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Um, ICE just coldly shot an unarmed PRIEST in the head w a pepper ball when he (and everyone around him) clearly posed no threat.
For the crime of … complaining about government policy.
Core 1A speech.
With cameras rolling, they’re sniping priests for sport.
For the crime of … complaining about government policy.
Core 1A speech.
With cameras rolling, they’re sniping priests for sport.
October 8, 2025 at 2:14 AM
Um, ICE just coldly shot an unarmed PRIEST in the head w a pepper ball when he (and everyone around him) clearly posed no threat.
For the crime of … complaining about government policy.
Core 1A speech.
With cameras rolling, they’re sniping priests for sport.
For the crime of … complaining about government policy.
Core 1A speech.
With cameras rolling, they’re sniping priests for sport.
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Complaining about cancel culture in Riyadh is one of the best examples I've seen of how "free speech culture" rots the brain.
Dave Chappelle criticized the status of free speech in the United States while on stage at the Riyadh Comedy Festival in Saudi Arabia.
Dave Chappelle Criticizes Free Speech in America at Saudi Arabia Comedy Festival
Dave Chappelle criticized the status of free speech in the United States while on stage at the Riyadh Comedy Festival in Saudi Arabia.
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October 2, 2025 at 11:04 PM
Complaining about cancel culture in Riyadh is one of the best examples I've seen of how "free speech culture" rots the brain.
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i salute pete hegseth for ending woke and ensuring that the military will never use your "preferred pronouns." please make sure you call him the secretary of war and not use his deadname secretary of d*****e
September 30, 2025 at 4:13 PM
i salute pete hegseth for ending woke and ensuring that the military will never use your "preferred pronouns." please make sure you call him the secretary of war and not use his deadname secretary of d*****e
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September 16, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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From an Atlantic editor.
I cannot get over how the entire centrist hivemind is attempting to wish into existence a person, and a movement, that does not exist. You are journalists, you are supposed to describe things as they are, not how you want them to be!
I cannot get over how the entire centrist hivemind is attempting to wish into existence a person, and a movement, that does not exist. You are journalists, you are supposed to describe things as they are, not how you want them to be!
September 13, 2025 at 1:56 PM
From an Atlantic editor.
I cannot get over how the entire centrist hivemind is attempting to wish into existence a person, and a movement, that does not exist. You are journalists, you are supposed to describe things as they are, not how you want them to be!
I cannot get over how the entire centrist hivemind is attempting to wish into existence a person, and a movement, that does not exist. You are journalists, you are supposed to describe things as they are, not how you want them to be!
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I know Charlie Kirk valued debate and free speech because he blocked me for fact-checking his lies on Twitter and then put me on his organization's Professor Watchlist for writing a book he didn't like.
September 11, 2025 at 5:38 PM
I know Charlie Kirk valued debate and free speech because he blocked me for fact-checking his lies on Twitter and then put me on his organization's Professor Watchlist for writing a book he didn't like.
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I have a couple of comments about the "free speech hero" narrative about Charlie Kirk.
First, was Charlie Kirk really notable for supporting the free speech of people he disagreed with? I haven't noticed that, though I could have missed it.
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First, was Charlie Kirk really notable for supporting the free speech of people he disagreed with? I haven't noticed that, though I could have missed it.
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September 11, 2025 at 5:51 PM
I have a couple of comments about the "free speech hero" narrative about Charlie Kirk.
First, was Charlie Kirk really notable for supporting the free speech of people he disagreed with? I haven't noticed that, though I could have missed it.
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First, was Charlie Kirk really notable for supporting the free speech of people he disagreed with? I haven't noticed that, though I could have missed it.
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On the left: Nate Cavanagh, a 28-year-old DOGE staffer and college dropout.
On the right: Mohammad Halimi, a 53-year-old exiled Afghan scholar.
This is the story of how DOGE targeted Halimi on social media.
Then the Taliban took his family. 🧵
On the right: Mohammad Halimi, a 53-year-old exiled Afghan scholar.
This is the story of how DOGE targeted Halimi on social media.
Then the Taliban took his family. 🧵
August 22, 2025 at 11:41 AM
On the left: Nate Cavanagh, a 28-year-old DOGE staffer and college dropout.
On the right: Mohammad Halimi, a 53-year-old exiled Afghan scholar.
This is the story of how DOGE targeted Halimi on social media.
Then the Taliban took his family. 🧵
On the right: Mohammad Halimi, a 53-year-old exiled Afghan scholar.
This is the story of how DOGE targeted Halimi on social media.
Then the Taliban took his family. 🧵
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Brad Lander: "I also need to thank some of the most important people in my life and on this campaign—I mean, of course, the NYT editorial board. Just kidding, of course: I love Wordle and Connections, but I really urge the Times to cancel their new feature 'Editorial Riddles.' No one likes those."
June 25, 2025 at 2:15 AM
Brad Lander: "I also need to thank some of the most important people in my life and on this campaign—I mean, of course, the NYT editorial board. Just kidding, of course: I love Wordle and Connections, but I really urge the Times to cancel their new feature 'Editorial Riddles.' No one likes those."
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This entire attack line is so bizarre. It's not a phrase Mamdani uses, it's just something random people chanted at a protest.
All evidence indicates that the pro-Palestinian movement is not substantially motivated by antisemitism, it is motivated by moral revulsion at mass killing.
All evidence indicates that the pro-Palestinian movement is not substantially motivated by antisemitism, it is motivated by moral revulsion at mass killing.
June 24, 2025 at 3:57 PM
This entire attack line is so bizarre. It's not a phrase Mamdani uses, it's just something random people chanted at a protest.
All evidence indicates that the pro-Palestinian movement is not substantially motivated by antisemitism, it is motivated by moral revulsion at mass killing.
All evidence indicates that the pro-Palestinian movement is not substantially motivated by antisemitism, it is motivated by moral revulsion at mass killing.
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My statement on the Trump administration's illegal military actions and the wars that must end.
June 22, 2025 at 4:02 AM
My statement on the Trump administration's illegal military actions and the wars that must end.
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our institutions are now formally broken and there's no going back. following the new norms established by the trump administration the next democratic administration is going to defund the pentagon and give all of the money to harvard to fund "force femme" research
June 20, 2025 at 5:36 PM
our institutions are now formally broken and there's no going back. following the new norms established by the trump administration the next democratic administration is going to defund the pentagon and give all of the money to harvard to fund "force femme" research
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very cool that for ten years people at the heights of political commentary insisted to the point of rage that the paramount threat to free speech was “censorious” college students
after announcing that foreign students are being banned from Havard, Noem warns "this should be a warning to every other university to get your act together."
May 22, 2025 at 9:44 PM
very cool that for ten years people at the heights of political commentary insisted to the point of rage that the paramount threat to free speech was “censorious” college students
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Look, even if you otherwise tolerate Jesse, I don’t see how you can consume this as anything but blatant bad faith, given his focus on trans-related issues. Plus, it’s a stupid and dishonest point, because “trans athletes” have been the bloody flag the GOP has waved to cause rage and fear.
April 11, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Look, even if you otherwise tolerate Jesse, I don’t see how you can consume this as anything but blatant bad faith, given his focus on trans-related issues. Plus, it’s a stupid and dishonest point, because “trans athletes” have been the bloody flag the GOP has waved to cause rage and fear.
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This part of the Tufts declaration somehow warms my heart the most: a full-throated defense of Rümeysa Ötürk's op-ed criticizing the Tufts president, signed by the Tufts president! This is how it's supposed to be!
"The University declares that this opinion piece was not in violation of any Tufts policies. Further, no complaints were filed with the University or, to our knowledge, outside of the University about this op-ed."
April 3, 2025 at 1:29 PM
This part of the Tufts declaration somehow warms my heart the most: a full-throated defense of Rümeysa Ötürk's op-ed criticizing the Tufts president, signed by the Tufts president! This is how it's supposed to be!
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This level of barbarism was unimaginable 18 months ago.
They pulled them out of an ambulance and murdered them one by one, burying them in a shallow grave
They pulled them out of an ambulance and murdered them one by one, burying them in a shallow grave
March 31, 2025 at 8:06 PM
This level of barbarism was unimaginable 18 months ago.
They pulled them out of an ambulance and murdered them one by one, burying them in a shallow grave
They pulled them out of an ambulance and murdered them one by one, burying them in a shallow grave
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/7 But it’s possible to critique those things without becoming useful idiots for censorship. The difference between state censorship and “cancel culture” is fundamental to human freedom and the “free speech culture” crowd has never successfully addressed it.
March 30, 2025 at 8:28 PM
/7 But it’s possible to critique those things without becoming useful idiots for censorship. The difference between state censorship and “cancel culture” is fundamental to human freedom and the “free speech culture” crowd has never successfully addressed it.
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This essay illustrates how the loudest proponents of “free speech culture” have contributed to normalizing state censorship. Read it. Some key points:
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"Mr. Weiner is the president of Assumption University"
Remarkably, no part of the byline is a euphemism.
Remarkably, no part of the byline is a euphemism.
Opinion | Colleges Have to Be Much More Honest With Themselves
To rebuild trust and resist interference, universities must look within.
www.nytimes.com
March 30, 2025 at 8:17 PM
This essay illustrates how the loudest proponents of “free speech culture” have contributed to normalizing state censorship. Read it. Some key points:
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it’s not that any one story on ‘illiberal campus leftism’ was inaccurate or uncharitable, or that the phenomenon didn’t exist or never merited coverage, it’s that the editorial priorities that gave it as much coverage as it got are indefensible, and have had *very clear* negative consequences.
I find this argument unpersuasive. I mean, I agree that there were a lot of hysterics. But we can't measure everything refracted through the lens of whether we thought it received overreactive/bad coverage. What about the phenomenon itself? "Misinfo" is too sweeping.
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If right wing censorship is 50x worse than left wing campus protests, then it should have received 1/50th of the panicked media coverage. This is not a difficult concept to understand.
March 30, 2025 at 12:26 AM
it’s not that any one story on ‘illiberal campus leftism’ was inaccurate or uncharitable, or that the phenomenon didn’t exist or never merited coverage, it’s that the editorial priorities that gave it as much coverage as it got are indefensible, and have had *very clear* negative consequences.
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We have had nearly two decades of panic about Free Speech on Campus and not a single case, not even the ones they made up, were as bad as what's happening now
This is the text of the email just sent to hundreds of international students telling them that their visas have been revoked due to activism or social media posts.
March 29, 2025 at 2:24 PM
We have had nearly two decades of panic about Free Speech on Campus and not a single case, not even the ones they made up, were as bad as what's happening now
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Will even one university in the United States issue a statement saying "We will not embrace fascism"?
March 29, 2025 at 2:22 AM
Will even one university in the United States issue a statement saying "We will not embrace fascism"?
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Here are the pro-Palestine student activists whom the Trump administration wants to deport over their speech.
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March 28, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Here are the pro-Palestine student activists whom the Trump administration wants to deport over their speech.
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Someone asked me what to do if you see someone being snatched off the street like those students detained by ICE, and whether you should ask them to tell you their family members’ numbers or their lawyer to notify them, to try to help.
It’s a noble sentiment. But…
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It’s a noble sentiment. But…
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March 27, 2025 at 11:47 PM
Someone asked me what to do if you see someone being snatched off the street like those students detained by ICE, and whether you should ask them to tell you their family members’ numbers or their lawyer to notify them, to try to help.
It’s a noble sentiment. But…
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It’s a noble sentiment. But…
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I wrote about the free speech advocates who spent the last decade pearl clutching about the campus left while (intentionally or unintentionally) manufacturing consent for the right-wing assault on free expression.
What Happens to the Free Speech Warriors?
Pundits and activists have targeted the campus left for years. Now we're reaping what they sowed.
stringinamaze.net
March 26, 2025 at 11:09 PM
I wrote about the free speech advocates who spent the last decade pearl clutching about the campus left while (intentionally or unintentionally) manufacturing consent for the right-wing assault on free expression.
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Not sure if this has been shared here yet, but this is video of Rumeysa Ozturk's arrest posted by WCVB. It's terrifying.
March 26, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Not sure if this has been shared here yet, but this is video of Rumeysa Ozturk's arrest posted by WCVB. It's terrifying.