• ShoeThrower@lemmy.zip
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    14 hours ago

    USA has the Espionage Act. A violation of this law can be punishable by death, and whistleblowers and journalists have been targeted under this law in the past.

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      11 hours ago

      Roy Cohn, the guy who mentored Trump and was McCarthy’s second AND had his own Lavender Scare (while he himself was gay) got his claim to fame when he sent a Jewish couple to death over this exact thing