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It may be these accounts specifically because of the ElonJet link
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A couple more on this list
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Replying to @BCDreyer and @atrupar
Journalists suspended so far tonight:
• @atrupar (WaPo)
• @drewharwell (WaPo)
• @rmac18 (NYT)
• @donie (CNN)
• @mattbinder (Mashable)
• @micahflee (Intercept)
• @webster
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And NYT tech reporter
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Anyone know if he's just doing this to English language accounts calling him a malignant narcissist, or are non-English language leftist (or merely critical) accounts getting suspended too?
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I'm assuming this is all personal score settling? He seems to see the site through a parochial US culture war lens, which means almost anything could be happening elsewhere.
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Another CNN journalist suspended
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Also which is a huge scalp for the fash, one of the most important hubs for anti-fascist and social movement news
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Just sitting there name searching himself in one tab, with the moderator dashboard open in another and the $8chan fanboy groupchat giving him block suggestions in a third
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This is what happens when (as someone put it) a fragile narcissist buys the world's largest criticism factory
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and (chef's kiss)
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also Washington Post's
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Real canary in a coalmine stuff that Twitter has just suspended
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Looking forward to the Twitter Files ep where the boss’s tame substackers expose the ‘scandal’ of today’s totally logical and not at all quixotic content moderation decisions
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This tweet seems to have earned me a mention in the Policy Exchange report on the Trojan Horse Affair, which (I've yet to read it) appears to be Michael Gove and Nick Timothy's vehicle to defend their conduct
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Anyone who wants to understand how the War On Terror has poisoned British politics should listen to the The Trojan Horse Affair, about an anonymous letter that set of the 2014 moral panic about the “Islamization” of Birmingham Schools nytimes.com/interactive/20
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Dear , as much as we enjoy our excellent bilateral relations and close alphabetical vicinity with Nigeria, we would much appreciate if you could label us as Norway😉
P.S. That also goes for Prime Minister and Foreign Minister 🇳🇴
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miyazaki of studio ghibli, upon seeing an artificial intelligence presentation- "i strongly feel that this is an insult to life itself".
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"Really of course I want to be very sensitive and to be outraged by every least thing, since I really am. You, the snowflake, allow me to be that person who I really am, by hating him, in the form of you." 2/2
- Keston Sutherland
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"Simply put, the belief that you are too sensitive and too easily offended licenses me to be too sensitive and too easily offended, by you. I am outraged because you are so easily outraged: it's your fault..." 1/2
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Hey Basho, forget that 17 syllable limit, it’s so restrictive
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I was a 140 purist in the early days. Even 280 seemed baggy, though I came around
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Speaking as someone who loves the formal challenge of fitting a thought into 280, 4k is just work. Work to write, work to read.
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With Elmo tweeting Qanon grandpa memes and now saying he wants to increase the character limit from 280 to 4000, it’s clear that the new Twitter he wants will be … Facebook
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You heard it here first: We have countersigned a tentative agreement and the strike is ending.
Stay tuned for the official joint statement from part-time faculty and New School management.
We look forward to returning to our students.
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Pronouns > landmines
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As someone who personally profited from many wars let me tell you that the culture war is the most lucrative of all
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Recently freed from jail in the US, the "merchant of death" Viktor Bout tells Maria Butina how horrified he was to learn in America that there are 72 genders
"Not just gay people and normal people, but 72!"
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Ronaldo may be a goat, but today was Eid Al-Adha. 🇲🇦🇲🇦🇲🇦🇲🇦🔥🔥🔥
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But that doesn't solve for the actual problem which Conservative politicians (and many Labour ones) are trying to address with their immigration policy, which is the distaste of many xenophobic voters for the presence of non-white immigrants.
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A real 'hard humanitarian' position would be a properly resourced asylum system that upheld the UK's international obligations and made fair determinations in a timely fashion.
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The Rwanda policy is political theatre. It has no other function. It has an implicit limit in that it can only be applied to non-whites. As soon as there was a photo of a white migrant in a cell guarded by black jailers, the Tory base would suddenly find it cruel and inhumane.
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I rarely agree with Matthew Parris but we agree on this. The only way to solve the illegal migration crisis is if migrants know they'll be removed, removed quickly (to Rwanda) & disqualified in future. What I call "hard humanitarianism" is the only way.
thetimes.co.uk/article/91c153
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And since i am now just nodding my head to music videos instead of writing this piece, here's another extraordinarily tight band, Talking Heads in Rome in 1980: Born Under Punches
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That Ya Las Toupas record is 1976. In 1974 the Fania All Stars and Celia Cruz performed in Zaire, at the 'rumble in the jungle' and it was epic
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Just blessing the timeline with this, which is tight as in James Brown band Fania All Stars tight
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Claremont Institute Fellow: "even if conducted legitimately, elections no longer reflect the will of the people" therefore the right should stop participating in "the technocratic accumulation of votes"
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