Suppress & Punish Free Speech
2025 September
2025-09-11 The dean of Tennessee University was fired over a ‘zero sympathy’ post about Charlie Kirk.
2025-09-13 American Airlines pilots were grounded and removed from service just for talking negatively about the Charlie Kirk shooting.
https://x.com/SecDuffy/status/1966943501444415920
2025-09-13 An Office Depot employee was fired for refusing to print Charlie Kirk posters, calling them propaganda.
2025-09-15 News outlets began to report on the wide controversy whether to ban Charlie Kirk rhetoric from social media platforms. Speaker Mike Johnson stated that “social media has been a toxin in politics”. White House spokesperson Abigail Jackson stated “President Trump is a champion for free speech”.
2025-09-15 In retaliation, conservatives worked to ensure that anyone who offended the Charlie Kirk base by not sufficiently mourning was fired. By this date the media already cited employee firings from Office Depot, American Airlines, MSNBC, multiple teachers, NASDAQ, Perkins Coe, members of the secret service, Microsoft, and the Washington Post. Meanwhile, Republicans who had previously celebrated the assault of Nancy Pelosi’s husband, death of the Minnesota senators, killing of George Floyd, or suggested an entire population of homeless people be “euthanized” remain employed to this day.
https://apnews.com/article/dowd-msnbc-kirk-comments-e08f349022c9d69171cd575664141075
https://abovethelaw.com/2025/09/perkins-coie-fires-lawyer-over-this-charlie-kirk-post/
https://x.com/Microsoft/status/1966626714148368766
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/teachers-punishment-social-media-posts-173737509.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/15/business/media/washington-post-charlie-kirk-karen-attiah.html
2025-09-15 JD Vance hosted the Charlie Kirk podcast and urged listeners to call out anyone expressing joy or not adequately mourning. He added, “hell, call their employers”.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/pentagon-reviewing-service-members-social-media-posts-on-charlie-kirk/
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn0r5y33pj5o
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/16/jd-vance-doxing-charlie-kirk-critics
2025-09-19 In a report from MSNBC, all 9 Supreme Court Justices agreed that the government cannot coerce businesses to suppress views.
2025-09-25 An Austin Peay State University professor was fired over a post about Charlie Kirk the school deemed too insensitive.
2025 October
2025-10-28 A Tennessee man was arrested and jailed for over 30 days for posting an online meme quoting President Trump. One day after a local news outlet reported on the incarceration, Perry County dropped the charges and released the man.
2026 January
2026-01-16 The DOJ under Trump accused Governor Tim Walz and Mayor Jacob Frey of fraud and conspiracy to impede immigration agents.
https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/doj-opens-criminal-probe-targeting-minnesota/
https://www.mprnews.org/story/2026/01/06/timeline-of-fraud-investigations-that-shaped-walz-tenure
2026 February
2026-02-03 DHS submitted an administrative subpoena against a 67-year-old man from Pennsylvania after he wrote an email to them asking to “apply principles of common sense and decency” in their treatment of a man seeking asylum from Afghanistan. DHS issued the subpoena to Google just hours after the man sent the email so they could access the man’s computer and Gmail. Two weeks later, they showed up to his front door for questioning. The ACLU had to get involved to challenge the subpoena and the violation of his First Amendment rights.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/2026/02/03/homeland-security-administrative-subpoena/
https://newrepublic.com/post/206088/homeland-security-67-year-old-us-citizen-criticized-email
2026-02-14 DHS requested personal information of online users who have been critical of ICE, including names, email addresses, phone numbers and other identifying data.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/technology/dhs-anti-ice-social-media.html
https://www.thedailybeast.com/dhs-orders-tech-giants-to-unmask-anti-ice-accounts/