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  1. 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:
    👉 patreon.com/Free_Press_Forever

  2. 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:
    👉 patreon.com/Free_Press_Forever

    #AureFreePress #Journalism #IndependentJournalism #PressFreedom #VoteByMail

  3. 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:
    👉 patreon.com/Free_Press_Forever

    #AureFreePress #Journalism #IndependentJournalism #PressFreedom #VoteByMail

  4. 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:
    👉 patreon.com/Free_Press_Forever

    #AureFreePress #Journalism #IndependentJournalism #PressFreedom #VoteByMail

  5. 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.
    presstv.co.uk/Detail/2026/09/0

    #Iran #IranWar #PressFreedom

  6. 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:
    👉 patreon.com/Free_Press_Forever

  7. 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:
    👉 patreon.com/Free_Press_Forever
    #AureFreePress #Journalism #IndependentJournalism #PressFreedom #Venezuela

  8. 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:
    👉 patreon.com/Free_Press_Forever
    #AureFreePress #Journalism #IndependentJournalism #PressFreedom #Venezuela

  9. 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:
    👉 patreon.com/Free_Press_Forever
    #AureFreePress #Journalism #IndependentJournalism #PressFreedom #Venezuela

  10. 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

  11. 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

  12. 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

  13. 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

  14. 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

  15. 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
    sabot.media/post/kirk-to-ai

    DEDICATED INVESTIGATION PAGE
    sabot.media/investigations/aut

    Background, documents and the continuing campaign:
    sabot.media/campaigns/autistic

    #AutisticiInventati #Antifa #Surveillance #Counterterrorism #PressFreedom

  16. 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."

    japantimes.co.jp/commentary/20

    #Taiwan #TaiwanPlus #PressFreedom #journalism #media #台灣

  17. 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:
    theintercept.com/2026/08/24/pe

    Archived version:
    archive.ph/uPwYW

    #USPol #Censorship #SiliencingDissent #SilencingThePress #NoComment #Orwellian #MinistryOfTruth #CharacteristicsOfFascism

  18. 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."

    taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/ar

    #Taiwan #media #journalism #PressFreedom #TaiwanPlus #台灣 #公視

  19. Watchman Reporters @watchmanreporterscom.wordpress.com@watchmanreporterscom.wordpress.com ·

    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 […]

    watchmanreporterscom.wordpress

  20. $4 gas. Cancer air drifting past schools. A trans MSP now representing the woman who spent a fortune trying to erase her. Three stories, one week, one body — yours. We tell what others won't. Click our advertisers. It's what keeps the goddamn lights on and the hawthorn coming back.

    twp.ai/4hrM5a

    #inflation #environmentaljustice #transrights #newsletter #independentmedia #supportindie #queermedia #ThistleAndMoss #mediamatters #pressfreedom

  21. A U.S. court has temporarily restricted access to materials seized from a journalist during a federal investigation, pending judicial review.

    Beyond press freedom implications, the case also underscores how digital evidence handling, access controls, and legal oversight intersect when sensitive information is involved.

    From a security and governance standpoint, what best practices should guide investigations that touch journalistic sources?

    Share your thoughts and follow @technadu for measured reporting at the intersection of cybersecurity, law, and policy.

    Source: reuters.com/business/media-tel

    #InfoSec #CyberGovernance #DigitalForensics #PressFreedom #CyberLaw #TechNadu

  22. CN at 30: The Meaning of Consortium News
    consortiumnews.com/2025/11/16/
    Founding editor Bob Parry left a legacy of strict, non-partisan journalism, really the only kind of journalism that there is, which this site has endeavored to continue, writes Joe Lauria. By Joe Lauria Special to Consortium News CN at 30…
    #Politics #Afghanistan #AmericanEmpire #Analysis #Commentary #ConsortiumNews #ConsortiumNewsAt30 #Intelligence #Iraq #Media #PressFreedom #RobertParry #Russia #Russiagate #Ukraine #Vips #Wikileaks #Wmd #JoeLauria #JulianAssange

  23. 3. Mai: Tag 11 der Aktionstage Politische Bildung 2025 #atpb25
    humanrights.at/aktionstage/tag

    Die Generalversammlung der Vereinten Nationen erklärte 1993 den 3. Mai zum „World Press Freedom Day“. Weiters gibt es #FakeNews Workshops in Oberösterreich und im Parlament gibt es eine kostenlose Führung zu 80 Jahre Zweite Republik.

    #PolitischeBildung #Schule #Bildung #Politik #Demokratie #PressFreedom #Pressefreiheit #Medien #Media #DCEY2025 #Erinnern2025

  24. 2/2 The far right the Finns Party has been haunting our public broadcaster #Yle ever since 2011.

    Now, 2nd time as a #government party, they got partially what they've been wanting - the financing of #Yleisradio will be cut for 200 M € during the near future.

    They've also tried to affect to #journalism itself.

    #Finland #ExtremeRight #FarRight #TheFinns #TheFinnsParty #politics #media #press #FreedomOfThePress #PressFreedom #FreedomOfSpeach #FIpol #FINpol

    yle.fi/a/74-20133777

  25. Tell the British State Journalism’s Not a Crime
    consortiumnews.com/2024/11/14/
    Des Freedman on why national news outlets are not covering the crackdown on pro-Palestinian journalists in Britain. By Des Freedman Declassified UK “Journalism is the lifeblood of democracy” proclaimed Prime Minister Keir Starmer in a comment piece for The Guardian…
    #Politics #Censorship #CivilRights #Commentary #Israel #Media #Palestine #PressFreedom #UnitedNations #AsaWinstanley #CommitteeForTheProtectionOfJournalists #DefenceAndSecurityMediaAdvisoryCommittee(dsma) #DesFreedman #HaimBresheeth #NationalUnionOfJournalists(nuj) #OperationIncessantness #RichardBarnard #RichardMedhurst #SarahWilkinson #TheElectronicIntifada #TheGuardian #TheSun #U.k.PrimeMinisterKeirStarmer #U.k.TerrorismAct

  26. Unlawful Activities: How the Indian prison system denies basic freedoms, rights and dignity to political prisoners

    Even the UAPA prisoners under the full glare and scrutiny of the media were subject to a cavalcade of cruelties, large and small. This ranged from the denial of medical treatment, to the mental and physical cruelties of high-security prison cells, and even to being disallowed from speaking to relatives in their native language. Bhavya Dore and Sukhada Tatke write.

    #UAPA #PoliticalPrisoners #undertrials #dissent #PressFreedom #activism #BK16 #TalojaCentralJail #disability #HumanRights #healthcare #BhimaKoregaonCase #maharashtra #india

    thepolisproject.com/read/unlaw

  27. #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!

  28. Interview: “In my 34-year career as journalist, I have never felt as anxious as I do today,” says Samar Halarnkar

    In an interview with Maktoob’s Gafira Qadir, Samar Halarnkar, founder of the independent media house Article-14, talks about the tough situation journalists are in, facing threats and new laws that limit their freedom. He also talks about how hard it is to report on the government in a critical way.

    #PressFreedom #media #journalism #censorship #DraconianLaws #BJP #UnionGovt #UAPA #PMLA #kashmir #manipur #UttarPradesh #islamophobia #hindutva #authoritarianism #india

    maktoobmedia.com/india/intervi

  29. Time to repeal UAPA in a country boasting to be a democracy

    'A country boasting to be a democracy cannot have a vague and draconian law like UAPA, which is only used to frame activists, political opponents and critiques of the state,' writes Banjyotsna Lahiri.

    #UAPA #DraconianLaws #dissent #PressFreedom #PoliticalPrisoners #UmarKhalid #StanSwamy #HumanRights #democracy #india

    telegraphindia.com/elections/l

  30. Kashmiri Journalist Aasif Sultan Granted Bail After Years Behind Bars

    Sultan was languishing in jail since August 2018 when he was arrested by the police for allegedly harbouring terrorists at his Srinagar residence.

    #kashmir #AasifSultan #PressFreedom #UAPA #NIA #rights #DraconianLaws #india

    thewire.in/rights/kashmiri-jou

  31. Prabir Purkayastha's Arrest By Delhi Police & Remand Illegal: Supreme Court Orders NewsClick Editor's Release In UAPA Case

    The Court noted that a copy of the remand application was not provided to the appellant or his counsel before passing the remand order on October 4, 2023. Therefore, the Court held that the arrest and the remand are vitiated.

    #NewsClickCase #PrabirPurkayastha #SupremeCourt #DelhiPolice #UAPA #NYT #DraconianLaws #dissent #PressFreedom #india

    livelaw.in/top-stories/supreme

  32. And you thought just the Orange One was a #fascist?!! #Biden and friends better shape up and denounce #IsraelWarCrimes. If #Trump wins, it's all on Biden for not taking a stand. I plan on holding my nose and voting for Joe, but it's getting harder for me to convince others to do the same...

    Criticizing #Israel? Nonprofit Media Could Lose Tax-Exempt Status Without Due Process

    A new #AntiTerrorism bill would allow the government to take away vital tax exemptions from nonprofit news outlets.

    by Seth Stern
    May 10 2024

    "Nonprofit news outlets are already struggling even without government harassment, but revocation of their tax-exempt status would be a death knell for outlets doing the kind of in-depth #InvestigativeJournalism that is hardly ever profitable these days. The mere prospect would chill reporting, not only on #Israel but also on #USForeignPolicy generally. And that’s not to mention the threat to nonprofit #PressFreedom organizations that #journalists depend on to protect their rights (including to not get killed in #Gaza).

    "Unfortunately, this is just the latest piece of reckless, unnecessary 'national security' legislation that puts the press at risk. Last month, President #JoeBiden ignored #CivilLiberties advocates and signed into law a bill that would allow intelligence agencies to enlist any 'service provider' to help the U.S. spy on foreigners."

    Read more:
    theintercept.com/2024/05/10/te

    #CeasefireNow #NoWar #AntiWar #Fascist #EndGenocide

  33. 'Violated Principles of Natural Justice': Caravan Files Petition Against Govt Order On Army Story

    In its petition, The Caravan has underlined that the Ministry of Information & Broadcasting's order asking the magazine to take down its article on allegations of torture and murder against the Indian Army also violated the fundamental right to free speech and expression and the freedom of the press.

    #TheCaravan #kashmir #IndianArmy #torture #UnionGovt #IBMinistry #PressFreedom #FreeSpeech #censorship #ITAct #ITRules #IndianArmedForces #journalism #media #india

    thewire.in/media/violated-prin