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Is the American Media Caving to Trump? | KQED We talk with columnist Margaret Sullivan about how major media outlets are responding to Trump’s intensifying attacks and how it could hasten a march to autocracy.

How do you control the message? Part of it is: you control the media.

And he’s been very successful — just in the six months or so since he’s been inaugurated — in bringing the big media companies to heel. Many of them are agreeing to do his bidding, in one way or another. — @sulliview.bsky.social

If every journalist/news division employee doesn't quit over this - preferably en masse w/ a press conf - then those who remain are not journalists but mouthpieces offering lies to viewers. As for the FCC, they need to strip CBS of the right to use the word "news" in conjunction w/ anything they do.

There is no bottom to their pit of evil. Thread.

Republicans sure are pulling out all the stops to wield the government against Texas Democrats. Warrants, FBI, court processes. Not a second wasted. Goes to show that if they *wanted* to bring Epstein's clients to justice, they could. They just don't want to.

Hmm, what do ‘central camps’ and ‘final plan’ remind you of?
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Ramble On: Shouting From the Rooftops (video) Morning thoughts on Trump's increasingly more obvious, and more desperate, attempts to distract from the Epstein files. He's guilty af, guys.

"The BEST-case scenario is that Trump was just really good friends w/the 2 most notorious child sex traffickers of all time & allowed them, for years, to use Mar-a-Lago as a place to groom & 'recruit' these girls, these kids that they were going to sex-traffic & rape. That’s the best-case scenario."

A little math about that prison camp in Florida. $450 million per year for 3,000 people is $150,000/person per year. The cost for one person receiving SNAP for one year is $2256, yet they're telling us that's too expensive. threads.com/@unapologeticallyzae

To athletes and coaches around the world: REFUSE to come to the United States for the 2028 Olympics. Do NOT endorse what is happening in the country. Do not come. That’s how you show you are against the authoritarian takeover.

Perez: The governor's coordinating the Texas department of public safety with the FBI, the president—this is really the type of coordination that could have been used when Texans needed it during the recent floods.

Former Trump Surgeon General says RFK plan to gut vaccine program will ‘cost lives’

Even Trump’s former Surgeon General has hit out at RFK Jr’s plans to gut vaccine research: ‘Going to cost lives’

Treasury Secretary Admits Trump's Tariffs Are Paid by Americans Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent acknowledged that U.S. importers, or American consumers, pay for Donald Trump's tariffs.

Telling the truth that Trump’s tariffs are taxes on American consumers could cost Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent his job unless he lies and claims he misspoke or was misconstrued. It’s just a matter of time . . .
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Virginia Giuffre’s brother said that dismissing it as a hoax is a blatant insult to everything his sister and other survivors have fought for and are still fighting for—adding that it’s especially heartless coming from the nation’s leader.

NEWS: Annie Farmer, an Epstein survivor who testified against Ghislaine Maxwell, just revealed on CNN that she wrote a letter with her concerns to Deputy AG Blanche — and received no response.

She says neither she nor other survivors have heard a word from the DOJ.

This really shows how little Putin respects and fears Trump — it couldn’t be clearer

I’m shocked, shocked I say. 😒

Alternate - & completely factual - headline: Godless criminal & pedophile uses gullible conservative Christians to consolidate power.

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Federal court filing system hit in sweeping hack The identities of confidential court informants are feared compromised in a series of breaches across multiple U.S. states.

NEW: "The electronic case filing system used by the federal judiciary has been breached in a sweeping cyber intrusion that is believed to have exposed sensitive court data across multiple U.S. states, according to two people with knowledge of the incident."

The Supreme Court just dropped a hint about its next big Voting Rights Act case In a pending case on Louisiana’s congressional map, the justices ordered briefing on whether it’s constitutional to intentionally draw majority-Black districts.

The Republican Supreme Court wants to go back to Jim Crow.

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I know this is parody, and yet...

Off the rails.

In a Desperate Bid to Survive His Latest Fuck-Up, FBI Director Kash Patel Desperately Clings to Propaganda - emptywheel Kash Patel is so desperate to fix his latest fuck up (revealing that the entire Durham investigation was built off Russian disinformation) he made to cover up his earlier fuck up (stoking an Epstein s...

In a Desperate Bid to Survive His Latest Fuck-Up, FBI Director Kash Patel Desperately Clings to Propaganda

www.emptywheel.net/2025/08/02/i...

Spoiler alert: It's John Roberts.

Will everyone quit and roll over? The law firms, media companies, universities, government employees. Will you all cling to what you have and hope you can just ride it out, Republic be damned? Shame on all of you who don’t stand up, just remember we will never forget.

Opinion | The Trump Economy Stumbles The President has his new world tariff order in place, but jobs and growth don’t look so good.

In which the WSJ Editorial Board screams into its pillow about Trump's fucked-up economy and tariffs "among the largest tax increases in recent history."
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Murdoch tears would be Schadenfreude if it weren't all of us who are fucked.
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🚨NEW OVERNIGHT: Big win for L.A. — a federal court just blocked Trump’s immigration raids across So. California.

The Ninth Circuit denied Trump’s attempt to restart warrantless sweeps that targeted people for speaking Spanish, having an accent, or just standing at a bus stop in Latino communities.

Two can play that game.

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