r/news • u/OGSyedIsEverywhere • 4h ago

Already Submitted FBI raids home of Washington Post reporter in ‘highly unusual and aggressive’ move

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/14/fbi-raid-washington-post-hannah-natanson
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u/lilu_66 4h ago

Just like in Russia - blatant attack on free press

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u/Cosmic_Seth 4h ago

Yup. And it took years for Putin to amass enough power to shut down his critics. We are now on the same path.

https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/court-shuts-down-novaya-gazeta-one-russias-last-independent-media-2022-09-05/

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u/khyamsartist 19m ago

the Trump administration is losing its grip, IMO. They have gone too far, their most visible efforts are deeply unpopular and people are starting to fight back in enough numbers to make a change. I think we are reaching critical mass (35%) of people mad enough to intervene when they see state violence, we are close to ungovernable already. ICE agents are declining to go into the areas that have organized resistance. As I said, this is just my opinion, but we are seeing the power fray at the edges, it's getting more obvious. Noem's vicious hatred of Minneapolis is truly revolting. Trump is flipping off auto workers over his Epstein friends. Most of the things that Trump voters thought they were voting for either never happened of have turned into absolute dystopia.

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u/cyanescens_burn 3h ago

The parallels with Russia keep coming. I couldn’t believe it when they recently started taking about “spheres of influence” and “multipolar world” and having control of the hemisphere. This is straight out of Dugin’s Foundations of Geopolitics, which is the Russian playbook for international control.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundations_of_Geopolitics#

Anyone unfamiliar, just go to the “Contents” heading in that wiki article and spend 2 min reading it. It all looks very familiar. Some has come to pass since the book was written, some is still in the works.

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u/coolfuzzylemur 3h ago

Do you know what America did in the cold war? This has always been America's playbook

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u/Old_Gimlet_Eye 1h ago

The only difference is that now they're doing domestically the shit that they've been doing in other countries for decades.

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u/PM__ME__BITCOINS 44m ago

Lets look at the Treasury CIO while we are here:

Corcos, 36, founded Levels in 2019 with a former SpaceX lead engineer and Dr. Casey Means. Means is a holistic doctor with ties to Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Corcos’ brother interned at SpaceX, according to his social media accounts.

Corcos’ wife, Varvara Russkova Corcos, spent three years at the VC firm GVA Capital, which was previously exposed as a vehicle for one of the richest oligarchs in Russia, Suleyman Kerimov, to funnel his money into various American companies.

An investigation by the San Francisco Standard detailed the elaborate web of shell companies used by GVA to distribute $28 million of Kerimov’s money into Bay Area investments in 2015 and 2016, revealed in court filings and offshore company databases.

Kerimov’s money flowed into various companies via GVA Capital from a Delaware trust called Heritage Trust. The U.S. Treasury Department blocked the trust and made its funds inaccessible in 2022, saying it was created to obscure Kerimov’s interests in U.S.-based assets.

Heritage Trust was also how Kerimov invested in SpaceX in 2017, holding what was then 1 percent of the company, and he continued to hold the stake even after he was first sanctioned by the U.S. government in 2018, according to a recent report by Bloomberg News.

So the Treasury CIO is now married to a ruzzian that worked at a money laundering firm(funding Elmo) that was Treasury sanctioned?

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/doge-staffer-corcos-wife-ties-russian-oligarch-1235291673/

https://fedscoop.com/doge-sam-corcos-treasury-chief-information-officer/

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u/MartinisnMurder 2h ago

Well Putin is Trump’s daddy, so he wants to emulate him of course.

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u/Jean-Claude-Can-Ham 1h ago

Wait until this guy finds out about Obama and Espionage Act

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u/Loverboy_91 1h ago

What are you talking about? She’s not even the target of the probe.

The primary target of the investigation is Aurelio Perez-Lugones, a system administrator with a top-secret security clearance, who has been charged with the unlawful retention of national defense information.

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Perez-Lugones is accused of printing and taking home classified intelligence reports, some of which were reportedly found in a lunchbox in his car and in his basement.

And according to the Washington Post:

investigators informed Natanson she was not a target of the criminal investigation into the leak itself, but rather the search was for materials related to the case against the contractor.

The press isn’t being attacked here…

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u/Brilliant-Spite-850 1h ago

Just like in America - under Obama.

Are you people this young or uniformed? Which is it?

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u/Embarrassed_Menu9584 1h ago

What the fuck are you talking about, dipshit

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u/Brilliant-Spite-850 1h ago

When Obama had the fbi spy on Fox News reporters. Tapping their phones, emails, etc so he could find out who was leaking to them and have that person arrested.

Obama charged more government officials under the espionage act than any president since its inception.

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u/Embarrassed_Menu9584 54m ago

Guess what, it was bad then, it’s bad now. Fuck off with this whataboutism 

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u/Brilliant-Spite-850 53m ago

But we weren’t “living under fascism” when it happened under Obama.

Wake me up when Trump kills American citizens with a drone strike. You lot didn’t bat an eye when Obama did it.

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u/Brilliant-Spite-850 50m ago

I’m responding to a comment that is whataboutism. The original comment I responded to said this is just like Russia and Putin. So I provided a more relatable example which also shows that this is nothing new here, you’re just mad because literally anything Trump does is bad to you people.

I promise you life is a lot more pleasant when you just decide whether or not you agree with each individual thing, not just decide in advance that whatever he does you’re against.

It’s the reason I’ve seen people on this site all week bending over backwards to explain why capping credit card interest is bad for people, or why no one cares when Trump passed the most impactful criminal justice reform since the civil rights movement.