Tootfinder

Zelensky awards Order of Freedom to Vladyslav Heraskevych after IOC bans memorial helmet: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/13/zelensky-awards-order-of-freedom.html

We hear a lot of talk about “freedom” from my Republican colleagues.
And yet these same Republicans are working overtime to deny tens of millions of women the basic freedom to control their own bodies.
That is wrong, and it represents a fundamental betrayal of what freedom is about.
-- Bernie Sanders
https://

Senator Bernie Sanders (@sanders.senate.gov)
We hear a lot of talk about “freedom” from my Republican colleagues. And yet these same Republicans are working overtime to deny tens of millions of women the basic freedom to control their own bodies. That is wrong, and it represents a fundamental betrayal of what freedom is about.

Inter American Press Association: press freedom in the Americas suffered a "dramatic deterioration" in 2025; the US has "restrictions" on freedom of speech (Astrid Sušrez/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/americas-pr

Press freedom in the Americas saw 'dramatic deterioration' in 2025, watchdog says
A monitoring watchdog says press freedom across the Americas dropped sharply in 2025, with more killings, arrests and intimidation of media workers. The Inter American Press Association on Tuesday released its annual Chapultepec Index of Freedom of Expression and the Press covering 23 countries. It ranked Venezuela and Nicaragua as countries without freedom of speech. The group links rising attacks to more authoritarian leaders. It says Venezuela sees widespread self-censorship, and Nicaragua l…

'The court can conceive of no circumstance': Judge bars 'warrantless' immigration enforcement raids at churches to protect 'religious freedom' | Law & Crime
https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/the-court-can-conceive-of-no-circumstance-judge-bars-warrantless-immigration-enforcement-raids-at-churches-to-protect-religious-freedom/

How true. It’s been common knowledge for a long time, but apparently not to everyone—and especially not to all politicians.
https://theconversation.com/to-win-freedom-from-trumps-america-europe-needs-to-overcome-its-…

To win freedom from Trump’s America, Europe needs to overcome its ‘downward coping syndrome’
Europe is rattled by Trump’s approach to geopolitics but doesn’t seem able to produce an alternative vision.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MorningShow
George Michael:
🎵 Freedom 90
#GeorgeMichael
https://djiam1.bandcamp.com/track/george-michael-freedom-90-djiam-regroove
https://open.spotify.com/track/1wZ7o1mZysv1l26ZWawVfW

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/07/600-week-buys-freedom-fear/613972/?gift=7dKtnNrILXcLLty1b9gh3v55Ifcy-zz6-SVLZ4NDiZw

$600 a Week Buys Freedom From Fear
An extra $600 a week buys freedom from fear.

This university's 'intellectual freedom' center creates the problem it claims to solve (Victor Ray/MS NOW)
https://www.ms.now/opinion/iowa-intellectual-freedom-christopher-rufo-republicans
http://www.memeorandum.com/260412/p14#a260412p14

A look at the dearth of media coverage of Sudan's civil war, started in 2023; report: 32 journalists have been killed and 90% of outlets damaged or destroyed (Isma'il Kushkush/Nieman Reports)
https://niemanreports.org/sudan-civil-war…

Sudan’s Civil War Is Silencing the Press - Nieman Reports
Sudan’s journalists risk their lives to tell the story of their homeland as the world turns away, writes Isma'il Kushkush.

An Elephant Family Has Been Torn Apart: Speak Out! #AnimalRights

An Elephant Family Has Been Torn Apart: Speak Out!
Please join us in demanding freedom and reunification for Angeline, Savanna, Tasha, Victoria, and Zuri. No more elephants should be born just to die behind bars.

Carceral Nation: Twenty Years from Blog Post to Book
In December 2006, I published an article on this blog about mass incarceration, racial disparities in the American prison system, and a concept I was trying to name: the carceral citizen, the person whose freedom exists in a state of permanent conditional revocation. The article was one entry among many in the Boles Blogs Network, which at its peak ran fourteen blogs across a range of subjects.

Carceral Nation: Twenty Years from Blog Post to Book | David Boles, Blogs
In December 2006, I published an article on this blog about mass incarceration, racial disparities in the American prison system, and a concept I was trying to name: the carceral citizen, the perso…

Series B, Episode 11 - Gambit
DOCHOLLI: Servalan. She represents some people I once worked for. Augk. [Drinks] I knew they'd get me in the end.
CHENIE: You've got to get out of Freedom City. Away from this planet. You can't stay here now!
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/211/305…

Register for our 4/8 #DefendResearch webinar with information studies researcher Dr. George Cooper to learn about findings from his extensive research on China and #censorship complicity in scholarly publishing.

We are calling on ICE to immediately release journalist Estefany Rodriguez, who has covered immigration, including ICE actions, for the local Spanish-language news site Nashville Noticias.
Read the letter we signed with 40 other press freedom groups:
https://www.…

Coalition of 41 Press-Freedom Groups Calls for Immediate Release of Nashville-Based Journalist Arrested by ICE
A coalition of 41 press-freedom groups demanded that the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) immediately release journalist Estefany Rodriguez.

"The OP is right!"

Volodymyr Zelenskyy honours disqualified skeleton racer with order of freedom | Winter Olympics 2026 | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/feb/13/cas-dismisses-ukrainians-appeal-over-helmet-of-memory-disqualification

‘Our consciousness is under siege’: Michael Pollan on #chatbots, #socialmedia and mental #freedom
In his new book, the celebrated author explains why we need ‘consciousness hygiene’ to defend ourselves from

The secure messaging app Signal remains the go-to tools for staying secure while conversing with sources, colleagues, friends, and family.
https://bsky.app/profile/freedom.press/post/3mdsj3olbd52y

Freedom of the Press Foundation (@freedom.press)
The secure messaging app Signal remains one of our go-to tools for staying secure while conversing with sources, colleagues, friends, and family. Find out why we love it in our digital security newsletter. https://freedom.press/digisec/blog/for-sharing-secrets-signal-is-key/

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #DonLettsCultureClashRadio
Tinlicker:
🎵 I Want My Freedom
#Tinlicker
https://tinlicker.bandcamp.com/track/i-want-my-freedom-2
https://open.spotify.com/track/4JJyCkIjB5l1axC1p5X3uN

Meditation With Ashley Brown
Each week you'll find: Simple meditation insights to understand the mind. Guided practices for calm, focus, and inner freedom. Inspiring conversations with my favourite teachers and wisdom keepers...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustr…

A coalition of 41 press freedom groups writes an open letter condemning the arrest of Nashville journalist Estefany Rodriguez by ICE and urging her release (Free Press Action Fund Feed)
https://www.freepress.net/news/coalition-4

Coalition of 41 Press-Freedom Groups Calls for Immediate Release of Nashville-Based Journalist Arrested by ICE
A coalition of 41 press-freedom groups demanded that the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) immediately release journalist Estefany Rodriguez.

Hardware Freedom Day is coming up, though it lands on a Saturday. We meet on Mondays, so we’ll celebrate on April 20th! (Is there anything else special about that day?) Our event, which takes place at our usual venue, Victory Cafe (440 Bloor St. W. here in Toronto), is listed on @…’s website:

I wanna jump one more time on the whole "distraction" framing, because this is a point that needs to be hammered home (and I need a reminder to write something longer).
Attacks on trans youth are not a distraction from other types of coercion, they are central to it. Attacks on trans youth come from a conceptualization of children as property, which is literally patriarchy in the Roman sense of the legal objectification all people who share a household as belonging to a man. This legal structure, Roman slave law, continues to be the root of property rights and therefore the foundation of capitalism.
But colonialism also extends from it through the infantalization of colonized people as a justification for oppression. This can also be turned inward again manifesting as the justification for police (that is, some people "can't handle themselves and need external authority to act right").
The #Epstein stuff isn't some weird thing that rich people get away with, it's core to how wealth works. Money isn't useful by itself, it's a proxy for power. One manifestation of power is being able to violate laws that constrain others (this is the "freedom of the monarch" that Graeber talks about in Dawn of Everything). The war in Iran, especially the threats of nuclear weapons and genocide is not a distraction from the #EpsteinFiles, but rather a manifestation of the same thing.
Power must be demonstrated to affirm that it is real. War is a demonstration power. Violating the law without consequences is a demonstration of power. The most taboo things are using nuclear weapons and child sexual abuse. He has already done one of those, and he is going to do everything he can to do the other.
These are not distractions, these are all manifestations of the underlying thing that we need to fight. But we need to make sure we're fighting it as a single thing. We have to tie these things together, because if we do not then we risk reproducing the same thing again but worse.

Series B, Episode 11 - Gambit
DOCHOLLI: Servalan. She represents some people I once worked for. Augk. [Drinks] I knew they'd get me in the end.
CHENIE: You've got to get out of Freedom City. Away from this planet. You can't stay here now!
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/211/305…

When Joseph Stalin took the stage, applause wasn’t just standard. It meant your freedom. 
As the crowd thundered with cheers, no one dared to break first.
Not after two minutes. Not after four. Not after six.
As Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn wrote in “The Gulag Archipelago,” “It was becoming insufferably silly even to those who adored Stalin.” 
Finally, after 11 minutes, one man
— the director of a paper factory
— broke the spell.
And with that one act o…

Who will be the first to take off their shoes?
Across Washington, D.C., a new fashion trend has taken hold of those in Trump’s circle: embarrassingly oversized clown shoes. 

Tutti i motivi per abbandonare #GitHub e quali sono le possibili alternative. Il post di @…
Sappiamo che non è un compito facile; GitHub è onnipresente. Grazie al suo marketing efficace, GitHub ha convinto gli sviluppatori di software li…

I Visited the ‘Freedom Truck’ to Meet PragerU’s AI Slop Founders https://www.404media.co/i-visited-the-freedom-truck-to-meet-pragerus-ai-slop-founders/

Interactive map tracks detention centers and provides resources
https://prismreports.org/2026/03/12/detention-centers-map-freedom-for-immigrants/

Free speech is the power to criticize your government without fear of prosecution. It is a basic human right.
It is not about getting away with hurting your neighbor who never caused you any harm. Dignity is a human right.
That is also what "love your neighbor" is about.
It's just a sensible thing to do.
Do not tolerate hate speech.
There is no (need for a) "freedom to hate".
Be kind to one another. 🧡

Data obtained through freedom of information requests show wait times have increased dramatically since Health811 replaced Telehealth Ontario, peaking at a monthly average of more than 11 hours.
https://thelocal.to/health811-telehealth-wait-times-ontario/

The Virginia State Bar rejects a disciplinary complaint from a press freedom group against a DOJ lawyer over the raid of WaPo reporter Hannah Natanson's home (Charlie Savage/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/12/us/politics/virgini…

Bar Punts on Ethics Complaint Over Application to Search Reporter’s Home
A press freedom group accused a prosecutor of violating an ethics rule by not telling a judge about a law limiting searches for journalistic work product.

Welcome to Open Source Gardens, where openness is sown and freedom is grown!
Open Source Gardens connects people via Open Source (philosophy, seeds, software & hardware) in a horticultural and creative way. Read about who we are and why we are doing this on this page.
🌱 https://opensourcegardens.info

Sources and docs: the US "effectively gutted" the Internet Freedom program that dispensed $500M since 2016 to help build tech to evade state internet controls (Aisha Down/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/feb

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #SundaySoul
Freedom:
🎵 Get Up and Dance
#Freedom
https://southpawchop.bandcamp.com/album/freedom-get-up-and-dance-12-version-funky-soul-brother-edit
https://open.spotify.com/track/0jrhLbMQsRKtVoZ8Ocfq5D

It’s literally part of my job to review proposals, but this doesn’t mean that I don’t have better things to do.
Especially when someone writes in the very last paragraph, “btw, I don’t actually want a professorship, because that would limit my freedom to do what I want.”
Well then, do what you want, but stop wasting my and other reviewers’ time!
#AcademicChatter

It’s literally part of my job to review proposals, but this doesn’t mean that I don’t have better things to do.
Especially when someone writes in the very last paragraph, “btw, I don’t actually want a professorship, because that would limit my freedom to do what I want.”
Well then, do what you want, but stop wasting my and other reviewers’ time!
#AcademicChatter

Wonderful to have Dr. AnneMarie Mingo with us last week to deliver our Parks-King Lecture for 2026, titled "The Courage to Imagine Freedom." Here's a video of the event if you could not join us or you want to relive the moment.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZvhsCnPBXho

Freedom Caucus calls for full DHS funding in GOP-only bill, rejecting Trump-endorsed plan (Emily Brooks/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5819560-freedom-caucus-dhs-reconciliation/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260407/p91#a260407p91

"Freedom 250, a public-private partnership that will help execute the celebrations, is soliciting donations and offering ‘bespoke packages’ to donors"
Freedom 250 group offering access to Trump for donations, report says | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/freedom-250-trump-donors-celebrations-b2916386.html

Wow, such democracy. Much freedom of movement.
#germany #eu

Well, looks like it’s time again:
http://mnftiu.cc/blog/images/war.001.gif

I wrote this today:
2034: Convicted Border Patrol Commander Wants Freedom - Says He’ll Fight a Wild Boar Naked to Get It
https://stuff.davidaugust.com/bovino-petitions-to-fight-wild-boar-naked-for-sentence-commutation/

Bovino Petitions to Fight Wild Boar Naked for Sentence Commutation
Naysayers Say Nay July 12, 2034: Fremont County, Colorado - Gregory Bovino, serving several life sentences at both the federal and state levels in multiple states, has petitioned the courts asking that he be granted permission to wrestle a wild boar naked, and, if he survives, have the rest of

🗡️ Market freedom may impact homicide rates
#homicide

Market freedom may impact homicide rates
Countries with a stronger market orientation may experience lower rates of homicide, according to a new study from the University of Georgia.

I understand, I do. As a straight cis man I grew up with the the anarchist critiques of "anti-capitalism," "something something FREEDOM," and "all that other stuff that you should probably read if you have time." That failed me and left massive holes in my analysis that I'm still working frantically to patch.
I understand how we got here, but I don't understand why we aren't, specifically at this time, doing better.

The “age verification” push is a much bigger deal and dangerous to freedom than any “AI” stuff The TechBros driven AI is going to lead to the biggest economic crash in history and probably be taken over by open source models but we’ll at least add new tools https://mefi.social/@MissConstrue/116186114328815729

Freedom of Russia Legion destroys Russian ammunition depot 7 km behind lines near Kupyansk: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/01/freedom-of-russia-legion-destroys.html

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Freedom Fry:
🎵 Corde Sensible
#NowPlaying #FreedomFry
https://freedomfry.bandcamp.com/track/corde-sensible
https://open.spotify.com/track/4DuvpF6qzpbGzmXKvqEvVU

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #CraigCharles
Sampa the Great:
🎵 Freedom
#SampatheGreat
https://mxtthxll.bandcamp.com/track/fs-green-x-sampa-the-great-punkie-freedom-mxtt-hxll-edit
https://open.spotify.com/track/2ziULaGXpu0eA2r66R0akP

FYI, there's still time to register for this Thursday's #DefendResearch webinar with
PEN America
to learn about what's going on with academic #censorship and what we can do about it

Neoliberalism is dead and there is an alternative. Not an alternative for Germany, not a reform nor restoration for the UK, not freedom for Austria, but an alternative, a way out for us all: socialism and liberation.

To me, Banks is the first prophet of Judith and Octavia's Jihad.
> One of the most important tasks in setting up and running a stable and internally content civilisation is finding an acceptable balance between the desire for freedom of choice in one's actions (and the freedom from mortal fear in one's life) and the need to feel that even in a society so self-correctingly Utopian one is still contributing something.
A Few Notes on the Culture, by Iain M Banks

The Dirty Dish With Diana Nguyen
Each episode celebrates the dirty truths of being human — awkward encounters, unspoken struggles, and the delicious freedom that comes from saying it all out loud...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/the-di

Thinking about all the rich assholes who moved to Dubai, which is in an ethnostate run by a minority of anti-democratic religious fanatics (90% of people in the country are immigrants), built on slave labor, without freedom of association and fueled by corrupt oil money who are now whining about “but I don’t care about politics why do I have to flee, I’m not one of the poors!!1!”

War for Freedom? it's all about money: White House to host defense executives for talks on speeding up weapons production

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #DriveTime
Jurassic 5:
🎵 Freedom
#Jurassic5
https://noshess.bandcamp.com/track/jurassic-5-freedom-remix
https://open.spotify.com/track/1n4lspQpBo5smutI9K0a0s

from my link log —
British Rail settlement plan barcode specs.
https://magicalcodewit.ch/rsp-specs/
saved 2026-03-03 https://dotat.at/:/Q0X7T.html

For $1 Million, Donors to U.S.A. Birthday Group Offered Access to Trump (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/08/us/politics/freedom-250-trump-donors.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260208/p3#a260208p3

What is the military religious freedom foundation (MRFF)? | #religion

In an amicus brief, 42 media outlets and advocates argue Trump's EO targeting some law firms restricts media access to pro bono and inexpensive legal counsel (The Intercept)
https://theintercept.com/2026/04/02/press-freedom-defense-fund-law-firms-am…

The Intercept’s Press Freedom Defense Fund Leads Cohort Fighting Trump’s Unconstitutional Media Attacks
A cohort of 42 media and press freedom advocates, led by The Intercept’s Press Freedom Defense Fund, filed an amicus brief opposing Trump's attempts to censor the press.

“Next Saturday, March 28th, I will join millions of Americans taking part in No Kings protests throughout the country. I hope you will join in. Everything is at stake.”
https://snyder.substack.com/p/no-kings-freedom

No Kings, Freedom!
Gather on March 28th.

'Our sacrifices are worth freedom' — Ukrainian troops who have fought since 2014 look back: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/24/our-sacrifices-are-worth-freedom.html

Consider this an official motion to drop the term "anarchist" and replace it with the term "consensualist" so as to leave less room for oppression to masquerade as "freedom."
https://hexmhell.writeas.com/consent

The Invisible Ledger: How Digital Currency Threatens the Last Private Thing You Own
There is something seductive about the promise of digital money. It arrives dressed in the language of progress, efficiency, inclusion, and modernization, as though the ability to hold a coin in your hand were a primitive embarrassment that civilization ought to outgrow. Cryptocurrency evangelists speak of decentralization and freedom from institutional control. Central bankers speak of…

The Invisible Ledger: How Digital Currency Threatens the Last Private Thing You Own | David Boles, Blogs
There is something seductive about the promise of digital money. It arrives dressed in the language of progress, efficiency, inclusion, and modernization, as though the ability to hold a coin in yo…

Press freedom groups are warning that the arrests of two independent journalists,
including the veteran former CNN anchor Don Lemon,
signal a chilling new crackdown on US media by the Trump administration.
Lemon was taken into custody on Thursday night by federal agents in Los Angeles,
despite a magistrate judge declining to sign off on charges against him a week ago
in connection with a protest at a Minnesota church against violent government immigration enforc…

The anonymous Zionist hasbara meme poster has created at least two new accounts on two servers (ban evasion) to continue their reply and block harassment.
⁃ @avidity@qlub.social
⁃ @hedgerows@101010.pl
Please report block. #fediblock
(No one is pro the Iranian regime here but neither are we pro-American/Israeli aggression. “Antizionism” is being anti settler colonialism…

So Trump lost this war with Iran he started and the rest of the world pays the price. Freedom of navigation has been given up in Hormuz, we pay a million per vessel. Iran has a very strong negotiating position, will play for time , acquire weapons, reinforce/rebuild, surpress the Iranian people, I am forgetting anything?
#trump

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Freedom Satellite:
🎵 Astro Black
#NowPlaying #FreedomSatellite
https://open.spotify.com/track/3FPKjKxdYR6o3d25QFsycf

In the new episode of the YDS “Quadcast,” Professor of American Religious History Tisa Wenger discusses the early U.S. government’s use of Christianity to justify Indigenous land theft, the limits of religious freedom in America, and the importance of Yale’s new certificate in Native American and Indigenous studies.
https://

US Prosecutor Faces 'Disciplinary Complaint' For Authorizing FBI Raid Against Reporter https://thedissenter.org/us-prosecutor-faces-disciplinary-complaint-for-authorizing-fbi-raid-against-reporter/

An unpublished draft of Changpeng Zhao's memoir, "Freedom of Money", details secret negotiations in 2023 that led to his imprisonment and a run-in with ICE (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/27/technology/cz-changpeng-zha…

In a Memoir Draft, Changpeng Zhao of Binance Details the Talks Leading to His Prison Time
In a draft of his memoir, Changpeng Zhao, the founder of Binance, laid out the secret negotiations that led to his imprisonment and a run-in with ICE.

Can Embattled Women's and Gender Studies Programs Survive? (Kathryn Palmer/Inside Higher Ed)
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty-issues/academic-freedom/2026/02/06/can-embattled-womens-and-gender-studies-programs
http://www.memeorandum.com/260206/p16#a260206p16

Empire anywhere is a threat to freedom everywhere, which is why we need to support internationalists fighting empires everywhere they threaten, from Rojava to Myanmar.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Roadhouse
Bunny & Ricky:
🎵 Freedom Fighter
#Bunny #Ricky
https://tosvamisound.bandcamp.com/track/bunny-ricky-freedom-fighter-tosvami-steppa
https://open.spotify.com/track/45h7DFPt3hrxUMOCPXjLOa

Press freedom groups denounce the arrests of journalists Don Lemon and Georgia Fort, saying the arrests are an "unequivocal attack on the First Amendment" (Richard Luscombe/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/law/2026/jan/30/press-fr…

Britain's Keir Starmer has agreed with Germany’s Friedrich Merz and Italy’s Giorgia Meloni to “work closely together” in navigating commercial shipping through the strait of Hormuz.
A spokesperson for Starmer said the prime minister spoke to the leaders of Germany and Italy on Monday night “about the situation in the Middle East, discussing the strait of Hormuz.”
He said:
They agreed on the vital importance of freedom of navigation for vessels through these waters. They ag…

Trump: 'Freedom' for Iran is goal of 'major military operation' (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2026/02/28/trump-iran-war-regime-change-freedom/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260228/p18#a260228p18

War is peace,
Freedom is slavery,
Attack is defense
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c20l1v0ldqzo

Starmer speaks to Trump after UK joins defensive operation in Middle East
Sir Keir Starmer says protections for British bases and personnel have been stepped up to their highest level.

Join #DefendResearch on March 5th for a conversation with Nina Jankowicz, co-founder and CEO of the American Sunlight Project, where we'll explore "Censorship, Disinformation, and the Fight for Academic Freedom" and how we can resist censorship and its consequences. Register and find more information at

Trump allies expand role in planning America's 250th anniversary (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/03/05/america-250-freedom-250-trump-celebration/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260305/p14#a260305p14

Texas A&M’s Women’s and Gender Studies Closure Signals a Wider Crackdown on Academic Freedom - Ms. Magazine
https://msmagazine.com/2026/02/24/texas-am-women-gender-studies-academic-freedom-dei-diversity-equity-inclusion/

After failed Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests to obtain video footage of ICE actions in Los Angeles and Chicago,
the "Center for Investigative Reporting" is seeking declaratory relief that these videos are public record and open to disclosure.
“To date, neither agency has complied with FOIA’s statutory deadlines,”
the Center for Investigative Reporting says in its suit.
“ICE and CBP have therefore violated the FOIA and have contravened the FOIA’s p…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Continent
Witch:
🎵 Funky Reggae
#Witch
https://sharp-flat.bandcamp.com/album/freedom-fighter-funky-reggae
https://open.spotify.com/track/6xwRYKCj13FZcmxG0mt0cL

Fact Sheet: President Donald J. Trump Celebrates American Greatness with the Freedom 250 Grand Prix of Washington, D.C. (The White House)
https://www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/2026/01/fact-sheet-president-donald-j-trump-celebrates-american-greatness-with-the-freedom-250-grand-prix-of-washington-d-c/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260130/p118#a260130p118

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MorningShow
DEVO:
🎵 Freedom of Choice
#DEVO
https://mixthatrecord.bandcamp.com/track/freedom-of-choice
https://open.spotify.com/track/5IN9YZ1ehd9vjNk0rNQ5FD

Court battles over academic freedom in Florida and Indiana
https://thehill.com/opinion/education/5792492-florida-indiana-academic-freedom-debate/

Freedom Caucus pushes to fund DHS amid funding fight (Meredith Lee Hill/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2026/01/27/congress/freedom-caucus-dhs-ultimatum-00749816
http://www.memeorandum.com/260127/p103#a260127p103

A look at Lawyers for Reporters, a project of the Cyrus R. Vance Center for International Justice, and how it helps news organizations like Deep South Today (Tandy Lau/Editor and Publisher)
https://www.editorandpublisher.com/stories/putting-the-free-in-pre…

Putting the ‘free’ in press freedom
This month’s Association Profile examines how Lawyers for Reporters is stepping in to provide free legal support to local and nonprofit newsrooms navigating rising costs and legal risks. Backed by the Cyrus R. Vance Center for International Justice, the program connects journalists with experienced attorneys across the country, helping protect both reporting and operations. For many outlets without in-house counsel, the service offers critical guidance — from investigative review to everyda…

Journalists covering the U.S. and Israel’s war on Iran should be telling their audiences
not only what they know
but what they were prevented from finding out, and by whom.
That doesn’t just mean an occasional editorial bemoaning threats to press freedom.
Those are valuable, but on their own, they turn speech suppression into a side issue.
The reporting itself should include acknowledgment and explanation of how censorship impacts what the public sees and rea…

The public deserves to know when Iran war reporting is stifled
An unprecedented censorship infrastructure will obscure the fighting

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Roadhouse
The Tennessee Freedom Singers:
🎵 Tennessee Rise
#TheTennesseeFreedomSingers
https://open.spotify.com/track/7gcGZjYJj1K7LWKrk9aUl8

Judges push back on ICE abuses, and freedom from religion prevails
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2026/3/21/2373949/-Judges-push-back-on-ICE-abuses-and-freedom-from-religion-prevails

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Soundgarden:
🎵 Rusty Cage
#Soundgarden
https://keifergr33n.bandcamp.com/track/sonic-adventure-2-fly-in-the-freedom-x-soundgarden-rusty-cage-x-chamillionaire-ridin
https://open.spotify.com/track/6hqIXyo6GxydAnoI8XeIrV

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Blue Mink:
🎵 Good Morning Freedom
#BlueMink
https://open.spotify.com/track/5Xay6pmIHY8cpTwSAiShE3

The Military Religious Freedom Foundationhas received a litany of complaints about religious ideology seeping into military orders since the U.S. and Israel began bombing Iran,
independent journalist Jon Larsen first reported.
Mikey Weinstein, founder and president of MRFF,
a nonprofit group established 21 years ago that focuses on ensuring constitutional protections for service members,
spoke with HuffPost by phone Tuesday morning and illuminated some details of the…

Soldier Details Chilling Messaging From Higher-Ups About ‘God’s Plan’ In Iran: ‘It Shocked Many Of Us’
One commander had a “big grin” on his face while saying Donald Trump “has been anointed by Jesus to light the signal fire in Iran," a service member said.

Texas A&M Ends Women's Studies and Overhauls Classes Over Race and Gender (Alan Blinder/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/us/texas-am-gender-ethnic-womens-studies-academic-freedom.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260130/p94#a260130p94

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The Byrds:
🎵 Chimes of Freedom
#TheByrds
https://thebyrds-sd.bandcamp.com/track/chimes-of-freedom
https://open.spotify.com/track/1WEuSuC0tJquFpf2JiMjh7

Miles Rapoport, the co-chairman of Crimson Courage, an alumni group that has urged Harvard to resist any deal that compromises its academic freedom,
said Trump and his White House were “completely unreliable negotiating partners.”
“I hope this strengthens Harvard’s resolve to not make a deal with an administration that is so ready to go nuclear at any moment,” Mr. Rapoport said.
Ryan Enos, a government professor at Harvard, said Trump’s shifting demands seemed to show he wa…

Trump, Changing Course, Throws Harvard Deal Talks Into Chaos
In the latest example of his mercurial negotiating style, President Trump went from dropping his ask for a $200 million fine to demanding $1 billion from the university.

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The Freedom Singers:
🎵 Freedom Medley: Freedom Chant; Oh Freedom: This Little Light of Mine
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Kassa Overall:
🎵 Freedom Jazz Dance
#KassaOverall
https://kassaoverall.bandcamp.com/track/freedom-jazz-dance
https://open.spotify.com/track/57WNlCxlDldnl8LWw6f0Rs