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Brendan Carr tweet in response to a Daily Beast tweet. The Daily Beast tweet says "Donald Trump's FCC chairman Brendan Carr is boasting to friends that he is having "the time of his life" after launching an all-out attack on the media, the Daily Beast has learned." To which Carr smugly responds: "Find a job you love and you will never have to work a day in your life."

Brendan Carr's biggest accomplishment in life is to make a mockery of the First Amendment he pretended to support to win the praise of a dictator who barely knows he exists.

I remember the conservatives who used to object to discarding time-honored and perfectly serviceable names for things. I miss them.

What happens to federal preemption when Congress doesn't enforce its laws?

The banks would much rather have the CFPB than California and New York and anyone else come after them with different, potentially conflicting laws. Federal agencies are a way of making regulation MORE efficient, not less.

A Time for Saying No Dreaming of a bright future is tomorrow’s task. Now is a time for opposition.

"It’s true that the case for liberal democracy is complicated. But the case against fascism and communism is simple." So it was, so it is.

Restricting the liberty to report that police are conducting a raid at a certain location imperils First Amendment rights. Courts should closely scrutinize claims that immigration raids make some kind of exception. Also, could FCC chief Brendan Carr please stop posing as a free speech defender?

Yet they published a bunch of stories about Musk claiming that mild comments from the admin about "hey maybe don't share stuff that will get people killed by Covid" was an obvious "First Amendment violation"

What's going to happen to Ukraine now? The most likely scenario is some form of Finlandization.

"This... idea that powerful nations deserve to be able to conquer weaker ones unopposed, and that regular people defending their homes and families are worthy of contempt — was an utterly shameful display, and largely failed to convince the American people." MAGA went along, though [Noah Smith]

It's getting a little North Korean around here.

some of us got a BS in Philosophy, Scott

they are currently being forced, by their voters, to learn the lesson that resisting Trump and his morally vacant aristocratic den of looters, scam artists and zealots might be a thing that is good politics

Thinking this is the likeliest case, sadly.

UNCLE O’GRIMACEY As positive as the Shamrock Shake’s impact has been, there have been some missteps. To help promote the Shamrock Shake, McDonalds introduced the new mascot character Uncle O'Grimacey in 1975. The Irish uncle of the purple mascot Grimace, Uncle O'Grimacey (complete in his kelly green hat, shamrock-patterned vest, and a shillelagh) would travel from Ireland each year bringing Shamrock Shakes to McDonaldland. Uncle O'Grimacey was quietly phased out of McDonalds marketing after a few years due in part to an alleged incident in Philadelphia in 1978 where the person portraying him made statements in support of the IRA and that British soldiers were better dead than alive.

so mcdonald's is bringing back Uncle O'Grimacey with this year's shamrock shakes, and you need to know his history

During an era of failing traditional media, TechDirt is absolutely killing it covering, explaining, contextualizing what is happening. Not a surprise if you’ve read them for a while.

Toddlers For Rottweilers has renamed itself to Toddlers For Please Please Cujo Put Kyle Down He’s Already Dead

Tweet by CJ Pearson, co-chair of some youth GOP group showing the NY Mag cover "The Cruel Kids Table" showing a celebratory party over Trump's victory. His tweet says: "NEWS: I have made the decision to retain legal counsel and will soon issue @NYMag formal notice. For TOO long, the media has been allowed to slander conservatives, painting us as racists without consequence. In the same spirit as @realDonaldTrump , It’s time we fight back." A reply from Jason saying: "Curious, what would the case even be?" Pearson replies: "The basis of the case is false light defamation. Removing myself from the situation for a bit: nearly every person in the cover photo is a private citizen. Labeling them as cruel, inhumane, or creating the implication that they would attend some exclusively white racist political event is defamatory."

So the "free speech absolutists" are now claiming that putting your picture on the cover of a magazine with the headline "the cruel kids table" is "false light defamation."

These guys simply crumple into mush at even the slightest hint that maybe, just maybe, some people don't like them.

Donald Trump Is No Warrior for Free Speech And his executive order on free speech isn’t what it claims to be.

"'Free speech for me but not for thee' is a pithy saying that has long summed up an all-too-prevalent attitude toward speech across the political spectrum. There may be no more perfect embodiment of this maxim than Donald Trump." ICYMI @cathyyoung63.bsky.social: www.thebulwark.com/p/donald-tru...

Waving foreign flags and shutting down the freeway — never skip the “will this make us look worse” zoom before the protest

CBS staff alarmed by reports of settlement talks with Trump over ‘60 Minutes’ Harris interview | CNN Business Journalists, including some at CBS News, are expressing alarm at reports that CBS parent company Paramount Global is trying to settle a legally dubious lawsuit lodged by President Donald Trump last fa...

My heart goes out to the legacy media company 1st Amendment lawyers right now. Sometimes you spend decades lawyering hard to help a client hold principled lines, and then one day your client decides it’s more expedient to give up. 1/

www.cnn.com/2025/01/31/m...

It remains astounding that the President of the United States does not understand what a trade deficit actually means and thinks it means that something unfair is happening

Kuwait could pay up to $60,000 for party at Trump Hotel in Washington The Kuwaiti government could pay up to $60,000 (£48,180) to President Donald Trump's hotel in Washington for a party on Saturday that will be an early test of Trump's promise to turn over profits from such events to the U.S. Treasury.

Inflation.
In 2017, Kuwait paid only $60,000 to bribe Trump. www.reuters.com/article/us-u... Today it cost Meta $25 million. www.wsj.com/us-news/law/...

What a fucking putz Zuck has turned out to be. Just pathetic.

We All Lose in Trump’s War Against Trans Americans His cynical executive orders targeting trans people will harm important American institutions by taking away talent, energy, and the plain competence our country needs.

The Democrats' loss of ground on trans issues "has been an entirely self-administered failure, the result of a surrender to soi-disant 'trans advocates' from the faculty lounge and other dens of leftism—few of whom are themselves transgender."

This is maddening. Look I know it’s frustrating voters didn’t seem to care about Trump running on constitutional violations, autocracy, and humanitarian disasters but at some point it’s your job to bang on until they see why they ought to care.

Here I was thinking US Senators had their shit together

Mel Gibson is completely right here; Trump being back in power is exactly like the physically violent and emotionally crippled father, who you hate and grow up to hate and disrespect even more, showing back up, beating his family members because of his pathological insecurities.

No notes.

Commanders' success reportedly not sitting well with former owner Daniel Snyder: 'He f***ing hates it' Snyder owned the franchise for 24 years until he completed a 2023 sale to Josh Harris for $6.05 billion.

This should be all the reason you need to root for Washington over Philadelphia tomorrow. sports.yahoo.com/commanders-s...

One of my fav trump talking points from the first term was that the media was so Bad because like 99 percent of the stories were negative, he’d say (or some number like that), and I know they’ll never think of it this way but huh yea seems like you should do less bad shit then

Screenshot of doge.gov with an image of a dogecoin (a dog on a gold colored coin), an image of a cold dollar sign inside a gold circle, the text "Department of Government Efficiency; The people voted for major reform," and a notation that it's an official website of the United States government.

This is a real US government website 🤦🏻‍♀️

Totally and completely. Not worth the paper it’s printed on.

And Oregon beat Michigan AND Ohio State.

(Nevermind that Rose Bowl debacle)