President-elect Donald Trump announced on Sunday that he has selected Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Commissioner Brendan Carr to be the chairman of the FCC. “Commissioner Carr currently serves as the senior Republican on the FCC,” Trump said. “Before that, he was the FCC’s General Counsel. I first nominated Commissioner Carr to the FCC in 2017, and he has been confirmed unanimously by the United States Senate three times.” “His current term runs through 2029 and, because of his great work, I will now be designating him as permanent Chairman,” he added. Carr responded to the appointment with a statement on X: “Thank you, President Trump!” “I am humbled and honored to serve as Chairman of the FCC,” he said. “Now we get to work.” Former FCC Chairman Ajit Pai, to whom Carr served as an advisor at the FCC, applauded Trump’s pick. “Congratulations to my friend and former @FCC colleague @BrendanCarrFCC!” Pai said in a statement. “He was a brilliant advisor and General Counsel and has been a superb Commissioner, and I’m confident he will be a great FCC Chairman,” he added. “Best wishes leading the agency!” Carr earned his J.D. Magna Cum Laude from the Catholic University of America’s Columbus School of Law, the Trump transition team said. “Earlier in his career, Commissioner Carr worked as an attorney specializing in Appellate, Litigation, and Regulatory matters,” the statement said. “Previously, Commissioner Carr clerked on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit for Judge Dennis Shedd.” Carr announced in a statement late last week that he was taking on four major Big Tech companies for their involvement in an alleged “censorship cartel” that he says targeted Americans for promoting narratives that the companies did not agree with. Carr sent letters to Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, and Apple CEO Tim Cook requesting that they provide the FCC with information pertaining to NewsGuard — a left-wing organization that has played a role in targeting conservatives online. “Over the past few years, Americans have lived through an unprecedented surge in censorship,” Carr said in his letter. “Your companies played significant roles in this improper conduct. Big Tech companies silenced Americans for doing nothing more than exercising their First Amendment rights.” Carr said that the companies worked with so-called “media monitors” to censor speech involving politics, science, and religion. The companies worked to “defund, demonetize, and otherwise put out of business news outlets and organizations that dared to deviate from an approved narrative,” Carr said. Carr said that various congressional investigations and news reports showed the companies operated this “censorship cartel” with the help of Biden-Harris administration. The letter said: The relevant conduct extended from removing or blocking social media posts to labeling whole websites or apps as ‘untrustworthy’ or ‘high-risk’ in an apparent effort to suppress their information and viewpoints, including through efforts to delist them, lower their rankings, or harm their profitability. This censorship cartel is an affront to Americans’ constitutional freedoms and must be completely dismantled. Americans must be able to reclaim their right to free speech. Indeed, our democracy depends on freedom of expression. Carr said that the incoming Trump administration and Republican-controlled Congress would be taking a close look at the companies’ actions. He requested information about their work with NewsGuard, a for-profit company that bills itself as the Internet’s arbiter of truth by “rat[ing] the credibility of news and information outlets and tell[ing] readers and advertisers which outlets they can trust.” He noted that congressional investigations have found that NewsGuard selects “winner and losers in the news media space” by using its partnerships with advertising agencies to censor targeted outlets. The letter said that NewsGuard’s own track record was a serious problem, for example rating “official propaganda from the Communist Party of China as more credible than American publications.” NewsGuard also has on its advisory board at least one person who “signed the now infamous October 2020 letter from former intelligence community officials that flamed the false claim that the Hunter Biden laptop story was Russian disinformation — a letter that itself fueled a wave of censorship.” Carr said that the companies had until December 10 to provide information to the FCC about all of their products and services that use or enable their customers to use NewsGuard.

Unless you’ve been living on another planet for the last two years, you know we’ve all lived in a Taylor Swift era. With the global success of the Eras Tour, millions of people have been enchanted by the singer and shared in a once-in-a-lifetime concert experience. One of the key elements of an Eras Tour show is trading friendship bracelets. Fans spent months creating the perfect accessories to share while at the show. It seems McDonald’s is also in their Taylor Swift era and introduced a new meal just for besties. That’s the good news. The bad news is you might not be able to get your hands on one. Don’t worry, we’ll explain. @brittany_giaccani Please Canada besties send me your extras ILY #mcdonaldsbestiebundle #mcdonalds #canadatiktok #swifties #taylorswift #taylornation @McDonald’s @mcdonald’s canada ♬ invisible string – Taylor Swift You Can Only Get The Taylor Swift-Inspired Besties Meal in Canada If you live up North, you’re in luck. Canadian McDonald’s new “Bestie Bundle” costs $13 CAD, because, of course, it does. It includes two Junior Chicken sandwiches, two small fries, and two small fountain drinks, per the New York Post. The bundle is a perfect deal for besties to share and comes with limited-edition friendship bracelets. The news came as an exciting revelation, but it bummed out some Americans who can’t get a Taylor Swift McDonald’s meal. TikToker Brittany Giaccani, who lives in the States, said, “Never in my life have I wanted to be Canadian more than today,” while showing pictures of the Taylor Swift-like friendship bracelets from McDonald’s. An American wrote, “Wisconsin is basically Canada. I want my bracelet.” This person is on their way, “We’re going to Canada right now get the plane!!!!” McDonald’s Canada commented, “but can we still be besties.” She will play the last of the Eras Tour in Canada in the next few weeks. We bet Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce will share a McDonald’s Besties Bundle while she’s there. This story’s featured image is by Sombat Muycheen via Shutterstock. The post McDonald’s Celebrates Taylor Swift With A Swiftie Meal Deal —& It Includes A Special Gift appeared first on InspireMore.

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The Regime Media made it their focus to controversialize the Trump cabinet picks on their Sunday Political affairs shows, with results that are mixed at best. Over on NBC’s Meet the Depressed, host Kristen Welker tried that approach and failed badly. Watch as Senator Markwayne Mullin (R-OK) takes Welker to school over the Regime Media’s coverage of controversial picks made by President Joe Biden: NBC MEET THE PRESS 11/17/24 10:16 AM KRISTEN WELKER: Let's talk about President Elect Trump's pick for HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Of course, he has said he believes that no vaccine is safe and effective. You have been on the record defending the efficacy of vaccines. Are RFK's views on vaccines a deal breaker for you, Senator? MARKWAYNE MULLIN: No. I absolutely -- appreciate Bobby Kennedy taking a hard look at the vaccine. There's some questions that have to be made. And I appreciate some of the scrutiny that's going through there. I think Bobby can answer all those. I’ve had multiple conversations with him- I have sat down and had -- long conversations with him and I actually find the guy extremely intelligent when it comes to this stuff. And some of the stuff does raise a lot of questions but I do got a question for you. The Democrats are spending so much time talking about the scrutiny of President Trump's picks and yet, we didn't spend -- spend this amount of time scrutinizing Biden's pick? I mean, we can talk about Rachel, the Assistant Secretary of HHS. I think that's a pretty controversial pick from whatever pronoun he or she decides to use. We talk about Sam, the assistant secretary for -- or executive underneath Energy of -- the Secretary of Energy and the individual was -- was arrested multiple times for stealing luggage off of conveyor belts inside airports. ANd I didn't see this same type of scrutiny the Democrats used on these individuals' picks. There's been a lot of picks. I mean, we can talk about Pete Buttigieg.  WELKER: Wait. Hold on. Senator, let’s   MULLIN: Is he really qualified to lead the Department of Transportation? But I don’t see the same people giving the scrutiny here.  WELKER: Let’s- we…we scrutinized all of those picks robustly.  One of the narratives around the Trump Cabinet picks, certainly the unconventional ones, centers around qualifications and experience. Welker tried to run this play while discussing the Kennedy nomination to HHS. Mullin, the former MMA fighter, stuffed it like it was a single-leg takedown. Welker was left sputtering after Mullin cited the examples of Assistant HHS Secretary Rachel Levine and Sam Brinton, former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Spent Fuel and Waste Disposition in the Office of Nuclear Energy. Contrary to her claims, there was no scrutiny of these administration picks, certainly none equivalent to what we are seeing with these Trump picks. It is worth noting that media scrutiny of Kennedy is focused on his stances on vaccines, while completely ignoring his positions on food safety, which are the centerpiece of the Make America Healthy Again campaign. Time spent trying to gotcha GOP members of Congress on vaccines is time spent away from FD&C Yellow #5, Red #40, and seed oils.  Mullin caught this, exposed this, and turned the tables on Welker. Allowing the media to impose its narrative is a choice. Now, more than ever.

NEW: Trump Announces Who Will Become Chairman of the FCC

Photo by Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images President-elect Donald Trump said on Sunday that intends to name Brendan Carr as chairman of the Federal Communications Commission. Carr, a commissioner at the FCC since 2017, has made a name for himself by threatening to use the commission’s powers to regulate speech online and over the airwaves. Carr authored Project 2025’s section on the FCC, using it to proposed restrictions on social media platforms meant to bolster conservative speech. He proposed limiting the legal shield that gives websites wide latitude to host and moderate user-generated content. He also suggested putting regulations on tech companies that would limit their ability to block and prioritize that content as they choose. In the lead up to the election, Carr... Continue reading…

President-elect Donald Trump will tap Brendan Carr as chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, he said in a statement on Sunday.

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