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Gina Intheburg 🇺🇦 🌻 🥥🌴Mar 8, 2025

Familiar to those who have lived under #authoritarian regimes’: #FirstAmendment experts implore judge to side with #AP in dispute over White House access

#FreePress #FreeSpeech #Democracy #DemocracyNotAutocracy

https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/familiar-to-those-who-have-lived-under-authoritarian-regimes-first-amendment-experts-implore-judge-to-side-with-ap-in-dispute-over-white-house-access/

First Amendment experts implore judge to side with AP in dispute over White House access

"If the White House can evict one outlet from the press pool due to its due to its coverage, it can dangle a sword over those that remain."

Law & Crime

PeggyStuart Dec 18, 2024

This seems like a good idea ⬇️
Article from The Boston Globe.

#DemCast #DemocracyNotAutocracy

https://www.bostonglobe.com/2024/12/17/nation/warren-trump-musk-conflict-of-interest/?et_rid=945689969&s_campaign=todayinpolitics:newsletter

Elizabeth Warren asks Trump to set conflict-of-interest rules for Musk

The Warren letter asks the Trump team 14 questions about the rules governing Musk, his associates and others involved in the Department of Government Efficiency project.

The Boston Globe

PeggyStuart Aug 13, 2024

Projection is the defense mechanism used by Putin. Hmmm...sound familiar?

#DemocracyNotAutocracy

https://www.voanews.com/a/kremlin-calls-ukraine-s-self-defense-terrorism-as-russian-strikes-keep-targeting-ukrainian-civilians-/7739818.html

Kremlin calls Ukraine's self-defense 'terrorism,' as Russian strikes keep targeting Ukrainian civilians

Under international law, Ukraine has the right to extend its operations into Russian territory, strike Russian military targets and defend itself against Moscow’s aggression

Voice of America

PeggyStuart Jul 22, 2024

Worth watching:

#Project2025IsTrumpVance #DemocracyNotAutocracy

https://youtube.com/watch?v=SRkW-zhEzaw&si=lEvsaELaLxD52ytc

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PeggyStuart Jul 15, 2024

A tribunal for Putin. Yep! #DemocracyNotAutocracy

https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2024/7/15/a-tribunal-for-putin-from-a-nobel-prize-winning-ukrainian-rights-defender

A ‘tribunal for Putin’ from a Nobel Prize-winning Ukrainian rights defender

Oleksandra Matviichuk spent years documenting alleged Russian war crimes but the events of 2022 still shocked her.

Al Jazeera

OUR COMMON GROUND Jun 26, 2024

You don’t have to like Jamaal Bowman or his politics to recognize that a foreign country’s right-wing aligned lobby shouldn’t be able to buy elections in the U.S.—let alone Democratic primaries.
That should chill you. If you care at all about democracy.
#DemocracyNotAutocracy #Peoplev$$$ election
#Bowman

PeggyStuart Jun 14, 2024

What was at stake then, and now, is our democracy.
(Oh, and along with that, our healthcare, our economy and the planet, etc., but no pressure!)

#DemocracyNotAutocracy #DemCast #BidenHarris4More