Evan Ringel

Park Ph.D. Fellow, UNC School of Journalism and Media. First Amendment scholar, recovering J.D./musician, lover of sports, dogs, politics, and useless trivia.

[Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @NYCMayor]

SPEECHLESS. LFGK.

[NEW YORK KNICKS @nyknicks]

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[FIRE @TheFIREorg]

BREAKING: FIRE statement on Trump administration revoking Harvard’s Student and Exchange Visitor Program certification

The Department of Homeland Security’s decision to escalate its assault against Harvard University by revoking its ability to enroll international students is retaliatory and unlawful.

Secretary Noem’s letter warns that the Trump administration seeks to “root out the evils of anti-Americanism and antisemitism in society and campuses.” But little is more un-American than a federal bureaucrat demanding that a private university demonstrate its ideological fealty to the government under pain of punishment.

The Department’s demand that Harvard produce audio and video footage of all protest activity involving international students over the last five years is gravely alarming. This sweeping fishing expedition reaches protected expression and must be flatly rejected.

The Department is already arresting and seeking to deport students for engaging in protected political activity it disfavors. Were Harvard to capitulate to Secretary Noem’s unlawful demands, more students could face such consequences. The administration’s demand for a surveillance state at Harvard is anathema to American freedom.

The administration seems hellbent on employing every means at its disposal — no matter how unlawful or unconstitutional — to retaliate against Harvard and other colleges and universities for speech it doesn’t like.

This has to stop.

Since 1999, FIRE has fought for free speech and academic freedom at Harvard and campuses nationwide, and we will continue to do so. We know there is work to do. Whatever Harvard’s past failings, core campus rights cannot and will not be secured by surveillance, retaliation, and censorship.

No American should accept the federal government punishing its political opponents by demanding ideological conformity, surveilling and retaliating against protected speech, and violating the First Amendment.

[G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris]

Where are the “free speech absolutists” now, huh?

[AEJMC Law & Policy Division @AEJMC_LAWP]

Congratulations, @HeesooJang2 and @evanringel3 on your top paper award!

[Evan Ringel @evanringel3]

@SchmittTheory Yay!!!! So happy for you all ❤️❤️

[Bill Belichick @Belichick_B]

“Beat Dook” my first words as a boy are my first words on X! Go Heels!!

#GoHeels #ChapelBill #CarolinaFootball

[UNC Tar Heels @GoHeels]

Welcome to Chapel Hill, Bill Belichick!

The eight-time Super Bowl Champion has officially been named our next @UNCFootball Head Coach.

#GoHeels x #ChapelBill

[Evan Ringel @evanringel3]

Proud of my friend and collaborator @HeesooJang2
for providing such valuable insight on an evolving and harrowing situation in South Korea.

[Heesoo Jang @HeesooJang2]

I was preparing to pitch an op-ed on the nationwide protests calling for President Yoon's resignation, aiming to provide global context amid the limited international coverage.

Given the urgency, I’m sharing it now: https://t.co/Ly8hM6DQzA

#SouthKorea #Democracy

[Governor Josh Stein @NC_Governor]

As we continue our unprecedented response to Hurricane Helene, the nation is beginning to understand that impacted areas have been the target of a relentless vortex of disinformation, dialed up by bad actors and platforms like X. 🧵

[FIRE @TheFIREorg]

STATEMENT: In targeting “deceptive” political content, California’s new law threatens satire, parody, and other First Amendment-protected speech.

A.B. 2839 bans sharing “deceptive” digitally modified content about candidates for office for any purpose. That means sharing such content even to criticize it or point out it’s fake could violate the law.

The law also requires satire and parody to be labeled, like requiring a comedian to preface every joke with an announcement he’s making a joke. That’s not funny — it’s scary.

Whatever concerns exist about AI-generated expression, violating the First Amendment isn’t the way to address them.

[Kendrick Lamar @kendricklamar]

Super Bowl LIX. New Orleans.
https://t.co/RwqVLDGdgf

[Evan Ringel @evanringel3]

We are in a golden age for basketball. What a shot, what a game

[NBC Olympics & Paralympics @NBCOlympics]

"THE GOLDEN DAGGER!"

Steph Curry that is utterly ridiculous. 🤯

#ParisOlympics | 📺 NBC and Peacock

[Evan Ringel @evanringel3]

@amy_k_sanders @PSUBellisario So excited for you (and for Penn State)!! ❤️

[Evan Ringel @evanringel3]

Always a treat getting to talk about academic freedom with such an illustrious panel! Can’t wait to run it back again next year and discuss what is sure to be an eventful year @AEJMC @AEJMC_LAWP

[AEJMC Law & Policy Division @AEJMC_LAWP]

If you're interested in academic freedom - and who at #AEJMC24 isn't? - you're going to want to check out our 2:30 p.m. panel with @aejmc_ccs happening in Salon K.

[Evan Ringel @evanringel3]

But I will definitely miss living here and it will always feel like home. We’ll be back a lot to visit ☺️ please come see us in Boone!

[Evan Ringel @evanringel3]

Today is my last day in Chapel Hill. My life has changed immeasurably since I started law school here 7 years ago. I have an amazing wife, a beautiful daughter, an enriching and invigorating circle of friends and family, and three graduate degrees from UNC

[Evan Ringel @evanringel3]

(the school I always dreamed of attending) burning a hole in my pocket. It feels bittersweet to leave. I can’t wait to get settled up in Boone with Ariel and Juliet, meet my first batch of students at @appstate, and build a new community of people.

[Evan Ringel @evanringel3]

@ethanehorton1 @centralmenews Congrats Ethan! So excited for you.

[Evan Ringel @evanringel3]

@larisa_tweets 🥰🥰🥰