Been having a lot of trouble lately remembering who is who between Dan Bongino Dan Scavino Greg Bovino

Ellison: "I am friends with the president and will make your life hell if you don't sell to me" www.nytimes.com/2025/12/08/b...

The Constitution protects the right of fans on both sides to taunt their rivals — even if it means upsetting them (13–10). Beat Ohio. www.detroitnews.com/story/opinio...

U.S. District Judge April Perry's temporary restraining order is in:

Not really an overstatement to say that the test of a free society is whether or not comedians can make fun of the country's leader on TV without repurcussions.

In a webinar today about the threats to expression in the U.S., I said the question was ultimately more about whether people would have the courage to fight for their rights than whether they would win those fights. You do not retain rights you willingly give up.

ABC has spinelessly and swiftly responded to the government pressure and suspended Kimmel indefinitely. My statement on this disappointing update:

BREAKING: Free speech doesn’t stop when the sun sets—but Texas thinks it does. A new Texas law forces public universities to ban virtually all expressive activities after 10 PM, a violation of the First Amendment. That’s why FIRE is suing to stop this chilling law in its tracks.

STATEMENT: President Trump may believe he has the power to revise the First Amendment with the stroke of a pen, but he doesn’t. Flag burning as a form of political protest is protected by the First Amendment. That’s nothing new.

4/ Today’s ruling places a hold on Wendler’s enforcement of his illegal directive, allowing Spectrum WT and any other student organization to hold drag shows while litigation continues. www.thefire.org/research-lea...

3/ The First Amendment bars public officials at state universities, like Wendler, from censoring performances based on nothing more than personal disapproval.

2/ In 2023, West Texas A&M President Walter Wendler unilaterally canceled a planned campus drag show intended to raise money for suicide prevention. Wendler claimed drag offends and demeans women, even though he admitted “the law of the land appears to require” him to allow the performance.

VICTORY! In a win for student expression on campus, the U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals today overruled a lower court's decision, sided with FIRE’s clients, and blocked West Texas A&M University’s unconstitutional ban on drag shows.

“In the United States of America, no one should fear a midnight knock on the door for voicing the wrong opinion.” NEW: FIRE is challenging provisions of the Immigration and Nationality Act allowing Rubio to target noncitizens for 1A protected speech. Proud of this work and my colleagues. Let's go.

Somebody please stop Jeff Bezos already. I've spent the last decade confusing Ryan Gosling action comedy The Nice Guys (2016) with Will Ferrell action comedy The Other Guys (2010), and now this: deadline.com/2025/07/ryan...

FINALLY The Social Network 2: Electric Boogaloo

NOW IS THE TIME FOR PEACE!

Texas v Johnson: “We do not consecrate the flag by punishing its desecration, for in doing so we dilute the freedom that this cherished emblem represents.” This is one of the strongest notions of the First Amendment—the idea that symbols of freedom are worth more when allowed to be insulted, burned.

It is bad for a government official to say that protests will be "met with very big force."

Probably the worst thing to happen at 14 and Orchard since we lost Max & Erma's to that BDubs

to put this another way, it is not news that the president is a racist. it very much IS news that his information diet as president appears to consist of the stuff that made dylann roof horny

Must read: "That we do not agree with everything our classmates might say is beside the point; they deserve the same First Amendment rights we do. Free expression, including unpopular speech, is a cornerstone not just of our universities, but of our democracy." forward.com/opinion/7218...

FIRE is looking for students, faculty, student organizations, and institutions of higher learning who are affected by the administration’s threat to deport non-citizens for protected speech. Help us fight back ⬇️

#BREAKING: A federal judge has ordered the immediate release of Tufts student Rümeysa Öztürk, who faces deportation for writing an op-ed critical of Israel. No one in America — citizen or not — should fear the government’s wrath for speaking their mind.

From @nymag.com: "Everyone is Cheating Their Way Through College" The existence of AI tools to evaluate student essays "raises the possibility that AIs are now evaluating AI-generated papers, reducing the entire academic exercise to a conversation between two robots." nymag.com/intelligence...

The 6th Man www.rottentomatoes.com/m/sixth_man

👊🇺🇸🔥 www.reuters.com/world/us/whi...

TRUMP'S WAR ON CHRISTMAS www.nytimes.com/2025/04/29/b...

FIRE joins 10 legal organizations in filing an amicus brief urging a court to enjoin President Trump’s executive order targeting the law firm Perkins Cole. An America where people are unable to find a lawyer willing to defend them against those in power is no longer America.

The thing about "due process" is it's not nearly an alarming-enough name for what it actually does! "Innocence checker" sounds dumb as hell as a possible alternative, but maybe that's exactly what this moment calls for?

Create a ruckus? Create a ruckus?? Honestly, that would make pretty good t-shirt. It's shit for policy.

I'm a strong believe that nobody's above criticism, and that it makes us better at what we do. And FIRE is always looking for ways to do better. It's a perilous, all-hands-on-deck moment for free speech. More important than ever to work together instead of presuming the worst of each other.

Signal Gate presents many urgent questions of national security, chief among them: What if I was the Jeffrey they actually meant to add to the chat?

If you accept that non-citizens have no right to due process, you are accepting that citizens have no right to due process. All the government has to do is claim that you are not a citizen; without due process you have no chance to prove the contrary.

BREAKING: Federal court blocks Texas A&M's ban on student drag shows in @thefireorg.bsky.social lawsuit. "To ban the performance from taking place on campus because it offends some members of the campus community is precisely what the First Amendment prohibits." www.thefire.org/news/victory...

Glad to be on file here, and grateful for the hard work of my colleagues to make it happen. www.thefire.org/news/fire-an...

I cannot speak for all American Jews, but I am one, I oppose divestment/academic boycotts of Israel, and "Shalom Mahmoud" made me physically ill.

I just sent our university president and provost an urgent request to defend First Amendment freedoms at Stanford, given this administration’s willingness to punish those who disagree with it. I urge you to do the same with your university leaders.

"Politicians are allowed to criticize the press — that is free speech, too, and there is nothing new about it — but there is a difference between using language and using muscle." That's right. And this @nytimes.com editorial is timely and important. nytimes.com/2025/02/28/o...

Good morning to all the Schrödinger's Federal Employees who ignored the "5 things" email and now exist in a quantum superposition of, not "fired" or "not fired," but "semi-fired"

List of wars the U.S. belatedly lost: Cold War (vs Russia, 1947–2025) World War II (vs Nazis, 1939–2025) Revolutionary War (vs Monarchy, 1775–2025)

Did Emma Seligman direct that flag football commercial or did the NFL just jack all of Bottoms including Marshawn

Woke up this morning once again confusing Better Than Ezra with Less Than Jake

We made it y'all

Proud to say that we'll be defending Selzer from Trump's latest SLAPP. www.thefire.org/news/fire-de...

Detroiters was such a perfect show

Brat flu season 🤢 (bananas, rice, applesauce, toast)

For those just tuning in: I'm an American born in Korea, and I typically work out of the US. This week I am working out of Seoul. I have no particular expertise in Korean politics. Me being at the protests during the declaration of martial law is just a weird fucking thing that happened.

You want to protect your logo? Win the game. Stop being babies.