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Michigan cities fight residents over free speech
A First Amendment watchdog group says 20 local governments in the state of Michigan violated the Constitution through public comment rules that limit critical comments.
The Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE), a nonprofit that advocates free speech rights, pointed to multiple cases of municipalities ruling out critical commentary. In some cases around the state, cities have taken action against critics. The city of Taylor fought a resident who wanted to read critical emails out loud, and the mayor of Jackson prevented a man from criticizing a city council member during public commentary.
In municipalities all across the state, restrictions are baked into public commentary rules.
Some of the attempts to limit speech take the form of requests, such as the city of Grand Rapids’ guidelines against criticism and profanity. Click here to read more.
How Sports Journalism Lurched Leftward
The U.S. attorney tasked in 2020 by Attorney General William Barr with vetting evidence related to the Biden family and Ukrainian corruption knew nothing about the recently revealed “Round River” FBI operation launched to neutralize all negative information and allegations of Biden family corruption.
That secret operation not only left the Pittsburgh-based U.S. attorney unaware of potentially relevant information, it also buried scores of derogatory allegations about the Biden family in the FBI’s prohibited access files, preventing them from being accessed by any other FBI officials.
Early this week, news broke that FBI agents had recently discovered “the opening memo and files” for an investigation branded Round River, which targeted individuals who shared or distributed allegations against the Biden family, and was also run out of the Pittsburgh office. Click here to read more.
Chicago Teachers Union demands ‘no work, no school’ May 1 shutdown
The Chicago Teachers Union is demanding a day of “no work” and “no school” on May 1. It’s launching “what amounts to a one-day strike,” according to the Chicago Sun-Times.
The union’s House of Delegates passed a resolution March 11 pushing the mayor and the Chicago Public Schools board to go along with a scheme to take kids and teachers out of school for a paid day off and excused absence.
Activities CTU has listed for the day include “mass resistance training,” “marches and rallies,” “Peace Concerts” and voter registration drives.
With chronic absenteeism already high — and reading and math proficiency embarrassingly low — scrapping classes for a day of political activism isn’t in the educational best interest of students. Click here to read more.
Michigan synagogue attacker’s brother was Hezbollah terrorist: IDF
The man behind Thursday’s attack on a synagogue in Michigan is the brother of a recently killed Hezbollah commander, according to the Israel Defense Forces.
On Sunday, the IDF announced the connection between Ayman Mohamad Ghazali and his brother, Ibrahim Muhammad Ghazali, in a post on X. According to the post, Ibrahim Ghazali was responsible for managing weapons operations within a special branch of the Badr Unit.
Ibrahim Ghazali was killed in Lebanon, along with three other relatives, on March 5 — a week before authorities allege Ayman Mohamad Ghazali drove his car into a major synagogue outside Detroit and killed himself after security fired at him. Click here to read more.
Fire damages four electric school buses in Vermont
WILLISTON, Vt. - Firefighters extinguished a late-night fire involving four electric school buses Wednesday, which had damages totaling at over $2 million in losses, says the Williston Fire Department.
Fire crews were dispatched to the scene, at Allen Brook School on Talcott Road after hearing about several buses on fire there. Firefighters say they arrived within three minutes of dispatch, which was at about 10:20 p.m.
There, they found four electric school buses ‘actively burning’, and immediately began suppression efforts. Fire officials note that the buses and their charging stations sustained signifigant damage, with a loss reportedly totaling at over $2 million.
The fire itself was quickly extinguished within five minutes of the department’s arrival. No injuries were reported. Click here to read more.
