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Iranian Studies Professor Taken Into Immigration Custody While Traveling To Academic Conference Vahid Abedini was on his way to a Middle East Studies Association meeting when he was detained. He’s now in ICE custody.

ICE now casually and lawlessly arrests scholars, journalists and commentators without any justification.

Professor Detained En Route To Middle East Studies Conference: Vahid Abedini was on his way to a Middle East Studies Association meeting when he was detained. He’s now in ICE custody.

OpEd: Executive Editor Julie Pace on why AP is standing for your right to speak freely The executive editor of The Associated Press says the news organization is fighting for the right of the press and public to speak freely without being targeted by the government.

No president should have the power to silence journalists or control who gets to question them.

Good for the AP for refusing to back down. Others should follow their example.

That's an all-star panel!!

Arms supplier to press murderers welcomes press murderer to DC DHS targets journalists for speaking out about Gaza

Arms supplier to press murderers welcomes press murderer to DC

Journalist or not, photography isn’t a hate crime Gatekeeping over hate crime charges misses the forest for the trees

The hate crime charge against Alexa Wilkinson for photographing vandalism of the New York Times building is a dangerous precedent, no matter what you think of Wilkinson.

Arms supplier to press murderers welcomes press murderer to DC DHS targets journalists for speaking out about Gaza

Journalist-hating president kisses up to journalist-killing crown prince

I’m glad every executive and politician spent several months trembling in fear and presenting tchotchkes and bending over at every possible opportunity, when they could have just been good at their jobs and behaved with integrity like New York’s new mayor just did.

And he cucked him in no time!

Larry Ellison discussed axing CNN hosts with White House in takeover bid talks Exclusive: Senior officials indicated favorability toward Paramount Skydance acquiring Warner Bros Discovery

Yikes.

“Senior White House officials have discussed internally their preference for Paramount Skydance to acquire Warner Bros Discovery in recent weeks, and one official has discussed potential programming changes at CNN with Larry Ellison, the largest shareholder of Paramount.”

Immigration agents claim routine reporting violates federal law Officers who can’t handle public scrutiny should get a job that doesn’t involve publicly abducting people.

“It looks like these officers believe transparency itself is obstructive to their operations, which is a pretty good indicator that their operations are in need of obstruction … The First Amendment is intended to obstruct government abuses.”

EXCLUSIVE: Mahmoud Khalil Sues Trump Admin for Communications With Anti-Palestinian Groups Khalil is seeking all communications between the Trump administration and outside pro-Israel doxxing groups like Canary Mission.

Mahmoud Khalil Sues Trump Admin for Communications With Anti-Palestinian Groups

Khalil is seeking all communications between the Trump administration and outside pro-Israel doxxing groups like Canary Mission.

@zeteo.com's @premthakker.bsky.social has the story ⬇️

Trump on brutal murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi: "Things happen, but [MBS] knew nothing about it.”"

In 2021 the Director of National Intelligence declassified a report saying otherwise.

Larry Ellison discussed axing CNN hosts with White House in takeover bid talks Exclusive: Senior officials indicated favorability toward Paramount Skydance acquiring Warner Bros Discovery

So we went from feigned outrage about allegedly biased public media to the president making deals with centibillionaire friends to make corporate media more biased. Got it.

"Somehow calling a female reporter 'piggy' was only the second-most offensive anti-press utterance to come out of the president’s mouth in recent days."

Read our statement: freedom.press/issues/press...

Journalist or not, photography isn’t a hate crime Gatekeeping over hate crime charges misses the forest for the trees

The hate crime charge against Alexa Wilkinson for photographing vandalism of the New York Times building is a dangerous precedent, no matter what you think of Wilkinson.

Trump's censor in chief at the FCC, Brendan Carr, just sent a letter to the heads of BBC, NPR and PBS informing them he's launching a "news distortion" probe into the BBC's editing of a documentary on Trump's Jan. 6 activities.

Here it is:

🔴 Scolding a U.S. reporter for asking questions about MBS ordering a fellow journalist to be bonesawed to death signals to dictators everywhere that they can murder journalists with impunity.

Read our full statement below:

📥 “Scolding a U.S. reporter for asking questions about MBS ordering a fellow journalist to be bonesawed to death signals to dictators everywhere that they can murder journalists with impunity.” — @freedom.press

Full statement below:

YouTube video by Freedom of the Press Foundation ICE's targeting of pro-Palestinian journalists

When the U.S. government suppresses pro-Palestine speech, it convinces itself it's not violating the First Amendment, because it equates pro-Palestine speech with pro-terrorism, @atlpresscollective.com's Samantha C. Hamilton says.

She calls it a "de-factor Palestine exception to" 1A.

Watch live:

🔴 LIVE NOW: Join us for a conversation about ICE's targeting of pro-Palestinian journalists, featuring @hmaesq.bsky.social, @cgbatty.bsky.social, Samantha C. Hamilton, Sam Judy, Marium Uddin, and moderated by FPF's @seth-stern.bsky.social.

Watch: www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Hzn...

Update: Sami Hamdi and his wife, Soumaya will also join today's discussion.

Sami is back home in England after 18 days in ICE custody.

Register here: zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Brendan Carr is an attorney who took an oath to uphold the Constitution. He knows better.

We told DC’s attorney disciplinary office four months ago (and who knows how many First Amendment violations ago) that it should disbar him. thehill.com/homenews/med...

The four-word message the BBC should send Trump about his $1bn lawsuit The corporation must show it will not be cowed, unlike American broadcast media, and call the president’s bluff

“There’s one way the BBC could retrieve some dignity,” @arusbridger.bsky.social writes in @prospectmagazine.co.uk.

“It should send Donald Trump a four-word reply to his blustering threat to sue the corporation in Florida for $1bn in damages: ‘See you in court.’”

This reads more like a horror movie than a weather forecast.

This is not going to stop with Muslim or noncitizen journalists. The administration wants to turn labels like "terrorism" and "Antifa" into magic words that make the First Amendment disappear, no matter how flimsy their allegations.

Join us on Tuesday to hear more.

Invitation to FPF event about ICE's targeting of pro-Palestinian journalists.

🔔 Join us for a conversation about ICE's targeting of pro-Palestinian journalists, featuring Hassan Ahmad 韓安山, Chris Godshall-Bennett, Samantha C. Hamilton, Sam Judy, Marium Uddin, and moderated by FPF's Seth Stern.

🗓️ Tuesday, Nov. 18, 2 p.m. EST

RSVP: http://freedom.press/targeted-by-ice

What the closure of Teen Vogue means for journalism. Condé Nast folded a beloved magazine that treated youth and feminism as political topics, not trends.

What the closure of Teen Vogue means for journalism.

“As a spin-off, Teen Vogue was as unlike its parent as Vivian Wilson is to Elon Musk.”

ICE looks to WA tribes to house detained immigrants The Nisqually Indian Tribe says it is turning down a request from ICE to house detained immigrants on tribal land.

Breaking from us:

As the Trump administration searches for more space to detain immigrants, it is approaching Washington tribes to see if they will participate.

Nisqually Indian Tribe is saying no.

www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

Our very own @josephcox.bsky.social goes in on why FOIA-based reporting should be free as a public service. If you want to read a recent @404media.co example of that, look no further this essential scoop:

You can't refuse to be scanned by ICE's facial recognition app.

Hey, friends, we've just published a video this week that might interest you and your audiences.

Feel free to amplify in any way. It's also available on all other major platforms: bsky.app/profile/free...

Firm Tied to Kristi Noem Secretly Got Money From $220 Million DHS Ad Contracts The company is run by the husband of Noem’s chief DHS spokesperson and has personal and business ties to Noem and her aides. DHS invoked the “emergency” at the border to skirt competitive bidding rule...

This is corruption. Plain and simple.

"The Department of Homeland Security has kept at least one beneficiary of the nine-figure ad deal a secret, records and interviews show: a Republican consulting firm with long-standing personal and business ties to Noem and her senior aides at DHS."