#FreeSpeech #FreedomofSpeech #1stAmendment #FreePress #FreedomofthePress #CivilRights #Petition Protect Freedom of the Press! | Our Voice, Our Vote
https://act.ourvoiceourvote.us/survey/protect-freedom-press-03182025-petition
Let this very stupid move be the death knell for Amazon
Amazon Is Ending an Important Privacy Feature for Alexa Echo Devices By the End of the Month
https://www.entrepreneur.com/business-news/amazon-echo-ends-do-not-send-voice-recordings-option/488677
Leavitt is one of three administration officials who face a lawsuit from The Associated Press on First- and Fifth-amendment grounds. "The press and all people in the United States have the right to choose their own words and not be retaliated against by the government," the AP said in its lawsuit https://www.cbsnews.com/news/associated-press-sues-trump-officials-over-coverage-restrictions/. #APlawsuit #freedomofspeech #FreePress #firstamendment #trumpCoup
Good news from the Wired - who is leading all other media on accurate, timely, insightful and important news on #trump #maga #doge #democracy Starting today, @wired.com will be putting stories based on #publicrecords outside the paywall. Maybe this will help with #FOIA officers who deny requests for expedited processing on the dubious grounds that Wired is not primarily engaged in disseminating information to the public! Now you can all read - https://www.wired.com #freepress
FOX SPEWS ~ NOISE NOT NEWS
#Truth #FactsMatter #Felon47 #POD #NoPropaganda #MediaBias #StopMisinformation #FoxSpews #NoFakeNews #ThinkCritically #JournalismMatters #TruthOverLies #Resist #StayInformed #FreePress #Democracy
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I guess we could just keep posting a picture to @PressSec @WhiteHouse, @realDonaldTrump @JDVance on all social media platforms until they leave @ap alone and change it back to #GulfOfMexico
"Trump said legally operating news outlets do things that are "totally illegal"...
#Trump handpicked people to run #DOJ "that will not say no to him," attorney and Temple University law professor Donte Mills said on "NewsNight" Friday. "So, if he says, 'here's what I think should be illegal, go find a way to make it illegal and to punish these people,' it's going to happen."
https://view.newsletters.cnn.com/messages/1742215314850852cfe93a996/raw
LOLOL. Of course he does!!!!
Trump Praises Bezos’ Makeover of the Washington Post
https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-praises-jeff-bezos-makeover-of-the-washington-post/
"Africa Faces Diabetes Crisis"
This article has a publication date of 14 March 2025. Don't expect more like it, however, since the trump Administration has shut down the source, Voice of America.*
https://www.voanews.com/a/africa-faces-diabetes-crisis-study-finds/8010779.html
*https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvge4l109r3o
#PublicHealth #diabetes #Africa #journalism #VOA #FreePress #journalism #censorship
Trump may not be Hitler but he sure is using his playbook.
https://www.europesays.com/1919058/ Trump Guts Voice Of America News Agency, Musk Says “Nobody Listens To Them Anymore.” #DonaldTrump #ElonMusk #FreePress #journalism #media #Musk
"Murder the Truth" by David Enrich review – disturbing read on effort to undo free speech in US — Guardian News & Media (Book Review by Lloyd Green), Mar 16, 2025. Excerpt: “Book delves in to network of #Trump, government members and ultra-rich to overturn Times v Sullivan…. David Enrich is a keen observer of the intersection of money, power and politics.
In his first book, Dark Towers, the New York Times business investigations editor plumbed the relationship between Donald Trump and Deutsche Bank, Trump’s lender of last resort. In the process, Enrich drew further attention to the triangle between Trump, the supreme court justice Anthony Kennedy and his son, a former Deutsche Bank officer, and Brett Kavanaugh, the former clerk who replaced Kennedy on the court…”. #FreePress #FreeSpeech #FirstAmendment #NYTimes #NYTimesVersusSullivan
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/mar/16/murder-the-truth-review-david-enrich
With a Trump-friendly #SupremeCourt and a contentious relationship with the #press, could Donald #Trump follow through on his 2016 campaign goal of making it easier to sue #media companies for #libel—and imperil America’s #FreePress?
#FirstAmendment #FreeSpeech
https://slate.com/podcasts/what-next-tbd/2025/03/how-trump-is-attacking-freedom-of-the-press
I'm ashamed of being an American #journalist today and if you call yourself a journalist or are in the media and are silent over the dismantling of #VOA,
#freepress, shame on the #UnitedStates.
#Journalism
Everything I was told about our Nation was a lie.
"All at VOA, who swore an oath to the Constitution, strove daily to live up to our charter: to be accurate, objective and comprehensive. That promise, more than any broadcast or byline, is a legacy worth protecting.”— @w7voa Steve Herman
https://www.steveherman.press/p/requiem-for-the-voice-that-carried
@w7voa Thank you for your excellent work, Steve. We hope you’ll find a way to continue sharing news on Mastodon. "It took decades to build this goodwill and an audience of hundreds of millions every week. Seeing arsonists just set fire to it all is awful.” https://www.npr.org/2025/03/15/nx-s1-5329244/bloody-saturday-voiceofamerica-radio-free-asia-europe-trump-kari-lake #NPR #VoiceOfAmerica #SteveHerman #FreePress #Journalists #Integrity