Snapshot · The Bulwark Podcast
An Idaho mother was charged with murdering her 18-month-old twins one year after appearing on an RFK Jr.'s Children's Health Defense Fund podcast to blame the deaths on vaccinations.
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Miller revisits the story of Brendan Carr's FCC threatening local ABC affiliates' broadcasting licenses as leverage against critical media — a campaign that continued even after Jimmy Kimmel returned to air. The Media Research Center, a well-funded right-wing group, is pursuing formal license challenges against local stations on grounds of 'communist propaganda.' [1] — Bill Kristol "The Trump administration is using every federal agency — not just the DOJ or White House — to pressure opponents. Brendan Carr's FCC is thr…" 39:00 Kristol contextualizes this through the lens of authoritarianism: the Trump administration is not operating through one central instrument of repression but deploying every regulatory agency simultaneously against opponents — a strategy he calls an 'all-of-government assault' that directly mirrors Orbán's Hungary and Putin's Russia. Each individual pressure point — the FCC, the DOJ, the ODNI — may seem manageable in isolation, but their cumulative effect is the comprehensive suppression of opposition that defines mature authoritarianism.
The Trump administration is using every federal agency — not just the DOJ or White House — to pressure opponents. Brendan Carr's FCC is threatening local TV stations' licenses. It adds up. Kristol calls it an all-of-government assault that mirrors Orbán and Putin: every institution becomes a weapon.
Before Uber, Kalanick built a peer-to-peer file-sharing system and was sued for a quarter of a trillion dollars by 33 major media companies.
CIA operative Edwin Wilson, part of the illegal arms network used by Oliver North, was sentenced to 52 years for supplying Libya with 10,000 machine guns and 20 tons of C4.
US prosecutors sought a 186-year prison sentence for Kim Dotcom, largely because of his financial support for WikiLeaks.
Mario Tabraue, a central figure in Monsters of God linked to drug trafficking and murder, was sentenced to over 100 years in prison but served only 12 years.
Zelig Williams disappeared on October 3rd, 2024 after leaving his mother's home in Columbia, South Carolina and has not been seen since.
Dateline: Missing in America Season 5 features six new unsolved missing-persons mysteries, hoping a listener may hold a crucial clue.
At a high school party, Strickland broke one victim's nose, jaw, and knocked out teeth requiring multiple reconstructive surgeries, resulting in two felony GBI charges.
Joyce LePage's murder has remained unsolved for 55 years despite active investigation from the start.
Joyce's own letter revealed that Mark Wadley had once stayed at a mental institution for trying to strangle people — a detail investigators apparently never followed up on.
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