Are any of my followers an Alabama resident willing to submit a public records request to a municipality with a transparency allergy?

New: The 61-year-old retired Tennessee cop who spent 37 days in jail over an anti-Trump Facebook meme has filed a federal First Amendment lawsuit against the authorities who ordered his arrest. "In America, we do not jail people for political speech." Gift link: wapo.st/490I014

Larry Bushart spent 37 days in jail — all because he posted a meme after Charlie Kirk's murder. He was held on an outlandish $2 million bail. And now it's time for Sheriff Nick Weems and Perry County to face the consequences for violating Bushart's First Amendment rights.

Amicus brief from the Cato Institute, Dale Carpenter and Eugene Volokh urges full Fifth Circuit to affirm panel ruling that president of West Texas A&M violated the First Amendment when he ordered a drag show canceled, citing the show's purportedly "objectionable message." @cato.org

Eleventh Circuit vacates panel opinion on Florida's anti-drag law, will rehear the case en banc.

This is what it would cost to go to the Broncos/Commanders game. I can’t even look at the Eagles stadium for this amount of

SHOTS FIRED, 2 National Guard, downtown DC, just now. At least one dead. Near Farragut metro.

Larry Bushart, a retired police officer, went to jail for 36 days for posting a meme after the murder of Charlie Kirk! It was a picture of Donald Trump along with his comment in response to a school shooting in 2024: “We have to get over it.” The meme had the caption, “This seems relevant today.”

Two Republican-appointed judges on the 3-judge panel:

Eleventh Circuit affirms $1 million sanctions award against Trump attorneys, led by Alina Habba, for frivolous "racketeering" lawsuit against Hillary Clinton (among many others): storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Last Thanksgiving, two Dallas Police officers knocked on my door, citing a tip from the FBI national threat operations center that I was beating my girlfriend. The incident report confirms this. Today, I obtained a file from the FBI via FOIA that states the FBI has no record of receiving such a tip.

Eleventh Circuit affirms dismissal of Trump defamation lawsuit against CNN for calling his election denialism the "Big Lie" Opinion: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸