Greg Magarian

Opinion | I Quit My Job in the Face of Pro-Trump Censorship A veteran journalist says his bosses were afraid of crossing the administration.

My friend Alan Greenblatt — a profile in courage.

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Anti-Islamic biker gang members hired to run security at controversial Gaza aid sites More than 10 Infidels MC members deployed to sites run by US- and Israeli-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation

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This is the Green party’s moment – not Farage’s. As leader, I’ll offer real solutions to Britain’s problems | Zack Polanski For too long, the richest in this country have accumulated wealth at the expense of the poorest. It can’t go on like this, says Zack Polanski, leader of the Green party

I really wish our country had a political system that let us align with a party that actually reflected our values. But I guess a two-party system is essential for forcing broad coalitions that marginalize extremists. Oh wait. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

To Defeat Authoritarianism, We Need Labor | ACS

My Labor Day reflections on solidarity and democracy: www.acslaw.org/expertforum/...

How Did Hunger Get So Much Worse in Gaza? (Gift Article) Less food is going into Gaza now than during most other times in the war. Hundreds of Palestinians have been killed while heading toward aid sites. Many others are suffering from serious malnutrition,...

“How did big holes appear in shooting victim?”

It’s basic writing, NYT. Subject, verb, object.

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REVEALED: What did Andy Ogles do with nearly $25,000 meant for child burial garden? He won't say Now, NewsChannel 5 Investigates has uncovered more questions that the freshman Republican won't answer.

Conservative Rep. Andy Ogles used images of his stillborn baby to steal money from donors.

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From Kent State to L.A.: Echoes of a Dark Past in Protest Crackdown Trump's decision to deploy the National Guard against anti-deportation protesters is sadly familiar after other attacks on the First Amendment.

I wrote this essay for Governing magazine about the ominous resonance of Kent State 1970 for L.A. 2025.

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Contributor: Three ways the government can silence speech without banning it The Trump administration doesn't necessarily need the blunt tool of censorship to control speech. It has less blatant but effective ways to suppress dissent.

Here’s an op-ed I wrote about Trump‘s attacks on free speech.

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Opinion | We Visited Rumeysa Ozturk in Detention. (Gift Article) The Constitution is only as strong as our willingness to defend it.

If you’re one of the people who falsely tarred last year’s overwhelmingly peaceful protests against Israeli genocide as pervasively violent, you’re a MAGA foot soldier. This is your fault.

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Opinion | This Is How Universities Can Escape Trump’s Trap, If They Dare (Gift Article) It’s been tried in other countries facing authoritarian crackdowns. It works.

“So this is my radical proposal for universities: Act like universities, not like businesses. Spend your endowments. Accept more, not fewer students. Open up your campuses and expand your reach not by buying real estate but by bringing education to communities.” www.nytimes.com/2025/04/14/o...

Opinion | The Rise and Fall of Elon Musk (Gift Article) His belief that liberal democracy has failed and that technologists should lead can be traced to the unusual life of his grandfather.

Here’s a fascinating piece by Jill Lepore about the historical roots of Muskism. It connects the dots of bro culture, tech libertarianism, capital, apartheid, and fascism.

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The problem isn’t that some vague, undifferentiated “people” have gotten us into some vague, undifferentiated “mess.” The problem is that Republicans have done a long list of specific bad things. If you want people to take you seriously, say something real.

Evidence of ‘execution-style’ killings of Palestinian aid workers by Israeli forces, doctor says Forensic consultant says multiple bullets were used from short range in attack that has caused global outrage

Can Israel do anything that will make the liberal democratic world stand up and say “no”?

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Wisconsin Supreme Court Election Results 2025: Crawford vs. Schimel (Gift Article) Get live results and maps from the 2025 Wisconsin spring elections.

It’s taken Trump less than three months to tank his party. Keep fighting!

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Opinion | Universities Can Afford to Fight Trump (Gift Article) Every university president will face a choice similar to Columbia University’s in the coming months.

“If . . . universities fail to defend free speech and scientific research now, future generations could lose their treasures to creeping authoritarianism.”

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A Statement from Constitutional Law Scholars on Columbia | Eugene Volokh, Michael C. Dorf, David Cole We write as constitutional scholars—some liberal and some conservative—who seek to defend academic freedom and the First Amendment in the wake of the

Columbia and Paul Weiss have the First Amendment squarely on their side. When they cave to Trump, it’s because they’d rather thrive under fascism than stand up for democracy.

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YouTube video by U.K. Subs - Topic C.I.D.

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Opinion | Democrats Need to Face Why Trump Won (Gift Article) The Democratic pollster David Shor walks through what voter data reveals about the 2024 election — and how the American electorate is shifting.

I found this electoral data dive very enlightening. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/18/o...

How antisemitism avoided the fate of antiracism | Jeff Melnick and Jessie Lee Rubin The promotion of Israel’s national narrative remains exempt from Trump’s wholesale attack on DEI

I highly recommend this essay by my friend Jeff Melnick and his daughter Jessie Lee Rubin, which links the Trump assault on DEI, the anti-Palestinian assault on free speech, and the failings of liberal anti-racism.

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Opinion | Palestinians in Gaza Face the ‘Gates of Hell’ as Israel and Hamas Face Off (Gift Article) Lately it feels as if the human beings in Gaza are increasingly lost from our understanding.

Palestinians are human beings, and starvation by blockade is the moral equivalent of taking hostages — except that starvation by blockade affects an entire population and denies even the possibility of keeping the victims alive.

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More than 950 Law Scholars Sound Alarm on Constitutional Crisis | ACS

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Jeff Bezos is muzzling the Washington Post’s opinion section. That’s a death knell | Margaret Sullivan ‘I couldn’t be more sad and disgusted,’ says former top editor Martin Baron

The oligarchs are closing ranks. To be clear: The Democratic Party is fully complicit in this moment. For 30 years the party has run from working people and indulged big donors. Well, billionaires gonna billionaire.

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Can people please stop acting like Trump’s support for Russian aggression in Ukraine somehow departs from the norms of U.S. foreign policy? Are we not in bed with Israel and Saudi Arabia? Did we not invade Iraq? Did we not train and arm Central American death squads? This is just what we do.

Student Whose Racy Social Media Posts Riled a College Gets $250,000 Settlement (Gift Article) The University of Tennessee threatened to expel Kimberly Diei over posts the school said were inappropriate. She sued on First Amendment grounds.

Here’s a great reminder of what the first amendment is for.
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Trump Order Pushes Universities to ‘Monitor’ Protesters on Student Visas (Gift Article) An executive order signed this week would push colleges and universities to combat antisemitism specifically by monitoring and reporting international students.

“If there is any fixed star in our constitutional constellation, it is that no official, high or petty, can prescribe what shall be orthodox in politics, nationalism, religion, or other matters of opinion or force citizens to confess by word or act their faith therein.” - Justice Robert Jackson

Trump White House rescinds memo freezing federal grants after widespread confusion President Donald Trump’s budget office rescinded an order freezing spending on federal grants, less than two days after it sparked widespread confusion and legal challenges across the country, accordi...

Weakness.

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Does Trump Have the Power to Block Spending That Congress Has Authorized? (Gift Article) The White House’s temporary pause on trillions in federal spending could set up a court fight over executive authority and Congress’s control of the purse.

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/28/u...

Biden posthumously pardons Marcus Garvey The pardon comes more than a century after Jamaican-born Garvey was convicted of mail fraud on June 21, 1923.

I did not see “Joe Biden, hero to Rastas” coming. www.axios.com/2025/01/19/b...

Summary of the Supreme Court’s unanimous Tik-Tok decision: the government can wave its arms, yell “national security,“ and make the First Amendment go away.