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Is it a threat to free speech when the President of the United States threatens to yank the broadcast license of a channel whose reporters are asking him challenging questions? I ask because I feel like there used to be tons of pundits worried about free speech. Where'd they go?

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Speaker Johnson's response: "I don't know anything about my Congressional office."

Obviously, heavy-handed right-wing ownership is a crucial factor in the humiliating collapse of our national media, but I think this is a pretty key point as well. Reporters who are still spending time in the Nazi cesspool that is Twitter are not spending time in the real world.

My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings. Look upon my works, ye mighty, except where prohibited by law.

a functional press would, every single day, repeatedly, across numerous paragraphs in every story about him, make it clear that this is indisputably the most corrupt President in U.S. history

This explains a lot about how so many mainstream journalists -- not just the ones working for avowedly right-wing media outlets such as the Washington Post and Politico -- are constantly tripping over their own dicks when they try to cover the actions of a criminal regime.

I've said it before, and I'll say it again: It's going to be a hell of a rude awakening for MAGAs when they realize you can't eat hate.

There's really no reason to believe anything ICE says, ever.

Priorities.

# of paragraphs for news orgs to mention there's no discernable need to deploy troops to Portland, Oregon The Guardian: 1st paragraph BBC: 4th paragraph AP: 5th paragraph Time: 6th paragraph Politico: 8th paragraph NPR: 9th paragraph CNN: 10th paragraph NBC: 12th paragraph Fox News: never mentions

A pattern is developing where everyone who fights back against a Trump attack inevitably wins with their reputation much better than before, and everyone who caves to him looks like shit and has Trump coming back for more a month later.

"... Unless it hurts liberals, in which case literally everything is legal."

The fact that Matthew Dowd lost his job for pointing out Charlie Kirk’s hate speech, while Brian Kilmeade openly suggests we should euthanize the homeless and there is zero outrage, shows exactly what is terribly wrong with today’s political mainstream media.

I shouldn't be shocked, but I'm still always brought up short to realize how many people think "civility" means "white people speaking in relatively calm voices" no matter what vile shit they say.

Shreveport, LA, the largest city in Speaker Mike Johnson's district, has a murder rate more than twice Chicago's, and a crime rate considerably higher than both the state and national average. And Johnson isn't calling for the military to invade it. One of many ways we know this isn't about crime.

Twitter is owned by a neo-Nazi, the LA Times, Washington Post, and Wall Street Journal are owned by pro-Trump billionaires, and CBS News will soon be run by a far-right Likud extremist. American media still has a liberal bias problem.

To be a political reporter in 2025, you have to be gullible enough to believe that a convicted felon who launched a violent coup attempt is worried about crime. Or you just have to be willing to pretend you’re that gullible. Either way, we deserve better.

The president is sending the military to control American cities and if you're a reporter who's framing that illegal power grab as "pushing the boundaries of constitutionality" or "acting boldly to fight crime" or whatever, please go find another line of work where you won't get us all killed.

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This is a real photograph of Washington, DC this week, where the United States president has ordered military occupation in peacetime, and ordered the display of colossal portraits of himself. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Good to know that our state leadership decided the best use of the Ohio National Guard is to wander aimlessly around Washington, D.C., picking up trash and doing landscaping work, so our dementia-addled president can feel like a big special boy.

The thing about the Cracker Barrel uproar is that it’s a perfect illustration of how these people are in charge of everything, they’re running the entire country and diminishing Dem power at every turn and they are STILL UNHAPPY. Their entire brand is “angry and oppressed” and it always will be.

New in PN: Don't listen to centrist Democrats about crime "The right response to Trump’s authoritarianism isn’t to say 'maybe he has a point.' It’s to attack him and his allies for their dishonesty, their thuggishness, and their failures. That’s how Democrats avoid looking weak."

There people are seriously the biggest weenies in the known universe.

Once we manage to get these lunatics out of power, is it too much to ask that legacy media stop taking them seriously when they claim to be concerned about reckless spending and government overreach?

The media made a HUGE deal out of "basket of deplorables" and "cling to their guns or religion." But, of course, it will totally ignore Trump saying he hates Democrats: "I hate them. I believe they hate their country."

Paramount has joined Disney in paying bribes to Donald Trump, the Washington Post killed its Harris endorsement, Fox News functions as Republican state media, and the X algorithm amplifies fascist content. Here's why the media has a liberal bias problem.

Whooooooole lot of Constitution-shredding lunatics need to go to prison as soon as they're out of power. (Or before, if possible!)

These are seriously the weirdest, most fucked-up people in the universe.

Holy crap. The US-UK trade deal is a blank sheet of paper and only Trump signed it. (Genuine screen grab).

As always: They're telling obvious lies because they think their supporters are really, really, really, really stupid.

Trump's vanity parade cost us $45,000,000, which is about a million dollars for each person watching from the bleachers.

Yup. The dementia has turned his brain to mush, so the government is being run by whichever treacherous vizier is in favor. Though, of course, the corporate media is too thoroughly cowed to report on his obvious mental decline.

It sure was nice when we actually tried to cure diseases in the U.S., but I guess that research money is better spent on North Korea-style military parades and abductions by masked government thugs.

Freedom of speech, to today's Republican Party, means they can throw you out of the country if you say something that hurts the president's feelings.

There's a word for people who dutifully repeat Nazi talking points. I think it's "Nazi."

Once again, he's grabbing his voters by the lapels and screaming "I THINK YOU'RE THE DUMBEST PEOPLE IN THE UNIVERSE" right in their faces.

Republicans are saying that these cuts will be reinvested into Medicaid for people who "deserve" it. If that were true, the budget would stay the same. But that's not what's happening. Why? Because down the hall, they are trying to finance tax breaks for billionaires.

Whole lot of Trump supporters up around Lake Erie. Wonder how they feel about his pro-toxic algal blooms policies.

Another example of the regime telling MAGA that they think they're the most spectacularly brain-dead people in the universe. Makes you wonder if MAGA will ever get tired of their leaders calling them idiots.

Your "liberal" media at work.

Just another example of the new regime in Washington making life easier and more comfortable for child predators.

Trump has indefinitely withdrawn federal funding for: • Investigating child sexual abuse and internet crimes against kids; • Responding to reports of missing children; • Preventing youth violence New, @propublica.org

The obvious, blatant lies about Kilmar Abrego Garcia being a terrorist and gang member are of a piece with the obvious, blatant lies about the alleged president's physical condition. They serve as the most recent reminder that this regime thinks its supporters are the dumbest people in the universe.

The Washington Post may have been too scared to report on the protests this weekend, but at least they had the guts to report how the Musk administration is shutting down breakthrough cancer research so we can afford another huge tax cut for rich people.