Links for 11-12-23

submission and humiliation

⭐️ A cautionary tale about Wikipedia censorship and the Twitter Files. From: Becket Adams/ The Spectator. Submission is not enough — the left also wants your humiliation.

Speech defending attacks on civilians: A thought experiment. From: Volokh Conspiracy. Why universities should not expel students for publicly defending the Hamas murders.

👏 Trumpist Republicans, left-wing Democrats unite to lobby to free Assange. From: Sydney Morning Herald. A bipartisan group of US congresspeople has written to US President Joe Biden warning that he risks damaging the US-Australia alliance and weakening press freedom unless his administration abandons its pursuit of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.

Appeals court notices Biden’s “ghost gun” limits are unlawful. From: US News & World Report. A federal appeals court ruled that the Biden administration lacked authority to adopt a regulation aimed at reining in privately made firearms that are difficult for law enforcement to trace.

🙈 FBI, DOJ refuse to call Covenant school shooting an anti-white hate crime even after racist manifesto is leaked. From: Jordan Boyd/The Federalist. The DOJ and FBI refuse to investigate the Nashville shooting as a hate crime against white Christians even after racist manifesto leaks.

The FBI needs downsizing, not $3.5 billion for a new headquarters. From: Reason. Lawmakers from Maryland and Virginia fought over which state should house the new site rather than whether the bureau even needs so many agents.

👀 YOUR baby's DNA is being stored for DECADES in government labs and can be used in police investigations without your permission - and New Jersey parents are now suing for rights to their infants' blood. From: Daily Mail. Newborn DNA can be stored indefinitely at government labs.

The US government agencies secretly buying up your phone data. From: Reclaim the Net. Some of the ways these agencies are buying up phone data as a growing form of mass surveillance.

🚩 Virulent antisemitism and the rot at our universities. From: Real Clear Politics. The attacks and violent demonstrations shine a particularly harsh light on the sorry state of higher education.

Psychedelics will help America’s mental health crisis — if the FDA lets them. From: American Institute for Economic Research. The FDA is about to make a decision that could help millions of Americans struggling with mental illness.

📌SHORT: Michael Shellenberger - “We’re in 1984 Orwell territory”

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