Matt Taibbi

Matt Taibbi


Author of GRIFTOPIA, THE DIVIDE, THE BUSINESS SECRETS OF DRUG DEALING, and HATE INC. https://t.co/e3keZ23KNC

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@KevinSciarra Jesus, and I’m Irish, too.

Unless of course this ends with civil war and all of us massacred by robot armies, I lean toward this being a net funny development.

"To get them to abandon that is to get them to admit that they’ve been made fools of, that they themselves were involved in an enormous deception. And I think that that’s very difficult for people." @Jacob__Siegel  on Russiagate

Already ordered my "Memes of Indictment Day" print

@irony_is_ded And it's a good one. Well done, they got me.

Gallows humor aside, this indictment is a disaster obviously. I'm in shock they actually went forward with this

It’s going to take a lot longer to undo the now-inevitable trend of endless politicized indictments than it would have taken to just not do this.

@Punona1111 It doesn’t matter whether they win or lose the case. It’s epic stupidity either way.

AI Journalism vs. Human Dishonesty Journalism is going to be an interesting contest in the next decades.

If presidents think they will be chased into jail under thin pretexts as ex-presidents, they’ll try even harder to never leave office. This is how autocracies are born.

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1. THREAD: The Twitter Files THE REMOVAL OF DONALD TRUMP Part One: October 2020-January 6th

1. Thread: THE TWITTER FILES

Instead of chasing child sex predators or terrorists, the FBI has agents — lots of them — analyzing and mass-flagging social media posts. Not as part of any criminal investigation, but as a permanent, end-in-itself surveillance operation. People should not be okay with this.

1. TWITTER FILES: Statement to Congress THE CENSORSHIP-INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX

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8. By 2020, requests from connected actors to delete tweets were routine. One executive would write to another: “More to review from the Biden team.” The reply would come back: “Handled.”

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