By Scott Wiener, a California state senator who represents San Francisco and northern San Mateo County.
A mere day after Elon Musk reactivated Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s Twitter account, she tweeted that I’m a “communist groomer,” presumably as a result of I’m a homosexual Jewish Democratic elected official from San Francisco.
In the previous when Greene has gone after me with homophobic or transphobic tropes, I’ve obtained elevated abuse on social media, however this was an escalation past what I’m used to. And that escalation, which was particularly pronounced after the Club Q bloodbath, was due much less to Greene than to Twitter’s new proprietor, Elon Musk.
Since finalizing his buy of Twitter, Musk has introduced a number of the platform’s most infamous banned customers again to the flock. The reinstatement of those accounts, together with Donald Trump and Kanye West, will make Twitter way more poisonous than it was earlier than. And bringing them again not solely forgives their previous conduct, it validates and enshrines their rhetoric as pillars of Twitter’s platform going ahead. Read the complete story.
What Shanghai protesters need and worry
Nearly three years after the pandemic began, protests have erupted in cities and cities throughout China. People have taken to the streets to mourn the lives misplaced in an residence hearth in Urumqi and to demand that the federal government roll again its strict pandemic insurance policies, which many blame for trapping those that died.
It’s the most important grassroots protest in China in many years, and it’s taking place at a time when the Chinese authorities is best than ever at monitoring and suppressing dissent. However, whereas discussions amongst foreigners have too typically decreased the protests to essentially the most sensational clips, the fact is extra difficult. While all of the protestors are in opposition to the zero-covid controls, their reasonings—and motivations—for pushing change range wildly. Read the complete story.
—Zeyi Yang
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