The announcement comes as Trump is fighting to suppress the news media on numerous fronts.
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Trump Says Foreign Movies Are “Propaganda,” Orders 100 Percent Tariff Read Post »
Steve Deace, the host of an eponymous show on the rightwing platform Blaze Media, has built a brand around his brash and provocative personality. Deace has entertained his 52,000 YouTube viewers and 274,000 X followers by calling for violence against drag queens and LGBTQ people and ranting that the Democratic party is controlled by Satan. […]
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JD Vance Poses With TV Host Who Called for Violence Against LGBTQ People Read Post »
This escalation of his dangerous assault on public media could shutter hundreds of local stations across the country.
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Trump Signs Executive Order to Defund PBS and NPR Read Post »
Trump has demanded prosecutions against outlets that have published his low polling numbers, calling media “the enemy.”
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Poll: Majority of Voters View Trump as “Dictator” Who Threatens Democratic Norms Read Post »
The first anchor-outs are thought to have settled in abandoned boats bobbing atop Marin County’s Richardson Bay after nearby San Francisco’s famous earthquake and fires of 1906. Over the next century or so, the community drew artists and bohemians; mariners looking for a long-term anchorage (sanctuary for those at sea); and, increasingly after the 2008 […]
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How Inequality Killed California’s Bohemian Floating Refuge Read Post »
Hold the line and don’t give up your rights; what rights you lose today you will not get back, says Maria Ressa.
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Nobel Laureate Warns Trump Is Following Duterte Model to Crack Down on Press Read Post »
This month, Noah Lanard and Isabela Dias won the Sidney Award for “You’re Here Because of Your Tattoos,” a Mother Jones feature revealing that young Latino men are being deported without due process because of innocuous tattoos. The Trump administration falsely claims the tattoos indicate affiliation with Tren de Aragua, a notorious Venezuelan gang. This is an […]
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How We Reported “You’re Here Because of Your Tattoos” Read Post »
As of Friday, Covid.gov, the Department of Health and Human Services COVID-19 resource launched in 2022, is no longer providing information and resources about Covid—and Covidtests.gov, the website used to order free Covid tests from the government, isn’t, either. Both now redirect to a White House page promoting the “lab leak theory,” which contends that […]
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Pandemic Truthers Take Over HHS Covid Site Read Post »
On Sunday night, CBS’s 60 Minutes aired an interview featuring Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, who once again deplored the fact that US officials have been promoting Russian disinformation about the war between the two countries. By Monday morning, President Donald Trump proved his point once more. Through a translator, Zelenskyy told 60 Minutes Correspondent Scott […]
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Trump Keeps Falsely Claiming Ukraine Started the War With Russia Read Post »
David Folkenflik occupies a unique role at NPR: He’s a journalist who writes about journalism. And that includes the very organization where he works, which is once again being threatened by conservatives in Washington. The second Trump administration has aggressively gone after the media in its first few months. It’s kicked news organizations out of […]
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Trump’s “Pincer Attack” on Journalism Is Working. But There’s Hope. Read Post »
For Donald Trump, TruthSocial, his unsuccessful and money-losing Twitter competitor, has mainly been a place to retreat to when banned from the former, and a megaphone to trumpet his many opinions on his enemies, golf, and the music of Paul Anka. But the company that owns TruthSocial, Trump Media & Technology Group, has also been […]
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Trump Officials Are Keeping Ties to His Social Media Company Read Post »
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