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Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press @rcfp.org · 11h
Allowing the government to wield removal and detention of non-citizens as a tool to punish their protected speech would chill newsgathering and reporting in the public interest, @rcfp.org argues in a friend-of-the-court brief.
RCFP supports Stanford Daily’s First Amendment lawsuit against Trump administration
Allowing the government to wield removal as a tool to punish protected speech would chill newsgathering and reporting in the public interest.
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Bill Orme @ormebill.bsky.social · 11h
#Soyinka v #Trump - you decide: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/b...
Nigerian Nobel Laureate Says the U.S. Revoked His Visa
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Bill Orme @ormebill.bsky.social · 3d
That’s one way to put it: ‘U.S. Assessment of Israeli Shooting of Journalist Divided American Officials’ www.nytimes.com/2025/10/27/w...
U.S. Assessment of Israeli Shooting of Journalist Divided American Officials
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Mary Bannister (MaryB) @maryb2004.bsky.social · 5d
Ontario just ran the Ronald Reagan ad during the World Series!
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Bill Orme @ormebill.bsky.social · 5d
As NYC starts voting today to elect its next mayor, worth looking back at the transformative #Mamdani effect on June primary turnout - young voters doubling over 2021, record 70% of the record number of newly registered voters actually voting share.google/ItXhW9AQdaIz...
Voter Turnout in NYC’s 2025 Primary Hits Decade-High
Voter participation in New York City’s 2025 Primary Election reached its highest level in over a decade, signaling growing civic engagement across all five boroughs. With nearly 1.1 million ballots ca...
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Brendan Davey @brendandavey.bsky.social · 8d
NKD always provides some of the best voter guides. Their endorsements, and reasons to endorse ballot proposals 2-6, are especially informative here.

Share with anyone you can who is still not sure about their choices in this election! There isn't a lot of time left!
newkingsdems.bsky.social New Kings Democrats @newkingsdems.bsky.social · 8d
The NKD 2025 General Election Voter Guide is here!

Everything you need to know about the competitive races on the ballot in Brooklyn:

🗳️ NYC Mayor
🗳️ City Council 47
🗳️ Judicial Races
🗳️ Ballot Proposals

tinyurl.com/NKDVoterGuide25
November 2025 NKD Voter Guide
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Bill Orme @ormebill.bsky.social · 8d
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November 2025 NKD Voter Guide
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Bill Orme @ormebill.bsky.social · 8d
Very well done - clearly written and persuasively argued - hope it is shared widely
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Bill Orme @ormebill.bsky.social · 12d
"The history of the present King [...] is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States." - Declaration of Independence #nokings
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Bill Orme @ormebill.bsky.social · 12d
"He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands." - Declaration of Independence #NoKings !
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Bill Orme @ormebill.bsky.social · 13d
@ABC @CBSNews @NBCNews @FoxNews & @CNN Issue Joint Statement Declining To Sign On To #Hegseth's Restrictive Pentagon Press Policy deadline.com/2025/10/fox-... via @Deadline
Major Broadcast Networks, Fox News And CNN Issue Joint Statement Declining To Sign On To More Restrictive Pentagon Press Policy
UPDATED: The major broadcast networks, along with Fox News and CNN, issued a joint statement opposing the Pentagon‘s new restrictions on press access to the complex, concluding that it is “without pre...
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Bill Orme @ormebill.bsky.social · 13d
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Hegseth’s war on the press now a losing battle — for him - The Boston Globe
No journalist will give away the right to report the truth.
www.bostonglobe.com
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Bill Orme @ormebill.bsky.social · 13d
US to welcome immigration of far-right Europeans who oppose immigration: ‘Trump Refugee System Would Favor White People’ ‘https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/us/politics/trump-refugee-white-people.html?unlocked_article_code=1.uE8.qSLw.PWPWxXlk08LA&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
Trump Considers Overhaul of Refugee System That Would Favor White People
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Bill Orme @ormebill.bsky.social · 13d
Take back #1776 !! It’s the 250th birthday for all of us in the United States of America - we cannot allow it to become a taxpayer-funded #MAGA #Trump victory party.
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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 14d
What I don't have in experience, I make up for in integrity.

And what Andrew Cuomo lacks in integrity, he could never make up for with experience.
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New York Focus @nysfocus.bsky.social · 14d
The ICE detention center near Buffalo has banned book deliveries, New York Focus has learned.

One advocate says almost all the material at the facility is in English.
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New York’s Biggest ICE Detention Center Bans Book Deliveries
Rejected books include a Spanish-English dictionary, a Spanish translation of a George R.R. Martin novel, and "The Seven Principles for Making Marriage…
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Bill Orme @ormebill.bsky.social · 15d
And: not really a bailout for Argentines, but for Wall Street hedgefunders holding deeply discounted Argentine debt
sanders.senate.gov Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 15d
Trump wants to DOUBLE Argentina's bailout to $40 billion to save his political ally.

Yet he is doing nothing to prevent 15 million Americans from losing their health care and 20 million from seeing a doubling in their premiums.

Is this what Trump means by America first?
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Bill Orme @ormebill.bsky.social · 15d
Interesting. #Mamdani coattails should prove decisive. www.cityandstateny.com/politics/202...
New York City Council 2025 general election races to watch
The city’s purple districts are few and far between.
www.cityandstateny.com
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Bill Orme @ormebill.bsky.social · 16d
Most major news organizations—including @washingtonpost.com @nytimes.com @cnn.com @apnews.com @wsj.com @npr.org @reuters.com —refused to sign the Pentagon’s restrictive new press code. Interestingly, #Newsmax #WashingtonExaminer & #WashingtonTimes also declined, citing First Amendment principles.
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Bill Orme @ormebill.bsky.social · 17d
I'm attending No Kings's event, “ANCHOR EVENT: NYC SAYS NO KINGS!” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/nokings/even...
ANCHOR EVENT: NYC SAYS NO KINGS! · No Kings
**In America, we don’t put up with would-be kings.** 📍 Where: Father Duffy Square, 47th st. and Broadway 📅 When: 11:00 AM ET, October 18, 2025 NOTE: this will be a march, not a rally! Enter from the...
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Bill Orme @ormebill.bsky.social · 17d
George does the right thing - shuts Vance down, cuts to break.
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18d
STEPHANOPOULOS: I didn't insinuate anything. I asked you whether Tom Homan accepted $50k as was heard on an audio tape recorded by the FBI in September 2024. You did not answer the question. Thank you for your time.

VANCE: No, George, I sai--

STEPHANOPOULOS: We'll be right back
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Bill Orme @ormebill.bsky.social · 17d
New York's #FOI #A2I law & enforcement badly needs fixing - yet #Hochul just quashed overdue widely supported reforms that would help New Yorkers get answers and basic information from their state government, as they have the right to expect
reinventalbany.bsky.social Reinvent Albany @reinventalbany.bsky.social · 20d
Statement: Hochul Vetoes Transparency Bill Backed by Press Freedom and Watchdog Groups

Governor Fixes Nothing, Offers Nothing in Response to Persistent Public Concerns About Deeply Dysfunctional Freedom of Information Law (FOIL) Process

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Hochul Vetoes Transparency Bill Backed by Press Freedom and Watchdog Groups - Reinvent Albany
Governor Fixes Nothing, Offers Nothing in Response to Persistent Public Concerns About Deeply Dysfunctional Freedom of Information Process  New York’s Freedom of Information Law (FOIL) process is…
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Bill Orme @ormebill.bsky.social · 18d
I think the Eagles should stick with Joe Walsh
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Bill Orme @ormebill.bsky.social · 18d
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The Free Press Called Out "Incomplete" Reporting on Gaza's Starving Children. Here's the Complete Story.
CBS's Bari Weiss touted Free Press article as the "ground truth." Drop Site spoke to the actual families.
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Bill Orme @ormebill.bsky.social · 19d
In #Nigeria #Pakistan #Jordan and many other countries, anti-cybercrime laws are deliberately misused to repress independent journalism 🦋 www.cjr.org/analysis/nig...
How anti-cybercrime laws are being weaponized to repress journalism.
Across the world, well-meaning laws intended to reduce online fraud and other scourges of the internet are being put to a very different use.
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