Pretty good, factual reporting above. Naturally, our Neo Nero didn’t like it.
President Trump railed against CBS on Sunday night, saying the network should lose its broadcast license after “60 Minutes” aired segments on Ukraine and Greenland that the president said cast him in a negative light.
“Almost every week, 60 Minutes … mentions the name ‘TRUMP’ in a derogatory and defamatory way, but this Weekend’s ‘BROADCAST’ tops them all,” Trump wrote in a Truth Social post after watching Sunday’s “60 Minutes” broadcast.
“They did not one, but TWO, major stories on ‘TRUMP,’ one having to do with Ukraine, which I say is a War that would never have happened if the 2020 Election had not been RIGGED, in other words, if I were President and, the other story was having to do with Greenland, casting our Country, as led by me, falsely, inaccurately, and fraudulently,” he continued.
Trump sued CBS News in October over a “60 Minutes” interview with his campaign opponent, former Vice President Kamala Harris,that aired shortly before the 2024 presidential election. In the lawsuit, Trump claimed the network deceptively edited the interview to portray Harris in a positive light.
CBS News’s parent company, Paramount, has said the president’s lawsuit is an “affront to the First Amendment and is without basis in law or fact,” claiming Trump is trying to “punish a news organization for constitutionally protected editorial judgments they do not like.”
If this is NOT a Clear and Real affront to the 1st Amendment, then there is No line tRump can’t cross and we have lost our constitutional Democracy. If the SCOTUS is serious about defending the Constitution then there should be no question about them striking down these Presidential actions. If the so-called Republicans are serious about their “pocket constitutions” they should be speaking out strongly today and voting to block any such actions (but they won’t).
There was a time when ancient Rome shifted from a Republic to an Empire, and I often wondered if Roman citizens back then realized what was happening. I think this is also true for the USA today.
No. Bread and circuses, feeding lions to the christians. Beer and football, feasting …
The same people people screaming about free speech violations with conservatives on the former Twitter and social media are the same ones completely silent now about the free speech attacks by Trump and his supporters on liberals, media, the educational system, immigrants, and so on. (The difference between a private company censoring what it has on its platform and a government silencing critics is massive, is actually what the 1st Amendment is talking about, and is also unacknowledged.)
Related, this should be big news:
https://www.npr.org/2025/04/15/nx-s1-5352761/hacking-climate-change-activists-exxonmobil-dcigroup
Censored comment on recent science awards show, should be repeated:
https://www.pcgamer.com/gaming-industry/events-conferences/seth-rogen-goes-rogue-at-science-awards-show-to-slam-tech-billionaires-for-backing-trump-its-amazing-how-much-good-science-you-can-destroy-with-usd320-million-and-rfk-jr/