#firstamendment — Public Fediverse posts
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RE: https://masto.ai/@Nonilex/117094327864851997
This whole thread worthwhile, especially if you don’t want to deal with actually getting into the WaPo article. These blatant attempts to control-delete any negative dissent or history seem remarkable for vast scope and public machinations. Remember, all these years Americans thought they had freedom of press and First Amendment.
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RE: https://masto.ai/@Nonilex/117094327864851997
This whole thread worthwhile, especially if you don’t want to deal with actually getting into the WaPo article. These blatant attempts to control-delete any negative dissent or history seem remarkable for vast scope and public machinations. Remember, all these years Americans thought they had freedom of press and First Amendment.
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The most immediate effect of Trump’s threat is to make Chandler Hall, the #CAP report’s author, a folk hero among DC’s left-leaning policy analysts. But if the threatened lawsuit actually materializes, #Trump will lose.
#law #Constitution #FirstAmendment #ThoughtPolice #dissent #authoritarianism #autocracy #dictatorship #fascism #tyranny
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The most immediate effect of Trump’s threat is to make Chandler Hall, the #CAP report’s author, a folk hero among DC’s left-leaning policy analysts. But if the threatened lawsuit actually materializes, #Trump will lose.
#law #Constitution #FirstAmendment #ThoughtPolice #dissent #authoritarianism #autocracy #dictatorship #fascism #tyranny
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#CAP is led by #NeeraTanden [💕], one of the Democratic Party’s most influential power players & a veteran of the past three Democratic admins. But a less partisan #ThinkTank, the #NiskanenCenter, published its own report in May that also found no effect on violent crime in DC attributable to the #NationalGuard deployment. (It did find a reduction in property crime, which CAP did not analyze.)
#law #Constitution #FirstAmendment #Trump #authoritarianism #autocracy #dictatorship #fascism #tyranny
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#CAP is led by #NeeraTanden [💕], one of the Democratic Party’s most influential power players & a veteran of the past three Democratic admins. But a less partisan #ThinkTank, the #NiskanenCenter, published its own report in May that also found no effect on violent crime in DC attributable to the #NationalGuard deployment. (It did find a reduction in property crime, which CAP did not analyze.)
#law #Constitution #FirstAmendment #Trump #authoritarianism #autocracy #dictatorship #fascism #tyranny
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What set #Trump off was a #CAP report that found #NationalGuard deployments in DC have not contributed to the decline of violent crime. Trump said on social media that he’s drawing up a lawsuit against the liberal #ThinkTank & suggested that he might include some of its contributors. Trump named Google, Apple, Visa, Goldman Sachs, Citigroup, Wells Fargo, Bank of America, Walmart, Toyota, T-Mobile & NBC Universal.
#law #Constitution #FirstAmendment #authoritarianism #autocracy #fascism #tyranny
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What set #Trump off was a #CAP report that found #NationalGuard deployments in DC have not contributed to the decline of violent crime. Trump said on social media that he’s drawing up a lawsuit against the liberal #ThinkTank & suggested that he might include some of its contributors. Trump named Google, Apple, Visa, Goldman Sachs, Citigroup, Wells Fargo, Bank of America, Walmart, Toyota, T-Mobile & NBC Universal.
#law #Constitution #FirstAmendment #authoritarianism #autocracy #fascism #tyranny
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Think tanks are as American as baseball, jazz & apple pie. They perform an unsung role in holding governments accountable at all levels. They incubate ideas & employ people, especially from whichever party is out of power, who will staff future White Houses.
Such organizations & their supporters should not fear legal harassment when elected officials dislike their work. Freedom of speech & association are foundational pillars of the #FirstAmendment.
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Think tanks are as American as baseball, jazz & apple pie. They perform an unsung role in holding governments accountable at all levels. They incubate ideas & employ people, especially from whichever party is out of power, who will staff future White Houses.
Such organizations & their supporters should not fear legal harassment when elected officials dislike their work. Freedom of speech & association are foundational pillars of the #FirstAmendment.
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#Trump’s attack on a #ThinkTank is an affront to the #FirstAmendment
#Republicans would be rightly irate if a Democratic president threatened to sue a conservative think tank & punish its corporate #donors over #research the White House didn’t like, but Trump’s attack this week on the Center for American Progress [ #CAP ] & its funders has been met with shrugs & silence.
#law #Constitution #ThoughtPolice #authoritarianism #autocracy #dictatorship #fascism #tyranny
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2026/08/14/trump-legal-threat-against-cap-risks-chilling-think-tank-research/?utm_medium=referral_home&utm_source=webview&no_nav=true&utm_campaign=pb_2607:variant;rct:0:0:2:20260701 -
#Trump’s attack on a #ThinkTank is an affront to the #FirstAmendment
#Republicans would be rightly irate if a Democratic president threatened to sue a conservative think tank & punish its corporate #donors over #research the White House didn’t like, but Trump’s attack this week on the Center for American Progress [ #CAP ] & its funders has been met with shrugs & silence.
#law #Constitution #ThoughtPolice #authoritarianism #autocracy #dictatorship #fascism #tyranny
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2026/08/14/trump-legal-threat-against-cap-risks-chilling-think-tank-research/?utm_medium=referral_home&utm_source=webview&no_nav=true&utm_campaign=pb_2607:variant;rct:0:0:2:20260701 -
‘Outrageous’: #Trump Officials Investigated #LeftWing Groups After #AlexPretti Killing in #Minneapolis
One #FirstAmendment advocacy group called the investigation a “disturbing, invasive, and utterly unjustifiable attack on freedom of expression and political dissent.”
Julia Conley
Aug 13, 2026"The Trump administration began the probe under the auspices of investigating whether the groups had provided 'help and money,' as the Times reported, to people who had participated in protests across the #MinneapolisSaintPaul area, where tens of thousands of residents rallied against US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (#ICE) and defended their neighbors from immigration raids last winter.
"Newly released government documents, which were uncovered after an attorney filed a motion with the federal District Court in Minnesota demanding information about the DHS investigation, show that the agency characterized the protesters who opposed ICE as 'violent opportunists and agitators.'
"The investigation included #DHS’ use of administrative subpoenas to obtain financial records from #SunriseMovement, Communications Workers of America [ #CWA ], and the #SEIU, scrutinizing what the agency called 'domestic terrorist financing.' "
https://www.commondreams.org/news/trump-left-wing
#Authoritarianism #Fascism #USPol #UnionBusting #SilencingDissent #CriminalizingDissent #DefundICE #DefundDHS #CharacteristicsOfFascism #DepartmentOfHomelandInsecurity
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‘Outrageous’: #Trump Officials Investigated #LeftWing Groups After #AlexPretti Killing in #Minneapolis
One #FirstAmendment advocacy group called the investigation a “disturbing, invasive, and utterly unjustifiable attack on freedom of expression and political dissent.”
Julia Conley
Aug 13, 2026"The Trump administration began the probe under the auspices of investigating whether the groups had provided 'help and money,' as the Times reported, to people who had participated in protests across the #MinneapolisSaintPaul area, where tens of thousands of residents rallied against US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (#ICE) and defended their neighbors from immigration raids last winter.
"Newly released government documents, which were uncovered after an attorney filed a motion with the federal District Court in Minnesota demanding information about the DHS investigation, show that the agency characterized the protesters who opposed ICE as 'violent opportunists and agitators.'
"The investigation included #DHS’ use of administrative subpoenas to obtain financial records from #SunriseMovement, Communications Workers of America [ #CWA ], and the #SEIU, scrutinizing what the agency called 'domestic terrorist financing.' "
https://www.commondreams.org/news/trump-left-wing
#Authoritarianism #Fascism #USPol #UnionBusting #SilencingDissent #CriminalizingDissent #DefundICE #DefundDHS #CharacteristicsOfFascism #DepartmentOfHomelandInsecurity
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Facemasks and shades aren't going to hide their identities forever. Almost all USAmericans despise this.
https://www.instagram.com/reel/Db677Mqpcfv/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ==
#ice #fuckice #chingalamigra #dhs #tomhoman #markwaynemullin #trump #fucktrump #maga #fuckmaga #oppression #firstamendment -
Facemasks and shades aren't going to hide their identities forever. Almost all USAmericans despise this.
https://www.instagram.com/reel/Db677Mqpcfv/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ==
#ice #fuckice #chingalamigra #dhs #tomhoman #markwaynemullin #trump #fucktrump #maga #fuckmaga #oppression #firstamendment -
RE: https://tldr.nettime.org/@remixtures/117084498200303381
What's next - guns that shoot knives? Flaming acid bullets?
#ice #fuckice #chingalamigra #dhs #tomhoman #markwaynemullin #trump #fucktrump #maga #fuckmaga #oppression #firstamendment -
Light Projection Activists School DC Police On First Amendment Rights
(from DC Media Group)Washington DC—What was supposed to be a brief light projection onto a building turned into a lesson in First Amendment rights for DC Police on Wednesday night. While activists projected a series of slides onto the side of John Hopkins University at 5th & Pennsylvania, a security guard from the site approached them requesting they stop the projection. The activists declined the guard’s request, saying it was within their rights to project light from a public space—in this case, from the median of Pennsylvania Avenue.
The security guard called DC police to intervene and stop the activists from projecting their light show. They still politely refused to go.
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About an half hour later police officers arrived and asked the activists to end their show. Police cited DC code they claimed the activists were going against. The activists requested to see the code and police shared it with them from their vehicle screen. The DC code details what constitutes “defacement” of a building. It was this law that the police officer was referring to as grounds to stop the projection.
Marcos was the acting police liaison and calmly interacted with the police officer. He read back to him the DC code. He pointed out that nowhere did it mention that light projection from a public space was illegal. The light was not ‘defacing’ the building because it was not damaging the building.
Video is the light projection on the former Newseum calling out Trump and the GOP, and a still preroll of the cops who hassled them
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Light Projection Activists School DC Police On First Amendment Rights
(from DC Media Group)Washington DC—What was supposed to be a brief light projection onto a building turned into a lesson in First Amendment rights for DC Police on Wednesday night. While activists projected a series of slides onto the side of John Hopkins University at 5th & Pennsylvania, a security guard from the site approached them requesting they stop the projection. The activists declined the guard’s request, saying it was within their rights to project light from a public space—in this case, from the median of Pennsylvania Avenue.
The security guard called DC police to intervene and stop the activists from projecting their light show. They still politely refused to go.
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About an half hour later police officers arrived and asked the activists to end their show. Police cited DC code they claimed the activists were going against. The activists requested to see the code and police shared it with them from their vehicle screen. The DC code details what constitutes “defacement” of a building. It was this law that the police officer was referring to as grounds to stop the projection.
Marcos was the acting police liaison and calmly interacted with the police officer. He read back to him the DC code. He pointed out that nowhere did it mention that light projection from a public space was illegal. The light was not ‘defacing’ the building because it was not damaging the building.
Video is the light projection on the former Newseum calling out Trump and the GOP, and a still preroll of the cops who hassled them
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Somehow, this reeks of thin-skinned Texas officials retaliating over (admittedly vituperative) political speech, rather than thwarting a credible death threat. Welcome to *insert state*, where increasingly adults need an ID to participate in constitutionally protected speech.
https://reason.com/2026/08/10/texas-man-arrested-after-ranting-about-age-verification-laws-blocking-his-anime/
#Texas #ageVerification #FirstAmendment #freeSpeech #GregAbbott #Internet #socialMedia -
Somehow, this reeks of thin-skinned Texas officials retaliating over (admittedly vituperative) political speech, rather than thwarting a credible death threat. Welcome to *insert state*, where increasingly adults need an ID to participate in constitutionally protected speech.
https://reason.com/2026/08/10/texas-man-arrested-after-ranting-about-age-verification-laws-blocking-his-anime/
#Texas #ageVerification #FirstAmendment #freeSpeech #GregAbbott #Internet #socialMedia -
CCA denies restricting speech amid controversy over Foxtalk publication
“We’re disturbed by how far the college has gone in suppressing student speech”
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CCA denies restricting speech amid controversy over Foxtalk publication
“We’re disturbed by how far the college has gone in suppressing student speech”
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CCA denies restricting speech amid controversy over Foxtalk publication
“We’re disturbed by how far the college has gone in suppressing student speech”
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CCA denies restricting speech amid controversy over Foxtalk publication
“We’re disturbed by how far the college has gone in suppressing student speech”
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The End of Local News? Why I’m Saying Alarm Bells are Ringing at the New FCC Policy
by Winston Wendell For years, I studied the relationship between information and society. But the latest policy changes in Washington are deeply troubling. This week, the Federal Communications Commission, in a 2-1 vote, overturned a key media ownership rule protecting the diversity of viewpoints in our news and entertainment. This decision, which has been made by a Republican majority, allows bigger corporations to acquire a significantly greater share of local news. If this is to be […] -
The End of Local News? Why I’m Saying Alarm Bells are Ringing at the New FCC Policy
by Winston Wendell For years, I studied the relationship between information and society. But the latest policy changes in Washington are deeply troubling. This week, the Federal Communications Commission, in a 2-1 vote, overturned a key media ownership rule protecting the diversity of viewpoints in our news and entertainment. This decision, which has been made by a Republican majority, allows bigger corporations to acquire a significantly greater share of local news. If this is to be […] -
Vile example of #US #FirstAmendment's #rapacious #exploit devoid of #socialResponsibility 👇😡
#Senators demand #crackdown on #wildfire "prediction market" #bets @arstechnica
"“Offering bets on destructive wildfires threatens to minimize communities’ suffering, all so the #rich & #powerful can #profit,” wrote the group of senators, who represent Oregon, California, Nevada, Minnesota, & New Hampshire.. tt #Polymarket 👈🤬hosted bets in Jan2025 on te wildfires in #LosAngeles"
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#Trump claimed he would 'bring free speech back” [but seriously, let’s be real, it was always his version of #FreeSpeech] - yet Judges have ruled in 75 cases that he has stifled the #FirstAmendment .
#law #gaslighting #propaganda #Trumpaganda #authoritarianism #autocracy #dictatorship #fascism #MafiaState #tyranny
https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/trump-vowed-bring-free-speech-back-judges-75-cases-ruled-that-he-has-stifled-it-2026-08-04/?utm_source=braze&utm_medium=notifications&utm_campaign=2025_engagement -
#Trump claimed he would 'bring free speech back” [but seriously, let’s be real, it was always his version of #FreeSpeech] - yet Judges have ruled in 75 cases that he has stifled the #FirstAmendment .
#law #gaslighting #propaganda #Trumpaganda #authoritarianism #autocracy #dictatorship #fascism #MafiaState #tyranny
https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/trump-vowed-bring-free-speech-back-judges-75-cases-ruled-that-he-has-stifled-it-2026-08-04/?utm_source=braze&utm_medium=notifications&utm_campaign=2025_engagement -
A rural Virginia school board changed its rules to block an LGBTQ+ club. Students are suing in federal court
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.advocate.com/politics/states/king-george-county-gsa-lawsuit
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Another #NYTimes reporter fighting #Drumpf admin #subpoena over 2 years worth of #notes, #contacts and personal documents.
Lawyer for #Journalist Matthew Coles said "He will defend press freedom and the #FirstAmendment from this administration’s brazen attacks on journalists, and he will honor his commitment to his sources."
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/aug/01/subpoena-freelance-new-york-times-reporter #PressFreedom #Intimdation #
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Another #NYTimes reporter fighting #Drumpf admin #subpoena over 2 years worth of #notes, #contacts and personal documents.
Lawyer for #Journalist Matthew Coles said "He will defend press freedom and the #FirstAmendment from this administration’s brazen attacks on journalists, and he will honor his commitment to his sources."
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/aug/01/subpoena-freelance-new-york-times-reporter #PressFreedom #Intimdation #
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“Clapping Is a #FirstAmendment #Right :” An Interview With the Person Arrested for #Clapping at a #DataCenter Meeting
Last Wednesday, Lux Claridge planned to speak out against a proposed 1,000 acre data center in their town of #Emporia , #Kansas. They left in handcuffs after a city commissioner ordered them arrested for clapping.
“It was annoying,” Claridge told 404 Media. “So what happened was I clapped for the previous speaker. She hadn't even gotten back to her seat before I stopped clapping. My wife was on the way up to the podium. The time for my wife's speech hadn't even been reset yet [...] you see the 51 seconds remaining from the previous speaker. So I don't know what I was disrupting exactly, but I was not clapping the entire time.”
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“Clapping Is a #FirstAmendment #Right :” An Interview With the Person Arrested for #Clapping at a #DataCenter Meeting
Last Wednesday, Lux Claridge planned to speak out against a proposed 1,000 acre data center in their town of #Emporia , #Kansas. They left in handcuffs after a city commissioner ordered them arrested for clapping.
“It was annoying,” Claridge told 404 Media. “So what happened was I clapped for the previous speaker. She hadn't even gotten back to her seat before I stopped clapping. My wife was on the way up to the podium. The time for my wife's speech hadn't even been reset yet [...] you see the 51 seconds remaining from the previous speaker. So I don't know what I was disrupting exactly, but I was not clapping the entire time.”
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Update. "Fired Over Speech, Professors Take Their Employers to Court—and Win."
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty/academic-freedom/2026/07/30/fired-over-speech-professors-take-their-employers-court"The recent spate of censorship and academic freedom violations is the worst since the McCarthy era, according to one lawyer. But as faculty rack up legal victories, universities may start to think twice before punishing extramural speech."
#Academia #AcademicFreedom #Censorship #FirstAmendment #Trump #Universities #USLaw #USPol #USPolitics
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Update. "Fired Over Speech, Professors Take Their Employers to Court—and Win."
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty/academic-freedom/2026/07/30/fired-over-speech-professors-take-their-employers-court"The recent spate of censorship and academic freedom violations is the worst since the McCarthy era, according to one lawyer. But as faculty rack up legal victories, universities may start to think twice before punishing extramural speech."
#Academia #AcademicFreedom #Censorship #FirstAmendment #Trump #Universities #USLaw #USPol #USPolitics
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Trump’s Authoritarian Play Against Foreign Journalists
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Trump’s Authoritarian Play Against Foreign Journalists
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Minocqua Brewing Company in #Wisconsin has been stripped of its alcohol license for posting anti-Trump messages, particularly for promising free beer on the day #Trump dies. No reasonable person could take this as a threat; millions of people in the US as well as countless people worldwide will be partying that day. And we say so publicly all the time.
The brewery is going to fight for their First Amendment rights but need help to do so.
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Minocqua Brewing Company in #Wisconsin has been stripped of its alcohol license for posting anti-Trump messages, particularly for promising free beer on the day #Trump dies. No reasonable person could take this as a threat; millions of people in the US as well as countless people worldwide will be partying that day. And we say so publicly all the time.
The brewery is going to fight for their First Amendment rights but need help to do so.
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"A federal judge Tuesday tossed FBI Director Kash Patel’s $10 million lawsuit against a blogger who called him a 'googly-eyed Kremlin bitch.'”
https://newrepublic.com/post/213675/kash-patel-loses-lawsuit-blogger-googly-eyed-kremlin-chud
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Former FCC Officials Line Up To Blast Brendan Carr’s Lawless Censorship Of ABC
