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It must be galling to him that we no longer have the pre-Reagan pre-cable FCC regs and station norms that empowered the POTUS to monopolize the media in primetime.
I expect that many non-olds don’t even realize that was a thing. Once upon a time all TV was broadcast and most was network-affiliated or network-owned, and those all took the feed from the White House when it was offered. There was no escape... @…

Scott MacFarlane on Twitter
Brutal response from FCC Commissioner Anna Gomez to Trump's call for ABC and NBC to be stripped of licenses "It is ridiculous to call for broadcasters to lose their license simply for making the same editorial decisions they've made under presidents of both parties. Those editorial decisions are protected by the First Amendment, and the FCC has no authority to punish a station for refusing to air a blatantly political speech. This is a naked attempt to bully broadcasters, and the FCC should ha…

Sources: Trump Media pitched a monthly fee of as much as $100K for the Truth API, with fast access to Trump's posts, for banks, algorithmic traders, and others (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/media-tel

Sources: Trump Media pitched a monthly fee of as much as $100K for the Truth API, with fast access to Trump's posts, for banks, algorithmic traders, and others (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/media-tel

Trump’s tendency to point fingers at others is increasingly in the spotlight
As November’s midterm elections approach Republicans are trying to retain control of Congress
But Trump's unwillingness to accept blame sometimes leads him to deny that there are problems at all,
and could leave GOP leaders in tight races with little reassurance for voters that their concerns are being addressed.

With Donald Trump, the buck tends to stop somewhere else
President Harry Truman famously kept a “The Buck Stops Here” sign on his White House desk. But the current president, Donald Trump, often veers from that motto of taking responsibility. The Republican has blamed his predecessors for continued inflation. As the unpopular war with Iran drags on, he says earlier presidents squandered years of chances to curb Tehran's nuclear ambitions. He says vandals are responsible for the problem-plagued renovation of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool. T…

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#Spectacles

Spectacles — America Almost Had 3 Presidents
This is the story of the Presidency That Almost was. | Citations always in captions. Sources always in description.

In all, 57 Trump officials are worth at least $100 million,
including 17 ambassadors
and the remaining 40 in senior posts across the executive branch.
Look no further than Trump’s Cabinet.
Eight of its 23 members fit the category,
notably Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick and Education Secretary Linda McMahon, both billionaires.

57 Trump appointees are worth at least $100M each, report shows
The number of people worth more than $100 million whom President Donald Trump has appointed to his administration is more than four times the combined total of the three previous presidents. That's according to a report from the consumer advocacy group Public Citizen. The Republican president is himself a billionaire and has described his inclination toward appointing the ultrawealthy as deference to financial success. In all, 57 Trump officials are worth at least $100 million, including 17 amb…

RE: https://mastodon.social/@0xYumeko/117195477976896615
Not sure if it is sweet irony or disgusting that they’re pairing the name of a Muslim Black community leader with that of one of our most demonstratively racist presidents.

RE: https://c.im/@cdarwin/117100045152835457
Unlike many would-be presidents of the time,
Ocasio-Cortez does not appear to be driven by personal ego, according to those who knew her,
which may prove to be her political superpower.

Over the last century, presidents have increasingly waged war without congressional approval,
-- in violation of the Constitution.
But even presidents with an appetite for unilateral warmaking have usually felt the need to bring the public along
—to provide a justification, however pretextual, for their foreign policy plans.
As with so many other laws and norms, Donald Trump has shattered that tradition.
The war he launched against Iran in February 2026 involve…

How Decades of Privatization Unleashed Trump’s Warmongering
Two new books illuminate how U.S. foreign policy became vulnerable to unchecked militarism and flagrant corruption.