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hey so this is insane
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This is an embarrassing misunderstanding of Murthy, which DID NOT green light the FCC's actions at all, and in fact *reinforced* the idea that coercion over speech is not allowed. It just said you had to actually have standing to make that claim, and the plaintiffs there didn't. RE:
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The WaPo’s law and politics columnist doesn’t understand that Murthy was a standing ruling— a decision fundamentally about states trying to i...
He made the Albania mistake elsewhere recently as well (and his latest target, Seth Meyers, mocked him for confusing Albania and Armenia). Now he's still making that mistake and pushing to get Meyers canceled. RE:
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Trump has difficultly pronouncing "Azerbaijan" while taking credit for ending a war between "Azerbaijan and Albania" (he meant Armenia)
He can't even stick with the pretext they cooked up as to why Kimmel had to go, huh? RE:
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Trump: "When you have a network, and you have evening shows, and all they do is hit Trump... They're not allowed to do that."
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The same week he sues the NY Times for $15 billion... *this* is the headline the NY Times goes with? RE:
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Toby Vogel 🇪🇺 (@tobyvogel.bsky.social)
I'm probably overly sensitive - but doesn't this sound borderline admiring?
For the morning crew... I am very bad at asking for support for my work but if you're out there looking for media that isn't caving to nonsense and is calling it out... 👋 RE:
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There was a HUGE contingent of very hacky comics who went anti-Biden/pro-Trump claiming that "woke scolds" were "canceling comedy." Feels like maybe they should be speaking up? RE:
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“You used to be able to say anything” comedians never been more quiet in their lives
Taibbi did post a short article about it, but seems mostly upset about the optics of it. This is WAY WAY different than his response to the Biden admin asking Twitter if it had policies in place to deal with vaccine disinfo, which he described as one of the worst attacks on free speech in history. RE:
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Has Taibbi found a way to defend this yet?
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