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▲ 0 r/immigration

‘We’ve never seen anything like this’: ICE’s detention crackdown swamps the courts

"[M]ore than 16,000 times in the past year, judges have ruled against ICE’s detention tactics. About two-thirds of those rulings stemmed from the policy change in that two-page memo, which broadened the reach of a 1996 detention statute in ways no prior administration had ever attempted."

politico.com
u/LibertyandApplePie — 9 days ago
▲ 7 r/FreeSpeech

FCC votes to end Biden-era rule that required ISPs to list all their fees

FCC updated its broadband-label rules in 2023 to require that ISPs “itemize on the label all discretionary monthly fees that the provider passes through to the consumer.” ISPs complained about the burden and complexity of listing all the passthrough fees they had chosen to charge.

While ISPs seem to have little difficulty charging the fees when it’s time to issue monthly bills, they complain about the burden of listing all the fees on the broadband price labels.

arstechnica.com
u/LibertyandApplePie — 29 days ago
▲ 12 r/FreeSpeech

FCC to end Biden-era rule that forces ISPs to list all their fees

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/07/fcc-to-end-biden-era-rule-that-forces-isps-to-list-all-their-fees/

From the article:

The Biden-era FCC updated the broadband-label rules to require that ISPs “itemize on the label all discretionary monthly fees that the provider passes through to the consumer.” The change drew protest from Comcast and other ISPs that complained bitterly about the complexity of listing all the hidden fees they had chosen to charge.

Under Chairman Brendan Carr, the Trump FCC has steadily whittled away at requirements imposed under Democrats.

The FCC is also relaxing the requirement that price information be available over the phone."

u/LibertyandApplePie — 2 months ago
▲ 37 r/FreeSpeech

On X You Can Track Nancy Pelosi stock trades but not Donald Trump. A "free speech absolutist" should let you track both

I think you should be allowed to track every politician's stock trades. Neither account should be censored.

u/LibertyandApplePie — 2 months ago
▲ 22 r/FreeSpeech

Attorney General announces that posting "8646" was not a threat and is protected free speech, but that posting "8647" is a crime. Should the same speech be legal when a Democrat is president but illegal when a Republican is president?

Personally, I think free speech should be protected no matter who is President.

"On April 29, "CBS Mornings" correspondent Major Garrett asked acting Attorney General Todd Blanche whether his department would investigate Posobiec for his "86 46" post directed at Biden. Blanche said "you cannot compare, well, what happened last time, what happened this time."

Here is the attorney general talking: https://youtu.be/uxuooZxirYE?si=Jas26-9QgPbNAd9V&t=148

u/LibertyandApplePie — 2 months ago
▲ 6 r/FreeSpeech

Federal prosecutors were investigating apparent illegal bribes behind Trump's pardon of convicted fraudster David Gentile. Then political appointees in the Justice Department blocked the investigation

https://removepaywalls.com/https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/21/us/politics/trump-fraudster-priest-investigation-brooklyn.html

David Gentile is a private equity executive who was convicted in a $1.6 billion scheme that defrauded thousands of mostly mom-and-pop investors, some of whom lost their retirement savings.

Trump freed him from prison less than two weeks into a seven-year prison sentence, and wiped away the possibility of forfeiting more than $15.5 million in ill-gotten gains.

Federal prosecutors gathered evidence that Mr. Gentile discussed making payments of $2.5 million or more to people or companies to help facilitate his clemency

reddit.com
u/LibertyandApplePie — 2 months ago
▲ 11 r/ControversialOpinions

If you are genuinely happy Paul Pelosi was attacked, you’re disgusting

The first amendment on the US constitution is “freedom of speech”. No one deserves to be attacked for their political opinions, whether you agree with them or not. I don’t agree with everything Paul Pelosi said, but he had a wife and kids. And people like Charlie Kirk were saying you'd be a "hero" if you bailed his attacker out of jail? Like come ON. Doesnt that literally go against everything the US stands for? You don’t have to agree with his opinions, and it’s perfectly fine to disagree, but it’s WILD to me that people were going around supporting the guy that attacked Pelosi.

reddit.com
u/LibertyandApplePie — 2 months ago
▲ 15 r/FreeSpeech

Republicans outraged after Trump pardons corrupt sheriff convicted of bribery

"That's a terrific mistake," said Ken Green, a retired entrepreneur and three-time Trump voter, as he ate breakfast at the counter at Frost Cafe in downtown Culpeper. "It's a failure of our justice system. He was guilty as could be. He needed to go to jail, and he didn't. So what kind of signal does that send?"

"Totally surprised, stunned," added John Cook, another Trump voter who runs a tree service and was sitting just a few stools away. "It's unbelievable."

https://www.npr.org/2025/06/02/nx-s1-5420699/the-fallout-in-a-virginia-county-after-trump-pardoned-a-former-sheriff

u/LibertyandApplePie — 2 months ago
▲ 18 r/FreeSpeech

The Attorney General is violating the federal law requiring him to make Epstein documents public, judge rules. The DOJ was legally required to release the files by Dec. 19 under the Epstein Files Transparency Act, but refuses to comply.

https://www.notus.org/trump-white-house/justice-department-violate-law-federal-judge-epstein-files

"Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche didn’t respond to a court order, prompting the judge to call him out."

A federal judge on Thursday ordered the Justice Department to release more files related to Jeffrey Epstein, concluding that acting Attorney General Todd Blanche is violating the law Congress passed to make Epstein documents public.

u/LibertyandApplePie — 2 months ago
▲ 13 r/FreeSpeech

FCC commissioner explains that the board is launching a "coordinated campaign of censorship and control" against Disney and ABC

FCC commissioner Anna M. Gomez wrote in a May letter to Disney that the company had “been made a target” by Trump’s FCC.

“What Disney and ABC are facing is not a series of coincidental regulatory actions but a sustained, coordinated campaign of censorship and control,” Gomez wrote, “carried out through the weaponization of the FCC’s authority as a federal regulator and aimed at pressuring a free and independent press and all media into submission.”

reddit.com
u/LibertyandApplePie — 2 months ago
▲ 10 r/FreeSpeech

Politician convicted in bribery scandal tells SCOTUS bribes are free speech

https://tiffinohio.net/posts/ohio-utility-corruption-defendants-to-scotus-bribes-are-free-speech/

Lee Householder was convicted in the largest bribery corruption scandal in Ohio's history. Householder was the two-time Speaker of the Ohio House of Representatives.

Householder was convicted of racketeering after a jury trial and received the maximum sentence of 20 years in federal prison on June 29, 2023, for his role in the Ohio nuclear bribery scandal. As a convicted felon, Ohio law prohibits Householder from holding public office in the state.

u/LibertyandApplePie — 2 months ago