douglaspsmith

independent computer consultant, married, 2 children, becoming aware of BC politics.

[Headquarters @HQNewsNow]

A former 60 Minutes correspondent has revealed that Paramount CEO David Ellison and CBS editor Bari Weiss pressured her to report on events that "never happened."

[Popular Liberal 🇺🇸 @PopularLiberal]

WOW! THE CREEPY GOP: A disgusting reminder.

Missouri Republican Mike Moon stood on the Senate floor and defended child marriage. His proof? A 12-year-old who "stayed married." Democrats called it disgusting. Republicans blocked the ban.

Child marriage is now illegal in Missouri—barely, by one vote.

Josh Hawley? Silent, as always. This is your "family values" party, Republicans.

Defending child rape and calling it "consent." Is this who you are?

[Adam Mockler @adammocklerr]

BREAKING: Leaked Andrew Tate texts are looking VERY bad for the Trump admin…

Texts from Andrew Tate reveal that a Trump admin official directly intervened on the Tate brothers behalf in early 2025 to stall the sex trafficking investigation.

“I had word from The Trump admin that theyre on top of things,” wrote Andrew Tate via text.

Tate’s former lawyer, Paul Ingrassia, is now a Trump admin official, and is the one who requested the Tate brothers devices be returned to them.

You may remember Paul Ingrassia from his leaked texts last year in which he said he “has a Nazi streak” and uses old slurs.

JD Vance still follows the Tate brothers on Twitter. Barron is friends him them. All of this happened after Andrew admitted to being a pimp on camera.

This is the Republican Party now. I’m a young dude who loves America, and hates seeing it hijacked by these hateful , abusive, degenerates.

[Kayvon Beykpour @kayvz]

@bariweiss … You are characterizing any de-amplification as equating to shadow banning which is either a lazy interpretation or deliberately misleading. De-amplification is obviously necessary and even Elon himself believes so https://t.co/u4D5UNfrRe

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Hate speech impressions (# of times tweet was viewed) continue to decline, despite significant user growth!

@TwitterSafety will publish data weekly.

Freedom of speech doesn’t mean freedom of reach. Negativity should & will get less reach than positivity.

[Kayvon Beykpour @kayvz]

@bariweiss wow. did you even read the blog post? We never denied de-amplifying things. In fact we made clear that we do rank. We defined exactly what we meant by “shadow banning” (b/c there are many definitions) and made very clear that we didn’t do *that*…

[Scott Galloway @profgalloway]

Peer-reviewed quantitative research has found that #Twitter’s algorithms amplify right-wing content. Facebook is similarly favorable terrain for the right. It’s not intentional: Right-wing content just turns out to be better uranium for the rage fission reaction #nomercynomalice

[Howard Mortman @HowardMortman]

During Congressional Gold Medal ceremony for Jan. 6 police, representatives of those receiving awards shake hands with Schumer then walk past McConnell and McCarthy.

[Liz Cheney @Liz_Cheney]

.@GOPLeader Last week you wouldn't condemn Trump for dining with Fuentes & West. This week Trump said we should terminate all rules, regulations etc “even those in the Constitution" to overturn the election. Are you so utterly without principle that you won't condemn this either?

[ian bremmer @ianbremmer]

on point statement out of germany from justice minister marco buschmann:

‘the decision to pursue nord stream 2 following the annexation of crimea in 2014 was germany’s contribution to the outbreak of the war in ukraine’

[Sir William Browder KCMG @Billbrowder]

What a surprise. UK law firm Mishcon de Reya was behind the catastrophic ruling at the European Court of Justice to shut down all public registers of beneficial ownership. This was the same firm called out in parliament for targeting journalists with libel https://t.co/r1UnXiz5Bk

[douglaspsmith @douglaspsmith]

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[Justin Ling (Has Left) @Justin_Ling]

"We are worried that Twitter will become the major source of manipulation," Stefanishyna says.

[SciComm Sadie 🏳️‍🌈🧠🔬 @Elzine21]

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[Sam Cooper @scoopercooper]

I’m glad other media are following my investigation, here are a few important point, backward looking, on my files. It is “at least 11 candidates and 13 campaign staff in an alleged clandestine network, that worked together in loose coordination” according to CSIS ONTARIO probes.

[douglaspsmith @douglaspsmith]

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[Peter Clowes @peterclowes]

Why I left @twitter or rather why I did not sign up for “extremely hardcore” Twitter 2.0

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