Dem Congressman Who Shared “Elon Musk Dick Pic” Hits Back at Trump DOJ

Rep Robert Garcia slammed the department’s dangerous encroachment on #FreedomOfSpeech.
https://newrepublic.com/post/191813/robert-garcia-donald-trump-doj-elon-musk-dick-pic

"Rep #RobertGarcia hit back at threats from the #DOJ and criticized the agency for trying to “silence” lawmakers speaking out about #ElonMusk.

Earlier... Garcia received a letter from the DOJ regarding comments he’d made... opposing Musk’s takeover of the federal #government"

#FreeSpeech #Musk #Trump #News #USA

Vogt am Freitag: Das Recht zu beleidigen - Das Netz ist politisch https://dnip.ch/2025/02/21/vogt-am-freitag-das-recht-zu-beleidigen/ #SocialMedia #Hassrede #HateSpeech #Zensur #censorship #Meinungsfreiheit #FreeSpeech #Journalismus #journalism #Demokratie #democracy #FakeNews #Desinformationen #Desinformation

Unidentified Men Drag Woman from Coeur d’Alene Town Hall as Sheriff Films

A shocking incident unfolded at a Coeur d’Alene town hall Saturday, as unidentified men forcibly removed a woman from the event—and no one seems to know who they were.

📍 What Happened?
During a legislative town hall at Coeur d’Alene High School, Post Falls resident Teresa Borrenpohl was grabbed and dragged out by plainclothes men after heckling lawmakers. Sheriff Bob Norris, who was present, attempted to pull her from her seat before stepping back and signaling to the unidentified men, who took over. As Borrenpohl repeatedly asked who they were, she received no response.

🎥 Captured on Video
Our footage shows Sheriff Norris recording the incident on his phone as the men forcibly removed Borrenpohl. She can be heard shouting, “This man is assaulting me,” while Norris commands, “You, out, now.”

🚨 Who Were These Men?
That remains a mystery. Event organizers, including Kootenai County Republican Central Committee Chair Brent Regan, claim they don’t know who arranged security or which company was used. Even Sheriff Norris denies involvement, despite being present and appearing to direct security toward Borrenpohl.

📢 Why It Matters
🔹 Who authorized these unidentified men to detain a citizen?
🔹 Why did the sheriff film instead of intervening or ensuring proper procedures were followed?
🔹 Why is there no transparency about the security team’s identity?

With no clear accountability, this raises serious concerns about due process and the use of force at public meetings.

📌 Watch the video and decide for yourself. Who were these men, and who gave them the power to remove a citizen from a public forum?

#CoeurDAlene #TownHall #CivilRights #FreeSpeech #SheriffBobNorris #KootenaiCounty #IdahoPolitics #GovernmentTransparency #WhoAreThey #Accountability #BreakingNews

"Martin has already targeted Senate Minority Leader #ChuckSchumer... Martin has also threatened to investigate former special counsel #JackSmith...

It seems that Martin, a defender of Trump’s election fraud #lies and the #Jan6 Capitol riots, wants to use his prosecutorial power to punish anyone who dares to oppose the president or Musk."
https://newrepublic.com/post/191787/trump-doj-threatens-democratic-congressman-garcia-elon-musk-dick-pic

#FreeSpeech #FirstAmendment #Trump #Coup #DOJ #GOP #Corruption #Politics #USPol #US #USA #News #USNews

Trump’s #DOJ Threatens Dem Congressman Who Shared “Elon Musk Dick Pic”

Democratic Representative Robert Garcia is now being investigated by a #Trump attorney.
https://newrepublic.com/post/191787/trump-doj-threatens-democratic-congressman-garcia-elon-musk-dick-pic

"Trump’s Dept of #Justice has sent a threatening letter to Representative Robert Garcia after the #California Democrat mocked #ElonMusk last week.

...Garcia displayed a large picture of #Musk, calling it a “dick pick” and jokingly referring to the #tech mogul as president"

#FreeSpeech #FirstAmendment #News #USA

Trump’s DC US Attorney Nom Targets House Dem, Expanding Effort To Stifle Trump Admin Criticism
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/trumps-dc-us-attorney-nom-targets-house-dem-expanding-effort-to-stifle-trump-admin-criticism

"Acting #WashingtonDC US attorney Ed Martin is escalating his psuedo-investigations of what he describes as purported threats to billionaire #ElonMusk...

targeted Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY)...

designed to smother #FreedomOfSpeech and criticism of #Musk & the #Trump administration."

#FirstAmendment #FreeSpeech #Politics #Coup #Corruption #GOP #News #US #USA

#AP is launching its Local Investigative Reporting Program to support #US state and local newsrooms in investigative reporting

https://www.ap.org/the-definitive-source/announcements/ap-creates-local-investigative-reporting-program/

#USA #UnitedStates #America #Journalism #News #Press #FreePress #FreeSpeech #Democracy

#Fascism shows its ugly face in #Canada. He's also apparently been charged with essentially ridiculing and lambasting the police publicly for arresting him.

"Prominent Canadian activist and author arrested for pro-#Palestinians activism"
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/prominent-canadian-activist-and-author-arrested-pro-palestinian-activism #YvesEngler #FreeSpeech @palestine

So much for "free-speech absolutist"

#PresidentMusk #ElonTrump #FreeSpeech #Zelensky

Looks like Erik Prince's SCOTUS whispering worked... jfc

The Supreme Court effectively abolishes the right to mass protest in three US states

It is no longer safe to organize a protest in Louisiana, Mississippi, or Texas.

By Ian Millhiser Apr 15, 2024,

"The Supreme Court announced on Monday that it will not hear Mckesson v. Doe. The decision not to hear Mckesson leaves in place a lower court decision that effectively eliminated the right to organize a #MassProtest in the states of #Louisiana, #Mississippi, and #Texas.

"Under that lower court decision, a protest organizer faces potentially ruinous financial consequences if a single attendee at a mass protest commits an illegal act."

#McKessonVsDoe #BLM #Fascism #SCOTUS #SLAPPs #RightToProtest #FreeSpeech #CivilDisobedience #CorruptSCOTUS #ClarenceThomas #ImpeachJusticeThomas #Blackwater #ErikPrince #NoDAPL #Academi #Activism

#FreeSpeech y'all
#AreYouGreatYet

Darauf spendiere ich allen hier anwesenden eine Portion #freespeech #meinungsfreiheit 🎉 🎊🎆

Sky News interview on desperate need for Jewish dissent in a time of war https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_isgTt9vAvc&ab_channel=AntonyLoewenstein Antony Loewenstein on #SkyNews

#AntonyLoewenstein #JewishCouncilOfAustralia #antisemitism #AntisemitismBill #FreeSpeech #AustraliaPolitics #Australia #Israel #IsraelWarCrimes #Palestine #PalestineWillBeFree #IHRAdefinition

Und ich dachte #FreeSpeech ist das höchste aller Güter in den USA, egal wie dumm die Aussagen sind. Aber nicht alle sind da gleich scheint es.

Breaking Things Faster Than You Can Read About It
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/breaking-things-faster-than-you-can

"Elon Musk, who reliable sources inform us is still not technically the president, wants to see reporters whose coverage he doesn’t like thrown in jail... he posted last night. “They deserve a long prison sentence.”"

#FreeSpeech #FreePress #Journalism #Journalists #News #Media #Press #ElonMusk #Musk #Trump #GOP #Republicans #Coup #Corruption #Politics #US #USA

I'm not sure European countries should be taking lessons on free speech from a regime that bans news organisations from attending White House press conferences simply because they called the Gulf of Mexico the Gulf of Mexico

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ceve3wl21x1o

#Vance #JDVance #FreeSpeech #TurdReich

JD Vance attacks Europe over free speech and the next morning the White House bans Associate Press indefinitely from Oval Office 🤔 #freespeech #ap #press #MSC2025

#Trump #Repression #FreeSpeech #Palestine

Important breakdown of Trump's executive orders attacking pro-Palestinian and left-wing speech from Mondoweiss

https://mondoweiss.net/2025/02/explainer-breaking-down-trumps-executive-order-targeting-palestine-activists/

It's a shame @RememberUsAlways, isn't it? How comes that only one out of eleven (11!) bots continues to share the #hasbara of yours? The @palestine approach on #FreeSpeech is standing out, even for people like you and worst.
Somehow, it looks like nobody is buying your #fringeright #zioNAZI #hatespeech.

Let me ask if you still support #ashkeNAZI #terror organizations like #Herut #Irgun #Haganah #JDL and @israel #genocide instead of #HumanRights? Or do you condemn #whitesupremacy and #settlercolonialism now?

“NHS doctor punished for speaking out on Israel’s genocide is taking legal action”

by Ed Sykes in The Canary @thecanaryuk

“The Canary has spoken to a doctor who is crowdfunding a legal challenge after his NHS bosses sought to punish him for speaking out on Israel’s genocide in Gaza”

https://www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/2025/02/11/dr-nadeem-crowe/?__s=pw3ygmyxve9etudpqdrh

#Press #NHS #RoyalFree #Hospital #FreeSpeech #Denial #Israel #Gaza #Genocide #Crowe #CrowdFund #Tribunal

Still flashed that #JDVance openly stated in #Paris that the US needs #AI for "#FreeSpeech" aka #Nazi - Hate - #Bots.

🤢

f**k yeah, endlich #FreeSpeech für alle - außer die anderen natürlich... #DASistZensur #Fascism #Faschismus #Zensur

Info on the protester at the Super Bowl who held up Palestinian & Sudanese flags: “I don’t get caught up in politics or anything,” he told The Intercept, adding. “What’s going on in these places are inhumane. The civil war in Sudan, the oppression and the war and the tyranny that’s going on in Gaza, is inhumane. And these people are connected with us all as humans, and especially with me in faith.”
https://theintercept.com/2025/02/10/super-bowl-kendrick-lamar-gaza-sudan-protester/
#superbowl #protest #freespeech #gaza #sudan #humanitarian #crisis

'The effort to suppress criticism of Israel is spreading across the empire'
Whilst the Main Stream Media, claim it is Putin, who is interfering in Western politics, not the Zionists!
https://open.substack.com/pub/councilestatemedia/p/the-effort-to-suppress-criticism?r=iwr6t&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
#palestine #freespeech #journalism #mainstreammedia #fakenews #hasbara

 Less than two weeks after Zurich police arrested Ali Abunimah
for planning to give a lecture on Gaza, Austrian state security escalate repression of Palestine solidarity by raiding and arresting journalist Richard Medhurst. Who or what are they really protecting?
https://x.com/MaxBlumenthal/status/1887749422123020580
#tiktok
#austria
#media
#journalism
#freespeech
#Gaza
#Palestine
#Syria
#iran
#lebanon
#Genocide
#geopolitics
...
#antiPalestinianracism

07 Feb 2025, 11:27·

https://zirk.us/@SANKOFAB/113962361845751215

#Democrats fought harder to shut down #protests against #genocide in #Palestine across #colleges suppressing #freespeech than they are fighting the coup #ElonMusk and #Trump doing.

#Politics

Streetart de C215, Paris, France, 2017
#rsf #reporters #SaveTurkishJournalists #journalist #freespeech #freepress #christianguemy #pochoir #urbanart #streetart

Would you use #TikTok if it were owned by the US Government?

Source: Reuters

Headline: Trump orders creation of US sovereign wealth fund, says it could buy TikTok

From the article: "WASHINGTON, Feb 3 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Monday ordering the creation of a sovereign wealth fund within the next year, saying it could potentially buy the short video app TikTok.

"If created, the sovereign wealth fund could place the U.S. alongside numerous other countries, particularly in the Middle East and Asia, that have launched similar funds as a way to make direct investments with government dollars."

#USPolitics #Project2025 #Oligarchy #Corruption #AbuseOfPower #Journalism #FreePress #FreeSpeech

URL for article because thumbnail is not displaying:
https://www.reuters.com/markets/wealth/trump-signs-executive-order-create-sovereign-wealth-fund-2025-02-03/

⚠️ Mohsen Yeganeh & Copyright Fraud? ⚠️

Reports allege he used fake takedowns to bury criticism. This is digital censorship at its worst—who’s next?

📖 Read more: https://www.cybercriminal.com/investigation/mohsen-yeganeh

#MohsenYeganeh #FreeSpeech #Censorship #Fraud #Journalism

'100% smelly' whiskey bottle dog toy violates Jack Daniel's trademarks, US judge says https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/100-smelly-whiskey-bottle-dog-toy-violates-jack-daniels-trademarks-us-judge-says-2025-01-24/ #trademark #dilution #parody #freespeech The case is VIP Products LLC v.Jack Daniel's Properties Inc, U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona, No. 2:14-cv-02057.

Wired Magazine is doing the reporting that too much of the media is afraid to.

We can support them by subscribing - it only costs $5 for the first year.

https://www.wired.com/story/elon-musk-government-young-engineers/

#journalism #freedomofthepress #freespeech #1stamendment #musk #coup

"We are seeing a pattern where people get arrested on trumped up charges, have a court case hanging over their heads forever, and when they eventually go to court, they either get found not guilty, or guilty of lesser crimes than what they were accused of, i.e., terrorism. At best, you can say the approach of police is disproportionate and at worst, outright fascistic."

https://www.councilestatemedia.uk/p/you-cant-criticise-israel-in-the

#gaza #gazagenocide #journalism #switzerland #europe #israel #germany #freespeech #democracy

[edit: how to get lot's of boosts and faves in the #fediVerse?
toot a quote
of
@pluralistic
with a link ✌️ ]

> "Then, Elon #Musk shut down the API – bricking up the fire exit. For a time there, Musk even suspended the accounts of #Twitter users who mentioned the existence of their #Mastodon handles on the platform – the " #freeSpeech absolutist" banned millions of his hostages from shouting "fire exit" in a burning theater: .."

https://pluralistic.net/2024/12/14/fire-exits/

LA Times Scandal Widens After Ownership Completely Alters Op-Ed

Trust in the media has long been a problem for mainstream media. The latest scandal from the LA Times probably won't help the mainstream media's cause.

https://www.freezenet.ca/la-times-scandal-widens-after-ownership-completely-alters-op-ed/

#Censorship #News #FreeSpeech #journalism #LATimes #Media #US

Please consider signing this petition.
NPR and PBS are in grave danger of going extinct. #trump #fascism #freespeech #media https://sign.moveon.org/petitions/don-t-cut-npr-and-pbs-funding?source=rawlink&utm_source=rawlink&share=376e538a-ae71-4b2f-b52f-ac2acd72e80d

So much for the USA as a bastion of free and fearless journalism!

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/30/business/media/paramount-trump-cbs-news-settlement.html

#USPolitics #USJournalism ##USMedia
#DonaldTrump #Texas #Paramount #60Minutes #Journalism #Media #FreeSpeech #FreeExpression #Censorship #ABCSettlement #MetaSettlement

Emerson #Students, Staff, And #Faculty Face Restrictive New Policies Born From #Gaza #Protests. The Emerson College administration put rules in place in response to last year’s #campus unrest that some community members say violate their #FirstAmendment rights. https://horizonmass.news/2025/01/23/emerson-students-staff-and-faculty-face-restrictive-new-policies-born-from-gaza-protests/ #freespeech #civilliberties #Boston #Massachusetts