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• @mrsbettybowers Mrs. Betty Bowers on bluesky

  And yet another shakedown.  Watching Donald's corruption in the next four years will be the first time Putin has ever looked up to Trump.  [embedded post]

• @kaitlancollins Kaitlan Collins on x

  News — Trump is meeting with TikTok CEO Shou Chew at his Mar-a-Lago Club today, I'm told. That comes hours after the president-elect suggested he might reverse course on the impending ban on the app in the US, as TikTok is now asking the Supreme Court to step in.

• @devahaz Deva Hazarika on x

  Lot of politicians and tech/VC types agreed with Trump that TikTok was a national security threat and should be banned. Will they all flip positions now too? [image]

• @caedrolo12 Carlos Rodríguez López on x

  Backpedaling on the TikTok ban would be the greatest gift Trump could give to China. The danger that TikTok represents to America is one of the few truly bipartisan issues on the hill. Trump said he wanted to get serious about China, putting a stop to ByteDance is the first step

• @michaelsobolik Michael Sobolik on x

  There's a way for Trump to save TikTok. It's spelled out in the legislation Congress passed earlier this year: find a buyer who isn't a US adversary. There must be a clean, complete separation between TikTok and ByteDance. Anything less than that violates the law and leaves

• @timchapman Tim Chapman on x

  It would be a mistake to let any political gains from social media this cycle cloud our judgment when it comes to TikTok. We've seen the threat that TikTok poses to the American people. We must keep the pressure on TikTok to divest their Chinese ownership or face a ban.

• @luke_metro @luke_metro on x

  The clear answer here is to have him fight a cage match with Jacob Helberg, where the winner gets to determine the fate of TikTok

• @simonlester.com Simon Lester on bluesky

  I don't think Trump sees China as a security threat in the same way that many people in Washington do.  He is more focused on the bilateral trade deficit than security issues.  Helps explain why he talks up Chinese investment in the US when virtually no one else does.  [embedded …

• @evangreer Evan Greer on bluesky

  this is why i'm side-eying antitrust bros who seem to think Trumps picks are gonna fight the good fight against “Big Tech”  —  my brothers in christ, he could not be more clear what his policies will be: “I will help companies who bend the knee and punish companies that don't ben…

• @reckless Nilay Patel on bluesky

  This is a chillingly transactional approach to a First Amendment problem — the clear message is that platforms that help Trump will get political support www.cnn.com/2024/12/16/p...  [image]

• @atrupar.com Aaron Rupar on bluesky

  Trump on a possible TikTok ban: “I have a warm spot in my heart for TikTok because I won youth by 34 points, and there are those that say TikTok had something to do with that.”

• @jawnpaczkowski John Paczkowski on threads

  “The Supreme Court could grant the injunction as a favor to Trump, who might even try to intervene in the case on behalf of TikTok.  But Trump might want TikTok to be banned on Joe Biden's last day in office.  If that were to happen, he could be its hero.” https://www.forbes.com/…

• @tiktokpolicy @tiktokpolicy on x

  “The Supreme Court has an established record of upholding Americans' right to free speech.  Today, we are asking the Court to do what it has traditionally done in free speech cases: apply the most rigorous scrutiny to speech bans and conclude that it violates the First Amendment.…

• @mattschett Matt Schettenhelm on x

  Will SCOTUS stay TikTok 1/19 deadline? Some chance, but worth remembering that SCOTUS: -must have 5 votes to issue stay -denies *many* more stay pleas than it grants -won't lightly halt a national-security deadline -probably agrees w DC Cir ruling by Ginsburg, Rao, Srinivasan

• @wutangkids @wutangkids on x

  Oh that's convenient now that TikTok is filing for an emergency injunction with the US Supreme Court....who wants to bet that TikTok will be making a sizable donation to Trump's “inauguration fund” aka his pocket and SCOTUS will then give them a favorable and expedited ruling

• @rushdoshi Rush Doshi on x

  There is no good reason for this meeting with TikTok's CEO.  The data points that Trump 2.0 might favor deals with China over strengthening the American competitive position are getting harder to dismiss.

• @brianstelter Brian Stelter on x

  TikTok says the ban would result “in a massive and unprecedented censorship of over 170 million Americans on January 19, 2025. Estimates show that small businesses on TikTok would lose more than $1 billion in revenue and creators would suffer almost $300 million in lost earnings

• @chrisgeidner @chrisgeidner on x

  I highlighted this expected happening in Sunday night's Law Dork, in my “Closing my tabs” section for paid subscribers. Here's what I wrote: https://www.lawdork.com/... [image]

• @chrisgeidner @chrisgeidner on x

  NEWS: As expected, TikTok goes to SCOTUS, asking Chief Justice John Roberts for an injunction blocking the law that could lead to TikTok being banned in the US in January. Trump's former solicitor general, Noel Francisco at Jones Day, is counsel of record. [image]

• @chrisgeidner @chrisgeidner on x

  And, the “creators” group of challengers to the law also have filed their application for an injunction pending cert. Notable: Counsel of record here is Jeffrey Fisher, most well known for his criminal defense work before the court. https://www.documentcloud.org/ ... [image]

• @chrisgeidner @chrisgeidner on x

  In today's emergency application — i.e., a shadow-docket request — TikTok takes what feels to me like an increasingly common position of ~suggesting~ SCOTUS can just treat this as a cert petition if it wishes. Regardless, TikTok asks for a ruling on the shadow-docket request [ima…

• @chrisgeidner @chrisgeidner on x

  The move follows the DC Circuit ruling against TikTok two Fridays ago and then denying TikTok's request for an injunction pending appeal this past Friday. Here is the SCOTUS docket: https://www.supremecourt.gov/ ...