The #State Dept said it was looking for indicators of ineligibility including #visa overstays, *criminal activity*, *threats to public safety*, engaging in any form of *terrorist activity*, or providing support to a *terrorist organization*. [How much do ya wanna bet that includes #protests / #protesters?]
A US district court judge held that TX SB10, which is due to take effect on Sept 1, likely violates both the #EstablishmentClause & Free Exercise clause of the #FirstAmendment.
Ruling: https://www.aclutx.org/sites/default/files/texas-sb-10-ruling.pdf
https://www.europesays.com/2344878/ Trump administration to vet legal immigrants for ‘anti-American’ and antisemitism #AntiSemitism #DonaldTrump #FirstAmendment #immigrant #Immigration #US #WhiteHouse
Blue States, Police States
Eight peaceful protesters.
A Merritt Parkway overpass.
A $50 fine for a law that doesn’t even apply.
This morning, Connecticut State Troopers threatened, detained, and cited the Bridge Brigade—long known for safe, legal protest—for “Unauthorized Sign Near Highway.” Their real crime? Exercising their First Amendment rights.
If this is how blue state police treat older white protesters with cameras rolling, imagine what’s happening where there are no cameras.
We’ll see them in court. 
Read Dispatch from Dystopia: 3
https://jjwebster.com/2025/08/14/dispatch-from-dystopia-3-blue-states-police-states/
Supreme Court Allows Mississippi Law on Children’s Use of Social Media, for Now - A trade group representing sites like Facebook and X said the law ran afoul of the First ... - https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/14/us/politics/supreme-court-mississippi-social-media.html #unitedstatespoliticsandgovernment #firstamendment(usconstitution) #computersandtheinternet #decisionsandverdicts #childrenandchildhood #ozerdenhalilsuleyman #lawandlegislation #supremecourt(us) #netchoicellc #socialmedia
As a new school year begins in Houston and across the state, a new law requiring the display of the Ten Commandments in all Texas public-school classrooms is set to take effect Sept. 1. The law is being challenged in court.
Now the #UK is understanding why the #US went to war with #Britain all those many years ago and #proscribed #Britain herself as a terrorist State. The #UnitedStates of America was born out of that #proscription and the very first #amendment to our brand spanking new #Constitution was the #FirstAmendment granting us the freedom of speech and assembly.
It's not too late, Britain.
You can have freedom of speech, too. It comes in quite handy sometimes! You just have to fight for it.
#PalestineAction #WeAreAllPalestineAction #FromTheRiverToTheSeaPalestineWillBeFree #FreeGaza #FreePalestine
@uk@a.gup.pe @palestine@a.gup.pe @gaza@a.gup.pe
@Walrus @kathimmel
Maybe I'm naive, but I doubt even THIS extremist SCOTUS would rule a #FirstAmendment right to peaceably protest to be a criminal act. 
#NaziDon #1984in2025 #Dictator4aDayInIts7thMonth
#Stanford's student paper sues #Trump admin, #KristiNoem & #MarcoRubio, saying their policies cause non-citizen students to avoid expressing themselves freely in the Daily's pages due to fear of #detention &
#deportation.
#law #Trump #immigration #Constitution #FirstAmendment #FreeSpeech #FreePress #AcademicFreedom
https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/5438377-stanford-daily-sues-trump-officials/
Press freedom under siege: CBS News settles Trump lawsuit for $16M, journalists face arrests & assaults at protests, and media censorship escalates across the US. First Amendment in crisis amid rising threats and retaliation. 
#PressFreedom #FirstAmendment #JournalismMatters Read more: https://pressfreedomtracker.us/blog/the-silence-and-the-siege/
#newz
…many #conservative #Christian activists—as well as some independent legal scholars—saw it as a violation of the #FirstAmendment’s guarantee of #FreeSpeech.
“Putting the #IRS inside what a #church says is a bad fit for the IRS, or even for government,” said Benjamin Leff, a law prof at American University who has argued that the #law should be more forgiving. He believes that #nonprofits should be allowed to say what they want, but not allowed to spend significant #money to get that message out.
#BrownUniversity on Wednesday said it reached a deal with the #Trump admin to regain access to federal #research #funding & end investigations into alleged *#discrimination* [#FreeSpeech].
#Brown agreed to pay $50 million in *workforce development* #grants in #RhodeIsland [
] over 10 years as part of the *agreement* [#extortion].
[FUCK YOU BROWN!!!! AYFKM??!!?]
#law #democracy #Constitution #FirstAmendment #FreeSpeech #AcademicFreedom
https://apnews.com/article/trump-brown-funding-e38e4c6f05fec3fab56d6235c829257e?utm_source=onesignal&utm_medium=push&utm_campaign=2025-07-30-Breaking+News
The Fight for Free Speech Goes Corporate – Columbia Journalism Review
AP Photos / Illustration by Katie KosmaThe Fight for Free Speech Goes Corporate
As Paramount prepares for a merger, the Freedom of the Press Foundation stands to challenge the company for capitulating to Trump. Will it work?
July 25, 2025, By Kyle Paoletta
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Early this month, as soon as the news broke of Paramount’s decision to pay President Donald Trump’s foundation sixteen million dollars to settle a lawsuit against CBS News, the Freedom of the Press Foundation moved to take legal action. The FPF, as it’s known, tracks and resists government infringement on the news media. It’s also a Paramount shareholder, prepared to push for those interests with corporate muscle. Trump’s case, and the response of Paramount’s board, immediately set off alarm bells, as the company was in the midst of pursuing an eight-billion-dollar merger with Skydance, a Hollywood studio, that required approval from the Federal Communications Commission. “They’re essentially making a handshake deal with Donald Trump,” Seth Stern, the FPF’s advocacy director, told me. He and the FPF’s legal team believed that such a deal could be a violation of federal bribery laws. And, he noted, Shari Redstone, Paramount’s controlling shareholder, stands to make two billion dollars from the merger. “I would think that, regardless of what Shari has to offer the rest of the board,” Stern said, “the prospect of potential prosecution for bribery would be something they would think quite hard about.”
Now it’s clear that Paramount’s board has decided the risk of prosecution is well worth a multibillion-dollar payday. On Thursday, the FCC signed off on the Skydance merger, clearing a path for its completion. “Americans no longer trust the legacy national news media to report fully, accurately, and fairly. It is time for a change,” Brendan Carr, the chairman of the FCC, announced, praising the deal for its commitment to “unbiased journalism” and assurances that “discriminatory DEI policies” will end. But when I spoke to Brenna Frey, a lawyer for the FPF, in the wake of the settlement announcement, she was incensed. “This is an affront to the shareholders of Paramount, but it’s also an affront to CBS’s reporters and to the First Amendment,” she said.
In Stern’s view, Paramount’s willingness to settle had been a calculated surrender. The premise of Trump’s lawsuit—that 60 Minutes’ editing of an interview with Kamala Harris last fall represented “fraudulent interference with an election”—was unlikely to hold up to legal scrutiny. “The lawsuit was laughable,” David Snyder, the executive director of the First Amendment Coalition, said. “What they were trying to attack here was CBS News’s choices about how they edited footage from an interview. That sort of editorial judgment is at the core of First Amendment protections, generally, but especially if it’s about public figures right in the middle of an election.”
Editor’s Note: Read the rest of the story, at the below link.
Continue/Read Original Article Here: The Fight for Free Speech Goes Corporate – Columbia Journalism Review
#2025 #America #Books #ColumbiaJournalismReview #DonaldTrump #FirstAmendment #FreeSpeech #History #Journalism #Libraries #Library #LibraryOfCongress #Politics #Reading #Resistance #Science #Technology #Trump #TrumpAdministration #UnitedStates
#Skydance deal allows #Trump’s #FCC to “#CensorSpeech” and “#SilenceDissent” on #CBS
FCC now has “never-before-seen controls” over a #newsroom, commissioner warns.
by Ashley Belanger – Jul 25, 2025
Excerpt: "Like many protesting #Colbert's firing, Gomez suggested that the FCC's requirements to approve the Skydance acquisition 'may only be' the 'beginning' of the Trump administration's #censorship and ongoing 'assault on the #FirstAmendment.'
"Notably, the White House issued a rare statement in response to a recent #SouthPark episode Paramount aired, which mockingly depicted Trump seducing Satan. The White House fumed that 'no fourth-rate show can derail President Trump’s hot streak.' But Trump (whose current term's ratings are at an all-time low) taking the time to acknowledge the episode drew jokes on social media that South Park may have riled Trump enough to scramble the Paramount acquisition approval. At the very least, the statement shows that Trump still cares what people say about him on TV. Trump has long been considered the US president most obsessed with TV, and critics now fear that he has seized new powers to more effectively block negative coverage."
@TheZeldaZone The morality cops have arrested comedians before (including Lenny Bruce and George Carlin), and they will again, but this time it will be for posting risqué jokes on a website without government-mandated age verification.
Federal Court Orders New York to Pay Christian Photographer $225,000 https://petapixel.com/2025/07/24/federal-court-orders-new-york-to-pay-christian-photographer-225000/ #weddingphotographer #weddingphotography #firstamendment #christianity #lawsuit #newyork #belief #News #Law
The Chatbot Culture Wars Are Here - Conservatives, including President Trump, are accusing A.I. companies of left-wing bias, ... - https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/23/technology/trump-ai-chatbots-bias.html #regulationandderegulationofindustry #unitedstatespoliticsandgovernment #firstamendment(usconstitution) #baileyandrew(attorneygeneral) #freedomofspeechandexpression #computersandtheinternet #artificialintelligence #metaplatformsinc #microsoftcorp #trumpdonaldj #socialmedia #censorship
#PBSNewsHour remarks on #Congress passing President #Trump's request to rescind funding to #CPB, #PBS, and #NPR. The move endangers local #journalism and #emergency alerts particularly in rural and low-income #media markets, many of which are in majority #GOP areas.
