pro-Trump and blames McConnell for midterms
(yes, this is in part bc nature of RNC is Trumpy)
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People who seem certain the GOP is moving on from Trump should read @sppeoples on the RNC chair fight apnews.com/article/politi
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I'm not the weird one for hating rats.
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Mayor Eric Adams: The rats may be listening
bit.ly/3Wki5JF
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This space - which briefly participated in - just suddenly shut down as speakers were mid sentence.
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“Permanently suspended” user Matt Binder has found a loophole: he can talk (and is talking!) on this Twitter space, right now.
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Some of the better content on Twitter tonight. Need @Bencjacobs take on when the last time we saw such iowa on iowa violence on national tv twitter.com/scottdochterma…
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For all the back and forth about what the Twitter rules now are, it's pretty clear that Elon is just playing Calvinball and it is all being made up by him as he goes along
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Musk is accusing the now-banned journalists at CNN, The New York Times, and The Washington Post of posting what he says amounts to "assassination coordinates" on him. Of course, this is not what those journalists did.
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To the segregation point, it will be an actual societal loss in a very segregated society if Black Twitter and journalism stop intersecting every day. That has been one of the most unalloyed goods of Twitter.
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VOA's Steve Herman () has been tracking Elmo's tantrum –– he QT'ed our statement & then promptly got suspended.
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The funniest part about spending $44b just to boot accounts that annoy him is that in a few months (weeks?) everyone who bothers him most will be on whatever platform fills the void and talking shit about him again for the same audience
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This is starting to feel like a remake of Brewster’s Millions only with devaluing the stock of an electric car company
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Mazel Tov, it’s a boy. I am a first-time zayde.
Mom and baby are doing well. 😊
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Journalists who cover Elon Musk have been suspended on Twitter tonight: O'Sullivan from CNN, Aaron Rupar and the Washington Post's .
Rupar tells me he has "no idea" why it happened.
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"Matter of fact, the art Mitchell did for Ginuwine bears a strong resemblance to Trump’s NFTs."
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NOT AGREED TO: Motion to invoke cloture on the motion to concur with Manchin amendment #6513 re: permitting
By a vote of 47-47.
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