Rep. #PramilaJayapal, D-Wash., called the measure ridiculous & said it has nothing to do with #NationalSecurity.
“It’s a thinly veiled revenge ploy in #Trump’s personal feud with #Harvard, & continued #authoritarian overreach against #FreeSpeech,” Jayapal posted on social media.
Watch the pro-Palestinian commencement speech by Megha Vemuri, the Class of 2025 president and valedictorian, who has now been banned from attending her own graduation ceremony at The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), in a cowardly capitulation to zionists, and in violation of her right to free speech.
Today in Labor History June 3, 1910: U.S. anarchists formed the Francisco Ferrer Association in Harlem, one year after the wrongful execution of anarchist educator Francisco Ferrer in Spain. The organization founded libertarian socialist schools throughout the U.S. based on the principles of Ferrer’s Modern Schools. The American Modern Schools were designed to counter the discipline, formality and regimentation of traditional American schools. Regular working-class people ran the schools for the children of workers. They sought to abolish all forms of authority, including educational, with the goal of creating a society based on free association and free thought. They emphasized learning by doing, as well as crafts and reading. They avoided rigid curricula, rote memorization and regimentation, as well as rewards and punishments. They also believed that learning was a life-long process that never ended. Therefore, parents and other adults were encouraged to participate in the operation of the schools and to attend evening and weekend lectures. Some of the speakers at these lectures included Clarence Darrow, Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, Jack London, Upton Sinclair, and Man Ray. The schools also served as cultural centers for the promotion of revolutionary unionism, free speech, sexual liberation, and anti-militarism. Read my full article on the anarchist roots of the Modern School Movement: https://michaeldunnauthor.com/2022/04/30/the-modern-school-movement/
"The timing of this ruling is perfect because #FTC Chair Andrew Ferguson just launched his own investigation into Media Matters for the exact same “offense” — accurate reporting that upset a #billionaire. Ferguson should read this opinion carefully, because the DC Circuit just explained in very clear terms why using #government power to punish #journalism is unconstitutional.
But, of course...
That’s how “free speech” works in the #Trump admin."
https://www.techdirt.com/2025/06/02/appeals-court-yeah-of-course-ken-paxtons-investigation-into-media-matters-was-bullshit/
"This was in addition to Musk’s own filing of lawsuits in multiple countries against Media Matters (not to mention #Musk telling advertisers to “go fuck yourself” if they didn’t want to advertise).
It should be pretty blatantly obvious why this is dangerous. When state prosecutors start investigating #journalists for publishing inconvenient #facts, that’s not protecting the public — it’s textbook #government retaliation against speech."
https://www.techdirt.com/2025/06/02/appeals-court-yeah-of-course-ken-paxtons-investigation-into-media-matters-was-bullshit/
"An Olympia High School teacher and former Yelm High School principal is facing backlash after sharing an Instagram post with the statement, 'This teacher kills fascists.' In the post, Ryan Akiyama said he planned to sport the message on his hydration pack during the recent Leavenworth SkyRace.
The caption read, 'Flying this little flag on my hydration pack during the Leavenworth SkyRace this weekend. Might need to print it on a T-shirt next for all my fellow WOKE DEI educators still showing up with courage and care. Yes, I’m woke. Yes, I teach DEI. No, I’m not sorry if that triggers the willfully ignorant.'
Akiyama followed this post with a statement defending his message. 'Reading the wikipedia entries on vocabulary terms like *woke* *equity* *inclusion* might help deprogram the propaganda you’ve fallen prey to,' he wrote. 'Public education is an inherently political act: not in service of any one creed (the direction the neo-fascists in the MAGA movement are driving) but in service of E PLURIBUS UNUM, All are created equal, and equal protection under the law. None of us teach so-called white guilt. Rock on, everyone!'
Akiyama’s posts and his account have since been deleted from Instagram."
https://www.theolympian.com/news/local/article307576696.html
(2/2) on our website:
https://edtechsr.com/2025/06/02/edtechsr-ep-344-voices-we-cant-trust/
and on YouTube!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-UYFdN4-0k
While the U.S. still leans on strong First Amendment protections, Europe — especially the U.K. — is enforcing vague hate speech laws that criminalize subjective offense. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2025/06/02/european-kindness-free-speech/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #commentary #uk #eu #us #keirstarmer #donaldtrump #jdvance #freespeech #humanrights
@gooba42 @Okanogen @Scubyw @noelreports
There is no #freedom in #hateSpeech
#Speech meant to destroy the freedom of others is not #freeSpeech
All the suffering we've been through, and all the suffering that lies before us, is nothing but a litany we must learn from. It will not end until we finally understand that the #FirstAmendment does not protect hate speech, as a simple logical consequence of what freedom truly means
#Tolerance of #intolerance only leads to the death of tolerance
NEW EPISODE
We’re covering a lot of ground this week:
- Hungary’s Russian-style law that could "starve and strangle" civil society
- Good news from the courts for some 
families in Italy
- Germany’s obsession with one particular vegetable
https://www.europeanspodcast.com/all-episodes/hungarys-plight-kids-rights-and-spargelzeit
Interview: "Worse Than McCarthyism”: Trump’s War Against Universities & Students
"Today, the repression that’s coming out of Washington, D.C., it attacks everything that happens on American campuses.
"The damage that the Trump administration is doing is absolutely beyond the pale and has never, never been equaled in American life with regard to higher education.”
~Historian Ellen Schrecker
https://www.democracynow.org/2025/5/30/mccarthyism_universities
#Trump #McCarthyism #USPol @palestine #Fascism #FreeSpeech #censorship .
Thoughts?
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"Truth cannot survive the attentions of the free speech absolutists"
#journalism #freespeech #democracy #publicsupport
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Interview: "Worse Than McCarthyism”: Trump’s War Against Universities & Students
"Today, the repression that’s coming out of Washington, D.C., it attacks everything that happens on American campuses.
"The damage that the Trump administration is doing is absolutely beyond the pale and has never, never been equaled in American life with regard to higher education.”
~Historian Ellen Schrecker
https://www.democracynow.org/2025/5/30/mccarthyism_universities
#Trump #McCarthyism #USPol @palestine #Fascism #FreeSpeech #censorship .
@knittingknots2 #ElonMusk turned #Twitter into a platform for ‘#FreeSpeech ‘? Hmm, tell that to the thousands of people, like me, whose accounts were “permanently suspended” without warning! 
#Resist #USpol #TwitterExodus
Interview: "Worse Than McCarthyism”: Trump’s War Against Universities & Students
"Today, the repression that’s coming out of Washington, D.C., it attacks everything that happens on American campuses.
"The damage that the Trump administration is doing is absolutely beyond the pale and has never, never been equaled in American life with regard to higher education.”
~Historian Ellen Schrecker
https://www.democracynow.org/2025/5/30/mccarthyism_universities
#Trump #McCarthyism #USPol @palestine #Fascism #FreeSpeech #censorship .
New from Joelle DiPaolo: Texas state representatives spent Memorial Day on the floor of the House scrambling their way through a long list of controversial priority bills like Senate Bill 13, which would further empower parents and school boards to review school libraries’ books for “indecent or profane” content. https://www.texasobserver.org/texas-lege-state-mandates-dei-religion-in-public-ed/
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A #Venezuelan musician released a song critical of #Trump, then he was arrested by #ICE.
The Criminalization of Venezuelan Street Culture
#law #immigration #Constitution #FirstAmendment #FreeSpeech #FreedomOfExpression #AlienEnemiesAct #pretense #FigLeaf #Bullshit #authoritarianism #tyranny #WhiteSupremacy #dissent #AmericanAutocracy
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-lede/the-criminalization-of-venezuelan-street-culture
