President Donald Trump is a grave threat to free speech, say Democrats and many in the media. The Justice Department this week indicted former FBI Director James Comey for a second time, charging him with threatening the President over an Instagram post last spring of seashells arranged to read “8647,” which the president described as mob talk for calling for someone to kill him. Federal Communications Commission Chairman Brendan Carr ordered Disney’s ABC unit to file early renewal applications for its eight broadcast licenses, days after Jimmy Kimmel joked that Melania Trump had “the glow of an expectant widow,” a quip that aired three days before a gunman opened fire at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner. Trump has gone after the media before, many note. He sued CBS over the editing of a 60 Minutes interview with Kamala Harris, later amending the claim to $20 billion, and Paramount, CBS’s parent, settled for $16 million last July. The Trump administration froze $2.2 billion in research funding for Harvard. A Trump executive order prohibits federal funds from going to K-12 schools that teach critical race theory or gender ideology. And another directs the Attorney General to coordinate with state and local prosecutors against teachers who facilitate the social transition of minors.
But these objections are rather rich coming from representatives of the same Party whose activists canceled colleagues, oversaw mass online censorship, and endorsed the assassination of their political enemies. The murder of Charlie Kirk last September inspired widespread celebration by progressives on social media. Trump’s latest attempted assassin, Cole Allen, was a radicalized leftist. Fifty-five percent of self-identified left-of-center voters said the murder of President Trump could be justified. Democrats and progressives inside and outside government built a sweeping Censorship Industrial Complex in the United States and Europe that censored millions of Americans for legal speech, including questioning Covid, climate, transgender, and migration policies.
Over decades, leftists drove moderates and conservatives out of the news media and the academy. Today, 60 percent of university faculty are left of center, while only 18 and 17 percent are moderate and right of center, respectively. And where the share of US journalists who identified as Democrats rose from 28 percent to 36 percent between 2013 and 2022, the share who identified as Republicans fell from 7.1 percent to 3.4 percent.
As for federal funding decisions, they are not censorship, and much of what the Trump administration acted against were policies that violated the rights of Asians, whites, and minors. The Supreme Court already ruled in 2023 that Harvard’s race-conscious admissions policies violated the law. Public schools are state actors, and what they teach has always been subject to democratic and legal control. And teachers and administrators who tell children they can and should change their gender are endangering their health and well-being, as the WPATH Files show....
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@timony001 Definitely not. Congress moves slower than a snail. Would either NEVER come to a conclusion or would attach 50 other non related amendments. Congress IS ENEPT
@catturd2 Wages grow because of inflation. That’s derogatory to those that have worked most their lives with the hope of having a few years of relaxation at the end of life.