Brendan Carr was a member of a controversial AA group

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The Guardian reported that FCC chair Brendan Carr was a member of a rogue Alcoholics Anonymous chapter known as Midtown for about a decade, joining in 1996 at roughly 17 and remaining through law school. Former Midtown members told the Guardian that leader Michael Quinones, who died in 2007, controlled members’ lives and that teenage girls and young women were regularly pressured into sexual relationships with older Midtown men; one former member said her experience could be described as sex trafficking. The Guardian’s investigation drew on interviews with 14 former members, contemporaneous Midtown recordings, and photographs. People who knew Carr during his Midtown years told the Guardian they do not believe he took part in the abusive behavior; one former member described Carr as a “victim” who provided a safe respite. Carr spoke about his sobriety in a recorded Midtown speech in 2005 and referenced being in his last semester of law school. An FCC spokesperson told the Guardian that Carr “did not engage in any of the allegedly illegal conduct or abusive behavior” and that any suggestion he knew of such conduct would be false.

Scott Horton

@robertscotthorton.bsky.social

FCC Chair Brendan Carr's history as a member of an AA group of sexual predators is detailed in this Guardian exposé. Midtown Group, led by Michael Quiñones until 2007, coerced young women into sexual relationships with older men while tightly controlling members' lives. Carr participated from around

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Scott Horton23

1996 through law school but former members say he took no part in the abuse, describing him as protective and never among the predators. He was seen as providing a “safe respite” in an environment where some teenage girls and young women bore the brunt of “forced relationships, restrictive diets”.

Ducati56

"There was no evidence" meaning there could be evidence, it just hasn't come to light.

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Nick Land Acknowledgement 🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈6

Mom can you come pick me up? Yeah the government's a sex cult again. No a different sex cult. No, a different different sex cult

scribbleghoul2

It's okay, guys, he took care of the young women being abused. I mean, sure, he was a member of the group and hung out with all the predators, but he didn't prey on anyone, he just facilitated the predation and did damage control.* He's a good guy! A white knight, really. Props! *Allegedly

Chris⚖️Justice

@chrisjustice01.bsky.social

👉 Brendan Carr (Trump's FCC) was a member of a rogue Alcoholics Anonymous group some labeled a ‘cult’ for 9 years. They abused & trafficked teenage girls and young women. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

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andreamartinatx.bsky.social2

Group Of Pedophiles I’m assuming a republican is a pedophile, unless they can prove otherwise And obviously pedophiles don’t seem to bother them, so not surprised one iota that this asswipe was hanging out with them

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Marty Orzio2

And this man wants to censor other people?

I know there’s no bottom, but wtf.

Will Pollock ➡️ turn 🔔 on

@willpollock.com

Brendan Carr has more in common with Ginni Thomas than we thought

Steven Hassan tweet from the Hellsite about Gin-Gin Thomas: I knew Ginni Thomas. Ginni Thomas was in a cult (the large group awareness training cult, Lifespring). Here she is in 1989 speaking at an event I hosted for former members. Until today, almost NO one has seen this video.

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BeijingPalmer

@beijingpalmer.bsky.social

the funny thing about this piece is that Carr comes across well in it. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

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Ian McFoolin1

Journals should publish the results of the experiments that didn't work

Kate Ross

@kateross.bsky.social

Brendan Carr was a member of a rogue Alcoholics Anonymous group some labeled a ‘cult’ “At the heart of the Midtown group was Quinones, described as the “Epstein of AA” by one former member” Thank you so much @skirchy.bsky.social & @theguardian.com! Carr’s wife works for Palantir.

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The Dax Symbiont 🏴🏳️‍⚧️🌲🇵🇸4

Peeling the layers of the fascist onion and wow another sex cult

Guardian US

@us.theguardian.com

Carr was a member of the group in his teens and 20s. There is no evidence Trump’s powerful FCC chair participated in any inappropriate conduct

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tomwellborn3rd

@wellborn.net

The guy threatening to pull broadcast licenses from every network that annoys the White House spent years in a shady D.C. cult posing as an AA chapter. Former members call Brendan Carr a victim, which is its own kind of grim. Speech cop, cult alum, dream resume for this regime.

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@GottaLaff

@gottalaff.bsky.social

“Brendan Carr, the chair of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), was for about a decade a member of a rogue Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) group when he was in his late teens and 20s that some former members compared to a “cult”, according to a Guardian investigation”

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Techdirt

@techdirt.com

America Last: Trump FCC Rubber Stamps Major Saudi, Chinese Investment In Paramount Merger There was a four year span where Trump FCC boss Brendan Carr simply couldn't... https://www.techdirt.com/2026/09/22/america-last-trump-fcc-rubber-stamps-major-saudi-chinese-investment-in-paramount-merger/

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Resistenza

@resistenza.bsky.social

Always the underaged are involved with Republicans. Leaks reveal Trump’s FCC chair Brendan Carr spent 9 years in a secret sex cult that abused teenage girls. www.icij.org/news/2026/09...

617d ago

Just a Dad 📎

@dadmakingcans.bsky.social

Carrs’ Past is Incriminating A Guardian investigation found FCC Chair Brendan Carr spent about a decade, from his late teens through his 20s, in a rogue Alcoholics Anonymous group that former members describe as a cult where teenage girls were coerced into sexual relationships with much older men.

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Daryl Surat

@darylsurat.bsky.social

This headline softens the matter because what they mean to say is the guy who pushed for removing net neutrality, booting Colbert et al. off the air spent 9 years in some wacko secret sex cult that abused underage girls www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i... feels like this is everyone running America!

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KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘

@kojamf.bsky.social

Aaron Parnas @aaronparnas.bsky.social Brendan Carr was in a rogue chapter of Alcoholics Anonymous where women were allegedly sexually exploited by male group leaders.

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Maya Media

@mayamedia.bsky.social

FCC Chairman Brendan Carr spent nearly a decade of his youth inside a Washington-area Alcoholics Anonymous offshoot that former members describe as "a cult" where teenage girls and young women were sexually exploited. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

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sunshinelaughter.bsky.social

@sunshinelaughter.bsky.social

Trump appointee spent teens in 'cult' run by 'Epstein of AA': report www.rawstory.com/brendan-carr...

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