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Biden’s broadband plan wasted billions, favored political allies, and failed rural voters. Trump scrapped it — and Democrats are furious. President Trump has consistently applied one simple litmus test to any government program: Does it work? If so — a rare occurrence — he keeps it. If not, he either ends it or reforms it. Intentions, noble or otherwise, count for nothing. Execution is everything. For Americans, this is good news. For bureaucrats who enjoy wasting taxpayer dollars while pretending to serve the public, it’s a nightmare. From zero to nowhere If you need an example, just look at the...

The CEO of a company that benefited immensely from the Lifeline program, commonly referred to as ‘Obama phones’ during the Obama administration, has been sentenced to five years in prison and, along with his company, ordered to pay $128 million in fines. Issa Asad, 51, of Southwest Ranches, FL, and his company, Q Link Wireless, were sentenced for a years-long scheme to steal over $100 million from the ‘Obama phone’ program dating back to 2012. Asad was also sentenced over charges of money laundering. Between 2013 and 2019, Q Link Wireless made $618,736,494 from the Lifeline program. According to the...

This week has demonstrated that the tech “broligarch” who’s most influenced President Donald Trump’s second administration isn’t Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, or Marc Andreessen—it’s Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison, the 80-year-old software tycoon who recently became the second-richest man in the world. Just look at everything that’s gone his way. On Thursday evening, the Federal Communications Commission finally voted to approve Paramount’s $8.4 billion merger with fellow entertainment firm Skydance Media. The controversial, long-awaited deal only came about thanks to Paramount’s appeals to this administration: settling a baseless lawsuit that Trump brought against 60 Minutes for “deceptively” editing its Kamala Harris...

Stephen Colbert declared to Donald Trump that “the gloves are off” in his first broadcast since his Late Show was cancelled amid a political firestorm, as his fellow hosts lined up to defend him with Jon Stewart scathingly denouncing Paramount for trying to “censor and control” its hosts. Colbert, the top-rated late-night talk show host in the US, said last week on his CBS show Late Night – which he took over from David Letterman in 2015 – that Paramount’s decision to pay a $16m settlement to Trump over another flagship CBS show, 60 Minutes, amounted to a “big fat...

MSNBC contributor Joyce Vance seems to believe illegal aliens are justified in shooting federal immigration enforcement agents because they think they’re being kidnapped. No, really. Hear her for yourself. (WATCH)https://x.com/WesternLensman/status/1944535049476743189

A plan to implement multilingual alerts during natural disasters was put on hold only five months after the deadly fires in Los Angeles California Rep. Nanette Diaz Barragán is urging the Federal Communications Commission to move ahead with the program.California Rep. Nanette Diaz Barragán urged the Federal Communications Commission on Monday to follow through on plans to modernize the federal emergency alert system and provide multilingual alerts in natural disasters for residents who speak a language other than English at home. The call comes nearly five months after deadly fires in Los Angeles threatened communities with a high proportion of...

A federal court ruled in favor of religious and other broadcasters on Monday against a Biden administration rule that would have required them to annually report employees’ genders and ethnicities. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit vacated a Federal Communications Commission (FCC) “workforce diversity” rule from 2024 in response to lawsuits from the National Religious Broadcasters and other groups that argued the regulation violated constitutional rights. Trump-appointed FCC Chairman Brendan Carr celebrated the ruling as he continues his broader push to end left-wing policies at an agency with significant control over America’s airwaves. “The FCC’s 2024 decision...

Reports of over-prescribing and excess drug spending make regulation necessaryDrug commercials have become commonplace in the U.S. The average American watches more than nine drug advertisements a day, or more than 16 hours a yearopens in a new tab or window. Only two countries in the world, the U.S. and New Zealandopens in a new tab or window, permit direct-to-consumer marketing of prescription medications. Since the practice became routine in the 1990s, concerns have been voiced about how such marketing creates unhelpful and even harmful pressures on patients, doctors, and communities. And while those concerns are not new, recent reports...

President Donald Trump’s FCC commissioner said Friday he’s opening an investigation into the Walt Disney Co. and its ABC television network to see whether they are “promoting invidious forms of DEI discrimination.” FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr announced the probe in a letter to Disney CEO Robert Iger on Friday. The company said it was reviewing the letter and looking forward to answering the commission’s questions. Carr has pushed the Federal Communications Commission into an activist role since Trump appointed him as its leader. For example, the FCC currently has open investigations into ABC, CBS and NBC News. “For decades, Disney...

Media and telecommunication companies that promote diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) ideology will face increased scrutiny from the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC), with the agency potentially moving to block license transfers and acquisitions in accordance with President Donald J. Trump’s executive order barring DEI policies across the federal government. FCC Chairman Brendan Carr says the agency will no longer approve merger and acquisition proposals from companies that promote “invidious” DEI policies that result in unfair discrimination.“Any businesses that are looking for FCC approval, I would encourage them to get busy ending any sort of their invidious forms of DEI...

Plans are underway to create “Freedom Cities” — privately controlled corporate enclaves that would operate outside federal oversight — across the United States.According to Wired, a coalition of tech billionaires, venture capitalists, and corporate advocacy groups is drafting congressional legislation and meeting with the Trump administration to bring these experimental cities to U.S. soil.The outlets reports that these cities would be “free from certain federal laws,” allowing unregulated human longevity trials, nuclear reactor startups, and unrestricted infrastructure projects to move forward without government approval. As Wired puts it:The goal of these cities would be to have places where anti-aging clinical...

Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Brendan Carr is asking the CEOs of Alphabet and Google for answers regarding possible discrimination against faith-based programming. YouTube TV is allegedly refusing to carry Great American Family, and Carr posted a letter online Friday addressed to Sundar Pichai of Alphabet, Inc. and Neal Mohan of Google, Deadline reported. According to Carr, Great American Media complained to him about the issue. He did note that several networks including Comcast and Hulu do carry the network. The chairman explained that Google launched YouTubeTV in 2017. The Deadline article said, “Carr acknowledged the limitations on the FCC’s...

Republicans will receive a briefing on the FCC probe into George Soros’ takeover of 200 radio stations. FCC Chairman Brendan Carr is set to address how Biden’s FCC fast-tracked the deal.

The establishment media’s grip on public opinion is under threat after the Trump administration launched a large-scale investigation of the industry. The administration’s initiative comes as Americans’ trust in the establishment media to report current events “fully, accurately and fairly” plummeted to a record low in 2024

60 Minutes was caught in another completely fabricated report on Sunday night. Their lies are becoming sloppy. This time 60 Minutes aired a segment about a sad young mother Kristina Drye who was fired from USAID in Washington DC this month. But this was a complete lie. Kristina Drye does not work for USAID. She works for XLA and Jefferson Partners, a company that provides speechwriting services for USAID. Kari Lake has more. Kristina Drye was Samantha Power’s speechwriter – the former head of USAID! This entire segment was bullsh*t Kristina Drye was Samantha Power’s speech writer. Samantha Power was...

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is reportedly considering revoking CBS's broadcast license after the network aired a controversial interview with former Vice President Kamala Harris on "60 Minutes.” The interview sparked widespread outrage and calls for accountability after the network aired a misleading version, including highly distorted answers from Harris’ responses. According to a lawsuit filed by President Donald Trump, CBS violated state law by demonstrating deceptive acts in business conduct and “doctored” a "word salad" response from the failed Democrat presidential candidate about the Biden administration's involvement in the Israel-Hamas war. The FCC’s review stems from concerns that the...

Last week it was reported that the FCC is investigating CBS’s deceptively edited 60 Minutes interview with former Democrat presidential candidate Kamala Harris. President Trump’s FCC Chair Brendan Carr demanded that CBS hand over the unedited transcript of the infamous ’60 Minutes’ interview with Kamala Harris. On Wednesday, the FCC released an unedited, raw version of Harris’s ’60 Minutes’ interview. Watch:

Federal Communications Commission Chairman Brendan Carr is investigating a radio station owned by the George Soros-controlled Audacy. The development comes as a response to an MRC bombshell which revealed that the radio station unmasked undercover law enforcement agents conducting operations in the gang activity-plagued San Jose, California.

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has launched an investigation into a radio station backed by leftist billionaire George Soros that revealed the locations of undercover Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents. A stake in more than 200 Audacy radio stations across the United States was purchased by a Soros-backed group last year. Among those stations was the San Francisco-based KCBS 740, which revealed the live locations of undercover ICE vehicles and agents that were conducting deportation operations around San Jose. The FCC's Enforcement Bureau has reportedly sent a formal Letter of Inquiry to the station as part of an investigation Fox...

On Monday’s broadcast of CNN’s “Laura Coates Live,” CNN Chief Media Analyst Brian Stelter stated that while CBS’s editing of its interview with then-presidential candidate Vice President Kamala Harris was mistaken and “a mess,” “that’s all it was. It was editing. It wasn’t a conspiracy to help Harris and hurt Trump, and that’s what it’s been turned into by Trump’s team. The fact that his pick for the FCC has decided to investigate this, it shows that everything based on a faulty premise is being taken very seriously by the Trump administration.” Host Laura Coates asked, [relevant exchange begins around...