Even though none of them actually have a large number of tweets, the "Hunter" and "Twittergate" (!) trends are still dominating the "suggested for you" trends I'm being given on the birdsite.
I keep marking them as spam I don't want to see. They keep coming back anyway. That's not usual. It's clear they're being forcibly promoted.
This is actually rather encouraging.
From Magi Jay:
Here is what union leaders from the dissenting unions had to say about Congressional action last night. It amounts to: Democrats are sticking with us; Republicans aren't. Keep fighting for sick leave.
Holy. Sh*t.
I had never encountered this Handmaid's Tale vileness before. But it seems it's a "thing."
So Lee Zeldin, one of the handful of remaining Jewish Republican officeholders, vehemently denounced West's antisemitism and claimed there's no room for him in the R party.
Yet he remains a devoted follower of Trump, who has no such qualms.
It's like GOP House "moderates" demanding McCarthy as Speaker - McCarthy who coddles Trump, elevates Greene, and has no agenda but MAGA propaganda "investigations" in defense of Trump.
West has now posted what he says is a message from Elon telling him "Sorry, but you have gone too far. This is not love" - in re: his Star of David with a swastika in it - with Kanye's alleged response of "Who made you the judge".
If Musk actually said that, nothing has, as of now, been done to remove West's tweets.
Center-left academic type. Generally pissed about the state of the world but I know none of our endless crises are actually new because I'm a historian.