This week, David and Lisa guest-host Joshua talk about USS Abraham Lincoln deployment morale concerns; lack of news coverage of Netanyahu rejecting U.S.-backed Gaza peace; Trump executive order on childhood vaccines and MMR shots and conspiratorial mindsets; new Avengers Doomsday movie and updates on X-Men reboot; gossip around Trump’s secret Air Force One switcheroo; Trump’s “Media Offenders” tracker and database on official WhiteHouse.gov website; Erin Brockovich mapping AI data centers; and more.
Join us live to discuss Trump’s Vaccine EO With Dr. Zeest Khan, Monday at noon.
My fill-in co-host for this episode, Joshua has his own podcast called: Oh That’s A Fact
To listen on Spotify:
https://tinyurl.com/OTAFPodcast
For any interest in Joshua ‘s voiceover work / narration, he can be reached at:
Trump’s “Media Offenders” tracker is an official WhiteHouse.gov feature—also called the Media Bias Portal—that publicly identifies individual reporters, outlets, and specific articles the administration says are false, misleading, biased, or otherwise objectionable. It is an executive-branch political communications and rebuttal project, not an independent fact-checking body or a legal sanctions system.
Is it official? Yes. It is hosted on the official WhiteHouse.gov domain and presented as a White House initiative.
Is it independent? No. It is authored, selected, categorized, and maintained by the administration whose coverage is being challenged.
Does a listing prove a report was false? No. A listing establishes that the White House disputes the report. The underlying claim still needs evaluation against primary documents, full reporting, corrections, and independent fact-checking.
Closest precedent: Nixon
In 1971, Nixon White House aides compiled an “Opponents List” or “Political Enemies Project” that included critics of the administration, among them journalists such as Daniel Schorr and Mary McGrory. The list was not principally a public communications product: its purpose, as revealed during Watergate investigations, was to identify political adversaries for possible use of governmental levers such as tax audits, federal contracts, grants, litigation, and prosecution.
Trump’s website resemble a state-sponsored reputational blacklist more than ordinary adversarial press relations.
The key practical Constitutional question is not just whether the tracker is harsh or partisan. It is whether the list remains an informational/political rebuttal mechanism or becomes connected to state action against the listed journalists or outlets. Nixon is the cautionary precedent precisely because an internal political target list was paired with efforts to use federal power against perceived enemies.
Links:
Yergz Radio (yergzradio.com)
Dare Talk Radio (daretalkradio.com)
This Week in Outrage Substack (outrageoverload.net/twio)
Top U.S. commander acknowledges mental health issues on USS Lincoln (CNBC)
Kushner in Israel, trying to get Gaza peace plan back on track (The Hill)
Trump envoy Kushner meets Netanyahu after Hamas talks on peace plan (BBC)
Trump signs order to limit childhood vaccines and split MMR shots (BBC)
New Avengers: Doomsday Trailer Shows Doctor Doom Raising an Army of Sentinels (IGN)
Marvel reveal new ‘X-Men’ cast, including Adam Driver as Mister Sinister (NME)
Members of Trump’s cabinet remained on decoy plane, after president’s quiet exit (BBC)
How a catering truck helped Trump secretly switch planes amid threat from Iran (PBS)
These Trump officials were left behind on Air Force One (Face the Nation Video)
White House Targets Online Commentators in ‘Leftist Influencers’ Section (Military.com)
Brockovich AI Data Center Reporting (brockovichdatacenter.com)
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