“C” is for Censorship: PBS Cuts ‘Art Spiegelman’ Doc and Other Dubious Acts at Embattled Broadcaster
cross-posted from: lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/44968113
Twelve days before Art Spiegelman: Disaster Is My Muse (2024) was set to broadcast on April 15 across PBS stations nationwide as part of its strand American Masters, the filmmakers were told that a 90-second sequence—which shows the famous artist discussing an anti-Trump cartoon he created for the 2017 Women’s March newspaper—would be cut from the documentary.The filmmakers, directors Molly Bernstein and Philip Dolin, who produced the film alongside Sam Jinishian and Alicia Sams, had a choice. According to Sams, they could choose to buy back their licensing deal, or agree to PBS’s decision and move forward with the broadcast. “We were told the film still has an anti-fascist message, and the audience can connect the dots themselves,” she says. “The irony of censoring someone who is a free speech advocate is maybe lost on PBS, but certainly not lost on us.”
“C” is for Censorship: PBS Cuts ‘Art Spiegelman’ Doc and Other Dubious Acts at Embattled Broadcaster
Twelve days before Art Spiegelman: Disaster Is My Muse (2024) was set to broadcast on April 15 across PBS stations nationwide as part of its strand American Masters, the filmmakers were told that a 90-second sequence—which shows the famous artist dis…International Documentary Association
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Trump Resumes Effort to Destroy Economy
Trump Threatens Big Tariffs on Apple, European Union
Donald Trump threatened to impose big tariffs on Apple products, unless the company moves production to the U.S., and the European Union.Nikki McCann Ramirez (Rolling Stone)
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Trump threatens 25% tariff on Apple products unless iPhones are made in US
Trump threatens 25% tariff on Apple products unless iPhones are made in US
He also threatened a 50% tax on all imports from the European Union. In response, the stock market fell.The Associated Press (mlive)
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25% tariff is still cheaper than re-shoring. Well, Apple never made them here anyways, but you get the point. To make them here, they'd have to jack that price up by way, way more than 25%.
The Daily Show had a guy that wrote a book on how Apple has been one of the biggest reasons for China's economic growth in the past 15 or so years, with them investing like $50 billion a year and driving literally millions of jobs in just their supply chain. Trump isn't changing that. Apple would pull out of selling in the US before they'd reverse course at this point.
Look how quickly they were ready to make and ship devices from India, when the China tariffs firs hit. They are smarter than the Trump admin, and planned for this.
Trump’s Censorship Campaign Draws on Decades of Infrastructure Built by Big Tech
Though the use of this machinery of repression is currently particularly glaring in the crackdown against the movement against the genocide in Gaza, the right is also using this same machinery to attack trans people, immigrants, pregnant people, Black people, anti-capitalists and anti-fascists.
The far right went through a long process of trial and error to build up the power necessary to aggressively reshape U.S. society. When right-wing forces were unable to effectively mobilize in the streets due to fierce resistance, the internet — and social media in particular — became their staging ground. Their dominance was aided by right-wing tech billionaires like Elon Musk and right-wing policymakers like Joel Kaplan, and ensured by the opportunism and acquiescence of unscrupulous tech billionaires like Mark Zuckerberg and Jeff Bezos.
“Every capitulation and act of appeasement only emboldens them more,” Tariq Khan concludes. “The only thing that will stop them is resistance.”
Trump’s Censorship Campaign Draws on Decades of Infrastructure Built by Big Tech | Truthout
Trump’s escalation of censorship and retaliation is terrifying. The groundwork for it was prepared years in advance.Merula Furtado (Truthout)
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Trump bars Harvard international enrolment: How many students will it hurt?
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usnews.com/education/best-grad…
Here is a summary of the legal education of the sitting Supreme Court justices.
- Alito: Yale
- Barrett: Notre Dame
- Jackson: Harvard
- Gorsuch: Harvard
- Kavanaugh: Yale
- Kagan: Harvard
- Roberts: Harvard
- Sotomeyer: Yale
- Thomas: Yale
Now go start a fight with Yale too, Trump.
Bad news for Trump’s Golden Dome: He can’t build it without Canada
cross-posted from: lemmy.ca/post/44616333
President Donald Trump left out a key detail this week when he outlined his plans for a massive missile and air defense shield over the continent: He can’t build it without Canada.Ottawa has historically funded about 40 percent of NORAD investments, according to VanHerck, and is putting $38 billion into the command to add new radars in the north over the next two decades. Without those investments — and additional sensors that can peer over the North Pole — officials believe the U.S. will have trouble putting together a credible North American air defense.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/05/23/trump-canada-golden-dome-00366410
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Trump's image of dead 'white farmers' came from Reuters footage in Congo, not South Africa
Trump's image of dead 'white farmers' came from Reuters footage in Congo, not South Africa
President Donald Trump showed a screenshot of Reuters video taken in the Democratic Republic of Congo as part of what he falsely presented on Wednesday as evidence of mass killings of white South Africans.Reuters (NBC News)
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Good thing a federal judge just blocked it
cbsnews.com/news/harvard-sues-…
Judge blocks Trump administration from stripping Harvard of ability to enroll international students
It is Harvard's second suit against the Trump administration.CBS News
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I would appreciate a source for that. I don't really need it but it at least helps amplify it for the lurkers.
ETA:
Here's one- campaignlegal.org/update/these…
But the reconciliation bill would require anyone suing the government to pay a bond before the court can use its contempt power to enforce injunctions or restraining orders meant to halt illegal actions.By restricting this authority, the House bill threatens the power of the judicial branch. On its own, that represents an attack on the rule of law and the separation of powers that underlies our democracy.
Basically it seems like it is adding a paywall paid by the suer before the judge can use their contempt power against the executive branch. Such a blatant power grab for Trump's executive. Very unfair and bad.
nytimes.com/2025/05/22/us/poli…
The 'big, beautiful bill' ends judicial contempt, so courts won't be able to enforce their decisions and injunctions anymore.
They won, and idiots will vote for it for the tiny tax cut they get back.
Elon Musk’s Fake Retreat From DOGE | Despite the billionaire nominally stepping back, his loyalists remain in control of the group.
Elon Musk’s Fake Retreat From DOGE
Despite the billionaire nominally stepping back, his loyalists remain in control of the group.Will Royce (The American Prospect)
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German company shipped restricted technology to Russia despite EU sanctions, Politico reports
German company shipped restricted technology to Russia despite EU sanctions, Politico reports
According to the report, Kontron used the Slovenian entity to ship over 3.5 million euro ($3.9 million) worth of telecommunications equipment to its Russian subsidiary, Iskra Technologies, between July and November 2023.Kateryna Denisova (The Kyiv Independent)
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Fun fact: during the early part of WWII, when Germany had signed a series of economic and political pacts with the Soviet Union (and before Germany invaded the USSR, obviously), they shipped various weapons systems and other advanced military technologies to Russia as part of the deals. One of these shipments included advanced 37mm anti-aircraft guns and turrets that had originally been earmarked for installation on the Bismarck, which was instead equipped with older, less effective guns. When she made her one and only sortie in 1941, she was fatally crippled by actual biplanes.
The moral of the story is: "don't give shit to Russia".
"It's A Modern Concentration Camp. In These Places, Human Rights Don't Exist
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I totally agree.
A few more of their amazing videos of note from the past year.
What Dollar General Doesn't Want You To Know -
We Put 7 Uber Drivers in One Room. What We Found Will Shock You -
How John Deere Robs Farmers Of $4 Billion A Year -
Analysis: World leaders have a huge new problem: Trump’s Oval Office smackdowns
Just don't go to the White House cause he's gonna ambush you.
Ukraine, Canada, South Africa... Who's next?
https://edition.cnn.com/2025/05/21/politics/trump-ramaphosa-south-africa-meeting-analysis
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"Golden Dome": Trump and Musk’s New Multi-Billion Dollar Scam?
The 15-minute interview: Joe Cirincione on Golden Dome and the long-running US missile defense debacle - Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
An interview with Joe Cirincione, a longtime national security and nuclear policy analyst, about the Trump administration's Golden Dome project and a US national missile defense program that Cirincione calls "the longest-running scam in the history o…John Mecklin (Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists)
I get what you're saying, but did y'all consider "Nuh-uh, Musk is the smartest internet-boi ever, and these will be AI bullets"?
If you really think about it, what does Tesla specialize in? Building cars that accidentally crash themselves and otherwise catastrophically fail in absurd ways. Imagine how easily they could crash into things and cause failures if that were their goal!!!
As a more serious solution, can't we just rub super-cream on loyalists of this administration to give them totally real super powers and then launch them out of cannons to save us from the missiles?
Judge blocks Trump administration mass layoffs at many U.S. agencies
Judge blocks Trump DOGE plans for mass firing of federal workers
The Trump administration has already asked the Supreme Court to block an earlier version of the order on efforts to reorganize the federal bureaucracy.Dan Mangan (CNBC)
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Trump says talks with E.U. are 'going nowhere,' threatens 50% tariff in June
Trump’s post immediately pushed down U.S. stock futures and European markets, with indexes in Germany and France plunging 2%.
Donald Trump threatened imports from the European Union with a sweeping 50% tariff Friday, posting online that trade talks with the bloc are "going nowhere."
In a post on his Truth Social platform, Trump wrote that he was "recommending a straight 50% Tariff on the European Union, starting on June 1, 2025."
Just minutes earlier, Trump had also threatened Apple with a 25% tariff if it does not start producing iPhones in the United States — an outcome industry experts broadly see as a nonstarter.
"The concept of Apple producing iPhones in the U.S. is a fairy tale," prominent tech analyst Dan Ives said in response to Trump's threat Friday.
Trump says talks with E.U. are 'going nowhere,' threatens 50% tariff in June
President Donald Trump on Friday threatened the European Union with a sweeping 50% tariff, posting that trade talks with the bloc are "going nowhere."Steve Kopack (NBC News)
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It's nuts that the markets still react to this clown.
By now I would have expected them all to catch on that he is simply a 14 year old internet troll from a YouTube comment section in the body of a dehydrated Ipomoea batatas full of alternaria.
The things he does (or does not do) will keep changing and being wild. Price that in already.
Trump recommends 50% tariff on European Union starting June 1
Trump calls for 50% tariff on EU, says he's 'not looking for a deal' with bloc
President Donald Trump believes European Union proposals have not matched those from other trading partners, U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said.Kevin Breuninger (CNBC)
And the grift continues.... He found yet another revenue stream for himself and his buddies... manipulate the market. He'll buy again after he tanks the markets and then let go of the tarrifs as he has been doing over and over so he can sell.
Rinse and repeat...
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