If you can, please listen to this amazing Red Scare interview with NYU Professor @mcrispinmiller, now being formally investigated by NYU with threats of firing because -- in a class on **propaganda**! -- he encouraged students to review the conflicting messaging on mask-wearing:
I hope this will be made available to non-subscribers. The story is amazing. *One student* in the class whined on Twitter that she was upset by his teachings on COVID propaganda, and so the University apologized to her & assured her he'd be investigated:
You'll be unsurprised to learn that the @ACLU hasn't weighed in despite its being at NYU, but the always-principled and apolitical @TheFIREorg has, warning that these formal investigations pose a grave threat to academic freedom:
Miller has expressed views that I don't like or agree with. He deviates from orthodoxies. But that's the point of tenure! Like free speech, tenure isn't needed for NYT-reading, NPR-listening mavens of mainstream pieties who fill faculty lounges. It's for people like Miller.
The witch hunt against Professor Miller was started by a few petulant students but now, unsurprisingly, is being led by liberal NYU Professors who think scholars should be fired for not parroting their trite agitprop. More info here, with a fundraiser:
Last night @elonmusk vowed to honor the endless, repressive and due-process-free censorship orders from Brazil's Judge Alexandre de Moraes.
The Judge has banned various journalists and members of Congress, among others, from social media.
This would be a huge deal for Brazil:
Rumble last year also announced that it would refuse to comply. The platform was expending huge resources to constantly take down videos and ban users upon the endless, lawless orders of a single job.
Amazingly, Rumble is no longer available to anyone in Brazil, getting this:
In January of last year, we obtained one of the secret orders Judge Moraes issues to platforms. This one banned Senators, Congress members and journalists, and mandated secrecy.
No due process. We reported it here. Hard to overstate how extreme it is:
UK Court hands Assange a partial victory in the Biden DOJ's attempt to extradite him.
US must provide explicit assurances that Assange 1) can raise a 1st Am defense, 2) will have the same rights as US citizens and 3) will never face the death penalty.
Biden WH doesn't want the sideshow of a trial; daily protests; discovery into CIA; Assange on the stand; Biden as the first-ever president to imprison a publisher.
They want to kill Assange through conviction-free imprisonment.
How dare the US President weigh in on a war he has caused American citizens to finance, arm and support!
Look at the mentality of these Israel fanatics: the duty of American citizens is not only to finance Israel's military and wars, but also never question what Israel does: