In a historic ruling, Judge Doughty held that Plaintiffs--@DrJBhattacharya @MartinKulldorff @akheriaty @HealthFreedomLA --are likely to succeed with their claim that the federal Government's involvement in social media censorship violated their First Amendment rights 1/
The judge noted that during the Covid pandemic, the Government "seems to have assumed a role similar to an Orwellian 'Ministry of Truth.'" It's unusual for a court to issue a decision on a federal holiday: I suspect Judge Doughty sought to make a point 2/2
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303 Creative is not a blow to LGBTQ rights, as the MSM is portraying it. Nor is it the gateway to segregation or discrimination against minorities. It ultimately holds that government can’t force individuals to endorse ideas or utter speech that violates their consciences 1/
This is a position liberals should be on board with. To quote the opinion itself: “the First Amendment envisions the United States as a rich and complex place where all persons are free to think as they wish and not as the government demands.” 2/
The difference between this and race based discrimination/ segregation is that Lori Smith wasn’t refusing service to people because of their membership in a certain class. To the contrary, she will do work for gay people, but did not want to design websites for gay weddings 3/
So the covidian narrative is that the lockdowns saved lives even though 1.2 million people died and/or anyway there were no real lockdowns, you just maybe couldn’t go to the gym for a couple months, and civil liberties are a silly right wing concept.
It’s incredibly disturbing to me that the public has moved on from the covid era without any acknowledgment of just how egregious the civil liberties violations were; how damaging the restrictions were to children, the poor and working class, the elderly, the mentally ill 1/
those who live alone, and those who have substance abuse problems; and the utter pointlessness of the suffering power hungry bureaucrats inflicted on us. But then I realized: maybe such reckonings don’t occur for a generation or so. 2/
Maybe those who were responsible and those who remained silent simply can’t admit to themselves and those they wronged just how terribly they behaved or how cowardly they were, and that they let fear and prejudice subsume rationality. 3/
In a scathing statement, Justice Gorsuch described covid restrictions as possibly "the greatest intrusion[] on civil liberties in the peacetime history of this country." He recognized that gov't "pressured social-media companies to suppress information about pandemic policies..
Something has gone terribly wrong in science and medicine. realityslaststand.com/p/were-not-goi…
The author of this piece astutely observes that "Lawmakers shouldn’t have to restrict sex changes to adults, but US-based medical organizations are not doing their job at following the science" 1/
The other day, the Atlantic published an article about a doctor who provides late-term abortions, often on healthy babies. I had been under the--I now realize false impression--that doctors just wouldn't do this because medical ethics wouldn't allow it. 2/
And don't even get me started on doctors' response to covid, which revealed that, as a general matter, members of that profession entirely lack commonsense as well as scientific literacy. 3/
I was a huge fan of DeSantis throughout covid. But I cannot abide by the fact he is signing into law bills that obviously violate the First Amendment. That's so although I don't agree with much of the speech these laws target, b/c that's what it means to believe in free speech.
DeSantis could find ways to oppose the woke agenda without violating Floridians' free speech rights.
In reply to popular demand, here is the latest bill that the governor is poised to sign into law: flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2…
take a look at pp. 19-20. This isn't about banning porn in kindergarten. It's about banning speech we don't like at universities.