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To a certain extent, each new excess of the Trump administration is not surprising for us, the writers and publishers of the Memo of discussion points and, I imagine, for you, our readers. These guys told us what they were going to do after all. He seemed authoritarian. Trump’s former military leaders said he was “fascist”. But since the priming, we, heavy consumers of news, can, I think, sometimes lose track of the measure to which the Trump administration has gone, even according to its own standards.
Nicole reported on Thursday an interview with CNBC during which the director of the FCC, Brendan Carr, underlined his conviction that his agency and “the media ecosystem” are on the whole at the top of a “massive change” given the “structure of authorization that the election of President Trump provided”.
“And I would just say that we have not yet finished seeing the consequences of this,” said Carr.
“Will you only be delighted when none of these actors will have a broadcast television program?” Asked the anchor of CNBC, David Faber.
“No, it’s not a special program or a particular person,” replied Carr. “It’s just that we are in the middle of a very disturbing moment at the moment, and I’m frankly expecting to wait until we are going to continue to see changes in the media ecosystem.”
Carr and the rest of the Trump administration tried to make a lot of mileage of the idea that the 2024 elections represented a justification for a post-dry American “quarter of atmosphere” (although the discourse by Carr of a new Trumpian “authorization structure” is a particularly scary means of articulating this idea).
But by reserving that Trump’s electoral victory was, in the end, not so great, Trump leaders in government always doing what they have understood that they have won permission to do?
“Everything was in the 2025 project, BTW”, tweeted an actor of “Glee”, and Carr at 11:43 pm responded with this Jack Nicholson GIF nod with an ecstatic and disturbed look, an apparent assertion which, yes, was the whole plan.
But was it? Carr, in fact, wrote the Chapter FCC of the 2025 project. There was nothing to revoke the dissemination licenses or to use the rule of “equal time” in a creative manner, as he threatened to do with “The View”, a program which is apparently his next target ABC-Broadcast. “The FCC should promote freedom of expression,” started its chapter in the 2025 project.
It is an ideal of which his party is now somewhat confused. At the beginning of this week, Pam Bondi was in trouble for trying to distinguish the anti-loading “hate speech” from “freedom of expression”. “An FCC license is not a right. It is really a privilege,” said Senator Cynthia Lummis (R-Wy) on Thursday. “In normal moments, in normal circumstances, I tend to think that the first amendment should always be in a way the ultimate right. And that there should not be verification and balancing. I can no longer feel it,” she added. Other Republicans have taken the opposite side of the question, the senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) of all the people calling the tactics of Carr “immediately of GoodFellas”.
It is in these moments when the Trump administration and its allies lose the plot – when they make a subject on the same ideas that they have embellished in the weeks and months and years ago, throwing for enemies to punish – that the coalition Maga kiss a little, striving under the weight of cognitive dissonance. We saw the same thing with Trump’s short war against Iran and, much more, with its aggressive insistence that there was nothing important with this guy from Jeffrey Epstein. The cause of the end of the cancellation culture launched a thousand influence quarries aligned by Maga; This is the raison d’être of the raison d’être of entire publications adapted to Maga. Now that the government they serve has turned the page on freedom of expression, what are they doing?
It is not only the faithful of Maga. Starting an end -of -evening host watched by millions of air on a few confined remarks on your killed political ally is the kind of thing that attracts the attention of “standards” that have decided to join the whole lutidus show of American democracy in 2025. (Ditto to revise the recommendations for infantile vaccinations while confessing, you are not even completely clear on what you are.
Ten years in this, only fools predict that we have reached the start of the end of Donald Trump. And that’s not what I say. But moments like these are not good for the already limited support base of Trump, and we bring to the next chapter of the American authoritarian experience, whatever this chapter.
– John Light
Here is what other TPM has to pressure this weekend:
- A look at the Republicans who carefully break their favorite legislative tool.
- The Republicans of Indiana seem to be at the dawn of the reduction of Rediscussing requests from Trump.
- DC officials go to Congress, trying to repel the representation of their city as a hellish landscape.
Crétons.
Republicans emit parts of the filibusier which do not help them
The legislative fever helps the Republicans. They can always make appointments and tax reductions with a simple majority, and this prevents them from having to execute the political requirements of the base, many of which are massively unpopular.
But when they come up against tentacles of the filibusier which thwart these objectives, they – unlike the Democrats – do not hesitate to end them.
The Republicans confirmed 48 nominated Trump on Thursday after changing the rules that would have been previously requiring a supermajure of 60 vote. Before that, in May, they revoked a standard of Californian electric vehicle with a simple majority, ignoring the parliamentarian’s decision that the vote was submitted to the Flibustier.
They also reduced the hours required for the debate after the ranking of two against 30, and followed the example of the Democrats on most candidates, also reducing the threshold by a simple majority for those of the Supreme Court.
The GOP has long painted as the protectors of obstruction and painted he as a measure of old -fashioned rationality and tea cooling. In reality, the party has only such reverence for the parts of the blockade which are politically beneficial. If the legislative spin -business really hurt them, their veneration professed for the Senate operations would evaporate in an instant.
– Kate Riga
The Governor of Indiana, Mike Braun, says that a special redistribution session “will probably arrive”
In the last of the Trump Administration Rediscovery Pressure campaign to Strong Arm Red States to engage in the extremely rare practice of redistribution of the cycle in the middle of the cycle so that Trump can fake the middle, the Governor of Indiana Mike Braun announced this week that a special redistribution session will probably take place in the coming months. Braun, as well as other members of the GOP of the State Legislative Assembly, had not previously indicated that he would accept the Rediscuss plans of Trump, which are transparent to overthrow the only two democratic seats that Indiana has in the House.
But, earlier this week, according to The Indy Star, Braun told journalists a special session “will probably arrive”.
“We are going to question our legislators, and if that is there, we will do it,” said Braun. “My feeling is that it will probably happen.”
Despite Braun’s indication that a special redistribution session will probably occur, there are still a number of members of the Indiana Gop State House who oppose the continuous efforts of the administration to put pressure on the GOP officials to redraw their district cards of the Congress. The Trump administration is trying to reduce the chances of the Republicans to lose the house in 2026, a change that would not only mean the end of a republican trifecta to DC but which would also give a power of investigation and to submit to Democrats.
Braun’s comments also come in the context of the death of Trump Ally and CEO of Turning Point USA Charlie Kirk, who, before his murder, said on X that his organization “would support the main opponents of the Republicans of the Indiana State legislature which refuses to support the team and to recover the cards”.
The Republicans use Kirk’s death as a way to advance the redistribution plans of the administration, a republican of Indiana suggesting that the death of Kirk gives the renewed emergency.
“They killed Charlie Kirk – the least we can do is go through a legal process and redirect the Indiana in a nine to zero card,” said US senator Jim Banks (R -in). “And I feel it in this crowd, in an important way. And I feel it supporters of the whole state; it is not the moment to retreat. It’s not the time to be nice. It is now time to get involved in a peaceful and political way.”
– Khaya Himmelman
House GOP continues its repression against the supposed crime problem DC
Three senior officials from Washington DC – Mayor Muriel Bowser, President of the Council Phil Mendelson and the Attorney General Brian Schwalb – were during a hearing of the Chamber’s Supervisory and Government Reform Committee which testified their surveillance of the district on Thursday.
Throughout the hearing, DC officials rejected the constant characterization by the Republicans of the country’s capital of the country as a crime (this is not the case) – a feeling that President Donald Trump also built all his justification for the occupation of the district with the armed federal police.
The Republicans of the Chamber also adopted several series of bills this week by trying to revise the DC criminal justice system and to return the regulations of the house, without any contribution from the district itself or its voters.
“We are a besieged city,” said Mendelson during Thursday’s hearing. “It is frustrating to monitor this debate committee and to vote on 14 bills concerning the district without a single public hearing, without any contribution from district or public officials, regardless of community impact or an unleashing of analysis, including legal sufficiency or budgetary impact.”
Representative Suhas Subramanyam (D-VA), a member of the Chamber’s supervisory committee, told journalists outside the courtroom that the committee should have audiences on the crimes that occur in place under the Trump administration.
“They violate the law at every street corner,” said Subramanyam about the Trump administration. “Instead, they start on the homeless, they choose people who do not commit crimes or do not take away people with whom they disagree and violating their constitutional rights. … We should have an audience on things that are a little more urgent with this administration because we are a supervisory committee.”
– Emine Yücel
