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It's a who's who of MAGA royalty this week at CPAC. One group that's reportedly not welcome? The J6ers Trump pardoned last month

REVEALED: we identified the operator of an overtly racist X account, "GlomarResponder," as ICE Assistant Chief Counsel James Rodden, based on an overwhelming number of biographical details matched through publicly available documents, other social media activity, and courtroom observation.

started reporting on the radical right after Jan. 6 versus started reporting on the radical right before Trump's election

NEW: I spent a week in the tiny town the mysterious MAGA influencer Catturd calls home. People in Wewahitchka, Florida were stunned to learn they share a town with someone so famous. And I heard from the man himself, Phillip Buchanan https://www.dailydot.com/news/who-is-catturd/

I'm honestly so sick of this shit. Not only do I have to process more senseless mass death due to guns, I have to deal with disinformation blaming it on trans people. https://www.vice.com/en/article/epvpqj/philadelphia-shooting-suspect-far-right-transgender-false-claims

Friendly reminder that conservative trolls WANT to be bullied on Bluesky. They thrive on the attention. They want to be trolled so they can go back to Twitter or write some dumb “thinkpiece” and say how Bluesky is filled with intolerant liberals. Don’t give them the satisfaction. Just block them.

A perfect summary of the enshitification of Twitter

BlueSky and Twitter have one thing in common: everyone is making fun of Twitter on both platforms

❌ stopping the bots ❌ stopping the web scrapers ✅ stopping real users from accessing Twitter

Welcome tweeps!

Birds of a feather: Truth Social has extremely close ties to Poast, the successor to the toxic af Kiwi Farms https://www.dailydot.com/debug/truth-social-poast-donald-trump/

The 3 companies ahead of Twitter on this list: Fox Corporation, FTX, and the Trump Organization https://www.cnbc.com/2023/06/02/elon-musk-twitter-face-brand-safety-concerns-after-executives-depart.html

BREAKING: Late Friday night, a federal judge declared Tennessee’s anti-drag Adult Entertainment Act to be unconstitutional following a two-day trial last month. More to come at Law Dork: https://www.lawdork.com/

New: we published all the Epstein docs that we and other news outlets just got from a FOIA to the Bureau of Prisons. https://t.co/QGjkfr6RY4

Former (longtime) restaurant worker here. Went to work sick many, many times bc I didn’t get paid sick leave, health insurance, and could get written up and possibly fired if I didn’t have a Dr.’s note.

Excellent piece on DeSantis’ authoritarianism https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2023/05/ron-desantis-autocracy/

The rapid degradation of discourse on that site is astounding

grampa: why are u always on ur phone me: why didn't u stop hitler

Today I joined BlueSky and my city elected its first female mayor, Democrat Donna Deegan

Let’s do this