4. Then House hearings were held last week, at which one witness told a story about Donald Trump asking to remove a mean tweet by Chrissy Teigen.

The press went bananas. Now THAT was big news! pic.twitter.com/8ynYaD0lBb

— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) February 19, 2023

6. If a president freaking out about one tweeter is news, surely a U.S. Senator finking on three hundred-plus of his constituents also must be? pic.twitter.com/dUtLV8TlmV

— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) February 19, 2023

14. The real story emerging in the #TwitterFiles is about a ballooning federal censorship bureaucracy that's not aimed at either the left or the right per se, but at the whole population of outsiders, who are being systematically defined as threats.

— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) February 19, 2023

[Read it all. This one doesn’t contain any blockbuster revelations, except to expose how silly and corrupt the mainstream media has become. Taibbi sounds like his disillusionment is more acute than chronic on this point, but it’s welcome nonetheless. — Ed]