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yes! somehow counter fox news further eroding the hearts & minds of viewers.

A bonus: using the library card gives them the numbers they need to defend their budgets.

Will share. Thanks

Uh, that ship has sailed. Telling the world that they must say “Gulf of America” because it’s “the law” is straight out of “1984”—and a straight-up lie to boot.

this IS censorship

What's next is that everyone subscribes privately, if they have any sense. 🤷🏻‍♂️

We don't want the State Department becoming aware of current events.

Where "Trump unfriendly" means "factual", of course. Next, he'll be banning Wikipedia, the BBC and Enc brit.

Pathetic, pissy little babies

so much tiny dick energy

Is this action legal /enforceable?

Good to note that it doesn't include Wired or any international press organization.

Maggie Haberman cannot believe her sugar daddy Trump would do that to her.

They cancel subscriptions to HighLights. “What’s wrong with this picture?” Is filled with leftist propaganda dogma

Rubio has priorities? What exactly are they?

The Economist and the New York Times! For an ‘anti-wokery’ ‘free speech for all’ Administration, they’re awfully precious, aren’t they. #bbcpm

The end of free press on a federal level.

It really is facism folks. Info control is a key part of the take-over plan.

It’s Orwell’s 1984 2.0

Smh

This is the action of an authoritarian government.

The Economist - A well known Marxist publication 😂😂

It really makes one wonder why the New York Times is still carrying Trump's water. Maggie Haberman probably knows.

The first target of all oligarchs & other authoritarians: the *independence* of cultural life — freedom of information and media, freedom of expression, freedom of religion, freedom of education, freedom of art, & last but not least the freedom of gender identity. #followthecompass Agree? Share!

What was that about free speech Mr vance?

[removes initial response] JFC Having a breadth of sources is essential for anyone, but especially the State Department. This hinders balanced and unbias analysis of the geopolitical landscape. Who else has authoritarian coup in less than 21 days on their bingo card?

Wow. WOW.

I hope they will send free copies as an act of defiance.

So much for people having private lives, and personal opinions. Free speech and all that.....

Book bans and magazine bans don’t work! The truth can’t be suppressed!

Welcome to state run media run by the a corrupt Felon who is an adjudicated rapist.

The economist - famously a leftist commie rag. They aren’t against political foes - they’re against TRUTH itself.

Doesn't sound like it's the employee's personal subscriptions, it's what the gov't is paying for. I mean, that sounds reasonable. In a facist dictatorship.

Love that they think NYT is hostile to Trump

Poor Trump. No need for a victim complex. Banning reading magazines that don’t like him.

Probably because they tend to deal in the realms of reality?

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This is bad but it’s a little funny because half of them have been carrying water for the republicans including trump for years (especially politico and the “accountability journalists” at the times). Hopefully, there is a lesson there about sucking up to would be tyrants

"Non–mission critical media" begs the question, What is the mission?

LA Times is ok; Soon Shiong axed Harris endorsement and criticism of Trump www.latimes.com/california/s...

And we in Europe are the ones censoring....right. Again, we should keep a list.

Oh, the Bezos' s WP is spared, how strange.

And as anyone knows, those are in no way "unfriendly" to Trump. But fascists can only tolerate the most pure propaganda as a demonstration of their power when they take control. bsky.app/profile/dave...

See @nytimes.com, you bent the knee and they still canceled you

It's notable that the Washington Post is not on the list. Bezos' ass kissing pays off.

Only "Trump unfriendly" because they mostly tell the truth.

They are showing exactly who they are. Believe them.

It will come to US private life too. Don't worry. Project 2025 is just setting the scene to limit all deviant information. Just like independent media was persecuted in Russia and China. The US will be a full blown authoritarian state in 2 months.

The silence about these things in the US is deafening. 320 million people are taken to the slaughterhouse and the majority of politicians, judges and citizens does even raise an eyebrow. I studied History and read a lot about Germany 1930ies... Now I am seeing it happen... Live.

Bring it to the courts. Immediately. Something about the Constitution.

Because if you pay for it it’s not free speech? Is that how it works in their heads?

I'm surprised that academic journals survived the cut, given the administration's hostility towards universities.

It’s hilarious they think NYT is not pro-Trump.

#dethronetrump ^^

“Resources align with priorities“ ?!? So being aware of the landscape isn’t important? Oh sorry no silly me that just intellectual elite bollocks isn’t it

Well, that escalated quickly.

Oh no poor Politico years of sucking up to the Right didn't pay off

Why don't they just pour acid in the eyes of federal employees and get it over with - - WTF❕

It must be exhausting to have such a fragile ego.

Freedom à la Trump 🙄

They can have personal subscriptions to those news outlets their own selves -- the State Dept is not going to pay for those data sources. * takes a deep breath, tries to unclench jaw *

continuous subscriber since ~1983

what?! the FT didn't make the cut? @financialtimes.com work harder!

It's amazing the control and suppression being exhibited

What was that about freedom of speech?🤨

Isn't a synonym for "trump friendly media" just "fact based media"?

Land of the free they say

The idea that there is a left-bias at any of these publications is patently absurd.

🇨🇵 1984! Normal! It's Putin influence.In Munich, Mr. Vance made recommendations to us on good American practices that we are asked to follow.Accept annonymous criminal point of view, insults, defamation etc. eat american junk food to be herd of obese sheep. Fight fight fight...

And after the NYT has been tripping over itself to curry favor with them. It’s amazing people still think that works.

Does Kemi, she of the free speech, know?

Is Trump forcing Disney to drop Dr Who @danharmon.bsky.social @mrjamesob.bsky.social

The INR has long boasted the best track record of the whole Intelligence Community, and their work is based mostly on reading the press.

Some of those did their utmost to please Donald. Yet it wasn't enough. It's never enough. Will they learn? 🤔 (no, of course not)

So how do they check this? Do they just see if their dot gov email is being used for it? Enforcing this any other way seems impractical

All that cocksucking the NYT did hasn't turned out so well.

Sorry, are they forcing employees to cancel subs, or merely cutting funding? Genuine question, it's not clear to me (and I'm not American so slightly out of the loop). Ie, is there anything to stop employees from taking out personal subs?

Many, many people are freaking out, not just you.

Too busy getting their brain cells re-wired by Facebook memes

Looks like they cannot subscribe to any media that is not a strictly "academic or professional journals.” So they think it is a good idea to cut foreign diplomats from accessing any news? WTF is wrong with these people? Are they going to just give our nation to Putin or what?

But you can still get actual leftist pubs, they won't know them from Adam, lol.

You noticed that RT is still available. Such traitors.

I guess all that groveling didn't help the New York Times. Will the rest of the bootlickers learn? Doubtful.

I wonder if there'll be mandated subscriptions to alternative news outlets? Are there enough there that are pro-Trump? Will it just be multiple subscriptions to the New York Post and maybe the UK's Telegraph and Daily Mail?

Seems pretty illegal under first amendment but what do I know

More like, “we must be doing something right! Let’s keep doing exactly the same thing.”

Most.

Not all, just way, way too damn many.

Home of the free.

Same group like Lindner/FDP, begging for Broligarch's attention 🙈

Says it all.

E o povo ainda fala que isso é uma democracia

Good, now we know for sure that those media mentioned are reliable and we need to subscribe and keep checking them if we want to know the truth.

"Land of the free" they say...

If money's the real issue (which of course it isn't) they need some gift subscriptions. Next up, they're going to be checking phones for news apps, right?

Let the brain washing begin in earnest! #resist

Everyone should cancel their @nytimes.com subscription

“Mission critical” is of course Musk language

Unbelievable. As in, only unbelievable media will be allowed in future.

The State Dept has an open source intelligence analysis division. News publications are critical to understanding the “temperature” in the world. A formerly critical function of DoS and one that other intel agencies would lean on for context.

Obviously, tons of super useful international content for State Department staff on Gateway Pundit, so who needs The Economist. I’m guessing they’ve already signed up for Pravda for everybody…

To be replaced with subscriptions to Pravda and Isvestia

Uh, that's one way to look at it. Another is that Politico just got a lot of flack as waste and abuse by DOGE, and this is getting ahead of that for similar news sources.

The New York Times is hardly “Trump-unfriendly media.”

Lol, it’s hilarious that two openly conservative rags like Politico and NYT are getting cancelled even though they play the theater of being liberal

Yes! More #basketcaseUSA

Nope

Horse and Hounds not on the list. Presumably people can still subscribe privately - and bring them into the office to share.

Truth and Trump don’t get on

You can leave out the 'perhaps'.

A reminder: the only way they win is, if we do nothing & accept their vision of free. I do not accept their definition of free.

Isn’t it the State Department’s entire job to read foreign sources?

It reads more like the offices are being forced, not individuals and their personal subscriptions