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Oil industry heir John Hess, the longtime former CEO of Hess Corporation & current director at Chevron, is tied for the 2nd largest donor to Fix the City, a super PAC backing former NY Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s campaign for mayor of NYC. So far, he has donated a total of $1 million to the super PAC.
02.10.2025 20:11 — 👍 6 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Tied for the second-largest donor to a pro-Cuomo SuperPAC is an oil and gas heir and Chevron director. www.exposedbycmd.org/2025/09/30/c...
30.09.2025 19:26 — 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
ICYMI: State Farm Fiddles with Fossil Fuels While the World Burns
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NEW: Oil industry heir John Hess, the longtime former CEO of Hess Corporation & current director at Chevron, is tied for the 2nd largest donor to Fix the City, a super PAC backing former NY Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s campaign for mayor of NYC. So far, he has donated a total of $1 million to the super PAC.
30.09.2025 18:12 — 👍 10 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
NEW: State Farm offers investment services to anyone, not just policyholders, along with mutual funds open to investors. At the end of June, it held $3.3 billion in Exxon shares and $1.9 billion in Chevron stock — making it among the top 20 investors in both companies.
29.09.2025 14:26 — 👍 9 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 1
Right-wing Oklahoma State Superintendent Ryan Walters has resigned and announced that he will lead the anti-union network "Teacher Freedom Alliance." The Center for Media and Democracy wrote about the launch of this astroturf operation earlier this year. Read more 👇
25.09.2025 14:23 — 👍 4 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 1
ICYMI: Major media outlets fail to question ICE and DHS on the reliability of its claims about deportation efforts
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“If you make statements that right-wing politicians don’t like, then you can lose your job. Period. That is chilling,” said Isaac Kamola, director of the American Association of University Professors’ Center for the Defense of Academic Freedom
25.09.2025 14:03 — 👍 7 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 1
I am so glad @matthewccook5.bsky.social wrote about this. Journalists embedding with ICE is widespread and despicable. In one case, a Penske truck approached day laborers at Home Depot asking them if they wanted work, and when the workers gathered round, agents jumped out, along with a camera crew.
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Letter demanding release of journalist Mario Guevara
For over 100 days, journalist Mario Guevara has been detained by U.S. law enforcement for his livestream reporting.
He is the only journalist behind bars for his journalism, and he could be deported for doing his job.
We demand his immediate release.
freedomformario.com
In the Bush years is was embeds in Iraq. Now it's embeds on ICE raids. @exposedbycmd.bsky.social reports on the latest trend of DHS dribbling out access for friendly journalists and stonewalling everyone else.
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24.09.2025 15:19 — 👍 1 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0Operation Dessert Storm.
It's all a folding inward of violence rehearsed elsewhere.
A big argument among historians in 🇩🇪 has been if and to what degree the German and European colonial atrocities prefigure the internal violence of the Third Reich. I'd say this thesis is confirmed by 🇺🇸 events.
NEW from me at @exposedbycmd.bsky.social . Nearly every major news outlet has been doing ICE or CBP ridealongs, leaving key government assertions totally uninterrogated. www.exposedbycmd.org/2025/09/24/l...
24.09.2025 15:29 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
NEW: Journalists from FOX, NBC, ABC, CBS, New York Times, New York Post, & Newsmax have all embedded with ICE & CBP operations over the past nine months under the umbrella of the DHS, giving the operations a publicity boost while leaving key claims about DHS enforcement policies unquestioned.
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ICYMI: Republican AG Group Cuts Ties with Leonard Leo, Brings in $10.1 Million in First Half of 2025
22.09.2025 17:04 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0“Viral social media videos... not only spread misinformation, but also undermine public safety," said DHS spox Tricia McLaughlin today. Does that include social media videos on DHS violence against journalists?
19.09.2025 20:49 — 👍 31 🔁 20 💬 0 📌 0
If DHS can violently attack journalists and citizen observers without any consequences, none of us are safe anywhere in the country.
#protest #LAProtests #PressFreedom #ProtectJournalists
A June 2 email from RLDF’s then President to RAGA members obtained by CMD shows that Bondi has set up a State Attorneys General Task Force to work with her & the DOJ to “focus on addressing different criminal and civil issues via state statutes & regulations, in concert with enforcing federal codes”
19.09.2025 17:12 — 👍 4 🔁 4 💬 3 📌 1They just tear-gassed us. They tried to run us over in a van holding a peaceful protester. They shot us with pepper balls. They dragged another protester into the facility.
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NEW investigation from the Center for Media and Democracy reveals that the Republican Attorneys General Association (RAGA) has cuts ties with Christian Right activist/funder Leonard Leo and brought in $10.1 million in the first half of 2025.
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NEW: The Republican Attorneys General Association brought in $10.1 mil in contributions in the first six months of 2025, its latest IRS filing examined by the Center for Media and Democracy shows. The haul is $1.3 mil larger than what the pay-to-play group raised in the first half of 2023.
19.09.2025 14:16 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1DHS and local law enforcement in Los Angeles have been systematically injuring journalists amid a broader crackdown. Watch our investigation here:
18.09.2025 22:03 — 👍 20 🔁 10 💬 2 📌 1
Shocking violence against journalists and observers at anti-ICE protests in LA threatens all of our rights.
#protest #LAProtests #PressFreedom #ProtectJournalists
“I know these people. These are people who are suffering broken ribs, gashed open fingers, concussions. Our democracy depends on an informed public, and you don’t have an informed public without a free press.” – Adam Rose, LA Press Club
#protest
#LAProtests
#PressFreedom
#ProtectJournalists
WATCH: Important coverage from the Center for Media and Democracy about the repression journalists are facing from local and federal law enforcement simply for doing their jobs. ⬇️
17.09.2025 19:06 — 👍 12 🔁 7 💬 1 📌 0
The LA Press Club has logged more than one hundred incidents of law enforcement misconduct since June 6th, including one where a journalist was held by the LAPD for four days without charges.
#protest
#LAProtests
#PressFreedom
#ProtectJournalists
In the past few weeks, we've been extensively covering the Trump administration's crackdown on press freedom. This video sums it up. Journalists have been repeatedly injured at protests against ICE activity, by both federal and local law enforcement. Watch here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CNj...
17.09.2025 16:34 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
“I've covered protests around the world for three decades, and the law enforcement violence at anti-ICE protests in Los Angeles is as bad as in some conflict zones. It's a clear violation of journalists' First Amendment rights.” – Nick Stern, freelance photojournalist
17.09.2025 16:30 — 👍 4 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 1Attacks on the press are attacks on the public's right to know.
DHS, LAPD, and other law enforcement must be held accountable for their brazen and repeated violations of the First Amendment.
