Contributor: Once, international students feared Beijing's wrath. Now Trump is the threat (via L.A. Times Opinion ) latimes.com/opinion/story/…

I’m in L.A. Times Opinion about the Trump administration’s threats to Harvard’s international students and why higher education has long feared this method of retaliation — but from China. latimes.com/opinion/story/…

If the Trump administration seeks to root out “anti-Americanism,” it can start by surveying its own behavior. Free expression is one of our country’s most cherished values. Censorship, surveillance, and punishment of critics do not belong here. ✍🏻: Sarah McLaughlin 📰: Los Angeles Times

The latest from Sarah McLaughlin. McLaughlin's book "Authoritarians in the Academy" comes out in August. latimes.com/opinion/story/…

A really big media week, featuring ⁦Andrew Keen⁩ ⁦Garry Kasparov⁩ ⁦Greg Y. Gonzalez⁩ ⁦Ryne Weiss⁩ ⁦Sarah McLaughlin⁩ ⁦Adaam James Levin-Areddy 🐙⁩ ⁦uncertainthings⁩ & ⁦FIRE⁩ eternallyradicalidea.com/p/im-back-in-t…

📢BREAKING: Hamit Coskun has been found guilty of religiously-aggravated public order offence for burning a Quran in protest, in a significant blow to freedom of expression in the UK. secularism.org.uk/news/2025/06/n…

Blasphemy prosecutions do not belong in the UK or anywhere else. You don’t need to like holy book desecration to see why this is deeply threatening to free expression. secularism.org.uk/news/2025/06/n…

The Constitution isn't asking ICE to stop ignoring the First Amendment--it's demanding it.

*command + f* yep, just checked. still there.

Proud to join.

BREAKING: Federal court grants preliminary injunction barring the detention or removal of Mahmoud Khalil, stays order 40 hours to allow an appeal: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco…

Las Vegas police immediately arrest two streamers because one insulted them ("honor your oath, bitch"). "You need to learn there's rules: don't run your mouth at me. Now you're on your face." That is not a rule the First Amendment allows. LVMPD: what are you doing about this?

What’s the latest censorship news from around the world? I have it here for you at FIRE; UK Quran burning conviction, Saudi Arabia’s execution of a journalist, Tiananmen anniversary in Hong Kong, Vietnam’s Telegram ban, and much more. Read it here: thefire.org/news/blogs/fre…

BREAKING: At a hearing moments ago, NJ District Judge Farbiarz has ordered Mahmoud Khalil RELEASED ON BAIL.

Good. The administration’s targeting of Khalil has been transparent retaliation for protected speech. Rubio’s memo confirmed his decision to deport Khalil relied solely on protected speech. No one, citizen or not, should fear government reprisal for voicing the “wrong” opinion.

BREAKING: Mahmoud Khalil has been released from a detention center in Jena, Louisiana. Khalil was the first high-profile activist arrested under the Trump administration’s crackdown on international students protesting the war in Gaza.