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THIS IS INSANE. Under pressure from Trump, The Smithsonian has REMOVED reference to Trump’s impeachment in their display on impeachment (which includes Clinton, Nixon, Johnson). Just erasing history to appease an authoritarian. Another institution caves.

Hong Kong democracy campaigner accuses UK police of asking her to ‘self-censor’ | Freedom of speech | The Guardian theguardian.com/world/2025/jul…

Maybe I’m missing something, but it looks like no North American media outlet has reported on the Rom Braslavski video yet? It’s been on here for like eight hours…

Taking a couple of days off gives me time to think, but just for fun. It reminds me of how I used to do some of my best thinking back when I wrote science fiction. Playing with ideas, especially about how the world might look in ten or twenty years, or even in the distant,

As long as this is happening on campuses, and it is still happening, the Trump admin will have all the ammo it needs for further Title VI "settlements." Colleges need to get a handle on this RIGHT NOW.

Career goal: Free speech advocates have more power than cancel culture mobs, and companies take their concerns more seriously than anything coming from the modern-day Anthony Comstocks.

🗣️ 73% of students now say it’s acceptable to shout down a speaker. At HxA2025, FIRE's Connor Murnane shares sobering data on campus speech attitudes and why he’s still hopeful we can turn the tide:

That will increase our confidence in our shared world of facts for sure! (Our first postmodernist president, ladies and gentlemen.) Trump fires labor statistics boss hours after weak jobs report nbcnews.com/business/econo… via @nbcnews

I am beyond excited to announce that I am attending Drexel University Thomas R. Kline School of Law this fall on a full merit scholarship. This moment is especially sweet because I am the first in my family to ever attend law school. Now I *really* won't stop talking about the First Amendment...

A shoutout to the extortion-industrial complex in the must-read Eternally Radical Idea by Greg Lukianoff

Just ordered. War On Words: 10 Arguments Against Free Speech—And Why They Fail by Greg Lukianoff and Nadine Strossen a.co/d/0M63l2P

If I was an alien from another planet, you could probably never convince me that it would be so hard to get humans to believe that freedom is good. It’s a mystery you have to witness with your own eyes.

The most unspoken silent tragedy that occurred in our society over the past 50 years is that we sent all of our brightest minds to work in finance to raise the return on internally invested capital to 16.55% from 16.35%. Rather than having them work on increasing crop yields,

Nostalgia for a bygone age, I know, but we underestimate how much value there was to new reporters at big newspapers starting out on the obituary page.

Remember when researchers claimed gas stoves were responsible for 1-in-8 asthma cases in the U.S.? That didn't hold up. The meta-analysis was done incorrectly, and correcting it rendered its result nonsignificant. Then, a very large, well-done study found no risk elevation.

Phenomenal book. Still need to write a review of it. I have lots of thoughts, but it’s a must read. We Have Never Been Woke a.co/d/2udcfGf

A more challenging aspect of the new EO is the “free from top-down ideological bias” requirement for LLMs contracting with the federal government. The terms “top-down” and “bias” lack formal definitions, leading to confusion and leaving this and future administrations wide leeway

🧠 Academia isn't just where we learn, but where we learn how to change our minds. How are you helping students practice this skill?