WOKE UP!

lol https://t.co/RaZiqnrMZ8

— MeidasTouch (@MeidasTouch) March 21, 2023

Good morning! (Like I said, the barricades are for people who want to see Trump perp-walked).

that's right pic.twitter.com/TIoAHsZsyD

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) March 21, 2023

Precisely the language I heard used by racists to condemn "outside agitators" and "northerners" during the Civil Rights Movement era. Right down to the Southern drawl (I have a Texas twang softened by a Southern drawl. If you ever get me to talk "Texan," or to my brother. It comes out stronger with family than with strangers. With strangers I sound like a TV newsman from the '60's.) "Woke" is just cover for "I don't like non-white people."

GOP: Hillary Clinton must pay for Trump's crimes https://t.co/PLNm4g714p

— Kerry Eleveld (@kerryeleveld) March 21, 2023

Denial is not just a river in Egypt.

Exactly. Money laundering, for example. https://t.co/z1uOi6iqCV

— Elizabeth de la Vega (@Delavegalaw) March 21, 2023

Nobody knows what the Manhattan grand jury is looking at, or what evidence they have received, aside from that Costello said yesterday (and he was apparently so weak Cohen wasn't called back for rebuttal). That's how grand juries are supposed to work, in order to protect both the innocent and the case being made by the prosecution. I'm quite content to wait and see what charges, if any, are actually brought. News,on other hand, especially since the rise of the punditocracy, lives ever in the future it imagines from reading chicken entrails and tea leaves of its own manufacture.

In this tweet, however, Ali Alexander makes a coded call for NYPD cops to mutiny (though as I note, the actual LOGIC of his tweet says cops shouldn't do squat for Trump).

This is what Elmo has affirmatively backed by welcoming Ali back on site. pic.twitter.com/ETefhHg0vY

— emptywheel (@emptywheel) March 21, 2023

Really? Does Alexander actually imagine this will work?

Antisemitism On Twitter Has More Than Doubled Since Elon Musk Took Over The Platform, Research Finds https://t.co/jOMPkAycHN via @TPM

— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) March 21, 2023

Purely coincidental, I'm sure. (Or would Elmo say: "Vox populi, vox dei"?)

From @AP... Twitter accounts spread Russian propaganda on the Ohio train derailment, "using Elon Musk’s new verification system to expand their reach while creating the illusion of credibility." https://t.co/UXiafxIVKv

— Jill Lawrence (@JillDLawrence) March 19, 2023

Everything is going according to plan. I guess.

In Meeting With Powerful Conservatives, DeSantis Privately Called for Google to Be ‘Broken Up’ https://t.co/1vUOLHFRdl via @TPM

— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) March 21, 2023

I wonder if 'woke' is a term of art in the Sherman Anti-Trust Act? DeSantis went to Yale Law, he should know.

Add it to the list. pic.twitter.com/kaKfqW0wle

— The Daily Show (@TheDailyShow) March 21, 2023