CIRCLE WITH A DOT

Trump in his very first campaign speech in 2015:

"We need somebody that can take the brand of the United States and make it great again."

Thank you for the ride, but I believe the US brand of 2025 would like its money back.

This conversation is one of the most important I have seen in a long time:

Mehdi Hasan meets Joy Reid (former MSNBC host) and Jim Acosta (former CNN host) for a talk about the deterioration of the free press in the USA.

It is shocking, but very very liberating to see them reveal what is going on behind the scenes.

Full video:
https://youtu.be/ZFdKPdsU0Us?si=5FlzpRqyEFTJmZNr

“I just hope […] this doesn’t scar him for the rest of his life”, says wife of an Irishman being detained by ICE and submitted to what he describes as "torture" in an ICE camp for five months and counting.

His crime? Having a work permit and paying taxes in Boston for twenty years.

This is what Trump calls focusing on "the worst of the worst".

Irishman detained by Ice appeals to Taoiseach to raise case with Trump amid ‘torture’

Seamus Culleton from Kilkenny has been in Texas Ice facility for nearly five months despite holding valid work permit

The Irish Times (www.irishtimes.com)

Picture 1: Even before Trump began raiding the homes of journalists, the US did not reach the global top ten of The Press Freedom Index.

Picture 2: Under Trump, the US is in 57th place, barely beating Gambia, but not even reaching the press freedom of Sierre Leone or Romania — falling 16 places since president Obama.

I wonder what this will look like for 2026.

Source:
https://rsf.org/en/index?year=2025

Thank you @kinghaunst for this find.

Reporter Hannah Natanson has been writing articles about the corruption of the Trump regime. The result: Now Trump has sent the FBI to raid her home and seize all her devices, so they can identify her sources.

The insightful Liz Oyer has the story: https://youtube.com/shorts/2CkE7YXpaL4?si=sGiMkyEo3HiuNWo8