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View More Newsfrom the people-with-least-power-should-be-exposed-the-most? dept Yet another one to add to the “it’s OK if we do it” file for the Trump administration. This administration is cool with censoring speech, nationalizing elections, seizing the means of production, and blackmailing law firms and universities. It would be heated AF if any other administration did these things, but since it’s the one doing it, it’s all cool and (probably not) legal. Not a day goes by that its hypocrisy isn’t exposed. Here’s the latest, which certainly isn’t the last: the DOJ’s insistence that government employees be given preferential treatment in court. Multiple bullshit…
Atheist and Kurdish-Armenian asylum seeker Hamit Coskun has emerged triumphant from a year-long legal battle after he burned a Quran in protest near the Turkish embassy in London last February. This is good news, especially given the rarity of positive free speech developments in the UK. But the doggedness with which prosecutors pursued charges against Coskun, and the process he was subjected to, should alarm UK residents, whose right to blaspheme may be in as much danger as their freedom to publicly protest or their ability to post anonymously online.The controversy began on Feb. 13, 2025, when Coskun stood outside the Turkish Consulate in…
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On Monday, I arrived at the United Nations Headquarters to observe the 10,113th meeting of the Security Council, devoted to the theme of Children, Technology, and Education in Conflict. The building was thronged with dignitaries and journalists, all eager to catch a glimpse of the day’s chairperson: Melania Trump. It was the first time in UN history that a sitting first lady had performed this role. And it was somewhat astonishing to behold the transformative effect that a single pair of stilettos can have on the atmosphere in this vast office complex.The first lady made no explicit reference to the…
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