I know white house reporters are currently cowering for access, but it would be nice for someone to ask about Elon’s continued and ever-more-public drug abuse in the context of its threat to national security.
I am begging you: if you are writing a thread of more than a couple posts, get a blog. I don’t mean this in a mean way. I mean: allow this thought to continue to exist, outside of this platform, in an actually coherent, readable format that sticks around for longer than 20 minutes. You deserve it!
The other week I spoke at 20x2 about newspaperman George Dale who fought the Klan in the 1920s, at huge personal cost, and how our path forward involves being more like him than the folks bending the knee right now.
I just keep writing pithy little posts and deleting them and then writing new little jokes and deleting them and then just staring into the middle distance for a while and then trying again
As a parent of a Gen Z kid, I can tell you that their whole entire lives they’ve seen the government put them last. Guns, covid, student loans, cost-of-living, it’s always their gen that has gotten fucked.
This TikTok ban vividly reinforces what they already know.
The best time to start building a little spot for yourself on the internet independent of platforms was yesterday. The second best time is right fucking now.