While I do not watch CNN, because frankly, I am not impressed with its journalism, and don't view it as liberal, just more liberal than say FOX Fake News, I guess Ted leaves a legacy behind. Wonder if Jane Fonda will be at the funeral.
I prefer news from Substack, and I control when I access it. Here Heather Cox Richardson is giving some background to the war and how the journalists are having a hard time sending war news because of the Trump administration's blocking the satellites, as well as Saudi Arabia telling Trump not to use their airspace. It is implied that led to the pause.
Then, we have fascism expert Ruth Ben Ghiat talking about Donald Trump's Secession, but she also has a short piece on Autocrats and their Bunkers embedded in. Here is the video short on Autocrats and their Bunkers. https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Pkh5sqKIePM
Perhaps succession is closer than we think. We see in Turner human mortality despite being super rich. This clip is from Meidas News this week. He says,
" I posted a video today of Trump this weekend walking on the tarmac towards Air Force One where he wasn’t able to walk in a straight line and was pretty wobbly on his feet. You can watch it on Twitter, Bluesky, or Threads.
… An anonymous doctor on Twitter reposted the clip with this caption: 'Ataxia. Issue with the cerebellum. Differential: stroke, degenerative, tumor, or drug adverse effects. We have physiological, behavioral, and observational evidence of chronic stimulant dependence. How this guy has not dropped dead of a cardiovascular or cerebrovascular event, given his poor lifestyle choices and risk factors, defies the odds. It’s coming.' "
It helps to have doctors assess Trump's well being. Clearly he is up and walking about, so he is not a goner yet, but I listened to a discussion by the "Free Speech for the People" group who has been working on a campaign to Impeach Trump since January 20, 2025, yesterday in an Indivisible Abroad meeting. We are going to help them work on this campaign. It starts with signing a petition. Here is a link. Please consider signing just because we cannot wait for nature to take its course. Trump is a danger now.
They tell us that they would like to reach 2 million signatures before sharing it with Congress again. Here are some pints from them.
PROBLEM
In the time since his second inauguration, Trump has carried out an assault on the rule of law, on the checks and balances of power between our co-equal branches of government, and on the United States Constitution with over 27 impeachable offenses to date. These multiple abuses of power are in clear violation of constitutional commands and at the expense of our democratic institutions, constitutional precedent, and the health and safety of all of our people, especially our most marginalized communities.
Congress should have opened an impeachment investigation on Day 1 of Trump’s second administration into Trump’s violations of the Emoluments Clauses and into his unlawful, corrupt campaign practices. Since taking office, Trump has committed a growing list of impeachable offenses. Unless and until Congress takes its constitutional impeachment obligations seriously, Trump will continue to entrench his corrupt interests, usurp authority committed by the Constitution to other government branches, and abuse his power to the detriment of our democracy and the people of our country.
SOLUTION / DEMAND:
Congress must take action and impeach and remove him immediately from public office.
In our Constitution, there is one remedy for high crimes committed by a US President, and that is impeachment. Congress must impeach and remove a president who tramples on the rule of law and the Constitution.
We are calling on Congress to immediately impeach and remove Donald Trump for offenses that he has committed against the people, institutions, and branches of our government.
Trump is not a monarch. He is beholden to the Constitution, as is Congress. And as the Founders understood, if we are to preserve our democracy for the people, then Congress has a duty to investigate, impeach and remove a corrupt executive. Congress must fulfill its duty now!
CALL TO ACTION
This movement for impeachment has been building and growing. A majority of Americans support impeaching Trump, including a plurality of swing-district voters.
Congress will only take action if there is a mandate from the American people. It is up to all of us to ensure that every single one of our representatives does their job.
We can take action by mobilizing out in public and making the demand for impeachment and removal loud and clear.
We can take action by signing the petition at ImpeachTrumpAgain.org. Over a million have already signed.
Thank you Linda, for reminding us and supporting democratic forces! I agree with Julie Roginsky when she describes our current political decadence as WW3. I'm so thankful for Prof's Ruth Ben Ghiatt, Jason Stanley (Erasing History), and Tim Snyder, but equally investigative journalists like Craig Unger, David Kay Johnson, and Zev who have been shouting from the rooftops for a long time.
Ted Turner wanted to buy Nebraska, too. I mean, it’s good for nothing but Buffalo. There was a story about him and Jane Fonda going to a local steakhouse on a Saturday night. They wanted to go to the front of the line. They were told to wait like everyone else. They drove up land prices, making it unaffordable for local farmers. No great loss as far as I’m concerned.
Your ending line says what I saw and felt from the first entrance of sleazy Ted Turner interrupting a good night's sleep. Much appreciated as you say it so well...
"The day Ted Turner died, the world is as complex as ever. 24-hour cable news didn’t give us clarity or transparency; it gave us Donald Trump and the decay of democracy."
I'm not sure impeachment for Orange Thing is the answer to prayers. The DrumphenLout is a liability, not a party asset. A rotting albatross. The DrumphenPurge in Indiana is an example; the Cult does rally to its Cult Leader. First, foremost, always. Also Cult Leader has vast sums of money. Stalin ruled the same way, but Americans are not as cult-driven as people in Siberia, 1946.
Why is the Cult an advantage for the Republicans? It isn't, it merely pushes catastrophic Trump into the mid-terms. Vance is just as dangerous, maybe more. We should perhaps view the bill to impeach as good negative messaging, but it also pumps up Drumph's fake victimhood.
On the question of media and Ted Turner, many good observations. Marshall McLuhan had a core finding that many people don't quite 'get'. It's in the phrase Medium is the Message. It does mean that 24-hr newscasting becomes an entertainment loop. With all that entails. However, McLuhan stressed another, key finding. The Medium does not just transmit message, it TRANSFORMS it, and it transforms its meaning. Listen to a song sung by voice in a windstorm; it's not the same song as the one you hear 10 ft away, when there is no wind.
Stated otherwise, all transmission is transformation. The rise of Donald is reduced to a man behind a desk, on TV shouting Yer Fired! at the camera. Soon, the man is seated at the Resolute Desk.
Look at how 1 original 'message' with complicated layouts is transmitted through 2 media: laptop computer and iPhone. The iPhone version will come across as radically different. But also, read as radically different, across different audiences. Software will pick out an element and highight it, while it screens out elements it doesn't want highlighted.
But audiences are also called 'markets'. Different receiving terminals are manned by different attention spans. The iPhone has its own, so does the laptop.
And wait a sec, all of a sudden there's AI adapting even what the medium programmer thinks is 'meaning' without the programmer's knowledge. Finally, the originators may DELAY adapting for efficient transmission on 1 older medium, while the efficiency is improved on the other, newer. That will push the audience toward both a different terminal and a differing message.
Transformation is according to the physical qualities of the conveyance, and the equipment through which it's read. In that sense, to transform a message, simply push it into a new delivery system. Or emulate an older one! A good example is something nobody ever comments on, layouts of televised live broadcasts.
The easy example is Fox and Friends. Look at the sofas they sit on. Look at the costuming, especially of women guests, and hairdos and shades of haircolor. Look at who's sitting where; look at the set itself, and look at the set's lighting & color scheme. Did you watch 1970s televangelism? If you did, you watched the early Fox & Friends.
On the other hand, this is also on Daytime CNN and Ms Now -- because they're all rivals. But were they always like that?
While I do not watch CNN, because frankly, I am not impressed with its journalism, and don't view it as liberal, just more liberal than say FOX Fake News, I guess Ted leaves a legacy behind. Wonder if Jane Fonda will be at the funeral.
I prefer news from Substack, and I control when I access it. Here Heather Cox Richardson is giving some background to the war and how the journalists are having a hard time sending war news because of the Trump administration's blocking the satellites, as well as Saudi Arabia telling Trump not to use their airspace. It is implied that led to the pause.
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/may-6-2026?r=f0qfn&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web
Then, we have fascism expert Ruth Ben Ghiat talking about Donald Trump's Secession, but she also has a short piece on Autocrats and their Bunkers embedded in. Here is the video short on Autocrats and their Bunkers. https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Pkh5sqKIePM
Here is her story where she is talking about both Trump and Putin being vulnerable and what the probably Trump line of succession is from an autocratic perspective. https://lucid.substack.com/p/succession-the-trump-drama?r=f0qfn&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
Perhaps succession is closer than we think. We see in Turner human mortality despite being super rich. This clip is from Meidas News this week. He says,
" I posted a video today of Trump this weekend walking on the tarmac towards Air Force One where he wasn’t able to walk in a straight line and was pretty wobbly on his feet. You can watch it on Twitter, Bluesky, or Threads.
… An anonymous doctor on Twitter reposted the clip with this caption: 'Ataxia. Issue with the cerebellum. Differential: stroke, degenerative, tumor, or drug adverse effects. We have physiological, behavioral, and observational evidence of chronic stimulant dependence. How this guy has not dropped dead of a cardiovascular or cerebrovascular event, given his poor lifestyle choices and risk factors, defies the odds. It’s coming.' "
It helps to have doctors assess Trump's well being. Clearly he is up and walking about, so he is not a goner yet, but I listened to a discussion by the "Free Speech for the People" group who has been working on a campaign to Impeach Trump since January 20, 2025, yesterday in an Indivisible Abroad meeting. We are going to help them work on this campaign. It starts with signing a petition. Here is a link. Please consider signing just because we cannot wait for nature to take its course. Trump is a danger now.
https://www.impeachtrumpagain.org/
They tell us that they would like to reach 2 million signatures before sharing it with Congress again. Here are some pints from them.
PROBLEM
In the time since his second inauguration, Trump has carried out an assault on the rule of law, on the checks and balances of power between our co-equal branches of government, and on the United States Constitution with over 27 impeachable offenses to date. These multiple abuses of power are in clear violation of constitutional commands and at the expense of our democratic institutions, constitutional precedent, and the health and safety of all of our people, especially our most marginalized communities.
Congress should have opened an impeachment investigation on Day 1 of Trump’s second administration into Trump’s violations of the Emoluments Clauses and into his unlawful, corrupt campaign practices. Since taking office, Trump has committed a growing list of impeachable offenses. Unless and until Congress takes its constitutional impeachment obligations seriously, Trump will continue to entrench his corrupt interests, usurp authority committed by the Constitution to other government branches, and abuse his power to the detriment of our democracy and the people of our country.
SOLUTION / DEMAND:
Congress must take action and impeach and remove him immediately from public office.
In our Constitution, there is one remedy for high crimes committed by a US President, and that is impeachment. Congress must impeach and remove a president who tramples on the rule of law and the Constitution.
We are calling on Congress to immediately impeach and remove Donald Trump for offenses that he has committed against the people, institutions, and branches of our government.
Trump is not a monarch. He is beholden to the Constitution, as is Congress. And as the Founders understood, if we are to preserve our democracy for the people, then Congress has a duty to investigate, impeach and remove a corrupt executive. Congress must fulfill its duty now!
CALL TO ACTION
This movement for impeachment has been building and growing. A majority of Americans support impeaching Trump, including a plurality of swing-district voters.
Congress will only take action if there is a mandate from the American people. It is up to all of us to ensure that every single one of our representatives does their job.
We can take action by mobilizing out in public and making the demand for impeachment and removal loud and clear.
We can take action by signing the petition at ImpeachTrumpAgain.org. Over a million have already signed.
Thank you Linda, for reminding us and supporting democratic forces! I agree with Julie Roginsky when she describes our current political decadence as WW3. I'm so thankful for Prof's Ruth Ben Ghiatt, Jason Stanley (Erasing History), and Tim Snyder, but equally investigative journalists like Craig Unger, David Kay Johnson, and Zev who have been shouting from the rooftops for a long time.
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Ted Turner wanted to buy Nebraska, too. I mean, it’s good for nothing but Buffalo. There was a story about him and Jane Fonda going to a local steakhouse on a Saturday night. They wanted to go to the front of the line. They were told to wait like everyone else. They drove up land prices, making it unaffordable for local farmers. No great loss as far as I’m concerned.
Your ending line says what I saw and felt from the first entrance of sleazy Ted Turner interrupting a good night's sleep. Much appreciated as you say it so well...
"The day Ted Turner died, the world is as complex as ever. 24-hour cable news didn’t give us clarity or transparency; it gave us Donald Trump and the decay of democracy."
"Indiana voters purged five GOP holdouts who defied Trump."
I just want to clarify... that was Indiana Republican voters who purged the 5 GOP holdoust?
As always ZEV, you are spot on! On an environmental note, Ted did bring back the Bison 🦬
🌊🌊
Interesting day.
I'm not sure impeachment for Orange Thing is the answer to prayers. The DrumphenLout is a liability, not a party asset. A rotting albatross. The DrumphenPurge in Indiana is an example; the Cult does rally to its Cult Leader. First, foremost, always. Also Cult Leader has vast sums of money. Stalin ruled the same way, but Americans are not as cult-driven as people in Siberia, 1946.
Why is the Cult an advantage for the Republicans? It isn't, it merely pushes catastrophic Trump into the mid-terms. Vance is just as dangerous, maybe more. We should perhaps view the bill to impeach as good negative messaging, but it also pumps up Drumph's fake victimhood.
On the question of media and Ted Turner, many good observations. Marshall McLuhan had a core finding that many people don't quite 'get'. It's in the phrase Medium is the Message. It does mean that 24-hr newscasting becomes an entertainment loop. With all that entails. However, McLuhan stressed another, key finding. The Medium does not just transmit message, it TRANSFORMS it, and it transforms its meaning. Listen to a song sung by voice in a windstorm; it's not the same song as the one you hear 10 ft away, when there is no wind.
Stated otherwise, all transmission is transformation. The rise of Donald is reduced to a man behind a desk, on TV shouting Yer Fired! at the camera. Soon, the man is seated at the Resolute Desk.
Look at how 1 original 'message' with complicated layouts is transmitted through 2 media: laptop computer and iPhone. The iPhone version will come across as radically different. But also, read as radically different, across different audiences. Software will pick out an element and highight it, while it screens out elements it doesn't want highlighted.
But audiences are also called 'markets'. Different receiving terminals are manned by different attention spans. The iPhone has its own, so does the laptop.
And wait a sec, all of a sudden there's AI adapting even what the medium programmer thinks is 'meaning' without the programmer's knowledge. Finally, the originators may DELAY adapting for efficient transmission on 1 older medium, while the efficiency is improved on the other, newer. That will push the audience toward both a different terminal and a differing message.
Transformation is according to the physical qualities of the conveyance, and the equipment through which it's read. In that sense, to transform a message, simply push it into a new delivery system. Or emulate an older one! A good example is something nobody ever comments on, layouts of televised live broadcasts.
The easy example is Fox and Friends. Look at the sofas they sit on. Look at the costuming, especially of women guests, and hairdos and shades of haircolor. Look at who's sitting where; look at the set itself, and look at the set's lighting & color scheme. Did you watch 1970s televangelism? If you did, you watched the early Fox & Friends.
On the other hand, this is also on Daytime CNN and Ms Now -- because they're all rivals. But were they always like that?
A new report from Reporters Sans Frontieres shows the U.S. is now ranked 64th in press freedom.