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  1. #Trump goon and #FCC Chair #BrendanCarr has threatened to punish #ABC if they air an interview on “#JimmyKimmel Live” of #Texas #Senate candidate #JamesTalarico.

    Jimmy Kimmel has said the interview will go ahead and be released on #YouTube tonight. You can subscribe and be notified when it is available here: youtube.com/@jimmykimmellive

    #Resist #fascism in #USpol hilariously and with #ElbowsUp 💪!

  2. That Jimmy Kimmel can't air an interview with James Talarico because of FCC threats should be an international scandal.

  3. The posts were Trump’s most explicit efforts yet to direct the #FCC to carry out his wishes. FCC Chair #BrendanCarr, a Trump appointee & close ally, did not respond to request for comment.

    #Trump posted a long missive Sunday about what he described as mischaracterizations of his endorsement record in primaries.

    #law #democracy #US #Constitution #FirstAmendment #FreePress #FreeSpeech #authoritarianism #dictatorship #MafiaState

  4. The #FCC, led by its chairman, #BrendanCarr, called for an unusual, early review of the broadcast licenses last spring, citing ABC’s internal diversity & inclusion practices. None of the #ABC licenses, which have terms of 8 years, were up for renewal yet. Carr’s decision came after the ABC late-night host, #JimmyKimmel, angered #Trump with a monologue joke.

    #law #Constitution #FirstAmendment #FreePress #journalism #FourthEstate #censorship #RevengePolitics #MafiaState #dictatorship #fascism

  5. A #SpaceMirror Will Test Turning Night Into Day. What To Know About the Controversial Project

    by Jeffrey Kluger, Jul 14, 2026

    Excerpt: "The company envisions multiple uses for sun-reflecting satellites: assisting search and rescue operations, allowing construction projects to operate around the clock, charging solar power stations, increasing crop yield. But critics cite all manner of risks. Human and animal #CircadianRhythms could be badly affected if the sun—or a simulacrum of it—never sets. The practice of changing the clocks by a mere hour twice a year is already known to mess with human sleep-wake cycles, after all. Plants could bloom when they shouldn’t and die before their time. Orbital mirrors flashing and winking back to Earth could distract airline pilots. Finally, #LightPollution is already interfering with astronomical observations—a problem made even worse by satellite constellations like #SpaceX’s 10,000-strong #Starlink fleet. #ReflectOrbital’s 50,000 birds would dwarf even that."

    Read more:
    time.com/article/2026/07/14/re

    Archived version:
    archive.ph/P4uaz

    #NightSkies #ElonSucks
    #SpacePollution #SunReflectingSatellites #BadIdeas #SpaceTechBros #SendTechBrosToMars #FCCFail #BrendanCarr #WTF

  6. Weekly output: FCC independence, Starlink mobile-broadband ambitions, TAE + TMTG, best WiFi hotspots

    In addition to wrapping up my holiday shopping far later than I expected, this week saw me mostly finish migrating from Evernote to Obsidian after management at the note-taking app I’ve used since 2010 elected to impose a 92 percent rate increase.

    12/18/2025: FCC Scrambles to Edit Website After Chair Refuses to Say Agency Is Independent, PCMag

    Here we have yet another case of the 2025 version of FCC chair Brendan Carr taking a position on a tech-policy issue explicitly rejected by an earlier model year of this man. But this time around, the Trump-loyalist chairman made his heel turn even more obvious by apparently ordering up a hasty edit of the commission’s about-us page.

    12/19/2025: SpaceX Exec Tips ‘Real’ High-Speed Cellular Starlink, With 15K More Satellites, PCMag

    This story started with my attending a space-telecom conference in D.C. two Mondays ago, then I needed to educate myself much more about SpaceX’s ambitions for direct-to-device broadband from a future generation of Starlink satellites.

    12/19/2025: Trump’s Truth Social to Merge With Fusion Startup You’ve Probably Never Heard Of, PCMag

    Will the Trump family still be so enthusiastic about TAE Technologies if their backing somehow helps it finally commercialize fusion power generation and in so doing hammers the last nail into the coffin of the coal-fired power plants so beloved by our scientifically-illiterate president? (Answer: That question is probably irrelevant, because coal is already so uncompetitive that this administration’s fossil-fuel fetishists feel compelled to issue orders to keep obsolete coal plants online on a fake “emergency” basis.)

    12/19/2025: The Best Wi-Fi Hotspot, Wirecutter

    I updated the “What to look forward to” section of this guide–last updated almost a year ago–to note how AT&T has added two newer models to its lineup. One of them looks like an immense improvement over our previous pick from that carrier.

    #ATTHotspots #BrendanCarr #cleanPower #D2D #directToDevice #directToCell #FCC #FCCIndependentAgency #FranklinA70 #fusionPower #SpaceX #Starlink #TAE #TMTG #TrumpMediaTechnologyGroup #TruthSocial #WiFiHotspots

  7. FYI: Fascist #Project2025 ghoul #BrendanCarr who is the new #FCC chair, is going after #newsoutlets for...criticizing Trump.

    That's what NEWS OUTLETS are supposed to do! CRITICISE GOVERNMENT.