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How one cranky Florida man caught the ear of Donald Trump, Elon Musk and Tucker Carlson — with fart jokes

This morning I talk about how I still love the Harry Potter series but that I won't be playing Hogwarts Legacy.

Starting to think some of the Free Speech Brigade don't actually care about "free speech"

In claiming that the Trump-Russia story was nothing more than a sensation-driven media witch hunt, the revisionists downplay and distort a very ugly story.

What the conservative judicial icon can teach the GOP weaponization subcommittee—and Democrats—about the separation of powers.

Groomer slander for thee, but not for me.

Flags, idols, culture wars, and crazies

House Oversight Committee Wanted To Berate Twitter’s Old Management Over Hunter Biden’s Laptop; Instead, It Revealed Trump Censorship Attempts by Mike Masnick

I have a confession. While yesterday the House Oversight Committee took up six hours (sorta, as there was a big power outage in the middle) wasting everyone’s time with a hearing on “Twitter’s Role in Suppressing the Biden Laptop Story,” I chose not to watch it in real-time. Instead, afterwards I went back and watched […]

Inside Twitter 2.0, turmoil leaves employees stretched to the max

Twitter users report that they can't tweet.

SOTU 2023: Biden vs. the Trolls

Twitter contrarians—given the spotlight by Elon Musk—distort an interview by Israel’s ex-PM.

The president defends his record and makes his case for re-election.

Rep. Nancy Mace is disappointed in her party. But so far, she’ll still toe its line

Republicans are determined to convince Americans that Big Tech colluded with Democrats to bury the laptop story ahead of the election — evidence be damned

Lazy Reporters Claiming Fediverse Is ‘Slumping,’ Despite Massive Increase In Usage by Mike Masnick

There’s been this weird series of articles lately, trying to frame the rapid growth of the fediverse (mainly Mastodon), as somehow now failing. It started last month, with the Guardian’s Josh Nicholas leaping in with a provocative headline: “Elon Musk drove more than a million people to Mastodon – but many aren’t sticking around” and […]

The president is more like Big Brother than Twitter ever can be.

Elon Musk’s “Twitter Files” focus on Democrats, but former administration officials and Twitter employees say Trump’s team and other Republicans routinely demanded posts be taken down

The central flaw of the social conservative project is confusing one's own lifestyle preferences for universal truths about how everyone ought to live.

The good doctor talks Genesis, Exodus, genocide, WEF, civics, and the theory of everything.