Late-evening Twitter poetry from Tom Brokaw after blurting out his opinions concerning hispanic immigrants' "failure" to "assimilate". There's speculation that he's been hacked – "This cannot be real," writes Soledad O'Brien – but a look at his timeline suggests that Brokaw is just at the perihelion of boomer twitter. The light and heat of social media's burning sun blasts each generation's neurons a different way.
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Jan 28, 2019
Good tweet from Tom Brokaw's account after bad ideas about hispanics
Washington Examiner's twitter account: Trump going to hell
They surely got hacked, but some of those guys are on the strong stuff and you just never know what happens when you mix high-proof conservatism with Jesus and give everyone unlimited access to the Twitter account. Update: The Examiner said their feed was hacked and a tweet was posted that did not come from […]
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Twitter publishes tweet archive of Russian and Iranian state-run troll farms
To enable “further research of information operations on Twitter”, the company today published a dataset of tweets posted by known Russian and Iranian troll farms. In line with our strong principles of transparency and with the goal of improving understanding of foreign influence and information campaigns, we are releasing the full, comprehensive archives of the […]
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Live-blogging Trump's mental breakdown
As the Cohen and Manafort news blows up, we’ve got Jackhammer Jill watching the Orange Menace’s twitter feed like a hawk. When the blowhard begins to melt down, we’ll post tweets and analysis here. Earlier this afternoon, Michael Cohen, in a courtroom in New York, under oath, declared that President Donald Trump “directed” him to […]
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Get Black Friday pricing on gaming desks, mice, and more today
Does your computer gear need an upgrade? Don’t cross your fingers and wait for Christmas. You can get 15% off the final sale price of all these essential accessories now by using the online code BFSAVE15, including gaming mice and computer desks. Wireless Charging Mouse Pad Talk about a space saver. This high-quality mouse pad […]
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This page builder makes WordPress design effortless for all
WordPress is a fantastic tool for building web pages – if you know how to use it. Even with all the accessibility, a lot of the deeper features of WordPress are lost in translation to the average user. Enter WP Page Builder, a tool that not only makes WordPress site design easy but also more […]
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Get early Black Friday savings on these noise-canceling headphones
In this age of ever-shrinking gadgets, it bears reminding that sometimes bigger is actually better. And if you care about audio quality, we can’t think of a better example of this principle than these TREBLAB Z2 Bluetooth 5.0 Noise-Cancelling Headphones. We know tiny Bluetooth earbuds are all the rage right now. But their battery life […]
