Just remembering when Musk banned a ton of people (mostly journalists) for pointing out that he banned the ElonJet account, and he (and many of his vocal supporters) argued that merely mentioning the existence of ElonJet was doxxing and designed to harm Musk. Seems like a bit of a double standard. RE:
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Pretty rich of Ted Cruz to be hauling Google and Meta execs before the Senate to talk about "Joe Biden's jawboning" literally days after Pam Bondi admitted she calls Meta to have them remove groups, and as Trump says the new TikTok should be 100% MAGA [www.commerce.senate.gov/2025/10/part...](
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U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, & Transportation
Part II of Shut Your App: How Uncle Sam Jawboned Big Tech Into Silencing Americans
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Excuse me what? The RIAA is now funding NCOSE to file bullshit amicus briefs before the Supreme Court?!? That is way more fucked up than even usual RIAA nonsense. Let me explain... https://oyster.us-east.host.bsky.network/xrpc/com.atproto.sync.getBlob?did=did:plc:cak4klqoj3bqgk5rj6b4f5do&cid=bafkreifl2iqvrtvml63zizl7hm47ncbzr33ndttge3wic3236w2s5wkg2m
The incredible part here is that Starr had a reputation as someone the DoD would go to to leak stuff. She was a reliable voice for telling the DoD's (distorted, misleading) narrative. And even she's like "yo, wtf" RE:
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Barbara Starr, who covered the Pentagon for decades, says the announcement is "beyond odd" and that the preexisting press corps "still is working e...
Call me crazy, but I don't think it's good when the President gets to decide to just take a quarter of a billion dollars of taxpayer money. RE:
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A friend who took investment from Sequoia a while back told me he had reached out to partners there to say he'd never consider Sequoia again so long as Maguire was still a partner. The way they keep defending him as "oh well, we let everyone hold their own opinions" is a cop-out. RE:
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Testing out my "you can never have too many chickpeas" theory. https://oyster.us-east.host.bsky.network/xrpc/com.atproto.sync.getBlob?did=did:plc:cak4klqoj3bqgk5rj6b4f5do&cid=bafkreifw3s6hyxmgkdux7z46hxz2sd4oxjilgryzf4vpk6ki3axad46mja
You simply cannot be a political journalist today if you don't know the deep ins-and-outs of the nonsense conspiracy theories. Because people will just constantly say stuff that is blatantly false and you NEED to be ready to call it out with receipts. RE:
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Lankford: "I think now history has proven that Russiagate was a hoax. It was actually formed by James Coney and Brennan and others that were behind...
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