The timing could hardly be more troubling. Following the two-year anniversary of the Jan. 6 insurrection, and just hours after copy-cat rioting in Brazil that he cheered on, Ali Alexander has been reinstated to Twitter. Alexander is an acolyte of Roger Stone, the political dirty trickster and Trump-pardoned felon, and …
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He is one of the most unappealing men you could imagine — a cropped haircut floating atop that thin, weirdly muscular frame, punctuated by a reedy, deeply irritating voice. No one agrees with him. You do not log on to Twitter and see the phrase, “Hey, when Skip is on, …
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Even without official New Year’s resolutions, it’s fair to say that most of us enter January with the urge to improve and take control of our lives. Maybe that’s why, on the eve of 2023, we were so enamored of a Waffle House cook who stood tall in a melee …
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In the immediate aftermath of the Jan. 6 attack, Twitter employees raged at their own company and its leadership, blaming them for the social media giant’s inept handling of Donald Trump and other top MAGA figures’ incitement to violence. “Do you want to have more blood on your hands?”Anika Collier …
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It was weird enough that misogynistic lifestyle influencer Andrew Tate, 36, and climate activist Greta Thunberg, 19, were engaged in a Twitter spat at year’s end, weeks after Tate had been reinstated on Twitter by new owner Elon Musk following a five-year suspension. Baited by this preening man-baby into a …
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For those immune to the charms of Elon Musk’s Twitter™ — a Squid Game-like arena teeming with edgelords, crypto enthusiasts, men’s rights activists who resemble Pitbull, and daily spam messages touting “part-time work” — the current film brouhaha may have escaped notice. In short: a trio of films, eagerly anticipated …
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One of the greatest holiday gifts we, as a collective people, got this year was a perfect, no-notes slam dunk on men’s rights podcaster Andrew Tate by teenage climate activist and Nobel Peace Prize nominee Greta Thunberg. After Tate tweeted a list of his car collection at her, bragging about …
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Tesla’s stock price plummeted to $110.55 on Tuesday, its lowest price since September 2020, and the drop in shareholder value could represent the company’s worst performance since its debut on public markets. Despite the value of Tesla’s stock reaching a 52-week peak of $402.67 in March, the 9-month decline has …
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MrBeast is just asking some questions. After Elon Musk pinky-promised that he’d “resign as CEO as soon as I find someone foolish enough to take the job,” the YouTuber known for his elaborate giveaways put his name in the hat for Musk’s replacement. “Can I be the new Twitter CEO?” …
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Elon Musk’s monthslong reign as Twitter CEO has been a rollercoaster ride of unpredictability, but it will soon come to an end. The man who officially bought the platform for $44 billion in October, tweeted Tuesday that he’ll be honoring a Twitter poll he posed on Sunday, Dec. 18 where …
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