Kimmel should sue for 1stAM violation via“state action,” where govnt officials force private co to censor someone.
Govnt actors coerced or retaliated against him for his speech:
-Trump’s attacks
-Carr’s comments & Nexstar announcing cancellation soon after
Precedence also exists in his favor.
🗣️
Govnt actors coerced or retaliated against him for his speech:
-Trump’s attacks
-Carr’s comments & Nexstar announcing cancellation soon after
Precedence also exists in his favor.
🗣️
September 19, 2025 at 1:25 AM
Kimmel should sue for 1stAM violation via“state action,” where govnt officials force private co to censor someone.
Govnt actors coerced or retaliated against him for his speech:
-Trump’s attacks
-Carr’s comments & Nexstar announcing cancellation soon after
Precedence also exists in his favor.
🗣️
Govnt actors coerced or retaliated against him for his speech:
-Trump’s attacks
-Carr’s comments & Nexstar announcing cancellation soon after
Precedence also exists in his favor.
🗣️
I left at the same time! The statement they put out was just like the one before Twitter blew up. Like we hadn’t already lived through that? No way. It was Substack’s choice to become a propoganda machine. People SHOULD leave. They are causing real harm while hiding behind the 1stAm.
August 7, 2025 at 5:35 PM
I left at the same time! The statement they put out was just like the one before Twitter blew up. Like we hadn’t already lived through that? No way. It was Substack’s choice to become a propoganda machine. People SHOULD leave. They are causing real harm while hiding behind the 1stAm.
🔊Protests work & matter.
It is our 1stAM rt to demand accountability & speak out against govnt wrongdoing.
Exercising that right IS democracy in action.
Prof. Snyder, leading scholar on authoritarianism, explains why showing up on 3/28 matters: www.instagram.com/reel/DWWj5xJ...
Rise & Resist.
✊🏼
It is our 1stAM rt to demand accountability & speak out against govnt wrongdoing.
Exercising that right IS democracy in action.
Prof. Snyder, leading scholar on authoritarianism, explains why showing up on 3/28 matters: www.instagram.com/reel/DWWj5xJ...
Rise & Resist.
✊🏼
March 26, 2026 at 5:53 PM
🔊Protests work & matter.
It is our 1stAM rt to demand accountability & speak out against govnt wrongdoing.
Exercising that right IS democracy in action.
Prof. Snyder, leading scholar on authoritarianism, explains why showing up on 3/28 matters: www.instagram.com/reel/DWWj5xJ...
Rise & Resist.
✊🏼
It is our 1stAM rt to demand accountability & speak out against govnt wrongdoing.
Exercising that right IS democracy in action.
Prof. Snyder, leading scholar on authoritarianism, explains why showing up on 3/28 matters: www.instagram.com/reel/DWWj5xJ...
Rise & Resist.
✊🏼
If AI generated images can't be copyright protected, AI text output can't be 1stAm protected, same as a dog barking can't be 1stAm protected -- it's not a person.
August 28, 2025 at 4:35 PM
If AI generated images can't be copyright protected, AI text output can't be 1stAm protected, same as a dog barking can't be 1stAm protected -- it's not a person.
The deliberate weaponization of social media, and the directly related mental health degradations, has gone beyond what’s healthy for too much of the young public.
Platforms don’t need feed algorithms or the rest to provide content. It’s not a 1stAm burden to regulate all that off.
Platforms don’t need feed algorithms or the rest to provide content. It’s not a 1stAm burden to regulate all that off.
March 30, 2026 at 5:35 AM
The deliberate weaponization of social media, and the directly related mental health degradations, has gone beyond what’s healthy for too much of the young public.
Platforms don’t need feed algorithms or the rest to provide content. It’s not a 1stAm burden to regulate all that off.
Platforms don’t need feed algorithms or the rest to provide content. It’s not a 1stAm burden to regulate all that off.
As I contemplate teaching law in an undergrad class, it's supposed to start with 1st amendment stuff. Lolll. No actually I think the only way to make sense of this is to situate US jurisprudence in US Fascism (at least Jim Crow) Trad 1stAm framing (market logic vs. public interest) isn't gonna work.
September 21, 2025 at 2:41 AM
As I contemplate teaching law in an undergrad class, it's supposed to start with 1st amendment stuff. Lolll. No actually I think the only way to make sense of this is to situate US jurisprudence in US Fascism (at least Jim Crow) Trad 1stAm framing (market logic vs. public interest) isn't gonna work.
Guess we can say goodbye to the 1stAm with this Nazi regime running things, now?
To everyone going to protest this weekend, be mindful that most jurisdictions have disturbing the peace/disorderly conduct statutes which can serve as a "catch all" kind of charge.
/cont
To everyone going to protest this weekend, be mindful that most jurisdictions have disturbing the peace/disorderly conduct statutes which can serve as a "catch all" kind of charge.
/cont
June 13, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Guess we can say goodbye to the 1stAm with this Nazi regime running things, now?
To everyone going to protest this weekend, be mindful that most jurisdictions have disturbing the peace/disorderly conduct statutes which can serve as a "catch all" kind of charge.
/cont
To everyone going to protest this weekend, be mindful that most jurisdictions have disturbing the peace/disorderly conduct statutes which can serve as a "catch all" kind of charge.
/cont
Unfortunately the amount of 1stAm protection extended to students has never been the same as for adults. Which I realize you know, but it’s been particularly gross the last twenty-five years. When we’re willing to punish students for out-of-school speech my faith they’ll protect on-campus speech…
April 14, 2026 at 9:01 PM
Unfortunately the amount of 1stAm protection extended to students has never been the same as for adults. Which I realize you know, but it’s been particularly gross the last twenty-five years. When we’re willing to punish students for out-of-school speech my faith they’ll protect on-campus speech…
I assume when you said that only one violates the 1st Amendment was a suggestion that the heckler's veto is not an issue. FIRE disagrees, in the link I provided, saying "there is no First Amendment right to shout down a speaker," and not acting against the hecker's veto is a violation of the 1stAm.
November 26, 2025 at 1:34 AM
I assume when you said that only one violates the 1st Amendment was a suggestion that the heckler's veto is not an issue. FIRE disagrees, in the link I provided, saying "there is no First Amendment right to shout down a speaker," and not acting against the hecker's veto is a violation of the 1stAm.
Not to be excessively serious, though; it's not my way (and I'm not exactly a 1stAm or ConLaw maven).
December 15, 2024 at 12:33 AM
Not to be excessively serious, though; it's not my way (and I'm not exactly a 1stAm or ConLaw maven).
for guts falco? it was this! pretty highroll tbh but i love that abt guts cards
stat sparks 11pow 2wit 1stam / 6unity 5ura
stat sparks 11pow 2wit 1stam / 6unity 5ura
March 6, 2026 at 11:24 PM
for guts falco? it was this! pretty highroll tbh but i love that abt guts cards
stat sparks 11pow 2wit 1stam / 6unity 5ura
stat sparks 11pow 2wit 1stam / 6unity 5ura
1stAm...Freedom of the Press? Freedom of Speech? Wow, I'm beginning not to recognize the country that I was born in and served in the U.S. Army! Now, living stress-free in Panamá...
They are coming after those of us in independent media because we speak the truth!!
And now apparently they’ve come to arrest Georgia Fort, another independent journalist!
bsky.app/profile/thel...
bsky.app/profile/thel...
January 30, 2026 at 6:45 PM
1stAm...Freedom of the Press? Freedom of Speech? Wow, I'm beginning not to recognize the country that I was born in and served in the U.S. Army! Now, living stress-free in Panamá...
Why should attys do #1stAm protest #probono work? “I call it #movementlawyering—You can use your legal skills to greatly increase the movement’s effectiveness” -@ellingerlocke #DCProBono19
November 14, 2024 at 2:36 AM
Why should attys do #1stAm protest #probono work? “I call it #movementlawyering—You can use your legal skills to greatly increase the movement’s effectiveness” -@ellingerlocke #DCProBono19
For a long time people speculated whether Trump would be indicted for inciting the crowd to the Capitol, with 1stAm questions. But what he actually did was worse: he knew the violence would happen, was happening, and he tried to use it to his (illegal) advantage.
August 2, 2023 at 12:02 PM
For a long time people speculated whether Trump would be indicted for inciting the crowd to the Capitol, with 1stAm questions. But what he actually did was worse: he knew the violence would happen, was happening, and he tried to use it to his (illegal) advantage.
Guess we can say goodbye to the 1stAm with this Nazi regime running things, now?
To everyone going to protest this weekend, be mindful that most jurisdictions have disturbing the peace/disorderly conduct statutes which can serve as a "catch all" kind of charge.
/cont
To everyone going to protest this weekend, be mindful that most jurisdictions have disturbing the peace/disorderly conduct statutes which can serve as a "catch all" kind of charge.
/cont
June 13, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Guess we can say goodbye to the 1stAm with this Nazi regime running things, now?
To everyone going to protest this weekend, be mindful that most jurisdictions have disturbing the peace/disorderly conduct statutes which can serve as a "catch all" kind of charge.
/cont
To everyone going to protest this weekend, be mindful that most jurisdictions have disturbing the peace/disorderly conduct statutes which can serve as a "catch all" kind of charge.
/cont
Cell phones aren’t tvs, & social media today isn’t yesterday’s fanzines. Just like a bump stock isn’t a hunting rifle.
If the 1stAm is important to you, then you have to find a smarter and less immediately demonstrably harmful way to live up to its ideals, than to let Meta and Youtube run roughshod
If the 1stAm is important to you, then you have to find a smarter and less immediately demonstrably harmful way to live up to its ideals, than to let Meta and Youtube run roughshod
March 30, 2026 at 5:41 AM
Cell phones aren’t tvs, & social media today isn’t yesterday’s fanzines. Just like a bump stock isn’t a hunting rifle.
If the 1stAm is important to you, then you have to find a smarter and less immediately demonstrably harmful way to live up to its ideals, than to let Meta and Youtube run roughshod
If the 1stAm is important to you, then you have to find a smarter and less immediately demonstrably harmful way to live up to its ideals, than to let Meta and Youtube run roughshod
look its NOT an arrest! we're just going to point this gun in your face & if you move we will kill you, then we will make you go where we tell you to go, when we tell you to and hold you there as long as we want. but again, this is NOT an arrest, just detaining.... where all them 1stAM ppl at now???
June 12, 2025 at 2:25 PM
look its NOT an arrest! we're just going to point this gun in your face & if you move we will kill you, then we will make you go where we tell you to go, when we tell you to and hold you there as long as we want. but again, this is NOT an arrest, just detaining.... where all them 1stAM ppl at now???
The only thing any Fairness Doctrine return could constitutionally apply tonight is over the air radio and TV. That’s it.
And even there the 1stAm severely limits what can do. Which is why the original FD required so little of radio and TV stations. It didn’t do 10% of what Bsky FD truthers think.
And even there the 1stAm severely limits what can do. Which is why the original FD required so little of radio and TV stations. It didn’t do 10% of what Bsky FD truthers think.
January 17, 2026 at 4:35 AM
The only thing any Fairness Doctrine return could constitutionally apply tonight is over the air radio and TV. That’s it.
And even there the 1stAm severely limits what can do. Which is why the original FD required so little of radio and TV stations. It didn’t do 10% of what Bsky FD truthers think.
And even there the 1stAm severely limits what can do. Which is why the original FD required so little of radio and TV stations. It didn’t do 10% of what Bsky FD truthers think.
you're correct, but there isn't an anti-SLAPP statute in effect in Iowa, which means there's nothing for the federal court to apply, aside from a basic failure to state a claim (in a MtD) and maybe a 1stAM or state con attack on how the state claim is being used. all available in state court...
December 18, 2024 at 10:51 PM
you're correct, but there isn't an anti-SLAPP statute in effect in Iowa, which means there's nothing for the federal court to apply, aside from a basic failure to state a claim (in a MtD) and maybe a 1stAM or state con attack on how the state claim is being used. all available in state court...
I need to find time to read this more carefully. That copyright isnt the best or even a good tool for governing various AI concerns (eg, bias) makes sense. I’m not as sure about fair use being clear cover, immutable, or driven by listeners’ 1stAm rights to the latest, fastest or best available tools
December 9, 2023 at 12:40 PM
I need to find time to read this more carefully. That copyright isnt the best or even a good tool for governing various AI concerns (eg, bias) makes sense. I’m not as sure about fair use being clear cover, immutable, or driven by listeners’ 1stAm rights to the latest, fastest or best available tools
And what about the cuts based on political beliefs addressed today in the Boston Globe? Is this a 14th or 1stAm viol? Can Dem AGs sue? www.bostonglobe.com/2025/03/13/n...
‘I just call Elon.’ To avoid DOGE cuts, lawmakers just need the right connections and an ‘R’ after their names - The Boston Globe
A new order is emerging from Trump and Musk's government-slashing project: Republicans have ways to protect their districts while Democrats don't.
www.bostonglobe.com
March 13, 2025 at 1:41 PM
And what about the cuts based on political beliefs addressed today in the Boston Globe? Is this a 14th or 1stAm viol? Can Dem AGs sue? www.bostonglobe.com/2025/03/13/n...
“Legal observers is a great representation of why so many of us went to law school-we had dreams of helping to create a just society. We’re tired from past few years. But find some way to have an influence in the #RuleOfLaw space”-Barbara Harding of @JonesDay #1stAm #dcprobono19
November 14, 2024 at 4:09 AM
“Legal observers is a great representation of why so many of us went to law school-we had dreams of helping to create a just society. We’re tired from past few years. But find some way to have an influence in the #RuleOfLaw space”-Barbara Harding of @JonesDay #1stAm #dcprobono19
A big part of legal observing is tracking arrested protestors’ contact info, loved ones’ contact info & messages to pass on, etc, says @ellingerlocke. #1stAm #dcprobono19
November 14, 2024 at 3:59 AM
A big part of legal observing is tracking arrested protestors’ contact info, loved ones’ contact info & messages to pass on, etc, says @ellingerlocke. #1stAm #dcprobono19