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Rise Up, Sing Out: A Concert for the First Amendment

an uplifting evening of song, solidarity, and action. Featuring an all-star line-up of performers, this 90-minute concert event will celebrate the freedoms guaranteed by our #1A #firstamendment

https://riseupsingout.com/

The Pentagon has yet again acted like there is no First Amendment, taking this action despite a federal judge ruling twice before in the last year that the Pentagon's previously revised press guidelines violate the First Amendment.

Pentagon bans journalists from press office, designating it a classified space

https://ground.news/article/pentagon-bans-journalists-from-press-office-designating-it-a-classified-space

#1A #FirstAmendmentUSConstitution

Pentagon bans journalists from press office, designating it a classified space

The change creates a new barrier compared with previous administrations, under which the office was an open room where reporters could stop by the desks of military public affairs officials without escorts.

Ground News

I imagine this case will have implications in former FBI Director James Comey's case that has been rescheduled for early autumn.

Oh, by the way, the lead prosecutor for Comey's case stepped down.

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#USA #US #USpol #trump #law
#1A #FirstAmendment #FreeSpeech
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https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/politics/james-comey-lead-federal-prosecutor-seashells-photo-case-steps-aside/3942139/

#1A WaPo: "Pentagon designates press office a classified space, further limiting media access The change creates a new barrier compared with previous admins, under which the office was an open room where reporters could stop by the desks of military public affairs officials without escorts."

Schneier has words on the chilling effects of authoritarianism.

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/05/chilling-effects.html

#uspol #1A

Chilling Effects - Schneier on Security

Younger Americans have soured on the second Donald Trump presidency, but they are not protesting it. Despite an unpopular Iran war and an even more unpopular Trump administration, college campus protests nationwide have gone silent. And at many schools, student activism is virtually nonexistent. This silence comes in the wake of a relentless Trump administration war on campus speech that has involved lawsuits, arrests, deportations and expulsions. Reports cite a range of complicated factors for the restraint, from apathy to technology-induced incapacity. But as ...

Schneier on Security
$2 million and counting paid out in Charlie Kirk settlements

The settlements illustrate the limits employers can have in regulating their workers' political rhetoric.

Axios

Morning, all,

Donald Jesus Trump, alleged President of the United States, might as well have commissioned #AI to portray him feeding the First Amendment into a cross-cut shredder...

Add petty, vindictive and mean-minded to Donald Tantrump's other sterling qualities (rapist, racist, sexist, misogynistic, grievance-collecting, malignant narcissist, venal grifter, scammer-in-chief).

#USpol
#Trump #GOP #MAGA
#USC #1A #8647 #NoKings
#SlavaUkrayini #IranWar
#TyrantTrump
https://youtu.be/c3G6jWkS1wY?si=2s9NYAKif9BG7v3j

'He was pushing to get rid of this man': Trump boasts about Colbert's last show in odd AI video

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As to #CBS, it's going from nadir to nadir, as evidenced by David Ellison's emasculation of its flagship current affairs show '60 Minutes' and his installation of Bari Weiss as head of CBS 'News':

#USpol #ThisFuckingGuy #1A
#Trump #GOP #MAGA
#Zionism #Ellison #Broligarcy #TechBro
#TyrantTrump #EpsteinFiles
#Krasnov #AgentOrange #CompostTheRich
https://youtu.be/aiX2SV8Skz0?si=8Pf9eq2gnqp75-id

Bari Weiss: Everything You Didn't Know About Her Sh*tty Past

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