A Kansas county agrees to pay out $3 million and apologize for a raid on a small-town newspaper
Monday’s agreement stems from the August 2023 search of the Marion County Record, as well as the home of the paper’s publisher and a councilwoman, seizing reporters’ cell phones and computers, among other items. The raid triggered widespread condemnation from news organizations and press freedom advocates.
A Kansas county agrees to pay out $3 million and apologize for a raid on a small-town newspaper
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you can’t play the same shitty games like they have been since 2016.
Oh, it’s been going on for much longer than that.
This clip is from the early 2000s; the late William Greider was a Pulitzer Prize nominee in 1982.
and you totally lied when you said you would “prosecute the case against him”
But a new book by Pulitzer Prize-nominated reporter Aaron Glantz challenges that storyline, arguing that Harris not only allowed Steve Mnuchin’s OneWest bank to get away with foreclosing on tens of thousands of state homeowners, but then tried to bury the evidence.
If that name sounds familiar, Mnuchin later became Trump’s treasury, from 2017-2021.
Also, this…
Biden Suggests He Would Only Serve One Term if Elected President
Advisers close to the candidate say he won’t run for reelection in 2024 if elected in 2020.
And then he changed his mind.
If that hadn’t happened and they instead had a normal convention, we might be in a much different situation now.