Jane Rosenberg LaForge
@elrosenberglaforge.bsky.social
Poet, novelist, book reviewer, former adjunct professor, former journalist, blah blah blah blah blah
He thought that his status as a #tenured #professor at @thenewschool.bsky.social would save his job. It didn't. #highereducation #warontenure #faculty www.nytimes.com/2026/08/05/n...
He Had Tenure. The New School Laid Him Off Anyway.
The professor, a longtime critic of the university, was among 19 educators who lost their positions as the institution navigated financial woes.
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#CBS’s @60minutes.bsky.social had the scoop on Jeffrey Epstein’s sketchy financials through interview w/author of report on how banks enabled the pedo-sex trafficker. But that interview and report never aired, @newrepublic.com says. #journalism #media #BariWeiss newrepublic.com/post/213927/...
60 Minutes Ended Story About Epstein’s Shady Bank Transactions
Senator Ron Wyden sat for an interview with correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi about Jeffrey Epstein’s bank transactions. Alfonsi was fired for other reasons shortly after, and the story never aired.
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Just wanna point out that when David Ellison points to Paramount's already diverse #media offerings toward the end of this article, each one has a distinctly militaristic theme. Just sayin' #media www.nytimes.com/2026/08/04/o...
Opinion | David Ellison: In Defense of the Paramount-Warner Deal
The issue is whether I can be trusted as a steward of CNN.
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Billie Eilish is playing the lead in a new film adaptation of Sylvia Plath’s "The Bell Jar." www.vogue.co.uk/article/bill...
Here’s Your First Look At Billie Eilish On The Set Of ‘The Bell Jar’
And it’s rumoured that Heated Rivalry’s Connor Storrie may be coming on board, too.
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Link to @scotusblog.com's #FirstAmendment -a-palooza podcast w/Sarah Isgur & @davidfrenchjag.bsky.social on ballot measure capping super PAC donations; school admin’s #book display; profane vanity plates; library law; & more. www.scotusblog.com/podcasts/adv...
The Island of Rationality and the First Amendment | Advisory Opinions
Welcome to First Amendment-a-palooza, where headliners Sarah Isgur and David French play the classics like: “Are license plates government speech?” and “Three cheers for Citizens United,” as well as…
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#University of Alabama gets highest rating for #FreeSpeech from @thefireorg.bsky.social: www.fire.org/news/univers... but please don't forget lawsuit from @legaldefensefund.bsky.social over #FreePress / suspension of two #student magazines & a court upheld it: splc.org/2026/05/alab... via @splc.org
University of Alabama earns FIRE’s top rating for free speech after reforming policies
The University of Alabama has received a "green light" rating from FIRE after recently improving its free speech policies.
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On @reuters.com findings Trump admin hasn't kept its promises on #FreeSpeech: "....the repeated #FirstAmendment rulings suggest an increasingly assertive judiciary willing to check executive actions it considers unconstitutional." From moderndiplomacy.eu moderndiplomacy.eu/2026/08/04/i...
Is Trump's Free Speech Agenda Undermining the First Amendment?
U.S. President Donald Trump returned to office pledging to restore free speech and end what he described as years of government censorship.
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Florida's law preventing children from attending "sexually explicit" drag shows doesn't violate the #FirstAmendment, according to a majority of federal appellate judges who weighed in on the contentious measure. The case now heads back to a trial court in Orlando. www.tallahassee.com/story/news/s...
Federal appeals court OKs Florida anti-drag show law
A federal appeals court ruled Florida's law restricting children at 'sexually explicit' drag shows is valid.
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Illinois’ new law restricting how #socialmedia interacts w/minors is being promoted as a consumer-protection measure. But before the law takes effect in 2028, a different question could emerge: Does it violate the #FirstAmendment? www.mystateline.com/news/does-il...
Does Illinois’ new social media law for kids violate the First Amendment?
Gov. JB Pritzker signed the Children’s Social Media Safety Act last week, requiring social media companies to provide stronger privacy protections for users under 18 and limiting the use of a…
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FL AG James Uthmeier warned Catholic bishops that their schools must "comply w/Florida law & grant religious exemptions to school vaccine policies." But expert said warning "reflects a misunderstanding of Americans' fundamental right to #ReligiousFreedom..." www.ncronline.org/news/florida...
Florida AG's threat to Catholic schools 'clear violation' of the First Amendment, law scholar says
Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier sent a letter to the Catholic bishops of Florida demanding that Catholic schools in the Sunshine State adopt religious exemptions to vaccine requirements or ris...
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A cosmic inheritance passed down from one generation to the next: the #Deadheads. From @npr.org's week long (or more) tribute to the #GratefulDead. www.npr.org/2026/08/05/n...
How Deadheads became rock and roll's greatest renewable resource
Even as the band has changed and reinvented itself, the Grateful Dead's fanbase has proven to be uniquely and consistently renewable — a cosmic inheritance passed down from one generation to the next,...
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The Ellison Bullshit machine CBS had to shovel their crap back from their LIES about Mamdani THEIR STENCH IS STRONG popular.info/p/update-cbs...
UPDATE: CBS News reverses course, airs story on 9/11 families supporting Mamdani
Last week, CBS News New York falsely reported that “thousands of 9/11 victims’ families are asking New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani not to attend this year’s solemn remembrance ceremony.” The articl...
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#Journalists Sandra Rodríguez-Cotto and Rafelli González-Cotto's 2025 challenge to Puerto Rican "False News" law for chilling #PressFreedom (& violated #FirstAmendment) has been upheld by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, @freepress.bsky.social says. www.freepress.net/news/civil-l...
Civil-Liberties and Press-Freedom Groups Applaud First Circuit Ruling in Rodríguez-Cotto v. González-Colón, Affirming First Amendment Rights
This is a huge win for free speech and press freedom at a time when we need them most.
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@aclu.org of Washington D.C. seeking $3 mil on behalf of retired U.S. Army captain whose #protest signs "Occupation: Troops Out" and "National Guard Stop Being So Embarrassing" led to an assault by Idaho National Guard officers www.npr.org/2026/08/04/n...
A veteran was detained by the National Guard in her front yard. Now she's suing
Military veteran and D.C. resident Anna King has filed a $3 million lawsuit against the Idaho National Guard, saying three guard members assaulted her while detaining her in front of her home.
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@nypost.com accused of publishing hoax about New York City Mayor Zohran @mayor.nyc.gov Mamdani, then retroactively trying to make the story seem real. From @juddlegum.bsky.social's Popular Information via @rawstory.com Very bad for #journalism #legacymedia www.rawstory.com/zohran-mamda...
'Dark': Shock as right-wing paper scrambling to defend manufactured Mamdani hoax
The New York Post has been accused of publishing a hoax story about New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, then retroactively trying to make the story seem real when they got caught.According to Judd Leg...
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Four #professors and a national #faculty group @aaup.org asked a federal judge Monday to block @tamu.bsky.social system’s restrictions on teaching about race, gender and sexuality and to reinstate courses canceled under the policy. #highereducation www.texastribune.org/2026/08/04/t...
Texas A&M sued over teaching limits on race, gender
This is the second Texas university system sued over teaching restrictions in recent weeks.
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Pictures from the radio (of #Deadheads keeping a summer tradition of #GratefulDead tours alive even though no original members are touring this summer). Thanks @npr.org www.npr.org/sections/the...
For Deadheads across the country, the music never stops
As soon as the weather warms up, fans of the Grateful Dead partake in an important summer tradition: gathering together to experience the band's music.
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Translating a mass shooter’s journal. Public records review of flood warning systems in Texas. Exposé of tech's complicity in Chinese surveillance state. Audit of crypto lawsuits. #Journalists behind these stories disclosed using #AI to #Pulitzer judging committee. www.niemanlab.org/2026/08/a-re...
A record-breaking eight Pulitzer awardees disclosed AI use this year
Five winners and three finalists detailed their AI adoption to the judging committee.
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Four years ago, Evan Newton was an intern at the Monticello (GA) #News. Now he's the #newspaper’s #editor, #publisher and owner, receiving thanks for still believing enough in community #journalism to purchase his hometown newspaper. www.wabe.org/meet-the-gen...
Meet the Gen Z journalist who bought his hometown newspaper in Georgia
Four years ago, Evan Newton was an intern at the Monticello News. Last month, he became the newspaper’s editor, publisher and owner after purchasing the outlet from its previous local owner.
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#FCC Chair Brendan Carr has defended his agency’s recent actions against #ABC, saying broadcasters have a duty to “operate in the public interest” and the FCC is trying to restore that standard. A Fox Business interview via @freespeechcenter.bsky.social firstamendment.mtsu.edu/post/fcc-cha...
FCC chairman defends actions against ABC, says broadcasters must operate 'in the public interest'
ABC accuses the FCC of retaliating against it simply because it doesn't like the political content of ABC's shows.
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Trump repeatedly campaigned as a champion of #FreeExpression, vowing in his January 2025 inaugural address to stop what he described as years of "government #censorship." @reuters.com has identified 75 federal-judge rulings finding Trump infringed on #FirstAmendment www.reuters.com/legal/govern...
Trump vowed to 'bring free speech back.' Judges in 75 cases ruled that he has stifled it
U.S. President Donald Trump repeatedly campaigned for his second term as a champion of free expression, vowing in his January 2025 inaugural address to stop what he described as years of "government c...
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A newly opened independent #bookstore in Nashville, has cancelled a #book launch event with “White. Blonde. Jew” #author Alyssa Rosenheck after facing backlash on social media from anti-Zionist activists. www.algemeiner.com/2026/08/03/n...
Nashville Bookstore Cancels Book Launch of Jewish Author Behind ‘White. Blonde. Jew’ After Anti-Zionist Social Media Campaign
Photographer and author Alyssa Rosenheck, also an Instagram influencer, at her Nashville home on Thursday, October 20, 2022. Photo: USA …
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apnews.com/article/pell... Sharyn Alfonsi and Scott Pelley, two of the correspondents ousted from “60 Minutes,” are going to the classroom. Columbia Journalism School announced that Alfonsi and Pelley would serve as Journalists in Residence for the upcoming academic year.
Former '60 Minutes' correspondents Pelley, Alfonsi go from newsroom to classroom
Sharyn Alfonsi and Scott Pelley, two correspondents recently ousted from "60 Minutes," will be moving from the newsroom to the classroom.
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A former @60minutes.bsky.social executive producer is looking to raise $50 mil to fund two years’ worth of a rival #news series w/Scott Pelley and others who have recently exited the iconic show. Insiders are skeptical about whether it can get off the ground. nypost.com/2026/08/02/m...
Exclusive | Ex-’60 Minutes’ boss Bill Owens wants to launch rival news show with Scott Pelley, other fired staffers: sources
Owens has quietly been raising cash for the digital news venture in recent months, sources close to the situation said.
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"My folks described the #GratefulDead as a big old oak tree...Jerry was a big banjo player, my dad [had] classical roots. The...branches & leaves are everyone inspired by them. That's what I am...It'll grow & grow...not every tree lives forever but it outlives all of us." www.npr.org/2026/08/03/n...
How long will the Grateful Dead's songs survive?
The Grateful Dead endured an original run of 30 years, but its appeal has survived just as long in a world where the band no longer exists. The question now is not whether the music will continue, but...
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more than 8 percent of all American newspaper journalists work in Manhattan, up from 2 percent in 2005 www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
President Trump is banning #college #university #students majoring in degrees that don’t make enough money, such as social work, art, religious studies, teaching aides, music, and cosmetic certification programs--from taking out college loans. #highereducation newrepublic.com/post/213446/...
Trump Moves to Cut Off Student Loans for Tons of Degrees
Under a new rule, if your degree doesn’t make enough money, you won’t be able to get a student loan.
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"There is nothing conservative about (the Texas) #reading list, nor about the belief from children need to be exposed...to #literature... they should memorize #poems and speeches, that they should learn #grammar." Sure. But I still don't like those Bible requirements. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/03/o...
Opinion | What Blue States Can Learn From the Texas Book List
Educational traditionalism is not the same as political conservatism.
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@democracydefendersfund.org and www.citizensforethics.org demand investigations into gifts #FCC received from Paramount as company sought government approval for its $111 billion acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery. #media www.propublica.org/article/fcc-...
FCC Commissioners Face Ethics Complaints for Taking Luxury Gifts From Paramount
Citing a ProPublica report on Paramount providing luxury Kennedy Center gala tickets to FCC officials, the complaints note that commissioners accepted the gifts while the FCC was reviewing or about to...
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