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“Space Karen” has let Hair Füror back onto Twitter.

UPDATE: Tiger Beat on the Potomac (thanks Charlie) morning email thingie has all the hot goss:

Let’s talk about Twitter first. 

Sifting through the coverage this morning, two thing jump about about ELON MUSK’s decision to use a Twitter poll to decide Trump’s fate:

1. Musk will likely continue to B.S. his way through running his new toy, making decisions on a whim and without regard to previous promises. Recall that in late October, Musk tweeted about the process he would use for deciding whether to reinstate accounts: “Twitter will be forming a content moderation council with widely diverse viewpoints. No major content decisions or account reinstatements will happen before that.”

The “content moderation council” never surfaced, and that tweet is now deleted.

2. The timing of Musk baiting Trump to return to Twitter could damage Truth Social. Trump is reportedly contractually obligated to “make his posts exclusively available on Truth Social for eight hours before he could share them elsewhere,” according to the WaPo.

Despite that prohibition, Trump couldn’t help but nudge his fans to vote for his reinstatement on Musk’s rival platform. “Vote now with positivity, but don’t worry, we aren’t going anywhere,” Trump wrote. “Truth Social is special!”

But it’s not as special as he’d like. Trump Media and Technology Group, which owns Truth Social, was set to be taken public by Digital World Acquisition (DWAC). DWAC has been seeking a shareholder vote to extend the deadline for the takeover, but that vote has been delayed six times. It’s now scheduled for Tuesday. According to The New York Post, it’s not going well. If the extension vote fails, Digital World could be liquidated on Dec. 8.

What does this have to do with Musk? DWAC’s shares, which have plummeted some 80% this year, have been highly sensitive to news about Twitter being more hospitable to Trump fans and Trump’s potential return to the platform. DWAC shares slid all week last week — and that was before Trump’s reinstatement.

So Elon may know what he’s doing here if his goal is to cripple Truth Social and force Trump back onto Twitter. He seemed to hint that he believes Trump will come back when he tweeted today, “The most entertaining outcome is the most likely – my variant on Occam’s Razor.”