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There Can Be No More Doubt. Trump Wants to Kill Free Speech (David Rothkopf/The Daily Beast)
https://www.thedailybeast.com/there-can-be-no-more-doubt-trump-wants-to-kill-free-speech/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260130/p74#a260130p74

Freedom of speech in 2026: Between Brussels' demands and the realities of war: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/28/freedom-of-speech-in-between.html

Mr. Bushart’s bail was set at
$2 million.
Unable to pay, he spent 37 days in jail
- before prosecutors dropped the charge
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/opinion/charlie-kirk-free-speech-bushart.html?smid=nytcore-…

Opinion | Larry Bushart Posted a Charlie Kirk Meme. He Went to Jail for 37 Days.
The best way to honor Charlie Kirk is not to criminalize speech.

🗣️ Locker Room Speech: Mike Kafka hands out game balls https://www.giants.com/video/locker-room-speech-mike-kafka-hands-out-game-balls

The Q.ai acquisition could be Apple's second-largest ever and marks founder Aviad Maizels' second exit to Apple, which bought his startup PrimeSense in 2013 (Omer Kabir/CTech)
https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/bjmwdmkizx

Apple acquires secretive Israeli AI startup Q.ai for $1.5 billion
The little-known company, led by PrimeSense founder Aviad Maizels, has been working on whispered speech and advanced audio technologies for wearable devices.

Listening to Sir John Gielgud playing Hamlet in 1941 doing the "oh what a rogue..." speech (1:21:26):
#acting

A post from the archive 📫:
Curiosity unbounded
#musings

#caturday

Spectral peak picking improves tactile speech perception https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-025-28930-6 "The algorithm is suitable for real-time use in wearable sensory substitution devices and could aid the development of effective haptic hearing aids."

Journalist Eoin Higgins says Matt Taibbi is suing him for defamation over Owned, his book about tech billionaires and the left, and "I stand by my work" (Eoin Higgins/The Flashpoint)
https://eoinhiggins.substack.com/p/yes-im-being-sued-by-matt-taibbi<…

Yes, I'm being sued by Matt Taibbi
Does that make me the realest free speech warrior?

Wait, he *really did* call his security company "Sauron"
Need to start a white hat hacker collective called the Fellowship now
and maybe work on my "we are all Samwise" rabble-rousing speech

To my eyes, this is an act of war by the US upon the nation of Venezuela. (Not to mention the blurring of GPS and the sinking of boats by the US.)
If indeed a state of war now exists (to borrow a phrase from FDR's speech to Congress after Pearl Harbor) then Venezuela could be anticipated to wage war against the US - endangering US people (including tourists) everywhere in the world.
El Cheato and Whiskey Pete are getting the US in Vietnam Part II.
"Trump says airs…

US ambassador warns of China's growing manufacturing dominance (Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/china-us-ambassador-david-perdue-speech-c272cef3ace8225909a6f7d875f2e5e2
http://www.memeorandum.com/260129/p41#a260129p41

@… Richard Powers has said that he uses speech recognition software (Dragon, I believe).
https://c21.openlibhums.org/article/id/16685/

Always readable Cory Doctorow - you should follow him BTW - but this speech he gave yesterday knocks the ball out of the park! Right on brother!
https://pluralistic.net/2026/01/29/post-american-canada/#ottawa

"As explained in chapter 11 of Meyer’s book, assertions are meant to check the correctness of a piece of software; that is, its ability to perform the tasks defined in their specification.
Because, you do have a specification, right? Right?"
https://deprogrammaticaipsum.com/asser…

Assertions
Colin Powell passed away during the preparation of this article. In one of the most memorable and abhorrent chapters of his career he gave a speech in the United Nations trying to justify the unjustifiable.

"Let’s start with the Injustice Foundation, which has given more than £380,000 to the Free Speech Union in recent years..."
Well, at least the Injustice Foundation are honest about what they stand for.
Who funds the Free Speech Union? - by Peter Geoghegan
https://de…

Who funds the Free Speech Union?
Free Speech Union went to court to hide its donors. Today we reveal that funders include US anti-abortion groups, Brexit politicians and Tufton Street insiders.

I finally got around to adding the Narrator speech recap feature to my 2020 post “Speech Viewer Logs of Lies”:
https://adrianroselli.com/2020/08/speech-viewer-logs-of-lies.html#Update07
Video! We like video! 323kb of video! Big fat video!

Speech Viewer Logs of Lies
The headline is intentional hyperbole, chosen mostly for the sloppy alliteration. When sighted users test with a screen reader it is common to rely on the visual output — checking to see where focus goes, confirming that controls behave, watching the spoken output in a text log. The problem is…

The U.S. government just banned five people from entering the country -- because it doesn’t like their speech.
This ban, according to the State Department, is necessary to protect free speech.
If that sounds insane to you,
congratulations on your reading comprehension.
On Tuesday, Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s State Department declared the
“Announcement of Actions to Combat the Global Censorship-Industrial Complex,”
which will take
“decisive actio…

Marco Rubio is using real censorship to fight fake censorship
Mike Masnick: In the name of protecting free speech, the U.S. government just banned five Europeans from entering the country because it doesn’t like their speech.

Carney fires back at Trump after Davos speech | PBS News #canada

Carney fires back at Trump after Davos speech
“Canada doesn’t live because of the United States. Canada thrives because we are Canadian,” Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney responded Thursday.

EU chief says Europe needs to abandon caution after US treasury secretary calls Denmark ‘irrelevant’ – Europe live
https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2026/jan/21/europe-donald-trump-davos-speech-greenland-denmark-latest…

Reform have written to me. Wow, what a push poll. “Rising crime”, “mass immigration” (not devolved), but no mention of transport, let alone the environment (unless that’s what they mean by high energy prices).
Also, why only one set of choices for who I’m voting for? Have Reform forgotten that in a Scottish election you have two votes (constituency and list)?

Mark Carney Knows the Old World Is Dying. But His New World Isn’t Good Enough. | The Nation https://www.thenation.com/article/world/mark-carney-davos-speech-aftermath/

Mark Carney Knows the Old World Is Dying. But His New World Isn’t Good Enough.
The Canadian prime minister offered a radical analysis of the collapse of the liberal world order. His response to that collapse is unacceptably conservative.

Responding to hate-speech on hate platforms is futile. Even posting such responses on platforms such as X, however tempting it may be, is lending support to them and amounts to collaboration with the haters.
https://www.

Government says it is ‘fully committed to free speech’ after campaigners’ US visa ban – UK politics live
Imran Ahmed and Clare Melford among five Europeans hit with visa bans over claims they wish to ‘suppress American viewpoints they oppose’

@… I wasn't trying to argue with you. I agree with your fundamental point, but I wanted to point out that there is at least one very accomplished author who uses speech recognition software.
I used Dragon every day for years as a lawyer. Because I was a very specialized lawyer working primarily in federal securities laws (mostly mutual funds and investme…

Ty Cobb, an employee of the first Trump administration and a now outspoken critic of the president,
told The Beat on MS NOW Tuesday that the recent shift in Trump’s psychological condition was “palpable.”
That day alone, Trump spent a 90-minute press briefing mumbling to himself over a stack of papers,
alleging that “pirating ships” is the only thing that Somalis succeed at,
claiming that “God is very proud” of his first year back in office,
and alleging that a …

Ex-Ally Warns Trump’s Decline Is “Significant” After Disastrous Speech
Former White House lawyer Ty Cobb said Donald Trump’s cognitive decline is “palpable.”

I wrote a blog post again!
The style might be a bit different today. On location I made a lot of speech-to-text notes and tried to make a blog post from these.
At least it made it easier for me to remember what I felt on location. I think I'll do this note-taking more often. Especially when I don't reord videos.
Anyways. I hope you enjoy the photos and the reading.

Opposition Leader Sussan Ley accepted the resignations of senators Ross Cadell, Bridget McKenzie and Susan McDonald on Wednesday after the trio voted with the Greens and against the government’s post-Bondi legislation on Tuesday night.
https://www.thenewdaily.com.…

Nationals senators quit amid Coalition split on hate speech
Three senior Nationals have quit the Coalition frontbench after crossing the floor in Tuesday night's vote on hate speech laws.

Youtube have some new "feature" to transcribe speech to text. (or whatever this is)
Watching something about Star Trek and Kardashian, it produced this picture of Kim Kardashian.
I think we shouldn't be afraid of "AI" in any way.😂

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney Speech in Davos https://rmendes.net/articles/2026/01/21/canadian-prime-minister-mark-carney

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney Speech in Davos
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney Speech in Davos 21 January 2026 Canada Carney I don’t often or ever share on my blog Political Speeches from anyone but we’re in dark times and there is more darkne...

Trump using Jews to Ban Free Speech: The Ultimate in Antisemitism
https://www.juancole.com/2025/11/speech-ultimate-antisemitism.html

DeltaChat is a cool idea but should be cranked to the max. Fuck protocols, instant messaging has never been been about the protocol but the network effect.
Not everyone knows how to login to their email outside of the web browser, a chat client should facilitate speech between you and your friend’s favourite app.
These are all open protocols that allow for direct communication but garden off others: activitypub, email, irc, matrix, xmpp, bluesky, nostr, simplex, theema, tox, jam…

With Don Lemon's Shocking Arrest, Trump Expands His Total War on Free Speech (Zeteo)
https://zeteo.com/p/don-lemon-arrest-trump-minnesota-ice-church
http://www.memeorandum.com/260130/p140#a260130p140

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt denied that Trump mixed up Iceland and Greenland in his WEF speech, despite video evidence (Tom Jones/Poynter)
https://www.poynter.org/commentary/2026/did-trump-call-greenland-iceland-davos-speech/…

Trump misspoke at Davos. Karoline Leavitt told reporters not to believe their ears. - Poynter
During a speech, Trump repeatedly referred to Iceland while talking about Greenland. Then the press secretary denied what the video plainly shows.

“The world has changed. Washington has changed. Almost nothing is normal in the United States. That’s the truth,” the Prime Minister told MPs.
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/article-mark-carney-donald-trump-phone-call/

Mark Carney denies walking back Davos speech in call with Trump
U.S. Treasury Secretary claims the Prime Minister ‘very aggressively’ retreated from pointed remarks made about the President

Applaus en lof voor Canadese premier met speech over 'einde huidige wereldorde' https://nos.nl/artikel/2599090-applaus-en-lof-voor-canadese-premier-met-speech-over-einde-huidige-wereldorde

De tijd genomen om de speech van Mark Carney helemaal te luisteren en dat zou iedereen moeten doen. Geweldige duiding van de tijd waarin we leven en een strategie hoe daarmee als middelgroot land om te gaan. Historische speech.
https://youtu.be/7JgxGDccWk8?si=G1bX3gXRzGJdCAE7

How Legalized Bribery Works in America
https://www.inequalitymediacivicaction.org/debunking-myths/how-legalized-bribery-works-in-america

How Legalized Bribery Works in America — Inequality Media Civic Action
“Corporate political donations are free speech.” Give me a break. Corporate political donations are legalized bribery, plain and simple.

China is upset that Australia accused it of spying.
Beijing launches unusually personal attacks at ‘irresponsible’ ASIO boss Mike Burgess over new China speech

Beijing launches unusually personal attacks at ‘irresponsible’ ASIO boss Mike Burgess over new China speech
Beijing has accused Australia’s domestic spy boss of ‘spreading disinformation’ and ‘sowing division and confrontation’ after he again warned against Chinese hackers.

got to say Stranger Things could have really used an "oh no the upside down is aging us too fast" speech at some point.

Kevin O'Connell's Locker Room Speech After Vikings Win Over Cowboys https://www.vikings.com/video/kevin-oconnell-locker-room-speech-cowboys-2025

In this flurry of news, don’t sleep on this: even though Trump is still trying to hide the fact that he’s a serial rapist and pedophile, he is an absolutely public and unabashed racist, no matter how bright the spotlight.
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/jan/21/trumps-davos-speech-stephen-miller-white-identity-politics

Het lijkt alsof de NL nieuwsmedia een paar stukjes hebben gevonden van de speech van Trump vandaag die nog enigszins normaal lijken en de rest totaal negeren.
Als je de hele speech terugluistert, is er maar 1 conclusie mogelijk.
#Trump is krankzinnig. Waarom doen onze media alsof deze keizer nog kleren aan heeft?

Heavy is the head that bows the crown. Or something…
https://apnews.com/article/bbc-director-resigns-trump-speech-editing-3aab83138d58c92db1bb00e77e568876

Top BBC bosses resign after criticism of the broadcaster’s editing of a Trump speech
The head of the BBC has resigned after criticism of the broadcaster’s editing of a speech by U.S. President Donald Trump. The BBC said that director-general Tim Davie and news CEO Deborah Turness both announced their resignations on Sunday. Britain’s public broadcaster has been criticized for editing a speech Trump made on Jan. 6, 2021 before protesters attacked the Capitol in Washington. Critics said that the way the speech was edited for a BBC documentary last year was misleading and cut …

Q: How does the Polish Constitution differ from the American?
A: Under the Polish Constitution citizens are guaranteed freedom of
speech, but under the United States constitution they are
guaranteed freedom after speech.
-- being told in Poland, 1987

Joe Rogan Subreddit Bans 'Political Posts' But Still Wants 'Free Speech' https://www.404media.co/joe-rogan-subreddit-bans-political-posts-but-still-wants-free-speech/

The Trump administration's travel ban on five Europeans includes researchers working to tackle online disinformation and abuse, like CCDH founder Imran Ahmed (Adam Satariano/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com…

They Seek to Curb Online Hate. The U.S. Accuses Them of Censorship.
The Trump administration said five regulators and researchers who work to tackle disinformation and abuse on the internet had been barred from entering the United States.

Now Looney Bonespurs thinks he can rename Veterans Day.
https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2025/11/11/trump-veterans-day-speech-victory-day/3501762890394/

Donald Trump has been using fictional figures to justify his controversial military strikes on alleged drug-trafficking boats in the Caribbean near Venezuela.
“Every boat kills about 25,000 people,” Trump said in a speech last week.
“Every one of those boats is responsible for the death of 25,000 American people, and the destruction of families,”
he said in a speech Sunday.
“Probably saved at least 100,000 lives, American lives
– Canadian lives
– by taking …

Fact check: Trump’s absurd claim that he saved 100,000 lives by attacking alleged Venezuelan drug boats
President Donald Trump has been using fictional figures to justify his controversial military strikes on alleged drug-smuggling boats in the Caribbean near Venezuela.

Kevin Stefanski's Victory Speech vs. Raiders https://www.clevelandbrowns.com/video/kevin-stefanski-s-victory-speech-vs-raiders

Between the Donroe and Carney Doctrines https://jacobin.com/2026/01/carney-davos-speech-international-multipolarity/

Between the Donroe and Carney Doctrines
At Davos, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney set fire to liberal platitudes. His actual politics, however, do quite the opposite.

Check out the nifty article from my (younger, wiser) brother about the oligopoly on smartphones, and what you can do about it.
https://www.aclu.org/news/free-speech/app-store-oligopoly

Your Smartphone, Their Rules: How App Stores Enable Corporate-Government Censorship | ACLU
Big Tech Oligopoly helps the Trump Administration crack down on free speech

Google joins attacks on Britain over free speech online
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2025/12/21/google-joins-attacks-on-britain-over-free-speech-online/

Watching Mark Carney give his speech Canada's path forward • La voie que le Canada a choisie.
As an American watching our autohegemoncide, seeing us hurting our closest friends, I am glad for the clarity of this speech.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ve4FwAexdSQ

A list of times the Trump administration tested the limits of the First Amendment during his second term, stoking alarm among civil rights experts and critics (CNN)
https://www.cnn.com/politics/free-speech-trump-timeline-vis

Trump tests the First Amendment: A timeline
Within weeks of retaking the White House, President Donald Trump boasted that he had “brought free speech back to America.” But since then, he has tested the limits of the First Amendment time and again.

Fact-check: Russia's 'most successful disinformation campaign' targets free speech in Europe: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/26/factcheck-russias-most-successful-disinformation.html

Google expands Google Translate's live speech translation from Pixel Buds to any headphones, supporting 70 languages, in beta on compatible Android phones (Stevie Bonifield/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/843483/google-translate-live-sp…

Google Translate brings real-time speech translations to any headphones
Google Translate will now let users hear live speech translations in any headphones on its Android app, expanding a feature that was once only available with Pixel Buds.

Good to repeat.
The EU’s Fine Against X is Not About Speech or ‘Censorship’ | TechPolicy.Press
https://techpolicy.press/the-eus-fine-against-x-is-not-about-speech-or-censorship

The EU’s Fine Against X is Not About Speech or ‘Censorship’ | TechPolicy.Press
The €120 million fine under the Digital Services Act is just the EU enforcing some normal, boring requirements of its law, writes Stanford's Daphne Keller.

Assassination plots, sabotage, cyber-attacks and the manipulation of information by Russia and other hostile states mean that “the frontline is everywhere”, the new head of MI6 will warn on Monday.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/dec…

‘The frontline is everywhere’: new MI6 head to warn of growing Russian threat
Blaise Metreweli expected to say UK faces new ‘age of uncertainty’ in speech identifying Kremlin as key threat

Unsealed court documents show the Trump administration revoked Tufts student Rumeysa Ozturk's visa based on her op-ed in the Tufts Daily student paper (Zach Montague/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/22/us/politics/trump-rubio-student-speech.h…

D.H.S. Cited Foreign Students’ Writings and Protests Before Their Arrests
Documents unsealed by a federal judge on Thursday include dossiers that investigators prepared on pro-Palestinian student activists before they were targeted for deportation.

British anti-hate speech campaigners sanctioned by US state department
– Imran Ahmed and Clare Melford are among five Europeans hit with visa bans
over claims they wish to
‘suppress American viewpoints they oppose'
http…

Judge limits government actions against protesting scholars and students - The Washington Post
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2026/01/22/free-speech-court-order-trump-administration-protesters/

Trump's 'loud' speech rightly counted off all the ways his admin delivered for America in 2025 (Miranda Devine/New York Post)
https://nypost.com/2025/12/21/opinion/trumps-loud-speech-rightly-counted-off-all-the-ways-his-admin-delivered-for-america-in-2025/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251222/p42#a251222p42

This speech by Zelenskyy at Davos is biting. Glad to see him call out the European hypocrisy of “speaking of values [when] they often mean valuables.” But, my friend, not one mention of Gaza or Palestine given the topic? Ukraine is the closest thing to Palestine Europe has and still no solidarity, not even an acknowledgement? I just don’t get it.

Volodymyr Zelenskyy cautioned Europe in a speech at Davos,
accusing leaders of being in “Greenland mode”
as they waited for leadership from Donald Trump on Ukraine and other geopolitical crises
rather than taking action themselves.
“Just last year, here in Davos, I ended my speech with the words
-- Europe needs to know how to defend itself,”
Zelenskyy said in a speech at the World Economic Forum.
“A year has passed, and nothing has changed.”
He…

Nick Sirianni Postgame Locker Room Speech: Raiders https://www.philadelphiaeagles.com/video/nick-sirianni-postgame-locker-room-speech-raiders-nfl-2025-week-15-novacare-rehabilitation

The Most Important Foreign Policy Speech in Years (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/27/opinion/ezra-klein-podcast-henry-farrell.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260127/p38#a260127p38

The Trump administration's travel ban on five Europeans includes researchers working to tackle online disinformation and abuse, like CCDH founder Imran Ahmed (Adam Satariano/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/24/business/europe-us-onl…

They Seek to Curb Online Hate. The U.S. Accuses Them of Censorship.
The Trump administration said five regulators and researchers who work to tackle disinformation and abuse on the internet had been barred from entering the United States.

If you’re fed up with Meta right now,
you’re not alone.
Google searches for deleting Facebook and Instagram spiked last week
after Meta announced its latest policy changes.
These changes, seemingly designed to appease the incoming Trump administration,
included loosening Meta’s hate speech policy to allow for the targeting of LGBTQ people and immigrants. 
If these changes
—or Meta’s long history of anti-competitive, censorial, and invasive practice…

Mad at Meta? Don't Let Them Collect and Monetize Your Personal Data
If you’re fed up with Meta right now, you’re not alone. Meta tracks you across millions of websites and apps and its business model relies on your data. If you want to limit Meta’s ability to collect and profit from your personal data, here’s what you need to know.

Paradromics says it received FDA approval for a human trial of its Connexus brain implant, aimed at restoring speech to those with severe motor impairments (Emily Mullin/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/paradromics-gets-fda-approval-to-trial-…

Paradromics Gets FDA Approval to Trial Its Brain Implant in People
The Austin-based startup will test its high-bandwidth device to help restore speech in people with extremely limited movement.

Trump's primetime speech was a master class in gaslighting - Salon.com
https://www.salon.com/2025/12/18/trumps-primetime-speech-was-a-master-class-in-gaslighting/

Fact-Checking President Trump's Davos Speech (Linda Qiu/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/21/us/politics/fact-check-trump-davos-speech.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260121/p144#a260121p144

'Total fiction': CNN fact-checker demolishes 8 'wild exaggerations' in Trump's speech - Alternet.org
https://www.alternet.org/trump-speech-fact-checker/

Google announces MedGemma 1.5 with improved medical imaging support, and MedASR for medical dictation, both available on Hugging Face and Vertex AI (Google Research)
https://research.google/blog/next-generatio…

Next generation medical image interpretation with MedGemma 1.5 and medical speech to text with MedASR

Trump Embarrasses All of America in Slurred, Disjointed Davos Speech (Malcolm Ferguson/New Republic)
https://newrepublic.com/post/205478/trump-davos-speech
http://www.memeorandum.com/260121/p134#a260121p134

On 4 March, Donald Trump delivered his epic 100-minute speech to Congress, the longest such presidential address in US history.
Having finished speaking, in time-honored fashion, he walked down the line of supreme court justices, gladhanding each in turn before coming to a stop before the chief justice, #John #Roberts

Channel 4 says Jimmy Kimmel will share a message on Christmas Day as part of its Alternative Christmas Message show, emphasizing the importance of free speech (Ali Watkins/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/world/europe/jimmy-kim…

Jimmy Kimmel Will Deliver Britain’s ‘Alternative Christmas Message’
Mr. Kimmel will speak out against fascism and about the importance of free speech in the holiday address, according to a Channel 4 spokesman.

On Sunday night Bari Weiss,
the editor of The Free Press and the new head of CBS News,
abruptly stopped a forthcoming 60 Minutes report on the torture endured by migrants in the brutal El Salvadoran prison CECOT,
where the Trump administration has sent more than 280 men.
Trump supporters praised the decision from Weiss, who,
notwithstanding her description of conditions at CECOT as “horrific,”
had previously praised El Salvadoran leader Nayib Bukele for ma…

Cancel Culture’s Boomerang Effect
How we got to a place where free speech means whatever conservatives want to say

Trump says no nation can secure Greenland but the US in Davos speech (Alexandra Hutzler/ABC News)
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-nation-secure-greenland-us-davos-speech/story?id=129417816
http://www.memeorandum.com/260121/p51#a260121p51

U.S. President Donald Trump has a long and well-documented history of launching
incendiary rhetorical attacks against the press and his political opponents.
But rights groups warn that the president’s anti-free speech crusade reached an alarming and dangerous new level this week,
raising grave concerns about the potentially rippling consequences for reporters and freedom of expression more generally.
Ongoing reports and analysis
Since last Friday alone, Donald Tr…

It’s Been a Chilling Week for Free Speech in America
Trump’s attacks hit a “new low,” the head of the Committee to Protect Journalists said.

Is Trump mentally OK? A look back at the president's unusual behavior in 2025 (Adam Gabbatt/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/24/trump-mental-health-speech-address-2025-review
http://www.memeorandum.com/251224/p60#a251224p60

They Seek to Curb Online Hate.
The Trump Regime Accuses Them of Censorship.
Five Europeans who work to tackle disinformation and abuse on the internet
were barred from entering the United States
after Secretary of State Marco Rubio labeled them
“radical activists”
who undercut free speech.

They Seek to Curb Online Hate. The U.S. Accuses Them of Censorship.
The Trump administration said five regulators and researchers who work to tackle disinformation and abuse on the internet had been barred from entering the United States.

They Seek to Curb Online Hate. The U.S. Accuses Them of Censorship. (Adam Satariano/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/24/business/europe-us-online-censorship-free-speech.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/251224/p26#a251224p26

BBC Chair Samir Shah apologizes for an "error of judgement", saying the Panorama edit "did give the impression of a direct call for violent action" (Ellise Shafer/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/digital/globa…

BBC Chair Apologizes for Editing Trump Speech: 'Error of Judgement'
BBC chair Samir Shah apologized to the U.K. culture, media and sport committee following a scandal around the editing of a Trump speech in "Panorama."

Donald Trump sounded like a fascist dictator
suffering from a brain bleed
during his speech yesterday
at Davos.
It was a national embarrassment
even by the lowly standards of modern American politics.
The president’s showing in Switzerland was so shabby that I feel compelled to share some thoughts about it.
First of all, despite what cable news chyrons would have you believe,
Trump’s screed was chillingly aggressive.
He began the Gree…

American embarrassment. Global pariah.
Trump's Davos debacle marked a new low.

Read the full transcript of Carney's speech to World Economic Forum (Sean Boynton/Global News)
https://globalnews.ca/news/11620877/carney-davos-wef-speech-transcript/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260120/p99#a260120p99

Kash Patel went on a rant about former President Joe Biden, but it turns out the suspected shooter was actually granted asylum under President Donald Trump
This comes just one day after Patel vowed to bring the suspected shooter to justice
after they were already in custody
in an embarrassing impassioned speech.

Kash Patel drops another massive blunder as Trump considers firing FBI director
"Well, you miss all the signs when you do absolutely zero vetting - and that's exactly what happened in this case," Patel said

Trump talks about neuroses, selecting chairs and his wife's underwear drawer in latest affordability speech (Kevin Liptak/CNN)
https://cnn.com/2025/12/19/politics/trump-speech-north-carolina
http://www.memeorandum.com/251220/p28#a251220p28

Trump vs BBC
Donald Trump is suing the BBC for $10 billion
over a documentary he claims removed portions of his speech on Jan 6, 2021,
in which he urged supporters to protest the 2020 election results peacefully.
Lawsuit's claims
The lawsuit accuses the BBC of defamation and violations of Florida’s Deceptive and Unfair Trade Practices Act,
seeking $5 billion in damages for each claim.
BBC's response
The BBC says it will defend the lawsu…

Trump sues BBC for $10B over edited Jan. 6 speech
President Donald Trump is suing the BBC for $10 billion over a documentary that edited his Jan. 6, 2021, speech at the Capitol Ellipse.

Trump dominated Davos. But Canada's Carney was the star. (Ishaan Tharoor/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2026/01/23/mark-carney-davos-trump-wef-speech/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260123/p53#a260123p53

D.H.S. Cited Foreign Students' Writings and Protests Before Their Arrests (Zach Montague/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/22/us/politics/trump-rubio-student-speech.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260123/p4#a260123p4

By now you’ve seen Trump’s big speech at Davos.
The slurring,
the confusing of Greenland and Iceland,
the nonsense about wind power,
and the racist smearing of Somalis before the whole world
—it was an unmitigated disaster.
But things got worse when Trump’s propagandists spun it all as a world-historical triumph:
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt unleashed an extraordinary stream of obsequious praise,
absurdly declaring that
…

Trump Press Sec. Goes Full Cult as Reviews of Davos Fiasco Turn Brutal
As Karoline Leavitt and others struggle to spin Trump’s speech as a world-historical triumph, a critic of Trump’s unfitness explains why it was a disaster for our whole country and its future.

Trump: I won't use force to take Greenland
On Nato, Trump said “we give so much, and we get so little in return.”
At Davos Trump said the US only gets “death, disruption, and massive amounts of cash [given] to people who don’t appreciate what we do.”
– and he’s taking about both Nato and Europe generally.
Trump then points out Nato chief Mark Rutte in the audience
– who this morning was complimentary about Trump’s pressure to raise military spending among Nat…

'Execution was abysmal': Trump economy speech doesn't meet GOP hopes (Eli Stokols/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/12/18/execution-was-abysmal-trump-economy-speech-doesnt-meet-gop-hopes-00698967
http://www.memeorandum.com/251219/p4#a251219p4

Eric Holder to tear into Supreme Court as major redistricting decision looms (Gregory Svirnovskiy/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/11/22/eric-holder-supreme-court-speech-redistricting-00666073
http://www.memeorandum.com/251122/p55#a251122p55

The Most Startling Line From Trump's Davos Speech (Philip Elliott/Time)
https://time.com/7355488/trump-davos-speech-takeaways-analysis/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260121/p129#a260121p129

The revealing pointlessness of Trump's primetime speech (Zack Beauchamp/Vox)
https://www.vox.com/politics/472786/trump-primetime-speech-wednesday-inflation-pointless
http://www.memeorandum.com/251217/p153#a251217p153

Trump responds to Carney: "Canada lives because of the United States" (Avery Lotz/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/01/21/trump-davos-speech-carney-canada
http://www.memeorandum.com/260121/p46#a260121p46

Trump hails 'framework' of Greenland deal, reversing tariff threats (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/01/21/trump-speech-davos-greenland/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260121/p116#a260121p116

At Davos, a Clash Between Trump's World and the Old World (Zolan Kanno-Youngs/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/21/us/politics/davos-trump-speech-greenland-deal.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260121/p152#a260121p152