Jonathan Kay

@jonkay

editor. Book author. host. . Ex-coder/lawyer. Proud alum. engineering. law

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    Jul 5

    1. In March, I began working with to expand its Canadian presence. This month, I formally joined its staff as senior editor. Going forward, I’ll be expanding efforts to recruit new Quillette writers. This thread describes what I’m hoping to find.

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  2. Retweeted
    11 hours ago

    Conservative pundit Jesse Kelly says Twitter permanently banned him without explanation, which is against the site's own policies.

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  3. 1 hour ago

    p.s. remember Gamergate, which many twitter progressives still describe as the Stalingrad of their online battle for female dignity ? would be nice if some of that same progressive mettle were on display here. the reputational threat 2 women such as MM is now arguably more severe

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  4. 2 hours ago

    I think that is exactly how history will remember this spasm of displaced misogyny. Which makes it all the more ghoullish when chaise-longue progressives like respond to the deplatforming of lifelong feminists such as Meghan Murphy with schadenfreude jigs

    The mistake she made was since she's an actual woman...she thought she could remark on actual women. How dare she! When men want to be women, THEY get to control what women should think about that, eh, ?
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  5. 2 hours ago

    As others have highlighted, Twitter's policies have become bizarrely unpredictable now that the company has decided to delete accounts for purely ideological reasons unrelated to hate suppression. So if my own account gets cut off, feel free to email me.

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  6. 2 hours ago

    thanks to and writer Nicole Russell for highlighting Twitter's newly launched campaign against Meghan Murphy & other prominent feminists. If you have media inquiries for MM, feel free to send them to me and I will pass them along

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  7. 2 hours ago

    Are we allowed to say jesse Kelly's name or does that count as deadnaming ?

    Jesse Kelly just showed me the final verdict: twitter has permanently banned him. His account is gone and will not be restored, according to Twitter support. No warnings, no appeals They’ve ghosted him.
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  8. 11 hours ago

    "The Rand Corporation, in conjunction with the saucer people, under the supervision of the reverse vampires are forcing our parents to go to bed early in a fiendish plot to eliminate the meal of dinner...."

    This is one of the most batshit crazy theories I have ever read on this website.
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  9. 11 hours ago

    same.

    Welp, if Jesse Kelly is gone it’s only a matter of time before we’re all against the Twitter wall. I hope you’ve all enjoyed my tweets cause I’ll be gone soon enough.
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  10. 11 hours ago

    what's a "non-man" ? I feel like we once had a word for these carbon-based life forms

    Who are your favorite (non-white non-men) climate experts you'd like to see on TV and hear on the radio? Cc:
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  11. 12 hours ago

    not sure what her "joy" is, but at least she had the decency to admit this botched slur against MM

    My previous tweet on this was a mistake, I had confused Meghan Murphy with a different awful person. I will delete. My joy, however, remains.
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    23 hours ago

    Since you guys do seem to feel so strongly about it, I will avoid using the term 'terf' in the future. Gendercritical or trans-critical will suffice. Sorry for anyone who felt personally upset by my choice of language

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  13. 18 hours ago

    I don't have anything to ask. Just wanted to say you are very brave.

    New to this site, but I am Esther Betts, the person who wrote this article, ask me anything:
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  14. 19 hours ago

    i took this as a joke. but when you think about it... the Libs' summer jobs agitprop was based on the fiction that being pro-life is an anti-Cdn thoughtcrime. is there any reason, in principle, why the same idea couldnt be applied to journos by "independent" Lib appointees/reps ?

    Good point. - will journalists who accept your funds have to sign a values statement like you put in place with the Canada Summer Jobs Program?
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    22 hours ago

    When you cheer because someone you dislike gets banned from Twitter, you are cheering unnamed Bay Area apparatchiks seizing greater and greater power to dictate what you're allowed to see, using increasingly inscrutable and subjective criteria. People really want this?

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  16. 22 hours ago

    John Marshall, perhaps the most important jurist in US history, dropped out of law school after 6 weeks, and passed the Virginia bar as an autodidact

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  17. 22 hours ago

    great essay by Jenny Uglow on Annabella Milbanke & Ada Lovelace...too often known as Byron's wife & daughter. Annabella loved math as "a reliable refuge from emotion." now check this section about the couple's parting row, with its steampunk analogue to Twitter &

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  18. 22 hours ago

    interesting on sex lives of priests. 95% do the solo show. and most seem to have at least as much sex as everyone else. (benedictines got so much action that they were required to sleep fully dressed with lights on to cool things off)

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  19. 23 hours ago

    amazing thread from a trans writer. main takeaway: Twitter's new censorship is more extreme than conventions existing *within the trans community itself*. Such censorship shields sex offenders, which is why it is women who are speaking up, & getting tossed off twitter as a result

    Twitter revised its terms of service to ban “deadnaming”. I am trans and this is a thread on what “deadnaming” is.
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  20. 23 hours ago

    Twitter sure seems to be suspending a lot of women lately dontchathink

    Replying to @AnnMSinnott @TwitterSupport @BDimyon
    How very dare they! Clare is such a lovely thoughtful person, how the hell is anything she says hateful?
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  21. Nov 25

    I think editors need to stay off tumblr. they're too young to be exposed to that content, and it's leading them to make life-altering editorial decisions that they will regret when they're older

    It was (unfortunately) unsurprising to see my Atlantic article misrepresented in outlets like ThinkProgress and Slate. Seeing it misrepresented in the New York Times is more frustrating. This article claims I said something I never said, anywhere.
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