Welcome to McFascists, may I take your rights? Would you like beatings with that?
All joking aside, this is atrocious. Dems in Congress should be throwing a massive tantrum over it and demanding that he be dragged before Congress to answer for it.
The worst contaniment in USA water is Pruitt.
âWhen the reporter asked to speak to an EPA public-affairs person, the security guards grabbed the reporter by the shoulders and shoved her forcibly out of the EPA building.â
Who owns the EPA building? WE DO! It just doesnât seem real, that this is possible but if trump can bust down the DOJ, FBI, why not cabinet members?
I hope she, AP, and CNN sue for every possible violation of free speech, civil rights, and whatever else they can. Must we depend only on the ACLU to protect us?
And in the meantime, where is the outrage from Democratic leaders? Why the silence?
And for assault. They had absolutely no right, power or authority to even touch her.
This should be a much bigger story. Sets the stage for the same treatment of the press at even higher profile events if this gets swept under the rug. Give 'em an inch, and theyâll take our free pressâŚ
Spot on. I hope she files a police report ASAP. Or is that, too, something that doesnt wor or matter anymore. Maybe if she kicked him right in the balls this would get some traction.
Looks like itâs happening now.
This should be the only thing that any news organization reports about the EPA until the problem is fixed. Other news organizations should black out everything except the bare reports of regulatory malfeasance.
AP provides news to the majority of papers in the US, very few of which have reporters in Washington. CNN, while pretty hackish overall, does occasionally hit hard and they too serve a lot of people who donât read the national print media. The thugs that run this administration are seeing orange in their futures. Quite the look for a guy who needed a mansion in Little Rock so he could present the âappropriateâ look as OK Attorney General. Howâs he going to decorate his new digs?
Congrats, Ray. You just got your name back in Cheeto Mussoliniâs mouth for another round of bad press. Wonder how long this is going to last, because Pruitt doesnât seem to be smartening up any.
When the plebeians capture the palace, Pruitt will be drawn and quartered.
Pruitt is the guy that really needs to be impeachedâŚ
THIS is censorship by utter, unapologetic fascists!
Yo, fellow âcitizenâ- gonna keep sitting on your hands while the Trump admin destroys American Democracy?
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Become a Precinct Committee Officer, sometimes itâs a Ward officer. Meet your neighbors and get out the vote. Find good citizens willing to run for office.
Run for School Board. Make sure Civics is being properly taught. Think a majority of America knows how government works? Just 26% of eligible voters in America voted for Trump, and half of all voters stayed home last November. HALF! Todayâs 12-year olds will be voting for President in 6 years. Make sure theyâre prepared.
Run for Mayor, City Council, County Commissioner, Borough Assembly. And get on your Planning Commission.
Run for State Legislature or Congress. The next census is in 2020 when weâll redraw Congressional Districts. Make them fair and open. Trump is ALREADY trying to rig the census- talk about âvoter fraudâ!
Register people to vote. If you need to help people overcome the GOP-led voter-run-around campaign help them do that. This site, https://www.aauw.org/resource/organize-a-voter-registration-drive/, has a how-to on organizing a voter registration drive. Or even sitting outside Wal Mart with a folding chair and a card table. Yes, thatâs the American Association of University Women. And while weâre here organize a League of Women Voters chapter in your community if you donât already have one. Fair, honest and above board. Democracy functions better with them involved.
Civics, civility and civilization all share the same roots.
In other âdemocraciesâ if a government official tried to censor a reporter ALL the reporters in the room would walk out.
American press? MehâŚ
Guards barred an AP reporter from passing through a security checkpoint inside the building. When the reporter asked to speak to an EPA public-affairs person, the security guards grabbed the reporter by the shoulders and shoved her forcibly out of the EPA building.
Are we sure this isnât just another Trump rally?
EPA Blocks AP, CNN From National Summit On Harmful Water Contaminants
Yeah like that totally is going to work. Keep AP and CNN and they would not be able to find out what was said, and the rest of the coverage is going to be sterling.
Move along nothing for YOU to see here.
The Republicans are the gift that keeps on giving to the Democrats. That blue wave itâs coming your way in November just grew by 6 feet.
What are you hiding, what donât you want the public to know.
The irony, of course, being the way they all huffily stood up for Fox when Obama called them out for being a propaganda organ. Iâm sure Fox is totally going to remember that and reciprocate.