Is #Hegseth violating service members' 1st Amend rights by proclaiming they are fighting "in Jesus' name"-

(Or does the nature of service negate those rights? 🤔)

Also, it seems like a bait-&-switch for those serving in the #military. I mean, they entered it thinking they were going to protect the country and now they seem to be serving some sort of religious mission.

#MyThoughts #1A
#USA #IranWar
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Hegseth Says #US Troops Are Fighting for Jesus. The Pope Disagrees~

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/03/world/middleeast/pope-iran-war.html

#1A #USPol

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When Jane Fonda invites you to Washington - by Bess Kalb
https://besskalb.substack.com/p/when-jane-fonda-invites-you-to-washington

"Justice Elena Kagan, joined by Justice Sonia Sotomayor, concurred with the court’s conservative bloc but added in a separate opinion that a complete ban on therapy aimed at a person’s sexual orientation or gender identity might be lawful. Kagan said the key flaw in Colorado’s law was that it allowed some such counseling while prohibiting other professional approaches."

https://www.politico.com/news/2026/03/31/supreme-court-conversion-therapy-ban-ruling-00851858

#healthcare #lgbtq #MentalHealth #1A #SCOTUS

Local news🚨has been decimated over the past decade, but even if a community has a lg #newspaper, the owner will often skew the coverage to highlight RW causes. Ours is read by many ppl in a city of ~400K & a county of 925K.

I'm livid, our paper (pub: 5 days/wk) didn't mention the #NoKings #protest, ~1,500 attended +100s in other towns in the co. Co is red, but the city is becoming purple *local pols: mainly Repubican.

TG, a member of our Dem org, wrote a published op-ed.
#FreePress #1A #USPol

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