My local Costco had the Novavax, which I react to far less than Moderna. Got the shot for health and a $1.50 foot long hot dog & soda to balance that out

Chants! T-shirts! Corruption! Censorship! Awkwardness! It had it all.

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Sinclair and Nexstar claim they shut off Kimmel independently with no federal influence Then why do their statements sound so similar?

The phrases are way too similar to be coincidence. I bet Carr or his flunkies dictated it Sinclair "Our decision to preempt this program was independent of any government interaction or influence" Nexstar says it was “independent of any external influence from government agencies or individuals"

Yesterday, history happened at the UN: For the first time hundreds of orgs signed a global pledge declaring that healthy indoor air is a human right. Healthy indoor air is a key tool for preventing pandemics, building climate resilience, and increasing health equity. We need it everywhere!

Brendan Carr did not “make a joke on social media,” he went on a podcast and said ABC had to take action against Kimmel or the FCC would revoke licenses! We all saw it! Ted Cruz quoted it on HIS podcast in a silly mafia accent!

i am seriously begging democrats to bring the same smoke to this story that they brought to jimmy kimmel being indefinitely suspended

God grant me the grace to breathe through being near/overhearing a tech meetup being held without permission in a state park campground. (it's a section for people camping only) People in this park would like to hear the ocean, not some 22 year old lecturing about bad leadership books.

Someone is out there FOIAing Carr about his Kimmel threats, right? If so, don't forget to ask for his texts and phone call records, and for the same info from his staff

People will be like “but Lex you use INSERT BAD COMPANY HERE. Why can’t I use Substack?” First, I’m not the boss of you. You can do whatever. I just won’t want to hang out. Second, I see Substack as bad for business. Not just bad for society. Bad for your goals. Does that help?

It is too nice a day to read a press release from RFK. My apologies to David Berman

Over/under on Bob Iger being fired by EOW? I bet a round of dish doing he's gonna be gone

it's important to make these companies more afraid of people with empathy and good sense than they are of weird fucking brigading authoritarian babies we outnumber these assholes by a wide margin

Another thing about Lindsey Halligan is that she has never prosecuted a case

even white supremacists know the true value of mediocre white dudes an H1B employee costs two Tom Homans

It now costs twice as much to hire a foreigner than it does to bribe a Trump lackey for a government contract Weird economy tbh

You could do worse than assume people who drone on and on about crime are themselves engaged in it www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/t...

entire press has gotten bullied into treating charlie kirk as if he was one of the most important americans alive and not a modestly popular podcaster

While people are suddenly and uncharacteristically paying attention to media regulation, please take a moment to notice all the massive harm Brendan Carr has done to consumer protection and public safety as well me, back in April:

Yet another reason I'm still Covid conscious in the ongoing pandemic Here's a study on how it commonly sticks around in semen, even in mild cases. "infectious viral particles detected for up to 8 months after infection" www.auajournals.org/doi/10.1097/... #Covid

FCC Chair Brendan Carr, who intends to monitor bias while wearing the president's bust as a lapel pin, is the poster child for why the Constitution bars the government from meddling in newsrooms' editorial decisions. www.cbc.ca/news/worl...

we did good

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Ezra Klein 🤝 Neera Tanden Despite the overwhelming popularity of abortion rights in all states, we should surrender instead

Everybody thinks it's such a cool dunk to say Brendan Carr used to be pro-free speech. He never was. He uses it as a cudgel. He opposed net neutrality, saying it violated Verizon's free speech to block sites. It has none: it's a conveyance. A dumb pipe common carrier.

The Hill is running lots of stories and op-eds about the FCC/Kimmel/Nexstar/Sinclair censorship shakedown But none of them note that Nexstar OWNS The Hill. From the About Us page:"The Hill’s print and online services are owned and operated by Nexstar Media Group Inc." thehill.com/homenews/550...

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D.C. doesn’t have its own prison, so its residents are sent to federal facilities all over the country. This is a bad system that serves no one, Askia Afrika-Ber writes. This writer is a D.C. resident currently incarcerated at USP Hazelton in West Virginia, published here via More Than Our Crimes:

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ICYMI Free Press team built a tool that makes it easy to find your local ABC affiliate station and its phone number. Give them a call! We need to let these companies and the Federal Censorship Commission know that we've had enough of their capitulation, cowardice and corruption.

the core of MAGA government is giving resentful mediocrities to power to act as tyrants and dominate others

This is going to kill babies and toddlers who would’ve otherwise survived and their blood is going to be directly on RFK and his plaguelusting posse’s hands

The only way back from the Kimmel thing starts with Bob Iger getting fired for incompetence, cowardice and attempted bribery #FireBobIger

Bob Iger at Disney isn't a dictator. He's got a board of directors who could stop him. Until proven differently, every one of them is complicit or a coward in Disney cooperating with a fascist to kill free speech. thewaltdisneycompany.com/about/ They each make like $400K a year from the gig 1/

The TikTok deal may say 80% American on the tin, but I bet there's a ton of Saudi money inside. VCs don't invest their own money

“The FCC under Brendan Carr uses mergers and business interests of media companies as leverage to extract concessions, extract bribes, and extract censorship.”

I'm not a lawyer but I like reading legal opinions. And @techdirt has me thinking It looks to me like Jimmy Kimmel could sue FCC chief Bront Carr for First Amendment violations by threatening action vs legal speech (NRA vs Vullo). And Carr would not have qualified immunity as the law is now clear

Hey, so...Covid rates have gotten real high. Maybe change your behavior to fit this new risk profile? Stop eating indoors at restaurants, mask on mass transit, that kind of thing?

The same week he sues the NY Times for $15 billion... *this* is the headline the NY Times goes with?

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Speaking of freedom of the press, here is the court-mandated memo LAPD Chief McDonnell sent to all sworn personnel today. In it, the Chief outlines that police can't shoot, detain, or arrest journalists at protests. It also lays out what constitutes a duly authorized journalist. This is a huge win.

I have never in my life covered an FCC official that gives less of a fuck about the public interest even first term FCC boss Ajit Pai, who was a complete revolving door hack, believed this sort of censorship crossed a line

I am working on a gated space for Blacksky Feed posters that will be available on blacksky.community. It will probably be text only. @germnetwork.com is working on encrypted DMs. X/IG/FB style private accounts is a thing being discussed by some developers and is possible but taking time to solve.

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I'm not saying I tried to warn you. But like, I tried to warn you.

John Hendel at Politico has been Brendan Carr-washing for years.... He wrote this yesterday. Carr has been arguing for years that the FCC has some weird authority over online media