This is a 9-0 Supreme Court decision from just last year.
Nico Perrino
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Nico Perrino
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Executive Vice President @theFIREorg. Co-Director & Senior Producer @Mighty_Ira_Doc. Host of @freespeechtalk. Opinions my own.
- “You’re standing in a country where free speech was weaponized to commit a genocide.” Utterly false. It’s called the “Weimar fallacy” and Margaret Brennan should know better than to engage in it. Germany had plenty of hate speech codes. Indeed Hiltler was banned from speaking
- Replying to @atrupar"We had their ads taken down" = "We censored their ads"
- BREAKING: The Department of Homeland Security just told @Harvard it will lose its ability to enroll international students if it doesn't comply with a list of demands within 72 hours. Among those demands is an astounding requirement that Harvard hand over "all audio or video
- Third Amendment lawyers: it’s your time.The U.S. Secret Service is apologizing to a Massachusetts salon owner after an agent covered her security camera with duct tape and broke into her salon by picking the lock so that its bathroom could be used by various people for a two-hour period. After the two-hour period,
00:00 - BREAKING: Do non-citizens lawfully present in the United States have First Amendment rights? Federal court in Massachusetts: Yes, they do!
- This is an extraordinary letter from the federal government to @Harvard. It goes far beyond anything the Obama and Biden administrations did in their unlawful Title IX dictates. The feds are essentially demanding Harvard become a vassal institution. In such an arrangement, there
- So are we defunding @Harvard because of anti-Semitism or because it has left-wing bias? This is a gift to Harvard's lawyers that I'm sure will end up as an exhibit in a lawsuit.
- It’s very dangerous to have an explicitly partisan police force. Under normal circumstances, this officer would be disciplined. But he can’t even be identified. And it’s not out of the question that he wouldn’t be rewarded by this administration.After officers refuse to show badges or even say what agency they are with, a bystander tells an agent "You guys are ruining this country, you know that, right?" The agent responds: "Liberals already ruined it." Utterly unprofessional stuff. Video posted by Marisa Kabas on Bsky.
00:00 - You do not have a First Amendment right to block an active roadway. Reagan Airport out here spreading the misinformation and making my job as a First Amendment guy harder.🔺TRAFFIC ALERT: Expect delays around the airport due to a group in vehicles exercising first amendment rights in roadway. Use caution and expect slow moving vehicles. Recommend @Wmata to access airport.Readers added context1) There is no first amendment right to protest on public roads. 2) It is a misdemeanor offense under Virginia law, where this road and airport are located, to obstruct the free passage of others. 3) Unlawful assembly jeopardizing public order is also a misdemeanor. law.lis.virginia.gov/vacodefull/tit… aclu-il.org/en/news/when-e…
- And whaddaya know ...
Brendan Carr wrote the new textbook definition of jawboning when he said of Kimmel and ABC, “We can do this the easy way or the hard way." And he celebrates his censorship with a lame meme, which, in a sane world, would be an exhibit in a lawsuit. - I'm running out of words to describe how crazy some of this stuff is. This is jawboning on steroids. Completely inappropriate and chilling. CHEST is a private medical journal focused on chest medicine. Its editorial practices are none of the government's business. Buzz off.The Trump regime is now using US Attorneys to intimidate academic journals by sending them letters demanding they explain how they ensure ‘viewpoint diversity.’ Journal editors should be public about this and coordinate to refuse to comply with these fascist tactics.
- WHAT IS GOING ON!?! ARE YOU KIDDING ME!? The attorney general of the United States — with conviction: “We will absolutely target you, go after you, if you are targeting anyone with hate speech."Attorney General Pam Bondi: "There's free speech and then there's hate speech, and there is no place, especially now, especially after what happened to Charlie, in our society...We will absolutely target you, go after you, if you are targeting anyone with hate speech."
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Stunning interview with DHS deputy secretary Troy Edgar and Michel Martin just now. The conflation of protest and terrorism stopped me cold. npr.org/2025/03/13/nx-… @NPRMichel
