@w7voa
my #VoiceofAmerica colleagues terminated “for convenience" As of May 10 2025 ️50 #VOA journalists have been fired. #SaveVOA

Make a NEW company and keep telling the news
Volunteers of America 🇻 🇴 🇦

@TCatInReality
#VOA converted to #propaganda pushing out #OAN crap

#Newsmax and #SinclairBroadcastGroup who funds them?

@peachfront really scary to hear, hugs

Bullies R Scary, that's their MO

@BrownIsBeautiful “Convenience?” What the heck does that mean

MONEY?

Cratering in the polls, and losing left right and center in court, the Trump regime spent this week scrambling to install a permanent fascist order before the peasants show up on the National Mall with pitchforks; and we wrote about it all in this week's The Skinny.

https://www.ninaillingworth.com/2025/05/07/the-skinny-may-1st-7th/2/

The Skinny: Building A Patchwork Enabling Act

"I confess that on some level it’s probably amusing to picture Trump sitting in front of a TV and getting big mad when it tells him Black and trans people exist, he shouldn’t bully overweight people, and the abortion bans he facilitated are hurting American women. The reality here however is that in signaling what the president doesn’t want to see in publicly-funded media, he’s effectively articulating a Christian Nationalist agenda. As we’ve discussed numerous times on this blog, the regime is not just fighting a material war to install a fascist dictatorship in our society; they’re also fighting an authoritarian cultural war on our discourse, our history, and who is allowed to matter in our media entertainment complex. The ideological headcage Trump is trying to use state power to enforce here, is just as important to the Trumpenrich project to create a white ethnostate dictatorship under the Kelpto Kaiser, as its material expansion of the American fascist police state is."

David Seide, senior counsel for the #GovernmentAccountabilityProject, which is representing plaintiffs in litigation against the #Trump admin, called the announcement “shocking & illegal” & said it will be challenged in court.

Last year, #OAN settled a #defamation lawsuit w/ #Smartmatic, the #voting tech company, over its coverage of the #2020election & promotion of the #BigLie.

#KariLake’s announcement was met w/outrage from #VoiceOfAmerica staff, who pointed to #OAN’s #FarRight views, promotion of #ConspiracyTheories & support of #Trump.

“VOA is not to be the voice of left America nor the voice of right America,” said Steve Herman @w7voa, chief national correspondent for #VOA.

“#USAGM cannot dictate [that] VOA run OAN content. It would be a violation of our fire wall & our charter, which are #laws,” he said.

Charles Herring, president of #OAN, confirmed, “OAN will be supplying an extensive amount of programming, including ‘Hungry Heroes,’ a series that highlights the incredible work performed by our first responders and military.”

The #Trump admin is fighting in court to defend a March EO dismantling the #USAGM. The order led to >1k #VoiceOfAmerica staffers being placed on paid administrative leave, & broadcasting has stopped for the first time in the organization’s history.

@jeffjarvis
RE
They're not even in power and these dicks can't govern

You can say that again

Speaking of those clowns governing, they pushed out #disinformation that the goverment funding bill had 3 billion USD for a sports stadium in WashDC. (FALSE)

Many #foxnews #newsmax #oan viewers believe it and see this as it's the _Democrats_ who "can't govern"

#MattGaetz withdrew his name from consideration in the face of #Senate opposition & is now set to join the conservative One America News [#OAN] Network as an anchor in January.

Matt Gaetz has new gig lined up as anchor on conservative news network OAN
https://www.salon.com/2024/12/10/matt-gaetz-has-a-new-gig-lined-up-as-an-anchor-on-conservative-news-network-oan

"I couldn't be more thrilled to join OAN's forward-thinking team," Gaetz said

* Gaetz has backed away f. Trump2 attorney general nom.
* resigned f. Congress
* unapologetic America-first agenda

One America News Network: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_America_News_Network

#USpol #MattGaetz #disinformation #OAN #FakeNews
#Trump2 #GOP #fascism #authoritarianism #Project2025 #Trumpism
#Christofascism #misogyny #SexAbuse

Antonio Mugica, whose firm was slimed by unfounded #FarRight #ConspiracyTheories about a stolen 2020 #election, made a confidential settlement last wk in his #defamation suit against #Newsmax, months after scoring another confidential settlement in a proceeding against #OAN. But he’s due in court early next yr for a case against the biggest #conservative network of all: #FoxNews, which #Smartmatic is suing for $2.7B over alleged false claims related to #Trump’s loss.

@DemocracyMattersALot

Gigabytes of data from the #heritagefoundation has been released somewhere, but to tell the truth, do we really need anything more than this? (see short video)

Don't get me wrong, the more evidence of Heritage Foundation #propaganda and #disinformation is a GOOD THING, because there are uninformed voters who get #misinformation from #newsmax #foxtv #oan etc

Paul Weyrich _wanted_ more voter suppression, they are still playing this game

Look at the bias distribution on this story, top right under Coverage Details.

Bias works in more than one direction. Not reporting news is a deliberate bias. At this time, not a single rightwing news source has dared to report this story. They are keeping their audiences in the dark. Deliberately.

"Pro-Trump network OAN execs may have ‘engaged in criminal activities’"

https://ground.news/article/pro-trump-network-oan-execs-may-have-engaged-in-criminal-activities-while-promoting-2020-election-lies-smartmatic-alleges