The Gilded Age star Morgan Spector — who joins Hannah Einbinder & Javier Bardem in boycotting Israeli film institutions implicated in the genocide — explains why he & others are speaking out despite industry pressures:
"Israel wants to portray itself as David, Israel is Goliath."
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"How you die does not redeem how you lived!"👇
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LAPD fired rubber bullets at Australian journalist @laurentomasi.bsky.social
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Senator Ted Cruz posted a dramatic video of LAPD cars on fire with the caption “this… is… not… peaceful.” What he didn’t mention? The footage was from 2020, not 2025. His post on X falsely implied it was current, part of a broader effort to spread lies and manufacture a crisis.
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BREAKING: Israeli Forces Board Gaza Aid Flotilla and Detain 12 Crew Members
Zeteo contributor Greta Thunberg was on board the ship.
BREAKING: Israeli forces boarded the Gaza Aid Flotilla ship, the “Madleen,” early Monday morning local time and detained the 12 passengers on board, according to several reports.
Read @premthakker.bsky.social's coverage of what we know so far:
zeteo.com/p/breaking-i...
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French-Palestinian Member of European Parliament Rima Hassan:
"If you're seeing this video now, it's because we've been stopped by the Israeli army or their complicit allies. We count on your mobilization to put pressure on the French government to demand our release."
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ICE causing fires from their own tear gas and flash grenades, don’t get it twisted. They’re the ones causing damages to cities.
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"My name is Greta Thunberg and I am from Sweden. If you see this video, we have been intercepted and kidnapped in international waters by the Israeli occupational forces, or forces that support Israel."
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Advisory to Journalists: The Dangerous Expansion of the Federal Wiretap Law
Journalists, podcasters, and digital media professionals beware: the U.S. government is currently advancing a legal theory under 18 U.S.C. § 2511—the federal wiretap statute—that threatens to criminalize the mere act of downloading publicly available videos or listening to podcasts. This interpretation risks not only chilling investigative journalism but undermines the very foundation of freedom of the press.
The federal wiretap law makes it a felony to intentionally “intercept”—that is, acquire the contents of—a “wire communication” unless you are a party to the communication or a party has given prior consent. Under 18 U.S.C. § 2510(1), a "wire communication" includes any transfer containing the human voice that travels at any point by wire or cable. Originally meant to prevent unlawful phone taps in 1968, the statute has not meaningfully evolved to reflect digital media distribution in the 21st century.
As a result, many core journalistic practices today—listening to audio on a video stream, downloading a podcast, reviewing livestreamed footage—can be construed as “intercepting” a wire communication. And unlike “oral communications” (which are only protected if private) or “electronic communications” (which are exempt if publicly accessible), wire communications have no similar public-access defense. This leaves journalists legally vulnerable for accessing material that is otherwise freely available to the public.
This is not just a theoretical risk. In Tampa, Florida, the U.S. Department of Justice is actively prosecuting my client, journalist Timothy Burke for allegedly violating the wiretap statute by downloading publicly accessible livestreamed interviews from a video server. The journalist used only a URL—no password, no hack, no deception.
The government claims that because the streams included the human voice and were transmitted in part by wire or cable, they are “wire communications”. Under this interpretation, even if the stream was intended for public consumption, and even if no reasonable expectation of privacy existed, the act of acquiring and publishing the content becomes a federal felony. The government also asserts that the same communications are also “electronic communications,” where the law makes it clear that it is not a violation if the electronic communication is obtained from a server that is configured so that the communication is “readily accessible to the general public” -- however, the government has argued (and the court has agreed) that whether or not the communication was obtained from a publicly accessible server is a fact question that the journalist must prove at trial - not an element of the offense that the government must prove. This means that a journalist that obtains public information may still be subject to search, seizure, arrest, indictment and prosecution.
The implications for the First Amendment are chilling. Under the government’s interpretation of interception of “wire communications”, the government could prosecute journalists based not on their methods, but on the content they choose to listen to or report on. The wiretap law also criminalizes the disclosure of the contents of a wire communication. Thus, quoting from a podcast or a leaked livestream could subject a reporter to criminal liability regardless of intent, public interest, or harm.
This is a dangerous expansion of government authority. It converts the passive act of receiving a communication—something essential to journalism—into a criminal offense based solely on outdated statutory definitions and prosecutorial discretion.
The broader issue is not just technical—it’s constitutional. A law that is so vague or overbroad that it allows the government to pick and choose whom to prosecute based on their speech, targets the very heart of press freedom. It is unconstitutionally vague under the Fifth Amendment and overbroad under the First.
By failing to modernize the statute—or at least to interpret it in line with modern communication platforms—the government risks turning millions of journalists, researchers, and citizens into potential criminals. The law as it stands today is an anachronism of the analog era being misapplied in a digital one.
If you are a journalist, you should be alarmed. If the DOJ’s current theory prevails, simply clicking “play” could one day lead to prosecution. The press cannot operate in an environment where the law punishes access to speech—particularly where that speech is both public and newsworthy.
The press must not only report on this misuse of power, but challenge it—legally, politically, and publicly. Because the right to receive and report information is not just a constitutional luxury. It’s a democratic necessity.
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Mark Rasch
MDRasch@gmail.com
(301) 547-6925
The federal government is attempting a radical, massive expansion of what constitutes "wiretapping" that threatens everyone working in media/as a journalist today and I hope you'll read this and share it with everyone you know.
I'm not just fighting this for me. I'm fighting it for everyone.
15.05.2025 03:59 — 👍 1871 🔁 939 💬 37 📌 65
This isn't hypothetical.
The coming days are bringing higher prices and disrupted supply chains, this time not because of a pandemic or a war, but self-inflicted by our country's government under this president.
02.05.2025 18:32 — 👍 35429 🔁 10623 💬 952 📌 487
They make it sound like there are millions of dead people getting Social Security checks. But it's just not true.
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NEW: Family of Mahmoud Khalil just released footage of his arrest
“Stop resisting”
“He’s not resisting”
Agents seen continuing to ignore Mahmoud’s wife as she asks basic questions
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Community care can be:
🫂Healing circles
🫔Food distribution
💵Financial literacy classes
📚Libraries
👩🏾🤝👩🏿Time with loved ones
📣Activism
🧼Hygiene kits
💰Mutual aid fundraising
🕯️Vigils & rituals
🪔Festivals
🧿Traditional healing practices
👩🏽🎨Creativity events
👨🏿💻Online community spaces
👋🏽Meet ups
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Live and move in a way so that when you've aged and a young one asks how you participated, you'll have an answer worth telling.
A telling of how we survived and left them with something better than we got.
Live and move as if how you BE contributes to how we overcome.
Because it does.
02.02.2025 16:53 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
We are being asked to grow up.
To mature.
To commit to becoming elders rather than just getting older.
To give a shit before what's happening affects you.
To release the perception of separation and step in with others.
02.02.2025 16:52 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Individuation is necessary to find your authenticity, but it's incomplete until we rejoin community with our purpose in hand.
02.02.2025 16:52 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Expecting to be inspired by what troubles the world before coming to its defense, isn't defensible. Not among grown-ups. That is part of what got us to where we are. Inspiration is octane, yes. but it isn't give-a-shit. This is work.
-Stephen Jenkinson
02.02.2025 16:51 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
If you're a word of the year type of person, remember that in choosing, the word then becomes the work. How do you relate to the word? What does it mean/not mean? How will you know when it's embodied? How might your life be different when you're living in relationship to this word/phrase?
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