Seems like an apt moment to note it was invasion of privacy grounds that Peter Thiel, Musk's longtime colleague and increasingly his ideological ally, used to kill Gawker. That's the playbook.
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Also eagerly anticipating Taibbi and Weiss's update to the TwitterFiles scorcher: "Nothing to see here, everyone!"
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I'm sure a new Harper's Letter denouncing Elon Musk's suppression of free speech will drop any minute now.
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Politico's Playbook is begging you not to take it seriously.
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As if there weren’t already enough sell indicators in the crypto market.
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Some people told me they couldn't see the link, which is an obvious attempt by Elon to destroy me, so I'm posting this again: The Nation let me rant about the recent breaking of the rail worker strike. Enjoy.
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…and leaving the basic terms of the bit unchanged, even as a whole generation of alleged bluestocking leftists themselves came and went. The Maggie Simpson Kulturkampf
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Gotta admire the willingness these people have to say “We’re all just a bunch of big babies.”
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For , I spoke to Marie Gluesenkamp Perez about rural politics, healthcare monopolies, right to repair, and what the Democratic Party, which gave her no financial backing, can learn from her shocking midterm win
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If only there had been some way to see this coming . . .
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This piece by is so smart! If you want to understand how Democratic politics & policies of the '90s paved the way for Trumpism, while disempowering the left, this is the piece to read. Thank you, Bill Clinton & Tony Blair.Heckuva job.
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Probably a good time to remind everyone that regardless of what Elon Musk, his reactionary advisors, and fake journalists want you to believe, Twitter admitted its algorithms were biased in favor of right-wing accounts just last year.
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Democracy dies in Megan McArdle's echoing cranium
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Marveling at the seamless transition from "Shadowbanning is ultra-MAGA paranoia" to "LOL of course they were de-amplifying the hard right, who thought this was news?"
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OK, now Twitter Files, but for Tesla, SpaceX and the Boring Company
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Stars are aligning for a Peter Baker deanship
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As announced on Monday, we have made the difficult decision to stop paying wages and premiums for healthcare benefits for employees who are striking. Up to this point, we have continued to compensate our faculty and staff who have chosen to exercise their right to strike.
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Amazingly, Bari Weiss and a strike at the New York Times are trending, yet each has nothing to do with the other.
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Trump's Constitution trolling: my latest for
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It might have bolstered their case if they'd at least made their wildly overbroad definition grammatical.
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DeSantis' lawyers were forced by the court to define "woke." The lead lawyer described it as "The belief there are systemic injustices in American society and the need to address them."
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Still trying to absorb how the same political team that's so determined to make a presidential failson's dick picks into a crisis for the republic is blithely ignoring its leader's literal call to abolish the Constitution and install himself as dictator-for-life.
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“It's a pretty sad state of affairs that Biden and most congressional Democrats have sided with the rail bosses and put themselves in a position where they can be nominally outflanked by the likes of Marco frickin’ Rubio," says.
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When self-care meets other-destruction.
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"How firing Christopher Cillizza may actually help Chris Cillizza," muttered a stunned Chris Cillizza to himself over and over again as he approached his parking space one last time.
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Sounds an awful lot like this monopoly-platform cancel culture I've been hearing so much about!
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Paging @ElonMusk & @Twitter: @thenation's national affairs correspondent @joanwalsh had her Twitter account hacked on Friday. She had a verified account and 330k followers—and she's been tweeting for 15 years. She's contacted @TwitterSupport at least a dozen times—no answer.
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Now that her candidacy is officially dead in the water, I can report that Kari Lake grew up one town over from me in eastern Iowa, and that she is the perfect avatar of the personality type that made me drop out of high school.
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It speaks volumes that Mike Pence--the same Mike Pence who traveled to an NFL game to derogate players taking a knee over police killings of Black detainees--is now the GOP's arbiter of the morally obvious.
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MORE: Former VP @Mike_Pence tells me: "PRESIDENT TRUMP WAS WRONG TO GIVE A WHITE NATIONALIST, AN ANTI SEMITE AND A HOLOCAUST DENIER, A SEAT AT THE TABLE, AND I THINK HE SHOULD APOLOGIZE FOR IT." Full interview tonight at 7p EST on @NewsNation
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Also, in his own preferred terms of analysis it makes all kinds of sense to let a “fully weaponized monster” be oh so near to a “political persecution.” This all suggests that his heart’s just no longer in the bit. Low energy and sad!
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Why is “President Donald J. Trump” in scare quotes in his own statement?
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His plan for everything is to crash more cars twitter.com/elonmusk/statu
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While I naturally detest Elon Musk and his worldview, I do have to confess that I'd like to see more intra-capitalist rivalries staged as celebrity death matches.
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New episode posted!
Watch, listen to, or read 's discussion with and on how techno-libertarianism went from low information centrism to radically authoritarian
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This really should retire, once and for all, the myth of the meritocracy
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Holy shit, Sam Bankman-Fried just confirmed that he **WILL** be speaking at the New York Times conference on 11/30 (!!).
Was Andy Fastow (CFO of Enron) not available?
NYT's site describes him as "investor, entrepreneur and PHILANTHROPIST..."
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Just re-upping this, for no particular reason. thenation.com/article/politi
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