Katie Fallow

#1 in McCoul v. Texas A&M University System (S.D. Tex., 4:26-cv-00865) – CourtListener.com COMPLAINT against All Defendants (Filing fee $ 405 receipt number ATXSDC-35013427) filed by Melissa McCoul. (Reichek, Amanda) (Entered: 02/04/2026)

JUST IN: Texas A&M professor Melissa McCoul sues over firing linked to gender-related content in youth literature class. TX Gov. Abbott called for her firing. Among the defendants: former POLITICO owner & NOTUS founder, Robert Allbritton. Doc: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Covering the Court: The Media and the First Amendment | The New York Historical A panel of journalists and legal experts explores how free speech, legal precedent, and the challenges facing journalism today intersect.

📍EVENT: Register for today's @nyhistory.bsky.social panel Covering the Court: The Media and the First Amendment at 6:30pm ET. With @knightcolumbia.org's @katiefallow.bsky.social, @propublica.org's @justinelliott.bsky.social, @nytimes.com's @adamliptak.bsky.social. www.nyhistory.org/programs/cov...

Washington Post undergoing significant layoffs as part of ‘strategic reset’ Employees were told Wednesday that the paper’s sports desk would close among other cuts and restructurings

The biggest threats to journalism in this country, and to the possibility of an informed and empowered electorate, stem from the political economy of the media. www.theguardian.com/media/2026/f...

The year the media oligarchs bowed to Trump We warned last year that Donald Trump’s second term as president would turbo-charge the political right’s burgeoning media-intimidation complex. Republican officials and right-wing billionaires were a...

The underlying dynamic is that for Jeff Bezos and the other media oligarchs, their news business is a tiny fraction of their overall business holdings and they are willing to sacrifice it to appease Trump. They resisted in term one; this time, they capitulated. www.mediamatters.org/cbs/year-med...

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BREAKING: Judge issues TRO reining in tactics against peaceful protesters and journalists at Portland OR ICE facility. Judge Michael Simon bars use of crowd control munitions against people who don't pose physical threat. Doc: https//www.documen...

More sexist garbage.

The @nytimes.com coverage of France's Grok investigation casts it as part of a conflict between U.S. & European speech rules. That's true only if you buy Elon's version.

This is a case about CSAM and NCII. Those are crimes in France, and crimes in the U.S. There's no transatlantic divide here. 1/

truly, every reporter should shutdown any biometrics now. do not tell yourself you will do it later!!!! just take 10 minutes and check all your devices. THANKS~!

exactly. this is not difficult.

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Abortion Rights Advocate Talk Canceled After TPUSA Pressure Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center canceled a talk by a retired doctor who advocates for a woman’s right to receive a third-trimester abortion, the conservative Texas Scorecard website repor...

Supposed free speech enthusiasts Turning Point USA got an abortion providers' speech canceled at Texas Tech www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-t...

Beware: Government Using Image Manipulation for Propaganda U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem last week posted a photo of the arrest of Nekima Levy Armstrong, one of three activists who had entered a St. Paul, Minn. church to confront a pastor who

This isn’t just “owning the libs” — this is the highest office in the nation using technology to lie to the entire world. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

Latest batch of Epstein files includes some survivors' names, despite DOJ assurances, lawyers say Additional material from the DOJ's files on the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein is being released to the public today, Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche says.

"Attorneys for hundreds of Epstein survivors tell ABC News that names and identifying information of numerous victims appear unredacted in this latest disclosure, including several women whose names have never before been publicly associated with the case."

One of the "overt acts" of the conspiracy was Don Lemon and Georgia Fort interviewing the pastor of the church:

If you answer “No” you get an invitation to Mar-a-Lago

"We are supposed to have our constitutional right of the freedom to film, to be a member of the press. I don’t feel like I have my First Amendment right as a member of the press," Georgia Fort said.

https://bit.ly/4qcOQHt

Chokehold: Donald Trump’s War on Free Speech & the Need for Systemic Resistance This Free Press report examines the Trump administration’s hostile relationship with dissent and free expression in 2025. It analyzes how Trump and his political enablers have sought to undermine and ...

If you're having trouble tracking the dizzying number of attacks on free expression, check out the @freepress.bsky.social report, "Chokehold: Donald Trump’s War on Free Speech & the Need for Systemic Resistance," and prepare to be very, very alarmed. www.freepress.net/attack-on-fr...

Here’s the Company That Sold DHS ICE’s Notorious Face Recognition App Immigration agents have used Mobile Fortify to scan the faces of countless people in the US—including many citizens.

ICE agents are scanning your face while hiding theirs.

Jeff Bezos Should Donate the Washington Post to a Charity His conflicts of interests are insurmountable. He can take a heroic path to strengthen journalism.

Jeff Bezos should be a hero and donate the Washington Post to a charity. Bezos would get a big charitable deduction; the rest of us would get a newspaper dedicated to the public interest. This post from Steven Waldman is from a year ago but it's still a great idea. www.cjr.org/opinion/wald...

ICE Denies Detainee's Request to Attend His Son's Funeral, Attorney Says Maher Tarabishi was the primary caretaker of his son, Wael Tarabishi, 30, who died on Friday, Jan. 23, from complications related to Pompe disease.

Maher Tarabishi, who has been detained by ICE since October, was the primary caretaker of his disabled adult child, Wael.

On Jan. 23, Wael died from complications related to Pompe disease, a rare genetic condition.

ICE has now denied Maher’s request to attend his funeral, his attorney says.

Day after day in Minneapolis, ordinary people have pulled out their phones and documented ICE & Border Patrol's actions, often in the face of threats and tear gas. They showed the world the killings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti. But what happens when the camera is in ICE’s hands? 1/11

New documents released following the AAUP v. Rubio trial disclose extraordinary evidence that U.S. #immigration officials used unvetted allegations from opaque pro-Israel organizations like Canary Mission to target students for protected pro-Palestinian speech. knightcolumbia.org/blog/trial-e...

that's insulting to Remy! And to rats generally.

A Government Of Influencers, By Influencers, For Influencers The perverse race to find—or gin up—viral footage in Minnesota and other ICE hotspots.

Don't forget the ridiculous reason why Minneapolis became a target in the first place

This is a good use of government speech.

Magical walk home through Prospect Park tonight.

"We lived happily during the war," Ilya Kaminsky

you're only allowed to carry a gun to storm the Capitol

If our administration is as racist as the Left claims, then why have the past two civilians we've murdered been white?

by J.D. Vance

Emergency Triad: Another American Has Been Murdered by Our Government It’s worse than it looks and it looks plenty bad.

“So the government didn’t just use masked, armed, unidentified agents of the state to execute a citizen on the street, in broad daylight and in front of dozens of witnesses—it lied about the victim and what happened in the most brazen manner possible.”

www.thebulwark.com/p/emergency-...

“We are heartbroken but also very angry.    Alex was a kindhearted soul who cared deeply for his family and friends and also the American veterans whom he cared for as an ICU nurse at the Minneapolis VA hospital. Alex wanted to make a difference in this world. Unfortunately he will not be with us to see his impact. I do not throw around the hero term lightly. However his last thought and act was to protect a woman.    The sickening lies told about our son by the administration are reprehensible and disgusting. Alex is clearly not holding a gun when attacked by Trump’s murdering and cowardly ICE thugs. He has his phone in his right hand and his empty left hand is raised above his head while trying to protect the woman ICE just pushed down all while being pepper sprayed.    Please get the truth out about our son. He was a good man. Thank you”

Statement from Alex Pretti’s family.

“Please get the truth out about our son. He was a good man.”