The Missouri v. Biden ‘Settlement’ Is A Fake Victory For A Case They Lost

Last week, Senator Eric Schmitt of Missouri got into a heated exchange during a Senate hearing with Stanford’s Daphne Keller. Schmitt, who, as Missouri’s Attorney General, originally fi…

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America’s Self-Proclaimed Free Speech Warrior, Brendan Carr, Gets A Letter Documenting His First Amendment Violations

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America’s Self-Proclaimed Free Speech Warrior, Brendan Carr, Gets A Letter Documenting His First Amendment Violations

For years, certain folks on the left kept insisting they wanted to bring back the Fairness Doctrine — the old FCC policy that required broadcasters to present “both sides” of controvers…

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FCC Chairman Brendan Carr And Gavin Newsom Clash Over Nexstar-Tegna Merger, Censorship And Jimmy Kimmel

Newsom and Brendan Carr traded social media insults over the merger, censorship and Jimmy Kimmel.

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Trump Isn’t Just Bullying Journalists. He’s Subverting the First Amendment.

The right attacked Biden for “jawboning” social media. Now Trump is doing it explicitly to control cable news.

https://murica.website/2026/03/trump-isnt-just-bullying-journalists-hes-subverting-the-first-amendment/

Trump Isn’t Just Bullying Journalists. He’s Subverting the First Amendment. – The USA Potato

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Trump Issues Meaningless Executive Order To Try And Protect Larry Ellison’s CBS (And The Army Navy Game) From Competition

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Trump Issues Meaningless Executive Order To Try And Protect Larry Ellison’s CBS (And The Army Navy Game) From Competition

FCC boss Brendan Carr spends an awful lot of time pretending to be a tough guy, threatening any broadcasters that aren’t suitably deferential to our mad, idiot king. Carr’s had giant te…

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Brendan Carr Tries To ‘Ban’ All Foreign Routers In Lazy, Legally Dubious Shakedown

Taking a break from attacking the First Amendment, FCC boss Brendan Carr this week engaged in a strange bit of performance art: his FCC announced that they’d be effectively adding all foreign…

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How the FCC Could Quietly Smother Network TV — Opinion

Commissioner Brendan Carr is ushering broadcast news and late night entertainment into a terrifying era under Trump. What's at risk? Analysis.

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Democratic Senators Call For “Full And Independent” FCC Review Of Foreign Ownership In Paramount-Warner Bros. Discovery Merger
#News #Politics #BrendanCarr #CoryBooker #ElectionLine #FCC #Paramount #ParamountWB #Warnerbrosdiscovery

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Democratic Senators Call For “Full And Independent” FCC Review Of Foreign Ownership In Paramount-Warner Bros. Discovery Merger

The Democrats want to FCC to look at investments from sovereign wealth funds and potentially Tencent

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