Senator M. Michael Rounds has not blocked me from his Twitter account, but he has blocked a fellow South Dakota constituent: If a federal court…
Tag: First Amendment
The City of Sioux Falls fined West Fargo-based Service Oil Inc. $300 last year for not maintaining its billboard on its otherwise vacant property at…
Dang! Instead of fighting for our right to refer to a pink, slimy foodish product as what it literally is, ABC has settled with Beef…
Whoo-hoo—new podcast! In this week’s awesome hour of audio from Dakota Free Press, local music teacher Joe Berns tells us what he learned about the Koch Brothers’ vision…
I block people from my Twitter account all the time. But I’m not President of the United States. Columbia University’s Knight First Amendment Institute sent a letter…
The Intercept has obtained internal documents showing that Energy Transfer Partners employed mercenary firm TigerSwan to surveil, infiltrate, and undermine Dakota Access pipeline protestors in North Dakota and all along…
Last year Donald Trump snidely suggested that “Second Amendment people” should take Hillary Clinton out. Now that Trump has assured the racist NRA that the imagined…
Hey, South Dakota Department of Revenue, how’d you let this license plate fly? “ARYAN”—can you put that on a license plate? Not in Maryland, where…
In suffering judicial suspension of its second Muslim immigration ban, the Trump Administration may be learning that words matter. Specifically, Donald Trump doesn’t get to spend over…
The Senate put a cork in Senator and paid Trump consultant Neal Tapio‘s pro-Trump/anti-Islam grandstanding yesterday. After allowing Watertown’s Trump spokesman his eight minutes of pathetic…