Today at 4 p.m. ET, the Institute and @welch.senate.gov will hold a press conference following a congressional briefing on threats to free speech and the Trump administration’s use of immigration law to target protected speech and association. Watch the livestream: www.youtube.com/watch?v=doB6...

The Knight First Amendment Institute today endorsed the bipartisan JAWBONE Act, introduced by Senators Ted Cruz and Ron Wyden. The bill would create an important mechanism for accountability when government officials unlawfully coerce private intermediaries to suppress protected speech.

EPA Images photojournalist Olga Fedorova was one of at least eight photojournalists deliberately targeted with chemical irritant spray by federal officers while covering immigration protests outside Delaney Hall in Newark, NJ, on May 26: pressfreedomtracker.us/all-incident...

Here's the third in my series of essays for the Knight Institute's Reconstructing Free Expression project. In it, I propose a few methods for bypassing the president (this one and any future ones) for the disbursal of federal funds to higher education and other knowledge-producing institutions.

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The veteran correspondents staying at 60 Minutes are making the same mistake WaPo reporters did. 60 Minutes fate lies with viewers, not Bari Weiss or any internal deal she cut with them. Viewers will abandon 60 Minutes just as they did WaPo because, for good reason, they no longer trust the owner.

What a disappointing decision. These three individuals had the power to stand up for independent journalism; they had leverage because 60 Minutes still has value (for now) to CBS. By committing to another season, they are capitulating to the incremental destruction of the show by Weiss and Bilton.

You’ve got to pay to play: Ballroom donors won $50B in contracts after giving to Trump’s project: wapo.st/3QmJjSz

Multiple journalists have been assaulted, arrested or had their equipment damaged while reporting on ICE protests outside Delaney Hall in Newark, New Jersey, since May 22.

FCC To Investigate TV Shows Where The Mom Has Job https://theonion.com/fcc-to-investigate-tv-shows-where-the-mom-has-job/

Who wants this?

So we’re supposed to believe the guy who wants his face on a $250 bill suddenly is just going to drop his demand for a slush fund?

Please consider a donation to @splc.org. They do amazing work for amazing student journalists.

If you are a journalist — or know one — reporting on Delaney Hall protests who has been attacked, threatened, targeted with chemical irritants or had equipment damaged, let us know. You can submit tips in English or Spanish. Email: [email protected]

Nobody is buying the FCC's excuse for why they're targeting Disney. Their motivation is clear and the pretext is transparent. This is about punishing speech they don't like, and everyone knows it.

German man flees flailing authoritarian regime for Argentina. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/28/w...

DOJ Launches Criminal Investigation Into All Women

11th Circuit has set the briefing schedule for the challenges by @knightcolumbia.org & @weareoversight.bsky.social to Judge Cannon's order barring release of Jack Smith's Vol 2 Report on the classified docs case. Briefing should be done late July. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

This is courage. Support student journalists.

“I apologize, Governor Hochul, I was not familiar with your game.”

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NEW: The Supreme Court revives a sweeping Trump policy that censors immigration judges from speaking (in their personal capacity) about immigration or their agency. Says the plaintiffs didn't raise the theory adopted by the lower court. No noted dissents. www.supremecourt.gov/orders/court...

The FCC is once again targeting an administration critic by mob rule. Let's not pretend this FCC hasn't already made up its mind. All they want is for their pro-censorship partisan allies to nod in agreement. My message to Disney: Don't flinch. Fight. deadline.com/2026/05/fcc-...

The Ebola outbreak in Africa was announced last week, then quickly declared an emergency. It's likely that cuts in U.S. aid contributed to a delay in identifying the outbreak. n.pr/49HMsTu

The day's essential read: A perfect chronicle of how MAHA works. After money is paid out by Reynolds tobacco, Trump calls RFKJr and Mehmet Öz and issues orders on flavored vapes, and they instantly obey. Note Reynolds agents were seen the same week in Iowa paying people to attend a JD Vance event.

Enrique Tarrio, the Proud Boys leader sentenced to 22 years, said he planned to apply to the fund, assuming he could get between $2 and $5 million.

Let's make billionaires pay their fair share and find out

Civil rights lawsuits like this can play an important role in deterring unconstitutional assaults on free speech rights. But they only apply to state, not federal, government officials. We need federal and/or state legislation allowing victims of censorship by federal officials to recover damages.

But wait! It gets worse! DoJ says: IRS is “forever barred and precluded” from pursuing “examinations” of Trump, “related or affiliated individuals,” and related trusts and businesses. This applies to all tax returns filed before…Monday of this week. www.politico.com/news/2026/05...

A 21-year-old Honduran immigrant was arrested after a hearing inside 26 Federal Plaza Tuesday morning, according to advocates who saw ICE agents take him into custody. www.thecity.nyc/2026/05/19/i...

From the reporter who scooped the news that Treasury's GC was quitting, IRS wrote a 25-page memo about why Trump's IRS lawsuit was dogshit. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/19/a...

Every day of Trump 2.0 I think “it can’t get more outrageous than this,” and I am wrong. This slush fund thing is so fucking rancid and unacceptable and I hate the feeling and reality that no politician is going to stop it, or call in Batman or something. This is not a country.

Courtney Radsch sends a dispatch from a DC federal hearing in Coalition for Independent Technology Research v. Rubio, the suit challenging Trump's visa restrictions on researchers who study online harms.

Episode 2 of "Lawyering Without Law" is out now. @katygb.bsky.social and Madhav Khosla speak with @hls.harvard.edu's @lessig.bsky.social about institutional corruption, economic dependence, and what happens when courts, Congress, law firms, and corporations drift from their founding purpose.

A lawyer for academics, journalists and researchers made a case in federal court against a Trump administration policy they say would chill free speech and adversely affect fact-checking.

KNOXVILLE: “Knox County Schools has banned the 1976 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel "Roots", credited with raising awareness about Black American history…”😕🤔 Republican censorship continues. (Alex Haley is buried by his boyhood home in Henning, TN) www.wbir.com/article/news...

Independent researchers help the public understand how social media platforms, AI, and other technologies shape everyday life. Following yesterday’s hearing in CITR v. Rubio, @thecoalition.bsky.social's @geurkink.bsky.social spoke about what’s at stake when that work gets silenced.

@wsj.com reported receiving #DOJ subpoenas seeking reporters’ records over its coverage of Pentagon officials’ warnings to Trump about a military campaign in Iran. The Institute's @katiefallow.bsky.social says the subpoenas are the latest escalation in the administration’s attacks on the press.

A federal court will hear arguments tomorrow on a PI motion in a case we brought with @protectdemocracy.org on behalf of @thecoalition.bsky.social, challenging a U.S. immigration policy targeting researchers. A new piece explains what three amicus briefs add and why it matters for online speech.

Congratulations to @jameeljaffer.bsky.social on receiving the 2026 George Barrett Award for Public Interest Law from @sidneyhillman.bsky.social. In accepting the award, Jameel paid tribute to the Institute’s clients and partners, whose work defending democracy “should be a model for all of us.”

Campaign staffers are turning private polling data into personal paydays. They describe election prediction market as a "Wild West" for staffers.

This was a very interesting convo with @kimlanelaw.bsky.social on @knightcolumbia.org 's new podcast about the challenges of being a lawyer when law is being used for authoritarian ends, and what lawyers and law SCHOOLS should be doing about it. Recommended! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/w...

BREAKING: One of the main methods of obtaining abortion pills, through telemedicine, was just blocked by the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals. I'm working on a story. This has huge implications for people in states with abortion bans.

Work Friend Accidentally Becomes Real Friend https://theonion.com/work-friend-accidentally-becomes-real-friend-1819571545/

There is no such movie, he’s making this up (shocking).

article should state that Brin would be left with more $250 billion after this one-time tax, and tell us a figure that may be harder for anyone to figure out: how much he does pay in taxes as an annual percentage of his wealth and income and as compared to, say, what his hairdresser pays

Students from abroad used to come to here because we respected the freedoms of speech, association, and inquiry. Now they’re not coming here because we don’t. It’s really as simple as that. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/29/w...

In impressive reporting, students at Redwood High found more than 5,000 references to local residents in the Epstein files. When one complained, the district ordered the journalists to remove their reporting. SPLC's Mike Hiestand says that violates California law: https://loom.ly/9Ys0kOs