It's official. #WashingtonPost is now too far right for conservative centrist #JenniferRubin, who joined similarly conservative pundits and lawyers like George Conway, Asha Rangappa, and Laurence Tribe to found new outlet called #TheContrarian. Congratulations #JeffBezos, you turned the one remaining newspaper of record in this country into just another #NaziBar.
https://contrarian.substack.com/p/i-have-resigned-from-the-washington
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[#]RebeccaSolnit always has the best words. In 2016, the #media failed us, but it was still plausible that they were tripped up by #Russian #disinformation campaigns amplified by eagerly cooperating big tech social networks. In 2024, the #media has failed completely, utterly and, this time, without any plausible excuses.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/nov/07/us-progressive-election-trump-maga
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[#]Kamala counted on #Poles and #Ukrainians in #Pennsylvania. #JakeSullivan is by far the biggest reason they didn't turn out for #Democrats this year. Sullivan is why Ukraine, the nation that has the least reasons to like #Putin's lapdog, has higher approval of #Trump than any nation in #Europe. Sullivan is why Ukraine didn't get Patriots and F-16s and ATACMS until it was too late to make a difference.
And don't even get me started on the things #Biden admin failed to do to support #Belarusians.
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Too much to ask of #WaPo, but can we please never hear from #JakeSullivan again?
[#]MaxBoot piles onto this nonsense by comparing the #Kirillov hit with #Suleimani assassination, an attack on a nation the US wasn't at war with at the time.
No, a much better analogy is the #Israel's decapitation strikes against #Hamas and #Hezbollah. Like those, this is an attack on the command structure of a rogue terrorist group. Unlike those, it caused zero civilian deaths. #SBU deserves nothing but praise.
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[#]1000days #eu #ukraine
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@boomer@annihilation.social @ErickaSimone #FediBlock The above is self-explanatory. The entire instance is as pleasant as this representative.
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PSA: If you're one of the people boosting Taylor Lorenz into my timeline, that would be why I unfollowed you. Lorenz is not an ally and cannot be trusted with people's attention. If you're looking for someone calling things as they are, follow @ErickaSimone instead. How do I know you're not following Ericka already? Because if you did, you'd know not to boost Lorenz.
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So was #OctaviaButler.
“Choose your leaders with wisdom and forethought. To be led by a coward is to be controlled by all that the coward fears. To be led by a fool is to be led by the opportunists who control the fool. To be led by a thief is to offer up your most precious treasures to be stolen. To be led by a liar is to ask to be lied to. To be led by a tyrant is to sell yourself and those you love into slavery.”
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Oh but this whole country is full of lies
You're all gonna die and die like flies
I don't trust you any more
You keep on saying "Go slow!"
[#]NinaSimone was a genius and a prophet.
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TFW you're trying to time-the-market your exit from the country you've spent previous 12 years trying to make your own.
Is there still time to find a new job abroad? Will there still be time to sell your house? How long before one night a mob with torches shows up in your town, or the feds knock your door down to drag your denaturalized ass to a concentration camp?
Is there even a country that can remain safe after the fall of the United States?
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[#]CharacterLimit is a great book, more about it here: https://mastodon.circle.lt/@dmitry/113189925728765853
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If you missed the news about #8vc, source and context:
https://mastodon.social/@angdraug/113014876020927830
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Now that everybody's talking about #PhonyStark's phone calls with #Putin, time to remind all y'all that, as revealed in #CharacterLimit by Kate Conger & Ryan Mac, just one day before closing his acquisition of #Twitter, #Musk was $400 million short of the $44 billion he owed, and tried to shake down Twitter board into paying it out of their cache reserves. Mysteriously,¹ he found the money overnight.
¹ When exactly #8vc, a noname firm employing two sons of Putin's oligarchs, join the deal?
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Here is #TimothySnyder himself explaining #AnticipatoryObedience once again:
https://snyder.substack.com/p/obeying-in-advance
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As I've been telling my American friends since 2016, #Belarusians and #Russians saw this movie before. #WaPo and #JeffBezos's surrender to Trump is an example of #AnticipatoryObedience #TimothySnyder warned us about. #Zuck bent the knee in 2018. #PhonyStark in 2022. Bezos in 2024 when he put #WillLewis in charge of #WashingtonPost.
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/bezos-kills-washington-post-endorsement-guardrails-falling
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Enough with the #RedLines. This Associated Press report explains how holding #Ukraine back from hitting back at the airfields in #Russia where the glide bomb strikes are launched from made the fall of #Vuhledar inevitable.
https://apnews.com/article/ukraine-russia-war-vuhledar-2403780647659883a203feda35dd8ccc
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Oh, and now I know where that really weird elephant scene in the Silicon Valley TV series has come from. I should have known better than doubt that it had a real story behind it!
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I also gained even more respect for #Twitter's entire leadership team, especially Vijaya Gadde, Del Harvey, and Yoel Roth. They had to fight #Dorsey for every inch of content moderation, and, unlike their counterparts at #Facebook, they were able to stay in the fight and make progress for another two years. They got harassed and targeted for it, yet they kept pushing to make Twitter safer. 🫡
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I don't know how much of #Twitter's egalitarian corporate culture came from #Dorsey vs other founders and early employees, but in 2021 it worked quite well. If anything, it was less dysfunctional than typical for companies with micromanager despots at the helm.
In the end, I think this bothered #Jack more than anything. What else can explain how he refused to lead the company, yet viciously fought for control over it, and in the end would rather burn it down than let it succeed without him?
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Finished Act I: the first third of the book that covers the #Twitter's path from its beginnings to getting the hostile acquisition offer from #Musk. Oof.
I was there in 2021-2022, but there was a lot going on that I only suspected, and even more that I had no idea about and that in retrospect explains a lot.
For example, #Dorsey being an absentee CEO was very obvious from before I even finished onboarding. But based on what I learned about him from #CharacterLimit, it was a good thing.
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