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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

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

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

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

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

#Iran #IranWar #PressFreedom

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

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

Three stories. One uncomfortable pattern.

Reported MI5 emails. A national-security law passed in 29 days. Rising fuel costs, weaker growth and mounting economic pressure from the Iran war.

Read the evidence. Decide for yourself.

https://thomaster.substack.com/p/uk-three-stories-colliding-this-week

#UKPolitics #MI5 #PressFreedom #IranWar #Geopolitics

Media Changes in Montenegro Intensify Alarm About Foreign Influence

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://balkaninsight.com/2026/07/30/media-changes-in-montenegro-intensify-alarm-about-foreign-influence/bi/

#DOJ targeting #NYT families over #AirForceOne story is psychological warfare masquerading as law. #KashPatel’s crackdown is state theater designed to freeze the press via collateral terror. This #AltRealityShows spectacle leads straight to #AltSportingEvents: where a cannibal oligarchy treats journalists as prey, from DC to Gaza. The surveillance machinery knows no borders.

#SusanKlopferTruth #PressFreedom #CPJ #USPol #SurveillanceCapitalism
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/20/business/media/new-york-times-subpoenas-phone-records.html?unlocked_article_code=1.zFA._NPa.2VOGoj_SRYJB&smid=url-share

Turkish authorities are escalating a crackdown against perceived critics in the run-up to this week's NATO summit in Ankara. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/07/07/world/politics/turkey-crackdown-press-nato-ankara/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #politics #turkey #tayyiperdogan #nato #pressfreedom #censorship

In the Land of the Blind

https://urbanwronski.com/2026/07/05/in-the-land-of-the-blind/

Turkish Journalists Protest Accreditation Denials for NATO Summit in Ankara

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://balkaninsight.com/2026/06/25/turkish-journalists-protest-accreditation-denials-for-nato-summit-in-ankara/bi/

Montenegro Spy Agency Criticised for Criminal Complaint Against Reporters

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://balkaninsight.com/2026/06/22/montenegro-spy-agency-criticised-for-criminal-complaint-against-reporters/bi/

The Czech government scraps licence fees for public media.

The right-wing populist coalition of Prime Minister Andrej Babiš has approved a bill replacing the traditional funding model with direct state budget financing — a shift that journalists, media freedom groups and tens of thousands of citizens say puts editorial independence at risk.

https://mediafaro.org/article/20260615-the-czech-government-scraps-licence-fees-for-public-media?mf_channel=mastodon&action=forward

#Czechia #AndrejBabis #MediaFreedom #PressFreedom

#VOA journalists sue US administration official Kari Lake, accusing her of pushing pro-White House #propaganda while violating editorial independence and #FirstAmendment principles.

#PressFreedom #uspol
https://www.npr.org/2026/03/23/nx-s1-5756465/voice-of-america-staffers-sue-alleging-kari-lake-put-on-propaganda

https://www.europesays.com/africa/84009/ Ethiopia blocks Reuters coverage at African Union summit #Accreditation #AddisAbaba #AfricanUnion #Censorship #Ethiopia #ForeignCorrespondents #InvestigativeReport #MediaAuthority #PressFreedom #RapidSupportForces #Reuters #SummitCoverage

Press freedom Bangladesh: Journalist threatened, warned to “set fire to the office”
https://vaartha.com/international/bangladesh-global-tv-journalist-threat-press-freedom/613929/
#PressFreedom #Bangladesh #JournalistThreat #MediaFreedom #BangladeshNews #FreePress #JournalismUnderAttack #HumanRights #PressUnderThreat #BangladeshJournalist #MediaSuppression #FreedomOfSpeech #ReporterSafety #NewsThreat #BangladeshPolitics #MediaRights #JournalistSafety #Censorship #BreakingNewsBD #HumanRightsBD

Hayao Miyazaki, Donald Trump, Muhammad Ali — the Foreign Correspondents’ Club of Japan has played host to an impressive range of political and cultural figures over the decades. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/community/2025/11/17/issues/fccj-80th-anniversary/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #community #issues #fccj #journalism #pressfreedom #imperialpalace #expats #hayaomiyazaki #donaldtrump #aumshinrikyo #311

And a little litmus test:
We are talking #InformationIntegrity at #UnitedNations #Conference with #IMS #InternationalMediaSolutions.

So, anyone here in the #Fediverse?

Because you can not have #Information #Integrity on #corporate #platforms.
Not even if they promise.

Please find me here and let us talk.

https://cphconference2025.mediasupport.org/

https://www.mediasupport.org/

[ed. IMS = @IMSforfreemedia ]

#Copenhagen
#litmus #lakmus #lackmus #press #pressFreedom #HumanRights

“I found myself facing two impossible choices: rescue my colleagues or document what was happening. I chose documentation, because civilians and medics were already trying to save them, but if we did not film, the world would not know.”

https://www.thenation.com/article/world/anas-al-sharif-attack-journalists-gaza/

#Gaza #WarOnGaza #Palestine #PalestinianJournalists #assassinationsOfJournalists #PressFreedom #media @palestine @israel

This is #Palestine with #DianaButtu | #WorldPressFreedomDay: Palestinian Voices Under Fire

"Through the haunting last words of journalist Husam Shabat and testimony from journalist Dalia Hatuqa, we confront the question: what does #pressFreedom mean when telling the truth can get you killed?"

https://this-is-palestine.simplecast.com/episodes/world-press-freedom-day-palestinian-voices-under-fire

#AssassinationsOfJournalists #PalestinianJournalists #media #censorship #FreedomOfThePress #Gaza #oPt @palestine @israel

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

https://activitypub.writeworks.uk/2025/05/sunday-may-4-2025/

"On August 15, 2024, news outlets, #PressFreedom organizations, and more than 100 journalists, including 4 Pulitzer Prize winners, have written to US Secretary of State Antony #Blinken, urging the US to immediately cease sending weapons to #Israel amid the country’s widespread killing of #journalists in #Palestine."

https://www.rightsanddissent.org/news/letter-over-100-journalists-to-write-to-blinken-with-a-demand-to-stop-arming-israel/
#AssassinationsOfJournalists #PalestinianJournalists #WarCrimes #media #ArmsTransfers #Gaza #USpol #USpolitics #USForeignPolicy @palestine

There are probably at least 50 journalists - nearly all journalists of color working in the global south - that I would rank as more deserving of being freed than #Assange.

For example,

- Huang Xueqin, a #Chinese feminist who covered #MeToo

- #Kashmiri journalist Irfan Mehraj

- #Vietnamese pro-democracy reporter Pham Doan Trang

- Saudi journalist Nazeer Al-Majed.

Why don't their cases get as much attention?

#China #India #SaudiArabia #Vietnam #PressFreedom #Journalism

Journalist Raghav Trivedi Assaulted at Amit Shah Rally in Rae Bareli 'for Questioning BJP Workers'

The Molitics reporter said he asked BJP workers about the claim by some women at the rally that they were paid Rs 100 to attend. He was first asked to delete videos of these women and then attacked.

#UttarPradesh #RaeBareli #RaghavTrivedi #BJP #PressFreedom #LokSabhaElection2024 #media #BJPStates #india

https://thewire.in/media/journalist-raghav-trivedi-assaulted-at-amit-shah-rally-in-rae-bareli-for-questioning-bjp-workers

Fahad Shah set to be released, but Kashmir Walla is a magazine without an address

According to a statement issued by the magazine, its portal and social media handles were shut down, and its staff members were forced to evict their office in August this year.

#kashmir #FahadShah #TheKashmirWalla #UAPA #FCRA #PressFreedom #DraconianLaws #india

https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/fahad-shah-set-to-be-released-but-kashmir-walla-is-a-magazine-without-an-address/article67559832.ece

J&K High Court says ‘seditious’ article case against Fahad Shah dug out after 11 years, no evidence

Last week, the journalist was granted bail after the court quashed several charges against him. However, he is yet to be released.

#kashmir #JKHC #FahadShah #TheKashmirWala #AbdulAalaFazili #PressFreedom #UAPA #sedition #DraconianLaws #india

https://scroll.in/latest/1059344/j-k-high-court-says-seditious-article-case-against-fahad-shah-dug-out-after-11-years-no-evidence

After Nearly 2 Years, J&K HC Grants Bail to Kashmiri Journalist Fahad Shah

Shah was held on charges of terrorism for publishing the article, ‘The shackles of slavery will break’, in his now-defunct magazine, 'The Kashmir Walla,' in 2011. The opinion piece was authored by Aala Fazili, a University of Kashmir scholar who has also been arrested in the case.

#kashmir #JKHC #FahadShah #TheKashmirWalla #AalaFazili #PressFreedom #UAPA #DraconianLaws #BJP #india

https://thewire.in/law/after-nearly-2-years-jk-hc-grants-bail-to-kashmir-walla-editor-fahad-shah

'Any story could be your last' - India's crackdown on Kashmir press

The BBC has spent more than a year investigating accusations against the Indian government that it is running a sinister and systematic campaign to intimidate and silence the press in the region. We had to meet journalists in secret, and they asked for their names to be hidden, fearing reprisals.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-66155796

#kashmir #PressFreedom #UAPA #DraconianLaws #AsifSultan #FahadShah #SajadGul #IrfanMeraj #journalism #censorship #HumanRights #BJP #UnionGovt #india

500 Days: Kashmiri Journalist Fahad Shah’s Incarceration Is An Exercise In Assumptions & Retribution

Five hundred days after the Jammu and Kashmir police arrested him, journalist Fahad Shah, 32, remains incarcerated for an article he did not write but published more than 10 years ago as the editor of The Kashmir Walla, a digital news magazine he launched that year aged 21.

#kashmir #FahadShah #TheKashmirWalla #AbdulAlaFazili #PressFreedom #UAPA #FCRA #PublicSafetyAct #DraconianLaws #JKPolice #censorship #journalism #dissent #BJP #NIA #JKSIA #india

https://article-14.com/post/500-days-kashmiri-journalist-fahad-shah-s-incarceration-is-an-exercise-in-assumptions-retribution--648fbd385207e

‘This opaque censorship is gut-wrenching’: The Kashmir Walla’s website, social media blocked in India

The news website’s editor was first arrested in February last year.

#kashmir #TheKashmirWalla #PressFreedom #ITAct2000 #PublicSafetyAct #meity #JKPolice #FahadShah #SajadGul #facebook #meta #twitter #x #SocialMedia #censorship #journalism #dissent #BJP #india

https://www.newslaundry.com/2023/08/21/this-opaque-censorship-is-gut-wrenching-the-kashmir-wallas-website-social-media-blocked-in-india

500 Days: Kashmiri Journalist Fahad Shah’s Incarceration Is An Exercise In Assumptions & Retribution

Five hundred days after the Jammu and Kashmir police arrested him, journalist Fahad Shah, 32, remains incarcerated for an article he did not write but published more than 10 years ago as the editor of The Kashmir Walla, a digital news magazine he launched that year aged 21.

#kashmir #jammu #FahadShah #incarceration #journalism #PressFreedom #censorship #JKpolice #TheKashmirWalla #HumanRights #UAPA #PSA #NIA #SIA #india

https://article-14.com/post/500-days-kashmiri-journalist-fahad-shah-s-incarceration-is-an-exercise-in-assumptions-retribution--648fbd385207e

‘There are increasing threats and a very dangerous trend’: the EU official on a mission to protect media freedom.

Věra Jourová says her upbringing in former Czechoslovakia has inspired her work to ensure journalism remains independent.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/may/02/vera-jourova-eu-official-mission-protect-media-freedom

#EU #EuropeanCommission #Media #MediaFreedom #PressFreedom #FreePress #Journalism #VeraJourova #Jourova

Fahad Shah trial: Why India treats journalists as terrorists

What does it look like to seek justice in a country that views journalists as terrorists? Kashmiri editor Fahad Shah’s long detention and ongoing trial raise questions about India’s approach to terrorism.

#kashmir #jammu #FahadShah #TheKashmirWalla #PressFreedom #journalism #UAPA #censorship #CPJ #FreeSpeechCollective #justice #law #BJP #terrorism #UnionGovt #india

https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Asia-South-Central/2023/0419/Monitor-reporter-s-trial-opens-Why-India-treats-journalists-as-terrorists

Bracken, alongside #environmental outlet #TheNarwhal are suing #RCMP for #violating their #CharterRights when Bracken was #arrested & #detained while #OnAssignment in November of 2021. Bracken had been #embedded with #Wetsuweten #LandDefenders at a #CoastalGasLink #pipeline #ResistanceCamp in Northern #BritishColumbia. She was arrested alongside #filmmaker #MichaelToledano — on assignment for #CBC
https://ricochet.media/en/3949/photojournalist-takes-on-rcmp-in-fight-for-press-freedom

#Indigenous #PressFreedom #HumanRights #BCNDP #lawsuit #PNW #NativeRights

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

https://maktoobmedia.com/2023/02/12/journalist-interrogated-by-mp-police-after-reporting-on-police-complicity-in-hindutva-attacks/amp/