Notices by Julian Sanchez (normative@mastodon.social)

This is from Florida’s education commissioner, depressingly. Reflect for a moment on the incredible degree of intellectual insecurity it reveals.

So George Santos is now saying he totally has answers to all the questions that have been raised about his fabricated background, which he’ll provide… next week. Which does not inspire a ton of confidence.

“Sir, can you establish that you are not, in fact, twelve squirrels in a trenchcoat?”
Oh, absolutely. It’ll just take me a few days to gather the nuts… I mean evidence!

Imagine someone had some super basic questions about your background like “where did you go to college?” Or “does the nonprofit you claim to run exist?” Or “did you work for these large firms?” If it was super important to publicly establish you’d been honest, how long would it take you to produce evidence of those things? Because I’m thinking maybe one day tops.

RT @AshaRangappa_@twitter.com

In addition to the reasons listed below, to admit that Zelensky is fighting a righteous war would be to admit that Trump's withholding military aid from Ukraine wasn't just illegal, but immoral and led right to this moment 1/ https://twitter.com/JohnJHarwood/status/1605910310103162880

??: https://twitter.com/AshaRangappa_/status/1605921039174627328

You’ll be unsurprised to learn that the incident with the supposed Musk stalker appears to have nothing to do with the jet tracking account. It occurred 26 miles from the airport, and a full day after ElonJet placed the plane in Los Angeles. https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/12/18/details-of-musk-stalking-incident/

If this is how the guy wants to run the site he bought, that's his prerogative, but I think this is a pretty clear sign it's time to shift my primary engagement to Mastodon. Find me at https://mastodon.social/@normative

RT @oneunderscore__@twitter.com

Journalists who cover Elon Musk have been suspended on Twitter tonight: @Donie@twitter.com O'Sullivan from CNN, Aaron Rupar and the Washington Post's @drewharwell@twitter.com.

Rupar tells me he has "no idea" why it happened.

??: https://twitter.com/oneunderscore__/status/1603551884748460034

It was clear from the jump Musk didn’t understand the site he’d bought, but I’m still a bit surprised he doesn’t grasp that journalists are the main reason Twitter was more relevant than any number of other similar platforms. Can easily imagine looking back on this as a tipping point.