A.J. Bauer @ajbauer Twitter profile

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A.J. Bauer

@ajbauer

3 years

New followers and prospective followers! Here's a quick introduction to what you're getting yourselves into:

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A.J. Bauer

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2 years

That Eli Lilly prank changed the Twitter game: New goal isn't getting more and more people to laugh at terrible puns, it's getting Elon Musk sued by bigger and bigger multinational corporations until he files for bankruptcy.

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Academics talking about boycotting the South as if four of the five monsters who overturned Roe didn’t get their degrees from Harvard and Yale.

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I have been in Germany a week and somehow I am only now learning that this country has a beloved children’s character that is a clinically depressed piece of bread — in space.

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Biden, Blinken, Yellen — what is this, a gerundocracy?

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Why is divestment considered "political" but investment isn't?

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Protestors achieve a longtime dream of many NYU students and faculty: Walling off the business school so that nobody can access it.

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Friend just sent me a video of them barricading Cadman Plaza at NYU where the demonstrations took place yesterday.

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Find you someone who loves you as much as the New York Times loves conservative students at Ivy League colleges.

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Real fans will get the subtext of this joke: Section 230 makes it impossible for Eli Lilly to sue Musk for that parody account. And the laws of humor make it impossible to get more than a few people to laugh at a pun.

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Turns out this was more of a dare?

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So we profiled him…

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“Both sides” is right-wing advocacy.

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NEW: Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav said CNN is rebuilding itself to be a news network that presents “both sides” of every issue rather than an “advocacy network”. @Variety

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Hmm, wonder why?

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Finding transcripts of phone sex calls at the Ronald Reagan Presidential archive.

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Lots of people arguing over whether to boycott the South in the comments. Why aren’t we talking about boycotting Harvard and Yale?

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Whether it's Abraham Lincoln getting shot in the balcony or Lauren Boebert groping in the orchestra, Republicans have a hard time staying focused while attending theater.

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And Barrett went to Notre Dame. Indiana may be a Klan state but it’s north of the Mason-Dixon.

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Zoomer atheism hits different.

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Redder means banning health care for women and trans people. Also banning books and drag. Bluer means expanding health care access and making it slightly harder to buy semi-automatic weapons.

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Hey man this site is dying anyway, what’s the harm in giving me a follow?

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@TheSuperiorPink We are the daughters of the dots they forgot to dip.

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We teach our students that history is contingent. That the world can be otherwise. And then our employers send in the police to beat that lesson out of them.

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Ross explains why his shoes don’t fit good.

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The First Amendment says I can’t see Hulk Hogan’s penis but I HAVE TO see Hunter Biden’s penis? Got it.

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New York Times is sanitizing fascism again…

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“Slavery was basically an unpaid internship” is a hell of a rhetorical move.

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Men will literally lose the House speaker election 6+ times in a row instead of going to therapy

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Say what you want about Truth Social, they know their audience.

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Republicans in several states are working to ban entire fields of study.

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What followed was stunning. So-called “liberal” media outlets like the Times and Atlantic stoked the flames of the moral panic, amplifying the issue among liberal and moderate audiences.

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@LolOverruled When your "things to know" includes the category "Bad."

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1 year

Should I get Bernd das Brot as my first and only tattoo, is the real question on the table.

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4 years

Also this Tweet really nails it:

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@ajbauer This is geekiest grammar joke I have ever seen on Twitter and everyone thinks it’s about ageism.

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It wasn’t fomented in the Insurrectión region of France?

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Do people ever get tired of reading this shit

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Newark naming its train station Penn Station when it is only two stops away from New York Penn Station is exactly the sort of Grade A trolling that earns New Jersey my begrudging respect.

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Beyond parody, @DougJBalloon .

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Okay. Stop paying coaches and athletic directors, then.

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This is such a rich text.

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3 years

Whatever that is

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I want to watch a Veep episode about the two hours between these two emails.

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Donald Trump is on trial for rape. Here’s why that’s good news for Donald Trump.

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It’s not fascism unless it’s from the fasc region of Italy. Everything else is just an “anti-democracy experiment.”

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Won’t somebody please think of the anti-abortionists in states that haven’t outlawed abortion!?

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Hire Bret Stephens and Pamela Paul?

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[Elon Musk buys Twitter, immediately re-platforms neonazis, racists. Endorses Republicans in the midterms. Attacks “woke ideology.”] NYT: Elon Musk invents a new type of liberalism.

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@dynlacht Yale literally trains lawyers who become judges who deny abortions to everyone.

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Y'all worried about check marks when you should be checking out Marx...

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In America the doom scrolls *you*.

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University of Austin has done the impossible: united Academic Twitter.

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Anyone ever wonder why you never read of massive layoffs at right-wing media outlets?

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The New York Times has spent the better part of eight years trying to get non-conservatives to "understand Trump's appeal." I have never read an article urging for conservatives to understand the appeal of liberal or left politicians/ideas.

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No, I wouldn’t think severing their heads would help.

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Still waiting for @TheAtlantic to write one goddamn word about my state's decision to ban the teaching of "divisive concepts" in higher education.

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Why are people circulating a study about the impact of Invermectin on sperm function that had a sample size of 37 and was published in a sketchy journal?

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Why do these sorts of stories always seem to focus on out-of-state students? My queer students from Alabama don't necessarily have the luxury to leave, nor should they have to. They're here. They're staying. We need to focus on supporting them.

Students switch up college plans as states pass anti-LGBTQ laws

Students, parents and college counselors say some LGBTQ youth are choosing not to attend colleges in states that have passed legislation targeting their rights.

www.nbcnews.com

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Because their major donors are part of the right-wing infrastructure that is setting the trap?

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Why do Ivy League presidents keep falling for the trap the GOP is setting for them?

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Steven Thrasher ( @thrasherxy ) did nothing wrong. I've been authorized by him to issue this statement:

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“It means not conflating it with sex trafficking, Pam.” “But then how will we maintain our beloved moral panic!?”

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The bat shit both-sides coverage of Jordan Neely's murder got me wondering: Have major newspapers and the Associated Press ever issued formal apologies for their horrific coverage of lynching in the 20th Century?

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Roses are red The Times is a joke I regret to inform you

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"I mean, say what you want about the tenets of National Socialism, Dude, at least it's an ethos."

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I talk a lot of shit about the NYT opinion page, but @jbouie is an absolute treasure. Reading and channeling actual political theory, getting beyond the bullshit vernacular theory that inhibits our progress.

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Andrew Yang’s favorite NYC pizza place is the Sbarro near Penn Station.

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2 years

LOL

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NEW: Twitter has suspended the launch of Twitter Blue and is actively trying to stop people from subscribing "to help address impersonation issues," per an internal note. 1/

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Also, if you appreciated this Tweet don’t forget to thank your best high school English teacher. Thanks @lajhale !

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Dear students: Just call your professors whatever they prefer you call them. Just like every other person you meet in your life.

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Good week for Cardi B stans.

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What if, knowing what we know now, we pretend like we’ve never known anything about how Republicans vote?

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Using only your social security number, tell us where you went to college!

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You’ve all failed me, basically.

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Opinion | Wolf Man has learned his lesson By Susan Collins

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SpaceX public relations played journalists like a fiddle with the counter-intuitive “it exploded but here’s why that’s a good thing!” spin. This kind of detailed analysis shouldn’t be relegated to Twitter threads.

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This is what happens to your launchpad when you think it would be funny to launch to the world's largest rocket on 4/20, instead of when it's ready. It will probably be at least a year before the FAA will approve another Starship launch.

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Conservatives have been building an “alternate media universe” for 70 years, though. And they’ve had a fully functioning one for 30 years.

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NEW @Axios : Ye, formerly Kanye West, plans to acquire Parler Big picture: Conservatives really starting to build alternate media universe — Elon is buying Twitter — Trump building his own platform — Peter Thiel and J.D. Vance are funding Rumble

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Their secret? Conservative news in insulated from the vicissitudes of the market by philanthropists and businessmen who put ideological dissemination ahead of profitability.

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Republican messaging, in a lede, unattributed, stated as “potential” fact. Try harder @nytimes .

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The Times discovers campus conservatives!

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Columbia University administrators have lost the fucking script. Solidarity with my dear colleagues and their brave students. You all deserve so much better.

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When you didn’t really watch the movie…

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The Times wants you to think that students are the triggered ones when really it’s the Republican politicians who graduated college 20-50 years ago and can’t handle cutting edge research and pedagogy around race and gender.

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Hey, @smithsonian . You should archive the responses to this Tweet so that future generations can understand just how punch drunk we all are after the last four years.

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This is the funniest tweet ever tweeted.

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Preach.

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Economists should be advocating for holding conferences in places where all attendees are safe. But we must also grapple with how support for pushing the judiciary to the right has often come from economists trained and employed at elite institutions in blue states.

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Biden failed to deliver on his promise of chaos at the border. Here’s why that’s good news for Ron DeSantis.

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Stunning that the Times still attempts to cover this issue as though it isn’t an active player in the campaign against trans folks.

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“Oh you do disinformation studies? We’re looking for more of a practitioner…”

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Interesting...

Alejandra Caraballo 🥥 🌴

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@ajbauer Section 230 would generally bar a suit against Twitter. However, the damage is from the verification badge which is a product of Twitter and not user generated. They could still face liability for putting the verification badge on accounts engaged in impersonation.

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I don't have a Soundcloud but you can also buy my book or whatever:

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Whether it’s conservatives leveraging state power to literally ban books and fire people who teach anti-racist ideas, or leftists saying mean things on Twitter, both sides have a censorship problem.

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To be clear: I support conferences making decisions to reduce the vulnerability to harm of attendees. That includes not only pregnant ppl, but ppl with disabilities, ppl who are immunocompromised, and ppl who cannot travel across certain borders due to document issues, etc.

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OPINION | If DeSantis wins, the libs are to blame

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Every news analysis is a confession.

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“First with post-fascist roots” is not a thing.

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Some extremely generous teachers and former colleagues being perp walked here. Sending love and solidarity. As a double alum and former member of the faculty, I am so ashamed of NYU right now.

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NOW: NYPD arrests at least a dozen NYU faculty members in the ‘Liberated Zone’ at Gould Plaza Police deployed the LRAD while protesters were praying

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. @TejNagaraja with the best reply:

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🎶 ‘Yale Law, has gotten me so upset / Harvard’s Kennedy, made me lose my rest / Everybody knows about the Ivy Leagues, goddamn!’ 🎶

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The Internet is a series of tubes incapable of shame. The Firm is a group of very real incompetents who put Middleton in this position by not understanding how the Internet works.

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The New York Times discovers ... Brooklyn.

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