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onenote

(45,990 posts) Sun May 18, 2025, 08:38 AM May 2025

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Everyone should read this speech given by Democratic FCC Commissioner Anna Gomez

https://docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/DOC-411446A1.pdf

Her final sentence is the most chilling to me: "...if I’m removed from my seat on the Commission, let it be said plainly: It wasn’t because I failed to do my job. It’s because I insisted on doing it."

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Everyone should read this speech given by Democratic FCC Commissioner Anna Gomez (Original Post) onenote May 2025 OP

Yup. This administration is moving to "weaponize" an agency that punishes news outlets that trump dislikes. JohnSJ May 2025 #1

"No Competents Need Apply Here" erronis May 2025 #2

This is an extremely important read. StarryNite May 2025 #3

The ending Just Jerome May 2025 #4

And not the first or the last segment. ananda May 2025 #5

Must Read malaise May 2025 #6

JohnSJ

(98,883 posts)

1. Yup. This administration is moving to "weaponize" an agency that punishes news outlets that trump dislikes.

Reply to onenote (Original post)

Sun May 18, 2025, 08:46 AM

May 2025

erronis

(22,656 posts)

2. "No Competents Need Apply Here"

Reply to onenote (Original post)

Sun May 18, 2025, 08:48 AM

May 2025

"Bring me your failed lawyers, your grifters, your insurrectionists."

StarryNite

(11,972 posts)

3. This is an extremely important read.

Reply to onenote (Original post)

Sun May 18, 2025, 10:24 AM

May 2025

Just Jerome

(433 posts)

4. The ending

Reply to onenote (Original post)

Sun May 18, 2025, 11:23 AM

May 2025

is but one segment of America’s epitaph.

ananda

(34,427 posts)

5. And not the first or the last segment.

Reply to Just Jerome (Reply #4)

Sun May 18, 2025, 11:38 AM

May 2025

It's felt doomy to me ever since Florida 2000.

I did keep hoping, though, even though that
feeling of doom never really left me.

malaise

(292,790 posts)

6. Must Read

Reply to onenote (Original post)

Sun May 18, 2025, 11:42 AM

May 2025

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