Press Freedom - June 2020

[dewline]

What Rodrigo Duterte in the Philippines is doing now...

https://www.rappler.com/nation/263994-after-verdict-maria-ressa-world-puts-duterte-trial

...is something Trump would like to outdo.

https://www.poynter.org/newsletters/2020/president-trump-thinks-some-journalists-should-be-executed-according-to-john-boltons-upcoming-book/

I am grateful to have a government still opposed to such things.

Comments

[sabotabby]

Hellish.

[dewline]

Yes. There are still battles to fight, and it's not over. But yes.

[cynthia1960]

Fuck.

[devilc]

It's a very scary time in the U.S. right now, and I say this as a (mostly) ablebodied straight white ciswoman who is educated and financially secure. I am never letting my passport expire.

Ralph and I have had talks about what it would take to re-establish his German citizenship. That is how uneasy we are.

[dewline]

Understood.