The US State Department is now going to be deporting people and/or revoking visas over Benz, Taibbi, and Shellenberger’s “censorship industrial complex” hoax. Let that sink in. This is what the Twitter Files pretext was actually about. Water boys for authoritarians. www.state.gov/releases/off...

BREAKING: Judge James Boasberg rules for those deported under the Alien Enemies Act on March 15 — certifying a class, finding the U.S. maintained constructive custody over them at CECOT, finding they were not given due process, and ordering return or that such process be given by Jan. 5, 2026.

A reminder that Bari Weiss was hired to do exactly this: strangle news coverage that is critical of Donald Trump and MAGA. Here she's got the gall to suggest that a journalist with 30 years of hard news experience made some basic reporting mistakes. Come on. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/b...

Oh I see. First-person video interviews are not newsworthy because their stories of torture and abuse have already been reported by the Times - what’s newsworthy is getting more hateful spin from Stephen Miller.

💰Trump’s wealth increased by about $2.5B since his reelection, to $6.9B 💰 Eric’s increased 10x, to $400M. 💰 Don Jr.’s 6x, to $300M. 💰 Barron, a college sophomore, is worth $150M.

CBS really Bari'd the story huh.

My colleagues @katiefallow.bsky.social & Jake Carr on the Trump admin's heavyhanded efforts to control the White House and Pentagon press corps. riponsociety.org/article/jame...

Trump consolidating his influence over TikTok, a platform used by 170m Americans. If you doubt that this outcome serves American democracy or security, take it up with SCOTUS. www.axios.com/2025/12/18/t...

(2/2) President Kennedy proudly stood for justice, peace, equality, dignity, diversity, and compassion for those who suffer. President Trump stands in opposition to these values, and his name should not be placed alongside President Kennedy's.

A bribe masquerading as a movie.

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Student journalism is journalism. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/12/15/m...

this is not behavior becoming of a FIFA Peace Prize recipient.

NEW: This year, @pressfreedomtracker.us documented 32 arrests, detention of journalists in the U.S. - Nearly 90% of the incidents occurred while journalists were covering demonstrations. - They all also centered around a single issue: immigration. Read full report by @stephaniesugars.bsky.social⬇️

Excellent op-ed on the Supreme Court's terrible decision in the TikTok case.

From “shining city on a hill” to “pariah Putin apologist checking your social media history at the door.”

Requiring temporary visitors to surrender five years of social media to the U.S. sends the message that the American commitment to free speech is pretense. This simply is not the behavior of a country confident in its freedoms. It's a threat to free speech around the world and must be opposed.

How can scientists make a difference when democratic norms, institutions, & rights are under threat? Weds @ 12:30 ET join me, Jon Penney, Sarah Brayne, & @katygb.bsky.social for a @knightcolumbia.org panel on science, the courts, & chilling effects. WE NEED YOU 🫵🏽 knightcolumbia.org/events/the-s...

2025 was one of the most difficult years for press freedom in the U.S. Journalists faced escalating harassment, censorship, legal threats, and violence — and FPF was there every step of the way to do something about it. Read what we accomplished in 2025.

Every legal story now is either Ancient Circuit Judge Delivers Crystal Clear 100 Page Rebuke To Trumpist Overreach or In Unsigned Shadow Docket Decision, 6-3 Majority Declares Trump Can Hunt People For Sport

Next Wednesday 12/10, 12:30 ET: Join our @knightcolumbia.org webinar to hear @natematias.bsky.social @penney.bsky.social @sarahbrayne.bsky.social talk about using social science to study chilling effects, and how courts use this kind of evidence: knightcolumbia.org/events/the-s...

This regressive move will literally kill people. It's making kids' liver cancer great again. And it's a sign of more harm to come. CDC panel recommends delaying birth dose of hepatitis B vaccine www.statnews.com/2025/12/05/c... via @statnews.com

In the case of the Babson College freshman detained at BOS on her way home to TX for Thxgiving, the govt's own timeline, as laid out by a judge, shows she was removed to Honduras, where she hasn't lived since she was 7, more than 17 hrs AFTER a court order barring her deportation had been issued.

A 6-year-old boy is missing after ICE arrested him and his dad in NYC last week and shipped them off to separate facilities. www.thecity.nyc/2025/12/02/i... @thecity.nyc @gwynnefitz.bsky.social

Just when you thought that Elon Musk couldn't get any more contemptible. Most years his $14B "charitable" foundation doesn't even give away the legal minimum and most of what it gives goes to an elementary school near his company town. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/u...

Nayra Guzmán was 15 days post C-section — going to see her baby in the NICU — when she was taken to Broadview and held in custody for about 34 hours. She slept on a bench and barely got food. She couldn't pump. Her story is a rare window into the growing detention of pregnant & postpartum people.

I thought I was having a stroke when I saw this. But, nope, it’s real www.bergdorfgoodman.com/p/marc-jacob...

BREAKING: 11th Cir. upholds $1M penalty on Trump & Habba for frivolous suit v. Hillary Clinton, Comey, DNC, etc. over Russia claims. 'Trump & his attorneys committed sanctionable conduct,' per Judge W. Pryor (GWB) w/Brasher (Trump) Kidd (Biden) Doc: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

NEW data I've received: Just 5% of people detained by ICE since October 1 have had violent criminal convictions, 3/4 had no criminal convictions at all. Most "criminals" had immigration, traffic, and vice offenses. Not the "worst of the worst"...

NEWS --> BBC confirms to me that they did edit a line out of historian @rutgerbregman.com's speech. It called Trump "the most openly corrupt president in US history." BBC also confirms this was done on the advice of lawyers. So Trump's threats worked. New piece: newrepublic.com/article/2036...

Florida’s DOGE team has asked state universities to turn over data on every undergraduate course offered at the 12 schools, including the syllabus and names of faculty members who are instructing it in the next two academic years.

Jamal Khashoggi's widow, Hanan Elatr Khashoggi: "Try as much as you can to save democracy and freedom of the press and speech in America. Do not be a copy of a Middle East dictatorship. We look to you as a role model of Western civilization—please maintain it."

It says something about the partisan capture of the DOJ that I was surprised to see that the DOJ is actually looking into possible wrongdoing by Trump's favored officials.

"potentially divisive"

This is a huge threat to free speech and democracy.

Trump allied billionaire (and new owned of CBS) Larry Ellison is also trying to buy Warner Brothers and CNN, and has held discussions at the White House about firing CNN journalists the President doesn't like

📍We're inviting submissions for an essay series, as part of a project studying the crucial role that lawyers can play in preserving democratic freedoms and institutions, organized by @knightcolumbia.org in partnership with Senior Fellow Madhav Khosla. Details here: knightcolumbia.org/blog/call-fo...

"I was trying to help my mom,” said 13-year-old Jayleane, shaking, as tears streamed down her cheeks. “I saw they were pulling her hair. They had the gun in front of me. I was scared.”

Trump's censor in chief at the FCC, Brendan Carr, just sent a letter to the heads of BBC, NPR and PBS informing them he's launching a "news distortion" probe into the BBC's editing of a documentary on Trump's Jan. 6 activities. Here it is:

Red-pilled 5th Circuit judge alert:

Wait, the supposed misbehavior is not giving Judge Smith enough time to file his dissent. 🙄

Whoa. Never seen this before.

A lot of people didn’t like the Washington Post journalist who was tortured and dismembered with a bone saw for writing critically about the man sitting next to me

It's official, "Views on First: Speech & the Border" wins Silver in the Anthem Awards Human & Civil Rights category! 🙌 When the government uses international borders to justify #censorship and #surveillance, defending free speech becomes everyone's fight. www.anthemawards.com/winners/list...

Quite a twist at the end here! www.telos.news/p/part-1-how...

When asked if there was anything "incriminating" in Epstein's emails, Trump pointed a finger in a female reporter's face and snapped. 'Quiet. Quiet, Piggy.' people.com/donald-trump...

Trump Imposes 100% Tax On Movies Where Slaves Escape

This vague and viewpoint-based restriction on teaching “race and gender ideology” violates the First Amendment. apnews.com/article/texa...

Someone's getting pushed out of a window today... www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/t...