Helen Poznanski

Today is the day. To the friends still here, find me on BlueSky. The checking in now and then is over and the deleting is starting.

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The American people are apparently ok with this. I just can’t anymore.

Murphy: "I just want the president to be held accountable for the fact that all of our federal agencies right now are a mess. Every day we are receiving calls from employees at our federal agencies, including the ones that protect us, saying that everybody is in crisis."

Judge greenlights 2025 sex assault trial against longtime Trump advisor—and Trump campaign itself. MAGA attorney A.J.Delgado was subject to “cycle of coercion, rape, sexual assault, abuse, battery, sexual harassment and sex trafficking” while a direct subordinate of Jason Miller during the first Trump campaign. Jason Miller’s behavior took a dark turn on Oct. 18, 2016: "A.J. Delgado awoke in the bedroom portion of the suite, partially dressed, with her jumpsuit hanging around her ankle, what appeared to be vomit on the side of her pillow, and one of her high heels on the bed" "There was evidence that Jason Miller had had penetrative sex with her in her hotel suite, relations that were not consented to by A.J. Delgado, as she was fully unable to consent to any sexual relations." That incident was the start of a persistent predatory relationship where she was "unable to refuse" because of the workplace power imbalance. #DemVoice1 #wtpBLUE #DemsUnited #ProudBlue

Trump told you he had no duty to be truthful to the media.

@mehdirhasan The only time I believed Trump was when he said he had no obligation to tell the truth to the media.

Every journalist, every media organization, that ran with Trump's denials about Project 2025, that indulged and amplified them, that pretended it was a liberal conspiracy.... should hang their heads in shame. We were right. They were wrong. Again. Oh, and Trump lied. Again.

Spain and France have now joined Britain and Germany in asking the European Commission to open an investigation into Elon Musk under EU's DSA, openly (and rightfully might I add) accusing him of spreading misinformation and interfering in European politics.

Elon. We're watching.

@PrezLives2022 Found you on bsky.social

It's time for me to say goodbye❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ I came to Twitter some time in 2018 and it took me awhile to find my feet because I kept meeting the wrong kind of people. When I finally figured out that it was best for me to be a lone wolf on this site, I thrived. I had never really experienced social media ever before because I simply didn't want anything to do with it. Trump changed all of that and I had a lot to say, but I had to learn some basic facts about this place. In my experience this place is not real and a large group of people, while perhaps real are not who they say they are and it was a very painful experience for me to learn. Not until my 3rd account did I figure out how Twitter really worked. I worked really hard to bring facts to the conversation and put them in easy to understand Tweets. I explained the pitfalls of this app and I explained our political situation as best as I understood it. I had no desire to be the biggest account, but I just wanted to reach as many people as I could. It was all of you who allowed me that privilege...it was because of you that my account grew. I was under no illusions that I built this account. It was built by those who thought I had an interesting perspective. I was grateful for the support, but began to realize that the bigger I grew the bigger the target I became from both the left and the RW trolls. I spent a lot of time under duress emotionally. I thought about leaving a lot, but I stayed through the election, but the time has come for me to step aside and their are a good number of reasons for this. For the past year Elon has limited my reach with me occasionally getting through with a big tweet every now and then. There was a time when I was averaging close to a million impressions a week and that was mind boggling to me. I owe that to all of you. Around September first Elon shut me down hard and I stuck around for all of you because you mattered to me. The time has come where I can no longer accept this platform the way it is under Musk. I have dealt with my share of trolls in the past, but what he has turned this place into is simply disgusting and I have a pretty high tolerance, but the racism, the sexism, the pornography, and the non stop attacks on my tweets from the right/left or bots or both has simply become to much for me. I fought through a lot in my early days here and was fortunate to rebuild a once big account to an account that was double that size. Again that was all because of you. I stopped following most accounts about a year ago because they were all bots, accounts not heard from in years, crypto, and porn and I just lost my interest in what I feel is the most disgusting app for social media owned by who I feel is most vile man on the planet. Even more vile than Trump. I have an account on the other app that has grown rather quickly in a little over a month, but I do not think that is the answer for me either. I am exploring other avenues to communicate my message be it substack, TikTok or YouTube, but I cannot in good conscience support this man any further because he is a threat to America and he is a threat to the world as a whole. I am happy to sacrifice my account if it means Twitter will suffer more. My sincere hope is more will leave. I have been accused of having a paid account and I assure you I have never taken one dime from Elon, because I could not spread it around to everyone who made this account possible and his money would make me feel dirty. I have been accused of many things over the years and I assure you that pretty much most if not all are not true outside of me trolling trolls back in the day who ticked me off. I just wanted to be an average guy who had something to say and you allowed me to be successful at it. I am quite proud of what we contributed together here. I have always said that my account was our account. I remember my first account when I was growing fast and I thought it was all because of me and it took me a while to realize that no one grows big without others. That was a lesson I took to heart and two accounts later I understand that this account never happens without you. We are never too old to learn I say. Being unfamiliar with social media it took me a while to grasp the finer points including how to write good tweets. I think what is important for the next for years is getting our mental health back in line and perhaps are own physical health from too much time on a computer or phone. I don't want to spend four years obsessing about the two biggest criminals in this country soon to be running this country. I never used to swear here, but of late, I feel my rage and the more frequent F Bombs I have been throwing around here is not healthy for me. While I may be stepping away I will keep my account up in hopes that someone will buy this app and I can return on my terms. I wont deactivate it because I have heard some are not even getting 30 days before its gone for good. I have also heard that your account name can be given away so I will just leave it up. If there is something of unique importance that requires my attention I may stop in to give an opinion...like Trump aging out of life and Elon getting arrested. I may have something to say. If an Article 5 comes around I may have something to say, but otherwise I really want a very long break while I figure out new ways to contribute to the conversation using different mediums. I have been blessed to meet so many wonderful people here, some I call friends in real life and some who have taught me some valuable lessons about this platform while also being mainstays in my life. I step away with no regrets and nothing but admiration for all you do every single day here. It has been a very big honor fighting with you. Our day will come again I am sure. I leave with my dignity, which some tried to take from me and I have my head held high as I leave on my own terms. The last two weeks I have learned to accept this moment. I thought hard about it and I realized it is the right thing to do. I have said before, every account has a shelf life and mine was far longer than I ever imagined because of you. So many checking in on me knowing I was recovering from some serious mental moments have gotten me through some tough times. Each and everyone one of you who interacted with me in a positive way have helped me heal. Each one of you challenged me to get better without actually making that challenge. We have had many a long thread together and engaged. I have truly had some good moments here. More good than bad. I do consider each of you my friend in whatever form that is. A wise woman in my early days here said we dont call them followers we call them friends. (Who knew)? I reached 142k friends before Elon chased many away and I valued everyone who interacted with me in some way. It pained me when Elon kept limiting me because I did not see as many as I would have liked. You can have free speech here, but not free leftist speech. I will stop in tomorrow for a bit to engage with those who are here and wish you a happy New Year. Believe me when I tell you that you all matter to me. You are like an on-line family and I owe you more than I could ever repay. Be safe, be strong, and take time away when you need to. At our age, this place can kill us and I refuse to die because of this app.

And so it starts, the self-imposed censorship of fear and greed. anntelnaes.substack.com/p/why-im-quitt…