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After Matt Taibbi Leaves Twitter, Elon Musk ‘Shadow Bans’ All Of Taibbi’s Tweets, Including The Twitter Files by Mike MasnickMike Masnick

The refrain to remember with Twitter under Elon Musk: it can always get dumber. Quick(ish) recap: On Thursday, Musk’s original hand-picked Twitter Files scribe, Matt Taibbi, went on Mehdi Hasan’s show (which Taibbi explicitly demanded from Hasan, after Hasan asked about Taibbi’s opinions on Musk blocking accounts for Modi in India). The interview did not […]

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Mehdi Hasan Dismantles The Entire Foundation Of The Twitter Files As Matt Taibbi Stumbles To Defend It by Mike MasnickMike Masnick

So here’s the deal. If you think the Twitter Files are still something legit or telling or powerful, watch this 30 minute interview that Mehdi Hasan did with Matt Taibbi (at Taibbi’s own demand): Hasan came prepared with facts. Lots of them. Many of which debunked the core foundation on which Taibbi and his many […]

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Why do we hate the Yankees?

Money. They have enough to make Solomon BLUSH. And they’re jerks about it. Everyone has to fit the mold these days.

Also? Their fans. They made racist remarks towards our Kwan last year and they can fuck themselves for that.

Bash a man’s skills all you want. Please. God knows we do.

But you fucking well leave race out of it.

—@ipstenu

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After Nashville, Action on Assault-Style Weapons? by Jill Lawrence
Mass shootings are happening with a frequency that numbs, but Republicans are working to loosen, not tighten, gun restrictions.

I don’t know why anyone continues to put forth the hope expressed in the headline of this piece. We’re not getting anything close to this until what is currently the Republican party loses everything, at every level, repeatedly, for at least two decades.

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Protip: if you’re writing an article about how to make some particular HTML thing more accessible, don’t include an overlay company in the “Tools and Resources” section.

While you’re at it, probably double-check that all the ARIA roles you suggest using actually exist.

Or possibly reconsider whether you should be writing a series on web accessibility in the first place.

#accessibility #a11y #frontEnd

—@mu