You can't spell "Stonewall" without the "T." The Stonewall National Monument website has removed the "T" in "LGBTQ+" referencing transgender people. 🧵/2

Trump is regularly accused of "projecting" his own faults by assigning them to others. One might decifer what Trump is admitting about himself in this quote by swapping out the third person pronouns for first person pronouns. 🧵/2

In all caps—internet shorthand for shouting—Trump makes an Incredible Hulk-esque defense of Elon Musk baracading himself in government agencies with a team of young hackers. 🧵/2

Trump does not make puns or clever remarks; the closest things he makes to jokes are insults. He doesn't speak in metaphors or use visual language, suggesting a very literal mind. 🧵/3

South Africa's recent Expropriation Law seeks to redress land access inequities of Apartied-era policies forbidding Black South Africans from owning land. Currently, 70% of land in South Africa is owned by ethnic Europeans who only make up 7% of the population. 🧵/2

We cannot take Pink's words literally because, as far as humans go, the largest recorded human fæces is the Lloyds Bank coprolite, a 1,200-year-old fossilized turd found in York, England. It's 20 cm long by 5 cm wide; Kanye is much larger. 🧵/2

Christmas stollen, known in Germany as Christstollen or Weihnachtsstollen, is a yeasted fruit bread that is baked with dried fruits, candied citrus peel, nuts, and spices. 🧵/2

This goon thinks they are being discriminated against because a realtor is exercising their discretion. The Fair Housing Act of 1968—which should be capitalized—protects people from discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, and familial status. 🧵/2

I won't usually concern myself with the errant typos of random MAGAs in the comment section but if you're going be condescending, then expect to be held to a higher standard. 🧵/2

Yes, this account will primarily focus on correcting the fascists but won't hesitate to call a foul ball or two on our side. Found a fresh conspiracy theory that the US flag icon on federal agency web sites have been replaced under Trump with a 9-star flag... 🧵/2

"Cockpit" traces back to the 1500s, literally a pit in the ground for fighting game cocks, intentionally small and cramped to increase the stress on the birds to induce fighting.

Doublespeak is language that deliberately obscures, disguises, distorts, or reverses the meaning of words. What Trump is calling a "subsidy" is actually a $72 billion trade deficit, mostly in energy.

WHITEWASH
transitive verb
2a: to gloss over or cover up such as a record of criminal behavior,
2b: to exonerate by means of a perfunctory investigation or biased presentation of data,

The White House kicks off Black History Month by failing to capitalize "Black Americans," implying black is merely a color. The proper name of a racial, ethnic or cultural identity, a group of people, self-identified or otherwise, would require capitalization to denote a proper noun.

From the Miriam-Webster Dictionary:
WE, pronoun; 1, I and the rest of a group that includes me : you and I : you and I and another or others : I and another or others not including you —used as pronoun of the first person plural.

A "correspondent" is someone who communicates by letters; in this context, a person employed by a news agency to gather news from a distant place. The ability to spell one's own job title doesn't seem to be a requirement to work for Steve Bannon's War Room.

Despite insisting that he won the 2024 election was by a lanslide, Trump won the popular vote by a mere 1.5% margin over Harris, the narrowest victory since the Nixon election of 1968.

"Tow the line" is considered a malapropism and is always a misspelling. It's a common mistake for the idiom "toe the line," meaning to follow rules or conform to expectations, which invokes the image of athletes placing their toes on the starting line of a race.

The county of Colombia uses the Spanish-derived spelling of Christopher Columbus' name, Cristóbal Colón, which differs from the North American preference which follows the Italian spelling.