You know the one, “First they came for…”
First they came for PBS and NPR. They are starting an investigation in to PBS and NPR!
Heard on All Things ConsideredBy David FolkenflikJanuary 30, 2025President Trump's new head of the Federal Communications Commission has ordered an investigation of NPR and PBS, with an eye toward unraveling federal funding for all public broadcasting."I am concerned that NPR and PBS broadcasts could be violating federal law by airing commercials," Chairman Brendan Carr wrote on Wednesday to the presidents and chief executives of NPR and PBS, Katherine Maher and Paula A. Kerger, respectively. "In particular, it is possible that NPR and PBS member stations are broadcasting underwriting announcements that cross the line into prohibited commercial advertisements."
They are going to “Find” something to justify cutting their funding!
Public broadcasting stations are prohibited from running commercials. Instead they present what are considered corporate underwriting spots, which are supposed to stop shy of a "call to action" telling listeners and viewers to buy a product or service.
They are going to nitpick ever little thing and blow it up out of proportion.
Brendan Carr, the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, said the inquiry could help Congress decide whether to continue funding local stations.The New TimesBy Benjamin Mullin and David McCabeJanuary 30, 2025The chairman of the Federal Communications Commission has waded into the politicized debate over NPR and PBS, ordering up an investigation that he said could be relevant in lawmakers’ decision about whether to continue funding the public news organizations.Brendan Carr, the chairman, said in a letter to NPR and PBS on Wednesday that the inquiry would focus on whether the news organizations’ member stations violated government rules by recognizing financial sponsors on the air.[…]NPR and PBS have for decades aired sponsorships under rules set forth by the government. While public broadcasters are restricted by law from accepting traditional commercials, the F.C.C. has become more permissive over the years about what public stations are allowed to air. The F.C.C.’s evolving stance on the issue has gradually allowed public radio stations to become less dependent on government funding.
You know why they are doing this, they want to control the message.
Then they came for tying conditions for aid and it is getting a lot of people upset...
CT Mirrorby Mark PazniokasJanuary 30, 2025The administration of President Donald J. Trump has informed the Connecticut Department of Transportation it would, “to the maximum extent permitted by law,” link federal transportation funding to policies on masks, vaccines, tolls and immigration enforcement.The four-page undated memo by Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy states the administration “shall prioritize projects and goals” that, among other things, prohibit recipients “from imposing vaccine and mask mandates” and require “local compliance or cooperation with federal immigration enforcement.”It also would “give preference to communities with marriage and birth rates higher than the national average” and places that “utilize user-pay models,” which seemingly would include the congestion pricing in Manhattan that Trump has denounced and highway tolls that Gov. Ned Lamont proposed without success.
You remember Trump said the same thing to California about FEMA Disaster Relief funding.
Then there is this bill about immigration...
Finger Lake.com1January 7, 2025Congresswoman Claudia Tenney (NY-24) has introduced the Red Light Act, legislation aimed at withholding federal transportation funding from states that allow undocumented immigrants to obtain driver’s licenses or identification cards.Under the proposed bill, the Department of Transportation would be directed to withhold federal funds allocated for programs such as the National Highway Performance Program, the Highway Safety Improvement Program, and the Congestion Mitigation and Air Quality Improvement Program from non-compliant states.The bill targets laws like New York’s Green Light Law, which took effect in 2019 and permits individuals over the age of 16, including undocumented immigrants, to apply for a state driver’s license. The licenses also serve as valid photo identification. According to Tenney, more than 50,000 undocumented immigrants received licenses in the first month of the law’s implementation.
They are really pissing off a lot of people and in two year we can change Congress!
As it has in other parts of the Justice Department, the Trump administration has made personnel changes in the Civil Rights Division. The top two officials in its appellate section have been reassigned to a new task force that will prosecute officials from sanctuary cities who do not cooperate with federal immigration enforcement efforts, according to a DOJ official familiar with the matter.[...]To lead the charge, Trump nominated California lawyer Harmeet Dhillon, 56, who has alleged fraud in the 2020 election, accused Google of discriminating against white men and spoken out against state laws to protect doctors who perform gender-affirming surgery for transgender minors.
Of course you know where the focus will be.
Last week, Trump signed an executive order abolishing the initiatives and directing agency heads and the attorney general to identify private-sector targets that the Civil Rights Division could sue as part of a plan to “deter DEI programs or principles that constitute illegal discrimination or preferences.”[...]The Justice Department is expected to release new guidance on transgender workers and students, which would affirm the LGBTQ rights reversal Trump initiated last week. He tasked the department last week to “correct” the Biden administration’s “misapplication” of the Supreme Court’s Bostock ruling, which found that federal law prohibits workplace discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity.“The phrase ‘gender’ has been hijacked to mean something that was infused with complete ideology,” said Roger Severino, a vice president at the conservative Heritage Foundation who spent seven years as a career lawyer in the Civil Rights Division. “It has confused matters, and we need clarity, because we’re dealing with real human beings.”
Kind of reverses the civil rights laws from protecting the rights of minorities to protecting the White majority.
They came for the FAA Safety Board, and fired the members from 9 days ago...
Thursday... Economic Times reports,The committee will technically continue to exist, but it won't have any members to carry out the work of examining safety issues at airlines and airports.HuffPostJOSH FUNKJan 22, 2025President Donald Trump moved quickly to remake the Department of Homeland Security Tuesday, firing the heads of the Transportation Security Administration and Coast Guard before their terms are up and eliminated all the members of a key aviation security advisory group.Trump’s immigration policy changes drew the most attention at DHS, but he is also making changes at the rest of the massive agency.Members of the Aviation Security Advisory Committee received a memo Tuesday saying that the department is eliminating the membership of all advisory committees as part of a “commitment to eliminating the misuse of resources and ensuring that DHS activities prioritize our national security.”
Was Trump warned of 'dangerous policy' before crash?According to a report in The Mirror, US President Donald Trump has come under fire for implementing a "dangerous" federal hiring freeze, dismissing the heads of the Transportation Security Administration and Coast Guard, and dismantling a crucial aviation safety advisory committee. This all occurred just days before a fatal collision between an American Airlines plane and a military helicopter.
Who is he coming after next? Will it be you?
Updated 7:30PM
We know what's next... the prosecutors in the Jan 6 cases, he fired them and is filling the openings with stooges! Interim U.S. attorney fires more than 2 dozen Jan. 6 prosecutors in D.C.
Update 8:00PM
Then Musk came for those who he thinks wronged him.
Vengeance is mine saith Musk...
Daily BeastBy Emell Derra AdolphusJanuary 29, 2025Fired inspector general of the U.S. Department of Agriculture Phyllis Fong was removed from her Washington D.C. office on Monday after refusing to comply with the conditions of her termination.A 22-year-old veteran of the department—which has a broad mandate to investigate food safety and animal welfare—Fong’s office has been investigating Elon Musk’s brain implant startup Neuralink, among other investigations into the Boar’s Head’s listeria outbreak.The USDA launched a federal investigation into Neuralink in 2022 for potential animal-welfare violations following internal staff complaints alleging the needless suffering and deaths of animals via testing, reported Reuters at the time.On Friday, Fong was one of 17 federal watchdogs given their walking papers by the Trump administration, reported Reuters. However, Fong told her colleagues in an email that she intended to stay in her post, arguing that “these termination notices do not comply with the requirements set out in law and therefore are not effective at this time.”
“First they came for…” Who's next?
Updated 2/1 @ 6:00AM
Well they just came for the news media...
Pentagon removes major media outlets, including NBC News, from dedicated workstations in new ‘rotation program’
NBC News, The New York Times, NPR and Politico must vacate their office spaces in two weeks for other news organizations — including at least one that did not request to be added.NBC NewsBy Amanda TerkelFebruary 1, 2025The Department of Defense announced Friday night that it will institute a new “annual media rotation program” for its in-house press corps, effectively removing several major news outlets, including NBC News, from their Pentagon office spaces in favor of other outlets.
In addition to NBC News, The New York Times, National Public Radio and Politico must vacate their dedicated workspaces. The news organizations found out in a memo sent to the press corps without being individually notified, and an accompanying email included a message that read, in part, “no additional information will be provided at this time."“For over a half-century, the Pentagon Press Corps has benefited from working out of individual office spaces that provide coveted and open access to some of the Department’s top military and civilian leaders,” read the memo Pentagon spokesman John Ullyot sent to the Pentagon Press Association.
They only want loyal news-media covering the military... why?
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