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Former blogger/RawStory columnist. Child of refugees. Raver. Seer of visions.

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As we all think about how to deal with the purchase of Twitter by Musk, it is worth looking back to the beginnings of this kind of website and what made it different from what came before. Because I think that history helps clarify how we should respond. 1/9

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I’ve been reflexively blocking ads here, but not this one.

Hey, @DIRECTV — do it! I’m much more likely to sign up for your service if I’m not enriching Rupert Murdoch.

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@BruceBartlett I guess @maggieNYT is a lot older than she looks.

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@jwharris The important thing is their deeply personal faith.

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@glennkirschner2 Wait until he hears about Ginny Thomas.

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@SundaeDivine Oboe you didn’t!

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@HeerJeet @KatzOnEarth Everything BoBo knows about rap he learned from the Muzak playing at the Applebee’s salad bar.

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Terrifying

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1. In 2009, Obama’s antitrust chief Christine Varney invited poultry farmers to a public hearing in Alabama. 100s came to tell her about how the meatpackers abused them. When one said he worried about retaliation, she gave him her direct line. The room erupted with applause.

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1. In 2009, Obama’s antitrust chief Christine Varney invited poultry farmers to a public hearing in Alabama. 100s came to tell her about how the meatpackers abused them. When one said he worried about retaliation, she gave him her direct line. The room erupted with applause.

[Ryan Grim @ryangrim]

“My regulator at the CFTC, I bribed—I asked…”

One of the funniest moment on cable in a long time https://t.co/osBh8cnFi1

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@kazweida A lot easier to change @AshleyRParker's hair color than it would be to turn her into a journalist.

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@paranoiacs A testament to the subtle greatness of Charlie Watts. Imagine how lifeless ER would sound with a drum machine.

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@nomoremister

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@BarbMcQuade Didn’t we all make similar arguments when Cy Vance hired Mark Pomerantz?

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@SundaeDivine @RonFilipkowski The religious right doesn’t merely tolerate ignorance and lying: it demands them.

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@paulnovosad “Today Elon Musk truly became CEO of Twitter.”

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@nycsouthpaw They can all just jump into their private jets, just like Elon, right?

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@alexstamos Hey, @elonmusk — I can supply you a few turbo encabulators if yours are malfunctioning.

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@MichaelBerube1 Dorsey, Dorsey
Sell me your Twitter do
I’m totes crazy
All for the love of me
It won’t be a lengthy marriage
…something something..
From a bankruptcy built to screw

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@davekarpf @elonmusk Or, to keep it simple, a million dollars a minute.

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@davekarpf @elonmusk There are roughly 2.6 million seconds in a month. If he drives his $44B investment to zero in a month, that will mean (if my math is right) that he burned roughly $17,000 per *second.*

Impressive.