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FIRE to NYU: Last chance to fix free speech issues on campus before accreditor complaint

EQRoy / Shutterstock.com Ranking 249th out of 251 schools on FIRE’s recently released College Free Speech Rankings , New York University’s third-to-last showing suggests that the administration’s supp...

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Election talk is cheap, but ballot selfies are worth a thousand (First Amendment-protected) words

Shutter by Nitish LLC After posting a ballot selfie to social media, Susan Hogarth was accused of violating the law by the North Carolina State Board of Elections and threatened with prosecution if sh...

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No longer truly ‘elite’: Top colleges fail on free speech AND basic tolerance

New York Post This op-ed was originally published in The New York Post on Sept. 9, 2024. If college students are seen sporting riot gear on campus this fall, no one should blame them: In all likelihoo...

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Sen. Blumenthal: Americans Will be ‘Appalled’ by Security Failures in Trump Assassination Attempt Report

“…American people are going to be shocked, astonished and appalled by what we will report to them about the failures by the Secret Service…” The Secret Service gave senators a report on its investigat...

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The Justice Department’s new social media policies look promising for free speech

Amanda Andrade-Rhoades / USA TODAY NETWORK CEO and founder of Facebook and its parent company Meta, Mark Zuckerberg listens to questions during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Jan. 31, 2024. O...

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Columbia, NYU join Harvard at bottom of 2025 College Free Speech Rankings

lev radin / Shutterstock.com Pro-Palestinian protesters demonstrate outside of the entrance of Columbia University on the first day of school in New York on Sept. 3, 2024. Last year, Harvard earned th...

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2025 College Free Speech Rankings expose threats to First Amendment rights on campus

WASHINGTON, D.C., Sept. 5, 2024 – This year’s College Free Speech Rankings — released today by the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression and College Pulse — offer comprehensive insights into...

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Georgia Judge Dismisses Two Counts Against Trump in Election Interference Case

Trump lead counsel: “President Trump and his legal team in Georgia have prevailed once again. The trial court has decided that counts 15 and 27 in the indictment must be quashed/dismissed.” Fulton Cou...

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Protesting, postering, or planning a campus event? Your college’s policies might have just changed.

Syndi Pilar via Shutterstock Pro-Israeli and pro-Palestinian protesters gather in front of the CUNY grad center in New York city. Back-to-school season means unpacking dorm rooms, finalizing course re...

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LAWSUIT: Arizona mom sues city after arrest for criticizing government lawyer’s pay

Christine Hillman Photography SURPRISE, Ariz., Sept. 3, 2024 — Today, the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression filed a federal lawsuit challenging an Arizona city’s rule that forbids people...

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Surprise, Arizona: Mom arrested at city council meeting after criticizing city attorney’s pay raise

Search all Cases Complaint On August 20, 2024, Rebekah Massie and her 10-year-old daughter attended a city council meeting in the City of Surprise, where she lives. When Mayor Skip Hall opened the mee...

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Merrick Garland: ‘Dangerous’ and ‘Outrageous’ to Criticize the DOJ

This the man who literally weaponized the DOJ against parents protesting Critical Race Theory. In a speech to U.S. attorneys, Attorney General Merrick Garland said it’s “dangerous” and “outrageous” fo...

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How Milwaukee and Chicago circumvented free speech at the RNC and DNC

ezellhphotography / Shutterstock.com Peaceful protest outside the 2024 Democratic National Convention in Chicago. Ahead of the 2024 election, the Republican National Convention and Democratic National...

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UN may hand authoritarian governments new weapon to silence dissent

noamgalai / Shuytterstock.com If you ask an average person what should be done to fight “cybercrime,” they’d probably say that police should track down those involved in acts like hacking or ransomwar...

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Trump’s proposed constitutional amendment banning flag burning would have unintended consequences

Ryan Garza / USA TODAY NETWORK Former President Donald Trump at a campaign rally in Detroit, Michigan, on Monday, Aug. 26, 2024. Of all the forms of free expression protected by the First Amendment, f...

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Seattle Times Gaslighting Over Trump Pointing Out 2020 Protesters Took Over a ‘Big’ Part of City

The media’s kneejerk reaction to everything Trump says is that it must be false. Even if people saw it with their own eyes, even if it’s on video, if Trump said it, it can’t be true. During the debate...

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Ketanji Brown Jackson’s new memoir, a snapshot of relentless optimism and grit

At her swearing-in ceremony to the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia in 2013, Ketanji Brown Jackson quipped to the group assembled, “It takes a village to raise a judge.” Jackson’s new ...

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Kamala’s Condescending and Mocking Debate Faces May Be What Voters Remember

Democrats were “thrilled with her facial expressions, thrilled with how she mocked him visually while he was talking, and that was deliberate. There’s no question that was deliberate—that was part of ...

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The Onion Thinks It’s Funny Corey Comperatore was Murdered at Trump’s Rally

The tweet has over 80,000 likes, too. What is wrong with people!? The Onion posted one of the worst tweets I’ve ever seen on Twitter, and to make it worse, the tweet has over 80,000 likes. The shooter...

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Rep. Swalwell Loses His Mind Over Trump Saving Cats, Ducks Memes

Lighten up, dude. People have flooded X with memes of Donald Trump rescuing ducks and cats since reports emerged that Haitian illegal aliens have been eating cats and ducks in Springfield, OH. Neither...

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