The assault by local Hong Kong authorities on press freedom undermined accountability before and after the housing-complex fire. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2025/12/02/world/unfree-press-and-hong-kongs-deadly-blaze/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #commentary #worldnews #hongkong #wangfukcourt #china #chinesecommunistparty #appledaily #jimmylai #nextmagazine #southchinamorningpost #humanrightswatch #freepress
Donald Trump ripped into a reporter on Tuesday, just days after calling another female journalist “piggy” after she asked a question related to the convicted sexual offender Jeffrey Epstein. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/11/19/world/piggy-trump-female-reporters/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #us #journalism #women039sissues #donaldtrump #freepress #jeffreyepstein
Lisa Melton
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‘Things happen’
#WashingtonPost Editorial Board
Setting the record straight about our murdered colleague.
The #US govt often advances its interests by working with nasty people, & #SaudiArabia Crown Prince #MBS is one of the nastiest. It’s one thing…to reluctantly deal with him…[but] #Trump’s performance at the White House Tuesday was something else entirely: #weak, #crass & of no strategic benefit to US.
#criminal #law #murder #Khashoggi #FreePress
https://wapo.st/4a02JnI
Greg Lloyd
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Asked about the #EpsteinFiles, #Trump attacks #reporter
The same reporter who asked earlier about #Khashoggi asked Trump why he is not releasing the #Epstein files now, rather than waiting for #Congress to vote.
Trump responded: "It's not the question that I mind. It's your attitude. I think you are a terrible reporter. It's the way you ask these questions."
He added "You're a terrible person & terrible reporter."
He added that he thinks #ABC's license should be taken away.
‘Things happen’
#WashingtonPost Editorial Board
Setting the record straight about our murdered colleague.
The #US govt often advances its interests by working with nasty people, & #SaudiArabia Crown Prince #MBS is one of the nastiest. It’s one thing…to reluctantly deal with him…[but] #Trump’s performance at the White House Tuesday was something else entirely: #weak, #crass & of no strategic benefit to US.
#criminal #law #murder #Khashoggi #FreePress
https://wapo.st/4a02JnI
Asked about the #EpsteinFiles, #Trump attacks #reporter
The same reporter who asked earlier about #Khashoggi asked Trump why he is not releasing the #Epstein files now, rather than waiting for #Congress to vote.
Trump responded: "It's not the question that I mind. It's your attitude. I think you are a terrible reporter. It's the way you ask these questions."
He added "You're a terrible person & terrible reporter."
He added that he thinks #ABC's license should be taken away.
You know #BrendanCarr is at the ready
#Trump said that broadcasting licenses used by affiliates of #Disney's #ABC should be "taken away" after he didn’t like a question posed by an #ABCNews reporter for the network in the Oval Office.
Trump made the comment after a reporter for ABC News asked Trump about the Jeffrey #Epstein political scandal.
Asked about the #EpsteinFiles, #Trump attacks #reporter
The same reporter who asked earlier about #Khashoggi asked Trump why he is not releasing the #Epstein files now, rather than waiting for #Congress to vote.
Trump responded: "It's not the question that I mind. It's your attitude. I think you are a terrible reporter. It's the way you ask these questions."
He added "You're a terrible person & terrible reporter."
He added that he thinks #ABC's license should be taken away.
[Helsinki flashback] #Trump contradicts #US #intelligence, says #MBS 'knew nothing' about #Khashoggi death.
Then in classic Trump fashion, Trump dismisses a reporter’s question on the #murder of #journalist #JamalKhashoggi as an attempt to "embarrass" the #SaudiArabia leader, horrifically adding:
🚨 "things happen" [um… dismemberment doesn’t just “happen”] 🚨
Trump asked the reporter where she was from, then called her "fake news."
Em :official_verified:
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There’s never been a better time to CANCEL THE WASHINGTON POST!
#JeffBezos #WillLewis #AdamONeal #WashingtonPost #WaPo #Journalism #FreePress #BoycottAmazon #BoycottWholeFoods #EatTheBillionaires #USPol
There’s never been a better time to CANCEL THE WASHINGTON POST!
#JeffBezos #WillLewis #AdamONeal #WashingtonPost #WaPo #Journalism #FreePress #BoycottAmazon #BoycottWholeFoods #EatTheBillionaires #USPol
Alex Akselrod
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#NoKings #Protest #Solidarity #Immigrants #MassDeportation #EndICE #StopICE #Project2025 #Trump #MAGA #ThisIsFascism #ThisIsWhatYouVotedFor #ElectionsHaveConsequences #SaveDemocracy #USConstitution #DueProcess #JustFollowingOrders #NationalGuard #1A #FreedomOfSpeech #EpsteinFiles #EpsteinClientList #OathToDefendTheConstitution #FreePress #LetsGoTaco
#NoKings #Protest #Solidarity #Immigrants #MassDeportation #EndICE #StopICE #Project2025 #Trump #MAGA #ThisIsFascism #ThisIsWhatYouVotedFor #ElectionsHaveConsequences #SaveDemocracy #USConstitution #DueProcess #JustFollowingOrders #NationalGuard #1A #FreedomOfSpeech #EpsteinFiles #EpsteinClientList #OathToDefendTheConstitution #FreePress #LetsGoTaco
Alex Akselrod
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ICE sprays directly in the face the lead pastor for First Presbyterian in Chicago. This photo I believe will go down in history.
#NoKings #Protest #Solidarity #Immigrants #MassDeportation #EndICE #StopICE #Project2025 #Trump #MAGA #ThisIsFascism #ThisIsWhatYouVotedFor #ElectionsHaveConsequences #SaveDemocracy #USConstitution #DueProcess #JustFollowingOrders #NationalGuard #AlligatorAuschwitz #EpsteinFiles #EpsteinClientList #OathToDefendTheConstitution #FreePress #LetsGoTaco
ICE sprays directly in the face the lead pastor for First Presbyterian in Chicago. This photo I believe will go down in history.
#NoKings #Protest #Solidarity #Immigrants #MassDeportation #EndICE #StopICE #Project2025 #Trump #MAGA #ThisIsFascism #ThisIsWhatYouVotedFor #ElectionsHaveConsequences #SaveDemocracy #USConstitution #DueProcess #JustFollowingOrders #NationalGuard #AlligatorAuschwitz #EpsteinFiles #EpsteinClientList #OathToDefendTheConstitution #FreePress #LetsGoTaco
Alex Akselrod
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#Federal agents grabbed & shoved #journalists in a hallway outside a NYC #immigration court on Tuesday, sending one to the #hospital in the latest clash between authorities enforcing #Trump’s immigration crackdown & members of the public seeking to observe & document their actions.
#law #FirstAmendment #FreePress #PoliceBrutality #Gestapo #Sturmabteilung
https://apnews.com/article/nyc-immigration-journalists-shoving-manhattan-84d95f26278aa406eed37d72ed213452
Alex Akselrod
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A visual #journalist identified as L. Vural Elibol of the Turkish news agency Anadolu hit his head on the floor at 26 Federal Plaza in Manhattan after US #ICE agents pushed one journalist off a public elevator & shoved another journalist to the floor, acc/to video & witnesses.
A bystander held Elibol’s head & a nurse treated him until an ambulance arrived, witnesses said. Video showed him in a neck brace as paramedics wheeled him out on a stretcher.
Both confrontations took place in a part of the federal building that is open to the public, & is routinely filled with #immigrants on their way to & from court hearings, agents waiting to make arrests, #activists there to #protest the arrests, & #journalists documenting the confrontations.
#law #Trump #FirstAmendment #FreePress #PoliceBrutality #Gestapo #Sturmabteilung
“If they tell us to get out, to not cross a certain line, we follow their orders,” Fedorova said. “In this case, it was not clear to anyone that this was a detention at all.”
The episode happened just days after a federal agent at the Manhattan #immigration court was captured on video shoving an Ecuadorian woman into a wall & onto the floor after her husband was arrested.
#law #Trump #FirstAmendment #FreePress #PoliceBrutality #Gestapo #Sturmabteilung