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  1. The #Trump admin issued #subpoenas Friday to several journalists for #TheNewYorkTimes, after the news outlet reported this week on #security concerns involving #Trump’s new #Qatar donated #AirForceOne.

    The subpoenas — which seek to force the #reporters to testify before a federal grand jury in Manhattan on Wednesday — were an extraordinary escalation in Trump’s efforts to #threaten & #intimidate independent news organizations.

    #law #Constitution #FreePress #journalism
    nytimes.com/2026/07/11/busines

  2. Stephen Colbert got cancelled after criticizing Trump. Billionaires keep buying media companies and controlling what people see and hear.

    Free speech is under threat, journalists are pressured into silence, and powerful people are protecting each other. This is what happens when politics, money and media all end up in the same hands.

    We have to protect a free press.

    #StephenColbert #FreePress #USpol #FuckCBS #FuckTrump #EpsteinFiles

  3. 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. 1168

    More 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

  4. #Reporters called the search “incredibly disturbing” & unprecedented. #HannahNatanson met with #WashingtonPost lawyers & security experts, scrambled to line up her own outside legal counsel, & urged her colleagues to keep reporting.

    Until now, Gabe Rottman of the Reporters Committee for #FreedomOfThePress said, the #DOJ had “never executed a search warrant at the home of a reporter in a national security leak case.”

    #Trump #law #Constitution #FreePress #FirstAmendment #journalism #censorship

  5. This week, the #DOJ took the extraordinary step of obtaining a search warrant for the home of a #WashingtonPost reporter #HannahNatanson. #FBI agents arrived early on Wednesday & seized Natanson’s phone, 2 computers & her Garmin watch.

    Inside the WaPo newsroom, the impact was immediate.

    #law #Constitution #democracy #FreePress #FirstAmendment #FreeSpeech #journalism #FourthEstate #censorship #authoritarianism #autocracy #despotism #dictatorship #fascism #tyranny #SevenMountainMandate

  6. AP coverage —

    FBI agents searched a #WashingtonPost reporter’s home on Wednesday….

    The FBI searched #journalist #HannahNatanson’s devices & seized a phone & a Garmin watch at her Virginia home….

    While classified documents investigations aren’t unusual, the search of a reporter’s home marks an escalation in the government’s efforts to crack down on “#leaks#journalism].

    #Trump #law #FirstAmendment #FreePress #democracy #Constitution #authoritarianism #autocracy
    apnews.com/article/fbi-washing

  7. The #reporter, #HannahNatanson, was at her home in Virginia at the time of the search. Federal agents searched her home and her devices. The warrant said that law enforcement was investigating Aurelio Perez-Lugones, a system administrator in Maryland who has a top secret security clearance & has been accused of accessing & taking home classified intelligence reports that were found in his lunchbox & his basement, acc/to an #FBI affidavit.

    #Trump #law #FirstAmendment #FreePress #Constitution

  8. 🚨🚨🚨

    #FBI executes search warrant at #WashingtonPost reporter’s home purportedly as part of an investigation into a government contractor accused of illegally retaining classified government materials.
    
The #reporter, #HannahNatanson, covers the federal workforce & has been part of The Post’s most high-profile & sensitive coverage of the first year of the 2nd #Trump admin.

    #law #FirstAmendment #FreePress #democracy #Constitution #authoritarianism #autocracy #fascism
    washingtonpost.com/national-se

  9. A quotation from Eleanor Roosevelt

    In the democracies of the world, the passion for freedom of speech and of thought is always accentuated when there is an effort anywhere to keep ideas away from people and to prevent them from making their own decisions. One of the best ways of enslaving a people is to keep them from education and thus make it impossible for them to understand what is going on in the world as a whole. […] The second way of enslaving a people is to suppress the sources of information, not only by burning books, but by controlling all the other ways in which ideas are transmitted.

    Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962) First Lady of the US (1933-45), politician, diplomat, activist
    Column (1943-05-11), “My Day”

    More about this quote: wist.info/roosevelt-eleanor/81…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #eleanorroosevelt #bookburning #education #freepress #freespeech #freedomofexpression #freedomofspeech #freedomofthepress #freedomofthought #information #media #oppression #thoughtcontrol #tyranny #understanding

  10. CN at 30: The Knowledge & Experience of Insiders
    consortiumnews.com/2025/11/21/
    Consortium News is comprised of former insiders at senior levels of intelligence and mainstream media who broke with the establishment to share their unique insights about the world with our readers. By Joe Lauria Special to Consortium News CN at…
    #Politics #ConsortiumNews #ConsortiumNewsAt30 #FreePress #History #Intelligence #IranContra #Media #C.i.a. #CathyVogan #CentralIntelligenceAgency #CorinnaBarnard #DanEllsberg #JoeLauria #JohnKiriakou #JohnPilger #MikeGravel #OliverNorth #PatrickLawrence #RayMcgovern #RobertParry

  11. WATCH: Our 30th Birthday Celebration
    consortiumnews.com/2025/11/14/
    Consortium News turned 30 years old Saturday. Robert Parry founded the first independent, online news publication in the U.S. on Nov. 15, 1995. We’re celebrating 3 decades of bringing you news others won’t. Watch the replay of our Saturday night…
    #Politics #Analysis #Australia #ColdWar #Commentary #FreePress #Gaza #Genocide #History #Intelligence #Israel #Legal #Media #MiddleEast #Palestine #Russia #Ukraine #UnitedNations #Vips #Wmd #CathyVogan #ChrisHedges #ElizabethVos #JoeLauria #JohnKiriakou #JohnPilger #MaryKostakidis #PatrickLawrence #RayMcgovern #TheOttawaCitizen

  12. 🔍 BREAKING: Alex Shnaider Accused of Suppressing Critical Coverage

    A deep dive into how Alex Shnaider, a Russian-Canadian billionaire, allegedly abused copyright laws to erase negative stories about himself. The tactics include fraudulent DMCA claims, impersonation, and perjury—raising serious ethical and legal concerns.

    📖 Read more: cybercriminal.com/investigatio

    #InvestigativeJournalism #Censorship #AlexShnaider #CorruptionExposed #OnlineCensorship #FreePress #BigMoneyScandal

  13. @steve_zeke

    “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.

    democracynow.org/2025/1/17/hea

    #MatthewMiller #MaxBlumenthal #SamHusseini #Israel #Gaza #genocide #Blinken #pressconference #censorship #journalism #freepress
    #BidenAdmin

  14. Angelo Carusone, president of #MediaMatters, said in a statement, “This is a #FrivolousLawsuit meant to bully #X’s critics into silence.” He added that his org “stands behind its #reporting & looks forward to winning in court.”

    On Mon night, #KenPaxton, the #Texas AG (recently nearly impeached), also announced that his office would open an investigation into #mmfa for “potential fraudulent activity.”

    #ElonMusk #Musk #birdsite #FreePress #antisemitism #FirstAmendment #1A #law #StopHate4Profit

  15. @hannu_ikonen @Tbsa Which didn't eliminate opposing social democratic news outlets until dying Reich president Hindenburg was weak enough to be no longer able to resist Nazi pressure & false promises so he agreed to make Hitler Reich chancellor, subsequently leading to the infamous ' Law for the protection of Reich & state', which gave Hitler all the powers he needed & wanted to wipe every democratic opposition off the German parliament's floor — until the end of Hitler's "1000-year Reich" — 12 years on.

    Care to watch the circulation of power at home is the message!
    Care for the democratic right to vote near & far!

    #DefendDemocracy #DefensiveDemocracy #DefendTheConstitution #VotingRights #FreedomOfInformation #FreePress #FreeSpeech #YourVoiceMatters #YouMatter #RaiseYourVoice