Jan 29Twitter has quit taking action against lies about the 2020 election: CNN reportAn open letter to Twitter CEO and board chair from a $TWTR shareholder Dear Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal, chairman of the board Bret Taylor, and members of Twitter’s board of directors: I am a Twitter shareholder, deeply disturbed that Twitter has decided to quit enforcing its policy against tweeting lies about the 2020 election. Yesterday, CNN’s Daniel Dale reported that “Twitter quit taking…Twitter4 min read
Jul 19, 2021Twitter has quit taking action against lies about the 2020 election: CNN reportAn open letter to Twitter CEO @paraga and board chair @btaylor from a $TWTR shareholder Dear Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal, chairman of the board Bret Taylor, and members of Twitter’s board of directors: I am a Twitter shareholder, deeply disturbed that Twitter has decided not to enforce its policy against tweeting lies about the 2020 election. Yesterday, CNN’s Daniel Dale reported that “Twitter quit taking…Trump4 min read
Jul 14, 2021Happy 714 Day, a Personal StoryI just found out today is known in some circles as “714 Day,” referring to the imprint on pharmaceutical Quaaludes (methaqualone) manufactured in the 1970s and early 80s by Lemmon and Rorer drug companies. When I was a senior in college, Federal drug enforcement agents came to my flat in…2 min read
May 3, 2021Bureau of Prisons apologizes for blocking delivery of book to Reality Winner, sent via AmazonThe Federal Bureau of Prisons has issued an apology for rejecting attempted delivery of a book to Reality Winner, sent via Amazon. In an emailed statement today, a BOP spokesperson told me: “Using the information provided, we consulted our subject matter experts. It appears Amazon is considered a bookstore and…Prison Reform4 min read
Jul 29, 2020Twitter candidate verification issues raise questions about election integrityTwitter has verified the accounts of at least 10 GOP QAnon candidates. Why don’t some Democratic candidates for U.S. Congress who are on the ballot in November have the blue check mark? — Last week, I wrote for Rantt Media: “While [at least] 10 QAnon Republican candidates are verified on Twitter, some Democratic candidates are having a hard time getting the blue check.” A brief recap: In December last year, Twitter told Politico it would verify all accounts of primary candidates for U.S…Elections6 min read
Nov 26, 2018SF Giants release statement on co-owner’s donation to Cindy Hyde-Smith. I fixed it for them.Today the San Francisco Giants President and CEO Laurence M. Baer released a statement regarding a donation made by the team’s majority co-owner Charles B. Johnson to Cindy Hyde-Smith, the neo-Confederate senator from Mississippi. As I wrote for Rantt Media on Saturday: Charles B. Johnson, a principal owner of the…Mississippi2 min read
Jul 1, 2018Fox News ‘real journalists’ must speak out against the propaganda machineSilence is an act of complicity — Fox News’ most popular host Sean Hannity took to the airwaves last week after the latest horrific shooting — this time at the Capital Gazette newspaper in Annapolis where five journalists were killed. Blaming African-American Congresswoman Maxine Waters for the murder spree, Hannity said, “I’ve been saying now for days…Donald Trump6 min read
Apr 22, 2018It’s Time for Fox News ‘Journalists’ to Speak Out Against the Propaganda MachineFox News is arguably the most destructive and dangerous entity on the planet. Real lives are shredded every day by fear and hatred propagated by Fox News commentators. Immigrant children and families are torn apart, LGBTQ folks are beaten up, Muslim women are stabbed, people of color are shot. The…Fox News4 min read
Mar 13, 2018An Open Letter to President Trump from the California Democratic Party TeamThis open letter was posted on Facebook today by Eric C. Bauman, Chair of the California Democratic Party. “Dear Mr. Trump, We know it’s been a while since you visited California. Is it because we’re the reason you lost the popular vote? Or the fact that the world looks to…Politics4 min read
Nov 27, 2017Why I won’t pile on The New York Times about Nazi sympathizer profilePictured here are my Jewish cousins in Europe. We don’t know what happened to them. But when Trump was elected, I vowed to always speak my mind in their memory. I’ve engaged in some knock-down public arguments with editors at The New York Times in the past. …Politics2 min read
