Self Absorbed

[Self Absorbed @Selfabsorbed7]

@tomescritt It’s not like thru out history millions died due to a lack of access to grain… oh wait I’m sorry, it’s totally like that, exactly like that in fact. But who cares? It was only the poors who starved bc rich dudes wanted to be richer & fucked around w/grain markets

[Dan Rather @DanRather]

I’d like to weigh in on NBC news' recent decision to hire Ronna McDaniel.

By giving her a platform, NBC has given legitimacy to the lies she helped the former president spread.

Now we come to the why. Why would NBC News hire someone as controversial? 

Here’s the reason:

News gathering is a business, and the networks have prioritized widening their audience.

They feel the need to show their Republican bona fides by hiring conservative voices.

But that is the crux of the problem.

Which Republicans?

Trump loyalists who are election deniers and January 6 apologists?

To me, that doesn’t seem like the answer.

It’s another reason independent journalism is essential right now, essential to provide unvarnished coverage in one of the most important elections in American history and to hold the mainstream media accountable.

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[Mike (not a) Rothschild @rothschildmd]

It was absolutely plain as day that the organized, relentless, heavily monetized trans panic on the right was going to lead to murder. The influencers behind this hysteria have blood on their hands, and will not care at all.

[Merriam-Webster @MerriamWebster]

‘Hurriquake’ is a new one for us, too.

[Hannah Dreyfus @Hannah_Dreyfus]

His father has been accused 3 dozen times of physically & sexually abusing him.
His mother has been accused by the father of brainwashing & alienating him.
The custody battle lasted 8 years — nearly his entire life.
I wanted to know: How did the court decide who to believe? 🧵

[Jo @JoJoFromJerz]

While Greg Abbott blames the Allen Texas outlet mall shooting on “mental health”, a reminder:
Last year he slashed $211 million from the department that oversees mental health programs & the state of Texas ranks last in the U.S. when it comes to access to mental health care.
So…

[Self Absorbed @Selfabsorbed7]

@HC_Richardson Or if we made the Pentagon do an audit at any point before like 2015? I don’t mean pass an audit, because I don’t know if they’ve actually done that yet, I mean just like attempt to account for the majority of the US budget and show it was used appropriately

[Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @ReichlinMelnick]

I keep reminding people that Texas and Arizona and other GOP attorneys general literally got a federal court to bar the Biden administration from gradually fading out Title 42 and transitioning back to immigration law. DHS has to flip a metaphorical switch on Thursday night.

[Christopher Mathias @letsgomathias]

Straight-up Sandy Hook-style trutherism from one of the most powerful/richest men in the world, also Tim Pool

[Dan Brooks @DangerBrooks]

Again, it is amazing how effectively M*sk's blue check system has (A) associated paying for Twitter with being stupid, dishonest, or insane and (B) moved such people to the front of every conversation.

[Benjy Sarlin @BenjySarlin]

Remember when “How does someone become a neo-Nazi?” was a big mysterious question they made movies about and now you can just watch Twitter replies in real time and go “Oh that guys a stage 3, he’ll be stage 5 by next month”

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

Yep. It’s brazen and blatant antisemitism and goes beyond any of the coded stuff that other conservatives have used to go after Soros.

[Steven Hassan, PhD @CultExpert]

Welfare for the billionaires- at expense of taxpayers

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

Next Elon Musk will be telling us that the notoriously leftwing and liberal *Texas police* are all part of the ‘psy-op’ and ‘liberal media’ conspiracy to defame the poor, innocent, far right, which had nothing whatsoever to do with this shooter. 🤷🏽‍♂️

[feminist next door @emrazz]

A lot of people on Twitter will react to this by correctly calling it an absolute trash fire of garbage opinions by garbage people but most of it also sounds like the average commentary among groups of average men when asked about Trump’s misogyny and sexual abuse of women.

[Citizens for Ethics @CREWcrew]

Just a reminder that under the 14th Amendment, Donald Trump is disqualified from office

[Kyoko W.P. @kyokoTHEpoet]

This might just look like a regular picture but whenever it pops up.. I remember that exact moment…

7 years ago my kids had just picked me a dandelion bouquet (favorite) . It was Mother’s Day. I took this picture and my ex husband just screams at me “ why are you trying look so seductive? You look like a slut. You know you’re fat and look stupid right? !” All in the car with the girls in the back seat.
I can still feel it all

So I will share this goddamn picture every year

And for the record I don’t think I look seductive I think I look sad af

[Self Absorbed @Selfabsorbed7]

@MoString Idk how looking like a harlot is a moral failing, Wouldn’t one have to actually do harlot shit? Thinking a man looks like a murderer ≠ he did a murder, so just bc I harlot up my look w/ yoga pants ≠ I actually do harlot shit. Oh and fuck off, “dress” is always arbitrary

[Kyoko W.P. @kyokoTHEpoet]

Photos can fool
Can be used as a tool
To make you believe
To trick and deceive
That all the pain you have, forgot
That you're happy when you're not
Photos don't show the tears and trauma
The damage, The drama It's a moment paused and face put on
No one knows that anything's wrong
You truly never know
What's behind a photo
Kyoko W.P.