Today someone I know slightly was sentenced to 30 months in prison, and sent to a high security facility. Their crime was disrupting traffic - they and others climbed a gantry on the M25, the major orbital round London, to drop banners protesting at government inaction on climate change.

If a young woman studying for a PhD had been treated like this for nonviolent protest in, say, Iran or China, how would it be reported by our press?

#Law is about #power not #justice

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Yep - break down this concentration in EVERY sector of the #global #economy. No more #cartels, #oligopolies, #monopolies, etc. Just make real #competition the default.

End ALL #billionaires #plutocrats #oligarchs - this cancer must be excised ASAP for the survival of the rest.

#democracy #justice #humanrights #media #socialmedia #climatechange #adaptation #migration

The Political Economy of the US Media System: Excavating the Roots of the Present Crisis - Roosevelt Institute

Bilal Baydoun, Shahrzad Shams, and Victor Pickard trace the roots of the US media crisis to decades of deregulation and commercial capture, outlining how consolidation, news deserts, and platform dominance threaten democratic infrastructure and sow f…

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Epstein files released ...

#meme #usa #justice #epstein #epsteingate #epsteinfiles #problem

♲ Joyce Donahue - 2025-12-07 20:55:02 GMT

Using his clemency power, Trump has undone prosecutions made by his own DOJ during his first term.

Experts say the actions show a broad contempt for the justice system: “He’s rejecting ... the work of people he appointed but didn’t fully control.”
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#News #Law #USPolitics #Trump #DOJ #Justice #Pardons

A Tale of Two Terms: How Powerful Figures Were Prosecuted in Trump’s First Term, Then Pardoned in His Second

We found that Donald Trump has granted clemency in at least a dozen criminal cases that originated during his first term. No other president has used clemency to erase his own appointees’ actions on such a scale.

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