The most astonishing thing to me from this story I wrote with @jhollar is #CNN quietly rewriting its story about Hands Off! to change “millions of people took part in protests" to “scores of people took part in protests.”
https://fair.org/home/corporate-media-minimize-massive-hands-off-protests/
https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/06/politics/cnn-bernie-sanders-townhall/index.html
#CNN to host #townhall with #BernieSanders on #April9
Shania Shelton
..."The town hall will be moderated by CNN’s Anderson Cooper, which will air at 9 p.m. ET on April 9 in Washington, DC.
During the town hall, Sanders will answer questions from both Cooper and a live audience that will include a mix of Democrats, Republicans and Independents."...
MUST WATCH!
Paediatric intensive care physician, Dr. Tanya Haj-Hassan, tells Christiane Amanpour on #CNN News of the terror she experienced when Israel broke the ceasefire and began bombing #Gaza again.
She called out #Israel for breaking the ceasefire, for terrorizing Gazan children, and accused Western #news media of “manufacturing consent” for genocide.
#News #CNN Toure: Targeting African American museum makes me want to cry
Toure: Targeting African American museum makes me want to cry President Trump is targeting The Smithsonian with an executive order declaring the organization advanced "narratives that portray American and Western values as inherently harmful and oppressive." The guests debate what the impact of that order will mean for places like the National Museum of African American History and Culture. #CNN…
#News #CNN FTC Commissioner speaks out after being fired by Trump
FTC Commissioner speaks out after being fired by Trump President Donald Trump fired two Democratic members of the Federal Trade Commission with both commissioners saying they were “illegally fired.” Fired Commissioner Rebecca Kelly Slaughter joins CNN’s Kaitlan Collins to discuss. #CNN #News from CNN #CNN Check out the short video for this article here
https://www.shibuyaworldnews.online/news-cnn-ftc-commissioner-speaks-out-after-being-fired-by-trump/
Okay, so given Trump's move to undo pardons granted by outgoing US President Joe Biden so he can target DoJ officials who prosecuted him for real crimes he actually committed, and the above-mentioned pattern of Trump's aggrieved fascist ranting transmuting into official, state-recognized reality, while serving to justify oppressive action by the regime, what are we to make of Trump declaring that media outlets that report on him critically, including named organizations MSNBC and CNN, are "illegal" during that same speech at the US Department of Justice? Well, I think for starters it's safe to assume that none of this means *anything* good.
Donald Trump Claims MSNBC And CNN Are ‘Illegal’ In DOJ Speech
"The president gave a speech Friday at the Justice Department railing against news outlets he says have unfairly targeted him.
Trump singled out CNN and MSNBC, which he called “MSNDC,” claiming those outlets “literally write 97.6% bad about me” and are “political arms of the Democrat Party.”
He added, “In my opinion, they’re really corrupt and they’re illegal, what they do is illegal.”
Trump then argued that media organizations that report negative things about him “are really no different than a highly paid political operative,” insisting, “it has to stop, it has to be illegal” because “it’s influencing judges and it’s really, eh, changing law, and it just cannot be legal.”
He additionally claimed that news outlets cover him negatively “in total coordination with each other.”
Whether they're playing it cool on purpose, or not, this story is once again mostly being reported in corporate media as an extension of Trump's longstanding grievances with anything he perceives as critical media coverage and the outlets that produce it; although boutique "progressive" websites and nonprofit media have been a little quicker to realize why this isn't just "Trump being Trump" anymore and how dangerous it is to assume our new American Mussolini lacks purpose in his actions here.
Frankly, I don't think it's an accident that in the very same speech Trump previewed loyalty investigations into Justice Department officials, and attempted to usurp the power of his Attorney General by declaring himself the country's "chief law enforcement officer," he declared liberal establishment media an active political arm of the opposition party, and accused them of both actively conspiring against him, and engaging in criminal activity. What does it mean when the "chief law enforcement officer" declares media critical of him "corrupt" and "illegal?" And how much more ominous is that meaning when its set against the backdrop of a US president celebrating his election as a victory against (what is now) his own Justice Department, while promising what sure sounds like legal investigations into DoJ lawyers and officials that dared to bring charges against him?
The obviously implication here is that Trump thinks the DoJ should target and prosecute media outlets that are critical of him, he has the right to order the department to do so because he's running the DoJ, and anyone who opposes that activity is likely to find themselves purged from the department at a minimum, and quite possibly prosecuted themselves. What many of the corporate media outlets likely to be targeted by Trump's assault on free speech rights and critical media coverage have passed off as a vengeful old man "playing the hits" is actually a fully formed operation to seize control of the American legal apparatus or at least the prosecution portion of it, redefine what is a crime, manufacture consent to target his enemies with the US Department of Justice, and threaten to punish or dispose of anyone who dares to get in his way over a silly little thing like "the law." Trump may have delivered it like a drunk racist grandpa, but his speech is clearly a calculated attempt by the president to drastically expand his own powers, and prosecute his fascist agenda - whether he's doing it for revenge or not (he is), is ultimately the *least* important factor here.
This then dovetails into the methods by which Trump is actually attempting to accomplish this fascist, anti-free speech bullshit; specifically the larger narrative of unreality the Trump regime is constructing day by day. Trump is working to equate critical media with his political opposition, his political opposition with protestors, and protestors with terrorists, while his larger regime takes actions against that opposition as if what Trump is suggesting here were already indisputable truth. I hate to keep bringing up literally Hitler, the Nazi Party, and the German Enabling Act of 1933, but students of history will gladly tell you that Hitler's playbook for transforming Germany into a autocratic one-party dictatorship looks an awful lot like exactly what Trump is doing here.
Un portrait de l'économie américaine en 9 graphiques
Par Alicia Wallace et Matt Stiles, CNN
https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/04/business/economy-state-outlook-dg/index.html
#USA #CNN #économnie #PIB #inflation #bourse #hypothèque #logement #construction #chômage #automobile
"Timmermans maakt genadeloze analyse van Trump"
--> "Op CNN heeft Frans Timmermans zijn licht laten schijnen over de wijze waarop Donald Trump en JD Vance probeerden om Volodymyr Zelensky te vernederen."
--> "In zijn eerste termijn werd Trump nog min of meer begeleid door ervaren rechtse mensen"
--> “Trump heeft nooit van de EU gehouden. Hij haatte de EU vanaf het begin."
(Via @Joop ) #trump #timmermans #cnn
https://www.bnnvara.nl/joop/artikelen/timmermans-maakt-genadeloze-analyse-van-trump
I saw a segment on #CNN about the salt mine in Butler County PA where all the retirement paperwork for the federal employees is stored.
They interviewed a woman who said she wasn’t a registered voter until #Trump she said she voted for him. She said she heard the campaign rhetoric about cutting federal employees, BUT…She NEVER THOUGHT IT WOULD BE US!
Listen up #MAGA #Felon47 doesn’t give a 
about you.
You’re in a cult; worshipping a guy who wouldn’t piss on your head if it were on fire!
Just saw Canadian CEO Kevin O’Leary on #CNN urging Trump and his autocratic Republicans to “Cut, cut, cut, cut, cut… cut everything while you have the mandate”.
#SecularTalk host Kyle Kulinski calls out our fascist American collaborator Kevin O’Leary for the “mentally ill MAGA supporter” he has become.
This is just more proof that if elected, Poilievre’s Conservatives will act like they’ve been given a mandate to destroy everyone and everything they disagree with.
Conservative’s will use their power to war on the left they deem “woke”, or any media that criticizes them. They will “Cut, cut, cut…” because they believe a win gives them a carte blanche to “remake” Canada in their own interests.
Quisling Conservatives are learning how to “most fast and break things” from our fascist Yankee neighbors, and with the stranglehold partisan #postmedia has on Canada, they may well succeed at destroying our Country next.
#News #CNN Trudeau: Canada will not be 51st state
Trudeau: Canada will not be 51st state Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau reemphasized Canada’s independence during a press conference in Brussels as he wrapped up his visit with world leaders in Europe. from CNN #CNN Check out the short video for this article here
#CNN Kaitlin Collin’s asked the dumbest Senator in the Senate about #DictatorTrumps plan to “Take Over” #GAZA
Why Caitlin? He has no clue what #FelonTrump is planning. He doesn’t know how many troops will be sent. He doesn’t know where #Trump will get the money, (US taxpayers), but #Tuberville is too afraid to say. Especially if it goes against #DearLeader ego.
One more time bc it was that good! Jim Acosta taking a blowtorch to #CNN & #Trump as part of our awesome LiveStream
WATCH!! "ACOSTA UNLEASHES FURY ON TRUMP ON #LIVE #TV AS HE DEPARTS CNN" https://www.youtube.com/live/AuF7h6dBhhQ #news #media #musk #elonmusk #donaldtrump #russia #china #podcast #video #socialmedia #usa #us #ukraine
"It's Never A Good Time To Bow Down To A Tyrant. Don't Give Into The Lies. Don't Give Into The Fear" - Jim Acosta, as he quit corporate #media queen, #CNN, On #Live #TV
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYfrRPqE3WI #news #politics #press #socialmedia #podcast #us #youtube #russia #ukraine #china #trump #tech #donaldtrump #elonmusk #musk #usa #us #donaldtrump #corporatemedia
#KaitlanCollins presses #Trump after he blames #Biden and #DEI for for the deadly #plane collision in #Washington. CNN's Kaitlan Collins pressed President Trump about how he came to that conclusion. Watch and listen - this is how it is done - and we may not see much more of this if she is #banned. https://www.cnn.com/2025/01/30/us/video/kaitlan-collins-trump-plane-collision-digvid - #CNN has been on a road to disaster as key reporters leave after being sidelined #jimacosta but last night did their work https://www.poynter.org/commentary/2025/plane-crash-dca-reagan-airport-potomac-river/
