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“First Amendment freedoms are most in danger when the government seeks to control thought or to justify its laws for that impermissible end” —Anthony Kennedy

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MCCALLUM: “Margaret Thatcher said socialism’s great until you run out of other people’s money.”

🔥ZOHRAN: “Cuomo had $900 million and gave it to Elon musk in tax credits— I wish the debate were like NASCAR so people could see logos of billionaires who sponsor him on his jacket.”

Solidarity is the only way

Penn State Board of Trustees reconsidering a sale of WPSU that would allow public media to continue to serve the people of Central Pennsylvania based on the community's outpouring of support.

Here's hoping they honor the land-grant mission of the university to serve the people of the Commonwealth.

They aren’t influencers or journalists. They’re propagandists, and it’s a tactic pulled straight from the authoritarian playbook.

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When the NYT wants to report and publish on private equity, I think the first calls they make are to their largest shareholders.

'When authoritarians seize power, it is crucial to recognize courageous defenders of freedom who rise and resist,' the Norwegian Nobel Committee said as it announced Maria Corina Machado as the winner of the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize

“We should replace Bad Bunny with Lee Greenwood” is an also a perfect summation of the “deal” they’ve offered universities.

Et tu, New York Times?

But sure let’s give a platform to the head of a global private equity firm working to undermine democratic institutions—including the news media—working to hold them accountable.

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Why This Essay Could Cause the University of Virginia to Shut Down from @sivav.bsky.social

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Thank you, Siva.

I don’t know America’s largest newspaper chain, is it?

Using comedy to support people in power is the opposite of what comedy is there for.

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Carr in 2022

Nothing since this Deadspin piece has more succinctly captured the threat posed by corporate media owners like Sinclair enabled by a lapdog FCC.

And then private equity gutted Deadspin, too.

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ABC just announced Jimmy Kimmel’s replacement.

I'm just an ordinary First Amendment lawyer but I'm pretty sure you can't transform "protesting the president" into criminal activity by recharacterizing it as "inflicting harm on the United States."

When you publish a website that posts the names and photos of scholars who have written or said things you disagree with and encourage people to surveil and harass them, you are not, in fact, a “free speech” organization.

A colleague on campus today asked me why I’d forgo office w/a window & I reminded her I get active & credible death threats. When I ended up on the Turning Point professor list I got them for a month. We have got to raise better humans & change our gun laws.
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If I have any credibility with you from 20 years of reporting on rightwing & fascist movements, please listen when I beg you not to celebrate Charlie Kirk getting shot. Leave aside morality: this isn’t a match in dry grass, it’s a torch. We do not want what this could ignite & we would not win.

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So the Florida political crowd is convinced the government shouldn’t tell people what to do with their bodies?!

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