Surprise! Elon Musk has no clue what he's doing.

The MoJo Daily newsletter, Monday through Friday. [View in browser]( [Mother Jones Daily Newsletter](     April 10, 2023 The situation over on Twitter dot com just keeps getting worse. Over the weekend, my colleague Ali Breland compiled a list of data points supporting the hypothesis that Twitter CEO Elon Musk has [no idea what he's doing](. One is that Musk made the Twitter logo the "doge" dog amid a federal class action lawsuit accusing him of manipulating the Dogecoin cryptocurrency. Another is that he labeled National Public Radio as “State-Affiliated Media," only to, amid criticism, update the label to "Government Funded." BBC now boasts the [same label](. (NPR and BBC are publicly funded, and government funds account for less than 1 percent of NPR's annual budget. Moreover, the two news services are editorially independent, not government mouthpieces, as the label implies.) There have been even cringier developments since Ali published his post. Musk apparently whited out the "w" in the "Twitter" sign at the company's San Francisco headquarters, so it now says, "Titter." Tee-hee! The 51-year-old also updated his display name to "Harry Bōlz." [This is bait](. But beyond the stunts, it's the glitches, above all, that have rendered Twitter nearly unusable for me. Last week, retweet labels [mysteriously went missing](, making my timeline an indecipherable mishmash of tweets from accounts I didn't follow. Worse, Twitter Circle—Twitter's long-anticipated version of Instagram's "close friends" feature—seems to have broken, allowing private tweets to [wind up on strangers' timelines](. Every day, I tell myself that it's the last straw and I'm quitting Twitter for good. But every day, I keep crawling back to the richest man in the world's [misinformation-ridden]( hellhole. I just wish that the site would crash once and for all. —Abigail Weinberg Advertisement [House Subscription Ad]( [Top Story] [Top Story]( [Nancy Mace Gets It]( After a federal judge suspended the abortion pill, the Republican congresswoman called on the Biden admin to ignore the ruling. BY INAE OH MOJO MUST-READS BY ADAM HOCHSCHILD   American Midnight: The Great War, a Violent Peace, and Democracy's Forgotten Crisis From Mother Jones co-founder Adam Hochschild, a "masterly" (New York Times) reassessment of the overlooked but startlingly resonant period between World War I and the Roaring Twenties, when the foundations of American democracy were threatened by war, pandemic, and violence fueled by battles over race, immigration, and the rights of labor. [Get]([American Midnight]([here](. [Trending] [Health secretary says "everything is on the table" to protect abortion pill access]( BY RUTH MURAI   [A massive Arctic drilling project is moving forward despite Biden's campaign promises]( BY RUQAIYAH ZAROOK   [Greg Abbott wants to pardon the man convicted of killing a racial justice protester]( BY RUTH MURAI   [Does Elon Musk know what he's even doing?]( BY ALI BRELAND Advertisement [Mother Jones Store Ad]( [Special Feature] [Special Feature]( [Sorry California, Melting Snowpacks to Unleash More Epic Floods]( "When all of that snow starts melting, we have a major challenge on our hands." BY TOM PHILPOTT [Fiercely Independent] The next few months are make-or-break for Mother Jones' fundraising. We need to raise $300,000 quickly, and we need more online readers to [pitch in]( than have been. You can read more in "[It's Not a Crisis. This Is the New Normal](," where we go into the brutal economics of journalism, and why a strong base of support from readers is the only way we can do the in-depth reporting you get from us. If you can right now, please pitch in and help us do it. [Donate]( Did you enjoy this newsletter? Help us out by [forwarding]( it to a friend or sharing it on [Facebook]( and [Twitter](. [Mother Jones]( [Donate]( [Donate Monthly]( [Subscribe]( This message was sent to {EMAIL}. To change the messages you receive from us, you can [edit your email preferences]( or [unsubscribe from all mailings.]( For advertising opportunities see our online [media kit.]( Were you forwarded this email? [Sign up for Mother Jones' newsletters today.]( [www.MotherJones.com]( PO Box 8539, Big Sandy, TX 75755