Why, America? with Leeja Miller

Jailed For Asking Questions: Trump's Criminalization of Journalism

Last week in Villarreal v. Alaniz, the Supreme Court declined to uphold a journalist's free speech rights after she was arrested for asking questions of local officials. Yesterday, Trump threatened to put a journalist in jail who had published information about a US airman in Iran. At the Pentagon, a few far right nut jobs are all that's left of the Pentagon press corps. The Trump regime will continue criminalizing journalists because they know how essential good journalism is to the functioning of a democracy.
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The Attack On Trans People Is Ramping Up

The Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention issued its third red flag alert for anti-trans genocide in the US last month. With each passing week, new ever-more draconian legislation is introduced in states across the country as the federal government attempts to scapegoat the trans community for all the ills of society. And we can't look away from the injustice. Huge shout out to Aleksandra Vaca over at Transitics for their great reporting. See more at https://transitics.substack.com/p/transitics-comprehensive-anti-trans-9cd 
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Birthright Citizenship Reaches The Supreme Court | EXPLAINER

Tomorrow, the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments about Trump’s Executive Order attempting to rewrite the Constitution and 150 years of Supreme Court precedent. The outcome SHOULD be obvious (this is unconstitutional) but, alas, with this Supreme Court it is not. Here’s the breakdown you need to know.
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Gutting Mail-In Ballots Is Just The Beginning

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Jared Kushner's War

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The Death Of America's Soft Power

Go to https://ground.news/Leeja to stay fully informed on US Politics and see all sides of every story. Subscribe through my link for 40% off for unlimited access on the Vantage plan. | A judge ordered the reinstatement of 1000 Voice of America employees this week. But is that enough to undo the damage at the US Agency for Global Media wrought by Trump and his goon Kari Lake? And does any of it matter in the digital age where we trust 20 year old influencers more than legacy news media?
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Pete Hegseth's Holy War

 Military higher-ups are telling their officers that the US and Israel attack on Iran is ordained by God to bring about the second coming of Christ. To understand the White Christian Nationalism animating the Pentagon, Pete Hegseth, and the war with Iran, we have to untangle the web of beliefs behind the leaders of the movement.
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What's Going On With The Strait Of Hormuz? EXPLAINER

The price of oil soared to $120 per barrel this morning amid chaos in the Middle East. The Strait of Hormuz and Iran's control over it play a key piece of the puzzle that you have to understand in order to know what comes next.
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Don't Download Claude, Either.

Anthropic had a falling out with the Department of Defense, Pete Hegseth, and Donald Trump, and OpenAI moved to fill the void. In the fallout, everyone is deleting ChatGPT in favor of Claude. I think that’s a mistake.
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Why Did We Just Start a War w/ Iran? EXPLAINER

As the crisis continues to develop in the middle east, most of us here in the US are just left asking ...why?? The reasons given by the Trump regime for why we joined Israel in bombing Iran on Saturday don't hold up to scrutiny. So we're left to conjecture and guessing. And what happens next is anyone's guess.
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