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Feed Em Tacos

Trump has a habit of changing the subject when things aren’t going his way. Remember the Musk blow up was less than a week ago. And now the Marines have been called up! Sheez.

As far as the noise in LA, instead of fighting, feed the Guard and the Marines TACOS. Quite appropriate I think. Those food trucks make the best TACOS, they could save the day!

Stay on subject and remember to contact your senator and tell them to KILL THE BILL. Trump’s tax and spending bill is the real problem this country has now. Don’t be sidetracked by Trump’s deflections.

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The loss of editorial freedom at 60 Minutes is a sorry milestone for US media

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/may/01/60-minutes-press-freedom?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

If the rich and powerful won’t stand up to Trump, what hope can there be for the disenfranchised and powerless?

Journalists at 60 Minutes are telling us that Shari Redstone, the executive and heiress who is the controlling shareholder of Paramount, is doing real damage by appearing to intrude into her venerable show’s independence. She may get the merger she wants but only at great cost to the journalism of which she should be a stalwart steward.

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The Democrats Need Podcasts and Radio Shows

“The problem, Greg, is where they get their information. I spent time in rural Pennsylvania the weekend before the election and in places like Cumberland and Lancaster. We didn’t see Republicans out in the streets, because they don’t really do field campaigns anymore. It’s all digital and electronic and through people’s phones, not through people’s front doors. It’s really hard to get face-to-face with people anymore. So Democrats got to get on these local radio shows. They have to create their own local radio shows. They have to get on these podcasts because they’re living in an informational vacuum or a silo, so they’re not hearing these messages anyway.”

“As we’ve seen on Bluesky today, Fox News and OANN are not even putting the market reports up there. They’re not even showing the Dow, the S&P, and the NASDAQ on their tickers because they know that their listeners and viewers cannot handle any negative news. They need to be constantly reinforced with nonstop pro-red, pro-Republican, pro-Trump, pro-MAGA news because they can’t handle the truth, as Jack Nicholson would say. We need to break through that and force them to listen to alternative messages, but that is a really, really difficult nut to crack.”

by Tom Schaller, co-author of the book White Rural Rage