This is not getting enough attention:

[Wiz Imp]

This guy is as corrupt as anyone in the Trump Administration. (He's also a dishonest piece of shit)

Brendan Carr, chair of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), was an author of Project 2025.

https://www.them.us/story/fcc-chair-brendan-carr-jimmy-kimmel-charlie-kirk-abc-suspension-congress

Carr wrote the chapter of Project 2025 surrounding the FCC. “The FCC should promote freedom of speech,” he wrote to start the chapter, according to The New York Times.

“This was all in Project 2025, btw,” Glee star Kevin McHale posted to social media as the announcements rolled out. The tweet came after Hale reposted another tweet that framed right-wing attacks on the media — including the removals of Kimmel and Stephen Colbert as well as lawsuits against The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and 60 Minutes by the Trump administration — as attacks on the First Amendment.

In response, Carr tweeted a GIF of Jack Nicholson nodding in what appeared to be confirmation. Project 2025 is a 920-page policy blueprint published by the Heritage Foundation. It has been characterized as a direct undoing of the system of checks and balances in the U.S.; suggests transforming the FBI into a partisan entity; dismantling the Department of Education; and more including implementing a barrage of anti-trans measures. Trump has repeatedly disavowed connection to the document.

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2025/sep/18/brendan-carr-fcc-jimmy-kimmel

Tom Wheeler, a former FCC chair appointed by President Barack Obama, said Carr is “incredibly bright” and savvy about using the broad latitude given to the chairman, “exploiting the vagaries in the term ‘the public interest’”. Instead of the deregulation Trump promised voters, the administration “delivered this kind of micromanagement”, Wheeler said. “It’s not the appropriate job of the FCC chairman to become the censor-in-chief,” Wheeler said.

The lone Democrat on the FCC, Anna Gomez, criticized Carr for “using the weight of government power to suppress lawful expression”. Gomez called ABC’s decision “a shameful show of cowardly corporate capitulation” that threatened the first amendment, and said the FCC was operating beyond its authority and outside the bounds of the constitution.

“If it were to take the unprecedented step of trying to revoke broadcast licenses, which are held by local stations rather than national networks, it would run headlong into the first amendment and fail in court on both the facts and the law,” Gomez wrote in a statement. “But even the threat to revoke a license is no small matter. It poses an existential risk to a broadcaster, which by definition cannot exist without its license. That makes billion-dollar companies with pending business before the agency all the more vulnerable to pressure to bend to the government’s ideological demands.”

From Wikipedia:

Carr stated his intention to broaden the FCC's mandate to include social media companies. Carr ordered an investigation into NPR and PBS sponsorships as a violation of commercial advertising regulations and stated that he did not believe Congress should continue to fund both organizations.

Carr heralded a shift in the Federal Communications Commission's purpose towards leveraging the bully pulpit against opponents of Trump's ideology. An ally of Elon Musk, he awarded Musk's SpaceX federal radio spectrum and began an investigation into EchoStar over 5G deployment requirements, threatening to give satellite spectrum to SpaceX instead; in response to the inquiry, EchoStar stopped paying interest payments. In April, Carr urged European countries to sign contracts with SpaceX over Chinese competitors. He eliminated a proposal that would have barred landlords from forcing bulk internet service on residents and publicly questioned the Global Positioning System, seeking alternatives.

In March, Carr told Bloomberg News that he would block any mergers involving companies with diversity, equity, and inclusion; the following week, he announced that he had opened an investigation into The Walt Disney Company over its diversity, equity, and inclusion policies. Citing a complaint from Great American Media, Carr sent a letter to Google chief executive Sundar Pichai and YouTube executive Neal Mohan asking if YouTube TV was engaging in "faith-based discrimination". The following month, T-Mobile closed its joint venture deal with Lumos Networks after agreeing to end its diversity, equity, and inclusion policies. The Federal Communications Commission approved Verizon's acquisition of Frontier Communications in May, assuring a commitment from Verizon that it would end its diversity, equity, and inclusion practices

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[rubbersole]

1. Turning every aspect of the federal government into a grift.

Congress is complicit. 250 years of respect for law and each other is being dismantled for profit by a handful of uber-wealthy sociopaths. They won't stop until they've got it all. Millions will lose everything.

[Cha]

2. TY Kick!