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Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️<p>Trump Executive Order Defunds PBS, NPR<br><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/trump-signs-executive-order-to-defund-pbs-and-npr" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">truthout.org/articles/trump-si</span><span class="invisible">gns-executive-order-to-defund-pbs-and-npr</span></a><br><a href="https://www.nationofchange.org/2025/05/02/democracy-is-on-life-support-trump-signs-executive-order-to-defund-npr-and-pbs" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">nationofchange.org/2025/05/02/</span><span class="invisible">democracy-is-on-life-support-trump-signs-executive-order-to-defund-npr-and-pbs</span></a><br>Democracy is on life support</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/IndependentPress" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>IndependentPress</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/InvestigativeJournalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>InvestigativeJournalism</span></a></p><p>🇺🇲 🇬🇧 🇨🇦 <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Christofascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Christofascism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/postTruthism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>postTruthism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/transgenocide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>transgenocide</span></a></p><p>🏳️‍⚧️ <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TransLivesMatter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TransLivesMatter</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TransRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TransRights</span></a><br><a href="https://mastodon.social/@persagen/114186381298087870" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">mastodon.social/@persagen/1141</span><span class="invisible">86381298087870</span></a></p>
The Signals Network<p>These critical roles in support of a free and independent press which often relies on information from sensitive sources would be adversely impacted by the President's executive orders targeting law firms like Perkins Coie.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/amicusbrief" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>amicusbrief</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/journalists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>journalists</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/sensitivesources" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sensitivesources</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/pressfreedom" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>pressfreedom</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/freepress" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>freepress</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/independentpress" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>independentpress</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/lawyers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>lawyers</span></a></p>
Purple Haze II<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/live/sL3mY9_sb3Y?feature=shared" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">youtube.com/live/sL3mY9_sb3Y?f</span><span class="invisible">eature=shared</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/donlemon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>donlemon</span></a><br><a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/thedonlemonshow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>thedonlemonshow</span></a><br><a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/lemonliveat5" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>lemonliveat5</span></a><br><a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/georgehahn" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>georgehahn</span></a><br><a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/comedy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>comedy</span></a><br><a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/comediansofmastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>comediansofmastodon</span></a> <br><a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/comedians" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>comedians</span></a> <br><a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/lgbtqia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>lgbtqia</span></a><br><a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/blackmastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>blackmastodon</span></a> <br><a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/BlackFedi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BlackFedi</span></a> <br><a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/blackfediverse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>blackfediverse</span></a> <br><a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/IndependentPress" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>IndependentPress</span></a> <br><a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/independentmedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>independentmedia</span></a> <br><a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>politics</span></a> <br><a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/maga" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>maga</span></a><br><a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/karolineleavitt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>karolineleavitt</span></a><br><a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>trump</span></a><br><a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/howardlutnick" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>howardlutnick</span></a></p>
Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️<p>“Send Them to Jail”: GOP Officials Keep Saying Trump Can Arrest People for Protesting<br><a href="https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/03/mahmoud-khalil-trump-leavitt-tuberville-free-speech/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">motherjones.com/politics/2025/</span><span class="invisible">03/mahmoud-khalil-trump-leavitt-tuberville-free-speech/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/FreeSpeech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FreeSpeech</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/IndependentPress" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>IndependentPress</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/RightToProtest" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RightToProtest</span></a><br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fascism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/GOP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GOP</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/authoritarianism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>authoritarianism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/censorship" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>censorship</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/4thReich" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>4thReich</span></a></p>
Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️<p>Veteran news editor expects Trump 'to go after the press in every conceivable way'<br><a href="https://www.npr.org/2024/11/20/nx-s1-5192627/trump-press-marty-baron-david-remnick" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">npr.org/2024/11/20/nx-s1-51926</span><span class="invisible">27/trump-press-marty-baron-david-remnick</span></a></p><p>* New Yorker editor David Remnick: Trump's anger "has been never so intense as it's been against the press"<br>* Trump: news media the "Enemy of the American people"<br>* threatened retribution<br>* suggested NBC, CBS, ABC have licenses revoked</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/USpol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USpol</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Trump2" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump2</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/GOP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GOP</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fascism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/authoritarianism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>authoritarianism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/extremism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>extremism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Project2025" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Project2025</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/disinformation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>disinformation</span></a> <br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/IndependentPress" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>IndependentPress</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/NewsMedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NewsMedia</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/FreePress" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FreePress</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/censorship" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>censorship</span></a></p>
nacelnik01<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.arch-linux.cz/@cynik_obecny" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>cynik_obecny</span></a></span> já zůstávám. Sice zdaleka nepřečtu vše, ale beru to jako podporu nezávislé novinařiny. Kromě Koubského u mě boduje podkast Romancov &amp;spol, a když jsem se nechal ukecat na páteční tištěné, tak se mi to zalíbilo. Ale taky mám články se kterými nesouzním, nebo mě třeba případnou i tendenční. Je to reálný svět, nic není dokonalé <a href="https://mastodonczech.cz/tags/enkocz" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>enkocz</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonczech.cz/tags/denikN" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>denikN</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonczech.cz/tags/independentpress" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>independentpress</span></a></p>
Kirsten Han 👩🏻‍💻 韩俐颖<p>If you’re interested in <a href="https://kopiti.am/tags/Asia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Asia</span></a>, <a href="https://kopiti.am/tags/SoutheastAsia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SoutheastAsia</span></a>, <a href="https://kopiti.am/tags/literature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>literature</span></a>, <a href="https://kopiti.am/tags/books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>books</span></a>, <a href="https://kopiti.am/tags/art" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>art</span></a>, <a href="https://kopiti.am/tags/politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>politics</span></a>, <a href="https://kopiti.am/tags/geopolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>geopolitics</span></a>, <a href="https://kopiti.am/tags/writers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>writers</span></a>, <a href="https://kopiti.am/tags/history" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>history</span></a>, <a href="https://kopiti.am/tags/HumanRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HumanRights</span></a>, <a href="https://kopiti.am/tags/FreeExpression" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FreeExpression</span></a>, <a href="https://kopiti.am/tags/democracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>democracy</span></a>, <a href="https://kopiti.am/tags/IndependentPress" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>IndependentPress</span></a>, etc. I would just like to say that this month you can get 20% off a year’s membership of <a href="https://kopiti.am/tags/MekongReview" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MekongReview</span></a> by using the promo code APRIL2023 and support our small literary magazine: <a href="https://mekongreview.com/subscribe/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">mekongreview.com/subscribe/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>