Highly recommend Death By Lightning on Netflix about the Garfield presidency and assassination — youtu.be/6jopqrSojQE?...

Once upon a desert sandy As through winds the trav'ling man he Spied the face of Ozymandy Lying, simply lying there Suddenly there was some writing Pon the plinth that he was sighting That the sand and time were blighting Quoth the statue, "Now despair"

Larry Bushart Jr. spent more than a month in jail after a Tennessee sheriff ordered his arrest for a meme trolling a Charlie Kirk vigil.

Even for Trump World, this is a shocking outrage. Everything about this—from LEOs threatening, then arresting this citizen (who committed no crime), the judge setting a mind-bogglingly inappropriate bond, then delaying the hearing five more weeks—is legally and morally wrong, and wholly un-American.

this rocks. when indiana edu killed the student newspaper, Purdue stepped up, printed the forbidden issue, drove it to Bloomington and stocked the boxes.

This is an excellent brief in the Stanford Daily's lawsuit against Marco Rubio. The Trump administration insists there's no chilling effect whatsoever from targeted detentions. This brief shares the stories of student reporters and editors who fear being the next Rumeysa Ozturk or Mahmoud Khalil.

Proud to help @splc.org, @collegemedia.bsky.social, Associated Collegiate Media, and 55 student newsrooms/leaders raise their voices to support @stanforddaily.com.web.brid.gy's case vs the govt over its attack on international students' 1A rights through visa revocations and deportations.

🚨 NEW: We filed an amicus brief joined by 55 student newsrooms and leaders to defend student speech rights. Learn more: https://loom.ly/_aBsitk The Stanford Daily's lawsuit challenges the use of immigration law to revoke international students' visas and deport them for protected speech.

I will again praise @404media.co for its consistently great reporting. I recommend a subscription for anyone interested in real news about the uses and abuses of tech in 2025.

Today marks the 7th anniversary of Jamal Khashoggi’s murder.

404 Media and the Freedom of the Press Foundation are suing DHS, demanding that it hand over a copy of an agreement that shares the personal data of nearly 80 million Medicaid patients with ICE. 🔗 www.404media.co/404-media-an...

New: 404 Media and Freedom of the Press Foundation are suing DHS. We're seeking a copy of a data agreement that is giving ICE the personal data of nearly 80 million Medicaid patients. This is on top of our other lawsuit seeking ICE's $2 million spyware contract www.404media.co/404-media-an...

BREAKING: WE WON!!! 💥 💥 💥 Federal Judge William G. Young ruled today in our lawsuit against the Trump administration that the policy of arresting, detaining, & deporting noncitizen students & faculty members for their pro-Palestinian advocacy violates the 1st Amendment. Full ruling here:

The public can't engage in secretive government. That's why we filed 3 new FOIA lawsuits this week. We'll keep challenging capricious threats to press freedom — and show up in court to prove it. Read more in our weekly newsletter, The Classifieds.

Taken just a few minutes ago outside the ICE facility in Portland that Trump claims is under siege. My message to Donald Trump is this: we don’t need you here. Stay the hell out of our city.

Because the light of transparency doesn't spark itself, I'm proud to help @freedom.press and @404media.co bring these important FOIA suits to advance the public's knowledge of what's being done in our name.

Today, @freedom.press filed three FOIA lawsuits seeking records on: 1. Efforts to prosecute CNN for reporting on ICE agent tracking app 2. Firing of FOIA official who handled one of our requests 3. ICE's access to data on ~79M Medicaid enrollees (filed w. @404media.co)

As I was saying…

Proud to work with 404 Media on this important FOIA suit to shed light on this relatively "small" contract with potentially significant ramifications.

NEW: 404 Media is suing ICE. We have filed a lawsuit demanding the agency release its $2 million contract with Paragon, a company that makes powerful spyware to break into phones and read messages from encrypted chat apps www.404media.co/were-suing-i...

It's a journalist's job to ask questions of government officials, no matter which party is in power. That often means respectfully knocking on doors to get answers people deserve to know. Tips and evidence are essential to our nonpartisan work: www.propublica.org/tips/

The world is crumbling BUT new Slow Horses

This is the lead story in the New York Times. If you're in the business of communicating, whether through journalism, commentary, or art, this is the five-alarm fire. People are going to remember who spoke up and who stayed conveniently silent or postured about "neutrality."

Becoming increasingly clear we’re gonna have to build a parallel infrastructure for all the media we really love. The reason all of this is happening under the color of law is hyperconsolidation, dissent being traded straight up for merger approval, or fear of harassment.

I will vote for any candidate that can do these 3 things: 1. Stop the authoritarian takeover of America 2. Restore and revitalize public services 3. Don’t spam my phone

Here’s the student paper’s story. They had to delay until one, the principal lifted an illegal censorship order, and two, a judge reminded the school it can’t fire an adviser for letting students report news. Help these young journalists make up for lost time — spread the story far and wide.

Let me qualify what Josh is saying. It is quite clear that the Constitution requires a census of all persons. It’s quite clear that past Supreme Court cases support this proposition. (For instance, the recent census question case makes no sense if persons doesn’t include immigrants.) /1

/14 This is not, however, a reason to stop identifying the truth and calling liars liars. Nor is it a reason to stop trying.

The Department of Justice hired a former Jan. 6 defendant who was caught on tape urging rioters to "kill" police. The department calls him a "valued member" of the administration.

“We’re doing really in-depth investigations that could have legal consequences. ... We couldn’t do the journalism that we’re doing without ProJourn.”

FOIAball is here: foiaball.com Today, we're kicking off with four stories that we're pretty sure you are going to like. If you are interested in Bill Belichick, Texas, FSU or college mascots, we've got something for you! Give it a look and let us know what you think!

Seems bad that the head of the DOJ's "civil rights division" is cheering on Elon Musk using SLAPP suits to silence non-profit media orgs. But what do I know? But tell me again how MAGA is the "free speech" party.

In one swift moment, a traffic stop turned into a violent arrest. Video footage of the incident show a group of officers detaining three men. Afterward, agents can be heard bragging and making light of the arrests, calling the use of a stun gun “funny”.

How profoundly sad. The kids deprived of reading Calvin and Hobbes are the kids who need them the most. My brother put it best: "We know we’re fucked when they come for your cartoon stuffed tigers." Let's go sit in the grass and crack open "The Days are Just Packed." pen.org/magic-tree-h...

at least he didn't do something truly reckless like try to forgive student loans

I'm floored. This is ONE stretch of ONE side of the street in deep red, small town Knoxville, TN today. This is a city that Trump won in 2024 by 20+ points. The scope of these protests are massive—American from both sides of the aisle are pissed. There will be no kings.

Everything that’s happened over the past six months has been a response to an imaginary crisis. There is no immigrant invasion. No trade crisis. No scientific or governance crisis. Just people completely high off their own supply trying to fundamentally reorder society. None of this had to happen.

Student newspapers are really meeting the moment, at this moment. Admiration to 'kids these days' telling the fraught story of univ life on their campus news sites. Including this delicious column from @theharvardcrimson.bsky.social , on a way out of Harvard-Trump impasse. By Yona Sperling-Milner

BREAKING: Juan Carlos Lopez-Gomez has been released. This is the moment he reunited with his mom.

“One of the top MS-13 members”? This woman is an officer of the court and the Attorney General of the United States. She knows that she wields immense power and responsibility. Yet here she is on national TV, making baseless claims about a guy her boss wrongly sent to a gulag in El Salvador.

Vance’s due process argument is a horseshit appeal to emotion but we can dismiss the whole thing given the explicit lie in the first sentence. bsky.app/profile/jame...

vance is a detestable liar and an open enemy of the constitution. the central load bearing factual claim here is completely false and even if it wasn’t the constitution contains two explicit guarantees of due process

Watching this Trump-Bukele meeting with chime-ins from Miller, Bondi and Rubio. There's just no question about the game they're playing. A stream of lies and escalations and absolute nonsense that any sane person can see through instantly. Astonishing that so many don't.

AP wins. ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show...

Univ. of Tenn. students reporting on immigration status changes. Important student journalism — including noting what they were seeking and weren't told. "The Daily Beacon requested information on Tuesday regarding international students’ visa terminations. The university or ISSS did not respond."

America is solidly in our, “Scream ourselves to sleep, shit ourselves awake” era.

Trump has now collected a quarter billion dollars in lunch money from cowardly law firms. He didn’t even have to take it. They just gave it to him.

Wilkie Farr & Gallagher LLP—Trump’s latest law firm target—strikes a deal with the White House, according to a post on Trump’s Truth Social.

Please, please, I pray to you, tell Judge Alsup you can't tell him why you can't tell him things