Parallels

An internal video and other internal Twitter records show that, far from working to censor pro-Trump sentiment in the days before the Capitol riot, firm leaders were intent on leaving it up despite internal warnings of trouble brewing. ⁦@drewharwell⁩ https://t.co/dCwAwAeonZ

— Peter Baker (@peterbakernyt) June 26, 2023

But Jack was saving Twitter, and Elmo ruined it!

In fact we have no idea whether the "deal" announced on Saturday (Prigozhin amnestied, moving to Mińsk) was ever real at all https://t.co/b8HrPpJzzh

— Anne Applebaum (@anneapplebaum) June 26, 2023

It’s all a matter of who’s telling the story, isn’t it?

It’s a crisis I tell you, like nothing we’ve ever seen before (except once in 1997) https://t.co/1Oahs6fzAo pic.twitter.com/ln2vg5feQG

— George Conway (@gtconway3d) June 26, 2023

Like when drag was funny, rather than “sexual.” (My first encounter with Monty Python was the “Hell’s Grannies” skit, on a Dean Martin summer show (yes, Virginia, they had those once upon a time). When the show came to KERA in Dallas, my biggest concern was the sex jokes (“How long is it?” “That’s a very personal question, sir!”) and the occasional topless ladies (on TV!). Nobody thought of the “boys” as dressing in drag, even though Carol Cleveland was often the only woman on screen, and some of the best sketches, like the Penguin sketch, involved female characters.

Still not hearing calls to ban Python, so the narrative is about a very, very particular concept. Not all drag us created equal. And while women in men’s clothes can be sexual, men in women’s clothes is still just…funny.