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Republican leadership across the House and Senate did not amplify the president’s election interference speech on X,
nor did the official congressional GOP accounts.
A handful of lawmakers used the night to promote passage of Trump’s priority elections bill or the Homeland Security Department’s announcement to ramp up efforts to root out noncitizen voting, an extremely rare occurrence.
But those leaving or already outside the president’s influence had more to say.
Ou…

Trump’s Election-Tampering Claims Fall Flat, Including With Republicans
Some lawmakers expressed concern that the president’s speech could jeopardize the GOP’s chances in November.

Sinclair-owned TV stations affiliated with ABC and NBC aired Trump's speech about elections, using Sinclair's feed; Sinclair owns or operates 177 stations (Patrick Hipes/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2026/07/sinclair-stations-carry-trump-speech-12369895…

Sinclair-Owned ABC And NBC Stations Preempt Networks To Carry Trump Primetime Speech
A number of ABC and NBC stations owned by Sinclair Broadcasting ended up airing President Donald Trump's primetime speech on Thursday

from my link log —
Post Office Trial: Marshall spells it out in a speech to University of Law.
https://www.postofficetrial.com/2021/06/marshall-spells-it-out-speech-to.html
saved 2021-06-04

Marshall spells it out: speech to University of Law
Reporting the High Court class action against the UK Post Office

when i was in the uk last year a british publication asked if they could publish a speech i gave. i agreed.
when i looked onto their site, they added a little note below it saying that “Erik Uden and I have political differences on the trans question.”
i, right then and there, realized what it feels like for foreign activists to publish something in a german newspaper.

ABC sues the FCC, claiming the agency's investigations and regulatory actions are part of a Trump administration "retaliatory campaign" to curb its free speech (Ted Johnson/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2026/08/abc-sues-fcc-first-amendment-lawsuit…

ABC Files First Amendment Lawsuit Against FCC, Claiming Trump Administration “Retaliatory Campaign” Against Its Free Speech
ABC filed an unprecedented lawsuit against the FCC on Tuesday, claiming that its investigations and regulatory actions are part of a Trump administration “retaliatory campaign” to curb the network’s free speech. The lawsuit, filed in federal court in Washington, D.C., also seeks to halt a proceeding in which the agency and its chairman, Brendan Carr, […]

I spent some time #blogging today.
Oh man, why does writing take so much time?! Honestly, this time I tried dictating (Speech-to-text) and curating afterwards ... but it feels like it takes the same amount of time 🤔 Maybe it's just a lack of practice - or a lack of articulation.
Anyways - a bit of story, a peertube video and a couple of photos are waiting to be watched! 😉
…

Democrats and voting rights groups say Donald Trump’s primetime speech
making unverified claims of Chinese interference in the 2020 election
is the clearest sign yet that the president is laying the groundwork to tamper with the results of November’s midterms.
The upcoming elections to decide the balance of power in Congress and many state legislatures
will be a major test of Trump’s appeal to voters two years after he resoundingly beat the Democratic candidate Kamala…

Trump speech lays groundwork for him to tamper with midterm results, critics warn
Democrats and advocates sound alarm at Trump rehashing false claims about 2020 election in his primetime address

"Paradromics achieves real-time speech with Connexus BCI" https://paradromics.com/news/paradromics-achieves-real-time-speech-connexus-brain-computer-interface/

Paradromics Achieves Real-Time Speech with Connexus® Brain-Computer Interface
Paradromics' Connexus® BCI enables the first participant to speak in real time using neural activity, choosing her own words to communicate.

It must be galling to him that we no longer have the pre-Reagan pre-cable FCC regs and station norms that empowered the POTUS to monopolize the media in primetime.
I expect that many non-olds don’t even realize that was a thing. Once upon a time all TV was broadcast and most was network-affiliated or network-owned, and those all took the feed from the White House when it was offered. There was no escape... @…

Scott MacFarlane on Twitter
Brutal response from FCC Commissioner Anna Gomez to Trump's call for ABC and NBC to be stripped of licenses "It is ridiculous to call for broadcasters to lose their license simply for making the same editorial decisions they've made under presidents of both parties. Those editorial decisions are protected by the First Amendment, and the FCC has no authority to punish a station for refusing to air a blatantly political speech. This is a naked attempt to bully broadcasters, and the FCC should ha…

President Trump says ABC and NBC should have their licenses revoked for not carrying his speech, alleging they are part of a "plot" to continue election "fraud" (Ted Johnson/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2026/07/trump-threatens-a…

Donald Trump Says ABC And NBC Should Lose Broadcast Licenses Because They Didn’t Carry His Primetime Address On Election Claims
The president gave a speech on election integrity, but networks cast a lot of skepticism over his claims

In an incoherent speech last night, Trump prepared the US public for him stealing the midterm elections in November, which his Republican party would normally lose.
https://bbc.com/news/articles/cx2k9wvv5wyo

Trump alleges 'shocking vulnerabilities' in US election security ahead of midterms
The president accuses China of meddling in the 2020 election, directly contradicting past findings from US intelligence.

#FuckTrump #NotMyPresident #USPol "Freedom of Speech doesn't free you of Freedom of Consequence" .
MEMES FLY after RACIST MAGA gets KNOC…

Trump's speech was a "nothing burger" and everybody recognised it as such...
#Trump

At the World AI Conference, Xi Jinping touts open-source AI, pledges to help the Global South build AI capabilities, and calls unequal AI access an "injustice" (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific

Democrats have slammed Donald Trump’s Thursday night speech
where he repeated conspiracies and unfounded claims that both the 2020 election was stolen,
and the current state of election integrity is compromised.
Chuck Schumer, the Senate minority leader, said the address was
a “pathetic attempt” by the president to cast doubt on the fact that he lost the 2020 election.
The Senate minority leader said that Trump is evading discussing contentious policy issues,

DHS chief threatens states that refuse Trump’s election demands after president’s widely condemned speech – live
Markwayne Mullin follows up on president’s unproven claims as Democrats accuse Trump of ‘working to rig the midterms’ in advance

Vance plans a hometown speech in Ohio as his midterm travel ramps up (Henry J. Gomez/NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/jd-vance/vance-hometown-speech-ohio-midterm-travel-rcna593142
http://www.memeorandum.com/260818/p105#a260818p105

A judge orders ICE to free a Wisconsin mosque leader, citing a 'substantial' free speech claim
https://religionnews.com/2026/06/18/a-judge-orders-ice-to-free-a-wisconsin-mosque-leader-citing-a-substantial-free-speech-claim/

From deep brain stimulation to brain–computer interfaces: current progress in implantable neurotechnology https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/neuroscience/articles/10.3389/fnins.2026.1928223/full

Frontiers | From deep brain stimulation to brain–computer interfaces: current progress in implantable neurotechnology
Brain implants, including deep brain stimulation (DBS) systems, brain–computer interfaces (BCIs), and speech neuroprostheses, are moving from the proof-of-co...

Roger Craig reveals he has vascular dementia during his Pro Football Hall of Fame speech https://www.nfl.com/news/roger-craig-reveals-he-has-vascular-dementia-during-his-pro-football-hall-of-fame-speech

Hall of Fame QB Drew Brees Shades Cowboys During Enshrinement Speech https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/drew-brees-shades-dallas-cowboys-hall-of-fame-enshrinement-speech

Documents Trump released to support his claims — and previous assessments from the intelligence community — do not back up his most aggressive statements about election security.
In fact, some of the documents reach the opposite conclusion.
They also do not contain significant new revelations about vulnerabilities in election systems.
One of the documents posted on the White House website was blunt:
“We assess that vote tabulation systems would be difficult to manipu…

Takeaways From Trump’s Speech Claiming Election Vulnerabilities and China Interference
Documents released by the Trump administration to support the president’s claims did not back up his most aggressive statements.

NEWS: Trump's January 6th speech not an official act. Lawsuits can proceed.
#news

The gods are evidently not favoruably disposed towards Trump's manner of celebrating the 250th anniversary of the US.
"Celebrations have been marred by extreme weather, including a dangerous heatwave in recent days, and a passing storm that delayed Trump’s speech."
https://www.

Trump hails ‘golden age of America’ in speech marking nation’s 250th anniversary
In late-night campaign-style speech in Washington DC, US president vows to take the US ‘to new levels’

Andy Burnham’s ‘Manchesterism’, a degrowth perspective
Tomorrow, Andy Burnham will become the next UK Prime Minister.  He has set out his vision for his premiership, under the title 'Manchesterism'.  Much ink has already been spilled in scrutinising it.  Our sister site, Steady State Manchester, carried this article following his speech at the city's People's History Museum.  Steady State Manchester has been witness to the emergence of the supposed 'Manchester model…

Andy Burnham’s ‘Manchesterism’, a degrowth perspective
Tomorrow, Andy Burnham will become the next UK Prime Minister.  He has set out his vision for his premiership, under the title ‘Manchesterism’.  Much ink has already been spilled in scr…

Some people are born heroic - others have heroism thrust upon them. I didn't wake up this morning and decide that I was going to be a hero, but then again, that's kinda what heroes do. They wake up and then end up doing some heroic shit.
#EveryonesAHeroInTheirOwnWay #Shitpost

There are broad concerns that bans could violate children’s free speech rights by restricting their ability to engage with lawful speech online, as well as pushback from activists, like those in the LGBTQ community, who say that social media can also be a place where otherwise isolated youth can stay informed and connect with peers.

Trump used his address to call out ABC and NBC
for not airing his live remarks,
claiming the networks declined to do so
“because they know how corrupt our system is and they don’t want to reveal it.”
He also repeated his frequent demand that the networks’ government-issued broadcast licenses be revoked.
“They and others in the media are part of a plot,”
the president said, offering no evidence for his claims.
In fact, ABC and NBC did carry Trump’s spe…

In Prime Time, Trump Criticizes Networks for Not Carrying His Speech
The president also called for ABC and NBC to lose their broadcast licenses, after complaining that the networks were not airing his remarks.

Full text of Burnham's speech.
A lot to like, after the 2 lost years under Starmer and all those before, but all predicated on economic growth which a) would be very hard to achieve given eco-geo-political constraints and the structural long crisis of capitalism, and b) is inherently damaging, in the aggregate, for the ecosystem on which we all depend.
Every word Andy Burnham said in first speech since becoming Makerfield MP - Liverpool Echo

Every word Andy Burnham said in first speech since becoming Makerfield MP
It is the first speech the Makerfield MP has given since Sir Keir Starmer announced his departure as Prime Minister

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MahmoudAshraf97/ctc-forced-aligner
Text to speech alignment using CTC forced alignment
github.com/MahmoudAshraf97/ctc-forced-aligner

GitHub - MahmoudAshraf97/ctc-forced-aligner: Text to speech alignment using CTC forced alignment · GitHub
Text to speech alignment using CTC forced alignment - MahmoudAshraf97/ctc-forced-aligner

"Tonight's speech is intended to add the predicate that he needs to declare an emergency at or about the time of the elections," says former White House attorney Ty Cobb.
https://to.pbs.org/4fEBoK5

Trump setting stage to declare emergency around midterms, former White House attorney says
For perspective on what President Trump is trying to achieve with Thursday night's speech, the limits of his authority and the potential consequences for future elections, Geoff Bennett spoke with Ty Cobb. He was a White House attorney in the first Trump administration, managing the response to special counsel Robert Mueller's probe into alleged Russian election interference.

Hall of Fame QB Drew Brees Shades Cowboys During Enshrinement Speech https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/drew-brees-shades-dallas-cowboys-hall-of-fame-enshrinement-speech

Genuinely puzzled that there is a backlash to this statement. Where is the controversy — the word "genocide?" Anything else? I feel like I must be missing something. #palestine
https://www.

Macklemore’s Full Remarks on Israel and Gaza as Rapper Faces Backlash
Macklemore’s “Free Palestine” speech at Sheeran’s show sparks petitions, celebrity backlash and tour pressure.

Mullin threatens states that refuse Trump's election demands
Mullin also repeated his threat of withholding Federal Emergency Management Agency grant funding to states that don’t work to “secure” elections.
“If they’re not willing to do it, it should raise serious questions.
It’s not that hard. This isn’t a partisan issue,”
the homeland security secretary said.
This also comes after the Trump justice department sent letters to election officials in every sta…

DHS chief threatens states that refuse Trump’s election demands after president’s widely condemned speech – live
Markwayne Mullin follows up on president’s unproven claims as Democrats accuse Trump of ‘working to rig the midterms’ in advance

Roger Craig announces he has vascular dementia in Hall of Fame speech https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7500959/2026/08/08/roger-craig-dementia-hall-of-fame-speech-49ers/

Congressman Seth Magaziner's floor speech on the latest ICE killings.
Video Source:
#ice

"On Wednesday, August 26th, the US government’s executive branch sanctioned Autistici/Inventati, a small, Italian, volunteer-run activist Internet provider, for allegedly giving services to terrorist organizations
May First emphatically condemns this designation and opposes any effort by the US government to silence political speech by attacking Internet providers."

Donald Trump has offered few details about the “really big news” he plans to announce
during a primetime address Thursday,
beyond saying the speech will focus on voting machines and what he considers “free and fair elections.”
But the timing of the address and leaks to the media
— as well as the Trump administration’s recent actions
— offer clues about what he may try to accomplish.
The White House is considering releasing intelligence about foreign access…

Five ways Trump could use his primetime speech to undermine our elections
The timing of the address and leaks to the media — as well as the Trump administration’s recent actions — offer clues about what the president may try to accomplish.

Invariant neural representation of parts of speech in the human brain #visual

WSJ hurls Trump's memo back at him after 'outburst': 'We can quote the part he didn't' - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/wsj-trump-speech/

A White House post targeted Kristen Holmes, a senior White House correspondent for CNN,
after she asked Donald Trump to respond to a widely shared comment by Democratic senator Jon Ossoff in a speech on Sunday.
The Georgia senator told a crowd that Trump “doesn’t want to do the job”
and instead “wants to build his ballroom and travel with Natalie on their apparently defenseless flying palace gifted by the emir of Qatar”.
The comment was an apparent reference to Natali…

White House launches personal attack on CNN reporter over question to Trump
CNN says attack ‘beneath the office’ after Kristen Holmes asked president about Jon Ossoff’s comments on key aide

China says President Xi will deliver a keynote speech at the opening ceremony of the three-day World AI Conference in Shanghai on Friday, his first appearance (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-07-13/xi…

Кумедно.
Я думав, катари-"ножиці" це чисто вигадка Блізів. А зараз читаю — виявляється, що ні. Менш розповсюджений варіант, але реальний. Тільки вони "розкривалися" не перед ударом, а після. Як експансивна куля.
Національна зброя менш попсових культур здатна принести цікавий вайб у геймдизайн. Особливо якщо втілюється не поверхнево.

Trump is dangerous twice over:
in what he does
and what he tells us to fear while doing it.
Factcheckers agreed he proved nothing.
Failing as evidence, his address succeeded as permission
– for federal intervention already under way in Fulton county.
In his speech, Trump assembled old intelligence, vulnerabilities and lies
into a conspiracy:
220 million US voter records in Chinese hands,
“extremely exposed” voting machines,
278,000 s…

Trump is invoking foreign election interference to justify his own
The president no longer treats the people who defeated him as voters. He treats them as suspects

Ukraine update from Giorgio Provinciali: As a weapons development context, Ukraine offers unrivaled opportunity.
As an engineer, Giorgio distills the marketing speech into reality, and he shares the math.
Share the friend link to bypass the paywall, and help give the world a glimpse of the reality on the ground in Ukraine:

FirePoint’s “Freya” Meets the Test of Physics: What the FP-7.X
Live from Ukraine 🇺🇦

Saying "Free Palestine" got Macklemore dropped from the Ed Sheeran tour
The singer Pink said: " What I need is to be able to say, as a Jewish mom, ‘that scared me, and it scared people I love’
Continuing weaponizing this fear that we can't support Palestine.
As if continuing seeing the genocide on every platform was not scary, but that, that is fine.

To any FSU (Free Speech Union of Aotearoa NZ) members out there in the Fediverse & BlueSky, I encourage you to reconsider your association with that organisation. I know a few 'Q Anon' adherents who are still trying to rebuild their broken lives after having gone own that rabbit hole and only recently realising the deep error in their ways. I wouldn't with that sort of fate upon you.

ABC Files First Amendment Lawsuit Against FCC, Claiming Trump Administration "Retaliatory Campaign" Against Its Free Speech (Ted Johnson/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2026/08/abc-sues-fcc-first-amendment-lawsuit-1237044059/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260818/p36#a260818p36

Trump's speech shows he's the real threat to U.S. elections | Advocate.com
https://www.advocate.com/opinion/trump-voting-fraud-speech

Ocular speech tracking persists in blindness, but its dynamics and oculo-cerebral connectivity depend on visual status https://www.eneuro.org/content/early/2026/06/23/ENEURO.0041-26.2026 "ocular speech tracking seems to respond selectively to acoustic features o…

Ocular speech tracking persists in blindness, but its dynamics and oculo-cerebral connectivity depend on visual status
While eye movements have been shown to track the speech envelope, it is unknown whether this reflects a hard-wired mechanism or one shaped by (lifetime) audiovisual experience. Further, questions remain about whether ocular tracking is modulated by speech intelligibility and which brain regions drive these synchronized eye movements. Here, we investigate ocular speech tracking in 47 (20 male), blindfolded early blind, late blind, and sighted individuals using magnetoencephalography (MEG) and so…

Part of Trump's speech Thursday night is expected to touch on alleged Chinese meddling in U.S. elections. 
One component:
Allegations that Beijing compromised U.S. voter data and evidence the CIA knew about the action and didn't share that information with Trump during his first term.
The audience for the primetime speech is expected to include members of the president's cabinet.
Among those invited are the heads of CIA, FBI, Office of the Director of Nation…

Larry Fitzgerald joined the Hall of Fame team, but he never left his old one behind https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7500714/2026/08/08/larry-fitzgerald-nfl-hall-of-fame-speech-arizona-cardinals/

In 2022, a group of prominent conservative legal experts
—including former federal judges, Republican election attorney Benjamin Ginsberg, former Solicitor General Ted Olson and ex-U.S. Senators John Danforth and Gordon Smith
—released a report titled
"Lost, Not Stolen", concluding that
“Joe Biden was the choice of a majority of the Electors”
and that there was “absolutely no evidence of fraud” sufficient to alter the results.
Independent reviews, …

A federal judge rules that two statutes Marco Rubio used to try to deport legal immigrants for their speech violate the First Amendment and are unconstitutional (The Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression)
https://www.fire.org/news/breaking-…

BREAKING: Federal court rules the statutes the Trump admin used in its speech-based deportation scheme are unconstitutional
A federal court ruled that the provisions Secretary of State Marco Rubio used in an attempt to deport legal immigrants for their speech are unconstitutional.

An Initial Readout of Trump’s Election-Interference Speech
https://www.justsecurity.org/147633/trump-election-interference-speech/

Almost 20 months into Trump’s second term, his long-running media clashes have grown into a sweeping campaign to control speech in America
that stands out for applying so many levers, so fast, all at once.
The Justice Department has sent F.B.I. agents to reporters’ homes to serve subpoenas and, in at least one case,
flashed a warrant to seize devices. The Pentagon has fired the editor and publisher of its traditionally independent newspaper, Stars and Stripes,
and blo…

How Trump Is Wielding Power to Stifle Speech
President Trump has harnessed agencies across the government to curtail press freedoms, a sweeping campaign that free speech advocates say will have lasting effects.

Meta launches Muse Voice Transcribe, MSL's first real-time audio perception model, with streaming automatic speech recognition, trained with 70 languages (Meta AI Research)
https://research.meta.ai/blog/introducing-muse-voice-transcribe

Introducing Muse Voice Transcribe
Introducing Muse Voice Transcribe, a real-time audio perception model for streaming speech recognition, diarization, and endpointing.

Trump to give primetime speech on 2020 election: Sources (ABC News)
https://abcnews.com/Politics/trump-give-primetime-speech-2020-election-sources/story?id=134791893
http://www.memeorandum.com/260716/p54#a260716p54

Patriots' Kraft on Macklemore: Won't provide platform for 'hate speech' https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/49943754/patriots-kraft-says-macklemore-performance-cross-line

Donald Trump delivered a speech to the nation on Thursday night,
sowing doubts in the U.S. election system
and claiming that drastic changes were needed,
-- despite presenting no new or substantiated evidence
that any past election was affected by fraud.
Trump was expected to deliver a missive rehashing the results of the 2020 presidential race,
in which he legitimately lost to former President Joe Biden.
Instead, Trump downplayed those beliefs,

Mike Johnson Says He’ll Use Reconciliation to Pass Voter Suppression Bill, Despite Rules Saying He Can’t
Rules on the reconciliation process stipulate that non-budgetary items cannot be included in such measures.

FCC Chairman Brendan Carr says ABC's decision to not carry Trump's July 16 speech about elections live will be part of its review for ABC-owned station licenses (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/tv/news/fcc-abc-trump-speech-rev…

FCC Chair Says ABC's Decision to Not Broadcast Trump Speech Live Will Be Part of Agency's Review of Its Station Licenses
Brendan Carr, the Trump-appointed chairman of the FCC, said the agency will consider ABC's decision to not carry a live broadcast President Donald Trump's July 16 speech about U.S. election security as part of its early review of licenses to eight ABC-owned stations.

Sinclair-Owned ABC And NBC Stations Carry Trump Primetime Speech
https://deadline.com/2026/07/sinclair-stations-carry-trump-speech-1236989579/

Cowboys Rookie Delivers Epic Postgame Speech Amid Historic Stint With Dallas https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/dallas-cowboys-rookie-delivers-epic-postgame-speech-amid-historic-stint

This week, I heard something that shocked me.
In a federal appeals court, lawyers for Pete Hegseth, the secretary of defense,
argued that military retirees were subject to freedom of speech restrictions because of their connection to the military,
and that if they didn’t like those restrictions, retirees could forfeit their pension and benefits.
The Trump administration expects the people who have put their lives on the line for America to cede one of their basic ri…

Opinion | Hegseth Is Sending Us a Warning
The secretary of defense has argued that military retirees are subject to freedom of speech restrictions. Let that sink in.

House Dems warn of weaponized intel ahead of Trump's speech (John Sakellariadis/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/07/16/house-dems-weaponized-intelligence-trump-speech-01000707
http://www.memeorandum.com/260716/p65#a260716p65

Trump calls for revocation of ABC, NBC licenses over speech snub - POLITICO
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/07/16/trump-calls-for-revocation-of-abc-nbc-licenses-over-speech-snub-01002580

RE: https://c.im/@cdarwin/116933798329257650
The most sinister line of his speech on Thursday came towards the end,
when Trump said his administration would be taking more action to try to take control over elections.
The Department of Homeland Security,…

Cowboys Rookie Delivers Epic Postgame Speech Amid Historic Stint With Dallas https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/dallas-cowboys-rookie-delivers-epic-postgame-speech-amid-historic-stint

Trump to allege Chinese meddling in U.S. elections in primetime speech, sources say (Jennifer Jacobs/CBS News)
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-to-allege-chinese-meddling-in-u-s-elections-in-primetime-speech-sources-say/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260715/p129#a260715p129

BBC lawyers want to subpoena Donald Trump Jr., Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner for both documents and deposition testimony
-- arguing all three have direct knowledge of Trump's intentions behind his January 6, 2021, speech at the Ellipse.
Citing testimony gathered by the House January 6 Committee, the BBC claimed Trump Jr. and Ivanka were present as their father revised the speech and were with him when he delivered it,
while Kushner reportedly drafted a statement condem…

BBC forcibly turned away trying to serve papers to Ivanka and Kushner: report
The BBC's legal team got physically blocked by police while trying to hand court papers to Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner at their own Miami home.The incident, reported by Politico, is part of an escalating fight to force President Trump's family into his $10 billion defamation suit against the Brit...

Vinatieri pokes fun at Manning, Belichick at HOF https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/49562810/vinatieri-pokes-fun-manning-belichick-hall-fame-speech

Cowboys release viral sensation Shiyazh Pete ahead of roster cuts https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2026/08/30/cowboys-release-shiyazh-pete-navajo-viral-speech/91538359007/

Donald Trump's elections wishlist (Emilio Perez Ibarguen/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/07/17/donald-trump-elections-speech-demands-01003431
http://www.memeorandum.com/260717/p95#a260717p95

Vice-president JD Vance appeared to partially row back on Donald Trump’s outlandish claims that every adult citizen in the US would receive $5,000 if the Republicans retain the House and Senate in the midterm elections.
“If the Republicans win, you win with us, and you get $5,000,” Trump told a roaring crowd, during a nearly two-hour long speech at the Republican midterm convention in Dallas in which he also urged voters to “pretend that I’m on the ballot”.
But Vance, speaking af…

US citizens will receive $5,000 if Republicans win midterms, Trump claims in lengthy convention speech
President makes offer that would cost US over $1tn and asks voters to ‘pretend that I’m on the ballot’ despite being deeply unpopular among electorate

At the rescheduled WHCA dinner, Trump praised the press corps' response to the April shooting before insulting journalists and celebrities who criticized him (Alyssa Ray/The Wrap)
https://www.thewrap.com/media-platforms/jo

Trump Admits He Can Be ‘Oversensitive’ to Press Coverage – Then Insults Anderson Cooper and Kaitlan Collins
"[Collins] shouldn't get the award. It was a fake," the president rails in his White House Correspondents' Dinner speech

Who Made America Poorer and Dirtier? (Adam Serwer/The Atlantic)
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/09/vance-speech-immigrants-democrats/688656/?gift=Je3D9AQS-C17lUTOnl2W8JJmm9c547lJ1hYW07XeVK8&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
http://www.memeorandum.com/260917/p79#a260917p79

Habeas has long been celebrated as the great writ of liberty
because it places the legality of imprisonment in the hands of judges rather than jailers.
Its importance is underscored by cases such as Khalil, Mahdawi, and Suri,
where the executive has seized individuals based on their political speech and advocacy,
concealed their whereabouts from counsel and family,
and transferred them in shackles across state lines to distant detention facilities.
In su…

Free Speech, Deportation, and the Suspension of Habeas Corpus
Denying habeas review of detention for protected speech risks accomplishing in practice what the Constitution forbids without actual suspension.

Cowboys' undrafted rookie goes viral for emotional locker-room speech after preseason win https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2026/08/24/cowboys-rookie-shiyazh-pet…

Senate NDAA adds protections for 'political speech' by military retirees amid Hegseth-Kelly battle (Ellen Mitchell/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/policy/defense/5936609-senate-defense-bill-retiree-speech/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260623/p117#a260623p117

San Francisco Arts Action
Artistic Free Speech Day Celebrated in Lafayette Park
Saturday , Aug 7, 2026
The Event honors SF Mime Troupe Founder Ron Davis in the place where he was arrested, in Lafayette Park, on August 7, 1965 for performing without a permit from the San Francisco Recreation and Park department.
About twenty five people met in the small, secluded amphitheater next to the Lafayette Tennis Courts.
Some protest posters lined the perimeter and a …

Artists Free Speech Day Celebrated in Lafayette Park : Indybay
Event honors SF Mime Troupe Founder Ron Davis in the place where he was arrested, in Lafayette Park, on August 7, 1965 for performing without a permit from the San Francisco Recreation and Park department.

Trump plans primetime speech on voting machines and foreign influence in elections (MS NOW)
https://www.ms.now/news/trump-speech-thursday-election-2020-interference
http://www.memeorandum.com/260714/p146#a260714p146

Senior House leader to talk about Republicans targeting ‘communism’ in midterms
House Republican Conference Chairwoman Lisa McClain plans to frame Democratic policies as “communist” and too “radical” for American voters in a Republican midterm convention speech on Thursday.

McClain’s speech focuses on controversial policies championed by some progressive Democrats,
including abolishing Immigration and Customs Enforcement and prior calls to defund the police,
accordin…

Senior House leader to talk about Republicans targeting ‘communism’ in midterms
Conference chairwoman Lisa McClain will focus on Democratic policies, including those on immigration.

Trump plans prime-time speech on 2020 election allegations (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/07/14/trump-plans-prime-time-speech-2020-election-allegations/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260715/p27#a260715p27

Carney heads to Europe for high-stakes speech and deeper EU ties as Canada clashes with Trump (MS NOW)
https://www.ms.now/news/carney-europe-high-stakes-speech-eu-ties-canada-clashes-trump
http://www.memeorandum.com/260915/p20#a260915p20

The BBC is seeking to subpoena Donald Trump’s son Donald Trump Jr.,
his daughter Ivanka Trump
and son-in-law Jared Kushner
in connection with a $10 billion defamation lawsuit the president is pressing against the U.K. broadcaster.
Lawyers for the BBC say the Trump family members “without question have personal knowledge” about Trump’s intentions in delivering the speech at the heart of the case:
his Jan. 6, 2021, address to supporters at the Ellipse as the Capit…

Pentagon Seeks Fit Troops for Upcoming Hegseth Speech (Lara Seligman/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/politics/national-security/pentagon-seeks-fit-troops-for-upcoming-hegseth-speech-45626103?st=xbt889&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
http://www.memeorandum.com/260915/p129#a260915p129

The world would be a happier place than it is if acquisitiveness were always stronger than rivalry.
But in fact, a great many men will cheerfully face impoverishment if they can thereby secure complete ruin for their rivals.
Hence the present level of taxation
-- Bertrand Russell
https://w…

The Four Desires Driving All Human Behavior: Bertrand Russell’s Magnificent Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech
“Nothing in the world is more exciting than a moment of sudden discovery or invention, and many more people are capable of experiencing such moments than is sometimes thought.”

Trump vote-fraud speech traps TV networks (Alex Isenstadt/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/07/16/trump-speech-elections-networks
http://www.memeorandum.com/260716/p21#a260716p21

It was only a few minutes long,
fewer than 750 words,
and was in part almost drowned out by music blasted by anti-Brexit protesters.
But there was a lot in Keir Starmer’s resignation speech
– not all of it stated openly.
https://www.

Trump Can't Stop Talking About the Thing That Trips Him Up Most (NOTUS)
https://www.notus.org/trump-white-house/trump-elections-speech
http://www.memeorandum.com/260716/p30#a260716p30

In Scott Bessent’s speech at yesterday’s Republican "convention",
he warned that the progressive left is relentless in trying to turn America into a “socialist hellscape.”
Bessent added that their “version of equality would drag everyone down instead of lift everyone up”
and urged attendees to continue the political fight to push back against socialism.
Bad enough that this is just demented Cold War communist witch-hunt crap.
Worse, it’s coming from…

Bessent (and his boss) have lost all credibility on the economy
It’s becoming a problem for all of us

On the night Republicans gathered to mourn the killing of Charlie Kirk
and warn against the dangers of violent rhetoric,
a crowd at the party’s irregular midterm convention in Dallas repeatedly called for a sitting Senate candidate to be shot,
while Ted Cruz, the Republican senator at the podium never denounced or even noted the outbursts.
The outbursts came repeatedly during Ted Cruz’s Thursday night address at the American Airlines center,
when he named a Demo…

Calls for Democrats to be shot go unchallenged at Republican convention
Crowd member repeatedly said some Democrats ‘should be shot’ during Ted Cruz’s speech, without senator responding

Vice President JD Vance paused his address and made racist remarks when an apparent protester interrupted his convention speech.
https://www.wsj.com/livecoverage/trump-vance-midterm-elections-2026-rnc/card…

Mamdani was surrounded by naturalized citizens like himself as he listed the waves of immigrants who shaped the city.
“Hundreds of thousands of Irish immigrants arrived with stomachs aching from a famine manufactured by imperial cruelty,” Mamdani said.
“Chinese sailors settled in what is today Chinatown.
Millions more traveled under the Statue of Liberty and through Ellis Island.
Jewish people escaping pogroms,
Italians fleeing poverty.
Syrians seeking ec…

Zohran Mamdani rebukes Trumpism with pro-immigrant speech for US’s 250th birthday
New York mayor’s speech cut ideological counterpoint to policies of president, who will deliver his own remarks later today

The Trump administration is taking its war on free speech into the realm of thought crimes.
This is more than politics.
In declaring “Antifa”
—a loose ideology based on opposition to fascism
—as a domestic terrorist organization,
the government has given itself a green light to treat speech, belief, and association as criminal acts.
With this one executive order,
political dissent has been rebranded as terrorism and free thought recast as a crime.

Would Orwell Be Branded a Terrorist? The Government’s War on Thought Crimes
The Trump administration is taking its war on free speech into the realm of thought crimes. This is more than politics. In declaring “Antifa”—a loose

Emanuel denounces Israel’s leaders
Rahm Emanuel, a longtime defender of Israel,
warned Wednesday that the country has become increasingly isolated
as its leadership has turned it into a “territorial pariah,”
in a speech at Tel Aviv University on Wednesday.
Emanuel’s condemnation of Israel’s leadership shows how far centrist Democrats have shifted away from historical support of Israel,
three years after the war in Gaza began.
While Prime Minister B…

Apple is trying to get consumers to accept,
and even welcome,
a new reality:
Your tech is always listening.
At Wednesday’s Surprise and Shine event,
where the company introduced its new hardware lineup,
the real surprise turned out not to be the foldable iPhone,
but how the privacy-sensitive tech giant has decided its watches will now be able to process live audio
and transcribe what was said.
Does this mean you’re always being recorded i…

Apple Watch's new AI features are normalizing the idea that technology is always listening | TechCrunch
Apple says its new watches won’t save raw audio, but features that can transcribe recent speech and summarize ambient conversations raise new questions about consent, privacy, and how people behave when they know they could always be recorded.