"The story on Fox News’ website about Brendan Carr’s threat against TV networks made it seem normal for the government to tell journalists what they can report. Fox enables fascism."

~ Mark Jacob

#BrendanCarr #Trump #FreeSpeech #media #FreePress #FCC #propaganda #fascism #FoxNews
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Trump can’t handle the truth about the war

So far, major media’s coverage is a departure from past failures

^{Mark Jacob (Stop the Presses)}

"Brendan Carr is not some neutral bureaucrat doing his job. He wrote the FCC chapter of Project 2025. ...

And none of this is new. This is how it has always been done. In Nazi Germany, Joseph Goebbels issued daily press directives telling editors what headlines to run, what stories to bury, and exactly how to frame the regime’s actions."

~ Heather Delaney Reese

#BrendanCarr #Trump #FreeSpeech #media #FreePress #FCC #propaganda #fascism
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The President of the United States is afraid

Early this afternoon, the President of the United States gave an unscheduled and deeply troubling phone interview to NBC's Chief White House Correspondent, Kristen Welker, while he was spending time at his weekend retreat and private club, Mar-a-Lago…

^{Heather Delaney Reese}

There's a word to describe Brendan Carr's attempt to throttle the free press and make it dance to the tune of the state. US media and history textbooks have been very willing to use that word when it comes to other nations.

The word is fascism. Brendan Carr and other authors of Project 2025 want fascist control of American government and society.

#BrendanCarr #Trump #FreeSpeech #media #FreePress #FCC #propaganda #fascism
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Brendan Carr Wants To Yank Licenses From Stations That Won't Make Dear Leader’s Iran War Look Good

This is America!

^{Marcie Jones (Wonkette)}

"SB 13 also neutered librarians’ authority over their collections. I no longer det"ermine what goes into my collection. I make recommendations. ... In many districts, AI is being used to assess the lists of books turned in by librarians." texasobserver.org/abilene-isd-…

#Texas #FreeSpeech #books #bookstodon #library #schools #education

How a High School Librarian in Abilene Fought Back Against Moms for Liberty 

I entered this profession just as the storm clouds of the current book-banning push were starting to gather; now I’m in the middle of it.

^{Kalyn Gensic (The Texas Observer)}