PSA for Brezina 💥 🔁 🌳👧🏼👶🏽🌳 and everyone else who wants to speak for me:

Please stop weaponizing MY rape — the worst day of MY life — to mobilize for causes I disagree with.

You’re not supporting me. You’re making coming forward about my assault exponentially more painful and challenging.

NEW: When I told Bo Dietl I was a @POLITICO reporter and asked about his work for Mayor Eric Adams' legal defense trust, he told me: “You like to suck dick? Go suck dick somewhere,” then hung up. Two hours later, the trust fired Dietl. w/ Joe Anuta politico.com/news/2024/04/1…

Beauty Bar was declared 'Neighborhood Enemy Number One' by Mission Yuppie Eradication Project in 1998.
Rumor has it anti-gentrification activists locked the patrons in the bar one night long ago. foundsf.org/index.php?titl…

I should just become a tech CEO. Seems like I have the requisite skills: spend all day on twitter, difficult to work with, write a weekly newsletter, do a podcast, blame others for my failures.

I don’t understand how this company hasn’t been sued into oblivion over this stupid machine

Heads up: My new book, AUTOCRACY, INC, will be published in July. It describes the network of dictators who work together - to keep themselves in power and to undermine the democratic world. Now that it's in galleys you can pre-order with confidence:
penguinrandomhouse.com/books/725302/a…

The outcome of this NPR quasi-scandal is sickeningly certain: both-sides coverage that is even more tepid, wishy-washy, & inadequate than before.

That's how the right-wing working-the-refs process works -- it's a one-way ratchet.

The Ottoman traveler Evliya Çelebi's story about eating honey in a Circassian village is the most insane thing you'll read today

Who knew that specializing in Fascism would be so useful in 2024 🤔

Elon Musk declared he wouldn’t comply with orders from Brazil’s Supreme Court to ban far-right users involved in an attempted coup.

It shows how Musk uses Twitter to amplify fascism, but also why many countries are fed up with unaccountable US tech firms. disconnect.blog/elon-musk-is-a…

El Farolito up early on the Oakland Roots!

Check Mission Local for a full game story later.

:| bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

“Elon Musk’s X is a thriving hub for Nazi support and propaganda, with paid subscribers sharing speeches by Adolf Hitler or content praising his genocidal regime.” - NBC News report lede this morning. 1/2

Good example here on how chopping links/dates/context out of posts can mislead people.

This post is reacting to a story about the director of 'Amelie' saying Paris is ugly. OP's reaction: Immigration ruined Paris.

But! The story is from 2019. It's a write-around of an IndieWire…

Lee Fang’s claim against Ukraine that “journalists taking a critical look at the government are facing intimidation and threats” leaves out vital information once again. No surprises there. thebulwark.com/p/taxpayers-no…