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Federal Prosecutors: Thrown Sandwiches Are A Felony But Openly Carrying Rifles Isn’t A Problem
Tim Cushing, Techdirt
Is throwing a sandwich at someone a felony? Well, that all depends on a few factors. The most important considerations are these: What would normally be rhetorical questions were answered in Washington, D.C. recently. A (now-former) DOJ employee allegedly (we…
Aug 26, 2025, 9:58 PM
With Intel, Trump Continues His Race To Violate Every Clause In The Constitution By Now Arriving At The Takings Clause
Cathy Gellis, Techdirt
Trump’s quest to stress-test every line in the Constitution continues apace, with his declaration that the government now owns 10% of Intel looking like nothing but a great, big, gigantic taking. Of course, it is also terrible policy. While there are sometime…
Aug 26, 2025, 7:25 PM
John Bolton And Bitter Irony Of False Equivalence
Mike Brock, Techdirt
Last week, FBI agents raided the home of John Bolton—former National Security Advisor, lifelong Republican, and one of the most establishment figures in American foreign policy. His crime? Writing a book critical of Donald Trump and opposing the president’s s…
Aug 26, 2025, 5:50 PM
Trump Wants To Criminalize Free Speech In The Form Of Flag Burning
Mike Masnick, Techdirt
You may recall that Donald Trump and his supporters have insisted that he’s the “free speech” President. His first day in office this term, he issued an executive order “restoring free speech” saying that “no Federal Government officer, employee, or agent eng…
Aug 26, 2025, 4:30 PM
Trump Whines, Again Threatens NBC, ABC Broadcast Licenses For Doing Journalism
Karl Bode, Techdirt
With Fox being Fox, and CBS having just paid Trump a $16 billion bribe and now owned by Trump’s friends the Ellison family, there’s little worry that either network will be doing serious journalism anytime soon. So Trump, over the weekend, redirected his ire …
Aug 26, 2025, 12:30 PM
Too MAGA For MAGA: Ryan Walters Preps For Criminal Defense, Gets Shunned By Linda McMahon
Timothy Geigner, Techdirt
The volume of stories about Ryan Walters, State Superintendent of Oklahoma, seems to be increasing. Walters is a Christian Nationalist by name, though the first of those words goes against all of what I learned about Christianity as a Catholic minor and curio…
Aug 26, 2025, 2:59 AM
State Dept. Guts Human Rights Reporting, Removing Anything The Administration Doesn’t Think Violates Human Rights
Tim Cushing, Techdirt
Not content to rewrite American history to better serve white people, the Trump administration is now rewriting world history on the fly by recasting terminal human rights violators as “not all that bad, actually” and adding stuff to other human rights report…
Aug 25, 2025, 10:29 PM
Trump Stooges Keep Helping The President Indulge In His Vindictive Crime Fantasies
Tim Cushing, Techdirt
Even though Trump says it’s about the crime rates, it’s not actually about the crime rates. Just like he used the hallucination that the entirety of Los Angeles was under siege by “violent” protesters to justify sending in the troops, the reality was that any…
Aug 25, 2025, 7:22 PM
DHS Arrests Kilmar Abrego Garcia With Plans To Ship Him To Uganda, Because He Refused To Plead Guilty To Fake Human Trafficking Charges
Tim Cushing, Techdirt
The man who never expected to be the public face of the Trump administration’s shotgun approach to deportation is, yet again, being given a set of untenable options and expected to pick one of them. And when he refused to accept the bad choice they gave him, …
Aug 25, 2025, 4:44 PM
The Government Makes It Harder For The Public To Comment On Regulatory Proceedings
Karl Bode, Techdirt
Ideally, the U.S. public is supposed to be able to comment on government policy proceedings, and the government is supposed to listen to that input. Of course it doesn’t really work that way: for years we’ve noted how U.S. regulatory comment proceedings are f…
Aug 25, 2025, 12:37 PM
Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week At Techdirt
Leigh Beadon, Techdirt
This week, our first place winner on the insightful side is Heart of Dawn with a comment about the idea that ICE and the Trump administration are stupid: You don’t abduct people and put them in concentration camps (foreign or domestic) by simply doing somethi…
Aug 24, 2025, 7:00 PM
This Week In Techdirt History: August 17th – 23rd
Leigh Beadon, Techdirt
Five Years Ago This week in 2020, a judge forbade a Facebook user being sued by a cop from publishing the cop’s name on social media, the DC police union was suing to block the release of the names of officers involved in shootings, and we wrote about how Sec…
Aug 23, 2025, 7:30 PM
OK Superintendent Plans To Give Transplant Teachers From NY, CA Woke Tests Developed By Prager U
Timothy Geigner, Techdirt
When the Techdirt community has had to hear so much about a single state’s education superintendent, you know something has gone horribly wrong. The horribly wrong in this case is Ryan Walters of Oklahoma. Walters appears to be doing some sort of combo-impres…
Aug 23, 2025, 2:39 AM
President Trump’s War On “Woke AI” Is A Civil Liberties Nightmare
Tori Noble and Kit Walsh, Techdirt
The White House’s recently-unveiled “AI Action Plan” wages war on so-called “woke AI”—including large language models (LLMs) that provide information inconsistent with the administration’s views on climate change, gender, and other issues. It also targets mea…
Aug 22, 2025, 6:58 PM
Justice Jackson Correctly Defines The John Roberts Supreme Court As The Calvinball Court
Mike Masnick, Techdirt
In theory, the nice thing about having a Supreme Court is that it provides some level of legal certainty. You know how the system works: lower courts make decisions based on law and precedent, parties can appeal, and eventually the highest court issues carefu…
Aug 22, 2025, 5:47 PM
Another Bullshit ‘Assaulting An ICE Officer’ Case Falls Apart In Front Of A Grand Jury
Tim Cushing, Techdirt
The number of assaults on ICE officers was always going to increase. There’s no way it wouldn’t, not when ICE was sending out a task force composed of multiple federal law enforcement agencies daily to multiple locations in the United States, hoping to finall…
Aug 22, 2025, 4:30 PM
DC Appeals Court Shoots Down T-Mobile Claim That Selling Your Location Data Without Consent Is Perfectly Legal
Karl Bode, Techdirt
In a rare win for U.S. consumer privacy, the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit has ruled unanimously against T-Mobile and its subsidiary Sprint, upholding (for now) a $92 million 2020 FCC fine against the company for selling sensitive w…
Aug 22, 2025, 12:22 PM
Hundreds Of HHS Staff Sign Letter Begging RFK Jr. To Stop Making Them Targets With Misinformation
Timothy Geigner, Techdirt
As you will recall, a single gunmen opened fire on a CDC campus in Atlanta earlier this month, claiming to have been injured by COVID vaccines. The rhetoric he had used prior to the shooting closely aligned with what RFK Jr. had been spouting for years. While…
Aug 22, 2025, 2:59 AM
UK Backs Down On Apple Encryption Backdoor—But The Secret Deal Raises New Questions
Mike Masnick, Techdirt
The UK government has reportedly backed down from its dangerous demand that Apple build encryption backdoors, following pressure from the Trump administration. But the secretive nature of this “mutually beneficial” agreement should make us deeply suspicious a…
Aug 21, 2025, 8:26 PM
ICE Goes Full Hegseth: Adds Random Person To Group Chat Discussing Ongoing Manhunt
Tim Cushing, Techdirt
The Trump administration has been described as many things, none of them good. What no one will ever accuse it of being is “competent.” Trump has surrounded himself with sycophants, most of them known only for waving the MAGA flag when not hosting shows on Fo…
Aug 21, 2025, 6:04 PM
Amy Klobuchar Wants To Break The Internet Because Someone Made A Stupid Satirical Video About Her
Mike Masnick, Techdirt
Senator Amy Klobuchar is one of the top Democrats in the Senate. She could be fighting to protect democracy against fascists. She could be working on a new, better vision for Americans. But instead, she’s focused on breaking the internet. And now we know why:…
Aug 21, 2025, 4:29 PM
Trump Admin Kills Enforcement Action Against 165 Corporations For Various Bullshit And Fraud
Karl Bode, Techdirt
I don’t mean to harp on this, but a central promise of the Trump administration during the last election season was that a second Trump term would “take aim at big tech,” protect the little guy, rein in corporate power, and even “continue the legacy of antitr…
Aug 21, 2025, 12:22 PM
New FOIAs Show Barr’s DOJ Coordinated With Congress On Destroying Section 230
Mike Masnick, Techdirt
During the last year of the Trump administration, there was this weird period where the Bill Barr DOJ decided that it could destroy the internet. It came out of Donald Trump declaring that Section 230 was bad for whatever reason Donald Trump thinks anything i…
Aug 20, 2025, 10:28 PM
These GOP Lawmakers Referred Constituents To The CFPB For Help. Then They Voted To Gut The Agency.
Joel Jacobs, Techdirt
This story was originally published by ProPublica. Republished under a CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 license. A New York business frozen out of its checking account. A Georgia chemotherapy patient denied a credit card refund after a product dispute. A New Jersey service me…
Aug 20, 2025, 7:56 PM
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