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Joined November 2011
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I think about this line a lot
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At the America 250th Celebration there should be a slideshow of things we avoided by gaining our independence, and this should be the first photo.
The American mind cannot comprehend the pub cheese and onion roll
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Want to understand more about North Carolina's state legislature? Start with its districts. This beautiful and informative detailed map of NC's State House and Senate districts shows how we're represented in Raleigh. Get yours! 👇 store.carolinaforward.org
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studies (conducted in my home) have shown that when you sing your cat a little song about how much you love them, they understand exactly what you're saying, and they feel it in their little heart
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The chorus of Taylor Swift’s song “Elizabeth Taylor” also works with “Osama bin Laden.” Do with this information what you will
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Things cat owners of multiple cats do: Ask 1 cat where the other cat is
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Illinois' proposed social media "fee" doesn't just collide with modern First Amendment doctrine. It echoes the kind of taxes on expression that helped fuel the American Revolution and shaped the First Amendment itself. And it's also a big mess.
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1st Circuit is legitimately insane for this.
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v thankful for Times New Roman
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Meep meep ass locale
'Liminal Stop Sign', Monument Valley, Utah
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Today is the 250th anniversary of The Virginia Declaration of Rights!! "Section 12 -- That the freedom of the press is one of the great bulwarks of liberty, and can never be restrained but by despotic governments." Link to the full document👇
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Federal officials don’t get to outsource censorship by bullying private platforms into doing their dirty work. Sens. Cruz and Wyden’s JAWBONE Act would help stop that coercion and give victims a way to fight back. Passing it would be a win across party lines.
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Government officials can’t legally censor protected speech, but they can strong-arm private parties into doing it for them. That’s called jawboning, and it violates your First Amendment rights. We’re supporting the JAWBONE Act to stop that coercion.
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Some believe academic freedom is primarily a collective right. Others, including me, believe academic freedom is primarily an individual right — a protection often needed by lonely dissenters standing against the collective. Process matters for protecting both conceptions of academic freedom. But only one conception leaves open the possibility that the outcome of that process was wrong. When professors were punished for being communists or for refusing to sign loyalty oaths in the 1940s and ’50s, that was wrong, regardless of the rigor of the process that produced those outcomes. When people seek to vindicate their rights in court — and courts fail to uphold them — that doesn’t negate those rights. Sometimes the process fails us, and we should feel empowered to say so. The process failed to protect Amy Wax’s academic freedom rights, no matter how robust that process was.
Replying to @JohnDSailer
Housed within the American Association of University Professors (AAUP), the group's conception of academic freedom seems to have little to do with free speech. Here's a meeting where one fellow says that UPenn punishing Amy Wax for her speech was academic freedom in practice.
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Everyone always talking about “talent density” in Silicon Valley when we really should be talking about how 80% of pretzels in America come from a small region of Pennsylvania
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The Committee of Five—John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, Robert Livingston, and Roger Sherman—was appointed to draft the Declaration of Independence 250 years ago today. Jefferson's draft of the document is here at the Library, and will be featured in a new exhibition opening July 3.
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RT @_ErinLee: Fun fact, they’ve done studies by playing different cat’s chirps and meows to pet owners and they can often identify their ca…
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This is Noah Webster's definition of 'cat' from his 1828 dictionary. Don't worry. We like cats more than he did.
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This is a straightforward tax on speech. It explicitly targets platforms that allow users to “create, share, and view user-generated content.” And here’s the thing: Our country was founded in part in opposition to taxes on speech. Remember the Stamp Act?
my thoughts on the new Illinois social media tax law: “It’s a pretty straightforward tax on speech, and a discriminatory one at that. It basically suggests that it’s alright for government to be singling out types of media or media platforms that it does not like and assessing special taxes accordingly.” And I have plenty of other concerns...
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FINALLY: A bipartisan effort to end unconstitutional jawboning! The bill will require transparency and create a cause of action for damages when the feds coerce private platforms into censoring their users. Everyone — regardless of their politics — should support this.
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Government officials can’t legally censor protected speech, but they can strong-arm private parties into doing it for them. That’s called jawboning, and it violates your First Amendment rights. We’re supporting the JAWBONE Act to stop that coercion.
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Boston Post, Massachusetts, August 7, 1920
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