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ACAB: Cops Are Bringing ‘Delinquency Of A Minor’ Charges Against Adults Who Assist Students During Anti-ICE Protests
Tim Cushing, Techdirt
While the Trump administration’s extremely aggressive, thoroughly bigoted attempts to eliminate as many non-white people from this country as possible have resulted in some periodic push back from law enforcement officials, we can never forget that federal la…
Apr 15, 2026, 8:15 PM
Judge Tosses Trump’s Ridiculous $10 Billion Defamation Suit Against Rupert Murdoch
Mike Masnick, Techdirt
Back in January of last year, the Wall Street Journal published a story about a leather-bound birthday book that Ghislaine Maxwell had assembled for Jeffrey Epstein’s 50th birthday in 2003. The book included letters from various associates, and one of them bo…
Apr 15, 2026, 6:08 PM
Administration Apparently Planning To Blow Off FISA Court’s Ordered Fixes For Section 702
Tim Cushing, Techdirt
It wasn’t all that long ago that GOP legislators were collectively stonewalling a clean reauthorization of Section 702. Three years ago, these legislators were seeking to end the FBI (and other IC components’) access to Americans’ communications via “backdoor…
Apr 15, 2026, 4:30 PM
‘Trump Phone’ Sees Price Hike, But Still No Release Date (Or Actual Phone)
Karl Bode, Techdirt
Last year the fraud-prone Trump organization announced a half-assed wireless phone company. As we noted at the time, calling this a “phone company” was generous; it was a lazy marketing rebrand of another, half-assed, “MAGA-focused” mobile virtual network ope…
Apr 15, 2026, 12:25 PM
The CDC Doesn’t Want You To See A CDC Report On How Effective COVID Vaccines Are
Timothy Geigner, Techdirt
One of the most remarkable staffing decisions of the second Trump administration has been to allow the anti-vaxxers to run America’s health agencies. While RFK Jr. and his cadre of lieutenants prattle on about how they’re going to be super transparent, data-d…
Apr 15, 2026, 3:10 AM
Trump Invites More Criminal Acts By Promising Pardons To Everyone Who Works For Him
Tim Cushing, Techdirt
If you’re not corrupt, you generally don’t have to say certain things. Let’s take a look at ex-NYC mayor Eric Adams who, while dealing with plenty of corruption investigations and allegations, protested his innocence by saying stuff no one who wasn’t hip deep…
Apr 14, 2026, 4:26 PM
1,000+ Hollywood Insiders Write Letter Opposing Paramount/Warner Bros Merger
Karl Bode, Techdirt
More than 1,000 top Hollywood professionals ranging from Glenn Close to Denis Villeneuve have signed off on a new letter opposing the merger between Larry Ellison’s Paramount/CBS and Warner Brothers, warning that the massive $111 billion deal will result in u…
Apr 14, 2026, 12:31 PM
Oh God: RFK Jr. Unveils Plan To Be First Sitting Cabinet Secretary To Host A Podcast
Timothy Geigner, Techdirt
With all that RFK Jr. has done, and failed to do, as the Secretary of HHS, he should be terribly busy cleaning up mess after mess. The measles outbreak that is going to cause America to lose its elimination status is still ongoing and on pace to quadruple las…
Apr 14, 2026, 3:12 AM
The FAA’s “Temporary” Flight Restriction For Drones Is A Blatant Attempt To Criminalize Filming ICE
Raj Gambhir and Sophia Cope, Techdirt
The Trump administration has restricted the First Amendment right to record law enforcement by issuing an unprecedented nationwide flight restriction preventing private drone operators, including professional and citizen journalists, from flying drones within…
Apr 13, 2026, 10:12 PM
DOJ Is Using A Grand Jury To Force Reddit To Unmask An Anonymous User
Tim Cushing, Techdirt
The government’s reliance on grand juries to bring charges against activists, protesters, and the president’s personal enemies has been misplaced. Increasingly, grand juries are refusing to give the government what it wants: rubber-stamped indictments that wi…
Apr 13, 2026, 8:05 PM
Nevada Court Latest To Say Mandatory Detention Of Migrants Is Illegal
Tim Cushing, Techdirt
More of the same for the Trump administration — one that seems incapable of achieving its goals without breaking the law or disregarding the Constitution. Hundreds of judges handling thousands of cases have already told the administration it can’t do the thin…
Apr 13, 2026, 4:28 PM
Trump’s Two-Faced AI Policy
Andy Jung, Techdirt
The Trump administration’s AI policy is two-faced, torn between deregulation and despotism. In March, the administration released its National AI Legislative Framework, directing Congress to “prevent the United States government from coercing technology provi…
Apr 10, 2026, 10:07 PM
Trump Threatens CNN For Very Basic Reporting On His Shitty, Unpopular War
Karl Bode, Techdirt
In case you’ve been asleep, what appears to be an increasingly mentally unstable Donald Trump has further destabilized the middle east with a war nobody asked for or wanted. Most U.S. media coverage of Trump’s disastrous Iran war hasn’t been great, but they’v…
Apr 10, 2026, 8:03 PM
No Surprise Here: Inspection Reveals Dozens Of Violations In El Paso ICE Detention Center
Tim Cushing, Techdirt
I’m not here to cut the Trump administration any slack or engage in both-sides bullshit, but this is something that has always been true: we treat anyone imprisoned or detained as less than human. The dehumanization begins with something we call “processing” …
Apr 10, 2026, 4:31 PM
Musk, Bezos, Both Cry To Trump’s FCC In Bid To Dominate Satellite Broadband
Karl Bode, Techdirt
Elon Musk is desperate to dominate the Low-Earth-Orbit (LEO) satellite broadband market. So is Jeff Bezos. And now the two billionaires are engaged in proxy fights at Trump’s FCC over who’ll get the honor. Amazon’s LEO offering, Project Leo, is significantly …
Apr 9, 2026, 12:23 PM
Prosecutors Still Trying To Convict 62-Year-Old Woman For Wearing Penis Costume To Anti-Trump Protest
Tim Cushing, Techdirt
Never underestimate the stupidity of law enforcement. When things could just be left alone and everything would turn out OK, officers insist on inserting themselves into the equation, ensuring maximum pain and humiliation for everyone involved. In this case, …
Apr 8, 2026, 7:59 PM
Remember The “Ministry Of Truth” Freakout? Rubio Is Now Doing Something Far Worse Through Elon Musk’s X
Mike Masnick, Techdirt
Remember when the Biden administration set up something called the “Disinformation Governance Board” and the entire MAGA universe lost its collective mind? It was the “Ministry of Truth.” It was “government speech police.” It was the single most Orwellian thi…
Apr 8, 2026, 5:55 PM
Judge Tells Border Officers (Again!) That They Can’t Arrest Migrants Without Real Warrants
Tim Cushing, Techdirt
The courts keep pounding the nails home. What this government is engaged in is illegal, on multiple levels. If you subtract the pro-MAGA Fifth Circuit and 6/9ths of the Supreme Court, you have a judicial quorum that says rights are still rights, despite this …
Apr 8, 2026, 4:23 PM
Trump Attacks On Public Media Blocked By Judge (But It’s Too Little, Too Late)
Karl Bode, Techdirt
A federal judge has ruled that President Trump’s executive order last year defunding PBS and NPR violated the First Amendment, and has issued a permanent injunction insisting that executive branch agencies cannot enforce it. But the ruling may come too late t…
Apr 8, 2026, 12:25 PM
Trump’s Justice Department Dropped 23,000 Criminal Investigations To Focus On Deportations
Ken B. Morales and David Armstrong, Techdirt
This story was originally published by ProPublica. Republished under a CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 license. In the first days after Pam Bondi was appointed attorney general last year, the Department of Justice began shutting down pending criminal cases at a record pace. …
Apr 8, 2026, 3:23 AM
Trump’s Office Of Legal Counsel Says Trump Doesn’t Need To Follow The Presidential Records Rules
Tim Cushing, Techdirt
Leave it to the president that makes us nostalgic for Nixon-era corruption to claim that a law Nixon made necessary is no longer a law. The Presidential Records Act was summoned into existence by Nixon’s resignation and his subsequent efforts to destroy recor…
Apr 7, 2026, 4:24 PM
America First? Paramount Finalizes $24 Billion In Middle East Backing For Warner Bros Deal
Karl Bode, Techdirt
MAGA Republicans spent year swaddling themselves in phony “America first!” rhetoric (including suffering an embolism over Chinese influence over TikTok), but have suddenly gone mysteriously quiet now that $24 billion in Saudi, Chinese, and other foreign cash …
Apr 7, 2026, 12:25 PM
Trump Fires Attorney General Pam Bondi For Not Making His Vindictive Fantasies A Reality
Tim Cushing, Techdirt
You’re never safe when you’re working for Trump. That much was obvious in Trump’s first term, when he fired Attorney General Jeff Sessions, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, National Security Advisor John Bolton, and FBI Director James Comey. They were all fi…
Apr 6, 2026, 10:10 PM
Trump Celebrates Easter By Dropping An F-Bomb, Threatening More War Crimes
Tim Cushing, Techdirt
Before we get into this, let’s set the scene a little: The latest Pew Research Center survey, conducted Jan. 20-26, 2026, finds that most White evangelicals (69%) approve of the way Trump is handling his job as president. And a majority (58%) say they support…
Apr 6, 2026, 6:02 PM
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