Their digital version will be competing with Bezos’ Washington Post for biggest suck-up to Trump. Aside from some excellent magazines like The Atlantic and smaller news outlets like Mother Jones and Pro Publica, we’re left with one major national news outlet, the NYT. And even they are playing Trump’s game with their news headlines never criticizing him. Some of their op eds do criticize him, but who knows how long that will last. I believe Trump thinks that he no longer needs the media because he can do anything he wants, so who cares what the media says.
All the dangers of a Trump presidency became evident in less than a week. He has declared at least two laws to be null, birthright citizenship and the right to seek asylum.
He, or his Project 2025 surrogates, have already crippled parts of the government by dismantling DEI efforts and encouraging coworkers to snitch on one another. I can see people being reported simply for hiring a minority or woman instead of any white male who applied.
He has started his military purge by firing the head of the Coast Guard.
He has stopped the communication of any federal health data to the public and eliminated any information about abortion and healthcare for women.
He has declared that federal law will recognize all people as male or female, which denies the right of existence under the law for LGBTQ+.
He has ordered the NIH to stop making research grants. I believe the purpose here is to politicize the grants by sending federal dollars first to research universities, qualified or not, in red states. Research universities in blue states will be required to revamp their curricula to teach Republican and religious propaganda or their medical research teams will receive no grants. This will set back cancer and other medical research for years, and that is the research most needed for improved treatment of cancer, diabetes, and other major medical conditions.
Hs DOJ has been ordered not to enforce civil rights actions and to stop any pending agreements to curb excessive police force. In other words, all civil rights violations will simply be ignored.
All that in less than a week. I’m sure I’m forgetting something, but the speed with which these changes have been made fall in line exactly with the Project 2025 plan to start remaking the government into an authoritarian theocracy on day one. The media really failed the country by refusing to give much credence to this manifesto for tyranny or to explain to voters what was in it and what its implementation would mean first them.
= new reply since forum marked as read