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I have not the slightest objection to UT Austin Great Questions of Human Life courses based on the writings from these fifty authors.
On the other hand, I do object to faculty being forced to use a quota of these texts in their courses.
What ever happened to academic freedom?
#HigherEducation #AcademicFreedom #UniversityOfTexasAtAustin #Texas
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I have not the slightest objection to UT Austin Great Questions of Human Life courses based on the writings from these fifty authors.
On the other hand, I do object to faculty being forced to use a quota of these texts in their courses.
What ever happened to academic freedom?
#HigherEducation #AcademicFreedom #UniversityOfTexasAtAustin #Texas
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I have not the slightest objection to UT Austin Great Questions of Human Life courses based on the writings from these fifty authors.
On the other hand, I do object to faculty being forced to use a quota of these texts in their courses.
What ever happened to academic freedom?
#HigherEducation #AcademicFreedom #UniversityOfTexasAtAustin #Texas
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I have not the slightest objection to UT Austin Great Questions of Human Life courses based on the writings from these fifty authors.
On the other hand, I do object to faculty being forced to use a quota of these texts in their courses.
What ever happened to academic freedom?
#HigherEducation #AcademicFreedom #UniversityOfTexasAtAustin #Texas
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Global Edition
Breaking News
UNITED KINGDOM
Brendan O’Malley
The UK security service, MI5, has…
#EuropeSays #Britain #Europe #EU #UK #academic #academicfreedom #education #Highereducation #Leadership #News #transformative #UnitedKingdom #university
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https://www.europesays.com/unitedstates/6251/ Global Edition #academic #AcademicFreedom #Diplomacy #Diplomacy&InternationalRelations #Education #HigherEducation #InternationalRelations #Leadership #News #transformative #university
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https://www.europesays.com/unitedstates/6205/ Think Higher Education Has Clear Standards for Academic Freedom? Think Again. #AcademicFreedom #aefp #AEFPLiveHandbookOfEducationPolicyResearch #AlexWolf #CampusAntisemitism #CampusProtests #CampusSpeech #CollegeCampuses #EdChoice #FederalPolicy #FoundationForIndividualRightsAndExpression #FreeSpeech #FreedomOfSpeech #IsraelPalestineConflict #NathanHoneycutt #NoelleMcAffee #PatrickJWolf #PatrickWolf #Policy #ProtectedSpeech #StudentSpeech
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Turkish academic who signed 2016 peace petition reinstated 9 years after emergency-decree dismissal
Turkish political scientist Elçin Aktoprak has been reinstated at Ankara University more than nine years after she was…
#EuropeSays #Turkiye #Türkiye #AcademicFreedom #AcademicsforPeace #AKParty #AnkaraUniversity #democracy #dismissedacademics #ElçinAktoprak #emergencydecrees #humanrights #Justice #law #oppression #PKK #ruleoflaw #stateofemergency #Turkey #Turkish
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Global Edition
Breaking News
GULF STATES
Wagdy Sawahel
The six member countries of the…
#EuropeSays #Britain #Europe #EU #UK #academic #academicfreedom #education #Highereducation #Leadership #News #transformative #UnitedKingdom #university
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"Financialized systematic corruption and degeneration of academia," if we're looking for the shortest executive summary.
"Universities in the US have never been free of corporate, military, or political influence. But over the past fifty years, corporate libertarian donor networks, fossil-fuel companies, and conservative think tanks intensified coordinated campaigns targeting university governance. These networks embedded donor-aligned scholars, built research centers insulated from faculty oversight, and bypassed the shared governance structures meant to protect against external influence. This corporate capture eroded universities' already imperfect defenses against external political pressure and left institutions vulnerable when federal funding was politicized. Republican and Democratic administrations built a system of civil-rights investigations that put university funding at stake. The Trump administration weaponized that system in 2025, freezing billions in research grants, launching investigations into at least seventy-five institutions, and demanding compliance compacts that exchanged funding access for policy concessions. Withdrawing federal funding does not free universities from external influence: it deepens their dependence on private donors who operate outside public oversight. Climate and energy research are primary targets because evidence-based climate policy threatens the fossil-fuel interests historically at the center of this capture. Faculty are a critical counterforce. Their unions, senates, and cross-institutional alliances can resist because they sit outside the donor, board, and funding structures that have made institutional leaders reluctant to act. This article argues for reforms to university governance and accountability that establish faculty oversight of donor agreements. It calls for systematic research into corporate capture and the conditions under which faculty unions and collective organizing can defend and expand shared governance."
#AcademicIntegrity
#AcademicFreedom
#CivicCorruptionhttps://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2214629626004366?dgcid=rss_sd_all
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"Financialized systematic corruption and degeneration of academia," if we're looking for the shortest executive summary.
"Universities in the US have never been free of corporate, military, or political influence. But over the past fifty years, corporate libertarian donor networks, fossil-fuel companies, and conservative think tanks intensified coordinated campaigns targeting university governance. These networks embedded donor-aligned scholars, built research centers insulated from faculty oversight, and bypassed the shared governance structures meant to protect against external influence. This corporate capture eroded universities' already imperfect defenses against external political pressure and left institutions vulnerable when federal funding was politicized. Republican and Democratic administrations built a system of civil-rights investigations that put university funding at stake. The Trump administration weaponized that system in 2025, freezing billions in research grants, launching investigations into at least seventy-five institutions, and demanding compliance compacts that exchanged funding access for policy concessions. Withdrawing federal funding does not free universities from external influence: it deepens their dependence on private donors who operate outside public oversight. Climate and energy research are primary targets because evidence-based climate policy threatens the fossil-fuel interests historically at the center of this capture. Faculty are a critical counterforce. Their unions, senates, and cross-institutional alliances can resist because they sit outside the donor, board, and funding structures that have made institutional leaders reluctant to act. This article argues for reforms to university governance and accountability that establish faculty oversight of donor agreements. It calls for systematic research into corporate capture and the conditions under which faculty unions and collective organizing can defend and expand shared governance."
#AcademicIntegrity
#AcademicFreedom
#CivicCorruptionhttps://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2214629626004366?dgcid=rss_sd_all
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"Financialized systematic corruption and degeneration of academia," if we're looking for the shortest executive summary.
"Universities in the US have never been free of corporate, military, or political influence. But over the past fifty years, corporate libertarian donor networks, fossil-fuel companies, and conservative think tanks intensified coordinated campaigns targeting university governance. These networks embedded donor-aligned scholars, built research centers insulated from faculty oversight, and bypassed the shared governance structures meant to protect against external influence. This corporate capture eroded universities' already imperfect defenses against external political pressure and left institutions vulnerable when federal funding was politicized. Republican and Democratic administrations built a system of civil-rights investigations that put university funding at stake. The Trump administration weaponized that system in 2025, freezing billions in research grants, launching investigations into at least seventy-five institutions, and demanding compliance compacts that exchanged funding access for policy concessions. Withdrawing federal funding does not free universities from external influence: it deepens their dependence on private donors who operate outside public oversight. Climate and energy research are primary targets because evidence-based climate policy threatens the fossil-fuel interests historically at the center of this capture. Faculty are a critical counterforce. Their unions, senates, and cross-institutional alliances can resist because they sit outside the donor, board, and funding structures that have made institutional leaders reluctant to act. This article argues for reforms to university governance and accountability that establish faculty oversight of donor agreements. It calls for systematic research into corporate capture and the conditions under which faculty unions and collective organizing can defend and expand shared governance."
#AcademicIntegrity
#AcademicFreedom
#CivicCorruptionhttps://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2214629626004366?dgcid=rss_sd_all
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"Financialized systematic corruption and degeneration of academia," if we're looking for the shortest executive summary.
"Universities in the US have never been free of corporate, military, or political influence. But over the past fifty years, corporate libertarian donor networks, fossil-fuel companies, and conservative think tanks intensified coordinated campaigns targeting university governance. These networks embedded donor-aligned scholars, built research centers insulated from faculty oversight, and bypassed the shared governance structures meant to protect against external influence. This corporate capture eroded universities' already imperfect defenses against external political pressure and left institutions vulnerable when federal funding was politicized. Republican and Democratic administrations built a system of civil-rights investigations that put university funding at stake. The Trump administration weaponized that system in 2025, freezing billions in research grants, launching investigations into at least seventy-five institutions, and demanding compliance compacts that exchanged funding access for policy concessions. Withdrawing federal funding does not free universities from external influence: it deepens their dependence on private donors who operate outside public oversight. Climate and energy research are primary targets because evidence-based climate policy threatens the fossil-fuel interests historically at the center of this capture. Faculty are a critical counterforce. Their unions, senates, and cross-institutional alliances can resist because they sit outside the donor, board, and funding structures that have made institutional leaders reluctant to act. This article argues for reforms to university governance and accountability that establish faculty oversight of donor agreements. It calls for systematic research into corporate capture and the conditions under which faculty unions and collective organizing can defend and expand shared governance."
#AcademicIntegrity
#AcademicFreedom
#CivicCorruptionhttps://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2214629626004366?dgcid=rss_sd_all
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"The report provides an in-depth review of university and college administrations’ punitive responses to #campusProtests against #Israel’s war in #Gaza, which has been declared an ongoing genocide by Amnesty International."
https://www.amnestyusa.org/press-releases/new-aclu-and-amnesty-international-usa-report-uncovers-widespread-suppression-of-pro-palestine-speech-across-college-campuses/
#USpol #studentProtests #activism #freeSpeechOnCampus #stateRepression #civilLiberties #Palestine #PalestineSolidarity #GazaSolidarity #academicFreedom #UShigherEd -
"The report provides an in-depth review of university and college administrations’ punitive responses to #campusProtests against #Israel’s war in #Gaza, which has been declared an ongoing genocide by Amnesty International."
https://www.amnestyusa.org/press-releases/new-aclu-and-amnesty-international-usa-report-uncovers-widespread-suppression-of-pro-palestine-speech-across-college-campuses/
#USpol #studentProtests #activism #freeSpeechOnCampus #stateRepression #civilLiberties #Palestine #PalestineSolidarity #GazaSolidarity #academicFreedom #UShigherEd -
"The report provides an in-depth review of university and college administrations’ punitive responses to #campusProtests against #Israel’s war in #Gaza, which has been declared an ongoing genocide by Amnesty International."
https://www.amnestyusa.org/press-releases/new-aclu-and-amnesty-international-usa-report-uncovers-widespread-suppression-of-pro-palestine-speech-across-college-campuses/
#USpol #studentProtests #activism #freeSpeechOnCampus #stateRepression #civilLiberties #Palestine #PalestineSolidarity #GazaSolidarity #academicFreedom #UShigherEd -
"The report provides an in-depth review of university and college administrations’ punitive responses to #campusProtests against #Israel’s war in #Gaza, which has been declared an ongoing genocide by Amnesty International."
https://www.amnestyusa.org/press-releases/new-aclu-and-amnesty-international-usa-report-uncovers-widespread-suppression-of-pro-palestine-speech-across-college-campuses/
#USpol #studentProtests #activism #freeSpeechOnCampus #stateRepression #civilLiberties #Palestine #PalestineSolidarity #GazaSolidarity #academicFreedom #UShigherEd -
🥳 Our 2nd #DigitalAutonomy Fair is set for 27 October!
🔗 https://www.rug.nl/about-ug/policy-and-strategy/digital-autonomy/calendar/261027-digital-autonomy-fair
Detailed programme soon!Discover tools and software that put you back in charge, get hands-on advice from colleagues and mingle with others on the same journey.
Are you part of the @universityofgroningen community and using an #OpenSource tool you'd like to share? We'd love to have you contribute, please DM us!
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🥳 Our 2nd #DigitalAutonomy Fair is set for 27 October!
🔗 https://www.rug.nl/about-ug/policy-and-strategy/digital-autonomy/calendar/261027-digital-autonomy-fair
Detailed programme soon!Discover tools and software that put you back in charge, get hands-on advice from colleagues and mingle with others on the same journey.
Are you part of the @universityofgroningen community and using an #OpenSource tool you'd like to share? We'd love to have you contribute, please DM us!
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🥳 Our 2nd #DigitalAutonomy Fair is set for 27 October!
🔗 https://www.rug.nl/about-ug/policy-and-strategy/digital-autonomy/calendar/261027-digital-autonomy-fair
Detailed programme soon!Discover tools and software that put you back in charge, get hands-on advice from colleagues and mingle with others on the same journey.
Are you part of the @universityofgroningen community and using an #OpenSource tool you'd like to share? We'd love to have you contribute, please DM us!
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🥳 Our 2nd #DigitalAutonomy Fair is set for 27 October!
🔗 https://www.rug.nl/about-ug/policy-and-strategy/digital-autonomy/calendar/261027-digital-autonomy-fair
Detailed programme soon!Discover tools and software that put you back in charge, get hands-on advice from colleagues and mingle with others on the same journey.
Are you part of the @universityofgroningen community and using an #OpenSource tool you'd like to share? We'd love to have you contribute, please DM us!
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How can can 🇳🇱 universities overcome their dependency on cloud providers? New open-access article (with Malcolm Campbell-Verduyn & Ronald P. Stolk):
https://doi.org/10.21827/yoda.2026.43823
Three intertwined strategies emerge:
⚖️ Regulatory — compliance & contracts (necessary, but minimal)
🧭 Strategic — exit plans, open standards, collective bargaining
💡 Value-based — infrastructure aligned with public values & academic freedom
1&2 are in the works, 3 missing...
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How can can 🇳🇱 universities overcome their dependency on cloud providers? New open-access article (with Malcolm Campbell-Verduyn & Ronald P. Stolk):
https://doi.org/10.21827/yoda.2026.43823
Three intertwined strategies emerge:
⚖️ Regulatory — compliance & contracts (necessary, but minimal)
🧭 Strategic — exit plans, open standards, collective bargaining
💡 Value-based — infrastructure aligned with public values & academic freedom
1&2 are in the works, 3 missing...
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How can can 🇳🇱 universities overcome their dependency on cloud providers? New open-access article (with Malcolm Campbell-Verduyn & Ronald P. Stolk):
https://doi.org/10.21827/yoda.2026.43823
Three intertwined strategies emerge:
⚖️ Regulatory — compliance & contracts (necessary, but minimal)
🧭 Strategic — exit plans, open standards, collective bargaining
💡 Value-based — infrastructure aligned with public values & academic freedom
1&2 are in the works, 3 missing...
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How can can 🇳🇱 universities overcome their dependency on cloud providers? New open-access article (with Malcolm Campbell-Verduyn & Ronald P. Stolk):
https://doi.org/10.21827/yoda.2026.43823
Three intertwined strategies emerge:
⚖️ Regulatory — compliance & contracts (necessary, but minimal)
🧭 Strategic — exit plans, open standards, collective bargaining
💡 Value-based — infrastructure aligned with public values & academic freedom
1&2 are in the works, 3 missing...
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Scholars At Risk (@scholarsatrisk) just released its 2026 report, documenting "382 attacks on scholars, students, and institutions in 59 countries and territories from July 1, 2025, to June 30, 2026."
https://www.scholarsatrisk.org/resources/free-to-think-2026/"Attacks on the higher education community included direct repression and overt violence. State authorities attacked, disappeared, and wrongfully imprisoned members of the higher education community. They also deployed police and/or military force to crack down on student protests."
"Governments in Georgia, India, Serbia, and the United States have banned research topics, cut funding on ideological grounds, and placed partisan actors on university governance bodies. While often justified in neutral terms—such as fiscal discipline, public accountability, or anti-discrimination—these interventions are often used to impose ideological control."
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Scholars At Risk (@scholarsatrisk) just released its 2026 report, documenting "382 attacks on scholars, students, and institutions in 59 countries and territories from July 1, 2025, to June 30, 2026."
https://www.scholarsatrisk.org/resources/free-to-think-2026/"Attacks on the higher education community included direct repression and overt violence. State authorities attacked, disappeared, and wrongfully imprisoned members of the higher education community. They also deployed police and/or military force to crack down on student protests."
"Governments in Georgia, India, Serbia, and the United States have banned research topics, cut funding on ideological grounds, and placed partisan actors on university governance bodies. While often justified in neutral terms—such as fiscal discipline, public accountability, or anti-discrimination—these interventions are often used to impose ideological control."
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Scholars At Risk (@scholarsatrisk) just released its 2026 report, documenting "382 attacks on scholars, students, and institutions in 59 countries and territories from July 1, 2025, to June 30, 2026."
https://www.scholarsatrisk.org/resources/free-to-think-2026/"Attacks on the higher education community included direct repression and overt violence. State authorities attacked, disappeared, and wrongfully imprisoned members of the higher education community. They also deployed police and/or military force to crack down on student protests."
"Governments in Georgia, India, Serbia, and the United States have banned research topics, cut funding on ideological grounds, and placed partisan actors on university governance bodies. While often justified in neutral terms—such as fiscal discipline, public accountability, or anti-discrimination—these interventions are often used to impose ideological control."
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Scholars At Risk (@scholarsatrisk) just released its 2026 report, documenting "382 attacks on scholars, students, and institutions in 59 countries and territories from July 1, 2025, to June 30, 2026."
https://www.scholarsatrisk.org/resources/free-to-think-2026/"Attacks on the higher education community included direct repression and overt violence. State authorities attacked, disappeared, and wrongfully imprisoned members of the higher education community. They also deployed police and/or military force to crack down on student protests."
"Governments in Georgia, India, Serbia, and the United States have banned research topics, cut funding on ideological grounds, and placed partisan actors on university governance bodies. While often justified in neutral terms—such as fiscal discipline, public accountability, or anti-discrimination—these interventions are often used to impose ideological control."
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https://www.europesays.com/people/227743/ Orbán urges resistance against Hungary’s ‘enemies’ in fiery speech #AcademicFreedom #BYD #China #Colonialism #confrontation #corruption #EU #EU’sSecurity #FideszParty #fraud #Hungary #investigations #JudicialIndependence #KötcseiMeeting #MediaFreedom #MinorityRights #pariah #PeterMagyar #PeterSzijjarto #resistance #RuleOfLaw #TiszaParty #ViktorOrbán #VladimirPutin
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At least five profs who were fired for criticizing #CharlieKirk are still out of work and uncompensated for the violation of their First Amendment rights.
theintercept.com/2026/09/10/c...
#Acadsky #AcademicFreedom #Censorship #FirstAmendment #USPol #USPolitics
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At least five profs who were fired for criticizing #CharlieKirk are still out of work and uncompensated for the violation of their First Amendment rights.
theintercept.com/2026/09/10/c...
#Acadsky #AcademicFreedom #Censorship #FirstAmendment #USPol #USPolitics
Fired After the Charlie Kirk R... -
At least five profs who were fired for criticizing #CharlieKirk are still out of work and uncompensated for the violation of their First Amendment rights.
theintercept.com/2026/09/10/c...
#Acadsky #AcademicFreedom #Censorship #FirstAmendment #USPol #USPolitics
Fired After the Charlie Kirk R... -
At least five profs who were fired for criticizing #CharlieKirk are still out of work and uncompensated for the violation of their First Amendment rights.
theintercept.com/2026/09/10/c...
#Acadsky #AcademicFreedom #Censorship #FirstAmendment #USPol #USPolitics
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Update. At least five profs who were fired for criticizing #CharlieKirk are still out of work and uncompensated for the violation of their First Amendment rights.
https://theintercept.com/2026/09/10/charlie-kirk-fired-censorship-free-speech/#Academia #AcademicFreedom #Censorship #FirstAmendment #USPol #USPolitics
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Update. At least five profs who were fired for criticizing #CharlieKirk are still out of work and uncompensated for the violation of their First Amendment rights.
https://theintercept.com/2026/09/10/charlie-kirk-fired-censorship-free-speech/#Academia #AcademicFreedom #Censorship #FirstAmendment #USPol #USPolitics
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Update. At least five profs who were fired for criticizing #CharlieKirk are still out of work and uncompensated for the violation of their First Amendment rights.
https://theintercept.com/2026/09/10/charlie-kirk-fired-censorship-free-speech/#Academia #AcademicFreedom #Censorship #FirstAmendment #USPol #USPolitics
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Update. At least five profs who were fired for criticizing #CharlieKirk are still out of work and uncompensated for the violation of their First Amendment rights.
https://theintercept.com/2026/09/10/charlie-kirk-fired-censorship-free-speech/#Academia #AcademicFreedom #Censorship #FirstAmendment #USPol #USPolitics
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#New blog post by our Academy in Exile Fellow Yerkebulan Sairambay about how digitalisation boosts access to research data in Kazakhstan — but authoritarian governance complicates #fieldwork.
https://discuss-data.net/cs/eescca/section/blog/data-collection-kazakhstan/
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Probably the most memorable takeaway from the podium discussion on academic freedom on the #dgps2026 : Be prepared to resist from day 1!
#fckafd #academicfreedom #DGPs2026 #dgps -
Probably the most memorable takeaway from the podium discussion on academic freedom on the #dgps2026 : Be prepared to resist from day 1!
#fckafd #academicfreedom #DGPs2026 #dgps -
The New York Times - Breaking News, US News, World News and Videos [Unofficial] @[email protected] ·Inside the D.O.J.’s Investigation of Fauci and Other Virus Scientists
https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/05/health/fauci-morens-covid-prosecutions.html
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The New York Times - Breaking News, US News, World News and Videos [Unofficial] @[email protected] ·Inside the D.O.J.’s Investigation of Fauci and Other Virus Scientists
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/05/health/fauci-morens-covid-prosecutions.html
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The New York Times - Breaking News, US News, World News and Videos [Unofficial] @[email protected] ·Inside the D.O.J.’s Investigation of Fauci and Other Virus Scientists
https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/05/health/fauci-morens-covid-prosecutions.html
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Come and Take Them, Dan Patrick
https://www.texasobserver.org/dan-patrick-books-come-and-take-them/?goal=0_975e2d1fa1-8a88e46481-34915098&mc_cid=8a88e46481&mc_eid=d576a23207
#USPol #TxLeg #SB13 #DanPatrick #Libraries #SchoolLibraries #Books #BookBan #TexasSchools #Abilene #Texas #AcademicFreedom #KalynGensic #TexasObserver -
Come and Take Them, Dan Patrick
https://www.texasobserver.org/dan-patrick-books-come-and-take-them/?goal=0_975e2d1fa1-8a88e46481-34915098&mc_cid=8a88e46481&mc_eid=d576a23207
#USPol #TxLeg #SB13 #DanPatrick #Libraries #SchoolLibraries #Books #BookBan #TexasSchools #Abilene #Texas #AcademicFreedom #KalynGensic #TexasObserver -
Come and Take Them, Dan Patrick
https://www.texasobserver.org/dan-patrick-books-come-and-take-them/?goal=0_975e2d1fa1-8a88e46481-34915098&mc_cid=8a88e46481&mc_eid=d576a23207
#USPol #TxLeg #SB13 #DanPatrick #Libraries #SchoolLibraries #Books #BookBan #TexasSchools #Abilene #Texas #AcademicFreedom #KalynGensic #TexasObserver -
A former West Point professor says he was pushed out after teaching that humans contribute to climate change. Apparently even the atmosphere is expected to salute the preferred political narrative now. #AcademicFreedom
Source: Spectrum News
