OMG, with #Trump’s new White House #PressPool policy, where he gets to pick who is in it instead of the White House Correspondents’ Assn who used to decide which reporters rotated through the pool, the questions he is taking are literally beginning with revolting flattery.
Not one asked about #SignalGate
ICYMI
This is batshit crazy.
#MarjorieTaylorGreene yells at #SkyNews UK reporter tells her to go back to her country & refuses to take questions from #journalists who aren’t “American”
The AP and the Trump administration are due back in court in their fight over White House access
“It’s really about whether the government can control what you say.” – Julie Pace, AP executive editor
Deny, Deflect and Denigrate the media, that's the current policy in the US to deal with any criticism or issues. No honesty or integrity needed.
#MTG #MAGA #MAGAMorons #signal #Trump #MarthaKelner #freepress
"fake news" we are having the classics this week. Marjorie Taylor Greene embarrassing the US again, you guys have some bad public representatives at the moment.
#MTG #BoycottUSA #freepress #legacymedia #freespeech #MAGA #MAGAMorons #USbecrazy
A federal judge has issued a restraining order against #KariLake & the #Trump admin barring the cancelation of funding for #RadioFreeEurope.
The decision to terminate, the judge says, appears to violate the #law & the intent of #Congress.
@GottaLaff
Alas, it requires adblocker disabling, and then tells me I cannot read any more free articles.
I understand that these organizations need money to operate, but this is still a PITA. There's no way I can manage to subscribe to 20 media sources at once.
We could sure use a working #micropayments system so I could seamlessly pay per article from a wide variety of sources. No effin' billionaire techbros are going to build that, of course, but maybe some still-independent news organizations could jointly set up a nonprofit to do that?
"Europe just canceled $25B in US military deals. NATO allies are planning to replace American l'ship. Japan, France & the UK are prepping deployments w/o us. And now Trump says allies only get ‘toned-down’ jets bc ‘someday they’re not our ally.'
News flash: They’re already walking away."
-R Saddler
Trump is destroying the #economy, #GDP, America's #reputation, #tourism, #jobs, #freepress, #freespeech, #rights, #nationalsecurity, relationships with allies, #publicsafety, #publichealth...
#USPol
I guess we could just keep posting a picture to @PressSec @WhiteHouse, @realDonaldTrump @JDVance on all social media platforms until they leave @ap alone and change it back to #GulfOfMexico
Good news from the Wired - who is leading all other media on accurate, timely, insightful and important news on #trump #maga #doge #democracy Starting today,
@wired.com will be putting stories based on #publicrecords outside the paywall. Maybe this will help with #FOIA officers who deny my requests for expedited processing on the dubious grounds that I'm not primarily engaged in disseminating information to the public! Now you can all read - https://www.wired.com #freepress
@Free_Press@mstdn.social"Fellow Americans, Rise Up! Our country is under attack by the Trump regime. Please repost if you agree!“
- Aure
The Beginning of the End of Free Speech & Free Press in America!
March 14, 2025
#AureFreePress #News #press #headline #GOP #Politics #uspolitics #uspol #Trump #BreakingNews #Breaking #freepress
Hey, would you believe me if I told you that the President signed an executive order on February 18th that gives Trump, a guy who tried to make election officials declare him the winner of an election he lost (and launched a coup attempt when that didn't work) and has been talking about shutting down media organizations that criticize him, essentially complete control over the previously independent Federal Election Commission and Federal Communications Commission? I mean probably not right, since for-profit media has barely covered the issue even though it has a direct impact on their industry. Unfortunately, it's true:
Independent Agencies Oversee Elections and Media. Trump’s Seizing Their Reins.
"The order states that, “The heads of independent regulatory agencies shall establish a position of White House Liaison in their respective agencies,” and goes on to say: “Independent regulatory agency chairmen shall submit agency strategic plans … to the Director of OMB for clearance prior to finalization.” In other words, independent agencies will no longer be independent but will instead be ruled over by political commissars, their every action now scrutinized to make sure they are ideologically sympatico to the aims of the MAGA movement.
Two of the agencies subject to this new system are the Federal Election Commission (FEC) — a historically bipartisan, six-member organization that helps to set ground rules for how elections are run and financed — and the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), which, among other things, controls access to the country’s airwaves.
Trump has been angling for control of both of these agencies since the start of his administration."
Is any of this legal? Who the hell knows; but are you willing to bet a 6-3 fascist-high Supreme Court that has already endorsed the idea that Trump is above the law and the existence of an imperial presidency, are likely to stop him? I'm certainly not. Furthermore, to mount any sort of mass resistance to this type of "classic" fascist power grab ultimately targeting elections and media criticism of the regime, you'd probably have to know it's happening and understand why this executive order might be the single most dangerous thing Trump has signed since he took office again; and clearly for-profit media and a political class doing more collaborating with fascism than resisting it, don't consider informing you about this very relevant right now.
Folks, I dunno about you but I'm getting tired of waiting around for Trump to find his Reichstag Fire and finish crafting a multi-executive order version of the German Enabling Act while Very Serious PeopleTM keep pretending we don't know if Trump is going to go full Hitler and mustn't presume he means to do everything he openly says he's doing. We all heard this guy on tape pressuring election officials and even GOP Governors to "find" him thousands of votes and effectively rig the 2020 election for him. We're all watching as his Project 2025 nazi minion Brendan Carr uses his newfound powers as head of the FCC to threaten the broadcast licenses of media orgs that criticize him, try to shut down PBS and NPR, and even investigate media companies that the regime claims "promote diversity" like that's some kind of crime. So when Trump, the imperial president, passes an executive order that gives him complete effective control of the agencies that regulate American elections and what passes for the "free press" in the United States, you'd have to some kind of credulous rube to believe he's doing so for any other purpose besides rigging elections for fascists and eliminating whatever portions of the US media there are that won't carry water for the fascist administration and the odious ideology animating it. There's not a lotta wiggle room here; either you're a complete fucking muppet, or you're willing to quietly bootlick for a fascist President while he rips pages directly from Hitler's playbook to create his very own American Pork Reich.
I guess the only question left then, is which of those two possibilities best describes an American political and media class supposedly opposed to Trump's fascist regime, that doesn't want to talk about it before it's too late to stop him?
The FCC’s MAGA standard: Target Trump’s enemies, let Fox News off the hook https://www.salon.com/2025/03/07/the-fccs-maga-standard-target-trumps-enemies-let-fox-news-off-the-hook/
@DemocracyMattersALot@mstdn.socialAmazon boycotts must be making a dent; they’re running tv spots “reminding you that 60% of Amazon sales are from independent sellers.”
Time to open a new store, independent sellers!
@Lazarou@mastodon.socialI like how VOA Steve is still reporting the news as it is, despite being denounced as 'treasonous' for his efforts by an authoritarian lackey in US government.
Things are not OK
@DemocracyMattersALot@mstdn.socialOne more piece for The Washington Post to be ashamed of.
If you don’t have the balls to run a newspaper, don’t.
P.S. Fuck you Marc A. Thiessen.
“It was only weeks ago that The Post described itself as providing coverage for ‘all of America,’” #MartyBaron wrote in his statement. “Now its opinion pages will be open to only some of America, those who think exactly as he does.”
…Baron also accused #Bezos of acquiescing to #Trump & the his attacks on the #press for his own business interests.
#Bezos said on Wed he would mandate the paper’s #opinions section to focus on supporting #FreeMarkets & #PersonalLiberties, saying those pieces w/opposing views can “be left to be published by others.”
The move was rebuked by current & former #WashingtonPost staffers, though it was praised in a trolling post by #Trump’s WH.
Legendary #WashingtonPost Editor, #MartyBaron, Slams #Bezos for ‘Betraying’ Paper with #MAGA Makeover
Fmr WaPo executive editor Marty Baron condemned #JeffBezos’ revamp of the paper’s #opinions section in a statement to the Daily Beast, saying he was “sad & disgusted” by the #billionaire’s demands.
#FourthEstate #journalism #media #FreePress #censorship #propaganda #trumpaganda #ViewPointDiscrimination #Trump #law #USpol
https://www.thedailybeast.com/ex-wapo-editor-marty-baron-sad-and-disgusted-at-bezos-opinions-overhaul/
