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The Department of Justice is stunning journalists and advocates with another subpoena in its "escalating" series of attacks.

According to reporting by The New York Times, the DOJ subpoenaed one of its freelancers in an attempt to identify his sources for a story about a failed top-secret mission in North Korea.

"It's another step toward chilling free speech and press freedom," journalist Karly Kingsley wrote in an X post reacting to the news. "There is no democracy without a free press."...

Vice President JD Vance tried defending President Donald Trump's tone by describing it as in line with the working class, and it backfired.

The New York Times opinion columnist Ross Douthat asked Vance about the tone of Trump and the administration, saying that it "is not consistently a Christian tone. There is a tone of aggressive uncharity."

Vance responded that "tonal arguments are ways of, frankly, policing working-class ways of communication and covering them in elite preferences."...

Trump's main media enforcer made a stunning admission while reflecting on his legacy in a recent interview.

“I’m sure The New York Times has already written my obituary," FCC Chairman Brendan Carr said in an interview with The Financial Times. "There's not a lot that I can do to improve upon it or make it worse at this point in time."

Carr's glum outlook on his legacy comes as he's going after Trump's TV foes since he was appointed as FCC chair in early 2025. He has threatened ABC over Jimmy Kimmel jokes and pressured CBS not to air an interview with a Democrat on "The Late Show" with Stephen Colbert. He's even gone after programs like "The View" and flagged transgender content in children's programming. ...

A recent New York Times article about dark money in American politics led one outgoing mayor to lob allegations against a former presidential candidate, leading to division among MAGA and a fact check.

The NYT recently published an article called "Nearly $900 Million Flowed in Secret to Help Harris and Trump in 2024." One of the authors of the piece, Teddy Schleifer, took to social media, writing, "One donor gave $97.5 million to a nonprofit that gave $250 million to Kamala Harris's super PAC."

"You'll never know who the donor is. Hello to our campaign-finance system!" he wrote, attaching the article stating that the donor was anonymous and that millions were sent in by "Future Forward USA Action, the so-called dark-money group of the main super PAC backing" Joe Biden and Harris....

The New York Times filed a lawsuit alleging that President Donald Trump's Department of Defense violated the First Amendment by imposing new press access rules that drove out nearly the entire news corps — including conservative outlets — and replaced them with a group of MAGA bloggers and activists loyal to the regime.

"[T]he policy — which vests Department officials with unbridled discretion to immediately suspend and ultimately revoke a reporter’s [Pentagon Facility Alternate Credentials] for engaging in lawful newsgathering, both on and off Pentagon grounds, or for reporting any information Department officials have not approved — is neither reasonable nor viewpoint-neutral," stated the lawsuit filed in the District Court for D.C. "It is exactly the type of speech- and press-restrictive scheme that the Supreme Court and D.C. Circuit have recognized violates the First Amendment."

Furthermore, the suit continues, the Pentagon has responded to the exodus of reporters by bringing in a new contingent of Trump loyalists willing to comply with the demands....

Donald Trump's nomination of Fox and Friends co-host Pete Hegseth to lead the Department of Defense surprised MAGA allies and experts alike, and a New York Times report suggests new details coming from Hegseth's mom.

In an article entitled, "Pete Hegseth’s Mother Accused Her Son of Mistreating Women for Years," the outlet Friday reported, "Penelope Hegseth made the accusation in an email to her son in 2018, amid his contentious divorce. She said on Friday that she regretted the email and had apologized to him."

"On behalf of all the women (and I know it’s many) you have abused in some way, I say … get some help and take an honest look at yourself,” Penelope Hegseth said, according to the report....