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Gillian Frew
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World Press Freedom Day is tomorrow.

Reporters Without Borders have published the 2025 World Press Freedom Index. rsf.org/en/rsf-world...

Among other stark conclusions, the Index finds that In 2025, less than 1% of the world's population lives in a country where press freedom is fully guaranteed.
RSF World Press Freedom Index 2025: economic fragility a leading threat to press freedom
Although physical attacks against journalists are the most visible violations of press freedom, economic pressure is also a major, more insidious problem. The economic indicator on the RSF World Press...
rsf.org
May 2, 2025 at 8:09 PM
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hayesbrown.bsky.social
WH Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt just clarified on X that the rescission of the OMB memo was simply to get the federal court case to go away, not lifting the funding freeze on anything that goes against Trump's EOs

translation: "please stop yelling at me for the thing i want to keep doing"
Karoline Leavitt @PressSec This is NOT a rescission of the federal funding freeze. It is simply a rescission of the OMB memo. Why? To end any confusion created by the court's injunction. The President's EO's on federal funding remain in full force and effect, and will be rigorously implemented.
January 29, 2025 at 6:49 PM
gillianfrew.bsky.social
Her book “Boy Mom” is on my to-read list!
maureenc.bsky.social Maureen Conway @maureenc.bsky.social · Oct 9
“If we really want to help boys break free and find more expansive and healthier ways to show up in the world, it’s not “positive masculinity” that they need, but full humanity.”

Worth reading Ruth Whippman
www.nytimes.com/2024/10/08/o...
Opinion | We Can Do Better Than ‘Positive Masculinity’
It doesn’t challenge stereotypes; it reinforces them.
www.nytimes.com
January 24, 2025 at 1:20 AM
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chrisgeidner.bsky.social
BREAKING, via The Seattle Times: Trump's executive order to restrict birthright citizenship is blocked for at least the next two weeks by a Reagan appointee in Seattle who eviscerated the Trump lawyers present defending the order. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
Senior U.S. District Judge John Coughenour on Thursday was blistering in his criticism of Trump’s action as he granted a temporary restraining order that blocks Trump’s executive order from taking effect nationwide. “I’ve been on the bench for over four decades, I can’t remember another case where the question presented is as clear as this one is. This is a blatantly unconstitutional order,” Coughenour, an appointee of Ronald Reagan, said from the bench. “There are other times in world history where we look back and people of goodwill can say where were the judges, where were the lawyers?” Coughenour interrupted before Brett Shumate, a Justice Department attorney, could even complete his first sentence. “In your opinion Is this executive order constitutional?” he asked. Shumate said, “it absolutely is.” “Frankly I have difficulty understanding how a member of the Bar could state unequivocally that this is a constitutional order,” Coughenour said. “It just boggles my mind.”
January 23, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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washingtonpost.com
Most people slept through the bulk of TikTok’s outage. But the political play and a list of things that seem new or different on the app have left a bad taste in some users’ mouths.
‘The vibes were off’: How half a day without TikTok changed everything
Most people slept through the bulk of TikTok’s outage. But the political play and a list of things that seem new or different on the app have left a bad taste in some users’ mouths.
wapo.st
January 22, 2025 at 6:13 PM
gillianfrew.bsky.social
Hi Bluesky! Millennial here who hasn’t joined any new social platforms in a minute. What’s new?
January 21, 2025 at 11:05 PM