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Gov. Greg Abbott’s order ‘hardening state government’ against China is dangerously hard to parse

Carrington Tatum / Shutterstock.com This week, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott issued an executive order to protect “critical infrastructure, intellectual property, and personal information” from “hostile fore...

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Wisconsin school district mulls unconstitutional ‘hate speech’ policy

Shutterstock.com Free speech isn’t a gift from the government on your 18th birthday — it’s a fundamental right that belongs to Americans of all ages. But Wisconsin’s Baraboo School District is threate...

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A cartoon, a mustache, and a witch hunt: The perils of bias reporting at Syracuse University

Chad Robertson Media / Shutterstock.com Halloween has come and gone, but the witch hunt continues at Syracuse University. Have you been offended? No need to worry. The university’s ever-vigilant “STOP...

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Sen. Gillibrand Admits Democrats Waited Too Long to Address Border Crisis

She even criticized Republicans over their rhetoric. Yeah, okay. Democrats called non-leftists Nazis, fascists, and garbage. Sit down, lady. Awwwww! Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) admitted that her pa...

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D. John Sauer, the next Solicitor General — the government’s SCOTUS lawyer in First Amendment cases — First Amendment News 448

William Hennessy D. John Sauer argued on behalf of former Donald Trump before the Supreme Court in Trump v. United States. The position of Solicitor General of the United States was created by the Sta...

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Iranian agents accused of attempted assassination on U.S. soil — again

WATCH VIDEO: Iranian woman brutally arrested for removing hijab. This year, FIRE launched the Free Speech Dispatch , a regular series covering new and continuing censorship trends and challenges aroun...

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FIRE statement on congressional leaders smuggling unconstitutional Antisemitism Awareness Act into a must-pass defense bill

Congressional leadership is aiming to add the Antisemitism Awareness Act to this year’s defense bill. FIRE has consistently warned about the threat to free speech posed by the act. Below is a statemen...

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MSNBC Stealth Edits ‘Laken Riley’s Killer Never Stood a Chance’ Headline

It’s now “The guilt of Laken Riley’s killer was never in doubt.” MSNBC came under fire when an article by legal analyst Danny Cevallos had a headline that could be taken as sympathetic towards Laken R...

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Central Washington University

Ellensburg, Washington Search all Schools Central Washington University has been given the speech code rating Yellow. Yellow light colleges and universities are those institutions with at least one am...

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Ayaan Hirsi Ali will not submit

Ayaan Hirsi Ali grew up in a culture of conformity. She was beaten and mutilated. She was told who she must marry. Eventually, she rebelled. "You don't speak up at first," she told us. "First you leav...

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149 days and counting! Will the White House grant a posthumous pardon in the D.M. Bennett Case? — First Amendment News 447

First Amendment News is a weekly blog and newsletter about free expression issues by Ronald K. L. Collins. It is editorially independent from FIRE. The clock is ticking, and the free-speech world is w...

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Federal Appeals Court Upholds Most of Restrictive New York Concealed Carry Gun Law; Next Stop SCOTUS

Federal Second Circuit Court of Appeals upholds “good moral character” requirement of New York’s concealed carry gun law, setting up expected showdown at the U.S. Supreme Court We have been following ...

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University of Texas at Dallas: Administrators Fire Editor-in-Chief, Run Roughshod over Editorial Independence, Press Freedom

University of Texas, Dallas Search all Cases On September 13, 2024, the University of Texas at Dallas’s Student Media Oversight Board voted 3-1 to remove the editor-in-chief of The Mercury, UT Dallas’...

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