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One of my all-time favorite type of videos is pre-fame bands playing their extremely famous songs to a tiny room of people, because they're not yet known. A thread of some examples: Bastille playing Pompeii in what looks like someone's living room:

Seems like it would be easier to just stop discriminating on the basis of race. 🤷🏻‍♂️

socialists hate the rich being rich more than they hate the poor being poor

Great piece by Helen Lewis in The Atlantic. I know people who have swallowed all the lies who also read the Atlantic, and I wonder if they'll read this and just dismiss it as "more TERF garbage." 1/

Free speech means stupid people get to sing stupid things. The right reaction is to mock, criticise and defeat their worldview. Getting police involved is absurd. But once you criminalise some hurty words, you create the demand for all hurty words to be criminalised.

PSA: You can oppose illegal immigration without finding the idea of gators eating immigrants hilarious.

“wait for it”

The most telling part of this case is when the Trump administration took the unprecedented step of releasing the full Kamala Harris interview. Once it was out, there was practically crickets—because it just wasn’t that bad. Networks edit interviews for clarity all the time.

A lot of folks don't believe in free speech. "Oh no! We believe in free speech! As long as it's not anti-American! Or bigoted towards trans people! Or anti-Israel! Or said by foreigners who are guests!" Exactly. You don't believe in free speech.

STATEMENT: A cold wind just blew through every newsroom this morning. Paramount may have closed this case, but it opened the door to the idea that the government should be the media’s editor-in-chief. Trump has a long history of filing frivolous lawsuits to intimidate critics,

“Please, my fellow Americans, look around the world and thank your lucky stars. Every day I wake up and I kiss the ground, because I don’t take it for granted. Because my life is so much better than my parents were in India.” —Yale Law professor Akhil Reed Amar

Roman Helmet Guy is mistaken. 1. Marcus believed in stoicism, not nothing. 2. Pizarro only had to kill Atahualpa and the Incan state fell, while Rome’s enemies were decentralized tribes. 3. Marcus had no weapon like the nuke that was smallpox.

🇺🇸 Happy Independence Day! 🇺🇸 Before you fire up the grill or light those questionable backyard fireworks, here’s your weekly roundup of America’s free speech headlines—Bob Corn-Revere edition. expression.fire.org/p/firewire-bob…

America hasn’t been perfect. It’s made grave mistakes. But there is no country that has ever done more for improving the world. It breaks my heart how unappreciative Americans across the ideological spectrum are of that. Much of the left rejects we’ve ever been good for the

The best National Anthem of all time, which I will never miss an opportunity to post. Just started blasting it during fireworks. On repeat. You should too. AMERICA! 🇺🇸

Jailed for basic journalism, Texas reporter takes free speech fight to Supreme Court thefire.org/news/jailed-ba… via FIRE

What happens when the president sues a TV network…and the FCC just so happens to stall their parent company’s merger? A $16M settlement and a chilling precedent. A must-read by Bob Corn-Revere ⁦The Dispatch⁩ thedispatch.com/article/paramo…