David Loy

A Cutting French Senator Becomes Trump’s European Nemesis

One could do worse than be called a “visceral antitotalitarian.” www.nytimes.com/2025/06/11/w...

In Los Angeles, LAPD and the LA Sheriff have also violated journalists' rights as they try to report the news. In California, reporters have additional protections. See our letter with 24 other groups: firstamendmentcoalition.org/2025/06/11/c...

FAC, SPJ NorCal urge SFPD to respect press rights at protests See the 2024 Impact Report >>

With ‪@spj-norcal.bsky.social, FAC sent this letter to the San Francisco police chief noting officers' detaining, shoving, and obstructing journalists from doing their jobs covering protests. This is unacceptable. firstamendmentcoalition.org/2025/06/11/f...

@nppa.org has joined again w/several of our 1st Amendment & free press allies in a letter to the LAPD & LASD remind them of journalist’s rights. See below.

We remain steadfast in our mission to make sure 1st Amendment rights are upheld across the United States of America. 🇺🇸

Are you a journalist covering LA protests?

Check out our digital security guide on how to protect yourself, secure your communications and protect the information on your devices: freedom.press/digisec/blog...

The deployment of federal agencies to LA may be getting the headlines, but many of the most serious abuses have come from local police.

We helped lead a letter to the LAPD and LASD reminding them of journalists' rights and the liability they're risking: media.freedom.press/media/docume...

Journalists must be allowed to do their jobs without fearing for their lives. “The First Amendment is the First Amendment regardless of who you report for or what your perspective is,” says @davidloy.bsky.social.

Law enforcement is violently targeting press at protests around Los Angeles, from easily recognizable "mainstream" outlets to freelancers and independents. ALL press have explicit legal protections in California. #JournalismIsNotACrime.

This evidence thread may get graphic. 🧵👇

USA: RSF condemns wave of violence against journalists covering Los Angeles protests At least 27 attacks on journalists covering protests in Los Angeles took place between June 6 and June 8. The assaults have been carried out by both law enforcement and protesters. Violence against jo...

#USA: RSF condemns the wave of violence – at least 27 separate attacks – that swept across journalists covering protests in Los Angeles this weekend. Violence against journalists trying to do their jobs is unacceptable. #JournalismIsNotACrime rsf.org/en/usa-rsf-c...

Coalition Condemns Harm to Journalists Covering Protests Against ICE Raids in Los Angeles

28 press rights orgs joined a letter to DHS Secretary Noem, calling out acts against press during this weekend's protests in Los Angeles.

I won't be naive about impacts of one letter. But we are united for our free press, and this puts them on notice about points of law and policy.

More soon.

The targeting of reporters in LA is inexcusable. The public interest in press coverage of protests couldn’t be more self-evident.

We helped lead this letter to remind federal officers of journalists’ constitutional right to report on civil unrest.
media.freedom.press/media/docume...

RTDNA is proud to be a signatory on this letter. Whenever a journalist is attacked, the ultimate victims are the people that journalist serves.

Coalition Condemns Harm to Journalists Covering Protests Against ICE Raids in Los Angeles See the 2024 Impact Report >>

With 24 other orgs, FAC condemns the treatment of journalists covering the protests against ICE raids in LA. Targeting journalists violates the First Amendment.
firstamendmentcoalition.org/2025/06/09/c...

This is appalling. Purposefully attacking journalists violates the First Amendment.

With the escalating attacks in Los Angeles on our free speech rights & right to assemble/protest, I am sharing some resources. First, our protest rights guide @freepress.bsky.social in English & Spanish!

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Press Release | State Democracy Defenders Action

“If Paramount capitulates here, they will be eviscerating perhaps their most precious journalistic assets …not to mention their own reputation and shareholder value,” said @normeisen.bsky.social.

“Beyond that, Paramount will be harming the First Amendment itself. They should not yield.”

Opinion | The Abundance Agenda Has Its Own Theory of Power

To stand against abuse of power means to know that “power will be ill used by your friends as well as by your enemies, by your political opponents as well as by your neighbors.” www.nytimes.com/2025/06/08/o...

Once Champions of Fringe Causes, Now in a ‘Trap of Their Own Making’

When the leopard eats its own face. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/08/u...

Once Champions of Fringe Causes, Now in a ‘Trap of Their Own Making’

When the leopard eats its own face. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/08/u...

Opinion | America’s Novel and Gratuitous Fiscal Crisis

“America’s deficits … are driven by the unwillingness of the richest Americans, who pay by far the most tax, to pay even the modest levels that would be necessary to fund America’s far-from-generous public sector.” www.nytimes.com/2025/06/03/o...

Trump Loses Another Battle in His War Against Elite Law Firms

Strike three for the unconstitutional campaign of “resentment and retaliation by Mr. Trump.” www.nytimes.com/2025/05/27/u...

In ‘Cancer Alley,’ a Battle Over Who Gets to Measure Air Pollution

There is no way this law doesn’t violate the “constitutional right to free speech.” www.nytimes.com/2025/05/23/c...

If Justice Dept. Can’t Prosecute Trump’s Foes, It Will ‘Shame’ Them, Official Says

ICYMI, this is what fascism looks like. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/21/u...

Indiana hides executions. Firing squads would be more honest. | Opinion Our politicians want tough-guy credit for killing killers, while detaching themselves from the reality of their decisions.

"Indiana killed Ritchie under a veil of secrecy, with no media present...We don't know exactly how long the pentobarbital took to do its job Tuesday. We don't know if Ritchie suffered," @jamesebriggs.bsky.social writes.

Here at @cnpa.bsky.social California Journalism Awards Gala celebrating press freedom & excellent California reporting.

free speech is *the* foundational right that allows democracy to exist. anyone who opposes it either doesn’t understand what it is or hates democracy with a burning passion

and the argument: www.ca9.uscourts.gov/media/video/...

Garcia v. County of Alameda FAC represents Jose Fermoso, a reporter for The Oaklandside, in a challenge to Alameda County’s sideshow spectator ordinance that criminalizes journalism by making it unlawful to observe a sideshow fr...

The county actually made both arguments. Briefs here if you’re interested & have time. firstamendmentcoalition.org/case/garcia-...

Map: These Oakland intersections are hotspots for sideshows We mapped almost four years of police data revealing the Oakland neighborhoods most impacted by rowdy street takeovers.

oaklandside.org/2023/05/30/o...

“At a typical sideshow, drivers take over intersections for a period of minutes or hours, skidding in dizzying circles and whipping their cars from side to side, often while passengers dangle out sunroofs, windows, and open doors. Onlookers crowd around racing cars, cheering them on.”