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Protests are sweeping heavily censored China. How will American institutions respond?

AP Photo / Kanis Leung Protesters hold up blank white papers during a commemoration for victims of a recent Urumqi deadly fire at the Chinese University of Hong Kong in Hong Kong, Monday, Nov. 28, 202...

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Jawboning, book banning, and LeBron James thinks hate speech isn't free speech (also Elon Musk ... again)

FIRE's new Director of Public Advocacy Aaron Terr and the Cato Institute's Will Duffield join the show to discuss a slew of recent free speech news. California gets it right on rap lyrics but wrong on...

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Government attempts to label speech misinformation, disinformation, and malinformation are a free-speech nightmare

Mark Van Scyoc / Shutterstock.com In April, the Department of Homeland Security unveiled a new board to tackle what the government believed — and still believes — is an existential crisis facing Ameri...

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“The incoming House of Representatives should hold hearings on the destructive racialization of medical schools and medicine”

“Medical School education is in crisis, with ‘social justice’ and race-focused activism being imposed on students, faculty, and staff.” Critical Race Training in Education ( CriticalRace.org ), a proj...

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VICTORY: After FIRE lawsuit, court halts enforcement of key provisions of the Stop WOKE Act limiting how Florida professors can teach about race, sex

Will Simpson Photography FIRE Plaintiffs Adriana Novoa (left) and Sam Rechek (right). TAMPA, Fla., Nov. 17, 2022 — Today a federal court halted enforcement of key parts of Florida’s “ Stop WOKE Act ” ...

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In wake of Buffalo shooting, New York AG’s livestreaming policy recommendations threaten First Amendment rights

lev radin / Shutterstock.com Attorney General Letitia James On May 14, 2022, a gunman traveled to Buffalo, New York, and opened fire in a grocery store while broadcasting on the livestreaming platform...

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ARRESTED FOR JOURNALISM: Ohio newspaper editor hit with bogus ‘wiretapping’ charge and seizure of phone and laptop after publishing trial recording

Doral Chenoweth / The Columbus Dispatch / USA TODAY NETWORK Derek Myers of the Scioto Valley Guardian is escorted out of the courtroom after "objecting" from the gallery on Friday, Oct. 14, 2022 durin...

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Signs of Change Ahead Week at Legal Insurrection

All the news you may have missed. We still have a little over a month until the GOP takes over the House but changes are coming. This makes it more solid. Musk is making all the right people crazy. We...

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San Diego State faculty members turn backs on colleagues, vote to impose DEI criteria in tenure review

Ken Wolter / Shutterstock.com The San Diego State University university senate voted to adopt new criteria for faculty reappointment, tenure, and promotion that require faculty to write about their co...

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Bailey v. Iles

Search all Cases The Rapides Parish Sheriff's Office can’t take a joke. That became clear when one of its detectives, supported by a fully-armed SWAT team, arrested Waylon Bailey for domestic terroris...

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‘Your words are violence!’ Cornell students shout down Ann Coulter in latest heckler’s veto to roil campuses this semester

Shutterstock.com Ann Coulter (file) via Shutterstock On Wednesday night, Cornell University students eager to hear Ann Coulter speak at an event organized by Cornell’s student chapter of the Network o...

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Why Hasn’t Crypto-Scammer and Dem Donor Sam Bankman-Fried Been Arrested?

“Bankman-Fried – the second biggest donor to Democrats behind George Soros – has all but admitted that he squandered billions of dollars of other people’s money carelessly” Sam Bankman-Fried is the De...

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WATCH: ‘You’ve got to let her speak!’ Michigan residents sue after mayor’s temper tantrum shuts down public criticism

Watch as Eastpointe Mayor Monique Owens attempts to shut down public comment during a city council meeting. On the evening of Sept. 6, residents of Eastpointe, Mich., attended a city council meeting h...

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FIRE sues Michigan mayor who abused power, shouted down constituents at city council meeting

Eastpointe, Michigan, Mayor Monique Owens DETROIT, Nov. 10, 2022 — “Mom, What’s a Mayor?” Monique Owens, mayor of Eastpointe, Mich., recently published a children’s book with that question as its titl...

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FIRE co-founder Harvey Silverglate runs for Harvard Board of Overseers on free expression platform

FIRE co-founder Harvey Silverglate. FIRE co-founder Harvey Silverglate is a criminal defense and civil liberties lawyer and a fierce defender of free speech. Now, he is running for the Harvard Board o...

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Omar, Swalwell Snipe at McCarthy for His Promise to Keep Them Off House Commitees

McCarthy also doesn’t want Rep. Adam Schiff on the Intelligence Committee. If current House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy becomes Speaker of the House he wants to kick Rep. Ilhan Omar off the House F...

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Hall-Rayford v. City of Eastpointe: Michigan Mayor Censors the Public at a Public Hearing

Search all Cases HALL-RAYFORD V. CITY OF EASTPOINTE COMPLAINT If you are a resident of Eastpointe, Michigan, who peacefully criticizes the mayor during the city council’s “hearing of the public,” the...

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Survey shows majority of college students feel ‘intimidated’ to share opinion, unlikely to disagree with professor

When Chief Justice Earl Warren expounded on the symbiotic relationship between academic freedom and democratic ideals in the renowned majority opinion for Sweezy v. New Hampshire , he said, “Scholarsh...

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Due process on campus is grim, and it may get even worse, according to new FIRE report

FIRE’s fifth annual Spotlight on Campus Due Process report comes at a critical juncture for student due process rights. The Department of Education, at the direction of the Biden administration, is co...

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Elon Musk: “Trump will be reinstated” To Twitter After Wins Reader Poll

Make “Owning The Libs” Great Again Heads already were exploding, as Stacey reported earlier, “Journalists” Melt Down As Twitter Survives Mass Wokester Walkouts, Musk Brings Back the Babylon Bee. Now t...

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