In a vacuum that might even be defensible but given how insane Musk & his stans went over Twitter blocking links to stolen nudes of Hunter Biden, thatâs some reeeeal chutzpah.
Today, X suspended @kenklippenstein.bsky.social after he published a dossier the Trump campaign compiled on J.D. Vance on his newsletter on Substack, citing a rule against âposting private info.â Verge reports X is blocking the URL, scrubbing it from search, & deleted their hacked materials policy.
First as tragedy, then as farce.
If this seems clumsy, obvious, and likely to be discovered, it is. One explanation is that Eric Adams is clumsy and obvious. Another explanation is about cop culture and NYPD culture in particular: if you come up steeped in the expectation of no consequences it becomes difficult to imagine them.
Glad this is finally getting on the front burner. Because verily, I tell you that Vance and the billionaire cult he fronts are freakier than one would care to imagine. www.patreon.com/posts/jd-van...
"The pandemic didn't convert people to the right, so much as it revealed the reactionary and even fascistic leaning of so many people who insisted they offer 'natural' alternatives to 'medicalized' health care." www.salon.com/2024/09/26/r...
Despite a crunchy exterior, "alternative medicine" has always been rooted in opposition to social progress
Under Musk's leadership, X has "acted on 71 percent of the legal requests it received to remove content in the first half of this year, up 20 percent from the last time it reported the figure in 2021 and more than double the rate in preceding years."
The social media platformâs new transparency report suggests that the site is more compliant under its high-profile, freewheeling owner than it used to be.
Right-wing AGs donât like the medical professionâs conclusions about trans care. So now theyâre threatening the American Academy of Pediatrics with legal action if they share politically incorrect expert opinions. www.erininthemorning.com/p/22-republi...
The letter, which was sent to the president of the American Academy of Pediatrics, attempts to use consumer protection laws to make it against the law to support puberty blockers.
Reihan "Salam brought Rufo into the Manhattan Institute fold in 2020 and he has eagerly spotlighted him in the organizationâs public materials over the years." slate.com/news-and-pol...
There is money in bigotry.
Cleaning out my shoulder bag and apparently I have become the sort of person who has four different sets of D&D dice each stashed in a different compartment or pocket.
Just gonna leave this here. danieldrezner.substack.com/p/the-panic-...
on those days when i am feeling blackpilled it is because i am dwelling on the fact that a lot of americans â and, potentially, a critical number of american voters â experience political life with a high degree of ironic detachment, as if itâs all just a television show
