using my freedom of speech to call the tumblr staff A BUNCH OF MOTHER FUCKING CUNTSACKS WHO DON’T KNOW HOW THIS WEBSITE WORKS AND SHOULD NOT BE IN FUCKING CHARGE. we need to get some actual fucking tumblr users working at tumblr. everyone working at tumblr.com should actually FUckInG KnOw how the MOTHER FUCKING WEBSITE WORKS
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FCC Chairman Threatens Broadcasters After Trump’s Tirade Over War Coverage
Sen. Brian Schatz (D-HI) wrote on X about Carr’s post, “This is a clear directive to provide positive war coverage or else licenses may not be renewed. This is worse than the comedian stuff, and by a lot. The stakes here are much higher. He’s not talking about late night shows, he’s talking about how a war is covered.”
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Map: Strait of Hormuz shipping lanes — Wikimedia Commons, public domain.
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Sunday morning. Week three.
Here’s what you need to know.
No one is coming.
Trump publicly begged China, France, the UK, Japan, and South Korea to send warships to the Strait of Hormuz. France said no. Japan said the legal threshold is “extremely high.” South Korea said it will “carefully review.” China said everyone should just stop fighting. Nobody volunteered. This is the first public admission that the US cannot reopen the strait alone.
Israel is running out of interceptors.
Semafor reported it. Israel’s foreign minister denied it. Israel then approved an emergency $827 million military budget over the weekend — specifically for munitions replenishment. You don’t do that if you’re fine.
Iran just struck a major US air hub.
The IRGC fired missiles and drones at al-Dhafra airbase in the UAE — one of the most important American air operations centers in the region. Iran is now threatening to evacuate three major UAE ports, calling them legitimate targets. Dubai International Airport is within range.
Iran is using cluster munitions on Israeli cities.
Confirmed in Eilat. Confirmed in the Tel Aviv area. The Israeli military says roughly half of all Iranian ballistic missiles now carry cluster warheads. They burst open at altitude and scatter dozens of bomblets across miles of civilian neighborhoods. Many don’t explode on impact. They sit on the ground like landmines until someone walks by. This is banned under international law. Iran never signed the treaty.
53% of Americans now oppose the war.
Nearly three quarters oppose sending ground troops. The administration is prosecuting an unpopular war with no exit strategy, a degrading munitions stockpile, no international coalition, and a new supreme leader in Tehran with every personal reason to never back down.
The press is being threatened into silence.
FCC Chairman Brendan Carr warned broadcasters this week to “correct course” on war coverage or face license revocation. He then doubled down in a CBS News interview Saturday night. The First Amendment does not have a wartime exception. This is the authoritarian playbook. Documented. On the record.
Week three. No exit. No coalition. No interceptors to spare. No free press if he gets his way.
What are we being asked to accept as normal?
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Screenshot the v0ter guide at the end to send to ur Chicago friends! #po…
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Maryland Bill Would Let State Sue Nonprofits Over Israel Donations
By MDBayNews Staff
A controversial proposal moving through the Maryland General Assembly is raising alarms among free speech advocates, religious organizations, and civil liberties groups who warn the legislation could give state government unprecedented authority to police political speech and charitable donations.
House Bill 1184 — dubbed the “Not On Our Dime Act” — would allow the Maryland…
Maryland Bill Would Let State Sue Nonprofits Over Israel Donations
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Texas Takes a Stand: The Great Sharia Law Debate
By, WPS News Texas ReporterBaybay City | March 12, 2026
Austin, TX – In what could only be described as the latest episode of “As the World Turns,” Texas finds itself in the swirling vortex of a debate over Sharia law. Proposals to ban it have exploded (not literally, we hope), but current evidence suggests the Lone Star State isn’t gearing up for any actual legislation. Unless, of course, you…
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AP banned for saying Gulf of Mexico on an international site.
Press banned from Pentagon.
Can’t publish “unflattering” pics of Hegseth.
“As the people who pay Hegseth’s salary, we’re entitled to know enough to give him performance reviews, and the media should be able to provide us with the information that makes that possible.”
The Fate of the First Amendment
The Defense Department announced is barring press photographers from the briefings it holds on the war in Iran. Why? According to “two people familiar with the decision who spoke on the condition of anonymity out of fear of retaliation,” it’s because the press has published photos of the self-proclaimed Secretary of War Pete Hegseth that “his staff deemed ‘unflattering.’” The Pentagon has excluded photographers from Hegseth’s last two briefings on the war and hasn’t offered an on-the-record explanation for the change.
A year ago, the administration banned the AP from events other reporters were permitted to attend, including a briefing at the White House and an Air Force One flight. They did it because the AP continued to refer to the Gulf of Mexico by its internationally recognized name after the President redesignated it as the Gulf of America. This led to a lawsuit, of course, Associated Press v. Budowich. The administration argued that covering the president was a privilege and that they could decide who could and who couldn’t have access.
District Judge Trevor N. McFadden, a Trump appointee, ruled that the Trump administration’s reason for barring AP reporters mattered:
“[T]he Court simply holds that under the First Amendment, if the Government opens its doors to some journalists — be it to the Oval Office, the East Room, or elsewhere — it cannot then shut those doors to other journalists because of those viewpoints. The Constitution requires no less.”
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Good free speech case
9th Cir. decided B.B. v. Capistrano Unified School District, No. 24-1770 on Mar. 10, 2026.
In March 2021, when B.B. was a first-grade student at Viejo Elementary School in the Capistrano Unified School District, her teacher read the class a story about Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. After the story, B.B. “felt bad” because “black people … were put in a worse position” and made a drawing showing “all her friends holding hands.” B.B. gave the drawing to her classmate, M.C., who is African American. M.C. thanked B.B. Here is the drawing
B.B. did not know that “Black Lives Matter” had any particular meaning but included the phrase because it was at the end of the book her teacher read to the class.1 She stated that she included the phrase “any life” in her drawing because “all lives matter.”***
1 When later deposed, B.B. further stated that at the school, in the room where colored papers are kept, there was a picture of a man with a fist raised which read at the top “Black lives” and at the bottom matters.”
M.C.’s mother was livid and complained to the principal, Becerra.
The next day at school, Becerra took B.B. aside and told her that the drawing was “not appropriate,” she was not to give drawings to other students, and she should apologize to M.C. B.B. thought that Becerra used the word “racist” to describe the drawing but could not remember for sure.2 B.B. did not understand why the drawing was inappropriate or racist, but twice apologized to M.C. In addition, B.B. testified that she was barred from recess for two weeks.
B.B.’s parents sued. The District Court ruled against them, and BB’s parents appealed. The Court of Appeals reversed the lower court’s decision.
In sum, elementary students’ speech is protected by the
First Amendment, Tinker applies in the elementary student
speech context, and elementary students’ young age is a
relevant factor.***
But there is also evidence that M.C. was unaffected by the drawing and thus did not experience the kind of expressive attack on the basis of a core identifying characteristic required for a restriction on speech under Tinker. M.C.’s mother testified that M.C. did not understand the drawing, and she told M.C. not to worry about it. Nor is there evidence connecting the phrase “any life”—used by B.B. in the drawing—to the somewhat controversial phrase “All Lives Matter” or to show that M.C. made that connection.10 B.B. argues that Becerra could not reasonably think that the drawing communicated a denigrating message that required a reprimand.***
Although schools have comprehensive authority to “prescribe and control conduct” in schools, see Tinker, 393 U.S. at 507, when their actions infringe on a student’s First Amendment rights to expression, even for an elementary school student, the school has the burden of showing that its actions were reasonably undertaken to protect the safety and well-being of its students.
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The “Quakertown 5” story in Bucks County PA is a grotesque injustice.
This Quakertown 5 story is outrageous. Students were outside their school protesting, and a stranger arrived, a grown man came counter-protesting the school children’s demonstration. The strange man put a girl in a chokehold, and when people pulled him off of her, it’s reported her torn backpack brushed the guy who was attacking her. The guy attacking her turned out to be the police chief, off-duty and in plain clothes. And now this girl is being charged with a felony for supposedly assaulting a police officer, and 4 other kids have also been charged, some are now required to wear ankle monitor bracelets. This was caught on video which is good because some witnesses are reportedly afraid to give account of what they witnessed, because they fear retaliation by the police department.
Interview with the girl’s defense lawyer: ICE Protest Turns VIOLENT After Police ATTACK TEEN Katie Phang Mar 2, 2026
Calls grow for Quakertown police chief to resign after clash during protest By Miguel Martinez-Valle and Shaira Arias NBC • Published March 4, 2026 • Updated on March 4, 2026 at 11:23 pm Another cellphone video shared with NBC10 showed a man in a brown shirt – identified as Quakertown Police Chief Scott McElree – in a fight while being surrounded by students. The video also showed a second officer bringing someone to the ground. The students arrested, known as the Quakertown 5, are all out of detention, but NBC10 learned at least some of them are now forced back in school with a court-ordered ankle monitor as their case continues. “Regardless of if they get cleared or not in this moment, there are still children being seen as perpetrators of violent crimes. They are children as young as 15, so what does it say to them when everyone that is supposed to be there to protect them is failing them,” said Upper Bucks United community organizer Laura Foster.
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WAKING NIGHTMARES
Photo by Chris F on Pexels.com
I rise again from a tousled bed
into the darkest night.
No lights are yet lit in my neighbors’ homes.
Yet, I do not feel entirely alone.
Ghosts of those who fought earlier wars
lie beside me, and make their cares my own.
Their warnings bubble to the surface
as the tea kettle heats, whistles and warns.
The silence of the night blasts so loud
I believe I…
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CJ court watch - Freedom of Religion and Substantive Due Process case
The Supreme Court decided an important case on Mon, 2mar26. The case is still in litigation in the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals.
The Court decided Mirabelli v. Bonta, 607 U. S. __ (2026) by 7 - 2. J.J. Kagan and Jackson dissented.
Teachers and parents in southern California sued school districts because the schools were hiding kids’ gender dysphoria from the parents. The U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California granted judgment for the teachers and parents and against the state. The state appealed to the 9th Cir, and that court stayed the orders of the District Court. The Supreme Court then reversed that stay on Monday.
The opinion had a lot of legal minutiae about standards for granting and vacating temporary orders. The Court did make some useful statements about religious freedom and parental rights.
We grant the application and vacate the stay with respect to the parents because this aspect of the stay is not “justified under the governing four-factor test.” Alabama Assn. of Realtors v. Department of Health and Human Servs., 594 U. S. 758, 763 (2021) ***
Likelihood of success on the merits. We conclude that the parents who seek religious exemptions are likely to succeed on the merits of their Free Exercise Clause claim. California’s policies likely trigger strict scrutiny under that provision because they substantially interfere with the “right of parents to guide the religious development of their children.” Mahmoud, 606 U. S., at 559 (citing Wisconsin v. Yoder, 406 U. S. 205 (1972)). The parents who assert a free exercise claim have sincere religious beliefs about sex and gender, and they feel a religious obligation to raise their children in accordance with those beliefs. California’s policies violate those beliefs and “impos[e] the kind of burden on religious exercise that Yoder found unacceptable.” 606 U. S., at 550. Indeed, the intrusion on parents’ free exercise rights here—unconsented facilitation of a child’s gender transition—is greater than the introduction of LGBTQ storybooks we considered sufficient to trigger strict scrutiny in Mahmoud. See id., at 563.***
The same is true for the subclass of parents who object to
those policies on due process grounds. Under long-established precedent, parents—not the State—have primary
authority with respect to “the upbringing and education of
children.” Pierce v. Society of Sisters, 268 U. S. 510, 534–
535 (1925); accord, Meyer v. Nebraska, 262 U. S. 390, 399–
400 (1923). The right protected by these precedents includes the right not to be shut out of participation in decisions regarding their children’s mental health. Parham v. J. R., 442 U. S. 584, 602 (1979). Gender dysphoria is a condition that has an important bearing on a child’s mental health, but when a child exhibits symptoms of gender dysphoria at school, California’s policies conceal that information from parents and facilitate a degree of gender transitioning during school hours. These policies likely violate parents’ rights to direct the upbringing and education of their children.
Irreparable harm. The denial of plaintiffs’ constitutional rights during the potentially protracted appellate process constitutes irreparable harm. Roman Catholic Diocese of Brooklyn v. Cuomo, 592 U. S. 14, 19 (2020) (per curiam).
Balance of equities. Finally, the “equities do not justify depriving [the parents] of the District Court’s judgment in their favor.” Alabama Assn. of Realtors, 594 U. S., at 765. Everyone agrees that children’s safety is the overriding equity. And the injunction here promotes child safety by guaranteeing fit parents a role in some of the most consequential decisions in their children’s lives. The injunction also permits the State to shield children from unfit parents by enforcing child-abuse laws and removing children from parental custody in appropriate cases.***
J. Barrett concurred
As the dissent observes, substantive due process is a controversial doctrine. Judges typically interpret express constitutional rights, such as the freedom of speech or religion. But substantive due process asks us to find unexpressed rights in a constitutional provision that guarantees only “process” before a person is deprived of life, liberty, or property. U. S. Const., Amdt. 14, §1. When rights are unstated, how do judges know what they are? The obvious risk is that judges will use their own values as a guide, thereby jeopardizing the People’s right to self-governance. To mitigate this risk, the Court has crafted a demanding test for recognizing unexpressed rights: They must be “deeply rooted in this Nation’s history and tradition” and “implicit in the concept of ordered liberty.”*** Relevant here, the doctrine of substantive due process has long embraced a parent’s right to raise her child, which includes the right to participate in significant decisions about her child’s mental health. See Pierce****
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I know I say this a lot, and it gets old, and this time I mean from the bottom of my heart WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK.
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ALTI found this post by searching the First Amendment. I decided to check the person’s tumblr and found their pin post has a proshippers dni tag on it. That explains why they want to ban the First Amendment.
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Asians: new major minority
I picked up my copy of the Dallas Morning News this morning and was stunned by the top story on the front page: It dealt with tensions rising in Frisco over the emergence of South Asians who now call the community home.
I am not going to pass judgment on the rightness or wrongness of the concerns. I know that it’s real, that some North Texans are concerned that their culture is being changed by…
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Facts and Case Summary - Tinker v. Des Moines
This is the summary of what was stated by the Supreme Court in the Tinker case.
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Trump Weird News-He “Doesn’t Give An FCC* About Calling Out CBS”
(* F*cking C*mmy C*nt , Just Return {*] “YoU” !!!)
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Federal court clears way for Ten Commandments to be displayed in Louisiana public school classrooms
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A federal appeals court cleared the way Friday for a Louisiana law requiring the Ten Commandments to be displayed in public school classrooms, lifting a lower court block and reigniting debate over religion in public education.
The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals voted 12-6 to lift a block first imposed in 2024, finding it was too early to determine…
Federal court clears way for Ten Commandments to be displayed in Louisiana public school classrooms