GovBrief Today #409

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The president and his FCC chair spent the weekend at Mar-a-Lago scheming to punish news networks for accurately covering a war that's going badly.

Political strategist Will Robinson mapped America's attention deserts and what they mean for this year's midterms. Local news coverage has collapsed across the districts that will decide control of the House. Robinson calls these communities attention deserts, places where disinformation filled the vacuum when local papers and radio newsrooms went dark. Fifty million Americans now live with little or no local reporting at all.

In those places, the national outlets Trump is threatening are the only news sources still reaching voters before November. Call your representatives and demand they protect the free press from a president who wants to control what Americans see and hear about his war. Their silence is his permission to finish the job.

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[1] https://go.govbrief.today/cuba-deal
[2] https://go.govbrief.today/trump-hormuz-summit
[3] https://go.govbrief.today/mi-attack-brother
[4] https://go.govbrief.today/trump-backs-carr
[5] https://go.govbrief.today/afghan-ice-death
[6] https://go.govbrief.today/wh-columns
[7] https://go.govbrief.today/no-kings-countdown

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lsakser

Is the FCC going to look into Fox News for all the lies they spew?

3 weeks ago |

Maverickaura

Why would China wanna reopen the strait? Iran's already letting their ships through, it is open for them.

ImmatellallyallboutFightClub

Sharing the hell out of the No Kings countdown! Thanks as always!

Iaimtomisbehave

I want to empty it out and put them all in it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louisiana_State_Penitentiary

veronicablood

remember when the TV station wouldn't air the Talrico interview, so they just posted it to youtube?

How'd that work out, dipshts?

jammer909

All the atrocities, and the cherry on top is that he's about to butcher the white house again.

exactly, that he has time to think about it is mind boggling.

Ostegonation

It's going to keep getting worse as the midterms get closer. They know that they are cooked and face accountability if they lose power. It's going to get so much worse folks, just hang in there.

PuzzledCompletely

Hang in there, and keep fighting!

donaldsqu

Thank you. I subscribed on substack too.

haIucid

#4 I’m betting all corporate news will be pro-Trump pro-Israel propaganda feeds before 2028. CNN and MSNBC will see mass firings and a full platform replacement.

livingonagiantfireball

They will keep funneling your tax dollar to continue that.

buttabuttabutt

You lost me on the one that starts at "Israel says"

It's literally straight reporting. "Israel says" is no different than "Mussolini says" or "Jesus Christ says"

I don't do your calibration. You do. I just give you the headlines.

DidCatchABreak

Thank you, George

spittytrinkles

The absolute inability of these People to READ THE ROOM! Astounds me. They truly think that they are controlling the narrative.

FiftyShadesOfArugula

#5 Was murdered in ICE custody. People don't unexpectedly fall ill and die of natural causes within less than 24h after being abducted by ICE. The despicable treatment of Afghan and Iraqi interpreters is yet another reason why a ground invasion in Iran would play out very different from the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. Absolutely no one would be willing to work with US troops at this point, not even those who hate the ayatollah regime.

Igut

You also hate the people who bomb your schools, hopsitals, playgrounds... Even though you hate you regime, you gonna hate more the outsiders killing innocent civilians.

Yep. The 9/11 effect, where the political opposition fell in line with the far-right Bush regime to the point of voting for the invasion of a country that had nothing to do with the attack.

Bundalicious

Make sure you stomp your feet really hard as you ineffectively march around. This will put a definite stop to the madness. Trust me bros.

TheFastpaws

Yoink!

hahahaha

McMasterx

I didn't get a ping on my phone for getting this ,_, only one on the app.

Pseudobatrachotoxin

Ahh… another wave of reporting from our deteriorating hellscape to view…. I wonder if there’s gonna be any good news today. Thank you again @OP for keeping is posted - it’s been more than 400 days of what feels like circling the drain… does anything stick to take down this pestilence that sickens our democracy?

They are still afraid of the elections. Check your registration, call your elected officials, including the local ones. Make good trouble!

I vote in every one; local, state, federal.

dailysuicidalthoughts

Morons are making it impossible to want to work with the US, in any capacity. Its probably too late to save face now.
Trump fucked y'all over with tariffs, forcing merchants, and industries to shift away from being involved in the US, due to volatility in the market, and now?

Let's kill our allies!

If he isn't impeached after the midterms, the US is proper fucked on a global scale, looking at 1930s levels of poverty, and decline. And it might be too late to fix.

And by allies, I do mean people like #5.

Nah, the midterms will be rigged. The US is a failed state now.

expectnothingstillletdown

Impeaching him is a waste of time. Even if the democrats completely swept the midterms, they would not have tge votes in tge senate to convict and remove him. If we want him removed any time soon, it will have to be done through 'unofficial' methods.

ArchMagos

Its going to make the Soviet breakup look like small potatoes if hes not impeached and removed soon

bertchstudio

Pick a tribe and join it fiscally

I'm so fkn serious

PathologicalLier

Wasnt he impeaxhed twice already? Did that do anything?

Goatfer

He was impeached twice but because the Senate was controlled by Republicans they voted not to remove him from office. House impeaches, Senate convicts and removes.

Oh. I forgot that he is immune to impeachment, because of the Supreme Court. I should have said removed from office, or assassinated.

If out military doesn't assassinate them himself

The Pentagon budget will belong to the tribes in just a few years

They are actually insane. Like they cannot be allowed to hold these positions the positions must be eliminated entirely

And if want the office of President of the United States removed from the planet, we can do it kindly or we can get the whole ducking working classes of the world, behind us. Instantly.

They. Are. Fucked.

Willste

#6 I hate him. I know why, but why does everything have to be about him and his disgusting "taste"?

SchuKadaj

Because everything that has his name, initials, stamp is seen as "cool" in his eyes. If they are going to do this they may as well flatten the white house entirely.

Preferably while he and his cabinet are in it. (But just them.)

TheVampireDante

Also if his name's on it he files for payments for its use. Collecting royalties and other fees from places he slapped his name on himself.

Ugh I forgot that that was part of what he had set up as well.

Only a couple days after trying to get Dulles International Airport renamed after him, his family company filed a Trademark for `Donald J. Trump International Airport`

4t0m1c4

Of note today in the UK we wake to news report the orange twat has threatened the future NATO because we won't help fix the mess he made in the middle east and the global oil economy.

Surprised that isn't in here

//www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/iran-us-war-live-updates-trump-dubai-strait-of-hormuz-b2939098.html">https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/iran-us-war-live-updates-trump-dubai-strait-of-hormuz-b2939098.html updating

https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5785933-donald-trump-nato-strait-hormuz/ static one

https://www.nbcnews.com/world/iran/live-blog/live-updates-iran-war-trump-reopen-strait-of-hormuz-israel-lebanon-rcna263448 oh and also NBC's

I think it's a mtter of timing, we just get up earlier than @op, and as a result read yesterdays horror stories at the same time as todays! +1 for my absent sources though.

I collect news between 10 and midnight DC time/Eastern. I write for a few hours. Sometimes I'm late. :)

But I wait for most of the day to wrap up in my time zone before starting to write. I'll definitely miss the 3-4 hours I'm working on the website, email, other social channels. Sometimes I just carry something forward a day. I also miss stuff.

I'm aware, it's why I went to find multiple links - though I do note that it's not in the new one either

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