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First Grader’s ‘Any Life’ Message Sparks Major First Amendment Ruling

https://www.dailysignal.com/2026/03/11/first-amendment-and-first-grade-9th-circuit-rules-on-student-speech/

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The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in favor of an elementary school student’s First Amendment rights after she was punished for adding the words “any life” to a picture of “Black Lives Matter.”

The student, with the initials B.B., said she added the message while in first grade in 2021, inspired by a lesson on Martin Luther King Jr. She shared the drawing with a friend.

The school principal told her the drawing was inappropriate and punished her, according to the Pacific Legal Foundation, which represented the family in the case. The principal forced her to apologize, banned her from giving drawings to classmates, and excluded her from recess for two weeks.

The parents, who didn’t find out about the punishment until a year later, sued the Capistrano Unified School District in San Juan Capistrano, California.

“Today’s ruling affirms what should be obvious: Students don’t lose their constitutional rights just because they’re young,” Caleb Trotter, senior attorney at Pacific Legal Foundation, said in a public statement Tuesday.

PLF has been, for several decades, a nemesis for the tyrannical California Coastal Commission. This case will give Progs another reason to hate the PLF.

This school principal knew that the student acted within her free speech rights, but the principal believed the student and her parents could not afford to do anything about it. @#$% like this has been perpetrated by PS educrats and teachers for decades. It is not ignorance of the law, it's arrogance and defiance of students' and parents' rights.

What's ironic that, if the organization known as Black Lives Matter was changed to say White Lives Matter, they would have been deemed racist. But Black Lives Matter, a name that's racist in its own right for putting one ethnicity above all, is ok.

I've learned, partly courtesy of DU-folk, that when Libs and Progs pretzellate to fit what they want to be true, it'll be a casserole of stupidity and silliness half-baked in malice sauce. That a Christian with moderate familiarity with Scripture like me can recognize and call out their distortions it illustrates how pathetic their misunderstanding and dishonest use of Scripture is.

According to the left, food only comes from foreign countries, or the labor of people in the country illegally.

Food is grown at Whole Foods, not by hard working farmers.

On Wednesday, ABC News came out and said that the "FBI has warned police departments in California in recent days that Iran could retaliate for the United States attacks on its regime by launching drones at the West Coast."

It claimed it had actually read the alert, which it claimed said, "We recently acquired information that as of early February 2026, Iran allegedly aspired to conduct a surprise attack using unmanned aerial vehicles from an unidentified vessel off the coast of the United State Homeland, specifically against unspecified targets in California, in the event that the U.S. conducted strikes against Iran. We have no additional information on the timing, method, target, or perpetrators of this alleged attack."
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White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt came out on Thursday morning and not only confirmed that it was fake news, but went off on ABC for leaving out a critical element of the alert: the word "unverified." 

"This post and story should be immediately retracted by ABC News for providing false information to intentionally alarm the American people," Leavitt posted on her X account. "They wrote this based on one email that was sent to local law enforcement in California about a single, unverified tip. The email even states the tip was based on *unverified* intelligence. Yet ABC News left out this critical fact in their story! WHY? TO BE CLEAR: No such threat from Iran to our homeland exists, and it never did."