First They Came For The New York Times
I'm angry at the crackdown on the free press and giving you a 15% discount - one week only - in solidarity
Friends,
On Friday night, federal agents showed up at the homes of four New York Times journalists — not at the newsroom, at their front doors — and handed them subpoenas demanding they reveal their confidential sources.
Their crime? Reporting that Trump’s new Qatar-gifted Air Force One lacked the security capabilities of the old one. So the Secret Service asked him to take the older plane home from Ankara because of it.
The public’s right to know how their government is protecting (or failing to protect) the President was apparently too dangerous to allow.
This is not normal. Subpoenas compelling journalists to testify against their own sources have been rare in American history for a reason. And I’ve watched this administration come after the press one piece at a time.
Trump sued the New York Times for $15 billion.
He got the team behind 60 Minutes fired.
His allies funneled $10 million in Russian money to conservative influencers to spread Kremlin propaganda.
And now federal agents are knocking on reporters’ doors on a Friday night.
Here’s what I want you to understand: None of that works on me.
I don’t have a network that can be sued into silence.
I don’t have advertisers who can be pressured to pull their dollars.
I don’t have a corporate owner who can decide my coverage is too inconvenient.
I answer to you. That’s it.
And right now, for one week only, I’m offering 15% off a paid subscription in solidarity with the independent media that refuses to be silenced right now.
Because moments like this weekend are exactly why independent media matters. When the institutions are under siege, you need a voice that can’t be bullied into silence.
Paid subscribers get my daily show, my daily columns, AMAs, and everything I publish.
But more than any of that, your subscription is what makes it possible for me to keep doing this independent journalism without anyone’s permission.
They already tried to take everything from me and just ended up setting me free.
And I refuse to be silenced, no matter what they throw at me.
Thank you for your support of me, my family, and of independent journalism.
— Adam