Matt Taibbi

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Score -42
2/18/2025, 1:24:46 PM
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CJ Hopkins
@CJHopkins_Z23
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145d
@mtaibbi The issue isn't the press credentials. It's the message, i.e., "parrot MAGA newspeak or you're out," "report the official Musk version of 'reality' or get hauled before a DOGE subcommittee." "Post your work on my platform or 'you're dead to me'." And so on.
Matt Taibbi
@mtaibbi
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146d
Well then go back in time and wave a banner for every independent journalist who’s been denied credentials 100% of the time across decades, and not for the AP to whom it’s happened once.
We're At Abnormal 2.0
@gettingmorenorm
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146d
@mtaibbi It's a complete non issue in that the AP shouldn't have been denied credentials arbitrarily, just like you shouldn't have been.

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