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2000-2020 Archive

The Twitter Files and the National Security State

Thomas Neuburger

Dec 13, 20224 min read

The Twitter Files and the National Security State

If you build a gun, anyone can use it.

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Why I applied For Membership At Post Today

Howie Klein

Dec 12, 20226 min read

Why I applied For Membership At Post Today

This morning, writing for the Washington Post, Joseph Menn reported that “Elon Musk escalated his battle of words with previous managers...

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Elon Musk Sent Up A Bat Signal To Every Kind Of Racist That Twitter Was Open For Business

Howie Klein

Dec 2, 20228 min read

Elon Musk Sent Up A Bat Signal To Every Kind Of Racist That Twitter Was Open For Business

Maybe Ye Isn't The Only Crackpot Celebrity Around One lesson Trump learned early on from his mentor, Roy Cohn, is that any publicity is...

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Midnight Meme Of The Day! No Twitter! No Problem!!!

Noah

Nov 19, 20221 min read

Midnight Meme Of The Day! No Twitter! No Problem!!!

by Noah Your Saturday Cartoon: Forward, back to the past! Who needs Twitter when we have the tried and true means of social interactions...

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Midnight Meme Of The Day! Quit The Twit!!!!

Noah

Nov 14, 20221 min read

Midnight Meme Of The Day! Quit The Twit!!!!

by Noah Look at that face. He might as well paint it orange and get it over with. Does Elon really want to be Trump sooo much? He keeps...

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Midnight Meme Of The Day! Elon Musk: Tweetie Birds In The Belfry!

Noah

Nov 9, 20222 min read

Midnight Meme Of The Day! Elon Musk: Tweetie Birds In The Belfry!

by Noah Yep. Spewing out patented Republican QAnon nuttery and firing people left and right. Then begging them to come back when he...

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Disinformation-- It's What Fascism Thrives On

Howie Klein

Nov 6, 20226 min read

Disinformation-- It's What Fascism Thrives On

Yesterday, Bill, the DWT art director told me he had signed up for the Bluesky Social beta waiting list and that he’s letting is twitter...

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Elon Musk Is Carefully Turning Twitter Into A Free-For-All Hellscape

Howie Klein

Nov 2, 20228 min read

Elon Musk Is Carefully Turning Twitter Into A Free-For-All Hellscape

My Twitter following normally goes up by a dozen or two a day, especially at this time of the year right before an election. Since Musk...

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The U.S. Government Has Made Musk The Richest Man On The Planet; It Should Remedy That Mistake

Howie Klein

Nov 1, 20226 min read

The U.S. Government Has Made Musk The Richest Man On The Planet; It Should Remedy That Mistake

Yesterday Elon Musk dissolved Twitter’s board of directors and made himself the “sole director” of the company. He’s also about to fire a...

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What Happens With Twitter Now? Advertisers And Non-Fascist Users Are Wary

Howie Klein

Oct 28, 20226 min read

What Happens With Twitter Now? Advertisers And Non-Fascist Users Are Wary

A professor who studies social media platforms was interviewed on NPR yesterday. He was no fan of Elon Musk or of Twitter and predicted...

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How Much Damage Can Elon Musk Do To America Before He's Stopped?

Howie Klein

Oct 26, 20225 min read

How Much Damage Can Elon Musk Do To America Before He's Stopped?

Yesterday, writing for Bloomberg, Jeannine Amodeo reported that Elon Musk had pledged, on a conference call with the 7 banksters, led...

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We All Know The World Would Be Better Off Without Twitter-- But What About You Personally?

Howie Klein

Oct 10, 20228 min read

We All Know The World Would Be Better Off Without Twitter-- But What About You Personally?

I don’t hate Twitter the way so many people seem to. I admit it— I kind of like it. I don’t get into Twitter fights. I follow people...

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Celebrate: Elon Musk Doesn't Want To Buy Twitter After All

Howie Klein

Jul 9, 20225 min read

Celebrate: Elon Musk Doesn't Want To Buy Twitter After All

I always had a feeling Elon Musk, the world’s richest and one of its most villainous characters, would weasel out of the $44 billion...

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Midnight Meme Of The Day! Dr. Evil Buys Twitter?

Noah

Apr 29, 20222 min read

Midnight Meme Of The Day! Dr. Evil Buys Twitter?

by Noah No, not Putin, the other one. Elon Musk appears determined to be perceived as the Dr. Evil of corporate CEOs. Putin is the Dr....

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Can Congress Outlaw Lying Online? Is That Even A Good Idea?

Howie Klein

Apr 21, 20229 min read

Can Congress Outlaw Lying Online? Is That Even A Good Idea?

Now that it is almost universally recognized that disinformation is among the biggest threats to democracy, Obama recently told a...

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Society Needs To Protect Itself From The Overly Rich-- Let's Try Taxation Before Guillotines

Howie Klein

Apr 14, 20224 min read

Society Needs To Protect Itself From The Overly Rich-- Let's Try Taxation Before Guillotines

The Rich Are The Most Evil People On Earth Republicans are horrible, right? In the horribly red state of Tennessee, they elected a kook...

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Marjorie Traitor Greene-- The Lowest Common Denominator The GOP Has Been Dragged Down To

Howie Klein

Jan 3, 20226 min read

Marjorie Traitor Greene-- The Lowest Common Denominator The GOP Has Been Dragged Down To

As you probably already know, yesterday Twitter permanently banned Marjorie Traitor Greene from their platform, after warning her several...

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People Are Afraid To Express Their Opinions? Not Me

Howie Klein

Feb 2, 20213 min read

People Are Afraid To Express Their Opinions? Not Me

YouGov did some polling for the Cato Institute that found that 62% of Americans say "the political climate these days prevents them from...

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Meet The Republican Party Superstars-- Can They Really Be Expelled From Congress?

Howie Klein

Jan 28, 202110 min read

Meet The Republican Party Superstars-- Can They Really Be Expelled From Congress?

How the hell did 3 sociopaths-- 2 QAnon nuts from Georgia and Colorado and a Nazi with QAnon sympathies from North Carolina-- get into...

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