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More than 500 celebrities including Jane Fonda, Ben Stiller, Spike Lee and Billie Eilish have relaunched the Committee for the First Amendment, which was founded during the McCarthy Era. Here's more from @npr.
#Entertainment #Celebrity #Hollywood #FirstAmendment #FreeSpeech
More than 500 celebrities including Jane Fonda, Ben Stiller, Spike Lee and Billie Eilish have relaunched the Committee for the First Amendment, which was founded during the McCarthy Era. Here's more from @npr.
#Entertainment #Celebrity #Hollywood #FirstAmendment #FreeSpeech
…what sets the ruling apart is its mix of unapologetic evisceration of #Trump & admiration for the rights he has trampled on. That it is no ordinary ruling is apparent from the first words of the 161-page decision.
#law #immigration #Constitution #FirstAmendment #FreeSpeech #MafiaState
Young, who is 85 & was appointed to the bench 4 decades ago, begins by quoting a postcard he received on June 19 that reads: “TRUMP HAS PARDONS AND TANKS …. WHAT DO YOU HAVE?” Young replies in the ruling:
“Dear Mr. or Ms. Anonymous,
“Alone, I have nothing but my sense of duty. Together, We the People of the United States—you and me—have our magnificent Constitution. Here’s how that works out in a specific case—“
#law #immigration #Constitution #FirstAmendment #FreeSpeech #Trump #MafiaState
A Reagan-Appointed Judge Just Wrote a Blistering Anti #Trump Decision
Federal judge William G. Young attacked the president’s crackdown on civil liberties as un-American.
“#ICE goes masked for a single reason—to #terrorize Americans into quiescence,” the Reagan appointed judge wrote.
#law #immigration #Constitution #FirstAmendment #FreeSpeech #MafiaState
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/09/a-reagan-appointed-judge-just-wrote-a-blistering-anti-trump-decision/
…what sets the ruling apart is its mix of unapologetic evisceration of #Trump & admiration for the rights he has trampled on. That it is no ordinary ruling is apparent from the first words of the 161-page decision.
#law #immigration #Constitution #FirstAmendment #FreeSpeech #MafiaState
Young, a Reagan appointee, described the case as “perhaps the most important ever to fall within the jurisdiction of this district court.” He said he would decide an appropriate remedy for the #Trump admin’s conduct after a future hearing.
A Reagan-Appointed Judge Just Wrote a Blistering Anti #Trump Decision
Federal judge William G. Young attacked the president’s crackdown on civil liberties as un-American.
“#ICE goes masked for a single reason—to #terrorize Americans into quiescence,” the Reagan appointed judge wrote.
#law #immigration #Constitution #FirstAmendment #FreeSpeech #MafiaState
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/09/a-reagan-appointed-judge-just-wrote-a-blistering-anti-trump-decision/
#Federal agents grabbed & shoved #journalists in a hallway outside a NYC #immigration court on Tuesday, sending one to the #hospital in the latest clash between authorities enforcing #Trump’s immigration crackdown & members of the public seeking to observe & document their actions.
#law #FirstAmendment #FreePress #PoliceBrutality #Gestapo #Sturmabteilung
https://apnews.com/article/nyc-immigration-journalists-shoving-manhattan-84d95f26278aa406eed37d72ed213452
Video taken by photographer Stephanie Keith showed that during the struggle, another agent shoved Fedorova, who fell backward toward where Elibol lay on the floor.
Fedorova said photographers had worked in the hallway outside immigration court for months without incident. The agents making arrests Tuesday, she said, didn’t announce any limits where #journalists could go, & they hadn’t made it clear they were making an arrest when they got on the elevator.
“If they tell us to get out, to not cross a certain line, we follow their orders,” Fedorova said. “In this case, it was not clear to anyone that this was a detention at all.”
The episode happened just days after a federal agent at the Manhattan #immigration court was captured on video shoving an Ecuadorian woman into a wall & onto the floor after her husband was arrested.
#law #Trump #FirstAmendment #FreePress #PoliceBrutality #Gestapo #Sturmabteilung
The other #journalists, amNewYork police bureau chief Dean Moses & Olga Fedorova, a freelance photographer whose clients include AP, were not seriously injured.
#DHS Asst Secy Tricia McLaughlin defended the agents’ actions, saying they were being “swarmed by agitators & members of the press, which obstructed operations.” She added, “Rioters & sanctuary politicians who encourage individuals to interfere with arrests are actively creating hostile environments….”
Moses said the situation escalated when masked agents grabbed him & shoved him from an elevator on the 12th floor as he was attempting to photograph them arresting a woman who had just left #immigration court.
“I walked into the elevator behind them, & they started screaming at me,” Moses told amNewYork. “Then they pushed me, grabbed me by my arms, & started pulling me out of the elevator. I tried to hold on, but I got shoved out.”
#Federal agents grabbed & shoved #journalists in a hallway outside a NYC #immigration court on Tuesday, sending one to the #hospital in the latest clash between authorities enforcing #Trump’s immigration crackdown & members of the public seeking to observe & document their actions.
#law #FirstAmendment #FreePress #PoliceBrutality #Gestapo #Sturmabteilung
https://apnews.com/article/nyc-immigration-journalists-shoving-manhattan-84d95f26278aa406eed37d72ed213452
#Federal agents grabbed & shoved #journalists in a hallway outside a NYC #immigration court on Tuesday, sending one to the #hospital in the latest clash between authorities enforcing #Trump’s immigration crackdown & members of the public seeking to observe & document their actions.
#law #FirstAmendment #FreePress #PoliceBrutality #Gestapo #Sturmabteilung
https://apnews.com/article/nyc-immigration-journalists-shoving-manhattan-84d95f26278aa406eed37d72ed213452
Sinclair’s soldiers in Trump’s war on the media. Media concentration is bad for democracy.
https://youtu.be/_fHfgU8oMSo?feature=shared
#BoycottSinclair #BoycottNewstar #BoycottTegna #FreeSpeech #FirstAmendment #FCC #BrendanCarr #USPol
In a scathing rebuke, US District Judge William Young in Boston said that #DHS & the #State Dept sought to target non-citizens “for speaking out” with the “goal of tamping down pro-Palestinian student protests & terrorizing similarly situated” students.
Young decried the #Trump admin’s conduct in striking terms, quoting President Ronald Reagan’s declaration that freedom must “be fought for & defended constantly by each generation.”
Young, a Reagan appointee, described the case as “perhaps the most important ever to fall within the jurisdiction of this district court.” He said he would decide an appropriate remedy for the #Trump admin’s conduct after a future hearing.
In a scathing rebuke, US District Judge William Young in Boston said that #DHS & the #State Dept sought to target non-citizens “for speaking out” with the “goal of tamping down pro-Palestinian student protests & terrorizing similarly situated” students.
Young decried the #Trump admin’s conduct in striking terms, quoting President Ronald Reagan’s declaration that freedom must “be fought for & defended constantly by each generation.”
Editor & most of the staff of two Alaska newspapers--including the capital city paper, the Juneau Empire--resigned in protest after their stories were changed in response to a complaint by a GOP rep.
Editor & most of the staff of two Alaska newspapers--including the capital city paper, the Juneau Empire--resigned in protest after their stories were changed in response to a complaint by a GOP rep.
Nexstar owns The Hill, which explains a lot.
#BoycottSinclair #BoycottNewstar #BoycottTegna #FreeSpeech #FirstAmendment #FCC #BrendanCarr #USPol
Demand that your legislators stop the assault on our guaranteed first Amendment right to free speech! It only takes a minute and it’s free.
https://resist.bot/petitions/PICOLZ
#FCC #Sinclair #Nexstar #BrendanCarr #ABC #Paramount #Disney #FreeSpeech #FirstAmendment #JimmyKimmel #USPol
And yet our campaign to remove Sinclair's stranglehold on free speech will continue!
Sinclair to end its blackout of Jimmy Kimmel
https://thehill.com/homenews/media/5524232-sinclair-jimmy-kimmel-live-abc-nexstar-disney-charlie-kirk/
#Sinclair #Nexstar #FCC #MediaConcentration #FreeSpeech #FirstAmendment #USPol
And yet our campaign to remove Sinclair's stranglehold on free speech will continue!
Sinclair to end its blackout of Jimmy Kimmel
https://thehill.com/homenews/media/5524232-sinclair-jimmy-kimmel-live-abc-nexstar-disney-charlie-kirk/
#Sinclair #Nexstar #FCC #MediaConcentration #FreeSpeech #FirstAmendment #USPol
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