@Cat Yes, the Maxwell trial definitely feels like an attempt to silence the speculations. There will still  be speculation, but with newsrooms across the country being cut to ribbons, those speculations will be more in the hands of Q-lunatics who are likely to go after Tom Hanks and still believe JFK Jr is waiting to run with Trump. 

There has been such a steep decline in standards at the BBC, in part because they have to be beholden to the Tories to survive, but this was a jaw-dropping moment. I wonder if they thought most of their viewers wouldn't know who Dershowitz was. 

Speaking of that BBC interview with Dershowitz…

 

Ben Dreyfuss, son of Richard Dreyfuss, is one of those out of touch pseudo-left-pseudo-centrist patronizing Twitter personalities I just have a vague dislike for. After seeing these tweets, even though he is likely "joking" through the whole thing, that dislike is now less vague.

 

Edited December 31, 20213 yr by DRW50

 

Another NYT figure melting down over far right figures not getting keys to the kingdom.

Does Gettr and whatever other crap social site exists not do it for those folks?

There's no rule that says that everyone must be on Twitter. Believe it, or not, not everyone is on Facebook and it's an even bigger platform.

I guess this new venture will also have hit pieces on Ronan Farrow...

Nate Silver and his trust fund friend comparing school closures to invading Iraq...and claiming no one at the time knew how bad that decision was. 

 

 

 

2 hours ago, DRW50 said:

 

Wow this whole twitter thread is more examples of the same.
SMH

 

Seung Min Kim, immortalized for gleefully running up to Lisa Murkowski to tattle over Neera Tanden's mean tweets, circles the wagons as per usual with the scum of the Beltway. As you can see, this is nothing new for Annie Linskey.

Here is the original tweet:

 

Thomas Friedman unbound!

 

^^Well over a decade ago, I read a couple of his sunnyside optimistic books, but over the past few years, since his near constant gushing about Mohammed bin Salman, I have blithely taken to ignoring him.