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2/ “The (lower) court dramatically diluted the #FirstAmendment #reporter’s privilege with a 2-factor test under which every civil litigant who needs a reporter’s confidential source...can automatically compel disclosure,” Herridge’s petition says. www.dailysignal.com/2026/10/26/s...

1/ or 2 Former Fox News &CBS News #journalist Catherine Herridge is appealing lower court’s order to #SCOTUS; she's been ordered to pay an $800 per day contempt fee until she reveals source on her reporting on a U.S. citizen's alleged ties to the Chinese military. www.dailysignal.com/2026/10/26/s...

Don't know if I caught this one or not, so: Trump rants about a female #journalist's looks after she questioned him about notorious campaign ad by Ohio Republican gubernatorial hopeful. www.yahoo.com/news/videos/...

@univofmaryland.bsky.social Athletics agrees to #FirstAmendment training from @thefireorg.bsky.social after incident in which campus police were called about student #journalists waiting to interview players after head coach's firing. sports.yahoo.com/articles/mar...,

GOP efforts to ban commercials on scandal are "such a profound insult to the Constitution (& #FirstAmendment)... that it's hard to foresee how any court could give the Republicans what they want," says editorial in editorial in @orlandosentinel.com @sun-sentinel.com www.yahoo.com/news/politic...,

“The #FirstAmendment reflects a recognition that democracy requires an informed public...," said @jameeljaffer.bsky.social on latest lawsuit against Trump. “The president’s attack on the independence of the White House #press...(is) an attack on...our democracy.” knightcolumbia.org/content/trum...

Parts of a MS ban on DEI in public schools can go ahead since an appeals court vacated a lower court's ruling that blocked sections of the law. The law was challenged by people who say their 14th and #FirstAmendment rights were violated. abcnews.com/US/wireStory...

#FirstAmendment advocates open a new legal front against Trump’s drive to punish #news organizations, filing a lawsuit on behalf of news consumers impacted by Trump’s attempt to revoke the #press credentials of #journalists for @politico.com @cnn.com and @ms.now. www.politico.com/news/2026/10...

Going to the big #poetry #reading, A Persistence of Cormorants, today -- for #free!!!!! -- at the Gowanus Dredgers Canoe Club, 165 2nd Street, Brooklyn NY, to read my #poems and listen to fellow #poets Amy Lemmon, Richard Levine, and Carol Alexander. It starts at 1:30 pm and you want to be there!

I #voted early today, in New York City, this afternoon. No lines but the poll workers said they'd been busy; perhaps 800 people had shown up so far. More information on #earlyvoting in #NYC is here: www.nycvotes.org?gad_source=1...

#SCOTUS will soon consider reviewing a #FirstAmendment case over Texas law requiring posters of the Ten Commandments in public school classrooms, @scotusblog.com log.com says. My father said posting them is fine, as long as they're in the original Hebrew. www.scotusblog.com/2026/10/the-...

Why should prosecutors be permitted to hold #press conferences to describe their allegations while defense attorneys face criticism for answering #journalists' questions? The complicated relationship between the #FirstAmendment, the right to a fair trial & public opinion lamag.com/news/the-fir...

Minnesota Voters Alliance sues MN AG over a #FirstAmendment violation regarding laws on when felons can and cannot vote. It's a complicated case that "joins a growing push to govern election-related #speech through the judicial system, rather than legislation." www.nytimes.com/2026/10/23/b...

Fox News #reporter Jacqui Heinrich on Wednesday accused President Donald Trump’s administration of vengefully denying access to a #journalist, @the-independent.com 's @andrewfeinberg.com. Heinrich is president of the White House Correspondents’ Association. www.huffpost.com/entry/fox-ne...

Former White House attorney Ty Cobb said on @cnn.com Trump’s $10 billion #defamation lawsuit against the BBC has backfired now that the president is being ordered to appear for a deposition, but predicted he’ll “likely refuse to go.” www.huffpost.com/entry/ty-cob...

The Committee for Academic Freedom, made up of politicians and scholars from @harvard.edu & University College London, will investigate #Cambridge’s appointment of the late sociologist #JasonArday. Posting this because I've seen rumors today I can't confirm. www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...

" #Freespeech is under assault from all sides,” said @davidcole-gtown.bsky.social, formerly of @aclu.org and professor at @georgetownlaw.bsky.social. He recently spoke at Dartmouth University about the sins against #FirstAmendment on the left and right. home.dartmouth.edu/news/2026/10...

What happened to Jane Doe at a @cornelluniversity.bsky.social fraternity was complicated, two @columbiauniversity.bsky.social #students argued in the Sundial, which calls itself the independent voice on campus. Reaction was swift and sparked a debate on #FreeSpeech. www.wsj.com/us-news/educ...

Here's a dose of #fascism for today: www.reuters.com/world/trump-... I'm not saying it's your daily dose, because there could be more than one dose per day as we get closer to the election

Because I missed it: Rep. Andy Harris, R-Md., berated a @cnsmd.bsky.social #journalist after an election debate, wrongly telling her that it was illegal for her to record his #press conference and threatening to refer her to a prosecutor. www.ms.now/news/rep-and...

"Brendan Carr is not the #journalism police. And he is just about the least qualified person in the country to lecture the press about #journalistic ethics," @seth-stern.bsky.social, chief of advocacy at the @freedom.press, said in an emailed statement." www.yahoo.com/news/politic...

A federal judge on Thursday ordered President Donald Trump to sit for a deposition in his $10 billion #defamation lawsuit against the #BBC by Dec. 11. There was an agreed-upon date of Oct. 16 but Trump cancelled for a “matter of national importance”--he was campaigning in Georgia. @apnews.com

In a state larger than CA, TX and MT combined, veteran #journalists in AK have come to view competing outlets working on the same story as wasteful duplication. "Resources are such that it really does cry out for better cooperation," one editor said. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/21/b...

2/ @cnn.com story on #AI #ArtificialIntelligence detection tools gets down to the race question, and critics of "woke #fiction" or #literature, toward the middle. www.cnn.com/2026/10/21/t...

1/ or 2 #AI #ArtificialIntelligence - detecting tools have led to "a #literary version of the ruined world in the movie 'Blade Runner.' Anxiety and suspicion about robot infiltrators are everywhere — and so are people claiming to hunt the robots down." www.cnn.com/2026/10/21/t...

Maybe this is today's daily dose of #fascism

Here's a dose of #fascism for you: "Armed federal agents are spending the days leading up to midterms going door to door asking people their immigration and voter registration status." Though it might be yesterday's dose. I wonder what will be today's. newrepublic.com/post/216912/...

"Seized" ( catapultfilmfund.org/films/SEIZED/) #documentary is no make-believe miniseries about a small-town #newspaper raided out of spite or to please the police chief's girlfriend. It's a true-life tale that raised critical #FirstAmendment issues. deadline.com/video/seized...

Does safeguarding the transactional access of giant #media outlets (such as the latest targets of Trump's ire @politico.com @cnn.com @ms.now) under the banner of the #FirstAmendment ignore the silent chill of the independent #press with no deep pockets? www.jurist.org/commentary/2...

The new leaders of @christianitytoday.com are abandoning the #publication's longtime commitment to independent #journalism, its former #journalists say, and are driven "by fear, by (a) kind of anxiety about reputational and financial loss..." www.nytimes.com/2026/10/21/u...

@catapultbooks.bsky.social, the independent #publisher founded in 2015 by Koch family scion Elizabeth Koch and @electricliterature.com cofounder Andy Hunter, is being sold and will end operations this month, according to members of its newly formed union. www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

“You’re a stupid person.” Trump tantrums at yet another female reporter

Former @nytimes.com managing editor John Geddes has died. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/21/o...

The chairman of the #FCC said US broadcast networks could violate their regulatory obligations by airing "entirely fake polls and suppression polls." Carr did not provide evidence or detail which polls he was referring to. www.reuters.com/business/med...

A woman was thrown to the ground and arrested after protesting data centers at a Utah County meeting Tuesday night. https://www.sltrib.com/news/2026/10/21/woman-was-arrested-while/ 

A deeper dive into one of the more unusual court cases involving the #FirstAmendment, Trump's lawsuit against a pollster and the Des Moines Register and Tribune #newspaper, from @freespeechcenter.bsky.social firstamendment.mtsu.edu/article/trum...

“The Republican Party of Florida is free to dispute the ad’s allegations, but it cannot enlist the coercive power of government to suppress its political opponents’ #speech..." said Aaron Terr of @thefireorg.bsky.social re: GOP attempt to ban a TV ad. www.tallahassee.com/story/news/s...

In a letter to DOJ late Monday, @cnn.com attorney says its #journalists continued to be barred from Air Force One and the White House is engaging in “what appears to be a new unstated policy to interfere with CNN’s ability to fulfill its duties” as part of the video pool. nypost.com/2026/10/20/u...

Palestinian American coauthors Jenan A. Matari and Alana Hadid have withdrawn their book "Displacement and the Palestinian American Story," originally scheduled for 9/29 publication, from #RandomHouse Children’s #Books, citing clashes over editorial changes. www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

"I can't imagine that in the free state of Florida, people could go to jail because of a message that a political party doesn't want to hear and doesn't want others to hear," said Barbara Petersen, whose organization publishes @floridatrident.bsky.social www.miamiherald.com/news/article...

The Republican Party of Florida is threatening #TV stations w/criminal prosecution if they run or #report on a campaign ad addressing the Hope Florida scandal and a grand jury's finding. The GOP is seeking a temporary injunction to prohibit the airing of the ads. www.miamiherald.com/news/article...

Alabama high school sophomores impersonated a teacher and his young daughter on a chat that included sexually explicit language and was allegedly #AI generated. Could the #FirstAmendment affect its ability to discipline the students? www.rocketcitynow.com/article/news...

Miami Gardens (FL) cut her microphone, so Karen Hunter-Jackson took the city to court. Now, a federal judge has found that the city and Mayor Rodney Harris violated her #FirstAmendment rights by silencing her criticism of a councilwoman. www.miamitimesonline.com/news/local/f...

“If you were looking at the #editorial page...when William Allen White was the #editor, even if he might not have written every word, you knew that was what William Allen White believed. Today, what does an unsigned editorial even mean?" -- @claywires.bsky.social www.cjr.org/the-intervie...

“…the #media — which is under immense un-ordinary pressures of its own — continues to fail to convey just how un-ordinary these developments and shifts in our daily life. Too often, these stories are covered individually, but not as a pattern.” @vermontgmg.bsky.social qtd by @sulliview.bsky.social

While moving the #media out of the White House may be a relatively small debate considering Trump's attacks on #journalists (& the #FirstAmendment), it would be highly symbolic. Or, what the departure of Karoline Leavitt hath wrought. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/20/u...

Posting this story on how "the crisis" at @cbsnews.com "is bigger than one controversial editor," obviously #BariWeiss, from @salon.com: www.salon.com/2026/10/20/b... ... because I just read @newyorker.com review of the new Weiss-infused @60minutes.bsky.social: www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Another attack on a female #journalist.

UPDATE on a post from yesterday re: @justinjpearson.bsky.social #FirstAmendment lawsuit: federal judge reverses bans the Memphis City Council made against advocates who protested the Council's decision to delay voting on a data center moratorium. www.yahoo.com/news/politic...

WVa AG Steve Marshall joins amicus brief to #SCOTUS in supporting parents challenging the state's compulsory school vaccination law after their child was expelled from online school because "...the #FirstAmendment does not stop at the schoolhouse door or school login.” 1819news.com/news/item/ma...