ClearingTheFog
@clearing_fog
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I follow people I disagree with; vet my tweets instead. Mastodon: [email protected]
Nashville raised, now in SoCal
Joined August 2019
KIM: Is President Trump your boss? CARR: President Trump has designated me as chair of the FCC KIM: Do you consider him your boss? CARR: I can be fired by the president KIM: So he's your boss CARR: Look, the decisions of the commissions are going to be based on a vote KIM:
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đ¨đ¨ This is INSANE. I took this screenshot of the @FCC website at 11:52 a.m. ET where it explicitly states the FCC is an independent agency. 25 minutes later, it has been removed following Carr's comments during this hearing! See before and after screenshots below
WOW, WOW ... FCC Chair Brendan Carr says FCC "is not an independent agency formally speaking" â This, combined w his statement alluding to Trump's position on ownership cap, is very telling about Carr's POV on the agency's role in Trump era
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My annual New Year's message this year is for men-mostly because I have two son-in-laws. You can read the full article at the link. Please share it, too. Two
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FCC folks have been frantically scrubbing their website to remove reference to it being an "independent" agency now that Carr this morning said it's not. So in the spirit of govt. efficiency, I'll flag for them this on their career page which still has the reference.
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Sen. BLUMENTHAL: Was the U.S. Capitol attacked on January 6, 2021? Trump nominee: *dodges* Trump nominee: *dodges* Trump nominee: Well, individuals entered the Capitol. Blumenthal: You are in fearâhow will you have the courage to be fair and impartial?
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If you care about free speech in America, watch this exchange with Trumpâs FCC Chairman.
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Asked Speaker Johnson if heâs lost control of the House after another discharge petition succeeds â this one on health care at the hands of swing-district Republicans. âI have not lost control of the House,â he told me
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Today, 4 Republicans joined every Democrat to FINALLY force a vote to extend the ACA tax credits for 3 years. We fought for YOUR health care and we forced the vote. Now, Speaker Johnson MUST bring the bill to the floor right away. The longer he delays, the longer 20 million
đ¨đ¨ BREAKING NEWS JEFFRIES OBAMACARE DISCHARGE PETITION HAS REACHED 218 PENNSYLVANIA REP. RYAN MACKENZIE has signed the discharge petition. THE HOUSE will now vote on a clean, three-year extension of the Obamacare premium subsidies.
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NEW: HHS terminates seven grants totaling millions of dollars to the American Academy of Pediatrics, which is suing Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. over vaccine policy.
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The move marks an escalation in the agencyâs clash with the medical group, which is suing Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. over vaccine policy.
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The U.S. government admitted in court documents to failures that led to the January midair collision between a passenger jet and a military helicopter that killed 67 people in all.
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"The United States admits that it owed a duty of care to Plaintiffs, which it breached," it said in a court filing, leading to the Jan. 29 crash between a passenger jet and Army helicopter.
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Our veterans and active duty service members absolutely deserve relief. So why exactly is his administration cutting thousands of jobs from clinics across the country and taking healthcare away from those who have served our country?
Trump: I am also proud to announce that more than 1,450,000 military service members will receive a special warrior dividend before Christmas, We're sending every soldier 1,776 dollars. And the checks are already on the way.
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Hey, CT. It's been a minute. We've been listening, building, iterating, testing. Your feedback has shaped every decision. We all truly can't wait to show you what comes next. Until then, please enjoy this photo of Doggy Daddy living his best life.
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BREAKING: Mike Johnson just said he won't call a vote this year to extend enhanced subsidies under the Affordable Care Act â effectively guaranteeing they will expire at the end of this month.
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Hilarious. The WH had all the Cabinet members simultaneously put out statements supporting Susie Wiles after the Vanity Fair article came out.
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NEW: The Coast Guard quietly went ahead with policy Monday that downgrades nooses and swastikas -- that it previously ID'd as hate symbols -- to just âpotentially divisive.' This despite the acting commandant's directive that those symbols would be prohibited.
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The Coast Guardâs workplace harassment manual that downgrades the definition of swastikas and nooses quietly went into effect this week.
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Absolutely damning that the White House Chief of Staff admits that the Caribbean bombings arenât about drugs or keeping Americans safe. Theyâre about sleepwalking us into war for regime change in Venezuela.
âOver lunch, Wiles told me about Trumpâs Venezuela strategy: âHe wants to keep on blowing boats up until Maduro cries uncle. And people way smarter than me on that say that he will.â (Wilesâs statement appears to contradict the administrationâs official stance that blowing up
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I just came out of the briefing with Sec. Rubio and Sec. Hegseth on the military strikes in the Caribbean and Eastern Pacific. Here's what I learned. Bottom line: there is no legal or national security justification for what they're doing. Not even close.
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Last 48 Hours: Trumpâs horrific Rob Reiner murder tweet, Wiles should-be-career-ending VF interview, Kash on Katie Millers podcast w his gf while a campus shooter is at large, and Hegseth refusing to show Congress the tape of his potential war crimes. 10/10. No notes.
The article published early this morning is a disingenuously framed hit piece on me and the finest President, White House staff, and Cabinet in history. Significant context was disregarded and much of what I, and others, said about the team and the President was left out of the
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This train wreck is all on Trump and the Republican Doormat Congress that refuses to do their jobs. Ann Wagner is building her portfolio and Missourians are struggling.
The US is losing blue-collar jobs for the first time since the pandemicâyear-on-year job losses have hit 65k as manufacturing, transportation, & mining industries lose jobs at a rapid pace while growth in construction has nearly zeroed out
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Please put âalcoholicâs personalityâ and âketamine addictâ in context.
Leavitt: As for the Vanity Fair article⌠this is another example of disingenuous reporting where you have a reporter who took the Chief of Staffâs words wildly out of context
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âŹď¸âŹď¸Just flagging that this is misleading. Senior @FBI officials agreed there was ample probable cause before the Aug 2022 raid - incl videotapes showing Trump aides had secretly moved boxes of government records out of storage room. https://t.co/ETAtP10YGH
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A handful of documents found by the FBI at Mar-a-Lago were so sensitive that even a senior Justice Department official didnât have authorization to see them.
BREAKING: FBI doubted probable cause for Mar-a-Lago raid but pushed forward amid pressure from Biden DOJ, emails reveal
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Susie Wiles told NYT she didn't call Elon Musk "an avowed ketamine" in one of her ELEVEN interviews with Vanity Fair. "Thatâs ridiculous. I wouldnât have said it and I wouldnât know." Vanity Fair: Cool here's a recording of you saying that.
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