Notices by Dan Gillmor (dangillmor@mastodon.social), page 4

A rare bit of good news: right-wing media companies Nexstar and Sinclair decided the advertising money the Kimmel show spins off is more important than doing Dear Leader's bidding. This is a loss for Trump, at least for the moment.

https://apnews.com/article/jimmy-kimmel-sinclair-affiliates-40489e9058a609029ebcb2ef894221e9

From Teen Vogue, which is doing some of the best journalism about the extremist cult now in charge of the U.S. government:

https://www.teenvogue.com/story/men-dressed-as-ice-agents-to-assault-immigrant-women-horrifying-trend

We need to assume that every masked person kidnapping people off the street is a criminal, whether employed by the Trump regime or not.

ByteDance (TikTok owner) valuation is north of $300 billion. Trump "deal" to give it to his oligarch supporters is "valued" at $14 billion, says Vance.

So correct me if this is wrong: They're essentially nationalizing a foreign company and giving it to cronies who'll pay pennies on the dollar.

Peter Thiel is competing with Elon Musk for most evil tech lord, with a different strategy.

Musk is doing a lot of his foul work in plain sight. It seems that Thiel is trying to keep the public from understanding what he's doing until it's too late to stop him.

https://newrepublic.com/article/200471/peter-thiel-obsession-antichrist-religion?ref=theframelab.org

The once-peerless BBC has followed in the footsteps of American media by normalizing extremism. Now it's planning programming changes so that fascists will trust it more.

Downside is that people who want integrity from their media organizations will trust it not at all.

https://bylinetimes.com/2025/06/09/bbc-news-tim-davie-robbie-gibb-reform-voters-nigel-farage-trust/

South Korea president makes it clear that American trade extortion could trigger a financial meltdown in his country.

Occam's Razor suggests Trump and his billionaire backers want a global collapse. Wipe out 90% of people's assets, go bargain hunting -- and own it all.

https://www.reuters.com/world/china/south-koreas-president-lee-says-us-investment-demands-would-spark-financial-2025-09-21/

The more our big media companies do the bidding of right-wing extremists, the more they are encouraging people to stop paying for their media -- including the good stuff.

Which also means, on top of their incessant, cartel-driven price increases, that they're setting the table for a massive return to what they (inaccurately) call "piracy".

At which point they'll tell Congress to lock everything down and ban strong encryption.

This is a script from an evil timeline that somehow became ours.

Trump regime now requires press to sign a document agreeing not to obtain or possess "unauthorized" information.

https://archive.ph/3GGyU

Anyone who agrees to this is not qualified to call himself or herself a journalist.

But I'm betting most Big Journalism orgs will go ahead and sign.

When a company says it has "no plans" to enshittify its product, you should take that to mean it will proceed fairly soon with enshittification.

Today's example is Samsung:

https://www.theverge.com/news/780757/samsung-brings-ads-to-us-fridges

Please read Josh Marshall's take on the Trump regime's escalating attacks on freedom of speech -- Kimmel's removal only the latest but probably most extreme example.

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/a-few-thoughts-on-kimmelgeddon/sharetoken/9b9c2c6c-bc94-4280-a74f-6fc8e2158cf8

The most important thing in this piece is its call to action in a way that we can actually achieve.
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It is essential for everyone to recognize that ABC didn't just fire Kimmel for daring to speak things that the Trump regime and its cult don't want spoken out loud.

It was DISNEY that fired Kimmel. Disney owns ABC.

The principal cowardice in this butchery of free speech belongs to Bob Iger, CEO.

No hiding from what the Washington Post has become: a right-wing tool. https://www.theguardian.com/media/2025/sep/15/karen-attiah-fired-washington-post-charlie-kirk

Danish Minister of Justice says no one has the right to communicate in a way that cannot be overheard, recorded, and understood by the police (and other snoops):

https://www-ft-dk.translate.goog/samling/20231/almdel/REU/spm/1426/index.htm?_x_tr_sl=en&_x_tr_tl=ja&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=wapp (via Google Translate)

Trump regime's disgusting treatment of the Korean workers in Georgia seems designed to torpedo all foreign investment in the U.S.

Reminder: They were almost certainly treated better than most of the people ICE is kidnapping and disappearing.

https://www.koreatimes.co.kr/foreignaffairs/20250914/shackled-and-chained-mass-detention-of-koreans-fuels-criticism-of-us

For years I've consistently used quotation marks to more clearly identify the Murdoch family's right-wing propaganda operation, otherwise known as Fox "News".

Sadly, it's time to do the same with CBS "News" -- where integrity is being systematically destroyed, by design:

https://www.npr.org/2025/09/12/nx-s1-5537152/cbs-news-ellison-steps-appease-trump

Federal judge is upset that Trump regime fabricated evidence and more while breaking other laws, but says he's not going to do anything to punish any lawbreaker. He talks semi-tough but, in the end, is a coward.

https://archive.ph/PKgjp

If this is what it seems, it's absolutely contemptible behavior by UC Berkeley -- contemptuous of freedom of speech and academic freedom, for starters.

https://www.dailycal.org/news/campus/uc-berkeley-turns-over-personal-information-of-more-than-150-students-and-staff-to-federal/article_a4aad3e1-bbba-42cc-92d7-a7964d9641c5.html

Trump and his cult, including many Republican office-holders, have been egging on political violence -- aimed at the left -- for years. They are NOT opposed to political violence.

Our "mainstream" journalists seem mostly unwilling to provide that context in their coverage at the moment.

Re the murder of Charlie Kirk, please read this thread by Ken White, a former prosecutor and strong defender of human rights in the age of goon-filled regimes like our current one:

https://mastodon.social/@kenwhite.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy/115181576166347676

Screenshot of first post:

Incredibly sad to watch the once-great Washington Post flush its integrity down the toilet this way.