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Inter American Press Association: press freedom in the Americas suffered a "dramatic deterioration" in 2025; the US has "restrictions" on freedom of speech (Astrid Sušrez/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/americas-pr

Press freedom in the Americas saw 'dramatic deterioration' in 2025, watchdog says
A monitoring watchdog says press freedom across the Americas dropped sharply in 2025, with more killings, arrests and intimidation of media workers. The Inter American Press Association on Tuesday released its annual Chapultepec Index of Freedom of Expression and the Press covering 23 countries. It ranked Venezuela and Nicaragua as countries without freedom of speech. The group links rising attacks to more authoritarian leaders. It says Venezuela sees widespread self-censorship, and Nicaragua l…

For years, hacked Dutch telco Odido forwarded the names and MAC addresses of all devices on a home network to American AI-enabled Wi-Fi analytics firm Lifemote.
https://nltimes.nl/2026/03/11/odido-routers-forwarded-customers-personal-dat…

Odido routers forwarded customers' personal data to American AI company for years
For years, Odido forwarded sensitive data from customers' routers to the American AI company Lifemote without clearly disclosing this in its privacy statement, the Telegraaf reports. According to the newspaper, the telecom company seems to have stopped this practice after the newspaper’s questions about it.

The messaging coming from the White House increasingly reflects an “America, fuck yeah!” approach to international politics
– a phrase from the theme tune of "Team America: World Police",
the 2004 satire by the creators of South Park, which mocked the thrusting militarism of the Bush administration’s war on terror.
For those who don’t remember,
the film follows a crack squad of puppet soldiers as they blast their way around the world,
pursuing bad guy…

Trump’s ‘America, F**k Yeah’ doctrine and the war with Iran
Bombing the Iranian regime with little thought of what comes next suggests a foreign policy driven by pure swagger – a Team America approach to global power

"America, Not Americans": Inola Residents Say Trump's Industrial Push Is Coming at Their Expense - Oklahoma Watch
https://oklahomawatch.org/2026/03/11/america-not-americans-inola-residents-say-trumps-industrial-push-is-coming-at-their-expense/

Nick Fuentes: "The number one political enemy in America is women. ... They have to be imprisoned." (Media Matters for America)
https://www.mediamatters.org/nick-fuentes/nick-fuentes-number-one-political-enemy-america-women-they-have-be-imprisoned
http://www.memeorandum.com/260212/p25#a260212p25

Scott Borchetta, who founded Big Machine Records and signed Taylor Swift in 2006, is leaving Hybe America, which bought Big Machine in 2021; Hybe retains assets (Jem Aswad/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/music/news/scott-borchetta-exit…

Scott Borchetta to Exit Hybe America, Relaunch Big Machine Records
Hybe America has announced that Big Machine founder Scott Borchetta is leaving the company. He will relaunch his Big Machine Records.

At least 17 countries in Latin America and the Caribbean are on board with Trump’s new military alliance.
They are calling it the America’s Counter Cartel Coalition.
Latin America’s top right-wing leaders are involved,
including El Salvador’s Nayib Bukele and Argentina’s Javier Milei.
They met in Florida for the event, on March 7.
The United States has promised to use lethal force to destroy cartels and narco-traffickers in those nations.
Kristi Noem,…

The Donroe Coalition: Trump’s new right-wing military alliance
Last weekend, Donald Trump met with right-wing allies from Latin America to kick off a new military coalition to attack so-called drug cartels and push his agenda up and down the hemisphere. This is episode 8 of Under the Shadow, Season 2.

Americans are down on Democrats—until the alternative is the GOP
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2026/4/12/2375559/-Americans-are-down-on-Democrats-until-the-alternative-is-the-GOP

The House of Representatives narrowly passed the SAVE America Act on Wednesday, but it faces a tough sell in the Senate.
The House approved the measure on Wednesday by a vote of 218-213, with one Democrat voting in favor of the proposed law
that would require voters to provide a birth certificate or passport to prove their citizenship status when registering to vote and produce a valid photo ID to vote.
Democrats oppose the measure, which Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer,…

House passes SAVE Act to require voters to show ID - UPI.com
The House of Representatives narrowly passed the SAVE America Act on Wednesday, but it faces a tough sell in the Senate.

To Keep Americans Safe, the Press Must Only Publish Hot Photos of Me - McSweeney’s Internet Tendency
https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/to-keep-americans-safe-the-press-must-only-publish-hot-photos-of-me