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  • memento_mori
    memento_mori Posts: 5,762 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @silvermouse said:

    Coverage fom the German press since the reaction from the affected parties may be biased, lol.
    Trump is attempting to make dissent illegal. Hopefully the conservative base will be uneasy about this.

    White House launches tracker to call out 'media offenders'
    Roshni Majumdar
    14 hours ago14 hours ago
    The White House has launched a tracker designed to call out "media offenders" every week. The site labels every story the Trump administration objects to by classifying them into categories like "lie" or "bias."

    https://www.dw.com/en/white-house-launches-media-bias-tracker/a-74954883

    Good 'ol fashioned trolling....

    Regarding a cigar, the pipe and the open road, go forward without hurry, learn the essence of things through frequent experiences, taking advantage of every occasion.

  • silvermouse
    silvermouse Posts: 23,876 ✭✭✭✭✭

    That aimed at my post or at Trump? I don't think having an opinion on a political discussion forum qualified as trolling, but to each their own.

  • memento_mori
    memento_mori Posts: 5,762 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @silvermouse said:
    That aimed at my post or at Trump? I don't think having an opinion on a political discussion forum qualified as trolling, but to each their own.

    Trump.

    Regarding a cigar, the pipe and the open road, go forward without hurry, learn the essence of things through frequent experiences, taking advantage of every occasion.

  • silvermouse
    silvermouse Posts: 23,876 ✭✭✭✭✭

    With Trump v. Slaughter, presidential power may grow larger than ever before.

    https://www.nationalreview.com/2025/12/a-farewell-to-the-separation-of-powers/

  • TRayB
    TRayB Posts: 3,886 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @silvermouse said:

    With Trump v. Slaughter, presidential power may grow larger than ever before.

    https://www.nationalreview.com/2025/12/a-farewell-to-the-separation-of-powers/

    Echoing the majority of the comments that I read on the story, according to the author the best way to preserve the "separation of powers" is to turn over executive, legislative, and judicial (including punitive) powers to an unelected bureaucracy accountable to no one. At least he rightly points out the first president to attempt firing heads of an agency was FDR, who was shot down by the Supreme Court. In deference to the SC's decision, FDR set about with a court-packing scheme to fill the court with reliable administration judges. LOL.

  • dirtdude
    dirtdude Posts: 6,354 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I think we have an unelected bureaucracy already

    A little dirt never hurt
  • TRayB
    TRayB Posts: 3,886 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @dirtdude said:
    I think we have an unelected bureaucracy already

    Indeed, and the author of the linked article is concerned that it's power may be reduced.

  • dirtdude
    dirtdude Posts: 6,354 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Reduce it to 0

    A little dirt never hurt
  • ShawnOL
    ShawnOL Posts: 13,917 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Ru Ning the country is the legislature's job. They've been handing off the responsibilities to bureaucrats for too long. How about make them actually run the country instead of passing the buck. Maybe they'd have less time for the **** they actually do.

    Trapped in the People's Communist Republic of Massachusetts.

  • silvermouse
    silvermouse Posts: 23,876 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited December 6

    The US National Park Service (NPS) is removing Martin Luther King Jr Day and Juneteenth from its list of fee-free entrance days.

    The move is part of President Donald Trump's "modernisation" of the park service, which, beginning in 2026, also includes changing the parks' cost structure to favour American citizens over foreign visitors, following a July executive order from Trump.

    In addition to removing the two holidays that celebrate civil rights leader MLK Jr and the end of slavery in the US, the agency is adding Flag Day, which is also Trump's birthday, as a "patriotic" fee-free day.

    https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cr7l4n89lr1o