If Kurt teaches his students that this is unconstitutional viewpoint discrimination, he's doing them a disservice & setting them up to violate ethics rules. There is no viewpoint-neutrality requirement for rules barring frivolous, dishonest claims. At least not yet, Chiles v. Salazar notwithstanding

I’m not a legal expert but I really don’t see how the First Amendment is a defense for all of his illegal actions and misconduct. Absolutely wild that this Lash guy thinks this. I’m pretty sure that Eastman’s wounds are self inflicted. He is not the victim here.

Update: The Senate approved the 10-day extension by voice vote late Friday morning, sending the stopgap to President Trump's desk. Once signed, the 702 program's authorization will run through April 30.

It's me, I'm the journalist.

I sent a classified letter to House and Senate colleagues about a secret interpretation of surveillance law that every American should be concerned about. Representative Massie is right. The Constitution requires EVERY member to vote against a clean reauthorization.

An ICE agent who was part of the federal immigration surge in Minnesota earlier this year was charged with felony second-degree assault with a dangerous weapon. The agent Gregory Donnell Morgan Jr is accused of pointing a gun at the heads of two civilians in a vehicle www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

The US Border Patrol chief being a god damn monger seems like a thing that congressional Democrats should be absolutely hammering the Trump administration for in public. It's righteous AND politically savvy to make a stink about this.

"Remember Iryna is not a grassroots memorial; more so, it is a political campaign funded by men who have been explicit about their ideological goals."

“In other words, if your political views are practically anything other than MAGA, you’re on notice, courtesy of the FBI.”

Hey! If you’re an LA-based journalist, there is a free screening of our documentary about school moms taking on Proud Boys and the far-right machine happening this Thursday in downtown LA at the LA Press Club. Moderated by @adamrose.bsky.social

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THIS is Jonah Levi. The headline photo is of Messiah Nantwi, the victim.

Everyone’s happy about the LAUSD strike being averted except for MAGA candidate for State Supetintendent of Education Sonja Shaw, a real life Disney villain. 🧙‍♀️ nypost.com/2026/04/13/u...

If Los Angeles City Attorney Hydee Feldstein-Soto was written as a character in a courtroom TV drama, nobody would believe it. With a backstory like this, the writers 100% would have to give her a story arc about a bonkers data leak. Unfortunately it’s all real. www.latimes.com/california/s...

LAPD is always whining to me they can’t do their job if press are too close. Allow me to introduce Exhibit A, disproving themselves as they throw a protester on top of a photographer and still manage to make the arrest. I can’t find snailb_photographing on Bsky. Go see their whole series on Insta!

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After letting the LAPD do the dirty work, DHS strolls out of their hiding place, immediately injures someone, is chased by activists, quickly runs back into the building.

LAPD came back to the protest and grabbed multiple people

LAPD tackle and arrest a protester

The dildo brigade is at the Fuck ICE protest in downtown Los Angeles today outside of the detention center

I will never forget a man in the COVID critical care ward literally dying of a disease telling his physicians that the thing they were trying to treat him for was a hoax. That man died thinking that the thing which killed him was fake news.

I often wonder what it would take to get a truly tip-top freelancers union off the ground, that has the institutional cache, the funding, and the strength to protect individual reporters when they take on stories like this (looking at you, newsguild), or if the answer lies somewhere else

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An mRNA treatment for PANCREATIC CANCER was in trials, among many other uses. Choosing to end this research is choosing to sentence millions to an early, painful death

This is also a fake image. The details of the capsule are entirely wrong.

Besieged by questions about the chaos and death he's inflicted on Iran, and his wife's statement on Jeffrey Epstein, Trump tries to force the national conversation back to immigration by posting graphic video of a woman's murder — cites @michaelehayden.bsky.social @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social

Federal immigration officers shot a man six times during a traffic stop. They say he weaponized his car. Video suggests he at worst was trying to flee, and he says he was fleeing after they'd already started shooting. So far, they've been shown to have lied after nearly every one of these incidents.

When the white supremacist government is so incompetent- it triggers white flight: newrepublic.com/post/207647/... via @newrepublic.com

There appears to be no defense against Graphite spyware, according to NPR. Question for cybersecurity experts, does Graphite spyware allow unlimited "targets," or does it charge per "target" like Pegasus? www.npr.org/2026/04/07/n...

'All you had to do was pay us enough to live. There goes your inventory': video shows employee setting fire to Kimberly Clark warehouse in Southern California, destroying it completely

Fake reporter Steve Baker finally got fired from The Blaze. Baker is a far-right terrorist who attacked the US Capitol on January 6, then took a job as a "journalist" for the non-news outlet The Blaze, who published his false and defamatory writing. www.thebulwark.com/p/the-blaze-...

the way people have absolutely zero principles genuinely disturbs me. they believe nothing and will say anything that brings them their next paycheck. this is no way to live. it’s disgusting. i do not understand how this isn’t a bot and an actual real human being

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A middle-aged man says this to a female student sitting next to him and PUTS HIS ARM AROUND HER while the rest of the board watches and laughs.

IDF bombs residential areas, US media frames it as a "whoopsie"

Israel pummeling Lebanon this morning. The IDF says the campaign is code-named "Eternal Darkness."

I’m very glad the Iran War has paused and the deaths stop for now (although Israel continues to bomb Beirut). But everything reported so far makes this seem like a clear strategic victory for Iran’s government.

And the three exceptions, who were Afghan, had their protected status stripped by Trump.

Taco Madness is on!

I can assure everyone that LAPD doesn't always shoot "less lethal" munitions at people's head. Sometimes they shoot at people's groin. (JFC... They're under a federal injunction that prohibits this conduct. Why do we NEVER hear about any officers punished?)

Really interesting interview with a legal observer detained at Whipple from @attackerman.bsky.social. DHS tried to turn him into an informant after he declined an interview with the first agent. www.forever-wars.com/ice-tried-to...

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A federal judge has declined to block the federal government from halting more than $240 million in Medicaid payments to Minnesota.

BAGHDAD (AP) — American journalist Shelly Kittleson, who was kidnapped in Baghdad last week, has been released, an Iraqi official says.

I guess I’m all caught up. Trump and Vance are campaigning for a foreign despot while threatening to genocide Iran.

JD Vance called Trump directly from a rally held in support of Viktor Orbán. During the call, Vance told Trump that he was "on the line with 5,000 Hungarian patriots who love Trump even more than they love Orbán."

The gas lighting by Vance here is extraordinary

this error is on the level of the one that gave Sarah Palin a decent shot at a defamation case; not coincidentally the elite level of this industry still believe that James Bennet is a misunderstood/wronged genius instead of a dense and coddled dipshit