"The title ' #weaponization #czar" reminds us that much of happening in the #UnitedStates under #Trump happened first in the home of the czars." snyder.substack.com/p/the-weapon...
The Weaponization Czar
#weaponization
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Watson Coleman: "If they can do this to three #federally elected officials with the authority to come and do their job, and they can then also lock up the mayor of the largest city in New Jersey who was on public property ... people just are afraid of this #weaponization of law #enforcement."
âRep. Madeleine Dean @repdean.bsky.social Dean exposes the Trump administrationâs criminal plot to weaponize the FBI through Kash Patel. This is a full-scale assault on our democracy, and we must fight back before itâs too late. #FBI #Trump #Weaponization #RuleOfLawâ www.msnbc.com/katy-tur/wat...
'Trying to weaponize FBI throu...
#AntonGerashchenko (@antongerashchenko.bsky.social)
https://bsky.app/profile/antongerashchenko.bsky.social/post/3lofzuiqhnc2q
> "Itâs #alQaeda and #ISIS -level tactics," - the Russian campaign to recruit Ukrainian and European civilians to become human weapons is underway. It affects Ukrainians but, as @jimmyrushton.bsky.social and @michaeldweiss.bsky.social rightly point out in their article for #NewLinesMagazine đœ
#russia #ruZZia
#putinrussia #putinruZZia
#weaponization
#weaponizationOfChildren
#weaponizationOfEverything
I expanded a rant I recently wrote here into a larger essay for my blog. It's about the issue of due process and the weaponization of speed itself as a tool to deny it.
Speed Kills
https://netsettlement.blogspot.com/2025/04/speed-kills.html
#democracy #DueProcess #speed #USPolitics #politics #oligarchy #fascism #tyranny #weaponization
#ygbfk #fubar #politics " ? #history maybe * ? #news " indeed #lawsuit - world .. war on - something something pfffft wow #economy * #weaponization (s.. Malo
Stop me if you've heard this one before; the Trump regime is cynically employing a rarely enacted policy from the 1960's to intimidate and attack folks critical of Donald Trump, despite that not being what the policy was, or has ever been, intended for. This time its Federal Communications Commission Chairman Brendan Carr, who is targeting some of the largest media corporations in America for investigations under the "news distortion" policy, as part of what certainly looks like a larger plan to revoke the licenses of broadcasters who oppose Trump and the regime's fascist takeover:
The speech police: Chairman Brendan Carr and the FCCâs news distortion policy
"Andrew Jay Schwartzman, an expert on media law and senior counselor for the Benton Institute for Broadband & Society, told Ars that "the CBS complaint is utterly lacking in merit. What is alleged doesn't come within light-years of a violation of any FCC policy."
The Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE), an advocacy group, called Carr's investigation of CBS "a political stunt," an "illegitimate show trial," and an "unconstitutional abuse of regulatory authority." Democratic lawmakers are demanding answers from Carr about what they call "bogus investigations" designed to "target and intimidate news organizations and broadcasters in violation of the First Amendment."
The CBS investigation was also lambasted in comments submitted by Christopher Terry, a professor of media law and ethics at the University of Minnesota, and J. Israel Balderas, a journalism professor at Elon University who is also a First Amendment attorney and a former FCC media advisor.
"The agency under Brendan Carr appears to be, based on the flimsiest of complaints, pursuing media outlets critical of Donald Trump during the 2024 campaign, while ignoring similar complaints from the public about Trump-friendly media outlets," Terry and Balderas wrote. "Being the speech police is not the FCC's job, but enforcing any restrictions in a selective, much less a partisan, way is problematic, and likely to lead to extensive legal actions challenging FCC authority."
This is a long, granular, well-written article that's worth your time to read if you want to understand what Carr and the regime are trying to do here. The short-short version is that the new fascist chair of the FCC is using a rarely enforced policy that probably should have been cancelled years ago, and has almost universally been used in cases where a news outlet is caught staging or creating the news it wants to report, itself, to target Trump's critics in the media - in this case CBS, although the logic is more or less repeatable for any news outlet whose coverage the regime doesn't like. Furthermore, even if Carr weren't crassly weaponizing a sixty year old FCC policy to punish media outlets who (fairly) criticize Trump, the fact that this is purely about silencing critics of the regime in the media is laid bare by the Chairman's proposed solutions - pulling broadcast licenses; something that has literally *never* happened or been recommended before, even in the rare instances the news distortion policy was employed by the agency.
Look folks, I know the vast majority of people reading this don't care about a 60 Minutes interview with Kamala Harris during the election campaign, and lord knows that corporate media hasn't exactly covered itself in glory during the Trump administration; but this is a lot bigger than even a media corporation like CBS. By employing this policy to justify government harassment and targeting of Trump's critics, Carr is making himself and the regime, the finally arbiter of what does and doesn't constitute a "news distortion" in a way this rule was never intended to be used. If they get away with this, or even if they can just successfully use it to justify applying government pressure against an extremely large, well-funded news organization, there's no limit to how far these nazis will take this. This is how a fascist regime transforms the entire media environment into pro-Trump, state news outlets and it won't just stop with the Fox-ification of media orgs either. The FCC has regulatory power over all broadcasters, and unless you want to see a world where the US government is trying to destroy media organizations for taking about the US history of slavery, why oil companies are not your friend, or even just showing trans and other gender-nonconforming characters in our entertainment, this needs to be resisted vigorously and stopped at all cost.
#Fascism #Trump #BrendanCarr #FCC #FreeSpeech #Media #IdeologicalPolicing #Fox #StateNews #CBS #Weaponization #NewsDistortionPolicy
#ChrisHayes talks with #EzraKlein on a potentially fascinating overlap between satisfactory #outcomes (what all sentient #Fediversizens want) and the "#weaponization of #execution" (cutting away #process and #bureaucracy, apparently enabling #efficiency) to get actual shit done.
@Sheep_Overboard @LeslieBurns
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#Trump should have been stopped at the 'two prostitutes and a piss-soaked mattressâ
Deaf In Net Lee.... but the #russiahoax was #weaponized by "influencing and dividing"
Why Russiaâs #weaponization of #socialmedia will continue in 2020
âNov 18 2019 #WashingtonPost
"Rather than using false content to defame a candidate or persuade a voter directly, there were more efforts to polarize the online conversation by drawing on existing divisions"
Trump just told the prosecutors of the DOJ that he thinks it is illegal for journalists to say bad things about him. He even named some specific people that he hates who are attorneys who have won in court against him and his policies. He calls them "fake lawyers" and "horrible human beings."
@briantylercohen explains: "He's telling them that it's not their job to go after terrorists or murderers or predators, but rather to do the political bidding of this president."
Trump used to complain that the DOJ was "weaponized" against him for following the law, but now that's exactly what he's doing. He went to the DOJ leaders and listed his enemies by name, saying they need to be prosecuted.
#fascism #journalism #DOJ #weaponization #BrianTylerCohen #politics
The Dark Side of AI: How Cybercriminals Are Weaponizing Artificial Intelligence to Outsmart People and Security
https://youtu.be/Gp877NvD--M #cybersecurity #AI #weaponization #enabled #threats #socialmedia #deepfakes #fraud #scams
The Dark Side of AI: How Cybercriminals Are Weaponizing Artificial Intelligence to Outsmart People and Security youtu.be/Gp877NvD--M #cybersecurity #AI #weaponization #enabled #threats #socialmedia #deepfakes #fraud #scams
Comment la libertĂ© dâexpression est devenue lâarme des conservateurs amĂ©ricains.
« (..) le "free speech" a dâabord permis une conquĂȘte de droits pour les minoritĂ©s, avant de se transformer progressivement en outil rĂ©actionnaire, jusquâĂ permettre aujourdâhui aux rĂ©seaux sociaux dâElon #Musk ou de Mark Zuckerberg de diffuser massivement des informations non vĂ©rifiĂ©es, voire dĂ©libĂ©rĂ©ment fausses. » #MĂ©diasSociaux #LibertĂ© #Instrumentalisation #Weaponization #USpol
Trump is weaponizing financial payments: here's what you can do.
"The Trump administration has swiftly graduated from trying to weaponize internal payment systems (the Department of Treasury systems that allow the federal government to pay monies across its different parts, and to the outside world). Now it is trying to weaponize external payments too. It has seized back $80 million that was paid to New York, and is now trying to do the same with $20 billion paid out by the Environment Protection Agency. This is money that was already paid out by the federal government, and is now sitting in other entitiesâ regular bank accounts. The Trump administration wants to get the banks where the accounts are located (Citibank is the one we know about) to reverse these payments."
#PamBondi testified during her Senate confirmation hearing that there will be no enemies list. Guess what? Now there is a list, going for the FBI agents and prosecutors who investigated Trump's criminal activities. Their lawful acts are slandered as #Weaponization by Bondi and her team.
Like always #GlennKirschner sets the facts straight in his video.
âThe acting deputy AG, who was Trumpâs Defense attorney, is accusing the acting Director of the FBI here of âinsubordination.â
đšIâm told this memo isn't going over well. FBI folks find it offensive. Many also wondering who decides what âethicalâ means in this context.â
-K Dilanian
New memo from the Acting US AG, Emil BoveâŹïž.
The Faux Free Speech Warriors Attacking Free Speech
Reversing the "#weaponization of #Christianity": How "#ReligousFreedom" can be used to fight #Trumpism.
Rev. #PaulBrandeisRaushenbush on how some #churches "created a #permissionstructure for #cruelty on a massive scale"
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Religion #Hate #Bigotry #Violence #Discrimination #Homophobia #Transphobia #EmptyThePews
âŹïž How to use #Trump's performative version of #Christianity to reverse its #weaponization and use #religiousFreedom to fight #Trumpism.
The #Christian #rightWing spent decades capturing and distorting morality, #God, and #Christianity to advance its antidemocratic agenda [much like how #Hindutva or #Hindutwa is distorting #Hinduism under #Modi in #India].
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