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This interviewer tried so hard to bait Chelsea but failed. Chelsea knows what she wants to say.

"Chelsea Manning, legendary whistleblower and activist, interviewed by BBC’s Rebecca Kesby about her attendance at a hearing for accused United Healthcare CEO shooter Luigi Mangione in Manhattan on February 21st, 2025. Manning explains her attendance as focused on “very grave concerns about how [the criminal justice system] is handling this case [of Mangione’s].”

“You have a very simple crime that’s being treated as a political crime, as terrorism,” Manning told the BBC. “It’s being treated as terrorism, which is unusual. I don’t recall a case like this rising to the level of terrorism; how they’ve turned it into a spectacle, how they have carted this person around in front of television cameras… It feels like there is a protected class of certain individuals who are treated differently by the criminal justice system: the mayor of New York, Donald Trump—“

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InstagramTalia Jane on Instagram: "Chelsea Manning, legendary whistleblower and activist, interviewed by BBC’s Rebecca Kesby about her attendance at a hearing for accused United Healthcare CEO shooter Luigi Mangione in Manhattan on February 21st, 2025. Manning explains her attendance as focused on “very grave concerns about how [the criminal justice system] is handling this case [of Mangione’s].” “You have a very simple crime that’s being treated as a political crime, as terrorism,” Manning told the BBC. “It’s being treated as terrorism, which is unusual. I don’t recall a case like this rising to the level of terrorism; how they’ve turned it into a spectacle, how they have carted this person around in front of television cameras… It feels like there is a protected class of certain individuals who are treated differently by the criminal justice system: the mayor of New York, Donald Trump—“ edit via @party.girls.pod"323 likes, 0 comments - mxtaliajane on March 17, 2025: "Chelsea Manning, legendary whistleblower and activist, interviewed by BBC’s Rebecca Kesby about her attendance at a hearing for accused United Healthcare CEO shooter Luigi Mangione in Manhattan on February 21st, 2025. Manning explains her attendance as focused on “very grave concerns about how [the criminal justice system] is handling this case [of Mangione’s].” “You have a very simple crime that’s being treated as a political crime, as terrorism,” Manning told the BBC. “It’s being treated as terrorism, which is unusual. I don’t recall a case like this rising to the level of terrorism; how they’ve turned it into a spectacle, how they have carted this person around in front of television cameras… It feels like there is a protected class of certain individuals who are treated differently by the criminal justice system: the mayor of New York, Donald Trump—“ edit via @party.girls.pod".

"Arrestees – organizers from LGBTQ+ rights and reproductive justice organizations, as well as individuals like activist Chelsea Manning – chanted: “Speaker Johnson, Nancy Mace: Our bodies are not a debate!”

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Teen Vogue · Trans Activists Arrested For Occupying Bathroom Outside Mike Johnson's OfficeBy Lex McMenamin

All the "journalists have failed us" takes are right in one way and wrong in a bigger way. The people seeming to blame thousands of individual journalists, individually, for shitty journalism in the last decade are also, weirdly, often those who refuse to blame other individuals when thousands of them do the same thing.

Think systemically, fuckers. You're supposed to be good at this.

If thousands of #journalists are all doing the same thing, "They're all bad people" is not the answer. "We allowed a bad system to be built" is the answer.

It's simple in one way: right-wing #billionaires own the journalism industry. I suspect even those journalists not working for #WaPo or #NYT understand that every major job market is dominated by right-wing billionaires who will look at their resumes someday.

I would love for every journalist out there to sacrifice their career, well-being, and safety to speak truth to power--because that's the choice we've given them--but I don't think it's realistic.

[Side note: it's not just Republicans. Give a little goog to Obama's involvement in using bizarre laws to prosecute whistleblowers, probably personally torturing Chelsea Manning, and stripping confidentiality protections for sources from journalists reporting on national news stories. The whole neoliberal establishment hates freedom of the press, and they finally got the power to crush it.]