Momentous news that will reverberate far beyond Egypt: A presidential pardon for Alaa Abd el-Fattah. His family worked for years for this moment: His mother went on a hunger strike that very nearly killed her to secure her son's freedom. His sister camped outside the British foreign office.

A Chinese journalist jailed for four years after reporting on the outbreak of Covid in Wuhan has been sentenced to a further four years behind bars Zhang Zhan imprisoned for another four years for ‘picking quarrels and causing trouble’ www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2...

Taiwanese foreign ministry slams China for blocking art show in Kazakhstan – Taipei Times

the philadelphia eagles are blessed by the angels and graced by the light of heaven. i'm sorry if this offends you but it is demonstrably true

the jordan davis game

i am SCREEAAAAMING

i should run the nfl. the tush push and taunting are all legal. who cares. let them play ball

does the science exist yet to create an entire team of zack baun clones

@ all nfl announcers

a lot of great athletes have passed through, for a short or long time, Philadelphia teams but one of the things that made Parent special was that he really loved Philadelphia and he showed it

Ah man, not Bernie Parent. That one hurts.

one of the nicest humans (by all accounts) is responsible for one of the hardest images ever.

This is yet another story about authoritarianism — but one that hits a little different. Phurba is resilience incarnate, a person born for these times. And his tale is bonkers. I hope you enjoy reading it as much we did reporting it. Gift link: www.wsj.com/world/asia/t...

The Constitution Day event on academic freedom in partnership with @projectcensored.bsky.social that I moderated featuring @tomginsburg.bsky.social and @sarahemclaugh.bsky.social is now available online. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ityg...

Our latest case of #transnationalrepression: a young Chinese woman studying in France has disappeared some seven weeks ago while on a trip to visit her family in Hunan province. She is an editor for the digital platform “Chinese Youth Stand for Tibet” (CYST) www.tibetanreview.net/chinese-intl...

Will Erdogan manage to make it through a whole trip to DC without setting his security team on peaceful protesters? Or will we get a repeat of 2017, when his agents put multiple protesters in the hospital by kicking and beating them while they laid on the ground and for which he’s never apologized?

If you’re in a giving mood, a friend of mine could really use your help. She suffered a traumatic brain injury last year and needs therapy to relearn speaking and walking. She and her husband are wonderful people and have been through hell. Anything helps, even sharing.

Ah, yes. The commonly known and well-established “not nice enough to me” exception to the First Amendment.

Just got a great set of emails from the FBI.

A federal judge has thrown out President Trump's lawsuit against The New York Times. The suit, he says, "stands unmistakably and inexcusably athwart the requirements" of federal court rules. It is "decidedly improper and impermissible." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

new edition of "shouting fire in a crowded theater" just dropped rollcall.com/2025/09/19/s...

I experienced this last week & refused, saying I had never before been asked to provide the names of any analysts I was planning to quote to get a comment. Spox replied that maybe they were D donors. (In that case, it was 3 retired top military JAG officers.) I guess that was not a weird oneoff.

Government officials do not get to decide that your rights have become inconvenient or problematic. They are your rights. They are not privileges provided by the government and revocable at will.

The president of the United States believes he has the right and the authority to use the firepower of the federal government to crush people who say things about him that he does not like. It's as simple as that.

Nearly three years in prison just for social media posts "about royal expenditures, military transfers and budgets, and promotions for civilian servants." Or: basic political speech. The posts were, a Thai criminal court says, “offensive and disrespectful to the monarchy.” Abolish lèse-majesté.

WGA Statement on ABC’s Decision to Pull Jimmy Kimmel Live!

The union representing the musicians from Jimmy Kimmel’s band releases a statement calling the FCC’s pressure on Disney “state censorship.”

"Multiple execs felt that Kimmel had not actually said anything over the line, the two sources say, but the threat of Trump administration retaliation loomed." They will never learn that capitulation doesn't work. Never

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:

for sale: institutional spines. never used.

Yulia Navalnaya, the widow of late Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, said today that foreign laboratory tests on biological samples obtained from her husband confirmed he was poisoned.

what we can learn is that we all must accept the realities of death but that we can and should use the time and resources we have in our temporary presence here on earth to improve the lives of others and, through that, find meaning that we'll never discover in searching for unachievable immortality

Four men have been arrested on suspicion of "malicious communications" for allegedly projecting images of Trump and Jeffrey Epstein onto Windsor Castle. The UK's Malicious Communications Act targets "indecent or grossly offensive" communication that causes "distress or anxiety."

I'm just an ordinary First Amendment lawyer but I'm pretty sure you can't transform "protesting the president" into criminal activity by recharacterizing it as "inflicting harm on the United States."

Justice Sonia Sotomayor appeared to rebuke calls to target “hate speech” in an apparent swipe at Attorney General Pam Bondi. “Every time I listen to a lawyer-trained representative saying we should criminalize free speech in some way, I think to myself, that law school failed,” said Sotomayor.

“How should we deal with rebels?” one user wrote, in Chinese text messages shared with The Local and translated by a Chinese policy researcher. Another responded, “k him.” On the perils—surveillance, threats, and harassment—of being a Chinese student dissident abroad: thelocal.to/chinese-inte...

Just the President threatening out staunchest ally in the Pacific because a reporter asked him a completely reasonable question about his massive multi-billion dollar corruption.

So this Trump lawsuit is wacko for many, many reasons, but THIS IS NOT WHAT ACTUAL MALICE MEANS in the legal context. At all.

This week's "hate speech isn't free speech" calamity has, somehow, reached another new low: The president of the United States suggesting that speech he finds unfair to him is hate speech, and targetable by the Justice Department. We are in deeply dangerous territory.

AG Bondi is threatening to “go after” and “target” people for “hate speech” or, as it’s also known: speech protected by the First Amendment and quite famously not an exception under American law.

[0-1 record and fresh off getting steamrolled in the superbowl] time to do the most ostentatious celebration possible after getting a first down

if you see someone yelling go birds in a Vancouver bar rn: that’s me

it took me a few decades, but one of my childhood dreams has been accomplished: seeing orcas in the wild

Northwestern University's home campus operates within the (rapidly contracting) domain of academic freedom typical in the U.S., while its Qatar satellite campus appears to operate within the standards of Qatar. That's a problem, says @sarahemclaugh.bsky.social

just had to jump out of the way of a car with a New Jersey plate barreling through a crosswalk IN VANCOUVER