Notices by Corb_The_Lesser (corb_the_lesser@mastodon.social)

Someone get this #FCC #Trump tool to point to a legal definition of "fake news" and then explain how a comedian's show on TV qualifies as a news show of any kind.

Trump sent Brendan Carr, one of his obedient little puppets, to the FCC to turn it into an unconstitutional censorship machine.

https://www.thewrap.com/industry-news/business/fcc-chair-brendan-carr-equal-time-rule-change-jimmy-kimmel-response/

@bruces Lotta ants. Pretty stable food source.

Giant pumpkin makes a break for freedom in Cleveland 'burb. 🎃

https://apnews.com/article/runaway-inflatable-pumpkin-ohio-police-ace28e64b97c5ec872320113de0bd855

@georgetakei 'fired and investigated" is the usual path of MAGA justice: Punish first, investigate later (or, at least, say you did).

@timkmak It's obvious in Witkoff's language. How could anyone but a dictator with a puppet legislature promise "legislative enshrinement" of anything?

It's a tell, too, of the #MAGA view of government: Obedience.

Leaders of legitimate governments with legitimate legislatures know they can't make that guarantee.

@w7voa Lawsuits to follow.

Republicans can't have their kind of states rights AND a POTUS declaring that the states "are merely an 'agent'" of the person in charge of the Executive Branch at any given time.

Trump is saying he wants to decree that states only use paper ballots (no mail and no voting machines) so set that against his history of demanding complete ballot counts the night of the election. That's impossible with paper ballots in all but the smallest constituencies.

@bruces I begin by doubting the authenticity of any emotion expressed on YouTube.

@georgetakei Assume Republicans are lying until proven otherwise.

This reaction from "Inside the Trump White House" is self-serving spin, to be believed only by #MAGA True Believers.

In his debacle of a meeting with #Zelensky, #Trump acted, either in effect or deliberately after coordination, as Putin's proxy.

#Putin does not want legitimate negotiations with #Ukraine. Putin does want to weaken Zelensky and set him up to take the blame for the continuation of the war.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/01/trump-officials-zelenskyy

@br00t4c This coordinated savaging of Zelensky by Trump and Musk is intended to embed in MAGA the lie it will use to justify total abandonment of #Ukraine and allying with Putin, who will be framed as a peacemaker.

@xankarn If each of us imagines on July 4, 2026 what they would have been doing on July 4, 1776, #Trump can imagine he's selling intel on American troop movements to the British.

@georgetakei And now! The Amazing Trumpo will force Canadians to put gravy on their french fries!

@glynmoody Also, the Soviet's flew their Tu-144.

I lived west of Heathrow while Concorde was still flying. On some routes leaving Heathrow, it would make a turn and climb out above my neighborhood. Just house shaking can't-hear-the-person-on-the-phone loud.

@_elena Better CC-licensed stock photos than Getty's but stock photos are used by news outlets to grab attention and clicks, not convey information. Their use is a symptom of that industry's rot.

@br00t4c What Trump's Deportation Hotline will need is 10 million people reporting Stephen Miller.

@eff You're saluting Meta for encouraging and monetizing hate speech and oppressing critics of American fascists posing as conservatives and libertarians. Are you that naive about the intention of the Zuckerberg, Musk, Thiel, Trump, the GOP, etc ?

@gtbarry Anyone who needs their notifications and headlines *shortened* and *summarized* needs to reexamine how they spend their time.

@jaj @bodhipaksa @ryanc It should be illegal here in the US for anonymous bureaucrats not treating a patient to make decisions about, or ending, treatment of that patient.

We need to 1) Make patient wealth irrelevant re: health care decisions, and, 2) provide care to all with no billing to the patients

American health care is broken because it does not deliver results commensurate with its exorbitant costs. Corporate interference in health care leeches funding away from care and treatment.

@jaj @bodhipaksa @ryanc Unless Sanders filled both houses of Congress with Sanders disciples -- zero probability -- his legislative agenda would have been DOA.

@adamconover Media will exploit the UHC shooting for hours and hours of profitable sponsored handwringing punditry asserting society is collapsing because it took reaction to a murder to give them the clue that most Americans loathe most American corporate leaders.

One reason so many Americans do not vote and tune out of the political process is they have reason to believe their lives are shaped by corporate oligarchs whose power to manipulate politicians negates the influence of the ballot.