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• @evelyndouek Evelyn Douek on bluesky

  Oh but it's just a divestment order, not a direct speech regulation that might skew the marketplace of ideas or anything [embedded post]

• @justinhendrix Justin Hendrix on bluesky

  “The White House put Tucker Carlson on its list of potential investors in TikTok as it raced to find buyers for the app earlier this year... Other potential investors on the list included venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz and private equity giant Blackstone.” via @techmeme…

• @paleofuture Matt Novak on bluesky

  “Carlson told the Financial Times last month that he was unaware that he was on the White House's list of potential TikTok investors.”  [embedded post]

• @ebakerwhite Emily Baker-White on bluesky

  why would an autocrat ban a propaganda machine when he could instead make it spread *his* propaganda [embedded post]

• @karlbode.com Karl Bode on bluesky

  Dems supporting this TikTok ban during an election season when they desperately needed young voter turnout remains one of the biggest political own goals in a long while  —  it's always been clear the goal for the GOP was to turn TikTok into another right wing propaganda mill [em…

• @tcberenson Tessa Berenson Rogers on x

  .@arogDC scoop! Tucker Carlson was on the White House's list of potential TikTok investors — and JD Vance advocated for him: https://www.ft.com/...

• NewsMax.com Jim Morley on x

  Trump to Extend TikTok Deadline Again

• @greggnunziata Gregg Nunziata on bluesky

  I spoke with the WSJ about the president's ongoing refusal to do his constitutional duty to enforce the TikTok ban, a law passed by Congress, signed by a president, and upheld by the Supreme Court.  —  www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

• @seangibson_ Sean Gibson on x

  @CGasparino ... So everything trumps does is just 90 day extensions.

• @greggnunziata Gregg Nunziata on x

  I spoke with the WSJ about the president's ongoing refusal to do his constitutional duty and enforce the “TikTok ban”, a law passed by Congress, signed by a president, and upheld by the Supreme Court. https://www.wsj.com/...

• @scottgreenfield Scott Greenfield on x

  It's easy to forget the laws ignored, but the TikTok ban is still the law and Trump has failed to execute it.

• @charlescwcooke Charles C. W. Cooke on x

  There is no authority in the statute for this action. It is invented from whole cloth. The president took an oath to execute the law, and he is violating it by refusing to do so.

• @eggerdc Andrew Egger on x

  Welcome to America, where everything is made up and the laws don't matter

• @nicoperrino Nico Perrino on x

  The Act permits one 90-day extension on condition the president make certifications to Congress.  We are on our 3rd extension and no certifications have been made.  Glad we blew a big hole in the First Amendment to address this “urgent” national security issue.

• @saramorrison Sara Morrison on x

  it's not the people didn't notice, it's that they think the law is bad and they like TikTok and don't want it to go away, so they're fine with this. When the government refuses to enforce a law that they do like and need, they'll be outraged and it will be too late.

• @bradsherman Congressman Brad Sherman on x

  This is clearly illegal.  The statute allows the president to grant only one 90-day extension.  However, the owners of TikTok have announced that they are purchasing $300 million worth of Trump Coin, which Trump creates out of thin air at no cost.  We've learned that nothing is i…

• @mkwitzke Mark Witzke on x

  In August 2020, Trump issued an EO order for TikTok divest itself of its US operations in 90 days or shut down. In 2024 congress wrote PAFACA to ban the app. It is now June 2025... starting to think TikTok might actually survive

• @chrisduncania Chris Duncan on x

  The idea that protecting TikTok revenue is a material lever in the trade talks is for the birds, it's tiny in comparison to what is on the table. Ironically it's actually a more useful influence tool for China now the trade war is on than it was when it was originally banned.

• @adamkovac Adam Kovacevich on x

  To state the obvious, Trump is just gonna keep “extending” this into perpetuity. TikTok's rope-a-dope strategy worked.

• @damonlinker Damon Linker on x

  From now on, laws passed by Congress & signed into law by a sitting POTUS (and given a 9-0 pass by SCOTUS) will be held in abeyance by the successor POTUS if he really doesn't want it going into effect. (The gears of self-government in this country are grinding.)

• @cgasparino Charles Gasparino on x

  Btw — The Chinese are buying our land, their companies list on our exchanges, our elite colleges educate the CCP brass. I can go on and on. For the record, I'm no fan of @tiktok_us but if we're really worried about the Chinese surveillance state, isn't TikTok really small

• @willatfire Will Creeley on x

  Shot: An unconstitutional ban on an entire platform upheld in a rushed, flimsy Supreme Court decision ... Chaser: ... only to be lawlessly ignored by the President, a failure somehow excused by Congress. This is ridiculous.

• @marctshort Marc Short on x

  Every time Trump moves the goal posts on a fake TikTok “deadline,” he signals weakness to the CCP. The President must follow the law passed by Congress and upheld by the Supreme Court. If ByteDance won't divest, ban the app. The longer we wait, the more data they steal.

• @thefp @thefp on x

  “If he cannot find an American buyer for the social media platform in three weeks, then he has no choice,” our editors write. “He has to ban TikTok. This is not a discussion. It's the law.” Read our editor's editorial on the necessity of a TikTok ban.

• @rickesenberg Rick Esenberg on x

  This is an abdication of presidential responsibility. The law says there must be divestment. It was unanimously held. Trump's job is to enforce the law. It doesn't matter what his reason for not doing so is. It's not his call.

• @foxmike90 Mike Fox on x

  Fully recognizing that this isn't Trump's motivation, but the Supreme Court is the final arbiter on what's unconstitutional— not what's constitutional. The President has an independent duty not to enforce unconstitutional laws. Therefore, he's bound not to enforce the TikTok Ban.

• @derektmuller Derek T. Muller on x

  Congress does its job, works feverishly to overcome the filibuster, deliberates with strong bipartisan majorities on a matter of national security interest, tailors the law to survive First Amendment scrutiny with unanimous support at the Supreme Court. Then....

• @marctshort Marc Short on x

  Congress passed the law. The Supreme Court upheld it 9-0. If ByteDance doesn't divest, TikTok must be banned. Failing to act is a gift to the CCP. [image]

• @davidafrench David French on x

  This is blatantly illegal. Open defiance of the law to keep a CCP data collection app on millions upon millions of American phones. There's nothing America First about that.

• @cgasparino Charles Gasparino on x

  ...One caveat is that if Trump sees a strategic advantage in crafting a deal by letting it go dark, and that could happen, said a Wall Street exec who was working on the deal to move it into US hands.  White House spox had no immediate comment.  Story developing