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“Free Speech Absolutist” Elon Musk Wants to Deport Protesters Who Remove US Flag
Hours after making the proposal, Musk said he would reinstate the account of white nationalist Nick Fuentes.
Top UN Human Rights Official Raises Alarm Over Repression of Student Protests
Over 1,200 protesters have been arrested across dozens of campuses just over the past two weeks.
Meet the Pro-Palestinian Valedictorian Whose Commencement Speech Was Canceled
Asna Tabassum's speech was dropped by the University of Southern California after an online hate campaign.
The UK Is Using a New Definition of “Extremism” to Repress Palestine Solidarity
Amid widespread British support for ceasefire, the Conservative government declared civil society groups “extremist.”
Iowa Republicans Forward Bill to Force Students to Stand for National Anthem
“By mandating that they stand, our students’ First Amendment rights would be violated,” one critic of the bill said.
Bills in Georgia Aim to Suppress Cop City, Pro-Palestine Activists
“Don’t sleep on this red clay fascism y’all,” one political theorist said.
DOE Investigations of Campus “Antisemitism” Suppress Criticism of Gaza Genocide
As Israel’s genocide in Gaza continues, Department of Education investigations are chilling dissent at US campuses.
Harvard President’s Ouster Makes Visible the Rising Power of the Far Right
The same forces targeting Palestine solidarity work are trying to end all campus discussions of anticolonial politics.
Courts Aren’t Impartial or Apolitical. Trump Is Using That to His Advantage.
Courts treat the First Amendment as Trump’s impenetrable armor, and it has become so.
Ivy League Presidents at Congress Hearing Threw Student Protesters Under the Bus
Not one of the university leaders questioned the baseless premises of many claims, says professor Nivedita Majumdar.