I've written many a terrifying story out of Russia, but this may have been one of the most terrifying to date.
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A restaurateur-turned-paramilitary honcho mystifyingly poses the greatest internal thread to Vladimir Putin. joined on ' "The Powers That Be: Daily" to discuss her latest piece on Yevgeny Prigozhin and his private militia.
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The Man Behind Russia’s Shadow Army
"For nearly a decade, Evgeny Prigozhin would only admit to being a very successful caterer. He sued anyone who suggested that he was the man behind Wagner."
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The old regime at Twitter governed by its own whims and biases and it sure looks like the new regime has the same problem. I oppose it in both cases. And I think those journalists who were reporting on a story of public importance should be reinstated.
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When told me that 's piece about SBF's parents—famous ethicists—reads like a movie, he was NOT kidding.
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So far, nothing from @bariweiss or @mtaibbi on the banning of journalists from Twitter.
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Is the man who gives Russian schoolchildren dysentery and has people executed by sledgehammer to the head the one who pulls off a coup against Putin?
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Wasn’t this the guy who used a Twitter poll and then said, “Vox populi, vox dei” about the results?
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Right-wing cries "doxxing" whenever you publicly criticize them but they have no problem actually doxxing innocent people when convenient.
They claim to be "free speech" defenders but are fine banning books, canceling elections & censoring journalists.
The weakest of the Earth.
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I’m going to bed. Wake me up when Elon Musks grows a thicker skin—and then please share its exact location in real time.
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Man, those free speech absolutists sure are absolute.
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Tired: logging on to check which of my Russian reporter friends were declared “foreign agents” today for doing their job
Wired: logging on to check which of my US reporter friends were banned from Twitter today for doing theirs
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Who was the Twitter owner who said “Vox populi, vox dei”?
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Wasn’t this the guy who used a Twitter poll and then said, “Vox populi, vox dei” about the results?
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Think of all the therapy $44 billion could have bought.
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We're all dragging you on here, Elon. Are you going to suspend us all?
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Not for nothing, but Musk is under an SEC consent decree for using Twitter to LIE about Tesla and artificially inflate its stock. He literally has a *babysitter* review his Tesla-related tweets. He’s a conman. Should have been disqualified from owning it 🙄
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Oh, shit. Now you got Stephen King mad.
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Why have journalists had their Twitter accounts suspended? Please explain. And it had better be a GOOD explanation.
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*coughs*
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By “free speech”, I simply mean that which matches the law.
I am against censorship that goes far beyond the law.
If people want less free speech, they will ask government to pass laws to that effect.
Therefore, going beyond the law is contrary to the will of the people.
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I haven’t seen this much freedom of speech since the Soviet Union.
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Also suspended, Drew Harwell.
It is very clear: journalists that cover Musk are being kicked off.
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Banning speech critical of you under the veil of pseudolegality, all based on rules you invented yourself to protect yourself from critical speech—well, there's a reason the owner of this website so enjoyed speaking to Vladimir Putin.
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Texts from an unknown sender, from discovery in the Elon Musk/Twitter suit months ago.
Pretty remarkable to read after these suspensions of journalists tonight.
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Remind me where Don Jr. worked that was not a bar in Aspen or his dad's company?
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Junior says the people just laid off at Washington Post are all Gen Z and Millennials who grew up spoiled rich kids who never had to survive in the real world and make it on their own.
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Don't forget Musk reinstated the Nazi Andrew Anglin.
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When people like Libs of TikTok are promoted and people like Aaron Rupar are banned it’s a dark day.
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. What do you think of Twitter suspending various journalists who cover and/or have been critical of Musk with no explanation or transparency?
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Not only is he a free speech absolutist, he's also a mature adult free speech absolutist.
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Free speech "absolutists" strike again.
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Journalists who cover Elon Musk have been suspended on Twitter tonight: @Donie O'Sullivan from CNN, Aaron Rupar and the Washington Post's @drewharwell.
Rupar tells me he has "no idea" why it happened.
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Profile of Evgeny Prigozhin by , looking at his criminal past and present and the fascinating twists and turns of the not-so-private Wagner PMC. Includes a bold prediction by .
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Is the man who gives Russian schoolchildren dysentery and has people executed by sledgehammer to the head the one who pulls off a coup against Putin?
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“Be sure to take Tucker,” one Russian news producer wrote to a colleague.
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"I draw doves, they paint over them," Vladimir Ovchinnikov said.
One Russian artist's quixotic fight against Putin's war machine, by .
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And for what?
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This was Europe in the 1940s. This is Europe in the 2020s.
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Sure, the Spanish culture, which burned Jews and Muslims at the stake for not accepting Christianity, "was a far superior culture" to the Aztecs.
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Matt Walsh went on a white supremacist rant about how the Spanish slaughtering tens of thousands of Indigenous people was good because they were a "morally inferior civilization".
He goes on to praise Hernán Cortés, a pedophile who raped multiple Indigenous slaves
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