Great ruling.

We assume the anti-social media jawboning crowd from a few years back will wake up to applaud it.

Excited that InfoWars has switched sides in the infowars

no war but infowars

Jews Demand: Release Salah Sarsour The Trump regime using antisemitism as a smokescreen to crush our civil liberties and divert attention and resources away from real antisemitism

Join me in demanding that Wisconsin Palestinian activist Salah Sarsour be released from custody and returned to his family immediately with his green card intact.

He was abducted by ICE March 30.

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How many records requests are too many? 14, says one NJ school district YouTube video by Freedom of the Press Foundation

Asking questions is now “harassment” — at least in New Jersey.

A school district in the Garden State is suing a journalist over public records requests.

Watch FPF’s @trevortimm.bsky.social explain.

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Award-winning Kuwaiti-American journalist Ahmed Shihab-Eldin has been in Kuwaiti detention since March 3 for simply sharing publicly available, verified footage. Journalism is not a crime.

Join us in calling to #FreeAhmed

Where is US-Kuwaiti journalist Ahmed Shihab-Eldin? • FRANCE 24 English YouTube video by FRANCE 24 English

It’s absolutely outrageous that U.S. journalist Ahmed Shihab-Eldin has been jailed in Kuwait for six weeks for reposting publicly available, verifiable information.

The @state-department.bsky.social should leave no stone unturned until he is safely back home.

#FreeAhmed

Free journalist Ahmed Shihab-Eldin Plus: Meet the immigration judge who didn’t get fired

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- Stop “kids safety” censorship bills

- VPN surveillance: Time for transparency, limits on spy powers

Congress is voting to renew FISA Section 702 — the dangerous surveillance law that lets the NSA and FBI search Americans’ calls and texts without a warrant.

Watch @trevortimm.bsky.social explain, and TELL THEM: No spying on Americans without a warrant. Period.

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Free journalist Ahmed Shihab-Eldin Plus: Meet the immigration judge who didn’t get fired

Free journalist Ahmed Shihab-Eldin!

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Former Tufts student detained over pro-Palestinian op-ed self-deports as part of Trump admin deal Rumeysa Ozturk left the U.S. after completing her Ph.D., her lawyers said.

It is disgusting that the DOJ feels the need to continue insulting Öztürk on her way out, even after their claims about her have been definitively proven false.

These are awful people.

Former Tufts student detained over pro-Palestinian op-ed self-deports as part of Trump admin deal Rumeysa Ozturk left the U.S. after completing her Ph.D., her lawyers said.

"I am choosing to return home as planned to continue my career as a woman scholar without losing more time to the state-imposed violence and hostility I have experienced in the United States — all for nothing more than co-signing an op-ed advocating for Palestinian rights."

Opinion | My friend is locked up in Kuwait for committing journalism Caroline Modarressy-Tehrani: Award-winning independent journalist Ahmed Shihab-Eldin has been detained in Kuwait for the past six weeks.

"While we can’t claim the mantle of leadership right now, the U.S. can try to reclaim some dignity if the State Department fights for the immediate release of Ahmed Shihab-Eldin from detention in Kuwait," FPF's @adamrose.bsky.social told MS NOW.

#FreeAhmed

VPN surveillance: Time for transparency and limits on spy powers A recent letter from our lawmakers raises the question: What does the intelligence community do with the data of VPN users in the United States?

Congress is currently debating whether to reauthorize Section 702 of FISA.

Any bill to renew the law must close the backdoor search loophole by requiring the gov't to get a warrant before it can search the comms of Americans.

It must also close the data broker loophole.

@freedom.press explains:

Sign this petition to help free well-respected journalist Ahmed Shihab-Eldin.

A contributor to numerous outlets, including The New York Times, PBS, and Al Jazeera English, he is jailed in Kuwait on vague charges for sharing news on social media.

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Even by Trump's standards, his recent attacks on the press are increasingly unhinged — threatening journalists with jail time and outlets with investigations for reporting on his disastrous war in Iran.

Watch @trevortimm.bsky.social explain and subscribe: freedom.press/newsletters

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Whistleblower prosecution has nothing to do with national security Plus: DOJ wants to scrap the Presidential Records Act

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New Evidence Further Implicates U.S. Missiles in Strikes That Killed 21 Civilians in Iran

The Pentagon suggested Iran was responsible. But new evidence further shows tit were U.S. PrSMs (which blast thousands of tungsten pellets outwards) that killed 21 civilians in Lamerd, Iran, including a toddler and several children. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/10/w...

Israel kills 3 journalists in Gaza and Lebanon in one day; CPJ calls for international action - Committee to Protect Journalists New York, April 8, 2026—The Committee to Protect Journalists condemns in the strongest terms the killing of at least three journalists in Lebanon and Gaza by Israel in one day, at least one of which w...

Israel killed three journalists in one day in Gaza and Lebanon.

This isn’t just a tragedy. It’s a pattern enabled by impunity — and by U.S. political and military backing.

Israel has killed at least 257 journalists in five countries since 2023, according to @pressfreedom.bsky.social.

Post Mortem | Robert G. Kaiser When Jeff Bezos bought The Washington Post in 2013 and promised to find inventive ways to make journalism profitable in the digital age, he seemed like a godsend. He wasn’t.

We used to feel we could compete with the Times, “or best them completely, as we did in the biggest story of the late twentieth century, Watergate,” WaPo’s former managing editor and longtime reporter Robert G. Kaiser writes in @nybooks.com.

With the recent cuts, “Bezos has obliterated any chance.”

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Trump's weird rant is factual and legal nonsense. That said, is he implying that CNN is under criminal investigation for its (accurate) reporting? Should Paramount shareholders be worried about acquiring a company that, according to the president, is under investigation?

Audience Editor - Freedom of the Press Foundation (FPF) The audience editor will manage and execute our audience strategy to further the impact of our work.

We at @freedom.press are hiring an audience editor to edit and strategize our outward-facing products, primarily newsletters and videos.

This is a rare opportunity to work with some of the most passionate and dedicated defenders of press freedom.

Come join my team!

Quote card from FPF Chief of Advocacy Seth Stern that reads: “Confidential sources are the lifeblood of investigative journalism. Sources who come forward at great personal risk won’t do so if they don’t trust that their identities won’t be revealed. “Some of the most important news stories in American history have come from confidential sources, including stories that have brought down corrupt presidents. That’s why Trump is so obsessed with leaks. It has nothing to do with national security.”

Journalists don’t work for the governmentt and their right to publish government leaks is protected by the First Amendment which, despite President Trump’s efforts, remains the law of the land.

Read our full statement on Trump’s threat Monday to jail reporters: freedom.press/issues/trump...

Trump’s threat to jail reporters deserves bipartisan condemnation To the extent that the government is allowed to withhold information, it’s up to the government to keep its secrets, not journalists

"To the extent that the government is allowed to withhold information, it’s up to the government to keep its secrets, not journalists," @freedom.press's @seth-stern.bsky.social says.

LA’s No Kings 3 may have broken records; LAPD definitely broke the rules YouTube video by Freedom of the Press Foundation

So ... how's LAPD doing with that federal injunction requiring them to let press cover protests?

I went to No Kings 3 in Los Angeles to find out. Here's my report for @freedom.press about some of the disturbing things I witnessed.

LAPD obstructed, threatened, and arrested journalists covering the No Kings 3 protests — violating a federal injunction.

Watch @adamrose.bsky.social — who was on the ground in LA that day — explain, and if you're a journalist facing a press freedom violation, contact @pressfreedomtracker.us