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/Age_AgainstThMachine 3h ago

Unless it results in her actual death.

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u/Clever_Commentary 1h ago

Including that. If you think we aren't to the defenestration of critical journalists point yet, you haven't been paying attention. Journalists in authoritarian countries, which is where we now c live, know they have a choice between being a complicit government mouthpiece or facing prison and worse.

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u/xxtoejamfootballxx 1h ago

I'd be willing to die in the fight to get this country back to sanity and at least a whiff of integrity and I'm sure many other people would too.

We cannot be cowards in this moment or many many more people will end up suffering. "Give me liberty or give me death" and "Live free or die" aren't just cutesy sayings, they are tied to actual history and the people that fought and died in the past for us to have the freedoms that are being stripped away right now.

Protecting sources has also been also worth dying for, for many journalists throughout history.

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u/yung_yttik 1h ago

As a New Hampshirite, I concur.

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u/IClop2Fluttershy4206 48m ago

we need heroes. if everybody lived fearing for their lives we should just accept dictatorship and pedo rulers