The Texas-Sized Plan To Shut You Up
https://www.levernews.com/the-texas-sized-plan-to-shut-you-up/
Texas is considering a sweeping set of legislative changes that would erode First Amendment protections, emboldening corporations and powerful individuals to use retaliatory lawsuits to silence their critics.
It's not just modern media's click and profit motives that silence or corrupt important stories - our own government actively suppresses journalism. Here are just a few of the cases we know about: https://pressfreedomtracker.us/blog/trump-allies-pursue-multipronged-campaign-against-the-press/
#news #journalism #FreedomOfThePress
#FirstAmmendment
COLUMBIA STUDENT HUNTED BY ICE SUES TO PREVENT DEPORTATION
A 21-year-old Columbia University student who has lived in the United States since she was a child sued President Trump and other high-ranking administration officials on Monday after immigration officials tried to arrest and deport her
The Trump admin says her presence in the US hinders their foreign policy agenda of halting antisemitism
#MassDeportations #FirstAmmendment
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/24/nyregion/columbia-student-ice-suit-yunseo-chung.html
ARCHIVE: https://archive.is/nixp5
Exclusive: Mahmoud Khalil's attorney on breaking developments
The judge rebuked the Trump administration Wednesday, and Khalil expanded his civil suit against Columbia University to name Attorney General Pam Bondi, Education Secretary Linda McMahon, and others.
#ice #mahmoudkhalil #news #law #firstammendment #civilrights
Video credit: Scahill/DSN
# Columbiauniversity #freespeech, #firstammendment #trumpuniversity ##protest #palestine #gaza
Source Newsweek : COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY NYC IS EXPELLING GAZA PROTESTERS AND TAKING AWAY THEIR DIPLOMAS DESPITE HAVING EARNED THEM. THIS IS A VIOLATION OF FREE SPEECH. DID TRUMP STRONG ARM WITH THE WITHDRAWL OF GRANTS MAKING MONEY MORE IMPORTANT THAN FREE SPEECH? CALL AND POLITELY EXPRESS YOUR OPINION AT 212-854-5573 x4
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There was a familiar building on the junction of Broad Way and Alchemists. The facade was ornate, but covered in grime. Gargoyles had colonized it.
The corroded motto over the portico said “I DISAPPROVE OF WHAT Y SAY, BUT I WILL DEFEND TO THE DEATH YOUR RI T TO AY IT” and in more spacious days that may have been the case, but recently someone had found it necessary to nail up an addendum which read:
DON’T ASK US ABOUT:
gender
inclusion
diversity
Mrs. Cake
Israel and/or Palestine
climate change
Freckleface Strawberry
critical race theory
Mrs. Cake
Columbia University facilitated the abduction of Mahmoud Khalil (a lawful green card holder) from his home as his pregnant wife watched, following orders from the White House.
Fuck Phil Bryant and fuck Brett Favre (and I say that as a #Packers fan):
https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/41403341/favre-nfl-wolfe-bryant-mississippi-welfare
https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2024/2/23/institutional-neutrality-feature/
"...calls to censure controversial speech from pro-Palestine organizers..."
Nononono Prof Fried had it right:
https://mastodon.social/@nicholas_saunders/111711193217106933
Students advocating for the genocide of Jews are exercising their first amendment rights, which #harvard should support.
#streisandeffect do your thing
Ohio Court Says Calling Cincinnati Police Officer Ryan Olthaus A Racist Is Protected Speech
Stephen Miller suggests fraud proceedings for Media Matters having written a report about Elon's antisemetic tweets and **the actual AG of Missouri **replies he'll assign his team of prosecutors on the matter right away!
I can't even.
#DeSantis and his cronies are raving #Fascists and #terrorists and are against the basic #freedoms of #marginalized #people. They are #degenerates who #project their #perversions onto everyone else.
#ChristianPrivilege #AmericanTaliban #ChristoFascism #ConservativeChristians #transphobia #homophobia #lgbtqia #transgender #RightWingExtremism #ChristianNationalism #fascism #Authoritarianism #indoctrination #groomers #hypocrisy #gaslighting #projection #MinorityRule #separationofchurchandstate #firstammendment #BigGovernment #cancelculture
Again, #lgbtqia people are BORN that way. To create #Legislation that prevents them getting what they need, based on the lie that people can magically switch back and forth is not only cruel, but dangerous and deadly.
#ChristianPrivilege #AmericanTaliban #ChristoFascism #ConservativeChristians #transphobia #homophobia #fascism #Authoritarianism #ChristianNationalism #RightWingExtremism #AlternativeLifestyle #MinorityRule #separationofchurchandstate #firstammendment
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