On #WorldPressFreedomDay , Biden declared that 'journalism should not be a crime anywhere on Earth.' He noted how deadly 2023 was for journalists, particularly in Gaza, without acknowledging that the US has helped make the world more unsafe for the press.

thedissenter.org/biden-hypocris…

If Biden had been president, would he have defended the National Guard with the words, 'Order must prevail'?

BREAKING: The ACLU of Indiana is suing Indiana University for banning protesters from campus for one year, after they were arrested at a campus protest.

On #WorldPressFreedomDay , Biden declared that 'journalism should not be a crime anywhere on Earth.' He noted how deadly 2023 was for journalists, particularly in Gaza, without acknowledging that the US has helped make the world more unsafe for the press.

thedissenter.org/biden-hypocris…

A rare trial against post-9/11 US torture ended in a mistrial after the jury deadlocked. The reason a verdict was not reached had a lot to do with a confusing legal instruction.

Iraqi torture survivors will seek another trial against CACI. thedissenter.org/judge-declares…

Josh Dean, a former quality auditor at Boeing supplier Spirit AeroSystems and a whistleblower who allegde Spirit leadership had ignored manufacturing defects on the 737 MAX, died Tuesday morning after a struggle against a sudden, fast-spreading infection. seattletimes.com/business/whist…

🚨 Georgia State University, an institution with deep ties to Israel by way of the Georgia International Law Enforcement Exchange (GILEE) program, as well as to Cop City, is having graduating students wearing keffiyehs dragged off campus and is threatening to rescind degrees.

The mayor of NYC sent hundreds of NYPD officers to Columbia University to break up a student protest against the war in Gaza.

Then he smeared my 63-year-old mother, who lost dozens of family members in Gaza, to justify it.

apnews.com/article/columb…

NEW:

A frontline account, minute by minute, from two journalists inside Columbia, during the NYPD’s ‘dystopian’ nighttime raid on Columbia student protesters.

hellgatenyc.com/nypd-raid-colu…

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After days of Biden repeatedly condemning campus protests as antisemitic, pro-Israel demonstrators have now violently attacked an encampment at UCLA, calling for a 'Second Nakba!'

Biden was warned his increasingly hostile rhetoric would fuel this kind of violence.

Pro-Israel groups pressed for the reauthorization of Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act earlier this month as a means towards warrantless spying on protestors. prospect.org/blogs-and-news…

Shocking footage shows several officers at Washington University St. Louis beating a professor, slamming him, and dragging his limp body.
SIUE history professor Steve Tamari is reportedly hospitalized with broken ribs and a broken hand.
One doctor told him he's lucky to be alive.

A new Quincy Institute report from Ben Freeman and I provides the first-ever investigation into an obscure US military program which allows government contractors like Lockheed Martin to influence senior Pentagon policymakers.

Here's what we found 🧵

quincyinst.org/research/subsi…

Got roughed up & tossed out of the White House Correspondents Dinner for holding a sign: '100 journalists killed in Gaza.' Today was supposed to be about Free Speech. Irony much? My partner Tighe is still in pain after security's assault and while this was happening, journalists…