Bad Times For The News 01July, 2023

Rain here in Kansas as the world appears from space to be bathed in a brown cloud in the Northern Hemisphere. Hundreds of fires in Canada have burned for weeks and blanketed everybody east of there with extreme smoke pollution. 

Another significant change in the news today is another reshuffle at Twitter, the global news disseminator, that now limits the amount of speech users can see depending on whether users choose to pay for their self-verification or not. So its users complained and made fun of it. Many more have said they are leaving for good.

lol. lmao. rofl. pic.twitter.com/kLOarxF3Qv

— steven monacelli 🆓 (@stevanzetti) July 1, 2023

Over and over in many ways.

Non blue ticks collecting their daily tweet rations, 2023 (colorised) pic.twitter.com/IiRBOC5M4D

— Luka Ivan Jukic (@lijukic) July 1, 2023

Something used by 10s of millions worldwide all of whom collectively create its value, demolished in a year because one toxic shithead has a lot of money; pretty perfect summation of billionaireism.

— A.R. Moxon (@JuliusGoat) July 1, 2023

Space Karen paid billions to run Twitter into the ground 🤷‍♀️
Shades of Rupert Murdoch buying Myspace for $580 million and selling it for $35 million 6 yrs later.

— Angry Goddess 2 (@AngryGoddessx2) July 1, 2023

MySpace Karen pic.twitter.com/s6Tum4WbL8

— Devin Nunes' Uber Driver (@nunes_uber) July 2, 2023

Basically what Elon's tweet is saying here,is if you don't pay the 8 bucks a month for the Twitter blue checkmark,then your Twitter experience on a daily basis will be short,and if you don't pay me the 8 bucks a month then I really don't want you on my platform😡#RIPTwitter https://t.co/HnBu3gO6tV

— Jim Puritan Justice Maddox (@jimlibertarian) July 1, 2023

Meanwhile, there are serious riots & protests in France for a fourth night. 

🇫🇷 Sporadic violence and looting hit #France in a 4th night of protests after the fatal police shooting of #Nahel Tuesday.

👮 Although it was less intense than previously, the government could still consider imposing a state of emergency to quell the riots.@frazj reports 👇 pic.twitter.com/jFQxjIn7Jh

— FRANCE 24 English (@France24_en) July 1, 2023

The war in Ukraine blasts on.

Ukraine’s Intelligence Chief claims Russia has finished placing explosives and ammunition near the reactors of the Zaporizhzhia power plant. @ReevellP in Ukraine, witnessing emergency decontamination drills. https://t.co/jevIdk6mOz pic.twitter.com/swE3lgsxgc

— World News Tonight (@ABCWorldNews) July 2, 2023

And reports of Israel dropping bombs on Syria Jenin in the West Bank are coming in tonight as well. Not a good omen for July.