Ilhan Omar On SCOTUS And The First Amendment

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Trump Regime Attacks Another Military Institution: The Stars and Stripes

No, I am not talking about the recent Atlantic article that quotes President Donald Trump calling US war dead as losers or repeats the disparaging remarks he made about the late Senator John McCain. This is something new that missed my radar but was brought to my attention by one…

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The First Amendment Don’t Mean Sh*t In Tulsa Today!

Just gonna leave this right here… P.S. Glad to see that the officers are wearing masks.

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In Trump’s America, Lafayette County Tries to Interfere with Freedom of the Press!

Well after absolutely a ton of push back from all over the spectrum, Lafayette County pulled back a suggested ordinance that would prosecute journalists and the media if they didn’t publish county press releases about water pollution verbatim. And even though they’ve pulled back, they still want to claim what…

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Trump Challenges First Amendment and Twitter Use…again!

President Donald Trump is appealing an appellate court ruling that he can’t block users from his @realDonalTrump Twitter account…saying the application of the First Amendment in the case was “fundamentally misconceived.” Whoa…must have been his lawyers on that one…too many multi-syllabic words there! President Donald Trump is challenging a federal…

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Journalism In Milwaukee Takes Another Hit

Gannett Co, the owner of USA Today and the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (and 98 other papers) is being acquired by GateHouse Media (which if you trace the lineage is a division of Japanese company Softbank). This is being touted as a great way to preserve for profit print journalism in…

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Trump Gets Slapped Again For Blocking Twitter Users!

blah blah blah blah blah…get off your soap box Ed. “I’m sorry, Dave. I’m afraid I can’t do that. “ Well, President Trump has been slapped down once again for blocking social media users who are critical of him or are mocking him. However much that bothers him…he’s not actually…

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When Will We Stop Allowing Prayer In Government Meetings?

Legislatures and governmental bodies at all levels of government have traditionally had any number of clergy or elected member open meetings with prayer. It’s been unconstitutional since the passage of the Bill of Rights…and it is unconstitutional today. It is really time that we weaned ourselves from this ‘tradition’. I…

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GOP Decides To Take On The First Amendment in Texas!

I realize that I am not a journalist nor is Blogging Blue a newspaper. But as an individual American expressing myself and publishing my own ideas for all of the world to see…the First Amendment protections surrounding freedom of speech particularly, are important to me. The event(s) that I am…

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Go figure: Competing headlines in Trump’s America

Trump Promises to ‘Look Into’ Twitter Shadow Banning: ‘Discriminatory and Illegal’. (from someone who used to ban people from his twitter account until the courts said it was a violation of the First Amendment) vs: CNN Says White House Banned One of Its Reporters for Asking ‘Inappropriate’ Questions. (which seems…

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