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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5:16 am Mon
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
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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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