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Chuck DarwinVoice of America staff sue Trump administration for shutting down networkSix Voice of America journalists sued Kari Lake and the Trump administration on Friday, alleging their moves to shut down the U.S.-funded network were unlawful and unconstitutional.The journalists say that the government’s acts violate their First Amendment rights on free speech grounds and usurp the U.S. Congress’s control of the power of the federal purse.More than 900 full-time network employees were placed on indefinite leave last weekend; 550 contractors were terminated from their jobs. Most employees at the federal parent, U.S. Agency for Global Media, were also placed on indefinite leave.The lead plaintiffs include <a href="https://c.im/tags/Patsy" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Patsy</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Widakuswara" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Widakuswara</a>, until recently Voice of America’s White House bureau chief and <a href="https://c.im/tags/Jessica" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Jessica</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Jerreat" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Jerreat</a> , its press freedom editor. Four other journalists sued anonymously as John Does. <a href="https://c.im/tags/Kathryn" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Kathryn</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Neeper" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Neeper</a>, the director of strategy and performance assessment at the U.S. Agency for Global Media, is also a named plaintiff. She was also placed on leave. Few Voice of America journalists are known inside the U.S.; the network is prohibited from broadcasting to American audiences. Nonetheless, Widakuswara made headlines twice: First in pressing Trump’s then-Secretary of State Mike Pompeo in early 2021 over the siege of the U.S. Capitol and, earlier this month, in asking Irish Taoiseach Micheál Martin about “the president’s plans to expel Palestinians from Gaza” at an appearance with President Trump at the White House <a href="https://whistleblower.org/in-the-news/npr-voice-of-america-staff-sue-trump-administration-for-shutting-down-network/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no">https://whistleblower.org/in-the-news/npr-voice-of-america-staff-sue-trump-administration-for-shutting-down-network/</a>

Off-GridAwesome Futurist Duck – Ep. 48In which we study an Awesome Futurist Duck, probe negative lands, give the punctuation a shake, and raise a glass in a waterfront pub. Cheers! === If you think you can pencil us bunch of schmucks into your schedule, please click to play…. […]<a href="https://offgrid.tlmb.net/2025/01/26/awesome-futurist-duck-ep-48/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://offgrid.tlmb.net/2025/01/26/awesome-futurist-duck-ep-48/</a>

Gay CurmudgeonMy lifelong friend Joan dressed as "Patsy" for the premier of the "Absolutely Fabulous" movie in 2016. And she was. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/absolutelyfabulous" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#absolutelyfabulous</a> #2016 <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/patsy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#patsy</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/joannalumley" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#joannalumley</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/thenewavengers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#thenewavengers</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/sapphireandsteel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#sapphireandsteel</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/television" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#television</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/britishtv" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#britishtv</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/britishtelevision" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#britishtelevision</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/britcom" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#britcom</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/britcoms" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#britcoms</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/texasbelle" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#texasbelle</a>

Chuck DarwinTake it from conservative national security experts: Trump is unfit Four-times-indicted former president Donald Trump’s terrifying plans to assume dictatorial powers (and try for a third term), deploy the military against civil protesters, create a massive police state to carry out mass deportations and use federal power to exact revenge on his opponents 🔸should be enough to convince voters that his election would be a disaster for the United States domestically. However, returning him to the position of commander in chief and “leader of the free world” is just as scary on a global front. Don’t take it from me; just listen to two former senior Republican national security experts.  Former national security adviser John <a href="https://c.im/tags/Bolton" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Bolton</a> recently told Jordan Klepper of “The Daily Show” that his former boss “doesn’t understand alliances.” Bolton opined that Ronald Reagan would be “appalled” by the MAGA Republican Party, and added that Trump has a “fascination with authoritarian leaders.” Bolton also concurred with former secretary of state Rex <a href="https://c.im/tags/Tillerson" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Tillerson</a>’s description of Trump as a “f---ing moron,” though Bolton refrained from using the expletive. (Klepper taunted Bolton for, after all that, saying he would vote for neither President Biden or Trump. “Great. So, in the race between a current president and a former president, it looks like the winner will be the Russian president.”)  Bolton has previously said of Trump: “He’s fundamentally ignorant, and he really doesn’t care about the facts. He thinks international relations are about personal relations, which is a line and approach that I can tell you, Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping are eagerly looking forward to.” Trump’s ignorance and overweening narcissism make him easy pickings for manipulative dictators. (Trump came to regard North Korea’s Kim Jong Un as a friend because he sent “love letters.” He turned over foreign signals intelligence to Russians in the Oval Office.) He is, in other words, a <a href="https://c.im/tags/patsy" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#patsy</a> for strongmen whose object is to weaken the United States.  Trump declared that he would invite Putin to invade NATO countries that didn’t contribute sufficiently to the alliance’s collective defense. (He continues to misunderstand how NATO forces are funded.) His well-known hostility toward European allies and threats to ditch NATO should indicate to any voter concerned about national security that Trump’s return to office would spell <a href="https://c.im/tags/disaster" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#disaster</a> for international peace and stability.<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/05/23/gates-bolton-foreign-policy-trump-warning/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no">https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/05/23/gates-bolton-foreign-policy-trump-warning/</a>

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