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The next several episodes outline a desperate struggle to survive in the Mirror Universe. Damaged and sticking out like a sore thumb, the Buran and its crew go looking for help, and for the first time, we meet regular people who’ve been living under the brutal Terran Empire. — PolitiTweet.org

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According to Mirror Lorca, the Buran was completely lost, and he was the sole survivor: https://t.co/lMgDDRxK3f But in this series, we find out that the real USS Buran has simply traded places with Mirror Lorca’s own ship, and slipped into the Mirror Universe. — PolitiTweet.org

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Okay, here goes. I’m thinking, like, a 15-episode miniseries to start, showing Lorca and his crew struggling to come home from the Mirror Universe. We pick up at Lorca’s last known whereabouts in the Prime Universe — aboard the USS Buran, defending against a Klingon ambush. — PolitiTweet.org

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Jason Isaacs could return to Star Trek as Prime Lorca. Great, now my whole morning is going to be wasted on dreaming up potential stories for this. https://t.co/ukmEldBfXz — PolitiTweet.org

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https://t.co/oaGxu3YPij — PolitiTweet.org

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I asked @publicknowledge’s Gene Kimmelman, a former DOJ antitrust official, what to make of all this. Here’s what he told me. https://t.co/V1FH7lI5Sm — PolitiTweet.org

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The questions for Google’s rival highlight how far things have progressed, particularly at DOJ, and highlight how regulators are beginning to evaluate potential remedies. — PolitiTweet.org

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@DuckDuckGo .@DuckDuckGo has also discussed this proposal with state and congressional officials who are also looking into Google, I’m told. — PolitiTweet.org

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DOJ officials scrutinizing Google for antitrust have recently asked @DuckDuckGo for details of a proposal to increase competition in mobile search, its founder tells me, indicating the investigation includes not just advertising but search and Android. — PolitiTweet.org

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Maryland's attorney general 👇 — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @oliverdarcy: Remains unclear if the Cotton op-ed will be updated or removed, given NYT is now saying it doesn't meet its standards. R… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @EthanZ: I'm one of the "experts" they consulted, and I told them this would be total bullshit if they labeled Al Jazeera as state contr… — PolitiTweet.org

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Remarkable letter by some of Facebook’s earliest employees, who now say the company is unrecognizable and holds politicians to a lower standard than the regular people they govern. https://t.co/EWj3knujmD https://t.co/GAW6b2L646 — PolitiTweet.org

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Spiegel adds “divisive people” won’t get booted off the platform, but only “as long as [their] content … is consistent with our community guidelines.” On one hand, you could read this as necessary boilerplate. But he’s also leaving the door open to an account ban in future. — PolitiTweet.org

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Here’s Snap CEO Evan Spiegel’s blog post: “We simply cannot promote accounts in America that are linked to people who incite racial violence, whether they do so on or off our platform." https://t.co/4NysyjQl05 — PolitiTweet.org

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This is the kind of cultural and social capital that makes America the envy of the world. It’s not built overnight, and it can be squandered. — PolitiTweet.org

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Find someone who looks at you the way this man looks at his country: https://t.co/EchIDEmRbg https://t.co/Z00v7NttC0 — PolitiTweet.org

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Meanwhile, inside the house, Dubey ordered pizza for everyone by calling up the owner of a local institution, Duccini’s, which is literally as old as me. The response? “We got you, man.” And then the pizza got held up by the police. https://t.co/EchIDEmRbg — PolitiTweet.org

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Rahul Dubey gave shelter to dozens of protesters in his own home in DC last night. Per his first-person account, police threatened to arrest him for standing on his own porch; faked a 911 call to his house; tried to bait protesters into coming back out: https://t.co/EchIDEmRbg — PolitiTweet.org

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@digiphile @CenDemTech My first instinct was “digital rights advocates” but I ran out of space. — PolitiTweet.org

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A new federal lawsuit by tech advocates at @CenDemTech is challenging Trump’s executive order on social media, arguing it violates the First Amendment by chilling the speech of “all online platforms an individuals”: https://t.co/duzJ1NwDsd https://t.co/rW6SV825uD — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @Iyengarish: At one point around 22,000 people — almost half of Facebook's workforce — tuned into Zuckerberg's town hall today explainin… — PolitiTweet.org

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New: At a company-wide town hall today with nearly half of Facebook’s employees watching, Zuckerberg tried to explain himself on Trump. Staffers aren’t too satisfied with the response. https://t.co/IjcQvnc8xB — PolitiTweet.org

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New: USTR is targeting nearly a dozen governments worldwide with Section 301 investigations into their proposed or actual digital services taxes. https://t.co/9SwHQ50ZCH — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @oliverdarcy: "Local news publications have been hard hit by financial pressure stemming from the pandemic, with many operating newsroom… — PolitiTweet.org

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Just a reminder that if you work at a FAANG or similar tech company and would like to talk confidentially about your workplace's handling of everything going on right now, I’m here to listen. — PolitiTweet.org

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Helicopters audible as far north as Columbia Heights tonight. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @Cat_Zakrzewski: A Facebook engineer responds to the call, saying he is “extremely disappointed” in the outcome. https://t.co/lfxTN0pY1V — PolitiTweet.org

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Also present were Nick Clegg, head of Facebook’s global policy and communications, as well as Joel Kaplan, Facebook’s VP of global public policy, according to a person familiar with the matter, who spoke on condition of anonymity because details of the meeting were confidential. — PolitiTweet.org

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@vanitaguptaCR @Sifill_LDF @rashadrobinson Facebook’s statement on the meeting, per spokesman @andymstone: https://t.co/bOeJNEPDht — PolitiTweet.org