Video obtained by @theFIREorg: After Gov. Abbott's executive order targeting student demonstrators, UT San Antonio administrators filmed themselves telling students that if they chant 'from the river to the sea,' they will be reported to law enforcement.

My piece in Commentary Magazine on the new Title IX regulations--which will allow universities to return to the 'bad old days' of unfair campus procedures.
commentary.org/articles/kc-jo…

🧵: UW–Madison suspended student groups Anticolonial Scientists and Mecha de UW Madison for allegedly chalking messages supporting terrorist groups and endorsements of violence at an off-campus location. Just one problem: Even if this took place on UW-Madison's own sidewalks,

Pretty good from Whoopi.

When we hear speech we don’t like our first instinct should be to criticize or ignore it, not to try to destroy the speaker’s livelihood. If nothing else it’s valuable to know what people actually think.

BREAKING: FIRE joined National Coalition Against Censorship and ten other groups in condemning a sprawling congressional request for private financial information on dozens of non-profits for allegedly supporting recent college protests.

It is an affront to the First Amendment and an abuse of

Free speech when the going gets tough?
'We'll drive this truck into the wall,' we sometimes say at FIRE.
We'll also drive it to New Jersey.

THIS PHOTO by Robert Gauthier Los Angeles Times capturing police moving in on pro-Palestinian protesters at UC Irvine.

Police arrest 50 protesters on charges of 'failure to disperse after a direct police order' and a few for trespassing. bit.ly/4amGh4P

From the Australian court order refusing to extend a temporary injunction requiring X to remove content not only within Australia, but globally:

'There is widespread alarm at the prospect of a decision by an official of a national government restricting access to controversial

'Should students concerned with social justice rethink their previous skepticism of free speech norms, for the sake of better protecting radical dissent? I think the answer is yes.'

✍️: Eric Levitz
💻: Vox
vox.com/world-politics…

Today, the unconstitutional Protect Elections from Deceptive AI Act was passed out of committee.

FIRE joined @techfreedom, @aclu, @calpolicycenter, Competitive Enterprise Institute, and @eff to call on the Senate to protect Americans' right to use AI to express themselves on political issues.

'Do not lose your sense of humor. You can have no idea at this point in your life how much you are going to need it to get through. Not enough of life makes sense for you to be able to survive it without humor.”
theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

Hard disagree. This portrait is beautiful, far cooler than what I’d have expected.

Editorial Board of the Los Angeles Times properly comes out against the speech-chilling Antisemitism Awareness Act — that would stifle a huge amount of legitimate discussion and 'wouldn't make students safer.'

If you're a UTSA student and you're interested in fighting back, please contact us.

thefire.org/submit-a-case

The University of Texas at San Antonio reportedly banned student protestors from:

• Using the words ‘Zionism’ and ‘Israel’;

• Chanting 'From the river to the sea;'

• Speaking in Arabic.

It's unconstitutional censorship, plain and simple.

FIRE wrote UTSA to demand that it

Jews and Arabs are literally cousins, sharing Recent Ancestry | Science | AAAS science.org/content/articl…

I was unsure why this British news was a New Yorker article until it explains that the British press basically can’t touch this story. And this link is banned in the UK newyorker.com/magazine/2024/…