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Trump is the federal government. the 1st amendment was specifically supposed to prevent government interference with the press.

demanding that media publish the presidents words with no editorial interference is exactly what the founders were worried about when they created 1A.


free speech absolutists demand (checks notes) that the NYT allow Trump to write all its headlines.

the first amendment was not meant to allow the president to seize control of all media. it seems weird that you have to explain this to free speech defenders.

this is what happens though when you fetishize the speech act and completely lose track of what freedom of speech was supposed to do in the first place.

the president is literally the person the 1A is supposed to *protect media from.* It's supposed to allow media to criticize him and have an editorial policy independent of the government!
The Tony Blair Institute!!!
"The Tony Blair Institute for Global Change is a non-profit organisation set up by former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair which proclaims its ambition as being to help make globalisation work".


https://t.co/qMotcsqrsI
Who exactly, are "OUR TEAMS" Tony? Who decided they could be "EMBEDDED" in Governments around the World? Why Weren't the Public Consulted?


https://t.co/1OZT7wDAno
"The Tony Blair Institute (TBI) & Oracle have brought cloud technology to Africa to manage public health programs. Ghana, Rwanda, and Sierra Leone will use the new Oracle Health Management System to create electronic health records for vaccination programs

https://t.co/2G004hNGen
3rd January
"Tony Blair urges UK to step up vaccination programme"
The entire country must be placed under a Covid-19 vaccination programme, according to Tony Blair. He insisted that a goal should be set to increase vaccinations to five million per week.


https://t.co/I1rZ2cqUaW

"Tony Blair 'was bidding for contracts with the EU for his 'institute for global change' as he campaigned against Brexit".
The big story in Parliament today really isn't which of three bad options the Opposition parties will choose. It is the absolute travesty of parliamentary democracy that is about to play out: a microcosm of the shattering effect Brexit has had on our constitution. [THREAD]

MPs are being asked to shovel through, in a single day, a bill that was published yesterday, implementing a treaty agreed six days ago, which comes into force tomorrow night. The European Communities Act 1972 was debated in Parliament for 300 hours. Today's bill will get about 5.

MPs will have at most four minutes to speak on a trade agreement covering more than 1,200 pages. Few will have had time to read it anyway, and their votes will mostly be cast by the Whips. The entire charade will be over shortly after lunch.

Today's legislation doesn't just transform our trade relations. As @jeff_a_king points out, it gives ministers the power to rewrite vast swathes of domestic law without further scrutiny. It is a massive transfer of power from Parliament to the Executive.


Parliament has to do this with the legislative equivalent of a gun to its head. The UK's current terms of trade with the EU cease to exist in 48 hrs. MPs cannot inflict a crash-out on their constituents, so all that's left for the Opposition parties to argue about is positioning.