Journalist @davidsirota.com says that while the U.S. is "immersed in corruption" in a way that feels inevitable, it is the result of a decadeslong "master plan" by the wealthy to deregulate campaign finance and weaken anti-bribery laws.
https://www.democracynow.org/2025/10/28/david_sirota
NEW: AG Pam Bondi has revoked media protections instituted by former AG Merrick Garland, according to a memo seen by NBC News. More to come.
Biden periodically harnessed the very machinery that Presidents Barack Obama and Donald Trump wielded to enforce secrecy and silence whistleblowers. His administration largely brushed aside or retaliated against those who dissented and exposed corruption. thedissenter.org/bidens-legac...
Bloomberg Law scoops that Trump DOJ political appointees leaked nonpublic investigative details to the New York Post & Wall Street Journal in 2020 & found evidence strongly suggesting an effort to impact elections
news.bloomberglaw.com/daily-labor-...
Jesselyn Radack and Julian Assange at Christmastime
Thank you and Merry Christmas to all our supporters who help ensure that truth-tellers do not have to stand alone! We rely on independent donors to defend national security whistleblowers who have been bankrupted, blacklisted, and exiled.
There's still time to donate:
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this is one of the worst #Christmas in the last 4 decades: Israel's #genocide against #Gaza, war in #Ukraine and several wars which never hit the headlines, millions struggle to survive
But there is also a spark of hope
#JA is free.
For once we did overcome
🚨 A bipartisan group of lawmakers has introduced federal anti-SLAPP legislation.
This important law would protect journalists and the public by providing a means to dismiss frivolous lawsuits intended to silence criticism and speech in federal court.
“When [news outlets] settle, not only are they putting a target on their back, they’re putting a target on the backs of smaller outlets that don’t have those kinds of legal resources.”
A recent @nytimes.com story featured a Taliban commander who revealed how U.S. intervention actually strengthened the Taliban.
This echoes the devastating truths explored in my documentary Rethink Afghanistan.
It’s a stark reminder of the need to learn from these failures.
It's not a permissible purpose, but I think one of the reasons the government seeks out pretrial detention is to try to break a defendant and coerce a plea.
The Espionage Act continues to be sharpened as an unconstitutional and draconian weapon against #whistleblower & media leak cases. Already notoriously difficult for defense, pretrial detention makes things even harder.
The public has a right to know.
Three Steps to Fixing the FBI: Interview with Whistleblower Coleen Rowley www.racket.news/p/three-step...
My dire warning for whistleblowers, journalists & Trump critics. ⚠️
www.salon.com/2024/12/15/w...
The deafening hypocrisy of elite left/liberals: Judith Butler criticizes Trump voters for being willing to overlook his misogyny, while they themselves willfully overlooked Biden/Harris' full complicity in genocide and voted Harris anyway. english.elpais.com/culture/2024...
Top U.S. cyber official recommends strong encryption, a message counter to what top officials have said in recent years @raphae.li www.reuters.com/technology/c...
What the fuck is @aoc.bsky.social talking about? She admitted Biden & Harris were genocidal and then fully backed them for election...
“The toughest parts of homelessness have been surviving the poverty and the marginalization, discrimination, and hostility from the non-homeless population.”
www.esquire.com/news-politic...
Representatives Thomas Massie and Jim McGovern have sent Biden a letter urging a pardon of Assange to “send a clear message that the US government under your leadership will not target or investigate journalists and media outlets simply for doing their jobs”.
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Research by #DisruptionNetworkInstitute Fellow
Lisa Ling takes a closer look at the growing field of #NetworkCentricWarfare, asking questions about its ethics & governance. The research will be presented at Investigating the #KillCloud conference on 29 Nov: dnlb.org/34. #DNL34
@aretvet.bsky.social
I had missed that prosecutors are still pursuing the charges against Trump aides, despite dropping the Espionage Act case against Trump himself.
“If I didn’t have confidential sources, and this credible pledge that I would protect their identity, I would never have been able to uncover the defects in the Russia collusion case. And I think that should really matter to President Trump” -Catherine Herridge on the PRESS Act
Trump once again pledges a major crackdown on whistleblowers.
We'll be here to defend them.
whisper.exposefacts.org/trump-pledge...
