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El Presidente <\/em>has now banned CNN<\/em>, MS<\/em> NOW <\/em>and Politico <\/em>from the White House<\/em>. Not that anyone needs me to tell them what to do, but I think every single media outlet should walk out in solidarity.<\/p>\n I\u2019m not one of those people who publicly takes a stand or puts himself on the line. I do have strong convictions, but usually I express them from the comfort of my bed, typically sometime after noon. I was sad to have been unable to join the group of people gathered around the Kennedy<\/em> Center<\/em>. Now that the courts have (once again) restricted El <\/em>from putting his name on the building, our fearful leader said, \u201cit\u2019ll end up being ripped down.\u201d Nobody considers this an idle threat \u2013 see the East Wing <\/em>(or, rather, the rubble of the East Wing). To ensure history isn\u2019t repeated, a federal judge ruled that the administration must give 30 days\u2019 written notice before any structural changes, \u201cincluding but not limited to any \u2018demolition\u2019 of the main building.\u201d Since court rulings can be ignored, people have vowed to create a human shield around the building should it come to that. Hands Around the Kennedy Center<\/em><\/strong> was announced by Kerry Kennedy <\/strong>(sister of RFK Jr<\/strong>.) to symbolically protect the memorial. The event\u2019s organizer, Hands Off the Arts<\/em><\/strong>, plan to spring into action should destruction be imminent. Since I missed last weekend\u2019s event, I\u2019ll attend the next one…schedule permitting (and if it isn\u2019t raining…or snowing…or too cold).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" El Presidente has now banned CNN, MS NOW and Politico from the White House. Not that anyone needs me to tell them what to do, but I think every single media outlet should walk out in solidarity. I\u2019m not one of those people who publicly takes a stand or puts himself on the line. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-95488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95488"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95488\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":95489,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95488\/revisions\/95489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}