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On President Trumps’ last day in office, I’ve signed the petition that urges the president to pardon Assange. For more background, here’s a recent NY Times article.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you want to add you voice to the petition, Google pardonassangeNow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On President Trumps’ last day in office, I’ve signed the petition that urges the president to pardon Assange. For more background, here’s a recent NY Times article. If you want to add you voice to the petition, Google pardonassangeNow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":9222,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/assange2.jpg?fit=400%2C327&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":9209,"url":"https:\/\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/2021\/01\/british-judge-rejects-assange-extradition\/","url_meta":{"origin":9223,"position":0},"title":"British judge rejects Assange extradition","author":"Tom Hudson","date":"January 4, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"Surprisingly, this morning a British judge rejected the US request for extradition of Julian Assange. 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