Tag: Twitter

This really sums up how I feel about a lot of folks who call themselves progressives. I think Sarah Silverman really sums up how a lot of folks feel about many progressives – their “all or nothing” approach to governing. While I appreciate the fact that implementing change on an…

This took Twitter long enough… After close review of recent Tweets from the @realDonaldTrump account and the context around them — specifically how they are being received and interpreted on and off Twitter — we have permanently suspended the account due to the risk of further incitement of violence. In…

Can anyone out there translate Republican sycophantism into English? From Senator Lindsey Graham: Sen. Lindsey Graham: “My hope is that we change Section 230 — to incentivize social media platforms to come up with standards that are transparent and opaque.” He does understand that these are mutually exclusive, right? Black…

Any number of times I have found issue with elected officials confusing their twitter use…and combining personal accounts to do official business and campaigning. President Donald Trump of course it the biggest offender because he knows no boundaries…and here’s the latest example: So once more I am calling for laws…

President Donald Trump is appealing an appellate court ruling that he can’t block users from his @realDonalTrump Twitter account…saying the application of the First Amendment in the case was “fundamentally misconceived.” Whoa…must have been his lawyers on that one…too many multi-syllabic words there! President Donald Trump is challenging a federal…

If you were on Twitter or anywhere else in social media over the weekend, you know that President Trump was upset that the first two years of his presidency were stollen (sic). I don’t know who he thinks is responsible. But maybe I can help clear this up for the…

Not sure if my suggestion to regulate political speech on social media? Should there be guidelines? Identifiable IDs for elected officials that are separate from their personal accounts? How in the hell can we allow major foreign policy changes or announcements to just pop up on Twitter? This isn’t the…

Trump Promises to ‘Look Into’ Twitter Shadow Banning: ‘Discriminatory and Illegal’. (from someone who used to ban people from his twitter account until the courts said it was a violation of the First Amendment) vs: CNN Says White House Banned One of Its Reporters for Asking ‘Inappropriate’ Questions. (which seems…

Happy New Year to all, including to my many enemies and those who have fought me and lost so badly, they just don’t know what to do, Love! [copied from news account not actual twitter feed] Does that actually sound like a uniter who will be president of all of…

And no, this time I am not talking about President-elect Donald Trump. It’s the Russian Embassy! President Obama expels 35 diplomats in Cold War deja vu. As everybody, incl people, will be glad to see the last of this hapless Adm. I guess we don’t need diplomats anymore or ambassadors…