In case you missed it — and in all likelihood, you did — the San Francisco PD recently raided a journalists’s home:
Mayor Breed releases statement on the police raid of a journalist's home that appears to have been parsed with Valyrian steel pic.twitter.com/ZaAxNCbGoO
— Demian Bulwa (@demianbulwa) May 14, 2019
SFPD broke down the door of a reporter in an effort to find out who his confidential source was.
This statement by Mayor @LondonBreed is disgraceful and unacceptable. https://t.co/02UPQedRxG
— Yashar Ali ? (@yashar) May 14, 2019
Why isn’t this a bigger story? Was that not an attack on the free press? Journalist Yashar Ali can’t help but notice some inconsistency when it comes to the bravery of our brave firefighters:
Some of you who are ready to march on Washington when a reporter gets a rude reply from the White House are not showing concern for the story in the thread below. It's really pissing me off how many people are silent about it or have shown little concern.
You're hypocrites https://t.co/cfvuizJGLx
— Yashar Ali ? (@yashar) May 17, 2019
2. HELLLOOOOOOOOOOOOO????
WAKE UP!!!!!
— Yashar Ali ? (@yashar) May 17, 2019
3. If you defended @acosta and haven't said anything about this because it involves a group of liberal politicians you can go to hell.
Shame on you
— Yashar Ali ? (@yashar) May 17, 2019
A-freakin’-men.
I love angry Yashar.
— Bridget Phetasy (@BridgetPhetasy) May 17, 2019
Especially righteously angry Yashar. He’s absolutely right to call media hypocrites out on their hypocrisy.
They didn't even cancel their dumb dinner when James Rosen was named a criminal co-conspirator for not revealing a source. You think they care about a reporter in San Francisco? https://t.co/Go8T4BfOCw
— Stephen Miller (@redsteeze) May 17, 2019
but it's not sexy and doesn't drive clicks or favs & retweets like Trump does.
— Esoteric Jeff (@EsotericCD) May 17, 2019
It's only bad when the orange man does it. pic.twitter.com/MJeyvQQUGy
— Malak is a Meatbag ?? ??? (@Semo41580714) May 17, 2019
As @yashar points out, President Trump’s “enemy of the people” line pales in comparison to what SF Mayor @LondonBreed is doing to press freedoms. This is legitimately Orwellian.
— Siraj Hashmi (@SirajAHashmi) May 17, 2019
It's because they don't care. They're a bunch of biased hacks posing as journalists.
— Sandpit (@rev_entertain) May 17, 2019
Editor’s note: This post has been updated with an additional tweet.
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Update:
Ali’s really upset:
4. I'm in such a bad mood about this I'm thinking about deleting my Twitter app until I cool down.
So many clowns in this business. So many clowns.
What a bunch of elitist fools.
— Yashar Ali ? (@yashar) May 17, 2019
We totally get it. At the same time, we hope he doesn’t walk away from Twitter permanently. This place is a dumpster fire but it’s voices like Ali’s that keep it from going completely off the rails.
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