Tag: free speech
Missouri Republican Attorney General Bailey sues Media Matters using consumer law...
An analysis of Mo. Attorney General Andrew Bailey's bogus allegations against Media Matters.
Court halts Texas law on book ratings, upholding freedom in school...
In a landmark decision, a federal appeals court blocks a Texas law that aimed to impose ratings on library books, citing constitutional violations and safeguarding the right to free expression.
The Palestine exception to campus free speech
“Solidarity is the kind of presence that costs you something.”
Socialism’s self-criticism and real democracy
Whatever forms of government (including representative-electoral) coexist with class-divided economic systems, the hard reality is that one class rules the other.
Protest wave sweeps the nation: Illinois streets and Capitol Hill erupt...
Activists in Illinois and Washington D.C. stand in defiance, calling for an end to the siege on Gaza and urging U.S. officials to back a ceasefire.
U.S. Senate passes resolution condemning pro-Palestinian campus activism amidst escalating speech...
Amidst rising tensions and a national debate, voices on U.S. campuses and workplaces face severe backlash for speaking out on the Israel-Gaza conflict, raising pivotal questions about free speech and the price of political expression in America.
The silencing of dissent: how Big Oil is shielding itself through...
money talks, and it’s drowning out the voice of the people as 60% of U.S. oil and gas operations are now fortified against protests due to an infusion of lobbying dollars.
New anti-protest laws cast a long shadow on First Amendment rights
A deep divide over protests and who defines what peaceful is?
I was targeted under Louisiana’s felony trespassing law for reporting on...
When reporters are no longer allowed to report the truth, we all lose.
ALEC wants to make protest illegal in Illinois
ALEC isn’t often at the forefront of legislative changes in blue states like Illinois, but with overwhelming support for this bill by Democrats in the Illinois House, that may be changing.
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The actual Gavin Newsom is much worse than you think
For anyone who wants a truly progressive Democratic Party, Gavin Newsom is bad news.
Senators probe Equifax over plans to profit from Medicaid and SNAP work requirements
Warren, Wyden, and Sanders are demanding disclosures from Equifax as new federal work requirements threaten to strip healthcare and food assistance from millions while expanding the company’s already dominant income verification business.
Trump’s Board of Peace is a dystopia in motion
If any entity requires immediate disarmament and deradicalization, it is Trump and his so-called Executive Board.
High levels of ‘forever chemicals’ in Great Lakes put consumption of fish and drinking...
In Michigan alone, about one out of every three water bodies tested has a PFAS fish consumption advisory.
DHS warehouse jail plan signals historic expansion of immigration detention
Documents and reporting reveal a sweeping plan to convert warehouses and deploy military contracting to rapidly expand immigration jails across the United States.