The Hound 12/12

Hi there,

It’s Friday. Today we’re talking about Trump’s Justice Department pressuring lawyers to dig up weak evidence against UCLA in a politicized antisemitism probe, an aggressive ICE operation in Minneapolis that led to a U.S. citizen being wrongly detained, and more.

We’re also focused on Fox News’ coverage of Donald Trump’s comment that Americans must “accept less” this holiday season — laughing it off as a joke instead of reporting the serious economic anxieties behind it. Media has a responsibility to highlight how political rhetoric connects with real public hardship.

🖊️ Add your name to demand that the media stop treating the lived economic reality of the public as entertainment. 

Read about this, and more, with today’s stories:

The Shakedown: Trump’s DOJ Pressured Lawyers to “Find” Evidence That UCLA Had Illegally Tolerated Antisemitism (ProPublica)

ICE Tackled a US Citizen in the Snow. He Says He Was Targeted For Being Somali. (Mother Jones)

Kristi Noem Literally Runs Out of House Hearing to Avoid Dem Questions (The New Republic)

U.S. military members fear personal legal blowback tied to boat strikes (NPR)

Judge issues temporary order to block officials from detaining Kilmar Ábrego García (The Guardian)

Until next time,

Harry from The Hound

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