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TRUMP'S BALLOT BLOCK!
Ballots are already going out — but the legal fight over how you'll vote in November isn't over.
Part 1 of our next Aure Free Press deep dive breaks down Trump's mail-voting executive order, the Supreme Court's Aug. 24 ruling, and what it actually means for your ballot this fall.
Read:
👉 https://www.patreon.com/Free_Press_Forever#AureFreePress #Journalism #IndependentJournalism #PressFreedom #VoteByMail
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TRUMP'S BALLOT BLOCK!
Ballots are already going out — but the legal fight over how you'll vote in November isn't over.
Part 1 of our next Aure Free Press deep dive breaks down Trump's mail-voting executive order, the Supreme Court's Aug. 24 ruling, and what it actually means for your ballot this fall.
Read:
👉 https://www.patreon.com/Free_Press_Forever#AureFreePress #Journalism #IndependentJournalism #PressFreedom #VoteByMail
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TRUMP'S BALLOT BLOCK!
Ballots are already going out — but the legal fight over how you'll vote in November isn't over.
Part 1 of our next Aure Free Press deep dive breaks down Trump's mail-voting executive order, the Supreme Court's Aug. 24 ruling, and what it actually means for your ballot this fall.
Read:
👉 https://www.patreon.com/Free_Press_Forever#AureFreePress #Journalism #IndependentJournalism #PressFreedom #VoteByMail
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TRUMP'S BALLOT BLOCK!
Ballots are already going out — but the legal fight over how you'll vote in November isn't over.
Part 1 of our next Aure Free Press deep dive breaks down Trump's mail-voting executive order, the Supreme Court's Aug. 24 ruling, and what it actually means for your ballot this fall.
Read:
👉 https://www.patreon.com/Free_Press_Forever#AureFreePress #Journalism #IndependentJournalism #PressFreedom #VoteByMail
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Freedom of the press only exists when the press says things some member of the ruling class wants said. Otherwise it evaporates like a morning fog.
https://www.presstv.co.uk/Detail/2026/09/05/775701/US-Judge-refuses-to-stop-Pentagon-from-firing-Stars-and-Stripes-journalists -
A man with an active Swiss arrest warrant for money laundering now runs "the biggest oil deal in history" alongside the U.S. Pentagon and State Department.
Senior Trump officials personally intervened with Swiss prosecutors to clear his path. He controls 17 Venezuelan oil fields, 65 billion barrels in reserves. Congress wants answers on who profits.
We got there first. Read the investigation:
👉 https://www.patreon.com/Free_Press_Forever
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A man with an active Swiss arrest warrant for money laundering now runs "the biggest oil deal in history" alongside the U.S. Pentagon and State Department.
Senior Trump officials personally intervened with Swiss prosecutors to clear his path. He controls 17 Venezuelan oil fields, 65 billion barrels in reserves. Congress wants answers on who profits.
We got there first. Read the investigation:
👉 https://www.patreon.com/Free_Press_Forever
#AureFreePress #Journalism #IndependentJournalism #PressFreedom #Venezuela -
A man with an active Swiss arrest warrant for money laundering now runs "the biggest oil deal in history" alongside the U.S. Pentagon and State Department.
Senior Trump officials personally intervened with Swiss prosecutors to clear his path. He controls 17 Venezuelan oil fields, 65 billion barrels in reserves. Congress wants answers on who profits.
We got there first. Read the investigation:
👉 https://www.patreon.com/Free_Press_Forever
#AureFreePress #Journalism #IndependentJournalism #PressFreedom #Venezuela -
A man with an active Swiss arrest warrant for money laundering now runs "the biggest oil deal in history" alongside the U.S. Pentagon and State Department.
Senior Trump officials personally intervened with Swiss prosecutors to clear his path. He controls 17 Venezuelan oil fields, 65 billion barrels in reserves. Congress wants answers on who profits.
We got there first. Read the investigation:
👉 https://www.patreon.com/Free_Press_Forever
#AureFreePress #Journalism #IndependentJournalism #PressFreedom #Venezuela -
Five FOIA requests have been filed.
Three with the State Department. One with Treasury/OFAC. One with the FBI.
We’re looking for the missing bureaucratic handoff: who first put Autistici/Inventati into the U.S. sanctions pipeline, when, and on whose referral?
The investigation is now also a public records docket. As agencies acknowledge, process, deny or release records, we’ll publish the paper trail and update the investigation.
Updates here:
sabot.media/investigations/autistici-inventati/Read. Share. Preserve. Organize.
#AutisticiInventati #FOIA #PressFreedom #DigitalRights #Surveillance #Sanctions #IndependentMedia #SabotMedia
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Five FOIA requests have been filed.
Three with the State Department. One with Treasury/OFAC. One with the FBI.
We’re looking for the missing bureaucratic handoff: who first put Autistici/Inventati into the U.S. sanctions pipeline, when, and on whose referral?
The investigation is now also a public records docket. As agencies acknowledge, process, deny or release records, we’ll publish the paper trail and update the investigation.
Updates here:
sabot.media/investigations/autistici-inventati/Read. Share. Preserve. Organize.
#AutisticiInventati #FOIA #PressFreedom #DigitalRights #Surveillance #Sanctions #IndependentMedia #SabotMedia
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Five FOIA requests have been filed.
Three with the State Department. One with Treasury/OFAC. One with the FBI.
We’re looking for the missing bureaucratic handoff: who first put Autistici/Inventati into the U.S. sanctions pipeline, when, and on whose referral?
The investigation is now also a public records docket. As agencies acknowledge, process, deny or release records, we’ll publish the paper trail and update the investigation.
Updates here:
sabot.media/investigations/autistici-inventati/Read. Share. Preserve. Organize.
#AutisticiInventati #FOIA #PressFreedom #DigitalRights #Surveillance #Sanctions #IndependentMedia #SabotMedia
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Five FOIA requests have been filed.
Three with the State Department. One with Treasury/OFAC. One with the FBI.
We’re looking for the missing bureaucratic handoff: who first put Autistici/Inventati into the U.S. sanctions pipeline, when, and on whose referral?
The investigation is now also a public records docket. As agencies acknowledge, process, deny or release records, we’ll publish the paper trail and update the investigation.
Updates here:
sabot.media/investigations/autistici-inventati/Read. Share. Preserve. Organize.
#AutisticiInventati #FOIA #PressFreedom #DigitalRights #Surveillance #Sanctions #IndependentMedia #SabotMedia
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Five FOIA requests have been filed.
Three with the State Department. One with Treasury/OFAC. One with the FBI.
We’re looking for the missing bureaucratic handoff: who first put Autistici/Inventati into the U.S. sanctions pipeline, when, and on whose referral?
The investigation is now also a public records docket. As agencies acknowledge, process, deny or release records, we’ll publish the paper trail and update the investigation.
Updates here:
sabot.media/investigations/autistici-inventati/Read. Share. Preserve. Organize.
#AutisticiInventati #FOIA #PressFreedom #DigitalRights #Surveillance #Sanctions #IndependentMedia #SabotMedia
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NEW REPORT LIVE
We’ve spent the last week digging, cross-checking, archiving posts and reconstructing the sequence that led to the August 26 designation of Autistici/Inventati
The resulting investigation follows a campaign against “Antifa” as it moved through outside advocates, political influencers, the White House, Congress and U.S. counterterrorism policy before an Italian privacy collective was sanctioned.
This is not a theory-of-everything graphic or a pile of screenshots. It is an attempt to document who said what, when they said it, where those arguments moved next, and what the government ultimately did.
FROM KIRK TO A/I
https://sabot.media/post/kirk-to-aiDEDICATED INVESTIGATION PAGE
https://sabot.media/investigations/autistici-inventatiBackground, documents and the continuing campaign:
https://sabot.media/campaigns/autistici-inventati#AutisticiInventati #Antifa #Surveillance #Counterterrorism #PressFreedom
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https://www.europesays.com/dk/159590/ Turkish journalist detained over social media posts, YouTube broadcasts #AKParty #AKP #Ankara #AnkaraChiefPublicProsecutor’sOffice #Article217/A #BizimTV #democracy #DisinformationLaw #Erdogan #ErkAcarer #FreedomOfExpression #HalkTV #HumanRights #journalism #Journalists #Journalists’UnionOfTurkey #Justice #law #oppression #OyaLaleArslan #PressFreedom #ReportersWithoutBorders #RSF #RuleOfLaw #SocialMedia #Stockholm #Sweden #TerroristPropaganda #Turkey #TurkishMedia
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The KMT's efforts to slash the budget of Taiwan's international English-language broadcaster is politically motivated and short-sighted
"If TaiwanPlus is starved of funding and forced to shrink or disappear, Taiwan will lose its principal independent vehicle for telling its own story to the world. Local media focused on domestic partisan battles will leave the international information space largely uncontested."
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Pentagon Spokesperson Admits There’s a Secret Blacklist of Journalists
When pressed about the Iran war, a CENTCOM press official threatened to put an Intercept reporter on a “list of people to disregard.”
Nick Turse, August 24 2026
Excerpt: "Under self-styled #WarSecretary #PeteHegseth, the U.S. military has mounted the most aggressive assault on #PressFreedom in memory, from an effort to outlaw 'unauthorized' questions from reporters to imposing unconstitutional restrictions on journalists’ access to the Pentagon. Hegseth has compared reporters to 'Pharisees,' who in the Bible call Jesus’s teachings into question, while the secretary’s minions regularly hurl insults at reporters. This is part of a broader war on press freedoms by the #TrumpAdministration, that includes demonizing #journalists; filing so-called strategic lawsuits against public participation, or #SLAPPs, to intimidate and silence criticism through expensive legal proceedings; and employing grand jury subpoenas and search warrants to intimidate reporters.
" 'Threatening journalists with placement on a #blacklist in retaliation for reporting the government doesn’t like is as #unconstitutional as it gets,' said Seth Stern, the director of advocacy for Freedom of the Press Foundation. 'This should put to rest the Pentagon’s prior claims that it’s anti-press policies — like its infamous requirement that reporters sign pledges to only print authorized information — are somehow content neutral.'
"Allee revealed the existence of the blacklist after this reporter was left on hold for more than two hours and complained about a long-standing lack of transparency by the command. In calls earlier that morning, Maj. Emma Thompson, #CENTCOM ’s media operations chief, repeatedly refused to answer questions about Iranian attacks on U.S. bases across the Middle East, disparate U.S. casualty counts, and medical evacuation flights: 'Nothing for you,' 'Don’t have anything for you,' 'No comment.' Thompson then hung up on this reporter mid-question.
#TheIntercept called back multiple times until Allee picked up the phone. 'They’re not going to answer your call if you just keep calling and calling,' he told this reporter."
Read more:
https://theintercept.com/2026/08/24/pentagon-military-journalist-blacklist-press-media/Archived version:
https://archive.ph/uPwYW#USPol #Censorship #SiliencingDissent #SilencingThePress #NoComment #Orwellian #MinistryOfTruth #CharacteristicsOfFascism
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Bridget Phillipson condemns Richard Tice’s ‘chilling attempt to silence free press’
By Rowena Mason Whitehall editorLabour chair says Reform deputy leader is trying to harass journalists over reporting on his financial affairs
#RichardTice #ReformUK #Partyfunding #BridgetPhillipson #Labour #Politics #NCANationalCrimeAgency #UKnews #Pressfreedom #Media #Newspapersmagazines #Newspapers #TheGuardian #RowenaMasonWhitehalleditor
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Bridget Phillipson condemns Richard Tice’s ‘chilling attempt to silence free press’ https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/aug/12/bridget-phillipson-condemns-richard-tice-attempt-silence-free-press-reform #RichardTice #ReformUk #PartyFunding #BridgetPhillipson #Labour #Politics #NcaNationalCrimeAgency #UkNews #PressFreedom #Media #NewspapersMagazines #Newspapers
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Reporters Without Borders (RSF) and the Public Media Alliance have urged Taiwan's legislature to stop the proposed budget cuts to the Public Television Service (PTS) and TaiwanPlus
The Public Media Alliance said the budget cuts would "weaken an essential cornerstone of Taiwan’s democratic society."
https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2026/08/11/2003862290
#Taiwan #media #journalism #PressFreedom #TaiwanPlus #台灣 #公視
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Media Changes in Montenegro Intensify Alarm About Foreign Influence
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Wednesday News Roundup: The Top Five International and Top Five U.S. Stories
By Cliff Potts, Chief Strategy Officer, Editor-in-Chief, WPS News
BAYBAY CITY, LEYTE, PHILIPPINES — Wednesday, July 15, 2026
Reporting in this roundup is current through Sunday, July 12, 2026.
War between the United States and Iran, continuing Russian attacks on Ukraine, climate-driven disasters and mounting pressure on democratic institutions dominate this week’s news.
The international picture is increasingly unstable. Military operations are disrupting one of the world’s most important shipping routes, Ukraine’s air defenses are being depleted, and millions of people in Asia and Latin America are dealing with natural disasters.
Inside the United States, the sudden death of a prominent senator occurred alongside extreme heat, a disputed fatal immigration-enforcement shooting, subpoenas targeting journalists and troubling efforts to interfere with the independent administration of elections.
Top Five International Stories
1. The United States and Iran Return to Open Warfare
The most consequential international story is the renewed exchange of attacks between the United States and Iran.
The United States said it struck hundreds of Iranian targets after commercial vessels were attacked near the Strait of Hormuz. Iran responded by striking American military facilities and targets in several U.S.-allied Gulf countries.
Iranian officials declared that the Strait of Hormuz would remain closed until what they called American interference ended. The U.S. military disputed the claim that the waterway had been completely closed and said it remained prepared to protect maritime navigation.
The Strait of Hormuz is not merely a regional shipping channel. It is one of the world’s most important energy corridors. Any sustained disruption threatens oil and natural-gas supplies, raises transportation costs and places additional inflationary pressure on economies throughout Asia, Europe and North America (Reuters, 2026g).
Diplomatic talks have technically continued, but a negotiation conducted while both parties are firing missiles is not a functioning ceasefire. It is warfare interrupted by conversations.
2. Russian Attacks Kill Eight as Ukraine’s Air Defenses Run Short
Russian missile, drone and glide-bomb attacks killed at least eight people and wounded dozens across Ukraine.
Two glide bombs struck a crowded section of Sumy, killing five people and injuring 30. One bomb hit a bus stop. Additional deaths and injuries were reported in Odesa, Kyiv, Kharkiv and Zaporizhzhia.
Ukraine said it intercepted 111 of the 121 drones launched during one overnight attack, along with at least two cruise missiles. The country was considerably less successful against ballistic missiles because its supplies of Patriot interceptor ammunition have become critically low (Reuters, 2026b).
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy again called for promised weapons to be delivered faster. Announcing future weapons packages does little for civilians being attacked today if the equipment becomes trapped in months of political negotiation, contracting and transportation delays.
Russia’s strategy is brutally simple: keep firing faster than Ukraine’s allies can replace the missiles used to defend its cities.
3. Typhoon Bavi Forces the Evacuation of 2.8 Million People
Typhoon Bavi struck eastern China after battering parts of Japan and passing near Taiwan, becoming the most powerful storm to hit mainland China this year.
More than 2.8 million people were evacuated, including more than 2.2 million in Zhejiang province. The storm brought violent winds, uprooted trees, damaged buildings, flooded streets and triggered landslides.
Taiwan reported 134 injuries and nearly 200 canceled domestic and international flights. Major interruptions were also reported across China’s rail and aviation networks (Reuters, 2026f).
Although Bavi weakened after landfall, the storm system remained approximately the geographical size of France. Forecasters warned that it could produce prolonged rain across eastern and northern China.
The wind emergency may be fading, but the flood emergency is not. Large tropical systems often continue killing people through landslides, contaminated water, electrical failures and river flooding long after the television coverage of landfall ends.
4. Fourteen Nations Reaffirm the Philippines’ South China Sea Victory
The Philippines, Japan, the United States and 11 other countries issued a joint statement reaffirming that China’s expansive maritime claims in the South China Sea have no legal basis.
The declaration marked the 10th anniversary of the Philippines’ 2016 victory before an international arbitral tribunal. The participating countries described the ruling as final, legally binding and definitive between China and the Philippines (Reuters, 2026c).
China continues to reject the ruling and continues using coast guard, naval and maritime-militia vessels to pressure Philippine ships and fishing communities.
The legal question, however, is not unresolved. China lost the case.
The continuing conflict is about Beijing’s refusal to comply with the decision and whether other governments are prepared to impose meaningful political, diplomatic or economic consequences for that refusal.
For the Philippines, the joint statement represents valuable international support. Statements alone, however, will not remove Chinese vessels from Philippine waters or guarantee Filipino fisherfolk safe access to their traditional fishing grounds.
5. Venezuela Earthquake Death Toll Rises Above 4,300
The official death toll from the two powerful earthquakes that struck Venezuela on June 24 has risen to 4,333.
Another 16,740 people were injured, approximately 17,000 were left homeless and 315 bodies had not yet been identified. Authorities reported that 856 buildings were damaged, including 190 that completely collapsed or suffered structural failure.
The government estimates that approximately 25,000 new homes will be required. Search operations were continuing at several locations where authorities said the possibility of finding survivors had not been completely eliminated (Reuters, 2026h).
The earthquakes are no longer leading every international newscast, but the humanitarian disaster is entering its most difficult stage.
Disasters do not end when cameras leave and rescue crews begin packing their equipment. Survivors must still confront homelessness, damaged hospitals, unsafe buildings, disrupted water systems and a reconstruction process that may last for years.
Top Five United States Stories
1. Senator Lindsey Graham Dies Suddenly at 71
Republican Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina died at age 71 following what his office described as a brief and sudden illness.
Emergency personnel reportedly responded to a cardiac-arrest call at Graham’s Capitol Hill home Saturday night. He had recently returned from Ukraine and had been scheduled to appear on NBC’s Meet the Press Sunday morning.
Graham entered the Senate in 2003 and became one of its most recognizable foreign-policy hawks. He was a strong supporter of Israel and Ukraine, an aggressive opponent of Iran and a frequent advocate of American military intervention.
He was also one of Donald Trump’s harshest Republican critics during the 2016 presidential campaign before transforming himself into one of Trump’s most dependable Senate allies (Reuters, 2026a).
His death removes an influential Republican voice from the Senate at a moment when the United States is again exchanging attacks with Iran and considering additional measures against Russia.
2. Dangerous Heat Dome Spreads Across the United States
An enormous heat dome is expected to expose as much as two-thirds of the continental United States to dangerously high temperatures.
Temperatures in many communities could reach 15 to 25 degrees Fahrenheit above normal. More than 90 local temperature records could be tied or broken, with approximately two-thirds of those expected to be overnight records.
The system was forecast to begin over the northern Plains before expanding across a much larger portion of the country. Some areas may remain under its influence for more than a week (Associated Press, 2026).
Record nighttime temperatures are particularly dangerous because the human body receives little opportunity to recover from daytime heat.
Older people, outdoor workers, unhoused residents, people with chronic illnesses and households without reliable air conditioning face the greatest risks.
Heat does not create the dramatic images associated with tornadoes or hurricanes, but it is no less deadly. It kills quietly, one overheated apartment, construction site or parked vehicle at a time.
3. Witnesses Challenge ICE’s Account of Fatal Houston Shooting
Three witnesses have disputed the federal government’s account of the fatal shooting of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer in Houston.
ICE said Salgado Araujo rammed a law-enforcement vehicle and attempted to run over an officer, forcing the officer to fire in self-defense.
The witnesses, including Salgado Araujo’s brother, told their attorney that no officer was directly in front of the van or in immediate danger. They said the fatal shots were fired through the side of the vehicle rather than from the front.
A Department of Homeland Security official acknowledged that Salgado Araujo was not the intended target of the operation. None of the officers involved was wearing a body camera, and no dashboard camera recorded the shooting (Reuters, 2026i).
The surviving witnesses were taken into immigration custody, creating additional concerns about whether they might be pressured into accepting deportation before investigators can obtain complete testimony.
An agency cannot kill a man, detain the principal witnesses and then expect its unsupported version of events to be accepted as the final word. An independent investigation is the minimum required.
4. Justice Department Subpoenas New York Times Journalists
The Department of Justice ordered several New York Times journalists to testify before a federal grand jury concerning their reporting about security issues involving President Trump’s Qatari-donated Air Force One.
The subpoenas were reportedly issued by U.S. Attorney Jay Clayton and, in some cases, delivered to reporters’ homes by federal agents.
The Justice Department said the administration was investigating the unauthorized disclosure of classified information rather than targeting journalists. Press-freedom organizations called the subpoenas a threat to the First Amendment and demanded that they be withdrawn (Reuters, 2026d).
Governments routinely claim that they are investigating leaks rather than journalism. That distinction becomes nearly meaningless when reporters are forced before grand juries and pressured to disclose how they obtained information that embarrassed the government.
A free press cannot perform its constitutional function if every disclosure of government misconduct can be transformed into a criminal investigation of the people who reported it.
5. White House Considered Bypassing Federal Election Commission
Trump administration officials reportedly spent months exploring ways to bypass the independent Election Assistance Commission and use emergency powers to force changes involving voting machines.
Officials also wanted the commission to add proof-of-citizenship requirements to the national mail voter-registration form.
Trump subsequently removed the commission’s two Democratic members, while its remaining Republican commissioner resigned. The agency remains operational but lacks the quorum required to approve new voting procedures or conduct other major business (Reuters, 2026e).
The White House said it was attempting to protect elections from fraud and security threats. Democratic lawmakers described the removals as an effort to seize greater federal control over elections before the November midterms.
American elections are administered primarily by state and local governments. A president attempting to invoke emergency authority to control voting equipment or registration requirements is not routine election reform.
It is an effort to control the machinery of the election before voters reach the polls.
The Bottom Line
These stories are connected by a common theme: systems under pressure.
International law is being tested in the South China Sea. Military alliances and weapons-production systems are being tested in Ukraine. Global energy markets are being tested in the Strait of Hormuz. Disaster-response systems are being tested in China and Venezuela.
Inside the United States, pressure is being applied to election administration, immigration enforcement, independent journalism and the government’s obligation to account for its own use of force.
The most important story is not simply that institutions are facing crises. Institutions always face crises.
The danger is that powerful officials increasingly appear prepared to exploit those crises to claim authority they would not possess under ordinary circumstances.
That is the story beneath many of this week’s largest headlines—and it is the one the public must watch most closely.
References
Associated Press. (2026, July 11). Much of America is about to swelter under a climate-fueled heat dome.
Reuters. (2026a, July 12). Lindsey Graham, pivotal U.S. Republican senator, dies suddenly at 71.
Reuters. (2026b, July 11). Russian strikes kill eight, wound dozens; Ukraine’s Zelenskyy seeks faster weapons deliveries.
Reuters. (2026c, July 12). South China Sea joint statement says China’s maritime claims have no basis.
Reuters. (2026d, July 11). Trump administration subpoenas New York Times journalists over Air Force One story, newspaper says.
Reuters. (2026e, July 11). Trump officials sought ways to sidestep election agency before firings, sources say.
Reuters. (2026f, July 12). Typhoon Bavi batters eastern China, threatens days of heavy rain.
Reuters. (2026g, July 12). U.S. strikes Iran, Tehran hits Gulf states and says Strait of Hormuz is closed.
Reuters. (2026h, July 11). Venezuela quakes have killed 4,333 and injured 16,740, National Assembly president says.
Reuters. (2026i, July 10). Witnesses to fatal Houston ICE shooting challenge agency’s account, lawyer says.
#DonaldTrump #electionInterference #extremeHeat #ICEShooting #internationalNews #IranWar #LindseyGraham #Philippines #pressFreedom #RussiaUkraineWar #SouthChinaSea #StraitOfHormuz #TyphoonBavi #UnitedStatesNews #VenezuelaEarthquake #WednesdayNewsRoundup #WestPhilippineSea #WPSNews -
Threat To Free Journalism as DSS Confirms the Detention of female Journalist Zainab Sodiq.
Publisher: Okpeaye Theophilus Thu, 9 July 2026 Image:Zainab Sodiq According to a statement released on July 9, 2026, by the DSS Headquarters, Abuja, through its Deputy Director for Public Relations and Strategic Communications, Favour Dozie, the Department of State Services (DSS) confirmed the detention of Zainab Sodiq by operatives of the Department of State Services (DSS) at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA), Lagos, on July 6, 2026, with an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) en […] -
Hungarian public media outlets halt broadcasting in post-Orbán shake-up https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jul/07/hungary-public-media-tv-radio-suspend-broadcasting-viktor-orban-peter-magyar #Hungary #Europe #PressFreedom #ViktorOrbn #PterMagyar #TelevisionIndustry #RadioIndustry #Media #WorldNews
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Officials are ‘Refusing’ to Release Bodycam Footage That May Show Cop Stealing Photographer’s Bag https://petapixel.com/2026/06/26/officials-are-refusing-to-release-bodycam-footage-that-may-show-cop-stealing-photographers-bag/ #photojournalist #pressfreedom #delaneyhall #bodycamera #iceprotest #bodycam #News #Law
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Montenegro Spy Agency Criticised for Criminal Complaint Against Reporters
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"Here's that unified message for the president: Donald, Piss Off. But before you piss off: would you release the Epstein Files?"
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/iPHk7Dofwxw #CBS #Paramount #press #PressFreedom #media #StephenColbert #TheLateShow #AdamSchiff #Epstein #EpsteinFiles
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RAPPLER | Philippine & World News | Investigative Journalism | Data | Civic Engagement | Public Interest [Unofficial] @[email protected] ·After proposal to block Signal, DICT floats Telegram ban
https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.rappler.com/technology/dict-studies-telegram-ban-february-24-2026/
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Now on Verdant Square Radio:
https://mastodon.social/@VerdantSquareRadio/115999012196031959
#News #Commentary #Mumiaabujamal #Journalism #Firstamendment #Pressfreedom #Blackmastodon #Georgiafort #Donlemon #Resist #Freemumia #Left #Vsn #Radio #Diversespectrumoftheleft #SupportIndependentMedia
#VerdantSquareRadio #vsn #DiverseSpectrumOfTheLeft #SupportIndependentMedia
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NOW PLAYING == Black Power Media: Mumia Abu Jamal on the Arrests of Georgia Fort & Don Lemon: The War on Black Journalism
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lRgp_m80Yjg
#news #commentary #MumiaAbuJamal #journalism #firstamendment #pressfreedom #BlackMastodon #GeorgiaFort #DonLemon #resist #freemumia #left #vsn #radio #DiverseSpectrumOfTheLeft #SupportIndependentMedia
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Media freedom in the spotlight as the Kuciak murder case reopens.
Europe presents itself as a defender of the free press, yet some high-profile murders of EU journalists have yet to be resolved.
Will a new trial into the death of Slovak journalist Ján Kuciak change that?
#Slovakia #JanKuciak #Journalism #MediaFreedom #PressFreedom #Europe #ReportersWithoutBorders #Media #MartinaKusnirova
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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 -
#VoiceOfAmerica WH bureau chief Patsy Widakuswara & #PressFreedom editor Jessica Jerreat, plaintiffs in one of the lawsuits against the #Trump admin over the EO, said this agreement violates the congressional mandate of #VOA.
#law #FreePress #FourthEstate #propaganda #LegislativeBranch #SeparationOfPowers #ExecutiveOverreach #AbuseOfPower
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#VoiceOfAmerica WH bureau chief Patsy Widakuswara & #PressFreedom editor Jessica Jerreat, plaintiffs in one of the lawsuits against the #Trump admin over the EO, said this agreement violates the congressional mandate of #VOA.
#law #FreePress #FourthEstate #propaganda #LegislativeBranch #SeparationOfPowers #ExecutiveOverreach #AbuseOfPower
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Sunday, May 4, 2025
Ukrainian sea drone downs Russian fighter jet in world-first strike — Russia used thermobaric weapons in drone strike on Kharkiv, Ukrainian prosecutors say — Russian drone attack on Kyiv injures 11 people, including 2 children, damages shopping mall — France to ramp up AASM Hammer smart bomb production for Ukraine … and more
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The organisations outlined eight actions taken by Israel that require an urgent response by the #EU, including the targeted killing of journalists, a ban on independent media access to #Gaza, and record-high arbitrary detention of #journalists.
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#Transcription of my #speech for #deaf folks - as it wasn't provided on vid.
Hi, everyone. Thank you for showing up with #community #solidarity, to call for a #PermanentCeasefire in support of #Palestinians who are suffering #famine & #genocidal violence under #Israeli occupational forces.
My name is Que & I'm a survivor of the #USinvasion #WarOnVietnam. I was a #WarChild conceived & born under active shelling & had #IntergenerationalTrauma pre & post birth.
We were #displaced from our homes & survived in a #RefugeeCamp in Indonesia for a year. We were sponsored to come to Canada in late 1979 as #WarRefugees, seeking #asylum.
My patriarch family lived in #Cholon the #Chinese District in #Saigon & my matriarch family lived in a tiny village near Can Tho near the Hau River in #SouthVietnam. Both sides of my family had already lived through multiple foreign invasions & foreign militarized imperialism & colonialism by the time the US invaded & occupied our lands.
Many of us living Vietnam war civilian survivors can relate so well to the many struggles, the suffering, the violent foreign occupation & also the passionate resilience & resistance of the Palestinian peoples.
Throughout the 1960s into the 1970s both areas that my family lived in were carpet bombed. My Matriarch family village was bombed out of existence by 1970. The rebuilding took 18 years. Cholon was #CarpetBombed twice & the scenes from those aftermaths are eerily similar to the scenes from #Gaza after #Israel carpet bombed the area.
The #USmilitary used #Vietnamese #civilians as involuntary guinea pigs. They tested out never used before #WarMunitions including #biochemical warfare like #AgentOrange & #NerveGasBombs on our peoples.
Our peoples, our lands, our waters - still suffer the toxic & deadly effects from the illegal - illegal #biowarfare chemical uses by the #USA to this day & our peoples & especially our children are still suffering from the many leftover war munitions, exploding, maiming & killing innocent civilians.
Israel is treating the Palestinian peoples very much like the USA had treated our Vietnamese peoples. Like we are not human. We do not deserve to live. The dehumanization of Palestinians is too similar to how the USA dehumanized our Vietnamese peoples. We're savages. We are vermin. We're stupid tunnel rats. We're gooks & we deserve to die.
The USA bombed our #schools, our #hospitals, our #temples, our #ResidentialAreas - just like Israel has bombed schools, hospitals, temples & residential areas in Palestine. The USA has more powerful weapons of mass destruction while fighting resistance forces with much less firepower. The Vietnamese #ResistanceForces also used #TunnelSystems & some of them are now part of an #educational #LivingMuseum.
Vietnam is now #SovereignNation because the occupational militarized US forces left which opened up our path to #DiplomaticNegotiations. Palestinians deserve their true path to diplomatic Solutions too. They deserve a sovereign state. That can not happen without a permanent - not a temporary - a permanent ceasefire - an end to #IllegalOccupation by Israel.
You cannot occupy & oppress a people & claim you are a #democracy. True #Democratic states do not occupy & oppress people for decades. True Democratic states do not jail, murder & deny #PressFreedom to #journalists. True democratic states do not arrest, vilify, nor illegally detain their own citizens with dissenting voices. True democratic states don't continue to violate multiple #InternationalLaws so openly & so disrespectfully.
Israel has become too #arrogant that's mainly due to the Western powers like the USA & #Canada continuing to put their #WarProfiteer interests over #humanitarian & global #PublicInterests.
At a time when we need an arms embargo on Israel, the US & Canada sent billions more in war munitions & funding to Israel. It is shameful.
Our politicians tell us there's not enough money to fund more essential health & medical service needs. There's not enough money to increase the pay scale of essential medical staff. There's not enough money to fund environmental protection & cleanups. There's not enough to help our seniors & disabled not live in poverty anxiety. There's not enough to fund safer, more inclusive, accessible education. There's not enough to provide more low income & some more support of housing for our most marginalized citizens. These are all citizen needs that our governments have told they cannot afford to fully fund but they can find billions to fund ethnic cleansing of the Palestinians. That is not okay & that is not in our public interest.
I urge everyone here to please keep contacting all of your local provincial & federal representatives in every way possible & ask them to please push Trudeau to call for both a permanent ceasefire & to initiate an arms embargo on Israel - NOW.
Please keep having the conversations with people you know & people you don't know about Palestine. The conversations are important. Please keep standing in solidarity with Gaza & all Palestinians.
The antidote to despair is action. This here is humanity in action & I thank all of you for showing your humanity & your ongoing support of Palestinians because remember, no democracy can exist without the freedom of citizens dissenting voices and I appreciate all of your voices dissenting, against our government who is still supporting genocide.
Free Palestine!
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6 years after the brutal murder of #JanKuciak and Martina Kušnírová it is high time for #Slovakia’s authorities to serve the justice expected by their families, journalists and society as a whole.
The emerging threats to #PressFreedom and safety of journalists must stop.
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#Israel added to list of ‘worst jailers of #journalists’ for first time
Israel is in sixth place after the #CommitteeToProtectJournalists recorded 18 #Palestinian journalists in its jails
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2024/jan/18/journalists-jailed-imprisoned-israel #Palestine #OPT #HumanRights #PressFreedom -
Explained: What Are the Stories Done By Journalists Raided By the Delhi Police Today?
These are journalists who have been covering social issues largely ignored by the mainstream big media.
#delhi #DelhiPolice #newsclick #DelhiPoliceRaids #AdaniGroup #adani #DelhiRiots #DelhiRiotsCases #ElectoralBonds #OldPensionScheme #UAPA #dissent #BiharCasteCensus #RSS #journalism #activism #satire #media #PressFreedom #DraconianLaws #law #hindutva #adani #modi #india
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Journalist interrogated by MP Police after reporting on police complicity in Hindutva attacks
Scroll.in journalist Zafar Aafaq was interrogated by the Madhya Pradesh Police at Delhi’s Lahori Gate Police Station after reporting on MP Police inaction against Hindutva vigilantes in the state.
#hindutva #indore #MadhyaPradesh #scroll #journalism #PressFreedom #MPPolice#BJP #delhi #ZafarAafaq #communalism #islamophobia #india