{"id":8912,"date":"2025-02-12T15:34:00","date_gmt":"2025-02-12T22:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/?p=8912"},"modified":"2025-02-12T15:34:00","modified_gmt":"2025-02-12T22:34:00","slug":"standing-against-the-bully-man-baby-resist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/standing-against-the-bully-man-baby-resist\/","title":{"rendered":"Standing against the bully man-baby #resist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/feb\/12\/ap-white-house\">AP excoriates White House barring of reporters as \u2018alarming precedent\u2019 | Trump administration | The Guardian<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The executive editor of the Associated Press sent a letter to the White House on Wednesday criticizing its decision to block two of its journalists from attending press events on Tuesday after the outlet refused to refer to the Gulf of Mexico as \u201cthe Gulf of America\u201d. \u201cI write on behalf of The Associated Press, an independent global news organization that reaches billions of people every day, to object in the strongest possible terms to the actions taken by the Trump administration against AP yesterday,\u201d Julie Pace, the AP\u2019s executive editor, wrote in the letter addressed to Susie Wiles, the White House chief of staff. \u201cThe issue here is free speech \u2013 a fundamental pillar of American democracy and a value of the utmost importance to all Americans, regardless of political persuasion, occupation or industry.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Joseph_N._Welch\">Joseph N. Welch &#8211; Wikipedia<\/a>\u00a0stood up to McCarthy<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>You&#8217;ve done enough. Have you no sense of decency, sir, at long last? Have you left no sense of decency?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AP excoriates White House barring of reporters as \u2018alarming precedent\u2019 | Trump administration | The Guardian The executive editor of the Associated Press sent a letter to the White House on Wednesday criticizing its decision to block two of its journalists from attending press events on Tuesday after the outlet refused to refer to the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/standing-against-the-bully-man-baby-resist\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Standing against the bully man-baby #resist<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[225],"class_list":["post-8912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nada","tag-resist"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8912","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8912"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8912\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8913,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8912\/revisions\/8913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}