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FPF’s Top 10 most urgent FOIA requests Why these disclosures would help fight threats to the press, help fight expanding surveillance, and more

FACT: Due to this administration’s complete disregard for the truth, @freedom.press has filed 100+ FOIA requests in the past 100 days.

FOIA is the public’s best defense against government secrecy – so we’ll keep using it. And we won’t stop.

Check out our top 10 FOIAs ⬇️

Finally, the Dam Shoring Up Support for Israel Seems to Be Breaking The international community is at long last coming to agreement around the genocide in Gaza. But will it end military support and impose sanctions?

Perhaps it is a cumulative effect. Perhaps the images of children reduced to skin and bones was the final straw. Whatever the reason ultimately is, the critical question is: Now that we are here, what is going to be done about it?

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Trump Just Released His Plan to Revoke Birthright Citizenship. It’s Worse Than Imagined. Try as it might, the government cannot cover up the horrors with bureaucratic legalese.

The Trump administration has quietly released the first stage of its plan to revoke birthright citizenship from the children of immigrants. It uses dry legalese to conceal the barbaric reality of ICE agents in maternity wards and deportation flights for babies. slate.com/news-and-pol...

'You can't beat an Immoral agent of chaos with risk aversion.'

Among other much-needed things this is a phenomenal piece of writing

‘He wrote five songs about washing dishes!’ The lost Woody Guthrie gems rescued by AI He sang about love, injustice, Einstein – and his landlord Fred Trump, father of Donald, ending up in hell. As a trove of Guthrie tracks resurfaces, his daughter Nora remembers the penner of ‘hard-hit...

It's wild that Fred Trump was Woody Guthrie's landlord. As the saying goes, the past is never dead. It's not even past.

is the muslim guy visiting family in uganda responsible for the shooting in new york? we put the question to the Times’ new Thin Blue Chatbot and the answer…might surprise you

Screenshot from DFP crosstabs: The candidate pledges to support the Block the Bombs Act, a new bill in Congress which would withhold U.S. weapons to Israel and address concerns about Israel's violations of U.S. and international law. More likely (total): 72% Less likely (total): 11% More likely (net): +61%

Screenshot from DFP crosstabs: The candidate declines to take an international trip to Israel, saying they want to focus on addressing New Yorkers' issues and needs. More likely (total): 60% Less likely (total): 15% More likely (net): +45%

It seems the pro-Israel consensus among Democrats is well and truly dead at this point. Dem primary voters prefer candidates who refuse to travel to Israel (by net +45%) and back a bill to end military aid to Israel (by net +61%). www.filesforprogress.org/datasets/202...

Chasing the Runaway Carr The Freedom of the Press Foundation is turning the tables on Brendan Carr, filing a complaint to investigate and potentially disbar the FCC chairman over his moves to punish Donald Trump's media criti...

Scoop: The Freedom of the Press Foundation is formally asking the Office of Disciplinary Counsel at the D.C. Court of Appeals to probe and consider disbarring FCC chair Brendan Carr.

Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/brendan-ca...

For the liberals who have come around to recognizing Israel's genocidal campaign, what are the implications besides Stop? Do you all support the war crimes prosecution of US citizens serving in the IDF? How does it shape your understanding of the Houthi leadership in Yemen? Should the universities reinstate suspended students? Should the pundits and politicians who slandered them as racists apologize? How should we hold accountable the American politicians — particularly the Democrats — who supplied, excused, and co-committed these crimes? Should Netanyahu be arrested if he steps foot in the US? How should Joe Biden pay?

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You cheered this on from the start and a last minute tweet doesn't absolve your complicity.

Reprehensible.

Every editor in chief who buried the truth about Palestine, every manager who silenced an honest voice, everyone who stood in the face of protesters and said not like this,every university administration that chose repression
over listening you are not neutral.

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We wrote to prosecutors Tuesday urging them to drop unconstitutional charges against two @citybeatcincy.bsky.social journalists arrested at a protest.

They dropped the felony charges Wednesday, but they need to drop the misdemeanors too.

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We wrote to prosecutors Tuesday urging them to drop unconstitutional charges against two @citybeatcincy.bsky.social journalists arrested at protest.

They dropped the felony charges yesterday, but they need to drop the misdemeanors too.

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Institutions like Columbia and CBS aren't acquiescing, they're collaborating. Part of why this is all happening is because lots of folks leading organizations like those actively support the GOP, sympathize with some of its goals, or just prefer it to the alternative.

"We are desperately concerned for our journalists in Gaza, who are increasingly unable to feed themselves and their families."

Pro-Israel right wing newspaper Daily Express front page: FOR PITYS SAKE STOP THIS NOW The suffering of little Muhammad clinging on to life in Gaza hell shames us all

There’s a sense now that a critical point has been reached with even those who were solidly supportive of Israel turning against them.

The founder and chair of the Conservative think tank Bright Blue also said today: “Their actions are now profoundly stupid and self-defeating.”

"Let's be clear: Zohran Mamdani won the votes of a large majority of NYC Democrats, including thousands of proud Jews like me, inspired by his vision of a city everyone can afford and confident about his commitment to combating antisemitism and hate. Josh Shapiro won't help keep Jews safe in NYC or Pennsylvania by feeding Trump's narrative about our Democratic nominee for mayor."

"Let's be clear: Zohran Mamdani won the votes of a large majority of NYC Democrats, including thousands of proud Jews like me, [...] Josh Shapiro won't help keep Jews safe in NYC or Pennsylvania by feeding Trump's narrative about our Democratic nominee for mayor."

- Brad Lander responds to Shapiro

The video is shocking - but felony charges have been filed: against the protestors who are being beaten up.
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The clerks where I get my lunch said a man came in last week and asked them where the public entrance to 26 Federal Plaza was. He locked his bike outside, and it’s been there since.

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One million starved children and no shortage of food

this is one of the worst crimes in human history and the entire global north and all of us in it share the responsibility

“Without immediate intervention, the last remaining reporters in Gaza are going to die.”

The association of AFP journalists writes: “Since AFP’s founding in 1944, we have lost journalists in conflicts, we have had members of our ranks wounded or taken prisoner, but none of us can remember ever having seen a colleague die of hunger.”

Hakeem doesn't seem to realize that he would benefit far more from Zohran's coattails than Zohran ever would from his.

Editorial: Free Madeline Fening and Lucas Griffith – Defend the Free Press The arrest of CityBeat journalists Madeline Fening and Lucas Griffith on Thursday during a protest on the Roebling Bridge in Covington is an outrageous assault on the free press and a direct affron…

Two reporters from Cincinnati CityBeat facing felony first degree rioting charges for doing their jobs. An outrageous assault on the First Amendment.

Gov. DeWine 'concerned' about arrest of journalists during protest on Roebling Bridge Ohio Governor Mike DeWine said he is checking with Northern Kentucky authorities after over 13 people were arrested during protests on the Roebling Bridge Thursday — including two journalists.

Reporters Madeline Fening and Lucas Griffith of alt-weekly Cincinnati CityBeat were arrested Thursday while doing their jobs, covering a protest in Northern Kentucky.

YouTube video by LOCAL 12 Police clash with protesters in Cincinnati; 13 arrested

"I'm American, and he just threw me down on the ground and he bloodied me up and I am 70 years old. This is my country! I am American, I told him that, I said 'I don't know what you're doing, you're crazy.' Suddenly, he came over and all of a sudden beat this nice guy next to me."

Zohran Mamdani and Mahmoud Khalil Are in on the Joke What it feels like to laugh when the world expects you to disappear.

"It was fascinating to watch two beacons of Muslim victory turned toward each other: one man tasked with reimagining a city, the other with making his freedom about something beyond himself."

An incredible piece of writing in the @newyorker.com. Don't miss it www.newyorker.com/news/essay/z...