That’s 💯 percent the right political response by the Board of Supervisors. The official’s actions were plainly unconstitutional — based on this own statements. Read the letter by @davidloy.bsky.social for @shastascout.bsky.social firstamendmentcoalition.org/2025/10/09/s...

A California county’s top election official excluded journalists he doesn’t like from receiving press releases. Today, in response to @facoalition.bsky.social’s advocacy for @shastascout.bsky.social, these actions got a strong rebuke by the board that hired him. shastascout.org/supervisors-...

The answer to speech you dislike is more speech, not #censorship. voiceofoc.org/2025/10/cypr...

FAC is representing @shastascout.bsky.social in this letter to Shasta County's elections official after he said the outlet was not "legitimate" and illegally removed her from a media release distribution list.

Government secrecy fuels corruption. Transparency fuels accountability. That’s why FAC challenges government secrecy head-on. Support FAC: firstamendmentcoalition.org/support-fac/

One could do worse than be called a “visceral antitotalitarian.” www.nytimes.com/2025/06/11/w...

In Los Angeles, LAPD and the LA Sheriff have also violated journalists' rights as they try to report the news. In California, reporters have additional protections. See our letter with 24 other groups: firstamendmentcoalition.org/2025/06/11/c...

With ‪@spj-norcal.bsky.social, FAC sent this letter to the San Francisco police chief noting officers' detaining, shoving, and obstructing journalists from doing their jobs covering protests. This is unacceptable. firstamendmentcoalition.org/2025/06/11/f...

@nppa.org has joined again w/several of our 1st Amendment & free press allies in a letter to the LAPD & LASD remind them of journalist’s rights. See below. We remain steadfast in our mission to make sure 1st Amendment rights are upheld across the United States of America. 🇺🇸

Are you a journalist covering LA protests? Check out our digital security guide on how to protect yourself, secure your communications and protect the information on your devices: freedom.press/digisec/blog...

The deployment of federal agencies to LA may be getting the headlines, but many of the most serious abuses have come from local police. We helped lead a letter to the LAPD and LASD reminding them of journalists' rights and the liability they're risking: media.freedom.press/media/docume...

Journalists must be allowed to do their jobs without fearing for their lives. “The First Amendment is the First Amendment regardless of who you report for or what your perspective is,” says @davidloy.bsky.social.

Law enforcement is violently targeting press at protests around Los Angeles, from easily recognizable "mainstream" outlets to freelancers and independents. ALL press have explicit legal protections in California. #JournalismIsNotACrime. This evidence thread may get graphic. 🧵👇

#USA: RSF condemns the wave of violence – at least 27 separate attacks – that swept across journalists covering protests in Los Angeles this weekend. Violence against journalists trying to do their jobs is unacceptable. #JournalismIsNotACrime rsf.org/en/usa-rsf-c...

28 press rights orgs joined a letter to DHS Secretary Noem, calling out acts against press during this weekend's protests in Los Angeles. I won't be naive about impacts of one letter. But we are united for our free press, and this puts them on notice about points of law and policy. More soon.

The targeting of reporters in LA is inexcusable. The public interest in press coverage of protests couldn’t be more self-evident. We helped lead this letter to remind federal officers of journalists’ constitutional right to report on civil unrest. media.freedom.press/media/docume...

RTDNA is proud to be a signatory on this letter. Whenever a journalist is attacked, the ultimate victims are the people that journalist serves.

With 24 other orgs, FAC condemns the treatment of journalists covering the protests against ICE raids in LA. Targeting journalists violates the First Amendment. firstamendmentcoalition.org/2025/06/09/c...

This is appalling. Purposefully attacking journalists violates the First Amendment.

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...

“If Paramount capitulates here, they will be eviscerating perhaps their most precious journalistic assets …not to mention their own reputation and shareholder value,” said @normeisen.bsky.social. “Beyond that, Paramount will be harming the First Amendment itself. They should not yield.”

To stand against abuse of power means to know that “power will be ill used by your friends as well as by your enemies, by your political opponents as well as by your neighbors.” www.nytimes.com/2025/06/08/o...

When the leopard eats its own face. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/08/u...

When the leopard eats its own face. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/08/u...

“America’s deficits … are driven by the unwillingness of the richest Americans, who pay by far the most tax, to pay even the modest levels that would be necessary to fund America’s far-from-generous public sector.” www.nytimes.com/2025/06/03/o...

Strike three for the unconstitutional campaign of “resentment and retaliation by Mr. Trump.” www.nytimes.com/2025/05/27/u...

There is no way this law doesn’t violate the “constitutional right to free speech.” www.nytimes.com/2025/05/23/c...

ICYMI, this is what fascism looks like. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/21/u...

"Indiana killed Ritchie under a veil of secrecy, with no media present...We don't know exactly how long the pentobarbital took to do its job Tuesday. We don't know if Ritchie suffered," @jamesebriggs.bsky.social writes.

Here at @cnpa.bsky.social California Journalism Awards Gala celebrating press freedom & excellent California reporting.

free speech is *the* foundational right that allows democracy to exist. anyone who opposes it either doesn’t understand what it is or hates democracy with a burning passion

Just saw my good friend @davidloy.bsky.social argue in the 9th Circuit that a law restricting observing (and recording) street car “sideshows” violates 1st Amend. rights of press. David crushed it. He was so good! Stay tuned for a hopefully favorable ruling!

Today FAC Legal Director @davidloy.bsky.social argued before an appeals court in our case challenging Alameda County's sideshow spectator ban. @fermoso.bsky.social of @oaklandside.org is prevented from covering sideshows as a reporter because of the ban. www.courthousenews.com/bay-area-jou...

“If politics is the religion, then political disagreement is proof of apostasy.” Can be true on the right or left. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/01/o...

Listen up, CBS and other news media considering bowing to Trump: "In the real world...instead of rewarding those who capitulated early, the Trump administration pressured them even more."

There’s something almost religious, cultlike, about the bizarrely contrived language of the police talking about killing someone. The ritualistic passive voice with indistinct causality just popping up in there like a mantra. Dudes try “SO THE OFFICER SHOT HIM”

Why $800K of taxpayer funds was paid out to settle whistleblower claims is EXACTLY the kind of information the public has a right to, says FAC's @davidloy.bsky.social

With each passing day, the decision of several big law firms to cut deals with Trump is looking worse and worse for them. Clients are steering business away from them and they are losing lawyers and the ability to recruit top talent. www.wsj.com/us-news/law/...

“As someone with experience challenging one of the world’s most ruthless and powerful governments, I have one important piece of advice to share: Show courage.” www.nytimes.com/2025/05/08/o...

Amid all the other news, it's easy to become inured to the basic facts here. Öztürk: -Is not accused of committing any crime -Is nonviolent -Was in this country legally -Merely engaged in speech that the administration objects to -Has been locked up for six weeks

at the end of the day our billionaires mostly want to be plantation aristocrats

We're thrilled to announce that Aaron Field, formerly of Cannata, O’Toole, & Olson LLP, has joined FAC as our first Senior Staff Attorney. He brings a wealth of experience and expertise to FAC's legal team. firstamendmentcoalition.org/news/post/me...

The Trump administration has threatened the press in its first #100Days from all angles: revoking funding, banning the @apnews.com from press briefings, investigating radio stations for simply reporting the news, and more. rsf.org/en/trump-s-w... #WorldPressFreedomDay

The Constitution forbids bribery *3 separate times*. So important to the Founders they included two emoluments clauses, and made it the only named impeachable offense besides treason. The Constitution is clear on banning bribery. It's just that Congress and the courts decided to pretend otherwise.

It’s world press freedom day. And the state of press freedom is worse, globally, than ever. A free and independent media — absent retaliation, censorship, or consolidation — is a bedrock essential to healthy democracies & local cohesion. As authoritarian rises, freedom declines.

Journalists in the U.S. continue to face legal threats, surveillance, censorship, and other attacks for just doing their jobs. Press freedom is a constitutional right — and a democratic necessity. Watch @trevortimm.bsky.social explain — and donate to support press freedom: freedom.press/donate

This year’s #WorldPressFreedomDay — when we recognize the importance of journalists and a free press globally — arrives at a time when the state of press freedom is increasingly fraught in the U.S.

A chilling report from @pressfreedom.bsky.social on the Trump administration's attacks on press freedom in its first #100Days cpj.org/special-repo...

I joined our friends from @rsf.org and @pressfreedom.bsky.social and the Association of Foreign Press Correspondents for a World Press Freedom Day panel. Listen to the conversation, especially if you're in the mood for a downer. We did sprinkle in some optimism at the end.

If you are heading the the SPJ Regional Conference in San Francisco tonight, join FAC’s @ginnylaroe.bsky.social for tonight’s keynote discussion: Free Press Under Fire, with @davidgreene.bsky.social of @EFF.org, @thomaspeele61.bsky.social, and Heather Knight of @nytimes.com.