RE: https://social.freedom.press/@freedomofpress/116296222397275085

According to the department of justice, journalists who ask government officials the "wrong" questions are committing a crime.

"What was once a fringe, failed legal theory concocted by some local cops in one Texas border city is now the official position of the federal government’s lawyers ...

The government’s argument would have turned countless Pulitzer-winning national security reporters into criminals"

#uspol #journalism #pressfreedom #DOJ #pentagon #uslaw #1A #freespeech

I know y’all not into the #Afroman case, but listen to this juror talk about the judge’s bias [hatred and racism] towards Afroman.

The judge’s comments to the jurors was out of line. #legal

www.tiktok.com/t/ZTk8Ppmwg/

#1A #ftp #comedy #satire

You can't have content without the capability to record that content. You can't have media about the government wihout access to government records. That's the existing standard. The #SupremeCourt has ruled on this already. Now they've shat the bed. They just allowed a lower court to block a case using the voided-by-congress legislated-from-the-bench doctrine called #QualifiedImmunity. This was established settled law before qualified immunity was innovated in the 1960s to protect a cabinet member, let alone in the 1990s when they gave a beat cop the same rules. When #AntoninScalia warned us with a chapter in a book about the court's problems, and #SoniaSotomayor agrees with him, where are the other judges? 

#WTF #News #PublicPolicy #PoliceCorruption #Journalism #1A

https://reason.com/2026/03/24/arresting-a-reporter-for-asking-questions-was-a-blatant-first-amendment-violation-sonia-sotomayor-says

Because of course some rando with a random #FaceBook comment about another country was more important than whatever the hell we're supposed to believe #Police do. 

#FirstAmendment #1A #PoliceCorruption #Lawsuit

https://reason.com/2026/03/24/miami-beach-woman-visited-by-detectives-over-a-facebook-comment-files-free-speech-lawsuit

RE: https://mastodon.social/@heidilifeldman/116276452128520198

#USPOL

#MLIS

#Library #Libraries #1A #TN #Tennessee

Good Morning, all,

it's Freedom Of Speech, but Donald Tantrump would not approve of it...

#1A #USpol
https://youtu.be/rIEGz9LtF3I?si=XoiQabOjJLMRVthw

https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/40954

I cannot express how disappointed I am to see open source projects giving in to complying with age attestation laws.

I feel like complying really undermines any first amendment arguments. Software is a first amendment protected form of expression, giving in before getting any actual threats from the state makes your participation seem voluntary.

Systemd's participation puts the entire world into compliance with a California law

#uspol #foss #Linux #ab1043 #1a