#freepress — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #freepress, aggregated by home.social.
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Republican President Donald Trump lashes out at another female journalist
https://www.ms.now/news/youre-the-worst-trump-rachel-scott-abc-female-journalist
#journalism #freepress #misogyny #1A #gender #Trump #MAGA #media #Republicans #GOP #ABC #RachelScott
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Republican President Donald Trump lashes out at another female journalist
https://www.ms.now/news/youre-the-worst-trump-rachel-scott-abc-female-journalist
#journalism #freepress #misogyny #1A #gender #Trump #MAGA #media #Republicans #GOP #ABC #RachelScott
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Republican President Donald Trump lashes out at another female journalist
https://www.ms.now/news/youre-the-worst-trump-rachel-scott-abc-female-journalist
#journalism #freepress #misogyny #1A #gender #Trump #MAGA #media #Republicans #GOP #ABC #RachelScott
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Republican President Donald Trump lashes out at another female journalist
https://www.ms.now/news/youre-the-worst-trump-rachel-scott-abc-female-journalist
#journalism #freepress #misogyny #1A #gender #Trump #MAGA #media #Republicans #GOP #ABC #RachelScott
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Republican President Donald Trump lashes out at another female journalist
https://www.ms.now/news/youre-the-worst-trump-rachel-scott-abc-female-journalist
#journalism #freepress #misogyny #1A #gender #Trump #MAGA #media #Republicans #GOP #ABC #RachelScott
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The #FCC has limited power over issues like this, & its own website states the agency “cannot prevent the broadcast of any particular point of view,” so the notion of “punishment” for #KristenWelker, the moderator of #NBC’s “Meet the Press,” would historically [& legally] be a nonstarter.
But #BrendanCarr has been quick to respond to #Trump’s requests to go after #media organizations. And he has taken aggressive action against some #FCC licensees…
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The posts were Trump’s most explicit efforts yet to direct the #FCC to carry out his wishes. FCC Chair #BrendanCarr, a Trump appointee & close ally, did not respond to request for comment.
#Trump posted a long missive Sunday about what he described as mischaracterizations of his endorsement record in primaries.
#law #democracy #US #Constitution #FirstAmendment #FreePress #FreeSpeech #authoritarianism #dictatorship #MafiaState
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Under #Defense Secy #Hegseth, the publication’s #independence has come under threat during the 2nd #Trump admin as top #Pentagon leaders have derided the newspaper as “woke.”
Erik Slavin, the #editor in chief, said he & #reporter Lara Korte also received separation notices Friday.#StarsAndStripes #law #Constitution #FirstAmendment #FreePress #journalism #media #FourthEstate #censorship #MafiaState #StateMedia #propaganda #authoritarianism #autocracy #dictatorship #fascism #tyranny
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…In January, #FBI agents took the rare step of searching the home of a Washington Post #reporter, Hannah Natanson, as part of an investigation into a government contractor’s handling of classified material. The agents seized phones, laptops & a smartwatch after executing a search warrant. Natanson had spent months speaking with govt employees while reporting on the #Trump admin’s efforts to shrink the federal work force.
#law #Constitution #FreePress #journalism #democracy #fascism #MafiaState
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A quotation from Henry Commager
The Bill of Rights was not written into the Constitution in order to protect governments from “trouble,” but so that the people might have a legitimate method of causing trouble to governments they no longer trusted.
Henry Steele Commager (1902-1998) American historian, writer, activist
Letter (1971-06-17) to the Editor, New York TimesMore about this quote: wist.info/commager-henry-steel…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #henrycommager #commager #pentagonpapers #billofrights #civilliberties #civilrights #Constitution #dissent #firstamendment #freepress #freedomofthepress #government #petition #protest #thepeople
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A quotation from Henry Commager
Who are those who are really disloyal? Those who inflame racial hatreds, who sow religious and class dissensions. Those who subvert the Constitution by violating the freedom of the ballot box. Those who make a mockery of majority rule by the use of the filibuster. Those who impair democracy by denying equal educational facilities. Those who frustrate justice by lynch law or by making a farce of jury trials. Those who deny freedom of speech and of the press and of assembly. Those who press for special favors against the interest of the commonwealth. Those who regard public office as a source of private gain. Those who would exalt the military over the civil. Those who for selfish and private purposes stir up national antagonisms and expose the world to the ruin of war.
Henry Steele Commager (1902-1998) American historian, writer, activist
Essay (1947-09), “Who Is Loyal to America?” sec. 3, Harper’s Magazine, Vol. 195, No. 1168More about this quote: wist.info/commager-henry-steel…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #henrycommager #America #civilliberties #civilrights #corruption #demagoguery #democracy #disloyalty #division #firstamendment #freepress #freespeech #freedomofreligion #freedomofspeech #freedomofthepress #injustice #jingoism #justice #loyalty #loyaltyoath #military #patriotism #publicoffice #religiousfreedom #unAmerican #usvsthem #votersuppression #votingrights #war #warmongering
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Celebrate Civic Learning Week March 9-13 with film! This national event makes civic learning a priority for a stronger democracy. Our teaching resources for award-winning films can bring civics to life and inspire civic participation. For grades 5-12 plus adult/higher ed.
⭐ This collection includes films that are also great for Women's History Month!
#CivicLearningWeek #CivicEducation #WomensHistoryMonth #Education #Homeschooling #Movies #Democracy #Activism #CommunityEducation #FreePress #RankedChoiceVoting #Government
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“Given the documented reporting on #government #leak investigations & the government’s well chronicled efforts to stop them, allowing the government’s filter team to search a reporter’s work product — most of which consists of unrelated information from #confidential #sources — is the equivalent of leaving the government’s fox in charge of the #WashingtonPost’s henhouse,” Porter wrote.
#law #democracy #FreePress #journalism #Trump #authoritarianism #fascism
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Patrick Lawrence: Free Speech & Its Enemies
https://consortiumnews.com/2025/12/30/patrick-lawrence-free-speech-its-enemies/
Europe is convulsing as its “centrist” authoritarians impose an unprecedented regime of suppression of speech, but the mainstream media in America is silent about it. By Patrick Lawrence The Floutist This is the first of two essays The Floutist publishes, one glancing back…
#Politics #Analysis #Commentary #Disinformation #EuropeanUnion #FreePress #FreeSpeech #HumanRights #Media #Russia #Ukraine #Belgium #Censorship #CostasLapavitsas #DanielDavis #Eu #Europe #Fascism #FrancescaAlbanese #GeorgetownUniversity #JacquesBaud #Nato #PatrickLawrence #Switzerland #U.n.Watch #Un #YanisVaroufakis -
Jonathan Cook: Britain Has Officially Criminalized Journalism
https://consortiumnews.com/2025/12/22/jonathan-cook-britain-has-officially-criminalized-journalism/
Reporting facts in Keir Starmer’s Britain can now land you in jail for 14 years as a terrorist. This is what authoritarian governments do. By Jonathan Cook Jonathan-Cook.net CN at 30 The moment the British government began proscribing political movements…
#Politics #CivilRights #Commentary #FreePress #FreeSpeech #Gaza #Israel #Legal #PressFreedom #UnitedKingdon #ArmedResistance #Authoritarianism #BbcNewsAt10 #Democracy #DirectAction #DominicCasciani #Hamas #InternationalLaw #JonathanCook #PalestineActionProscription #U.k.PrimeMinisterKeirStarmer #U.k.TerrorismAct -
Secret Plans for Media Censorship
https://consortiumnews.com/2025/11/13/secret-plans-for-media-censorshiphip-in-australia/
William Evans reports on efforts by Australia’s Department of Home Affairs to revive the four-decade dead D-Notice system. By William Evans Declassified Australia CN at 30 Documents obtained by Declassified Australia show that following the June 2019 Federal Police raids…
#Politics #Australia #Censorship #CivilRights #ClimateChange #FreePress #Secrecy #U.s. #UnitedKingdon #AlanRusbridger #AnnikaSmethurst #AustralianFederalPolice(afp) #AustralianHomeAffairsSecretaryMikePezzullo #Britain’sDefenceAndSecurityMediaAdvisoryCommittee(dsma) #DNoticeSystem #EdwardSnowden #Journalism #MattKennard #MediaEntertainmentAndArtsAlliance(meaa) #PeterDutton #PeterGreste #PrimeMinisterScottMorrison #TheGuardian #WilliamEvans -
Jimmy Fallon got his job back, this guy gets deported, hmmm....
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/03/journalist-mario-guevara-ice-deportation
#MarioGuevara #ICE #ICEMUSTBEDESTROYED #Whiteness #USPOL #USPOLITICS #FreePress
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Local police charged #MarioGuevara with 3 misdemeanors for his behavior at the pro #ImmigrantsRights #protest: obstruction of law enforcement, unlawful assembly & pedestrian walking on or along a roadway.
In #arrest warrants obtained by AJC, Doraville #police *said* the #journalist ignored repeated instructions to stay off the street & to leave the site of the protest after it was declared an unlawful assembly.
#law #immigration #democracy #RightToProtest #FreedomOfAssembly #FreePress #Trump
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#MarioGuevara, an #immigrant from #ElSalvador, …built a mass following on social media through his work documenting #ICE raids…[is now in #ICE custody.].
It is not clear where Guevara is being held.
Online records show that Guevara was released from the DeKalb County Jail, where he was detained following his arrest at the #protest, at 7:35AM Wednesday.
#law #immigration #democracy #FreePress #TargetedArrests #Trump #Gestapo
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#MarioGuevara, the influential Spanish-language #journalist who livestreamed his own #arrest at a weekend #protest outside #Atlanta, will now have to fight in #immigration court for his right to remain in the country & ward off #deportation.
#law #democracy #FreePress #TargetedArrests #Trump #Gestapo #ICE
https://www.ajc.com/news/2025/06/hispanic-reporter-arrested-at-protest-now-in-ice-custody-faces-deportation/ -
Thoughts for today: Jamuary 20, 2025
While my political views are for the most part completely opposite of the late Senator Barry Goldwater, I do find many quotes attributed to him both insightful and thought provoking. The quote below seems especially thought provoking for today:
“Those who seek absolute power, even though they seek it to do what they regard as good, are simply demanding the right to enforce their own version of heaven on earth. And let me remind you, they are the very ones who always create the most hellish tyrannies. Absolute power does corrupt, and those who seek it must be suspect and must be opposed. Their mistaken course stems from false notions of equality, ladies and gentlemen. Equality, rightly understood, as our founding fathers understood it, leads to liberty and to the emancipation of creative differences. Wrongly understood, as it has been so tragically in our time, it leads first to conformity and then to despotism. Fellow Republicans, it is the cause of Republicanism to resist concentrations of power, private or public, which enforce such conformity and inflict such despotism. It is the cause of Republicanism to ensure that power remains in the hands of the people. ”
― Barry Goldwater#USPolitics #AbsolutePower #Despotism #FreePress #HumanRights
Reference: Good Reads - https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/369997.Barry_M_Goldwater
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“How does it feel to have your legacy be genocide? How does it feel to have your legacy be genocide? You, too, Matt, you smirked through the whole thing every day. You smirked through a genocide.”
Max Blumenthal Confronts Outgoing Secretary of State Antony Blinken and State Department spokesperson Matt Miller.#MatthewMiller #MaxBlumenthal #SamHusseini #Israel #Gaza #genocide #Blinken #pressconference #censorship #journalism #freepress
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@steve_zeke
And let´s not forget this bastard, 'smirking' Matthew Miller.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_Miller_(spokesperson)
#MatthewMiller #MaxBlumenthal #SamHusseini #Israel #Gaza #genocide
#Blinken #pressconference #censorship #journalism #freepress -
Who is next? You or I for taking pictures of protest signs? This is a very slippery slope to #Fascism!
#NYC #journalist who documented #ProPalestinian vandalism arrested on felony #HateCrime charges
“This is an extremely serious charge against a #journalist. If he did not a participant in these events, this could be a brazen violation of the right of the press to gather news.” -- attorney Robert Balin
By JAKE OFFENHARTZ
Updated 3:46 PM EDT, August 6, 2024NEW YORK (AP) — "A New York City journalist was arrested on felony hate crime charges Tuesday after filming a pro-#Palestinian protest earlier this summer in which activists hurled red paint at the homes of top leaders at the #BrooklynMuseum.
"#SamuelSeligson, an independent videographer, was not involved in the #vandalism, but is accused of traveling in a car with the #activists and entering private property with them, according to a law enforcement official familiar with the case.
"The official spoke with The Associated Press on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the ongoing investigation.
"Leena Widdi, an attorney for Seligson, said New York Police Department officers twice raided Seligson’s Brooklyn apartment in the past week before he turned himself in early Tuesday.
"She described the arrest and use of a hate crime statute as an 'appalling' overreach by police against a journalist with a city-issued press credential. Seligson, who is Jewish, is a fixture at New York City protests who has licensed and sold footage to mainstream outlets, including Reuters and ABC News.
"'Samuel is being charged for alleged behavior that is protected by the First amendment and consistent with his job as a credentialed member of the press,' Widdi said in an email. 'What is even more concerning, however, is that this member of the press is being charged with a hate crime.'"
https://apnews.com/article/gaza-nypd-sam-seligson-brooklyn-museum-eea8ee12248d38d856fe5cabcac7a0d1
#FirstAmendment #FreeSpeech #FreePress #ACAB #FreePalestine #PressFreedom #HumanRights #Protest
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Something is clear: the US are winning the #WarOnJournalism, by forcing #Assange to plead guilty.
#DropAllCharges #FreePress #FreedomOfThePress #Journalism #JournalismIsNotACrime #FreeAssange #WikiLeaks #Rap #RapNews #Afghanistan #Iraq #CollateralMurder #WarCrimes
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En la vizitosalono kun Julian Assange
La fondinto de #WikiLeaks timas, ke lia malliberigo, kaj la gvatado kaj restriktoj pri financado de la grupo fare de la Usona registaro, malinstigas novajn kulporivelantojn.
https://eo.mondediplo.com/2024/02/article3167.html
#JulianAssange #liberiguAssange #freeAssange #usono #libereco #gazetaro #esperanto #diplo #lang_eo #Belmarsh #BelmarshPrizono #malliberejoj #malliberejo #BelmarshMalliberejo #anglujo #usa #media #press #freePress
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What connects an MI5 scandal, a Thatcher govt attempt at censorship, and a single by Leon Rosselson and Billy Bragg? Find the strange tale (plus our usual update on our work) in our Dec/Jan blog
#Thatcher #censorship #FreePress #CPBF #BillyBragg #LeonRosselson
https://bettermedia.uk/2024/01/25/december-2023-january-2024-update/