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Trump’s threat to deport anti-Israel protesters is an attack on free speech

Andrew Leyden / Shutterstock.com George Washington University Police tussle with protesters who tried to raise the Palestinian flag on campus on May 2, 2024. This op-ed originally appeared in MSNBC on...

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Crucial due process rights restored for America’s college students

The U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights announced today it agrees with a federal court ruling that appropriately found the Biden-era Title IX rules to unconstitutionally restrict st...

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Analysis: Early flurry of executive orders a mixed bag for free speech

Cristi Dangeorge / Shutterstock.com Since taking office for his second term on Jan. 20, President Trump has issued a flurry of executive orders, including several implicating the First Amendment and f...

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DEI Is A “Manmade Disaster…. We’re Now Seeing The ‘Sudden’ Part of The Collapse That Has Been Coming”

“There’s a saying that collapse comes gradually then suddenly, We’ve been gradually moving towards a collapse of our institutions that have been captured by group identity politics…. This was a manmad...

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University of Richmond

Richmond, Virginia Search all Schools University of Richmond has been given the speech code rating Yellow. Yellow light colleges and universities are those institutions with at least one ambiguous pol...

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UConn’s DEI medical oath is not what the doctor ordered

Ken Wolter / Shutterstock.com For millennia, medical students have taken the Hippocratic Oath, solemnly pledging to prioritize the well-being of patients and “abstain from whatever is deleterious and ...

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Politics determines whether Americans believe their free speech rights will be protected

A new poll from the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression finds that conservative and very conservative Americans have more confidence that President Trump will protect their First Amendment...

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Kansas Reports a Significant Outbreak of Tuberculosis

Meanwhile, we are still awaiting the confirmation hearing for Trump’s pick for CDC head, David Weldon. I have been following the rise in cases of the respiratory disease tuberculosis (i.e., “TB”) for ...

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POLL: Conservatives more optimistic, liberals more concerned about free speech in 2025

PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 30, 2025 —A new poll finds that confidence in the future of free speech in America and belief in Donald Trump’s commitment to the First Amendment both saw an uptick, at least among ...

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FIRE statement on reports of forthcoming executive order on student visas and campus protests

Ringo Chiu / Shutterstock.com Thousands pro-Palestinian protesters gather at an encampment at the University of California, Los Angeles on April 29, 2024. President Donald Trump is expected to sign an...

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Baseless SLAPP suits threaten the speech rights of all Americans

Created using Midjourney This op-ed originally appeared in The Dispatch on Jan. 28, 2025. J. Ann Selzer planned to step back from election polling at the end of 2024. She had spent three decades worki...

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Wind Energy Grift is Collapsing Under Weight of Trump’s Executive Order

Wind energy projects have been halted and key players are pulling out of arrangements that are unpopular with the locals. Immediately upon taking office, President Donald Trump took significant action...

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Her grad school tried to expel her for a tweet about Cardi B. Now they’ll pay a $250K lawsuit settlement

Former University of Tennessee student Kim Diei prevailed in court against the university. MEMPHIS, Tenn., Jan. 29, 2025 — After her First Amendment lawsuit set precedent last fall for student free sp...

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Mercury in retrograde: How UT Dallas tried to roll back student press rights

Davis Productions & Photography LLC UT Dallas student journalists at The Retrograde independent newspaper. From left to right: Gregorio Olivares Gutierrez (editor), Alexander Lawless (human resources ...

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Law professor challenges university after campus ‘shooting’ hypothetical changed in lesson plan

Tada Images / Shutterstock.com University of Hawai'i law professor Kenneth Lawson has indicated that he will file a grievance against the university for unilaterally changing a lesson plan without his...

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Uh Oh: Ted Cruz Targets Nancy Pelosi’s Rejection of Security on Jan 6 at Kash Patel Hearing

“Just to speak English for folks at home, a declination meant she said, no, don’t send National Guard. Is that right?” “Yes sir.” President Donald Trump’s nominee for FBI Director, Kash Patel, appeare...

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Snitch hotlines for ‘offensive’ speech were a nightmare on campus — and now they’re coming to a neighborhood near you

Created using DALL-E We know the term “Orwellian” gets thrown around a lot these days. But if a government entity dedicated to investigating and even reeducating Americans for protected speech doesn’t...

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Anti-Israel Campus Protesters Demand Special Privileges Then Play Victim

“They don’t want to have to live by the rules that everybody else lives by, whether it’s disrupting the library, whether it’s blocking campus flow of pedestrians, whether it’s blocking entrances. And ...

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New York Magazine Hit Piece on Young GOP Influencers Cuts Black Conservatives From Cover Photo

“I’m so sick of the liberal media rewriting reality to fit their narrative.” If there’s one thing that’s unquestionably true about the media in 2025, it is that it learned absolutely nothing from the ...

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Trump Signs Order to Protect Children From Sex Transitioning

“It is the policy of the United States that it will not fund, sponsor, promote, assist, or support the so-called ‘transition’ of a child from one sex to another, and it will rigorously enforce all law...

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