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Right-wingers aghast as Elon Musk picks a “globalist” as new Twitter CEO

Let THAT sink in

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Elon Musk has spent a lot of time sucking up to some of right-wing Twitter’s most noxious influencers since becoming CEO of the struggling social media site. Now he’s stepping down as CEO, and his (now former) fans are throwing a fit over his choice as a replacement–Linda Yaccarino, a top official at the World Economic Forum (WEF) and former NBCUniversal ad chief.

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Tucker Carlson gets canned; his fans blame the Deep State, Big Pharma, AOC, and/or the Jews

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The big news today is that Tucker Carlson, hero to racist grandfathers everywhere, is out at Fox, reportedly canned on the orders of Rupert Murdoch himself.

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A New York Times article says the anti-vaxxers are getting stronger; an article in the Washington Post says they’re weakening. Both articles are right.

Schrodinger’s Maru: Inside the box but also outside it

The two most influential newspapers in the US put out a set of dueling vaccine op-eds today, with the Washington Post’s Aaron Blake delivering up evidence of what his article’s headline called the “slow and steady decline of the vaccine skeptics.” Over in the New York Times, meanwhile, science writer Tara Haelle argued that “[t]he Anti-Vaccine Movement Is Getting Stronger.”