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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

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

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

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

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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A quotation from Hugo Black

In the First Amendment, the Founding Fathers gave the free press the protection it must have to fulfill its essential role in our democracy. The press was to serve the governed, not the governors. The Government’s power to censor the press was abolished so that the press would remain forever free to censure the Government. The press was protected so that it could bare the secrets of government and inform the people. Only a free and unrestrained press can effectively expose deception in government. And paramount among the responsibilities of a free press is the duty to prevent any part of the government from deceiving the people and sending them off to distant lands to die of foreign fevers and foreign shot and shell.

Hugo Black (1886–1971) American politician and jurist, US Supreme Court Justice (1937–71)
New York Times Co. v. United States 403 U.S. 713, 717 (1971) (concurring)

More about this quote: wist.info/black-hugo/36400/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #hugoblack #scotus #censorship #firstamendment #fourthestate #freepress #freedomofthepress #government #journalism #media #meme #priorrestraint #SCOTUS #tyranny #watchdog

A quotation from Voltaire

Had there been a literary censorship in Rome, we should have had to-day neither Horace, Juvenal, nor the philosophical works of Cicero. If Milton, Dryden, Pope, and Locke had not been free, England would have had neither poets nor philosophers; there is something positively Turkish in proscribing printing; and hampering it is proscription.
 
[S’il y avait eu une inquisition littéraire à Rome, nous n’aurions aujourd’hui ni Horace, ni Juvénal, ni les œuvres philosophiques de Cicéron. Si Milton, Dryden, Pope, et Locke, n’avaient pas été libres l’Angleterre n’aurait eu ni des poètes, ni des philosophes: il y a je ne sais quoi de turc à proscrire l’imprimerie, et c’est la proscrire que la trop gêner.]

Voltaire (1694-1778) French writer [pseud. of Francois-Marie Arouet]
Letter (1733-06-20) to a First Commissioner [Lettre á un premier commis] [tr. Tallentyre (1919)]

More about this quote: wist.info/voltaire/85406/

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A quotation from Voltaire

As you have it in your power, sir, to do some service to letters, I implore you not to clip the wings of our writers so closely, nor to turn into barn-door fowls those who, allowed a start, might become eagles; reasonable liberty permits the mind to soar — slavery makes it creep.
 
[Puisque vous êtes, monsieur, à portée de rendre service aux belles-lettres, ne rognez pas de si près les ailes à nos écrivains, et ne faites pas des volailles de basse-cour de ceux qui, en prenant l’essor, pourraient devenir des aigles: une liberté honnête élève l’esprit, et l’esclavage le fait ramper.]

Voltaire (1694-1778) French writer [pseud. of Francois-Marie Arouet]
Letter (1733-06-20) to a First Commissioner [Lettre á un premier commis] [tr. Tallentyre (1919)]

More about this quote: wist.info/voltaire/85298/

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A quotation not from Voltaire

I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.

Voltaire (1694-1778) French writer [pseud. of Francois-Marie Arouet]
(Spurious)

More about this misquote: wist.info/voltaire/34462/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #voltaire #defense #freepress #freespeech #freedomofexpression #freedomofspeech #freedomofthepress #integrity #principle #selfsacrifice

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#SCOTUS rebuffs #AlanDershowitz $300 million suit against #CNN

The Supreme Court refused Monday to revive the attorney’s #defamation lawsuit against CNN over its coverage of remarks he made while defending #Trump during his 2020 #impeachment.

Justices Neil #Gorsuch & #ClarenceThomas dissented from the majority decision, saying legal standards for public figures who claim defamation should be reconsidered.

#law #Constitution #FirstAmendment #FreePress
https://apnews.com/live/trump-administration-iran-updates-06-29-2026#0000019f-13aa-d928-adbf-3faf8d6c0000

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…

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Friday, May 1, 2026

https://activitypub.writeworks.uk/2026/05/friday-may-1-2026/

Feds pepper-sprayed this award-winning out journalist while she reported on Alex Pretti’s death

https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2026/01/feds-peppersprayed-this-award-winning-out-journalist-while-she-reporterd-on-alex-prettis/

#news #ice #journalism #firstamendment #freepress #domesticterrorism #lgbtq #lgbt #vsn #resist #trumpgestapo

Kissing ass with Nazis doesn't work. Washington Post demands immediate return of reporter’s devices seized by FBI citing threats to free press #TrumpNaziDeathRegime #FreePress #FirstAmendmentUSConstitution
https://share.google/7eKaQZx9W4534vE8l

Justiz-Schlappe: Razzien im Fall #Indymedia #linksunten waren rechtswidrig | heise online https://www.heise.de/news/Justiz-Schlappe-Razzien-im-Fall-Indymedia-linksunten-waren-rechtswidrig-11141277.html #Journalismus #journalism #FreePress #Pressefreiheit #Verschlüsselung #encryption @RDL

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

His son Sebastien Lai said the family had expected a guilty verdict, “but that doesn’t make it any less devastating.”

“In the 800-page verdict they have there is essentially nothing, nothing that incriminates him,” he told reporters in London. “This is a perfect example of how the national security law has been molded & weaponized against someone who essentially said stuff that they didn’t like.”

#law #JimmyLai #China #HongKong #democracy #authoritarianism #FreePress #JudicialIndependence

#JimmyLai has spent 5 years in custody, much of it in solitary confinement, & his family said his health has declined rapidly.

Lai’s trial, conducted in a #HongKong court without a jury, has been closely monitored by the US, Britain, the EU & political observers as a barometer of #media freedom & #JudicialIndependence in the former British colony, which returned to Chinese rule in 1997.

#law #China #democracy #authoritarianism #dictatorship #FreedomOfThePress #FreePress

Three government-vetted judges found Lai, 78, guilty of conspiring with others to collude with foreign forces to endanger national security & conspiracy to publish seditious articles. He pleaded not guilty to all charges.

#JimmyLai was arrested in August 2020 under a Beijing-imposed national security #law that was implemented following massive anti-government protests in 2019.

#law #China #HongKong #democracy #authoritarianism #dictatorship #FreedomOfThePress #FreePress #JudicialIndependence

Former Hong Kong pro-democracy media mogul Jimmy Lai convicted in landmark “national security” trial

#JimmyLai, the pro-#democracy former #HongKong media mogul & outspoken critic of Beijing, was convicted Monday in a landmark national security trial, which could send him to prison for the rest of his life.

#law #China #authoritarianism #dictatorship #FreedomOfThePress #FreePress #JudicialIndependence
https://apnews.com/article/hong-kong-jimmy-lai-verdict-collusion-beijing-c2cd16f4c289a52d514591efe4aed389?utm_source=onesignal&utm_medium=push&utm_campaign=2025-12-14-Breaking+News

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

Woman publicly implored NPR to sell her crop top designs. They agreed the idea was genius.

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.upworthy.com/womans-crusade-to-save-npr-with-crop-top-merch

Fundstücke - The Guardian auf seiner Website zur Lage der Pressefreiheit.

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Fundstücke - The Guardian auf seiner Website zur Lage der Pressefreiheit.

#unplugtrump #trump #unplugusa #news #nachrichten #notrump #europe #europeanalternatives #europeunited #theguardian #freepress #freejournalism #freierjournalismus #pressefreiheit

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Fundstücke - The Guardian auf seiner Website zur Lage der Pressefreiheit.

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Fundstücke - The Guardian auf seiner Website zur Lage der Pressefreiheit.

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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

Criticizing #Israel? #Nonprofit #Media Could Lose #TaxExempt Status Without Due Process
New anti-terrorism bill would allowgovernment to take away vital tax exemptions from nonprofit #news outlets. The bill that passed the House with broad bipartisan support in April — after which a companion bill was immediately introduced in Senate — would empower the secretary of the Treasury to revoke the nonprofit status of any organization deemed “terrorist supporting.”
https://theintercept.com/2024/05/10/terrorism-bill-nonprofit-journalists-israel-hamas/ #FreePress

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