Donald Trump, who loves free speech when the speeches are his own, wants to crush dissent again, if you can believe it. “I don’t know why they don’t take care of a situation like that,” Trump said during a Tuesday interview with the Daily Caller about the protesters who interrupted Brett Kavanaugh’s Senate…
Woods (a political prick) said he was dropped by his agent, Ken Kaplan, on Independence Day.
The first lawsuit challenging the Allow States and Victims to Fight Online Sex Trafficking Act (H.R. 1865), otherwise known as SESTA/FOSTA, was filed in federal court last week, claiming that the legislation violates the First and Fifth Amendments, Melissa Gira Grant reports at The Appeal. As anticipated by opponents…
After her attempt to bully teenage survivors of gun violence backfired, Fox News host Laura Ingraham has taken up a new cause: fighting the “Stalinist” left that tramples on the free speech of conservatives like her—you know, people with hour-long cable news shows for which they are paid millions of dollars.
Karen Fonseca was arrested last Thursday on outstanding fraud charges, which came up after Sheriff Troy Nehls targeted her on Facebook for her “Fuck Trump” truck decal. She is now out of jail, and has an additional message for the Fort Bend County Sheriff’s office.
Attorney General Jeff Sessions is just a few public appearances away from demanding we bend the knee (and not in the protesting way), I can feel it.
After much confusion, conservative blowhard with opinions best kept to herself Ann Coulter’s renegade speech at U.C. Berkeley has been cancelled.
It started with Shaylene.
A scheduled talk by Ann Coulter for April 27 was cancelled by UC Berkeley, citing safety concerns around protests to her very presence. On Twitter, Coulter insisted she would be giving her speech come hell-or-high-water. The university has now offered to have her at another date, but she is very unhappy with their…
An appearance by cultural scourge and talking head Ann Coulter at U.C. Berkeley was cancelled Wednesday by officials concerned for student safety, the Washington Post reports.
Last month, Republican state Rep. Lawrence Lockman introduced a bill in Maine’s legislature called “An Act To Protect Political Speech and Prevent Climate Change Policy Profiling,” which would ostensibly prohibit the state from discriminating against individuals based on their beliefs about climate change. The bill, …
Last September, Simona Sharoni, a professor of gender studies at SUNY Plattsburgh in upstate New York gave an interview to an online magazine in which she talked about the need to connect feminism and gender to the movement for Palestinian rights. The interview wasn’t out of the ordinary for Sharoni. She’s made her…
An event scheduled by the campus Republican club at UC Berkeley featuring Milo Yiannopoulous, the glossy, terrifying poster boy for the far-right was cancelled Wednesday after 1,500 student protesters started fires, broke windows and refused to disperse.
The Associated Press reports that atheist and brave patriot Bennie Hart is suing Kentucky transportation secretary Greg Thomas after his request for a personalized license plate reading “IM GOD” was denied. I intend to stay up-to-date on the results of this lawsuit and any ensuing loosening of custom license plate…
Kellyanne Conway, just warming up for her role as Chief Human Manipulator for the Great Alien Invasion of 2035, simply does not seem to tire. When she is asked, nearly every day, a difficult question on camera—like, for example, why is the President-Elect of the United States attacking the cast of Hamilton on Twitter…
Merve Buyuksarac, an industrial designer, writer, and former Miss Turkey, has been punished with a 14-month suspended sentence for “insulting” Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. To earn the sentence, Buyuksarac reportedly shared a quote from a satirical poem on her Instagram account in 2014.
On the final day of his visit to Vietnam, President Barack Obama beatboxed at a town hall and requested a rap from Vietnam’s “Queen of Hip-Hop” in a moment that tied into the issue of free speech.
A good rule of thumb for processing this unexpected, long-time-coming season of college students protesting the white bias built into the mainstream American university system: anyone who takes anti-racism protestors as more troubling than the racism they’re protesting probably has quite a bit of personal investment…
On Sunday, August 23, Tyler, the Creator, was riding through France on the nicest tour bus he’d ever rented—a giant TV screen, a circle couch, extra beds—and heading towards the end of what was meant to be a month-long tour of Europe, reveling in the amenities his hard work had afforded him. The 24-year-old Los…
The Ferguson, St. Louis County, and St. Louis police departments along with the Missouri Highway Patrol have been newly and specifically faulted for the role they played in the Ferguson protests in the 16 days after the death of Michael Brown. In a report obtained by the St. Louis Dispatch, to be delivered to police…
