@ryanenos.bsky.social offers the most thoughtful breakdown I've seen about Fire rankings, which raises concerns that campuses that host more controversial speakers or engage in public policy discussions end up being punished because of how the rankings operate. www.chronicle.com/article/harv...

This is hopeful.

See, it's not hard. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/19/b...

Baseball has been played professionally for over 150 years. One could make a serious case that Clayton Kershaw is the greatest pitcher in that entire history. Played his entire career with the Dodgers. Tonight might be the last chance to watch him pitch at home. www.nbcnews.com/video/shorts...

I think back to this as a harbinger, when, as one of his first acts of his second term, Trump demanded an apology of a person of faith because she had the audacity to ask him to have mercy on others. www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/b...

Unbridled authoritarianism now. They aren't even attempting a pretext.

And if ABC hadn't been so cowardly they would have the same decision again. All it takes is some backbone and not only thinking about making yourself richer.

Took less than a day. Resist this un-American assault on freedom. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/09...

Disney used to be anti-fascist.

He couldn't save himself by firing professors. The cultural revolution marches on. You won't escape it by cowardice. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/u...

The story is not what Kimmel said but what others won’t say now for fear of state retribution. Authoritarian countries thrive on self censorship.

"Conservatives who say they support democracy and free speech must speak up right now."

Dive into the report. There is not a single demographic or political group (including Republicans) with majority support for the cuts to Medicaid/Medicare benefits. Yet it became the law of the land. raw.githubusercontent.com/kateto/CHIP5...

In the end, it doesn't matter because the government has no place coercing free expression of any kind, but I want people to recognize what Kimmel said. It wasn't a criticism of Charlie Kirk or anything indecent. It was just a criticism of Trump's political allies. Pure political censorship.

These guys are million and billionaires, the only thing they stand to lose is becoming even more wealthy. And yet they shamelessly cower.

This is the great contradiction of America, where some weird institutional momentum means that we keeping going around lecturing other countries about democracy.

These headlines are so quaint. Almost makes me nostalgic for a time when corruption was disqualifying. I guess I admire the New York Times for trying.

I wrote this article last year on the collapse of free speech at Harvard, and I think it has, unfortunately, become even more relevant. There has never been a more important time than now for the principled cross-ideological defense of free speech. www.chronicle.com/article/how-...

reading a book about china. apparently the government there has sent federal forces into cities, taken shares of major private enterprises, slapped tariffs on industries, and pressured media outlets to fire people they politically disagreed with. didn’t know this.

It’s happening. The takedown of Jimmy Kimmel is likely the start of a campaign to use the murder of Charlie Kirk as a pretext to use the power of the White House to wipe out Trump’s critics and his political opponents. But we aren’t powerless. We can mobilize and organize. Now.

What is to prevent Brendan Carr from canceling the licenses of affiliates who accurately report election results unfavorable to Trump? Or a scandal involving a Trump associate? Or bad economic numbers. Unbridled authoritarianism.

A good time to remember that a whole bunch of us are getting together to speak out against this authoritarianism -- I used to say creeping, but it's really now just a full gallop -- on October 18. Join us www.nokings.org

This is a massive, history making abuse of your power. It will define your legacy and one day you will come to regret punishing free speech and trying to destroy democracy.

Yes. This is how I see it. America, of course, did not always live up to these norms, but there was always some constraint provided by them. They have been abandoned.

A free society is not one in which the government can use its power to silence critical speech. Decent people must oppose this.

A free and democratic society cannot silence comedians because the President doesn’t like what they say. This is an attack on free speech and cannot be allowed to stand. All elected officials need to speak up and push back on this undemocratic act.

It's an interesting exercise in the stickiness of certain narratives because the idea that young people and nonwhites underwent a political realignment between 2020-2024 remains remarkably sticky.

This is authoritarianism. Judges must dismiss any charges with prejudice. Political leaders must condemn it and use their legal powers to stop it. Citizens must vigorously protest it.

Shudder-inducing Orwellian double-speak.

This testable and I've wondered about it myself. E.g., Bluesky loves Mandami ads. I like them too, but do they play well with voters? Not sure. He's winning but we don't know how much ads have to do with that.

You know, it's hard to outdo previous Trump scandals, but not even pretending to follow the law in order to practice a system of cronyism entirely inconsistent with the American tradition of free enterprise has a strong case for number 1.

My challenge to the New York Times is to say this over and over again on the front page of their newspaper and point out that it is also an authoritarian attack on the free press. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/16/b...

Masked agents menacing people in my community. It's interesting how the Cambridge, Somerville, and Boston PD seem to be able to function without covering their faces but somehow it's necessity for these guys...

Stop and think about the government threatening to jail a person if they refuse to print political material with which they disagree.

By my count, at least 7 universities have fired faculty or staff for social media posts about Kirk. Clemson, University of Mississippi, U of Tennessee, Newport News, Cumberland University, Middle Tennessee State, UT Knoxville Add to the thread if I've missed some

Clemson students called on their professors to be fired for political speech they didn't like. The legislature threatened to defund the university if it didn't comply. The professors were fired. Chairman Mao approves. www.thestate.com/news/politic...

A person's decision on how to mourn, or not mourn, a person - public figure or not - is completely up to them and their own standards of decency. It is no way, whatsoever, in any possible way, up to the government.

Statement from @postguild.bsky.social on the firing of Karen Attiah:

-Violence has no place in liberal democratic politics. Differences must be settled through the law and free elections. -The U.S. Constitution guarantees the right to debate politics without any government retaliatory action. -The Pres and VP should refrain from encouraging division and violence.

There is no good place that this leads. It is inconsistent with democracy and must be condemned loudly and forcefully.

I have some news for the President of the United States on college football staying the same forever.

Rich people like cocaine. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/09/05/m...

Will is right about this. It is remarkable that many people are presenting that he said the wrong thing when he did exactly what so many people are asking politicians (especially Republican politicians) to say. Misrepresenting speech for clicks right now is really destructive.

A short First Amendment 🧵: First, the professor was fired b/c he urged "revolutionary socialists" to organize: “Without organization, how can anyone expect to overthrow the most bloodthirsty, profit-driven, mad organization in the history of the world — that of the United States?”

Seen in 3rd grade classroom. Good reminder for social media users.

I think it should be bigger news that the United States is trying to openly undermine democracy in other countries.

"The assassination of a high-profile political figure like Charlie Kirk marks a continuation of the trend toward lone-actor violence, rather than the emergence of organized political conflict or even partisan conflict." www.politico.com/news/magazin...

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