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2025
2025-01-16 Trump announced that he selected three actors as his “Special Ambassadors” to Hollywood to give him “insight” on what is going on in Hollywood.
2025-09-24 Fox News reported that Google was suing the Biden administration, asserting that the Biden administration pressured them to censor information.
2025-09-26 Trump quipped that he would make the TikTok algorithm 100% MAGA if he could.
2026 January
2026-01-27 After TikTok was forced to sell to a US company, users began noticing any material mentioning anti-Trump, ICE or Epstein files were being censored and shadow-banned.
https://www.cnn.com/2026/01/27/media/tiktok-trump-ice-epstein-censorship-tech-issues
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jan/30/tiktok-us-takeover-new-type-of-censorship
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ckgjedpn8p8o
2026 February
2026-02-11 Gallup announced that after 88 years, it would no longer track presidential approval ratings./
https://thehill.com/homenews/media/5733236-gallup-stops-presidential-approval-ratings-polls/
2026 March
2026-03-26 In the case of Anthropic refusing to allow unchecked use of their AI tools for autonomous weapons and mass surveillance, District Court Judge Rita Lin wrote, “Nothing in the governing statute supports the Orwellian notion that an American company may be branded a potential adversary and saboteur of the U.S. for expressing disagreement with the government”.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TGFkuH7GRX8&list=WL&index=1&t=388s
2026-03-28 This was the date of the third No Kings Protest rally. The White House said in a statement, “The only people who care about these Trump Derangement therapy sessions are the reporters who are paid to cover them”.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cq8wy7g1gd1o
https://www.cbsnews.com/baltimore/news/no-kings-protests-in-maryland/
2026 April
2026-04-13 Hollywood actors, writers and directors signed an open letter to voice opposition for the Paramount-Warner Brothers-Discovery merger. Part of the letter reads, “The integrity, independence, and diversity of our industry would be grievously compromised. Competition is essential for a healthy economy and a healthy democracy. So is thoughtful regulation and enforcement”.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cz0egvr94zro
2026-04-14 Turning Point USA rallies in Georgia attracted an embarrassingly small crowd, and TPUSA blamed it on left wing activists.
https://www.newsnationnow.com/politics/tpusa-vance-small-crowd/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-GywilCedo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pfIt7Oopqc
https://baptistnews.com/article/tpusa-event-draws-small-crowd-in-georgia-as-erika-kirk-no-shows/
SUBSCRIPTION WALL https://www.thedailybeast.com/jd-vances-no-show-tpusa-crowd-in-athens-georgia-gets-brutal-reaction-on-ms-now-morning-joe/
2026-04-30 Congress passed a 45-day extension of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) section 702. This is controversial because the bill would allow the government to abuse the power and spy on American citizens while claiming it’s for national security.
https://www.instagram.com/reels/DXuC4IvCKz9/
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/04/30/fisa-section-702-congress-extension.html
https://www.axios.com/2026/04/29/house-passes-fisa-intelligence-bill-senate-opposition
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F2YMqZvyvMs&list=WL&index=3&t=56s