VICTORY: Federal court dismisses class action lawsuit against pollster J. Ann Selzer, filed by the “Center for American Rights” www.thefire.org/news/victory...

It's insane that this even needs to be said. “A free country does not dispatch police in the dead of night to pull people from their homes because a sheriff objects to their social media posts,” @adamsteinbaugh.bsky.social speaking to @willoremus.com. www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...

It's good that LPD is clarifying this because police officers knocking on doors and demanding people delete posts would be absolutely nuts

Former cop is in jail for committing thought crime against the memory of Charlie Kirk theintercept.com/2025/10/23/c...

This is absolutely insane. Must read

The sheriff said the post caused “mass hysteria” among parents and teachers. But the school district says they don't have a single record about it -- and the sheriff's department says it won't respond to public records requests.

Who got pardoned now

Larry Bushart has been in jail for a month. The Sheriff is brazenly refusing to respond to public records requests.

Iowa federal court issues temporary restraining order against school district's efforts to fire high school teacher over social media comment about Charlie Kirk. If people complaining to the school were "disruption," it would effectuate a heckler's veto. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Auburn University -- a public institution fully bound by the First Amendment -- fired a landscaper after a student complained about his comments about Charlie Kirk. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Update from the Mayor of Fairhope, who is hopelessly wrong: 1819news.com/news/item/pe... Wearing a costume is peaceful. This is not profanity, but profanity is protected by the First Amendment. Cohen v. California. This is not obscene. If you think this is erotic, you are alone.

@thekoolaidmom.bsky.social Any chance you can put me in touch with the woman who was arrested or know her name (or know anyone else who has video)? I do pro bono First Amendment work and this looks egregious. Feel free to DM or email me: [email protected]

Trump releases fraudster George Santos from prison for (R)easons.

Jumping Jesus on a pogo stick. No valid law actually requires this, and the First Amendment would protect expression that deviates regardless. Any admin should resign rather than pushing this.

A Texas public university administrator's notes for a meeting with faculty. "No daylight": faculty "cannot discuss or teach anything regarding transgender - only male and female." They must "scrub" syllabi for "transgender items." And keep everything out of writing: "Don't email; talk directly."

Federal court (after six years!) rules on and dismisses Gavin McInnes' lawsuit against the @splcenter.org The case sought to declare it defamatory to say McInnes and the Proud Boys are "extremists," "far-right," a "hate group", or "white supremacists." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Here's the opinion. It's a rout. Too often, courts address only the actual malice question and do not reach falsity. This court correctly says there's no actual malice *and* the plaintiff did not show there were any false statements. www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

New: A federal judge in Austin has temporarily blocked key parts of Texas' new law limiting expression on campuses, halting the University of Texas System's enforcement of a ban on overnight expression.

SUPREME COURT: "It can hardly be argued that either students or teachers shed their constitutional rights to freedom of speech or expression at the schoolhouse gate" RUTHERFORD COUNTY, TENNESSEE.: well, let's give it a go storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

“They are deliberately blurring the line between speech protected by the First Amendment and violence or other unlawful activity, and they seem to be quite explicitly listing viewpoints that they don’t like as predicates for an all-of-government crackdown."

ahahahahahaha

Holy hell. DHS just openly stated that its agents use “reasonable suspicion” to make ARRESTS. This is blatantly unconstitutional. The Supreme Court is clear that you need probable cause to arrest someone, as opposed to stop them to ask them a question or two. This is huge b/c…

Delaware GOP demanding an investigation and "consequences" over a University of Delaware student comedy sketch TV show (akin to SNL) because its closing credits offered "Special Thanks to: Charlie Kirk's Killer" (and also "Cocaine" and "Pollution").

AAUP v. Rubio is out, and look at how it starts. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

You will be shocked, SHOCKED, to learn that comedians performing in Riyadh are banned from performing material that mocks or criticizes the Saudi government and royals. Who could’ve predicted that a country that executes journalists and jails and tortures its critics would have such policies???

Texas Tech leadership bans professors at five public universities from discussing gender -- unless they conform to a Trump Executive Order about "gender ideology": www.dallasnews.com/news/educati... Unabashed censorship.

Florida congressman extremely concerned by primary issue in his district: Muslims praying in Michigan.

For all the caterwauling that Comey’s “8647” seashell message was a threat (it was not), notable that he wasn’t charged for that.

An important question about whether this is lawful is what the permit says. So I'm asking the Park Police to release the Epstein statue files. www.muckrock.com/foi/united-s...

I filed a FOIA request with DHS back in May for a copy of the pitch for this show. They just denied it in full because releasing it could reveal trade secrets. lolol what trade secret? that America is nightmare bizarro land?

Scoop: DHS is trying to unmask Instagram accounts that named and shamed federal agents. One activist just filed a motion to quash the subpoena which was sent to Meta in early Sept. theintercept.com/2025/09/18/d...

It’s an emergency. Just like TikTok.

“They say, ‘Hey, nice network you got here. Wouldn't it be a shame if something were to happen to it?’” — @thefireorg.bsky.social 's @adamsteinbaugh.bsky.social on FCC Chairman Carr's "easy way or the hard way" threat to ABC on Jimmy Kimmel Full video inside www.allrisenews.com/p/kimmel-bre...

This was after Colbert was canceled. Which was two months ago.

A senior attorney in the DOJ's Office for Civil Rights is pressuring a public university to fire a faculty member for commenting on Charlie Kirk:

"we have to get them off the internet. We can’t let them communicate with each other. I’m all about free speech, but" talkingpointsmemo.com/news/texas-c...

🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 GEAR UP PATRIOTS 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 We’re gonna tie up the phone lines of a CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL because someone might have insulted Charlie Kirk 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

A man in Washington, DC, plays the Imperial March from Star Wars while following patrolling soldiers. One of the soldiers threatens to call the police.

Last year: Austin Peay State University learns prof is Nazi who went to Charlottesville rally. Admin drags heels, pays him $56k severance to leave This week: APSU prof posts screenshot of headline - Charlie Kirk Says Gun Deaths ‘Unfortunately’ Worth it to Keep 2nd Amendment- & is immediately fired

Half a decade later, it has come to this. www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...

The Stanford Daily argues the First Amendment protects journalists from arcane laws used against Mahmoud Khalil and Rümeysa Öztürk.

A leading case protecting people for alleged flag desecration involved someone prosecuted for wearing a small U.S. flag on "the seat of his trousers." supreme.justia.com/cases/federa... So if Trump's view were to prevail, future prosecutors could target him and people who buy his merchandise.

Lest anyone think you're just being clever, you can point them to this case about someone prosecuted because he "wore a small cloth version of the United States flag sewn to the seat of his trousers." supreme.justia.com/cases/federa...

Important that we not desecrate the flag

If you see something, say something — wait not that thing don’t say that

So, LIV Golf is funded by Saudi Arabia and then will deny access to journalists who ask pretty basic questions about the ethical issues associated with taking money from a government that executed a journalist in cold blood. Curious!

In Portland, Oregon, ICE agents apparently blocked traffic in order to take down a protest sign which read: "ICE GOON HQ HERE"

5th Cir., 2-1, holds that a Texas university likely violated an LGBT+ student group's speech rights when it cancelled their drag show and then banned drag from campus. Importantly, finds drag is expression protected by the First Amendment. www.thefire.org/sites/defaul...

Fifth Circuit blocks West Texas A&M University's ban on student drag performances, reversing district court: www.thefire.org/news/victory...