"In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limits." www.computerworld.com/article/4059...

I’ve heard the same chilling message from broadcasters across the country. This is what government censorship looks like.

I’m sure someone could provide a worse three paragraphs of “analysis” in this moment, but Peter Baker really sets the bar low here — with what he opined, who he decided to rely on as a source, and why he included those absurd claims without refutation.

This is the right answer. The WH has no business asking for reporters’ sources and reporters have no business advising sources that the WH asked - doing The WH chilling work for it.

OMG. Tom Homan was reportedly under FBI investigation for taking $50,000 in cash allegedly in exchange for a commitment to steer government contracts to a specific company. The entire thing was recorded, as it was an FBI sting operation. The Trump admin dropped the investigation entirely.

Lemme spell it out. Trump's only leverage over Jimmy Kimmel and ABC came from FCC regulation. His direct power over H1-B visas gives him similar leverage over tech, higher ed, and others.

Mail balloting has begun in the Virginia and New Jersey general elections!

@rachelegoodman.bsky.social spoke with @wbur.org's Meghna Chakrabarti to discuss attacks on independent sources of fact-based info, like Wikipedia. “The authoritarian playbook is straightforward here. Neutralize any institution that might contradict your version of reality.”

JUST IN: Bureau of Labor Statistics postpones key inflation data report

All CEOs have to be willing to do is push back, even a little. This is far less about trumps actual power or the law, far more about the power of greed and fear.

It was very telling that for three days, none of the major TV anchors would have me on air one-on-one to talk about my firing from the Washington Post over Charlie Kirk. The first offers were from Black media, independent media, Substackers, and podcasters.

A federal judge threw out President Trump’s defamation suit against The NYT calling it “improper and impermissible” “A complaint is not a public forum for vituperation and invective,” Judge Merryday wrote. “Not a protected platform to rage against an adversary.” www.nytimes.com/2025/09/19/b...

Trumpers don’t file cases like this (defamation by nyt) to make law. They know they’ll lose. They file them to make news, to use news to magnify the threat they are able to pose, and to engender fear. The cts rightly respond w/dismissal and should add sanctions. The rest of us only need to be brave.

How media & law firms could defend democracy: "[H]e fired the legal giant Skadden Arps after learning it had struck a settlement w/Trump, telling staff that Anthropic wouldn’t work w/law firms he felt were caving to an assault on the rule of law. He is also cutting ties w/Latham," which settled.

Luckily, Sinclair has a helpful database of all their stations, so you can see if they're operating in your area and respond accordingly. sbgi.net/tv-stations/

we wrote about this WH tactic recently. they’re asking journalists for expert source names and then using them to look up political donations in FEC records to try to discredit those sources as biased. www.npr.org/2025/08/18/n...

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Senate went nuclear and it barely made the news: apnews.com/article/sena...

Lying to a court is a sanctionable ethics violation - and I expect Drew Ensign will face a bar complaint in the near term. Whether it moves fast enough to beat a Trump effort to promote him out of bar trouble is another matter...

DOJ "consolidating civil rights atty hiring authority w/a handful of Trump-aligned supervisors, departing from practices designed to avoid politicization...At least 2 of the new hires were removed or suspended from prior local prosecutor positions while facing legal & professional complaints."

Said a unanimous SCt LAST YEAR: "Six decades ago, this Ct held that a government entity’s 'threat of invoking legal sanctions and other means of coercion...to achieve the suppression' of disfavored speech violates the First Amend. Today, the Court reaffirms what it said then..." Please file suit.

"Some military lawyers & other DOD officials are raising concerns about the legal implications of Trump’s expanding military campaign... [They] have provided written & verbal legal opinions to decision makers inside the Pentagon, but believe they are being ignored or deliberately sidelined..."

"Some military lawyers & other DOD officials are raising concerns about the legal implications of Trump’s expanding military campaign... [They] have provided written & verbal legal opinions to decision makers inside the Pentagon, but believe they are being ignored or deliberately sidelined..."

Said a unanimous SCt LAST YEAR: "Six decades ago, this Ct held that a government entity’s 'threat of invoking legal sanctions and other means of coercion...to achieve the suppression' of disfavored speech violates the First Amend. Today, the Court reaffirms what it said then..." Please file suit.

My union @sagaftra.org standing up for free speech against fascism. Oh and @sagaftra.org’s new President is Mikey/Rudy/Samwise so yeah we’re gonna win.

The WGA’s statement on ABC’s decision to pull “Jimmy Kimmel Live!”

In the week since Charlie Kirk’s assassination, Russia, Iran and China have spread thousands of false or incendiary claims about what happened to the conservative activist, in an effort to stoke political divisions or to portray the U.S. as a dysfunctional country.

ROVE: “.. Using Charlie’s murder to justify retaliation against political rivals is wrong and dangerous. It will further divide and embitter our country. No good thing will come of it.” @wsj.com www.wsj.com/opinion/they...

"A government official cannot coerce a private party to punish or suppress disfavored speech on her behalf" NRA v Vullo www.nytimes.com/2025/09/17/b...

Tennessee is considering whether to stop relying on the American Bar Association to accredit law schools in the state, joining Florida, Texas and Ohio in reconsidering the organization's primary role in U.S. legal education.

Join Us for a Preview of the 2025-2026 Supreme Court Term with leading journalists and scholars! Please RSVP at the link 🔗: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... #PLAW #LawatPrinceton

NEW: Whistleblowers allege that a senior government official, Angie Salazar, made inaccurate statements in a sworn declaration filed in a lawsuit challenging the summary removal of migrant children. Salazar "knew or should have known of the inaccuracies," per letter to Congressional leaders.

BREAKING: The DOJ has SUED Maine and Oregon for refusing to hand over their full, unredacted voter registration lists. As more states push back against federal overreach in their elections, the DOJ is now suing to force access to sensitive voter data.

Modest progress.

The speed of media consolidation under administration allies is staggering. Never been more important to support independent journalism.

Put differently, the President is refusing to take care that the law is faithfully executed in violation of his obligation under U.S. Constitution, art 2.

BREAKING: A historic coalition of national & California labor unions led by the AAUP filed a federal lawsuit against the Trump administration challenging the illegal & coercive use of civil rights laws to attack the University of California system & the rights of their members.

Trump is intensifying his crackdown on media organizations: He just sued the New York Times, four of its reporters, and publisher Penguin Random House for at least $15 billion, claiming defamation and libel.

They absolutely should examine it for the lower courts. The marshals work ultimately for the president so are insufficiently independent. NB the SCt justices themselves now enjoy the protection of the more independent Supreme Court police.

Exactly right. The way to stand up a bully is to refuse to give an inch.

We're just days away from the start of general election voting for this fall. Early voting in Virginia starts... on Friday.

This has been coming from the beginning. All major democracy-supporting NGOs and foundations have their legal complaints already drafted. And in time, perhaps not even much time, they will win their cases. What is needed most in the meantime is courage. Keep saying what you think, doing what you do.

New PEN America statement: “The firing and suspension of multiple journalists after the fatal shooting of Charlie Kirk should alarm anyone who cares about free speech and a free press. Taken together, these measures risk creating a chilling effect that extends beyond those directly targeted..."

Too much to follow... The good (?) news is that there are superb experts on the law here. @becingber.bsky.social (frmr State Dept and more recently former @plawpu.bsky.social fellow) & @tessbridgeman.bsky.social are among best. And they’re right. This is why you fire the TJAGs. This is murder.

Unreal. "Forwarding these names, a well-known practice from the McCarthy Era, may well subject a number of faculty, staff, or students to widespread surveillance—a breathtaking breach of trust, ethics, and justice." - Judith Butler, whose name was among the 160 shared with the Trump administration

So like just after we published this, the 4th Circuit held a hearing where a bunch of judges (including famously conservative ones) are just going out and out with "wtf is wrong with the supreme court, why are they doing this nonsense to us?") www.politico.com/news/2025/09...

Harvard University says it has started receiving notices that many federal grants halted by the Trump administration will be reinstated after a federal judge ruled that the cuts were illegal.

David Lat reports: “On average, Am Law 100 firms saw modest attrition of just -15 lawyers or -1.7% [since March 1]. By contrast, several of the firms that chose to settle [e.g. A&O Shearman (-10%) and Cadwalader (-11%)] experienced some of the steepest declines.” www.bloomberglaw.com/product/blaw...

In briefing to the hill, DoD did not present conclusive evidence that the targets of last week’s attack were members of Tren de Aragua, top Armed Services Dem and sources say. Briefers also acknowledged the boat turned around before being struck. www.cnn.com/2025/09/11/p...