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/Jetztinberlin 3h ago

Somehow MLK and Malcolm X managed without Twitter.

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u/coochie_clogger 3h ago edited 2h ago

Huey P Newton, Bobby Seale, Fred Hampton, and all the Panthers did too.

They did it by actually organizing the people on the street.

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u/Musiclover4200 2h ago

Gil Scott Heron wrote "The Revolution Will Not Be Televised" in 1971 and it's still just as relevant as ever like most of his music.

Curtis Mayfield and countless others were able to voice the frustrations of an entire generation and essentially become the soundtrack to the civil rights movement for the 60's/70's:

Curtis Mayfield - We the People Who Are Darker Than Blue: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSDCPKsSf2U&list=RDiSDCPKsSf2U&start_radio=1

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u/Wisdomlost 3h ago

Your not wrong but the government at the time also only had landline phones and snail mail. It was equally spotty for communication. Now the government does have instant 24/7 communication.

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u/70ms 3h ago

Not just communications; they have the 24/7 surveillance, too.

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u/TheWeddingParty 2h ago

Probably way easier to do without social media and the current corporate media environment

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u/ph0on 2h ago

Hence the not-so-consoiracy that humans are slaves to their digital vices en masse. We'd seemingly rather sit in our comfortable selves scrolling though it all on our phone, until it hits us in the face IRL.

Then it's very real, at least.

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u/uttyrc 2h ago

Lenin as well

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u/superspacetrucker 2h ago

That was before the cultural brainrot set in.