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[–] Nightwingdragon 189 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

In the tweet, Herman quoted a nonprofit leader who criticized Trump's cuts to the U.S. Agency for International Development as making Americans "less safe at home and abroad." Grenell called Herman's tweet "treasonous."

“You don’t get to work against the official U.S. government policies while being paid by US taxpayers,” said Grenell, who is officially the Special Presidential Envoy for Special Missions. “You should be immediately fired.”

And there it is. It is now "treasonous" and a fireable offense for a member of the press to express an opinion critical of the Trump administration. This is where we are now. Freedom of speech, expression, and the press are no longer a thing. You can literally lose your job and be put under criminal investigation for criticizing Donald Trump.

[–] Fandangalo 60 points 1 day ago

Complaining about the federal govt while being employed by it is the classic Republican stance.

[–] Ghostalmedia 50 points 1 day ago

Reminder, it’s pledge week for many public radio stations / NPR affiliates.

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Give whatever you can. This is the time to actually give. These poor journalists are having to pay for legal counsel with a shoe string budget.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago

The whole point of VOA is to create and independent and trusted base to counter propaganda. In order to this it has to report on the bad things about the United States. This was something explicitly considered during it's creation. The notion that a reporter is undermining the government by reporting critically on it is this absurd. This also very publicly calls into question the editorial independence of VOA.

Today, and every day from now on, we will be with you from America to talk about the war... The news may be good or bad for us – We will always tell you the truth.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 day ago

ITT, people living up to their namesake. "I'm not a - ... but ..."

The only reason he isn't getting impeached for this is because he isn't Biden and the GQP MAGA only projects and doesn't really care about what they project about.

[–] SoftestSapphic 23 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Fascists will only leave power when they die

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

I'm sorry, the Internet has ruined me and I cannot resist memeing constantly into the apocalypse.

Obligatory "FUCKING FUCK DONALD J TRUMP, THE FUCKED-IN-THE-HEAD FASCIST FUCKER"

[–] FenrirIII 3 points 1 day ago

We can only hope it's a peaceful transition. Most of the idiots following the orange baboon are too incompetent to seize power

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 day ago

If you’re on Mastodon, Steve Herman has been one of the most important critics of this shit show. Give @[email protected] a follow.

[–] JeeBaiChow 7 points 1 day ago

Is this platform public? Good. Fuck trump.