Kagro in the Morning - July 10, 2023

<p>Unlike next week, <strong>David Waldman</strong> and <strong>Greg Dworkin</strong> are here this week, <a title="" href= "https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/7/10/2180216/-Kagro-in-the-Morning-is-LIVE-at-9-AM-ET" target="_blank" rel="noopener">except for Thursday</a>... More on that later, but first, in <a title="" href= "https://youtu.be/ZyhrYis509A" target="_blank" rel="noopener">the Barbie news</a>, <a title="" href= "https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/warner-bros-defends-barbie-banned-vietnam-south-china-sea-map-rcna93013" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Vietnam</a>, and <a title="" href= "https://newrepublic.com/post/174182/republicans-hate-barbie-now" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Republicans</a> are incensed over Barbie’s <a title="" href= "https://news.yahoo.com/margot-robbie-mandated-pink-day-190744610.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pinko leanings</a>. The problem is, <a title="" href= "https://theworld.org/dispatch/news/regions/asia-pacific/china/140127/china-US-military-confrontation-south-china-sea-chicken" target="_blank" rel="noopener">you never know</a> if China is also playing.</p> <p>Are you threading? You or <a title="" href= "https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/social-media/threads-hits-100-million-users-fueling-doubts-twitter-rcna93399" target="_blank" rel="noopener">100 million</a> someones you know have already begun to thread.  Sure, that giant mass of Meta subscribers mostly flowed from <a title="" href= "https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-07-06/threads-vs-twitter-vs-instagram-comparing-the-app-features" target="_blank" rel="noopener">their app of images over to their app of ideas</a>, but it is <a title="" href= "https://www.businessinsider.com/heres-how-metas-threads-app-compares-to-twitter-zuckerberg-elon-musk2023-7#:~:text=In%20a%20press%20release%2C%20Meta%20said%20that%20it,to%20follow%20topics%20and%20trends%20in%20real%20time.%22" target="_blank" rel="noopener">that same giant mass</a> that will eventually draw in the interesting ideas. So, if we all follow the news o