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When you work for Sinclair Broadcasting, you are fuel for the Trump propaganda machine, Just like the people that work for the RT.

Let's take a closer look at Sinclair...

#TheResistance

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The FCC, under the direction of @AjitPaiFCC, are undoing regulations to allow a pro-Trump news organization to buy out local news stations across the country.

There are, rather, were laws in place to prevent this from happening.

#TheResistance

nytimes.com/2018/02/15/tec…
In addition to being the destroyer of the free internet (TM), @AjitPaiFCC also met with Sinclair Broadcasting right after the inauguration and started removing restrictions that Sinclair wanted removed.

#TheResistance

nytimes.com/2017/08/14/us/…
The Tribune merger is at the heart of all of this. Sinclair will be in 72% of American homes, free to spread their right wing biased media.

This eviscerates FCC principles: diverse ownership, diverse viewpoints, and localism.

#TheResistance

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The Justice Department has said no way Sinclair can merge with Tribune as it will absolutely stifle competition around the country.

#TheResistance

nytimes.com/2018/02/27/bus…
Sinclair is attempting to subvert this by selling off stations to people that are friendly to Sinclair and will do what they want.

#TheResistance

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And, just to tie this into #StupidGate, Jared Kushner admitted to trading political favors (aka, the Tribune merger) for favorable campaign coverage for the Trump campaign.

Which, PS, is like 100% illegal.

#TheResistance

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Sinclair requires it's channels to air segments that don't tilt to the right so heavily skew to the right.

For example, they said people shouldn't vote for HRC because, at one point, Democrats were pro slavery.

(So were Republicans...)

#TheResistance

nytimes.com/2017/05/12/bus…
Sinclair likes Boris Epshteyn so much, they increased his must runs to 9 times a week.

Boris is a former citizen of the Soviet Union and, apparently, is still a #communist. Oh, and under investigation in the Mueller probe.

#TheResistance

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Remember last week's must runs?

The scripted segments Sinclair forced their stations to run sounded like it was a mashup written by Suzanne Collins, Veronica Roth, and John Marsden.

Dystopian.

#TheResistance

nytimes.com/2018/04/02/bus…
Sinclair likes to threaten their employees into not talking to the press about how they have the must runs.

#TheResistance

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Finally, Sinclair likes to lock their employees into non compete contracts that require the employee to buy their way out of any contract signed in order to leave the station.

#IndenturedServitude

#TheResistance

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Incoming transmission: #StupidGate thread...mostly looking at Manafort and Gates, their legal troubles, the Mueller investigation, and their Russia/Ukraine dealings.

(Original research done by reddit user PoppinKREAM, commentary and organization are mine).

#TheResistance
Manafort first started working for Putin via Russian Oligarch Oleg Deripaska back in 2006.

This was halfway through Putin's first term. And US/Russia relations were...strained.

#StupidGate

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Also in 2006, it is TOTALLY NOT SUSPICIOUS that Manafort bought a ton of real estate in New York in cash.

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Just wanting to lay out a timeline of some of the skullduggery the @GOP (specifically @SpeakerRyan, @SenateMajLdr, and @DevinNunes) have been up to in a timelined tweet.

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09/30/16 GOP ignores warnings from the Intel community that Russians are hacking the election, instead choosing to focus on the HRC email "scandal."

#TheResistance

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12/11/16 McConnell blocked Obama from going public with the Intel Communities' assessment the Russians hacked the election, even after the Gang of 12 were briefed on the matter.

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Who funds the IEA, the TPA, the ASI &co?
You know, the RW 'free trade' thick tanks advocating tax havens, "freedom" (no regulations like workers' rights or environmental protection), no welfare (no tax & no free healthcare).
Basically, "Only the wealthier survive" philosophy?
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*Could it be* that it has something to do with defending their funders' interests?
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Featuring Atlas, huge piles of money, tradition, "free speech", useful idiots and a very clear agenda that Brexit/Trump are a part of.
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1. This thread will take a closer look at the #FakeNews media.

"The people will believe what the media tells them they believe." –George Orwell

#MAGA #WWG1WGA #QAnon #QArmy #WeThePeople #Trump #OneNationUnderGod #GreatAwakening #UnitedWeStand #KAG #Americafirst
2. During the Cold War, one news commentator ironically noted that the Soviet people were actually less brainwashed than Westerners. In the USSR, people would receive Pravda and immediately toss it in the trash, saying “Ah! Party propaganda!”

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3. But in America, people would get the New York Times and believe every word, under the illusion that “we have a free press, so we can’t possibly be brainwashed.”

Dr. Mark Crispin Miller, Professor of Media Studies at NYU echoed these same sentiments:
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After 70 years of imperial/neoliberal indoctrination the web of lies is so obviously absurde (9/11, Skripal, WH = ISIS, etc.), that it is dissoluting. The empathetic humanity connects, closes ranks and sends their eternal psychopathic rulers and their lackeys into nowhere land.
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Identify 'The Problems with Democracy' by Heather Marsh to protect society from firms like Cambridge Analytica, Russia, and others that wish to exploit your community & you.

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#Breaking badaboum de la nuit US. Hier soir, vers 22h, le ministre de la Justice Sessions a licencié #McCabe l'ancien no.2 du #FBI, ennemi juré de #Trump,accusé de faute professionnelle par 1 rapport de l'inspecteur général Horowitz...26h avant sa retraite.washingtonpost.com/world/national…
2)...et #breaking...le président #Trump a qualifié par tweet ce licenciement EXCEPTIONNEL d'1 haut fonctionnaire du FBI comme 1 grand moment pour la démocratie US. Autrement dit il se réjouit du renvoi d'1 fonctionnaire de carrière pour motif politique.
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