Every decent person wants universities to act decisively in response to antisemitism but this lawsuit is predicted on the equation of antisemitism and human rights advocacy—an equation that multiple courts have already rejected. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/20/u...

There’s lots of censorship going on in this story but it’s by our own government, not the Europeans.

btw you should go read @masnick.com's original paper: knightcolumbia.org/content/prot...

I wrote about why @knightfoundation.org invested in @bsky.app: philanthropy can act when mission & opportunity align. We believe in @jay.bsky.team's vision for a better social web—& in ideas (like @masnick.com's) that grow out of the research ecosystem Knight has long supported. kf.org/kfbluesky

There are lots of arguably lawful uses of AI that would be disastrous for civil liberties. We don't have a legal framework that meaningfully constrains the government's use of tools like this, so even the most Orwellian stuff will be legal defensible.

Parable about the US relationship to the world outside. For most Americans the threat didn’t rise above the level of a meme, displaced by the next outrage. Danes were preparing to fight and die.

🔔 Join EIPAD for a conversation about the Trump admin's escalating attacks on the First Amendment, featuring @attorneynora.bsky.social, @jameeljaffer.bsky.social, and Ben Wizner, moderated by @laurenleharper.bsky.social. 🗓️ March 25, 7 p.m. ET/4 p.m. PT RSVP: umass-amherst.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

This is true but also a very problematic framing that has been adopted by too many. The issue isn’t simply a lack of strategy, it is a lack of justification for launching the war in the first place.

It's nice he resigned. He blames Israel for his wife dying in a suicide bombing in Syria in 2019, and his whole Israel made him do it line feels a little weird. Okay a lot weird in a familiar way. I mean if you need a Jewish conspiracy theory you could say the Epstein files made Trump do it.

Middleware is third-party software that operates between users and platforms. Some free speech experts believe it could reshape social media. On 3/27, @knightcolumbia.org will host an event at @pressclubdc.bsky.social exploring what middleware could mean for #freespeech online. RSVP: bit.ly/3P3Uf6M

it'll be too late where i am to watch the oscars, and tho i always enjoy the show, i really don't care who wins what. i'll just want to know who had the courage to opt out of its fantasy universe & speak up abt the killing, detention, repression & censorship brought on by the american president.

"The amount of public dissent that may still be possible today could be impossible tomorrow." Let's hope the Oscar winners make good use of the platform they'll be given. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/15/o...

I'd just add that it is indefensible at this point to say that Mahmoud Khalil was "seemingly" targeted for his speech, as if there's some mystery about this. There was a federal trial about it. knightcolumbia.org/documents/ah...

So much winning.

Page 3 of the judge's opinion: "Although IBP’s website did not mention DEI, it contained references to 'diversity' amongst bird species." (That wasn't the main reason why the government lost, but it's evidence that we're governed by idiots.) democracyforward.org/wp-content/u...

ICYMI: This week, @knightcolumbia.org and @protectdemocracy.org filed a major lawsuit challenging the Trump administration's new #immigration policy targeting social media researchers and trust & safety workers. More in @reuters.com by @nateraymond.bsky.social. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

“We had not realized our government was capable of such folly and such crookedness” David Astor’s leader in the Observer 1956, on the Suez crisis. Another narrow stretch of water critical to global trade, another empire in its ugly death throes … www.theguardian.com/politics/200...

Again, leaders of other countries don’t talk this way. The glee with which our current leaders talk about killing people is not normal, and nor is their lack of concern for who exactly we’re killing. American bombs incinerated 100 kids in Minab. Were those the “right people”?

The article quotes a tech-transparency group "blasting" X for hosting this account, but it's actually a good thing that Americans can hear what Iran's leaders have to say, unfiltered by Trump. Seems especially important right now.

A new contribution to @knightcolumbia.org's series on Reconstructing Free Expression--this one from @qjurecic.bsky.social on protecting the free speech rights of non-citizens. knightcolumbia.org/blog/free-ex...

Empire decline, In one image

This is an important victory after a hard fight. Congrats and thanks to @ccrjustice.org. They do such important work--please support them if you can. ccrjustice.org/home/press-c...

Not normal. Strangelovian.

Political leaders in most other countries don't talk in this deranged, murderous way because prospective leaders who talk in this way are seen as dangerous and frightening and as lacking the temperament and judgment to lead other people anywhere they would want to be led.

The indictment of Wikileaks relied in part on the theory that Assange solicited classified info in violation of the Espionage Act by posting a “most wanted documents” list. Now DOJ is groping towards an even broader theory, it seems. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/12/b...

The Eleventh Circuit has denied our (second) mandamus petition in this case, which asked for an order barring Judge Cannon from issuing further rulings relating to Jack Smith’s Mar-a-Lago report while our request for access to the report is on appeal. Concurrence from Judge Jordan:

It's not just that he refused to condemn Ogles and Fine; he endorsed the substance of their vile messages, taking issue only with their "tone," and he introduced a new line of bigotry-fueled conspiracy theory about Muslims wanting to impose sharia law. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

One day the NYT's editors will read these stories again and be ashamed of themselves. Mamdani called the attack "heinous," "criminal," "reprehensible," "terrorism," and "the antithesis of who we are." The insinuation that he's conflicted about this is disgraceful. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/09/n...

Marco Rubio is confused about "censorship" and a lot of people inside and outside the United States are paying a high price for it. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/09/u...

ICYMI, @thecoalition.bsky.social @knightcolumbia.org & @protectdemocracy.org filed a new First Amendment lawsuit earlier today challenging the Trump admin's denial of visas to tech researchers, tech workers, fact-checkers. Here's a post explaining why we're suing. mailchi.mp/knightcolumb...

Carlos Dada’s Reuters Memorial Lecture is really good, especially in its observations about the media. reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/news/full-te...

""The Trump administration is using the threat of detention and deportation to suppress speech it disfavors"[email protected] on CITR v. Rubio, the case we filed this morning www.npr.org/2026/03/09/n...

"The Trump administration is engaged in a brazen and far-reaching campaign of censorship while cynically and falsely claiming that censorship is what it is fighting." CITR v. Rubio, new case just filed in DDC by @knightcolumbia.org & @protectdemocracy.org. knightcolumbia.org/content/tech...

Missed this from a hearing last week. Rep. Jamie Raskin highlighting Judge Young's finding in AAUP v. Rubio that the Trump admin's policy of targeting student protesters for their pro-Palestinian advocacy is "disingenuous, squalid, and dishonorable."

"Next week, I will have spent a year in Prairieland Detention Facility, because I attended a protest and called for an end to the ongoing genocide in Gaza – which has killed nearly 200 of my family members."

Counterpoint: Limiting how US troops can be used illegally in unconstitutional wars of the president’s own choosing *IS* supporting “the troops.”

The essential read for this Sunday is supplied by Cardinal Cupich in Chicago. www.archchicago.org/statement/-/...

This headline is inane. As the article itself concedes, no one thinks Trump is bombing Iran for humanitarian reasons. Nor is there any argument that the debate about R2P created the legal or political space for this idiotic war.

The second sentence of DOJ's brief--the brief it filed yesterday in the law firm case--is very wrong. The First Amendment protects private speech by (among other things) restricting what public officials can say. See, e.g., Bantam Books, NRA v. Vullo. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

This is excellent, and yes, as with many other issues, when it comes to free expression it won't be enough just to roll back Trumpism. When/if reasonable people control the government, we need to make big changes for the better.

At the @knightcolumbia.org, @akapczynski.bsky.social proposes a People’s College—the right to a two-year college degree at the accredited college of one’s choice—as a structural remedy for our free speech crisis.

Nashville reporter's detention by federal immigration officials poses grave threat to press freedom and the public’s right to know. A thread on Estefany Rodriguez: www.freepress.net/news/free-pr...

For @knightcolumbia.org's "Reconstructing Free Expression" project, @ksabeelrahman.bsky.social argues that addressing the current democratic crisis will require "reckoning with laws and practices that have been accepted by both parties for the last 20-plus years" knightcolumbia.org/blog/the-inf...

Adam Johnson: I wrote about how the US and Israel carried out an attack on an Iranian girls school on par with the OKC bombing and US media relegated it to a back page story. No evening news segments, no front page stories, it made A11 in the NYT then everyone moved on.

DeSantis (in Florida) and Abbott, and Paxton (in Texas) are using the same playbook against CAIR that southern states used against the NAACP and other civil rights groups in the 1950s and 60s. But First Amendment doctrine is stronger now, thanks in part to the cases that the NAACP litigated.

Ron DeSantis's campaign against CAIR, one of the nation's largest Muslim civil rights groups, is bigoted & lawless. Here's a federal judge holding--yesterday--that the governor's designation of CAIR as a "terrorist organization" violates the First Amendment. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

“Imminent.” You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.

Spain's leader with a message that should be adopted by every top Democrat

The Trump Administration keeps throwing new arguments at the wall to see what might stick--but each one is worse than the last. This is an excellent piece by @eliavl.bsky.social explaining why Rubio's recent "double preemption" argument is a non-starter. www.justsecurity.org/133093/preem...