The Espionage Act is an abuse of power and must be stopped! Too many innocent lives have been destroyed. The Government has used this beyond its true meaning.

Honored to accept the inaugural Lifetime Achievement Award from @FedBarChicago . Throughout my time in the Senate, I have taken the responsibility of recommending judicial nominees to the President very seriously, and I’m proud that the federal bench in Illinois today is more diverse and highly qualified than ever.

Pleased to see that the Trump Administration’s unreasonable financial penalties for immigrants were blocked. This scheme was designed to intimidate Dreamers, green card applicants, and other lawful immigrants into self-deportation with capricious fines, often issued with no explanation, & I am glad it’s been put on hold.

🔖The WikiLeaks Files: The World According to US Empire — WikiLeaks, with an introduction by Julian Assange — 2015 A collection analysing the US diplomatic cables published by WikiLeaks and what they reveal about American diplomacy, intervention and global power. 🔖Julian Assange in His Own Words — edited by Karen Sharpe — 2021 A collection of Assange's words on WikiLeaks, journalism, war, surveillance, government secrecy, technology and the political philosophy behind his work. 🔖Cypherpunks: Freedom and the Future of the Internet — Julian Assange with Jacob Appelbaum, Andy Müller-Maguhn and Jérémie Zimmermann — 2012 A discussion of surveillance, cryptography, state power and the internet, built around the cypherpunk principle of protecting individual privacy while making powerful institutions more transparent. 🔖The Trial of Julian Assange: A Story of Persecution — Nils Melzer — 2022 The former UN Special Rapporteur on Torture's investigation of Assange's treatment and prosecution and its implications for journalism, whistleblowers and press freedom. 🔖When Google Met WikiLeaks — Julian Assange — 2014 Assange's account of his 2011 encounter with Google chairman Eric Schmidt, contrasting their radically different visions of technology, political power and the future of the internet.

Books about WikiLeaks and @JulianAssange: a thread 🧵 4 October 2026 marks the 20th anniversary of the founding of WikiLeaks, inspiring a bookshelf full of written works - here are just some of them.

Films about WikiLeaks and @JulianAssange: a thread 🧵 October 4 is the 20th Anniversary of the establishment of WikiLeaks: here's a selection of documentaries, features and dramatisation of two decades of fearless publishing.

🎞️Hacking Justice – Clara López Rubio and Juan Pancorbo - 2017 Since he took on the case in 2012, defending Julian Assange has put judge Baltasar Garzón's talent and ability to the test. imdb.com/title/tt6654984/ 🎞️Terminal F/Chasing Edward Snowden — John Goetz & Poul-Erik Heilbuth — 2015 A documentary reconstruction of the international hunt for Edward Snowden that connects his escape with WikiLeaks and the organisation’s efforts to help him secure asylum. imdb.com/title/tt4477936/ 🎞️Assange: The Truth They've been Hiding from You - Naomi Brockwell - 2023 Naomi Brockwell exposes 6 lies about Assange that have been deliberately used to distract from what is one of the most important precedent-setting cases for freedom of speech of our generation. If there’s one thing you should take away from this, it’s that most of what you think you know about Assange is false. youtube.com/watch?v=cl8XIr5v… 🎞️Mediastan - A WikiLeaks Road Movie - Johannes Wahlström – 2013 Documentary film about a group of WikiLeaks staff travelling through Central Asia finding local partners to publish sensitive material about the local area from the 2010 United States diplomatic cables leaks. youtube.com/watch?v=9n0Yu7bY… 🎞️Julian Assange and the dark secrets of war – Can Dündar, Deutsche Welle – 2024 On June 25, 2024, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was able to walk free following a deal with the US government. Does this surprising end to the publisher’s many years of criminal prosecution and imprisonment signal a positive outcome for press freedom? youtube.com/watch?v=PYIyq6tp…

🎞️The Six Billion Dollar Man — Eugene Jarecki — 2025 A feature documentary tracing Assange, WikiLeaks and the long-running US case against him, completed after his release and return to Australia in 2024. Winner of the 2025 Golden Globe and the Cannes L'Œil d'Or. imdb.com/title/tt34968474/ 🎞️Faultlines – The Imprisonment of Julian Assange – Al Jazeera – 2023 Fault Lines examines what Assange’s case says about press freedom and the consequences of publishing state secrets. aljazeera.com/video/fault-li… 🎞️Underground: The Julian Assange Story — Robert Connolly — 2012 A dramatised account of Assange’s teenage years as hacker “Mendax” in late-1980s Melbourne, starring Alex Williams as the young Assange. imdb.com/title/tt2357453/ 🎞️Citizenfour — Laura Poitras — 2014 This Oscar-winning documentary records Edward Snowden’s NSA disclosures in real time and includes Assange and WikiLeaks journalist Sarah Harrison within the wider story of surveillance, leaking and Snowden’s escape from Hong Kong. imdb.com/title/tt4044364 🎞️The War You Don’t See — John Pilger & Alan Lowery — 2010 Pilger’s documentary about propaganda, war and failures of mainstream journalism features Assange discussing WikiLeaks as a means for insiders within powerful institutions to inform the public directly. johnpilger.com/the-war-you-d…

🎞️The World Tomorrow - Julian Assange and Quick Roll Productions — 2012 A political TV interview series created and hosted by WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, featuring incisive and sometimes unconventional conversations with dissidents, thinkers, political leaders and rebels from around the world. youtube.com/playlist?list=PL… 🎞️The World Tomorrow: Cypherpunks, Parts 1 & 2 Assange talks with Jacob Appelbaum, Andy Müller-Maguhn and Jérémie Zimmermann about cryptography, mass surveillance, state power and whether the internet will become an instrument of emancipation or control. youtube.com/watch?v=zlqOmAOq… youtube.com/watch?v=buBbNyfF… 🎞️The World Tomorrow: Imran Khan Assange interviews Imran Khan about Pakistan, US power, the war on terror and Khan’s emergence as a major political force; the programme aired on 19 June 2012. youtube.com/watch?v=rw4KxdUM… 🎞️The World Tomorrow: Hassan Nasrallah For the first episode of his interview series, Assange interviewed Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah from their respective locations by video link—the first English-language interview with Nasrallah in more than a decade. youtube.com/watch?v=3M1fHfKe… 🎞️The War on Journalism: The Case of Julian Assange — Juan Passarelli — 2020 A short documentary examining the Assange prosecution as a press-freedom case and the implications of extraditing a publisher for obtaining and publishing classified information. youtube.com/watch?v=gVoUPnXq… 🎞️Assange and Wikileaks – Dateline – 2010 In this 2010 segment, Dateline’s Mark Davis interviews Julian Assange. For the first time, Assange talks about his background in Australia, his previous hacking activities there, the charges he faced, and his role at WikiLeaks. youtube.com/watch?v=3M0FnvAP… 🎞️Kidnap or Kill– Al Jazeera - 2021 The CIA’s plot against WikiLeaks: why isn’t the CIA’s plan to kidnap Julian Assange making more headlines? aljazeera.com/video/the-list… 🎞️Digital Dissidents – Al Jazeera - 2016 Digital Dissidents: The warriors of the digital age fighting side by side for transparency and privacy in the digital world. youtube.com/watch?v=s04-7DB2…

Jefferson Rising, a super PAC largely funded by oil billionaire Tim Dunn and that works with Brad Parscale, is sending anti-Talarico texts using SparkFire, the same AI chatbot vendor that ran a controversial AI-generated texting campaign on behalf of the Israeli government.

Eight years ago today, Susan Collins voted to confirm Brett Kavanaugh. He went on to help overturn Roe v. Wade. She still says she doesn’t regret her vote. Give her something to regret on November 3. Vote her out.

For example, Collins attended a dinner for Stronger America, the dark money group that is channeling millions into the super PAC run by Scott Reed, who was entwined in the Navatek scandal. Collins knows who was at the dinner, but the public does not. nytimes.com/2026/08/31/us/po…

The Army told a defense contractor it didn't wants its trucks. Then its execs steered donations to Sen Collins and other appropriators, and Congress kept the funding alive. What we can't know is whether the contractor also gave to dark money groups supporting those lawmakers.

US Senator Mitch McConnell is still somehow clinging to life . Here he is being ''dragged'' to the Senate for a vote. This is elderly abuse.

Rep. Don Davis is one of 33 Democrats who voted with the Republican majority to pass a bill to cut federal funding for colleges and universities that engage in boycotts against Israel.

Sen. Patty Murray (76 years old next week) will run for reelection in 2028. She has received >$500,000 from AIPAC and the pro-Israel lobby.