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a lot of self-report happening...

The same people who want to convince you Ukraine is a country full of Nazis are now looking at the photo of the Texas shooter with a swastika tattoo and Hitler praise in his profiles like “well hold on a second here, let’s not jump to conclusions.”

PEN America condemns the outrageous 8-year prison sentence handed down to Chinese writer and activist Yang Maodong (pen name Guo Feixiong) today on charges of "inciting subversion" for trying to leave the country to visit his dying wife. 1/3 reuters.com/world/asia-pac…

PEN America Condemns China’s Arrest of Exiled Mongolian Writer and Historian Lhamjab A. Borjigin pen.org/press-release/…

#China Kidnaps Southern Mongolian Dissident in #Mongolia bitterwinter.org/china-kidnaps-… Chinese police took writer #LhamjabBorjigin from his residence in #Ulaanbaatar and deported him back to China. #buddhism #religiousfreedom

Prominent Southern Mongolian author and dissident Lhamjab Borjigin was arrested in the country of Mongolia on May 3 by Chinese police and deported back to China hours later. PEN America condemns his arrest and demands his immediate release @talitacpessoa pen.org/press-release/…

A Florida School Has Banned the Poem Read at Biden’s Inauguration Amanda Gorman’s The Hill We Climb is restricted after just one parent complained about it. newrepublic.com/post/172938/fl… #BannedBooks #IStandWithTheBanned

It’ll be fascinating to hear Musk, the free speech absolutist, grill DeSantis on the latter’s well-documented crackdowns in Florida on free speech, the free press, and books in their Twitter Spaces conversation. He’ll grill DeSantis on free speech, right? Right? Ri…

🧵A K-8 school in Miami-Dade County recently removed @theamandagorman's The Hill We Climb from elementary school library shelves. They say it’s not been banned, but…

Excellent primer from my brilliant colleague Jonathan Friedman 📚 on the various semantic tactics book banners use to deny that they are banning books--and why they're wrong. #freedomtoread

This looks like a great panel--particularly glad to see Buttered Jorts (fka kelly jensen) 🐱🐰 as the moderator as she has been insightfully reporting on the 'book ban beat' for years. Whenever a new article from Jensen drops, it's a must-read for book access advocates #freadom

PEN America: Christopher Rufo "is clearly determined to import European authoritarianism to New College, trampling faculty members’ and students’ right to intellectual freedom. That his fellow board members would support him in doing so is a scandal.” ➡️ pen.org/press-release/…

One of my favorite professors during my own law school experience--the incomparable Jon Hanson--breaks down the problem with the prevailing advice that people give law students.

For those interested in the subject, I also highly recommend reading Prof. Duncan Kennedy's "Legal Education as Training for Hierarchy" which can be found here: duncankennedy.net/documents/Lega…

Is it at all up for debate that the Senate has by now spent more time discussing its dress code than the spike in child poverty in 2022

In shock to learn of Alvin Cheung's death. We worked together on a human rights report in 2016 and kept in touch after. He was brilliant, thoughtful, and had an unerring moral compass--a role model for all scholars who want their work to make a difference in this world.

Faculty are not "better" than other state employees. But they are different. They are hired for their ideas, not to reflect the views of the state. Ban them from expressing those ideas, and you no longer have a university; you have a propaganda factory. insidehighered.com/news/faculty-i…