Of all the justifications that people had been trying to make to justify the Brendan Carr / Jimmy Kimmel nonsense, the absolutely most misleading and stupid was the claim that the Supreme Court blessed that kind of jawboning in Murthy v. Missouri. They did the literal opposite. RE:

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Techdirt (@techdirt.com)

Trump Supporters Are Lying About Biden ‘Censorship’ To Justify Brendan Carr’s Unconstitutional Kimmel Threats Trump supporters cycled throu...

Chotiner remains so good at getting people to reveal themselves. The Kissinger nonsense is obviously the most revealing, but the real revelation here is just how flexible and malleable Sunstein's actual beliefs and principles are, such that there is no actual consistent view. RE:

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Isaac Chotiner (@ichotiner.bsky.social)

New Interview: https://www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/can-liberalism-be-saved

Breaking: Trump's US envoy to Syria (also one of his few personal friends) apparently wholly unaware of what "Islam" means. This is stunning and in any normal world would be career ending for any diplomat in the Middle East. RE:

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Inside Ukraine 🇺🇦 (@insideukraine.bsky.social)

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There are plenty of misrepresentations going around regarding Google's pathetically sucking up letter to Jim Jordan, which deliberately misrepresents reality in a manner designed to make Jordan look good, but the one part that really gets me is this one: https://oyster.us-east.host.bsky.network/xrpc/com.atproto.sync.getBlob?did=did:plc:cak4klqoj3bqgk5rj6b4f5do&cid=bafkreihoeuzklxyly3lnk4wbemjld6vnxulatii54cvoegu4frdvulasdq

Heard a podcast about Charlie Kirk and one of the guests claimed Kirk was a "centrist" and another guest said that his death will inspire a new generation to believe in free speech... which, according to this same person, means no longer allowing people to let people use preferred pronouns. 🤔

FWIW, Elon did this after Gavin posted a video saying sure it's hypocritical for the right to suppress speech after claiming to be all about free speech, but he doesn't care and embraces the hypocrisy. "Fuck you. It's a war... we're making you suffer. The gloves are off. We're hypocrites now." RE:

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Shayan Sardarizadeh (@shayan86.bsky.social)

X has restored the account of Gavin McInnes, founder of the Proud Boys group. McInnes's account was banned by Twitter in August 2018 ahead of the ...

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Mike Masnick (@mmasnick.bsky.social)

Just got sucked into @neal.fun's "Not a Robot" neal.fun/not-a-robot/ https://neal.fun/not-a-robot/

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Oh, it's happening. RE:

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Mike Masnick (@mmasnick.bsky.social)

Just got sucked into @neal.fun's "Not a Robot" neal.fun/not-a-robot/ https://neal.fun/not-a-robot/

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So about that "free speech on campus" law in Texas, Governor Abbott... RE:

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Alejandra Caraballo (@esqueer.net)

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It's official RE:

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I Need a Cocktail (@iantuck.bsky.social)

You are an objectively bad person.