Reposted by @susanbenesch.bsky.socialJameel Jaffer @jameeljaffer.bsky.social · 05/08/2026Most Americans think the freedom of speech is eroding (hard to disagree with that) and, more disturbing still, that it will continue to erode over the next decade. 0227
susanbenesch.bsky.social @susanbenesch.bsky.social · 10/04/2026I’m so excited to read this one. Congrats @juliaangwin.com! 010
Reposted by @susanbenesch.bsky.socialKat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 09/04/2026When you drop a bomb on civilians, I think that’s murder. I don’t really care for any justifications. They’re people. The enormity of the loss is devastating and it’s easier for some people to look away. But for other people, that’s their family. Their children. It’s just sickening and so wrong. 442979607
susanbenesch.bsky.social @susanbenesch.bsky.social · 01/10/2025Agnès Callamard nails the appalling truth. 👏 UN member states have done fuck all to stop genocide, and so easily could! 000
Reposted by @susanbenesch.bsky.socialAllen J. Dennis @ad3nnis.bsky.social · 20/09/2025In a broadcast from Oct 2019, Free Speech Absolutism discussed by @onthemedia.bsky.social @brookegladstone.bsky.social with Andrew Marantz on JohnStuart Mill, Richard Rorty and guests @profjohnapowell, P.E. Moskowitz, @susanbenesch.bsky.social www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm... Highly recommended.wnycstudios.orgSticks and Stones | On the Media | WNYC StudiosA look back at our country's radical and inconsistent free speech tradition. 184
susanbenesch.bsky.social @susanbenesch.bsky.social · 16/07/2025In this piece Omer Bartov not only points out that what Israel is doing in Gaza is clearly genocide - he comments on the deafening silence of historians and other scholars. We must speak out and denounce it. I’m a Genocide Scholar. I Know It When I See It. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/15/o...nytimes.comOpinion | I’m a Genocide Scholar. I Know It When I See It. 010
Reposted by @susanbenesch.bsky.socialJameel Jaffer @jameeljaffer.bsky.social · 05/05/2025“Caught in the middle” www.nytimes.com/2025/05/05/w... 1138
susanbenesch.bsky.social @susanbenesch.bsky.social · 04/05/2025Israel has been besieging Gaza - again - for two months. No food, water, or medicine allowed in. Children and babies, not to mention their exhausted and terrified parents, are starving. I share responsibility for this obvious act of genocide, and am desperate to do something to stop it. What? 000
susanbenesch.bsky.social @susanbenesch.bsky.social · 30/04/2025This was brilliant. Reason prevailed for about an hour, in a space in DC. Thank you. 000
Reposted by @susanbenesch.bsky.socialMary Anne Franks @maryannefranks.bsky.social · 10/04/2025The US government just declared that IDEAS can be illegal. 106324
susanbenesch.bsky.social @susanbenesch.bsky.social · 06/04/2025This book marked me when I read it as a student also: what it was like to learn that people you cherished as friends had been informing on you. 010
susanbenesch.bsky.social @susanbenesch.bsky.social · 27/03/2025“It’s ridiculous that they’re claiming to do this in the name of protecting American Jews. How are you helping Jews by taking away educational opportunities at institutions with thousands of Jewish students? …That will obviously fuel antisemitism.” My Jews! Do not let them use and endanger you. 000
susanbenesch.bsky.social @susanbenesch.bsky.social · 26/03/2025Yes! 👏👏@Maryannefranks@bsky.social 000
susanbenesch.bsky.social @susanbenesch.bsky.social · 26/03/2025"[T]he First Amendment prohibits public officials from excluding citizens from public forums" so you can't go hide from the people by moving public meetings online, Mike. Thank you @jameeljaffer.bsky.social @alexabdo.bsky.social and other authors of that great letter. 010
susanbenesch.bsky.social @susanbenesch.bsky.social · 26/03/2025Yes you are. The United States has done it before and neither side of the American political class finds it too controversial that Israel has been leveling entire buildings for nearly 18 months, massacring and maiming tens of thousands of civilians, to get to a few fighters. 000
susanbenesch.bsky.social @susanbenesch.bsky.social · 26/03/2025so maybe there is a god, with a sense of humor 000
susanbenesch.bsky.social @susanbenesch.bsky.social · 26/03/2025especially the stupidity. These people are supposed to be capable of thinking ahead so they can plan things like, uh, wars. 030
Reposted by @susanbenesch.bsky.socialKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 26/03/2025Honestly, it was so thoughtful for all the Trump folks to make stupid denials on camera yesterday — some under oath! — so this revelation would land so much harder. 552348404
susanbenesch.bsky.social @susanbenesch.bsky.social · 07/03/2025@georgetownlaw.bsky.social Bill Treanor shows us all how to do it in a letter glowing with principles, truth, snark, dignity, the Constitution and cojones, which US academia's other leaders are mostly not exhibiting. 100
susanbenesch.bsky.social @susanbenesch.bsky.social · 07/03/2025"pound Constitutional sand for a change, fucko"? 010
susanbenesch.bsky.social @susanbenesch.bsky.social · 13/01/2025Great piece @javier. Meta has long disregarded the majority world and blithely damaged it, as you say. I wonder how far Zuck will go now in bowing out of CoMo, and kowtowing to other governments. Will they dump fact-checking worldwide, for instance? I would expect so, since it's not free. 110
susanbenesch.bsky.social @susanbenesch.bsky.social · 13/01/2025Also high on the list of horribles is outsourcing lots of content moderation to "Community Notes" i.e. aping Elon. Moderating content at the margins is indeed hard, and Meta has done it poorly, but this will be worse. It's like turning surgery over to the first and loudest people who volunteer. . 000
susanbenesch.bsky.social @susanbenesch.bsky.social · 20/11/2024Yes, hardball. And for Gaza ofc. Even though Biden has just opened the floodgates for more weapons though Israel did not meet his own conditions, he can still relieve some of the hideous suffering there. open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...open.substack.comIt’s Time for Outgoing Democrats to Play HardballMuch can still be done between now and Inauguration Day to put limits on the excesses of the incoming Trump administration. 000
