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I thought as much…. funny but deleted…

Threat of action is an action.

The FCC Chair has been publicly threatening ABC as well as anyone else with losing their license, as has Trump.

The US Attorney for Eastern District of Virginia has found there’s no evidence to charge NY AG Letitia James, so Trump will fire him & find someone who will charge her.

>Right< Censorship: government action. Free speech & free market: no government action. With Kimmel there was government action.

As you know we’re the hottest country.

>>Speaking to reporters aboard Air Force One, Mr. Trump called the networks “an arm of the Democrat party” who are out to get him. “I have read someplace that the networks were 97 percent against me, I get 97 percent negative, and yet I won and easily,” Mr. Trump said as he returned to Washington following a state visit to Britain, adding: “I would think maybe their license should be taken away.”<<

Trump has cancelled $400 Million in military aid to Taiwan.

>>In fact, some Republicans who consider themselves defenders of unfettered speech are getting more comfortable with limiting it. Sen. Cynthia Lummis, R-Wyo., told Semafor that “an FCC license, it’s not a right. It really is a privilege.” “Under normal times, in normal circumstances, I tend to think that the First Amendment should always be sort of the ultimate right. And that there should be almost no checks and balances on it. I don’t feel that way anymore,” Lummis added.<< Semafor

Drug prices will decline by 1000%, but also the cost of a pill will double.

Putin has delivered 2-3 nuclear submarines to North Korea.

Owners of BUF TE in best ball TE leagues kicking ass tonight.

The Trump administration will be limiting access to vaccines for measles, mumps, rubella and varicella, the virus that causes chicken pox.

This has to be on the all-NFL Names list.

UtOh, the dreaded ‘goal line back / between the 20s guy’ split.

Audio of Leader Trump stating that broadcasters with evening talk show hosts who criticize him should lose their license.

>>President Donald Trump said he is designating the far-left anti-fascism movement Antifa as a terrorist organization, announcing the move on his Truth Social platform in the early hours of Thursday morning UK time. It wasn’t immediately clear what mechanism Trump would use to make the designation, and Antifa lacks centralized structure or defined leadership, making it unclear who or what precisely would be targeted. “… I am designating … AS A MAJOR TERRORIST ORGANIZATION,” Trump wrote. “I will also be strongly recommending that those funding ANTIFA be thoroughly investigated in accordance with the highest legal standards and practices.<< >>But Antifa, short for anti-fascists, is not a structured group, but rather, a more nebulous social movement. And while it is illegal to provide “material support” to groups designated by the government as foreign terrorist organizations, there is not an analogous law for domestic groups.<< >>Trump also said he’d been discussing with Attorney General Pam Bondi the prospect of bringing racketeering charges against left-wing groups that he claimed were funding left-wing agitators. “I’ve asked Pam to look into that in terms of RICO, bringing RICO cases,” he said, adding: “They should be put in jail, what they’re doing to this country is really subversive.”<< CNN

>>However, the government will have to prove to the immigration judge that Khalil willfully failed to disclose that information, and whether that disclosure would have impacted his eligibility for permanent residency. << >>Khalil filed a lawsuit, also known as a habeas petition, protesting his detention in New York. The lawsuit cited a violation of his right to due process and the First Amendment right to free speech. Last week, a New York judge ordered the habeas petition to continue in New Jersey because Khalil’s attorneys filed the case while he was detained there. New York Federal Judge Jesse Furman also barred his deportation amid the lawsuit, saying Khalil’s claims of First and Fifth Amendment violations warrant "careful judicial review." The Trump administration's Sunday filing in the district of New Jersey argued that the state lacked jurisdiction to hear the habeas case. << - Federal cases in NY & NJ - and a deportation case in Louisiana, where he’s not even living. This is pretty complex.

Anyone figured out what these misrepresentations were yet? It’s not in the opinion.

Let’s be clear about what happened to Jimmy Kimmel >During a Wednesday podcast appearance, FCC head Brendan Carr threatened to revoke the broadcasting licenses of any stations that continued to air Kimmel’s content. “It’s time for them to step and say this garbage…isn’t something that we think serves the needs of our local communities,” he said. Carr’s threat should have been toothless. The FCC is prohibited by law from employing “the power of censorship” or interfering “with the right of free speech.” There is a very narrow and rarely used exception for “news distortion,” in which a broadcast news outlet knowingly airs false reports. What Kimmel did — an offhand comment based on weak evidence — is extremely different from creating a news report with the intent to deceive. But months before the shooting, Carr had begun investigating complaints under this exception against ABC and CBS stations, specifically allegations of anti-conservative bias. Stations had to take Carr’s threat seriously — even though Carr himself had declared (in a 2024 tweet) that “the First Amendment prohibits government officials from coercing private parties into suppressing protected speech.” Hours after Carr’s Wednesday threat, Nexstar — the largest owner of local stations in America — suddenly decided that Kimmel’s comments from two nights ago were unacceptable. Nexstar, it should be noted, is currently attempting to purchase one of its major rivals for $6.2 billion — a merger that would require express FCC approval.<<

Let’s say Kimmel wasn’t fired. Or let’s say the firing had nothing to do with Carr. Or let’s say it’s 10 years from now with a president of another party. Let’s say it’s not him. Is it ever all right for an FCC Chair to threaten a broadcaster’s license for providing content that mocks or criticizes the president?

Ron Howard: He was lying.

>>Speaking on Thursday to reporters aboard Air Force One, Trump said, “I have read someplace that the networks were 97% against me, again, 97% negative, and yet I won and easily, all seven swing states,” referring to his 2024 election win. “They give me only bad publicity, press. I mean, they’re getting a license,” Trump said, according to audio from a press gaggle provided by the White House. “I would think maybe their license should be taken away,” Trump said.<< CNBC

>>The Taliban know what year it is, and they know the U.S. forces will be coming out ahead of the U.S. presidential election. They’re wagering that this administration, which seeks to point to this agreement in the months ahead as evidence of keeping a campaign promise, will be extremely reluctant to walk away from this agreement or come back in over local violations. They have the U.S. exactly where they’ve wanted us, but to where they couldn’t maneuver previous administrations. The Taliban are many things: drug dealers, violent abusers of women, and terrorists. But there’s one thing they are not: stupid.<< 3/5/20

March 2020, this was all predicted by the former commander of US forces.