#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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@revjss A side note: If you can afford it, support Judd Legum's Popular Information newsletter. A #freepress is priceless.
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@revjss A side note: If you can afford it, support Judd Legum's Popular Information newsletter. A #freepress is priceless.
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@revjss A side note: If you can afford it, support Judd Legum's Popular Information newsletter. A #freepress is priceless.
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@revjss A side note: If you can afford it, support Judd Legum's Popular Information newsletter. A #freepress is priceless.
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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
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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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Treating the #FCC like his own personal enforcer, #Trump said on social media Sunday that #NBC’s #KristenWelker would be “reported to the FCC for rebuke or punishment” over a TV segment he didn’t like.
In a separate post, Trump complained in all caps about “fake polls” & said “something must be done about it,” adding, “FCC to the rescue!”
#law #democracy #US #Constitution #FirstAmendment #FreePress #FreeSpeech #authoritarianism #dictatorship #MafiaState
https://www.cnn.com/2026/08/30/politics/trump-kristen-welker-fcc-nbc -
The #Pentagon already faces two #FirstAmendment lawsuits over its recent actions at #StarsAndStripes∶ one from the ombudsman, Jacqueline Smith, who sued over her firing & alleged retaliation; the other by two board members, who sued over the March restrictions, alleging illegal #censorship.
#law #Constitution #FreePress #FreeSpeech #military #Trump #Hegseth #authoritarianism #autocracy #dictatorship #fascism #tyranny
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In the lawsuit, filed Thursday in federal district court in Washington, publisher Max Lederer, editor in chief Erik Slavin & reporter Lara Korte claimed that their firings last week for “insubordination” were retaliatory in nature & violated federal administrative law.
#law #Constitution #FirstAmendment #FreePress #FreeSpeech #StarsAndStripes #Pentagon #military #Trump #Hegseth #authoritarianism #autocracy #dictatorship #fascism #tyranny
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#StarsAndStripes employees sue #Pentagon over firings at #military #newspaper
The publication’s publisher, its editor in chief & a reporter allege that the government violated their #FirstAmendment rights to #FreeSpeech.#law #Constitution #FreePress #Trump #Hegseth #authoritarianism #autocracy #dictatorship #fascism #tyranny
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2026/08/27/lawsuit-says-pentagon-breached-1st-amendment-stars-stripes-firings/ -
4 days ago The Pentagon fired the editor in chief of Stars and Stripes.
Yesterday they broke the story of Elsie Dominguez, a civilian engineer who was raped repeatedly by the Captain of a Navy ship she was on.
A Judge ruled she needs to file a worker’s comp claim. For rape.
They keep trying to silence the press & quash the truth.
Elsie’s story must be told:
#uspol #rape #rapeculture #fascism #freepress #pentagon #navy
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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/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #voltaire #authors #censorship #classics #freepress #freedomofthepress #history #literature #perspective
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A quotation from Bertrand Russell
All the governments of the world adopt elaborate methods of concealing truths which they consider undesirable, and inflict various forms of penalty upon those who spread knowledge which is thought bad for the population This applies especially to knowledge of the kind which is considered seditious, and the kind which is considered obscene. I shall not give instances, since, if I did, I should myself fall under the ban of the law.
Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) English mathematician and philosopher
Education and the Social Order [Education and the Modern World], ch. 1 “The Individual versus the Citizen” (1932)More about this quote: wist.info/russell-bertrand/853…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #bertrandrussell #censorship #control #freepress #freespeech #government #knowledge #obscenity #pornography #publicgood #sedition #suppression #treason #truth
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Once again, all indicators point to Fuck Amazon.
#JeffBezos #WillLewis #AdamONeal #WashingtonPost #WaPo #Journalism #FreePress #BoycottAmazon #BoycottWholeFoods #EatTheBillionaires #USPol
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It’s time to end Amazon before Amazon ends us.
Amazon Is Creating the Biggest Pollution Source in the Entire Country!
https://newrepublic.com/post/214111/amazon-data-center-biggest-pollution-source-entire-country
#JeffBezos #WillLewis #AdamONeal #WashingtonPost #WaPo #Journalism #FreePress #BoycottAmazon #BoycottWholeFoods #EatTheBillionaires #USPol
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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/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #voltaire #censorship #control #enslavement #freepress #freedomofthepress #liberty #regulation #restrictions #writers
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How to Know If You’re Eligible for a Piece of the $2.5 Billion Amazon Prime Settlement, and How to File a Claim
https://time.com/article/2026/07/24/amazon-prime-settlement-eligibility-how-to-file-claim/#JeffBezos #WillLewis #AdamONeal #WashingtonPost #WaPo #Journalism #FreePress #BoycottAmazon #BoycottWholeFoods #EatTheBillionaires #USPol
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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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Don’t miss your chance to stick it to Jeff Bezos.
Here's how to claim the Amazon Prime FTC lawsuit payout before the deadline https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-prime-ftc-settlement-check-eligibility-file-claim-compensation-2026-7
#JeffBezos #WillLewis #AdamONeal #WashingtonPost #WaPo #Journalism #FreePress #BoycottAmazon #BoycottWholeFoods #EatTheBillionaires #USPol
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NEW, by me:
Global Schools Holdings Cites Two Injunctions in a Bid to Chill Our Reporting. It Won't Work.
Another day, another #legalthreat.
If you're a solo blogger or small outlet, don't panic just because you receive an injunction. They may have no jurisdiction over you, no matter how intimidating they may sound.
#GlobalSchoolsGroup #GlobalSchoolsHoldings #databreach #injunctions #FulcrumSec #freepress #pressfreedom #jursidiction #chillingeffects
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Always remember: The Washington Post endorsed Pam Bondi for Attorney General.
#JeffBezos #WillLewis #AdamONeal #WashingtonPost #WaPo #Journalism #FreePress #BoycottAmazon #BoycottWholeFoods #EatTheBillionaires #USPol
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Blue Origin sounds like a chewable boner pill for billionaire eunuchs.
#JeffBezos #WillLewis #AdamONeal #WashingtonPost #WaPo #Journalism #FreePress #BoycottAmazon #BoycottWholeFoods #EatTheBillionaires #USPol
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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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“If we built it, we can tear it down.”
-- 72-year-old Amazon worker Mary Hill
#JeffBezos #WillLewis #AdamONeal #WashingtonPost #WaPo #Journalism #FreePress #BoycottAmazon #BoycottWholeFoods #EatTheBillionaires #USPol
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Friday, May 1, 2026
Fake rabbi curse, banned pilgrimage: Russian disinformation fuels Ukraine–Israel tensions -- Kyiv to buy 8,000 Octopus interceptor drones for Ukrainian military -- Pussy Riot’s Nadya Tolokonnikova on Navalny, Russian culture, and supporting Ukraine’s military -- Ukraine overtakes US, 6 EU countries in Press Freedom Index ... and morehttps://activitypub.writeworks.uk/2026/05/friday-may-1-2026/
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Billionaires can’t help but destroy everything.
EVERYTHING IS FREE AND NOTHING MATTERS
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/2026/05/billionaire-consequence-free-reality/686588/?gift=lraYbWRPIqRmG27_OljEkKCvPie-0r36PQ55pSB-1qw
#EndBillionaires #JeffBezos #WillLewis #AdamONeal #WashingtonPost #WaPo #Journalism #FreePress #BoycottAmazon #BoycottWholeFoods #EatTheBillionaires #USPol -
Jeff Bezos should watch Steven Spielberg’s The Post and then—if he has any sense at all—bow his head and weep uncontrollably in shame.
#JeffBezos #WillLewis #AdamONeal #WashingtonPost #WaPo #Journalism #FreePress #BoycottAmazon #BoycottWholeFoods #EatTheBillionaires #USPol
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The irony of Amazon selling General Strike merch is not lost on me. But apparently, it's lost on Amazon.
#JeffBezos #WillLewis #AdamONeal #WashingtonPost #WaPo #Journalism #FreePress #BoycottAmazon #GeneralStrike #BoycottWholeFoods #EatTheBillionaires #USPol
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Pentagon Bans Press Photographers For ‘Unflattering’ Photos of Pete Hegseth https://petapixel.com/2026/03/11/pentagon-bans-press-photographers-for-unflattering-photos-of-pete-hegseth/ #nationalpressphotographersassociation #firstamendment #petehegseth #thepentagon #freepress #pentagon #Culture #News #nppa #Law
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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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#Immigration Judge Says #Trump Admin Cannot Deport #Tufts Student
The student, #RumeysaOzturk, who is from Turkey, was detained by immigration agents last year after she co-wrote a pro-Palestinian opinion article for her student newspaper.
#law #Constitution #FirstAmendment #FreeSpeech #FreePress #democracy #authoritarianism
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/10/us/immigration-judge-tufts-student-rumeysa-ozturk.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share -
Jeff Bezos is nothing if not a co-conspirator.
#JeffBezos #WillLewis #AdamONeal #WashingtonPost #WaPo #Journalism #FreePress #BoycottAmazon #BoycottWholeFoods #EatTheBillionaires #USPol
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In a world of Jeff Bezoses, be a Marty Baron.
#JeffBezos #WillLewis #AdamONeal #WashingtonPost #WaPo #Journalism #FreePress #BoycottAmazon #BoycottWholeFoods #EatTheBillionaires #USPol
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JEFF BEZOS HAS MADE HIS INTENTIONS CLEAR.
#JeffBezos #WillLewis #AdamONeal #WashingtonPost #WaPo #Journalism #FreePress #BoycottAmazon #BoycottWholeFoods #EatTheBillionaires #USPol
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The Post's loss is the NYT's gain. For now. Don't squander it, AG Sulzberger.
New York Times Added 1.4 Million Digital Subscribers in 2025
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/business/media/new-york-times-earnings.html#JeffBezos #WillLewis #AdamONeal #WashingtonPost #WaPo #Journalism #FreePress #BoycottAmazon #BoycottWholeFoods #EatTheBillionaires #USPol
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JEFF BEZOS BOUGHT THE WASHINGTON POST TO KILL IT.
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#JeffBezos #WillLewis #AdamONeal #WashingtonPost #WaPo #Journalism #FreePress #BoycottAmazon #BoycottWholeFoods #EatTheBillionaires #USPol
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Is he TRYING to make himself even less likable?
‘I had to take 60 meetings’: Jeff Bezos says ‘the hardest thing I’ve ever done’ was raising the first million dollars of seed capital for Amazon
https://fortune.com/2025/12/15/jeff-bezos-hardest-thing-ive-ever-done-60-meetings-amazon-seed-capital-funding-round/#JeffBezos #WillLewis #AdamONeal #WashingtonPost #WaPo #Journalism #FreePress #BoycottAmazon #BoycottWholeFoods #EatTheBillionaires #USPol
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Amazon faces global Black Friday protests as workers push back on warehouse conditions, AI expansion, and ICE ties
https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-black-friday-protests-demand-safe-conditions-ai-accountability-2025-11#JeffBezos #WillLewis #AdamONeal #WashingtonPost #WaPo #Journalism #FreePress #BoycottAmazon #BoycottWholeFoods #EatTheBillionaires #USPol
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WATCH: 50 Yrs of Combatting Suppressed News
https://consortiumnews.com/2025/11/23/watch-50-yrs-of-combatting-suppressed-news/
Project Censored marked its 50th anniversary Friday night in Washington with Ryan Grim, John Kiriakou, Lauren Harper, Joe Lauria, Mischa Geracoulis and Mickey Huff. The problem of censorship and suppressed news in the United States is older than 50 years,…
#Politics #Analysis #Censorship #Commentary #ConsortiumNews #ConsortiumNewsAt30 #FreePress #FreeSpeech #Gaza #History #Intelligence #IranContra #Israel #Media #Palestine #PressFreedom #Propaganda #Russia #Russiagate #Ukraine #UnitedStates #Wikileaks #CathyVogan #JoeLauria #JohnKiriakou #LaurenHarper #MickeyHuff. #MischaGeracoulis #ProjectCensored #RyanGrim -
WATCH: 50 Yrs of Combatting Suppressed News
https://consortiumnews.com/2025/11/22/watch-50-yrs-of-combatting-suppressed-news/
Project Censored marked its 50th anniversary Friday night in Washington with Ryan Grim, John Kiriakou, Lauren Harper, Joe Lauria, Mischa Geracoulis and Mickey Huff. The problem of censorship and suppressed news in the United States is older than 50 years,…
#Politics #Analysis #Censorship #Commentary #ConsortiumNews #ConsortiumNewsAt30 #FreePress #FreeSpeech #Gaza #History #Intelligence #IranContra #Israel #Media #Palestine #PressFreedom #Propaganda #Russia #Russiagate #Ukraine #UnitedStates #Wikileaks #CathyVogan #JoeLauria #JohnKiriakou #LaurenHarper #MickeyHuff. #MischaGeracoulis #ProjectCensored #RyanGrim