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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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Prominent Niger Journalist Feared Forcibly Disappeared https://www.hrw.org/news/2026/09/03/prominent-niger-journalist-feared-forcibly-disappeared #Nigeria #FreePress #ViolenceAgainstJournalists #MoussaKaka #disappeared
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Stanford Student Newspaper Wins Suit over Trump's Crackdown on Pro-Palestine Speech http://www.democracynow.org/2026/9/4/stanford_daily_lawsuit_free_speech_fire #uspoli #FreeSpeech #FreePress #StandfordStudentNewspaper #TrumpRegime #journalism #TrumpFascism #GOPfascism
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#EuGH ⚖️ zu Social-Media-Posts: Auch kurze Beiträge sind urheberrechtlich geschützt | heise online https://www.heise.de/news/EuGH-zu-Social-Media-Posts-Auch-kurze-Beitraege-sind-urheberrechtlich-geschuetzt-11442222.html #SocialMedia #copyright #Urheberrecht #Pressefreiheit #FreePress #journalism #Journalismus
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A federal judge refused Friday to block the #Pentagon from firing 3 #StarsAndStripes staff members who claim they were illegally disciplined for speaking out about the #military news outlet’s need to maintain its editorial independence.
Judge Trevor McFadden, who was nominated to the bench by #Trump ruled that the #journalists are unlikely to successfully prove that the Pentagon violated their #FirstAmendment #FreeSpeech rights.
#law #Constitution #FreePress #journalism
https://apnews.com/article/stars-stripes-pentagon-censorship-c9cd2e453e6bb2e8ca5908e0581e6eca?utm_source=app&utm_medium=iOS_share&utm_campaign=copy_link -
The show of force appeared aimed at not just ferreting out anyone who may have shared information, but intimidating others who might do so in the future, acc/to people with knowledge of the effort.
…The scope of the investigation is without parallel. Mass #polygraph tests have never been administered to the top ranks of the #US #military in modern history.
#Trump #Hegseth #transparency #MilitaryReadiness #MafiaState #law #Constitution #FirstAmendment #FreePress #journalism #fascism
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#US government investigators have taken the extraordinary step of subjecting roughly 50 members of the #military’s #JointStaff to #polygraph tests over leaks to #journalists, including about how the #Iran #war has created a shortage of crucial munitions, acc/to officials briefed on the move.
#Trump #Hegseth #MilitaryReadiness #transparency #law #Constitution #FirstAmendment #FreePress #journalism #media #FourthEstate #MafiaState #authoritarianism #fascism #tyranny
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/04/us/politics/pentagon-staff-polygraph-tests.html?unlocked_article_code=1.-1A.SYLz.KGEu4ztorAmj&smid=nytcore-ios-share -
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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Trump is now reporting individual journalists to the FCC for "rebuke or punishment" when they say something that he doesn't like.
(Even when it's true, like saying that Trump's endorsement of candidates got "mixed results," which is what NBC's Kristen Welker said)
#USA #USpol #trump #FCC #FreePress #journalism
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https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2026/08/30/donald-trump-kristen-welker-fcc-meet-the-press/91536303007/ -
"Trump says NBC's Welker will be reported to FCC
U.S. President Donald Trump on Sunday said in a post on Truth Social that NBC's Kristen Welker will be reported to the FCC for 'rebuke or punishment', after he said she reported the Republican President had mixed results in his endorsement of candidates."
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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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#Trump wrote: “Kristen Welker, the Unpopular ‘Hostess’ of the once great Meet the Press, now considered Meet the Fake Press, just stated that Donald Trump has ‘mixed results’ on his Endorsements of Candidates, when the recent WINS of Darline Graham and Mike Mazzei, stand at 100% for the U.S. Senate, and 98% for the U.S. House, recently and over the longterm. How can anyone be allowed to say this, working for freely given Public Airwaves?”
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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 -
Comparing Nixon’s Attacks On The Press To Trump’s
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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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After a #Pentagon official, Andrew Brey, emailed Lederer last week & asked him to fire Slavin & Korte for participating in a #CBS #News interview, he declined to do so & instead submitted plans to retire, WaPo previously reported.
On Friday, all 3 were fired, with the dismissals to take effect after 5 business days. In their lawsuit filed Thursday, the 3 asked a federal judge to halt their firings.
#law #Constitution #FirstAmendment #FreePress #FreeSpeech #StarsAndStripes #Trump #Hegseth
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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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"They Threw Me to the Wolves": Karen Attiah on Censorship Under Trump, Winning Her WaPo Job Back http://www.democracynow.org/2026/8/26/they_threw_me_to_the_wolves #uspoli #censorship #WashingtonPost #FreePress #jounralism #KarenAttiah #fascism #TrumpRegime
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Pentagon Fires Chief Editor Of ‘Stars & Stripes’ For Promising To Do Independent Journalism
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Slavin said he & Korte were fired for participating in a #CBS #News interview, during which he said #censorship of the #military #newspaper crossed a red line. “#Pentagon public affairs has deemed that insubordination,” Slavin said in an interview.
#StarsAndStripes #Trump #law #Constitution #FirstAmendment #FreePress #journalism #media #FourthEstate #censorship #RevengePolitics #MafiaState #PrerogativeState #StateMedia #propaganda #authoritarianism #autocracy #dictatorship #fascism #tyranny
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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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Taking it even further…
#Pentagon fires #StarsAndStripes leaders who criticized #DOD’s interference
The Defense Dept earlier this year railed against the publication, which has long enjoyed editorial #independence, as “woke.”#Trump #law #Constitution #FirstAmendment #FreePress #military #journalism #media #FourthEstate #censorship #RevengePolitics #MafiaState #PrerogativeState #StateMedia #propaganda #authoritarianism #autocracy #dictatorship #fascism #tyranny
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2026/08/21/pentagon-fires-stars-stripes-leaders-who-criticized-dods-interference/ -
They can’t even handle being covered by the #military’s own #newspaper.
Longtime publisher of #StarsAndStripes to retire, citing differences with #Pentagon leadership
The longtime publisher of Stars and Stripes has announced his retirement, ending a decades-long career with the military newspaper as Defense Secy Pete #Hegseth’s Pentagon moves to exert editorial control & eliminate what it asserts are “woke distractions.”
#Trump #law #FirstAmendment #FreePress #fascism
https://apnews.com/article/stars-stripes-pentagon-publisher-retire-journalism-policy-ae5277e248f51d10dfcb49d7796e7d2f?utm_source=app&utm_medium=iOS_share&utm_campaign=more_org_joinmastodon_app_shareactionextension -
"JD Vance is a dangerous extremist who embraces a set of ideas that should put a chill down the spine of every American.” 🗞️🇺🇸
Gi Duran appeared on Democracy Now! to discuss his book, The Nerd Reich: Silicon Valley #Fascism and the War on #Democracy. https://www.thenerdreich.com/my-democracy-now-interview/
Order today—first-week sales matter. 📘✊ #DemocracyNow #Democracy #Tech #Fascism #BookNews #FreePress #NerdReich
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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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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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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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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
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/11/business/media/new-york-times-trump-subpoenas.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share -
#Trump is completely insane. Does he act like this with foreign leaders? He can’t handle being challenged at all. No wonder all his cabinet does is flatter & lie to him. Try to deal in facts & truth & he turns into a toddler having a temper tantrum.
#FreePress #KristenWelker #MeetThePress #FakeCheck #TrumpLies #trumpaganda #propaganda
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#Trump sat for an interview with “#MeetThePress” moderator #KristenWelker Friday, discussing topics including the war with #Iran, #GasPrices & the “anti-weaponization” #SlushFund.
Throughout the interview, which aired Sunday, Trump made a series of false, misleading or exaggerated comments [#lies].
#NBC News reporters dug into some of Trump’s remarks. Here are the facts behind the claims.
#FreePress #trumpaganda #propaganda
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/fact-checking-trump-interview-meet-press-june-2026-rcna348518 -
#Trump abruptly ends #interview with NBC’s ‘#MeetThePress’
During the conversation Trump dismissed the idea that launching the #war with #Iran this year betrayed his campaign message of “No new wars.” At the end, #KristenWelker pressed Trump on the “#settlement” #SlushFund & his false claims about the #California #election.
#FreePress #FakeCheck #TrumpLies #trumpaganda #propaganda
https://apnews.com/article/trump-iran-war-settlement-fund-california-election-a0517d4d0f0d38abd8d403b42ef5da0e -
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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#idiot47 #PickledPete #USConstitution #gop #republicans #pentagon #freepress The Nation never disappoints. If you haven’t subscribed yet, do so now.
https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/why-pete-hegseth-still-has-a-job/
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The #FCC is investigating #SanFrancisco -based #KCBS for its coverage of #immigration enforcement actions in #SanJosé last month, sparking concerns from press freedom advocates and drawing #RightWing #backlash to the #radio station.
#KCBS is considered one of the world’s first rradio stations, and formative to #SiliconValley history. Its original license goes back to #CharlesHerrold in 1909 and his radio- #telephony system. Based in San Jose, it’s historically significant as #Marconi himself.
Attacking this station which survived through two world wars, the Great Depression, and led to the development of Silicon Valley is bound to have immense significance. They’re literally attacking the nation’s oldest broadcaster, which is integral to information and American democracy!
#SFBA #ICE #FreedomOfInformation #FreePress #CBSNews #AmericanPress #Broadcasting #Telephony #history #California
https://www.kqed.org/news/12025977/fcc-investigates-sf-radio-station-for-ice-reporting-sparking-press-freedom-fears -
"Journalism Is Not a Crime": Gaza Reporter Slams International Press as Journalist Death Toll Rises http://www.democracynow.org/2025/1/13/gaza_abubaker_abed #Gaza #IsraeliWarCrimes #IDFWarCrimes #JournalistsUnderAttack #journalism #FreePress #PressFreedom
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"Journalism Is Not a Crime": Gaza Reporter Slams International Press as Journalist Death Toll Rises http://www.democracynow.org/2025/1/13/gaza_abubaker_abed #Gaza #IsraeliWarCrimes #IDFWarCrimes #JournalistsUnderAttack #journalism #FreePress #PressFreedom
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"Journalism Is Not a Crime": Gaza Reporter Slams International Press as Journalist Death Toll Rises http://www.democracynow.org/2025/1/13/gaza_abubaker_abed #Gaza #IsraeliWarCrimes #IDFWarCrimes #JournalistsUnderAttack #journalism #FreePress #PressFreedom
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Kiam Rusio atakas niajn amaskomunikilojn, ĝi ne estas nur ciberminaco; ĝi estas rekta atako kontraŭ niaj komunaj valoroj!
#Monato #Cibersekureco #Esperanto #SubtenuUkrainion #Esprimlibereco #SendependecoDeAmaskomunikiloj #StaruKunUkrainio #RusaAgreso #Demokratio #Solidareco #HomajRajtoj
#CyberSecurity #SupportUkraine #DDoS #MediaIndependence #StandWithUkraine #RussianAggression #Democracy #IndependentMedia #Solidarity #HumanRights #SlavaUkraini #nafo #FreePress #Ukraine #Belgium #België #Belgio -
#FederalProsecutor #SpecialCounsel #JackSmith Alters #January6 #DJT #Indictment with new #GrandJury after #SCOTUS protects #Trump #PresidentialPowers saying he is immune for ALL #OfficialActs .
#WaPo analysis describes how Smith had to omit conversations #Trump had with #FederalOfficials and focus only on obstruction activities of his non govt employee allies.
#SharedLink #FreePress Via #WashingtonPost #FreeLink #FreeClick
