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Associate Prof. of Composition & Rhetoric and Writing Program Admin. Let's talk digital rhetoric, technical & professional communication, and assorted nerdery. brockoleur.com

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Brendan Carr tweet: Broadcasters that are running hoaxes and news distortions - also known as the fake news - have a chance now to correct course before their license renewals come up.  

The law is clear.  Broadcasters must operate in the public interest, and they will lose their licenses if they do not. 

And frankly, changing course is in their own business interests since trust in legacy media has now fallen to an all time low of just 9% and are ratings disasters.

The American people have subsidized broadcasters to the tune of billions of dollars by providing free access to the nation’s airwaves. 

It is very important to bring trust back into media, which has earned itself the label of fake news.

When a political candidate is able to win a landslide election victory after in the face of hoaxes and distortions, there is something very wrong.  It means the public has lost faith and confidence in the media.  And we can’t allow that to happen.

Time for change!

Trump "Truth":

Yet again, an intentionally misleading headline by the Fake News Media about the five tanker planes that were supposedly struck down at an Airport in Saudi Arabia, and of no further use. In actuality, the Base was hit a few days ago, but the planes were not “struck” or “destroyed.” Four of the five had virtually no damage, and are already back in service. One had slightly more damage, but will be in the air shortly. None were destroyed, or close to that, as the Fake News said in headlines. The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal (in particular), and other Lowlife “Papers” and Media actually want us to lose the War. Their terrible reporting is the exact opposite of the actual facts! They are truly sick and demented people that have no idea the damage they cause the United States of America. Fortunately, as proven by our Great and Conclusive Election Win in 2024, the People of our Country understand what is happening far better than the Fake News Media! President DONALD J. TRUMP

Brendan Carr tweet: Broadcasters that are running hoaxes and news distortions - also known as the fake news - have a chance now to correct course before their license renewals come up. The law is clear. Broadcasters must operate in the public interest, and they will lose their licenses if they do not. And frankly, changing course is in their own business interests since trust in legacy media has now fallen to an all time low of just 9% and are ratings disasters. The American people have subsidized broadcasters to the tune of billions of dollars by providing free access to the nation’s airwaves. It is very important to bring trust back into media, which has earned itself the label of fake news. When a political candidate is able to win a landslide election victory after in the face of hoaxes and distortions, there is something very wrong. It means the public has lost faith and confidence in the media. And we can’t allow that to happen. Time for change! Trump "Truth": Yet again, an intentionally misleading headline by the Fake News Media about the five tanker planes that were supposedly struck down at an Airport in Saudi Arabia, and of no further use. In actuality, the Base was hit a few days ago, but the planes were not “struck” or “destroyed.” Four of the five had virtually no damage, and are already back in service. One had slightly more damage, but will be in the air shortly. None were destroyed, or close to that, as the Fake News said in headlines. The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal (in particular), and other Lowlife “Papers” and Media actually want us to lose the War. Their terrible reporting is the exact opposite of the actual facts! They are truly sick and demented people that have no idea the damage they cause the United States of America. Fortunately, as proven by our Great and Conclusive Election Win in 2024, the People of our Country understand what is happening far better than the Fake News Media! President DONALD J. TRUMP

FCC to journalists: cover the Iran war the way the president prefers or lose your broadcast license.

14.03.2026 16:42 👍 2395 🔁 1120 💬 170 📌 182
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I read the “Save America Act,” so you don’t have to. Most of the media apparently *hasn’t* read it because, if they had, they would be sounding the alarm about the provision in Point 1, below, which almost none of them have even mentioned. I hope this summary helps raise awareness. 1/

13.03.2026 20:14 👍 4825 🔁 3110 💬 201 📌 258

Fascinating live thread of a US Attorney verbally sweating as his excuses are slowly and methodically unraveled by a federal judge too savvy to believe anything other than they were using AI to fabricate pretty much an entire brief on behalf of the DOJ in an attempt to deceive the court

10.03.2026 20:37 👍 131 🔁 39 💬 1 📌 1

This is the most blasé admission of a war crime by a US president in history.

Trump has just disclosed, without prompting, that the US Military committed a war crime - literally just to brag & make his Republican audience laugh about unnecessarily killing 100+ Iranians instead of capturing them.

09.03.2026 21:26 👍 2695 🔁 725 💬 33 📌 17
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2027 Call for Proposals - Conference on College Composition and Communication Resources Proposal deadline for the 2027 CCCC Annual Convention is 9:00 a.m. ET on Wednesday, May 27, 2026. Full Call for Proposals Criteria and Guidelines General Information Program Format Area Clus...
07.03.2026 18:59 👍 12 🔁 8 💬 0 📌 1
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Kansas Sends Letters To Trans People Demanding The Immediate Surrender Of Drivers Licenses "The legislature did not include a grace period."

It seems all Kansas-issued trans drivers' licenses are invalid, effective tomorrow

It is now illegal for trans people to drive a car until they surrender their license at a DMV (that most will need to drive to) and have it reissued with the wrong gender marker

This was never about woman's sports

26.02.2026 01:43 👍 9406 🔁 4617 💬 232 📌 672

The National Science Foundation’s entire budget is $10 billion.

21.02.2026 18:02 👍 933 🔁 376 💬 11 📌 9
Article II, Section 1, Clause 7:
The President shall, at stated Times, receive for his Services, a Compensation, which shall neither be encreased nor diminished during the Period for which he shall have been elected, and he shall not receive within that Period any other Emolument from the United States, or any of them.

Article II, Section 1, Clause 7: The President shall, at stated Times, receive for his Services, a Compensation, which shall neither be encreased nor diminished during the Period for which he shall have been elected, and he shall not receive within that Period any other Emolument from the United States, or any of them.

This is strictly unconstitutional btw.

It’s only even being discussed because john Roberts and the gang of six have suspended the constitution

20.02.2026 01:19 👍 148 🔁 31 💬 1 📌 1

U.K. might lose a prime minister because a guy who worked for him knew another guy who hung out with Epstein. Meanwhile the U.S. opposition party is telling our President, who was Epstein's best friend, that his secret police should get better training so their public street murders look less messy.

09.02.2026 16:07 👍 32621 🔁 9746 💬 528 📌 350

Absolutely insane to block the cheapest, cleanest, and quickest form of power as electricity demand soars. Trump policies are hurting consumers, companies, & communities

07.02.2026 00:58 👍 60 🔁 35 💬 0 📌 0

He cannot be clearer. There is no difference to him between bombing random fishermen on boats and shooting Americans protesters in the face

05.02.2026 04:30 👍 3532 🔁 990 💬 109 📌 31
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exactly. this is not difficult.

as.ft.com/r/58ed1b23-d...

03.02.2026 13:21 👍 20367 🔁 5290 💬 238 📌 216
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Trump goes public with plan to "take over" elections After the FBI seized 700 boxes of ballots in Georgia, the president calls on Republicans to assert control over voting "in at least 15 places.”

Days after FBI seizes 700 boxes of ballots in Fulton County GA, Trump says Republicans “should take over the voting in at least 15 places.” He’s once again saying quiet part out loud & openly telegraphing his plan to interfere in midterms www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

02.02.2026 21:02 👍 435 🔁 244 💬 26 📌 17

We didn't say body cams on ICE. Their murders are already on video. We said no more ICE.

02.02.2026 22:16 👍 6355 🔁 1531 💬 46 📌 20

Fuck. I’ve not had anything tech-y go down for a year or so, clearly, so I didn’t realise how impossible it now is to look up “how do I reset my XXXbrand wireless network?” or similar. It’s all AI slop now. Invasive tech knotweed. All the YouTube videos that used to be humans are astroturfed shit.

02.02.2026 23:10 👍 77 🔁 13 💬 10 📌 1
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How the Supreme Court Secretly Made Itself Even More Secretive

i am very much of the view that undermining the court’s secrecy is a necessary part of remaking it into something like an actual court (and not some guardian council) www.nytimes.com/2026/02/02/u...

02.02.2026 13:56 👍 6587 🔁 1276 💬 93 📌 59

All in all I'd have to say I don't enjoy being ruled by semi-literate perverts with infinite money

31.01.2026 19:04 👍 2612 🔁 636 💬 15 📌 4
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How a billionaire with interests in Greenland encouraged Trump to acquire the territory US president’s friend Ronald Lauder – who first proposed Arctic expansion – is now making deals in the island

Fun fact about new Fed chair Kevin Warsh: he’s married to the daughter of billionaire makeup baron Ronald Lauder, the guy who also convinced Trump he desperately needed to seize Greenland, which helped his own business interests. It’s grifting all the way down

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

30.01.2026 12:18 👍 347 🔁 187 💬 16 📌 20
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College approached and paid student to write op-ed in The Dartmouth The Dartmouth ran the article on Nov. 17 without knowledge that the College had been involved. 

The college at which I'm employed, which has signed a contract with the AI firm that stole books from 131 colleagues & me, paid a student to write an op-ed for the student paper promoting AI, guided the writing of it, and did not disclose this to the paper. www.thedartmouth.com/article/2026...

29.01.2026 22:40 👍 2068 🔁 806 💬 62 📌 91
Simpson Family in their church outfits. Homer has a little flag that says 'AWARDS' on it

Simpson Family in their church outfits. Homer has a little flag that says 'AWARDS' on it

i haven't done this since twitter but at the request of 1 (one) person, OSCAR NOMINEES AS SIMPSONS SCREENCAPS THREAD

29.01.2026 13:15 👍 376 🔁 130 💬 10 📌 11

Just a reminder, the greatest living American historian filmmaker, Ken Burns, released a 720 min exploration of every facet of the American revolution using zero generative AI and paying for all of its assets instead of cobbling it from stolen data, then he gave it away for free on PBS this year.

29.01.2026 19:08 👍 11005 🔁 3299 💬 83 📌 43
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DHS Says Critical ICE Surveillance Footage From Abuse Case Was Actually Never Recorded, Doesn't Matter Court records reveal the incredibly sad state of ICE's evidence retention systems.

New: DHS now says that two weeks of missing surveillance footage from ICE's Broadview Detention center isn't "missing," it was never recorded in the first place and thus can't be produced in an abuse lawsuit. An utter shitshow:

www.404media.co/dhs-says-cri...

27.01.2026 16:41 👍 2708 🔁 1154 💬 115 📌 154

Now that the White House is using AI to edit photos of their political opponents to create fascist propaganda I’m wondering if anyone could have seen this use of AI coming. Okay I’m hearing lots of people did and they were forced to watch corporations smother the masses with the technology anyways

22.01.2026 23:55 👍 5883 🔁 1589 💬 43 📌 27
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Jared Kushner presented a 'master plan' for Gaza at the Board of Peace event this morning. Slides included 'New Gaza' and 'New Rafah'.

22.01.2026 14:41 👍 890 🔁 388 💬 205 📌 259

ICE must be abolished and everyone responsible for this decision making process, as well as those who carried out the orders, charged and prosecuted with severe jail time.

This is a CLEARCUT violation of the Fourth Amendment, and shows a complete contempt for our Constitution and the rule of law

21.01.2026 23:11 👍 1359 🔁 338 💬 29 📌 8

🚨HOLY CRAP. An ICE whistleblower just revealed a secret memo authorizing ICE officers to break into homes without a judicial warrant, which DHS's own legal training materials say is unconstitutional!

ICE then hid the memo from the public, passing it along by word of mouth and private conversation.

21.01.2026 22:00 👍 27090 🔁 16054 💬 1138 📌 1634

the federal government is now kidnapping native americans and holding them hostage in exchange for i.c.e. cooperation agreements with their tribes

14.01.2026 14:11 👍 352 🔁 223 💬 3 📌 7

I need to become more active posting, but I can rarely resist a good pun opportunity.

14.01.2026 21:37 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

"Guattari even doing here?"

14.01.2026 21:35 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Elon Musk Cannot Get Away With This If there is no red line around AI-generated sex abuse, then no line exists.

There is a crisis of impunity. The Musk/Grok stuff is just one f many examples of people who are counting on there never being any consequences. And it all makes me just incandescently mad.

14.01.2026 00:27 👍 4109 🔁 1167 💬 78 📌 86