@Phil is there?
not with a bang, nor a whimper, but with a TikTok.
@relentless_eduardo executive orders cannot override acts of Congress. name a Biden executive order you think did that. there are, of course, gray areas. but this is not one. Congress passed a law explicitly to ban TikTok if ByteDance did not divest it. it did not grant the President the authority to waive or delay it.
will Apple restore ByteDance apps in the app store without an Act of Congress legalizing it? https://infosec.exchange/@kevinrothrock/113856239877276512
“dictator on day one”
@TMRuppert @w7voa i guess i’d prefer the state-owned media result to that.
@eARCwelder Why would they?
$TRUMP is the first crypto coin that has a real shot at being currency-like, because it’s the first crypto coin for which there’s a credible threat the coercive power of the state might be used to engender demand.
i can’t believe how much the fate of the republic might turn on the TikTok ban.
if Trump issues an Executive Order, firms like Apple decide they face greater risk defying Trump than violating black-letter law, and Congress does nothing, he’s successfully dictated, that’s dictatorship.
there is no such thing as the vibe so it cannot actually shift.
only Congress can fix this.
(assuming the Constitution and rule-of-law still apply)
autobiography as much as politics, @phillmv is amazing and i’m delighted to learn so much about them. http://okayfail.com/2025/i-met-pg-once.html
Trump wants TikTok to become state-owned media! https://journa.host/@w7voa/113855771597485176
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nobody is really happy to take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed tonight.
“Americans who voted for Trump because of the putatively high price of eggs [have] now precipitated a political crisis in Scandinavia.” @anneapplebaum https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2025/01/trump-greenland-crisis-denmark-europe/681371/?gift=hVZeG3M9DnxL4CekrWGK3-Fo9dEMl2OnGCN0ZRdSEeg&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share ht @SharonK #PatrickChivanec
unsurprisingly i guess, my sense is Redbook is shaping its algorithm to present China as great, Chinese people as welcoming, the US as a bit of a catastrophe morally and economically, but good Americans as welcome, especially those who express gratitude for hospitality, refugees from more than TikTok.
Wikipedia (which ironically, early on, was warned against in schools as an unreliable source) is one of the last bastions of high quality information. But that quality is based on requiring citations to reliable sources, traditionally including "well-established news outlets". 1/
Can outlets that openly placate Trump by e.g. forfeiting winnable lawsuits remain reliable sources to Wikipedia? How reliable will Wikipedia remain if the sources from which its articles are constructed bend to curry favor and escape threats of the new administration? 2/
Partisans of all stripes edit Wikipedia tendentiously, but its reliability is sustained be editors removing poorly sourced information. Partisans of the fascist right may have new support from, say, the Washington Post or ABC or CBS as their practices bend to the new, um, business reality. /fin
When the Supreme Corruption narrowed the definition of bribery to the most explicit quid-pro-quos, did you think eventually people wouldn't be driving truckloads of cash through the space they opened?
Can media who play these games credibly do "news"?
"It's a win-win-win. Ron DeSantis gets something to brag about; Republican business owners aren't much affected; and undocumented workers are even more scared and docile. What's not to like?" #KevinDrum on Florida's immigration dickishness https://jabberwocking.com/florida-cracked-down-on-illegal-immigrants-heres-a-progress-report/