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[Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh]

🚨 JUST IN: Footage has resurfaced of CNN's Brian Stelter FLOATING the removal of Fox News from the White House press pool under Biden in 2021 — same guy who is this morning MELTING DOWN that Trump removed CNN, MSNOW and POLITICO

"Fox should be viewed as a political tool? Should it be part of the White House press pool? The privileges that come with news gathering?"

Note how he framed it? He didn't say "this is an attack on the 1st Amendment!"

He called access to the White House a "PRIVILEGE" — NOT A RIGHT.

That's not his tone today, because it's Donald J. Trump who made the move.

The solution is VERY simple: you are free to lie on your own time. If you want access, STOP THE ENDLESS LIES AND PROPAGANDA!

[Piers Morgan @piersmorgan]

Incredible. Congrats @elonmusk - this may be your finest creation. 👏

[Cash N Sport @CashNSport]

SA Sports Governance Crisis

SASCOC President - Suspended
Swimming SA President - Suspended
Netball SA - President suspended and replaced
Basketball SA - Derecognised
Athletics SA President - Suspended
Karate SA - Entire Executive Suspended
SAFA - President in court action

[Graeme Joffe @Joffersmyboy]

Here’s your headline: ‘Corrupt politician gets re-elected as South African football president!’

[Ryan Reynolds @VancityReynolds]

Legends.

[Graeme Joffe @Joffersmyboy]

Recent South African sports administration lowlights …

* Sports Minister spends R31 million at FIFA World Cup
* SAFA/VAR scandal
* Swimming president and CEO suspended by World Aquatics for alleged abuse and fraud
* Former SASCOC CFO fingered in SIU Lottery probe
* Acting Athletics president unauthorized travel on company credit card
*ASA/Comrades Marathon feud
* Karate SA over charging of athletes
* SA rugby greed with inflated ticket pricing
* Cricket SA ticket controversy for Newlands test

And I could go on …

Whilst the majority of athletes and coaches still have to pay their own way to represent SA!

Is there a SA sports federation that is clean?

[The Royal Family @RoyalFamily]

Remembering the late, great Dolly, who brought joy, comfort and inspiration to so many - including the millions of children given free books through her Imagination Library. We will always ❤️ you.

[Nick shirley @nickshirleyy]

🚨 It’s official the “Stop Nick Shirley Act” AB 2624 is now law in California. This bill was created by the Attorney General’s WIFE after I exposed widespread fraud inside immigrant communities in America and now they want to penalize journalists and citizens for looking into potential fraud inside of “immigration support service providers”.

Enough is enough, how much longer will you let these people get away with this? Show up to the Sacramento Capitol on Wednesday at 11am, see you there 🫡 Share this around.

Fun fact, Newsom has directed over $300 million to nonprofits while governor and AG Rob Bonta when he was an assemblyman directed over $500,000 to nonprofits associated with his wife 🤔

[Farai Mazhindu @FaraiMazhindu]

Cyril Ramaphosa and his ANC comrades are still fighting the ghosts of apartheid, guarding against an invasion that isn't coming.

No white South African is plotting to "take back" the country.

There's no reason for the cadres to hate, punish, or sabotage white business owners and farmers. Their actual job is simple: keep the economy running.

Instead, look at what's real. Five South African cities rank among the most dangerous in the world, with murder rates that rival active war zones.

Youth unemployment is rampant. The rand keeps buckling under inflation. Millions of South Africans still don't have clean water.

These are the emergencies. Punishing the white community isn't one of them, making South Africa work is.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

😑

[Jeffery Mead @the_jefferymead]

Elon’s not wrong, much of the mainstream media is hated.

Also, the left has ran so far left that they now call normal things far right.

[Alex Armstrong @Alexarmstrong]

It’s almost like deporting illegal migrants and securing your borders isn’t “far-right”.

Who’d have thought it?

[Nancy Mace @NancyMace]

Obama was full-blown MAGA in 2008.

[Phil Trubey @PTrubey]

I listened to 85 minutes of The Economist’s interview of Elon so you don’t have to. Besides, it’s behind a paywall.

Elon’s predictions: In five years, AI compute will exceed the sum of all human intelligence. In ten years, we will have reached the age of abundance. Money won’t matter. Everyone will have what they need or want (at least in economies that embrace AI).

Ms. Beddoes tried to pin Elon down on how the economy will transform that way, but he wouldn’t get into specifics beyond noting that widespread AI robotics is a deflationary force. This means governments won’t need to raise taxes for universal basic income schemes, or, as Elon likes to call it, universal high income, since they will simply be able to print money to ward off deflation caused by the robot economy.

She noted that Elon appears to have a more sanguine view of AI lately. He replied that he’s concluded superintelligent AI is now inevitable, so there’s no point trying to stop or slow it down, it can’t be done. We might as well enjoy the ride.

The interviewer also noted that Mars no longer seems to be Elon’s overall ambition. He answered that his real mission was always to propagate and preserve human consciousness into the far future. Mars was just a vehicle for that. But now AI is a very important part of that goal. AI will necessarily be part of any future plan.

And then came the oh-so-typical, increasingly tiresome part of most long journalist interviews: the interviewer constructs a straw-man version of Elon and argues against it. Elon carefully explained that he isn’t a raging far-right extremist, racist Nazi who kills puppies … and the journalist still didn't believe it. It is so effing tiresome.

The lack of self-awareness on the part of journalists is off the charts. She complained about Elon’s supposed misperception of how dangerous London is, while remaining oblivious to the role she plays in creating the giant misperception of Elon as a person in her own writing.

Elon defended his political views, saying he is for secure borders, locking up criminals, and balanced government spending, something even she had to admit didn’t sound crazy.

And… that’s about it for an 85-minute interview. I couldn’t help but think that the next long-form interview Elon does should be conducted by an AI.

[Zille for Mayor @HelenZille4Jozi]

“I don’t do politics.”

This is an example of how politics will do you.

Something as simple as getting a learner’s or driver’s license? Service suspended because the city has run out of printing consumables. This is how a corrupt government affects you.

#BelieveInJoburg #Zille4Mayor

[Rassie Erasmus @RassieRugby]

So use to the old “guard” giving out !!! It really feel like its changing! This is just a thank you to you all 🇿🇦💙

[clive bloemink @cbloemink]

@sharksgary @TheTennisLetter Seles not far behind in that department

[Unathi Kwaza @KwazaUnathi]

https://t.co/i2sXB5lEAf
The government helps criminal syndicates steal R23.5 billion a year from South Africa

[clive bloemink @cbloemink]

@MichaelVaughan If they had played ‘Bazball’ football, they’d have lost 5-3!

[clive bloemink @cbloemink]

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