This is a useful reminder: if you want to investigate CBP, or any agency, don't only FOIA them -- FOIA agencies they interact with, too

SCOOP: Justice Department asks judge to force nonprofit & reporter to post $50,000 bond to get faster release of classified docs found at Mar-a-Lago. Trump order to seek bonds for early injunctions seeps into #FOIA litigation. www.politico.com/newsletters/...

1/ I’m Till Eckert, a ProPublica reporter. For the past 2 weeks, I’ve been going to the same NY immigration courthouse. Nearly every time, I see ICE agents arresting immigrants. Today, a woman was slammed to the ground after begging officials not to take her husband away. Thread 👇

Kimmel: "This show is not important. What is important is that we get to live in a country that allows us to have a show like this."

So sad

For anyone who thinks a secrecy law purportedly for officials’ safety won’t be distorted and abused… Tell congress you don’t want even more of this nonsense with our new action center tool below.

A letter from an emmy award-winning journalist who's been detained by ICE for 2+ months just went up via @bittersouth.bsky.social. He's in the US lawfully. "The government asserted that Guevara posed a danger to the community because of his reporting." bittersoutherner.com/journalist-m...

A rule that could only be followed by state media, not an independent press

Israel’s targeted strikes on two newspaper offices in Yemen’s capital is the second deadliest single attack on the press ever recorded by CPJ, following the 2009 Maguindanao massacre in the Philippines. Read more: cpj.org?p=522184

Proud that we at the First Amendment Clinic could help wrestle out these public documents for @juliarock.bsky.social

Headlines on the Bloomberg Terminal from Air Force One: *TRUMP: TV LICENSES SHOULD BE TAKEN AWAY IF BAD PUBLICITY FOR ME *TRUMP: IF TV SHOWS 'HIT TRUMP' SHOULD BE DISCUSSED ON LICENSES *TRUMP ON TV SHOWS CRITICIZING HIM: THEY'RE NOT ALLOWED TO

When Mahmoud Khalil, the Columbia student protestor, was arrested by masked men, he was shuttled to an immigrant prison owned by Geo Group, America's biggest for-profit prison company. I profiled the founder and chairman of Geo in my latest article: www.fastcompany.com/91396722/the...

George Zoley, the eye-wateringly rich founder of America's biggest for-profit prison company, Geo Group, is an immigrant himself. So how has he become ICE's largest private jailer of other immigrants? My latest for @fastcompany.com www.fastcompany.com/91396722/the...

On FCC Chair's threat to ABC/Jimmy Kimmel Executive Order 14149 (Jan. 20, 2025): Purpose: "The First Amendment ... essential to the success of our Republic..." Purpose: Stop "coercive pressure" to advance "Government's preferred narrative." Policy: Ensure no federal officer abridge free speech.

The media isn't going to get more powerful in the coming years. If they don't take a stand for free speech principles now, they never will.

For months, the Trump administration pledged to protect free speech. But after Charlie Kirk's killing, those same officials are now pledging to curtail speech. My latest @washingtonpost.com supercut:

for all the stories of firings & other penalties, it seems obvious to me that countless people have thought about posting/saying something related to our current moment, thought twice, and decided against. that's how censorship works. intimidation --> self-censorship. mission accomplished.

Sen. Bob Kerrey, medal of honor recipient: "America -- the home of the free and the brave -- is my home, and I give thanks to God that it is. America -- the home of the free and the brave -- does not need our government to protect us from those who burn a flag." www.c-span.org/clip/senate-...

In my lifetime, I have read probably 10,000 stories about municipal government in some place or other… and this is easily in the top 5. www.thecity.nyc/2025/08/20/w...

Reporter Eddie Kim went downtown to cover the detainment of an immigrant by ICE this morning. Then he was pepper-sprayed in the face by an ICE agent standing a foot away. Completely unprovoked. See our exclusive story and video from @eddiekimx.bsky.social here: sf.gazetteer.co/i-reported-f...

Conglomerates cave to official threats while small local publishers with a fraction of the resources just report on them and keep it moving. Good for River Reporter for not letting an embattled town supervisor's veiled threat of a SLAPP stop it from doing its job.

‘We are arresting the mayor right now, per the deputy attorney general’ politi.co/4fHe0tX w/ @mattfriedmannj.bsky.social & Erica Orden

Stanford's student paper sues Noem and Rubio, saying their policies cause non-citizen students to avoid expressing themselves freely in the Daily's pages due to fear of detention and deportation h/t @joshgerstein.bsky.social www.thefire.org/sites/defaul...

MORE: Whistleblower Aid says that one of its clients “has lawfully disclosed evidence to the DOJ’s Office of the Inspector General that corroborates the thrust of the whistleblower claims regarding Emil Bove and other senior DOJ officials actively and deliberately undermining the rule of law.”

Once again, great reporting from @thecity.nyc www.thecity.nyc/2025/07/24/e...

NEW: U.S. Border Patrol says it needs "advanced AI" to "identify and track suspicious activity in urban environment[s]" and "dense residential areas," according to a presentation document I obtained theintercept.com/2025/07/23/c...

"Without intervention, the remaining journalists in Gaza will die... Since AFP was founded in August 1944, we have lost journalists in conflicts, we have had wounded and prisoners in our ranks, but none of us remembers seeing a colleague die of hunger."

"For almost all of these people, there’s no records whatsoever. No court records, nothing." What an immigration expert told us when we dug through the data for three legally contested deportation flights to El Salvador. www.404media.co/flight-manif...

More people than the government previously admitted may have been on those flights that took off while Drew Ensign (who I profiled for Politico this month) was telling Judge Boasberg he had no info about any flights.

Prosecutors who charge journalists for refusing to unpublish news reports "don’t know the first thing about the constitution they’re sworn to uphold, or don’t care," Seth Stern told @njglobe.bsky.social's @wildstein.bsky.social.

“We’re not really doing names publicly,” one public servant said about another.

Here’s my full report on this — which also includes significant updates on the cases over Trump’s birthright citizenship EO and his law firm EOs: www.lawdork.com/p/un-documen...

Paramount betrays ‘60 Minutes’ and the rest of us -- not to mention the First Amendment -- as it caves to baseless suit by the President - Erik Wemple www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

Please. There is no universe where it costs $16 million and Paramount's integrity to get this case tossed. There are plenty of great lawyers who would've loved to defend it for free if legal fees were the issue. Story by CNN's @brianstelter.bsky.social and Liam Reilly: www.cnn.com/2025/07/02/m...

He argued that after the govt mistakenly sends someone to a foreign prison, it can't be required to fix its mistake. He claimed that if a judge verbally orders the govt to do something, it doesn't have to do it. He dismissed enforcement of a court order as an intrusion into presidential authority

Just in: "Paramount has reached an agreement in principle to resolve the lawsuit filed by President Trump and Representative Jackson in the Northern District of Texas." The settlement entails $16 million to Trump's future library, mirroring ABC's deal last December.

Drew Ensign is the lawyer defending Trump's deportations to the El Salvador terrorist prison. Judges are angry, and now he's contending with possible contempt proceedings. I profiled him for @politico.com

One judge called his assertions “stunning” and said his filings reflected “bad faith.” Another wrote that his arguments should be “shocking” to Americans’ “intuitive sense of liberty.” Who is Drew Ensign, the lawyer defending Trump's deportation agenda? www.politico.com/news/magazin...

DOJ lawyer Drew Ensign has defended the Trump administration’s most controversial court arguments in favor of its mass-deportation agenda. No one is more surprised than his former colleagues: ow.ly/AYYE50WjfP6

This important story, with horrific details about 911 calls made from ICE detention centers, is available to read for free, thanks to @wired.com's initiative in partnership with @freedom.press to unpaywall FOIA-based reporting. Other outlets should follow suit.

🚨 ATTN: Journalists crossing through a U.S. border 🚨 Alongside @eff.org, we now have an extensive guide on preparing your devices for travel through a U.S. border, including a digital security checklist and additional resources. Read, bookmark and share:

Transparency about how the government is exercising its power is democracy, not terrorism

Tips on safely exercising your First Amendment right to protest

A Senator asking tough questions of the executive branch is doing his job. If that now gets you roughed up and handcuffed in the United States, it does not look much like the Republic I grew up in. Americans should be very concerned.

Everyone has the right to protest whatever they want to protest, of course, and there are helpful legal resources available if the government unlawfully tries to stop you.

With the escalating attacks in Los Angeles on our free speech rights & right to assemble/protest, I am sharing some resources. First, our protest rights guide @freepress.bsky.social in English & Spanish! www.freepress.net/sites/defaul... www.freepress.net/sites/defaul...

she’s like 15 feet away. absolutely that man’s whole thought process was: “I’m gonna shoot that woman”

"Perhaps the President lawfully invoked the Alien Enemies Act. Perhaps Defendants are correct that Plaintiffs are gang members. But -- and this is the critical point -- there is simply no way to know for sure, as the CECOT Plaintiffs never had any opportunity to challenge the Government's say-so"

I had not seen this WSJ article from earlier this week. The 1st Amendment violation admitted in the last paragraph of this passage would be too obvious to use on a law school exam. www.wsj.com/us-news/educ...