🎧 intro Good morning. It’s Wednesday, September 17th, and this is the record🗞️.Today’s show is about assassinations, censorship, and resistance.From the White House weaponizing a tragedy to Pam Bondi trying to police speech, an FBI manhunt in Pittsburgh, and Mexico rewriting history on Independence Day—This isn’t chaos. This is the news.And I’m tired of it being filtered through corporate neutrality.So here we go.
🗞️ 1: White House exploits tragedy for crackdown What’s happening: After a high-profile assassination, Trump officials vowed to crack down on so-called “radical left” groups despite no evidence of ties, while quietly scrubbing a DOJ study showing far-right extremists drive most U.S. terror.What to know: The administration is rewriting reality—using violence to justify authoritarian-style measures and suppressing contradictory data.My take: When a government deletes the truth to enforce its own version of it, that’s not leadership—it’s propaganda.
🗞️ 2: Pam Bondi’s “hate speech” crackdown What’s happening: Attorney General Pam Bondi pledged to “target hate speech” in response to the assassination, sparking bipartisan backlash and First Amendment warnings.What to know: “Hate speech” isn’t a legal category in the U.S.—and her comments triggered calls for her resignation before she walked them back.My take: Authoritarians love to use tragedy as cover for censorship. Free speech doesn’t need Pam Bondi’s filter—it needs protection from her.
🗞️ 3: FBI manhunt in Pittsburgh What’s happening: The FBI launched a manhunt for Donald Henson after he rammed his car into their Pittsburgh office gate, threw an American flag over the fence, and fled.What to know: Officials labeled it a “targeted act of terror,” though no one was injured. Henson has a history of mental health issues, and investigators are reviewing messages on his vehicle and a bag from the trunk.My take: This is what happens when nationalism and instability collide—acts of desperation reframed as terror to feed a political narrative.
🗞️ 4: Claudia Sheinbaum makes history in Mexico What’s happening: Mexico marked Independence Day with President Claudia Sheinbaum leading the celebration—the first woman to do so in over a century.What to know: In Mexico City’s main square, she invoked dignity, freedom, equality, democracy, justice, and sovereignty.My take: Representation is more than symbolic—it’s structural. A woman shouting “viva México” from that balcony is rewriting the story of power in the region.
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