Impeached president Donald Trump today tweeted an imaginary law that does not exist. Read the rest

The president of the United States, folks. Read the rest

Omg this made me laugh so hard 😂 pic.twitter.com/H7jqRlR8TI

— kat 😽💙 (@winightcheese) July 12, 2020

This woman says that when she reserved tickets for Trump's rally she also signed up to receive text messages from the Trump re-election campaign. In this video, she does dramatic readings of the messages, and I laughed out loud. Read the rest

He seems eager for violence.

Yes, now Trump is personally threatening protesters with violent harm. It's very presidential. Read the rest

• POTUS says federal government will resubmit papers on DACA

• 'FOX IS TERRIBLE!'

• He's feeling weak and vulnerable, and he's lashing out against Fox News.

In a series of crazy-ass tweets on Friday morning, impeached and obviously unfit U.S. president Donald J. Trump says he will renew his effort to end legal protections for young immigrants, after the Supreme Court blocked his first try just yesterday in an historic ruling. Read the rest

He hires only the best people, Trump told us. Read the rest

President Brain Worms Donald Trump is in the midst of quite a tweety-tantrum this morning. Now he's falsely saying that NBC News and Google Ads have conspired to deny revenue to far-right websites. Read the rest

After Trump threw a tantrum over Twitter doing the bare-minimum to fact-check his deliberately misleading tweets, Trump announced plans to sign an Executive Order that forces social media to "protect" "free speech." Because government-approved top-down authoritarian control of private companies is apparently now a central tenet of the Republican Party.

Content Moderation expert Kate Klonick shared a draft of the order.

Section 230 doesn't protect editorial conductTwitters labels on tweets regarding falsity = editorial conduct

Therefore, this EO places such platforms outside scope of Sec. 230 protection2/

— Kate Klonick (@Klonick) May 28, 2020

This is all in the name of the commitment and concern for free and diverse speech online.

"So say we all."

(that last bit was me)

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— Kate Klonick (@Klonick) May 28, 2020

You can read the full document here, which hinges on Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act (as well as the continued wolf-crying fantasy of "conservative censorship"). If you want the sparknotes, Vice has a pretty comprehensive breakdown:

As far as legislation goes, the first subsection of 230 is concise and powerful: "No provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be treated as the publisher or speaker of any information provided by another information content provider."

In the order, Trump also makes the argument that social media companies' actions should not "infringe on protected speech," which would be a massive change from Section 230 as it's currently worded, which makes an explicit carve-out for restricting protected speech. This will, unequivocally, change the internet as a whole and make it worse.

“Twitter is completely stifling FREE SPEECH, and I, as President, will not allow it to happen!” Read the rest

Twitter said Tuesday it's not taking any action on grotesquely abusive tweets by impeached U.S. President Donald Trump about the 2001 death of a woman who once worked as a congressional staff member for Joe Scarborough, after her husband asked the company to remove the false and personally harassing tweets. Read the rest

Another day, another round of Trump anxiety-tweets. Read the rest

CNN's Brian Stelter is reporting that a bomb threat has led to the evacuation of CNN's NYC offices. Read the rest