Texas Tribune: Texas A&M suspended professor accused of criticizing Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick in lecture
The Texas A&M University professor had just returned home from giving a routine lecture on the opioid crisis at the University of Texas Medical Branch in March when she learned a student had accused her of disparaging Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick during the talk.
In the few hours it took to drive from Galveston, the complaint had made its way to her supervisors, and Alonzo’s job was suddenly at risk.
...Alonzo was right to be afraid. Not only were her supervisors involved, but so was Chancellor John Sharp, a former state comptroller who now holds the highest-ranking position in the Texas A&M University System, which includes 11 public universities and 153,000 students. And Sharp was communicating directly with the lieutenant governor’s office about the incident, promising swift action.
...Shortly after, Sharp sent a text directly to the lieutenant governor: “Joy Alonzo has been placed on administrative leave pending investigation re firing her. shud [sic] be finished by end of week.”
Speaking of opioid crisis, are you ready to admit that fentanyl overdose may have contributed to George Floyd’s death, and that if he’d been sober and able to follow police commands he’d be alive? Or is that too much free speech for you?
Hey, great point! Fentanyl is known to weaken tracheas, and make them vulnerable to police brutality.
On the next Visiting Day, go talk to Officer Derek Chauvin and tell him through the glass window that rightwing social media thinks George Floyd was 2% responsible for his own murder.
Good news like that should make the next 16 years fly by for your hero cop.
The Right hates free speech: the reality
ICV2: CBLDF, ABA, AAP, Booksellers Sue Over New Texas Law
The Comic Book Legal Defense Fund, American Booksellers Association, the Association of American Publishers, the Author’s Guild, and two Texas booksellers, Austin’s BookPeople and West Houston’s Blue Willow Bookshop, have sued in federal court to prevent the implementation of a new Texas law, which would require booksellers to rate materials sold to libraries.
The new law, due to go into effect on September 1, would require any vendor selling to a school library, including booksellers, to determine "current community standards of decency" and label books sold to school libraries as "sexually relevant" or "sexually explicit" based on depictions or descriptions of "sexual conduct."
Students would require special permission to check out books labeled "sexually relevant," and school libraries would be banned from acquiring titles labeled as "sexually explicit," a term so broadly defined it could apply to A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Romeo and Juliet, Of Mice and Men, Jane Eyre, I know Why the Caged Bird Sings, and the Bible. Those standards are different from those used to determine obscene content, as defined by federal law and Supreme Court rulings.
In a Kafka-esque twist, booksellers would also need to rate any books sold to school libraries before the act goes into effect that are still in active use.
Booksellers found to have violated the law will be subject to censure through a public listing; school libraries would be prohibited from buying from those booksellers in the future.
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The Right hates free speech: the reality
Texas Tribune: Texas A&M suspended professor accused of criticizing Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick in lecture
The Texas A&M University professor had just returned home from giving a routine lecture on the opioid crisis at the University of Texas Medical Branch in March when she learned a student had accused her of disparaging Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick during the talk.
In the few hours it took to drive from Galveston, the complaint had made its way to her supervisors, and Alonzo’s job was suddenly at risk.
...Alonzo was right to be afraid. Not only were her supervisors involved, but so was Chancellor John Sharp, a former state comptroller who now holds the highest-ranking position in the Texas A&M University System, which includes 11 public universities and 153,000 students. And Sharp was communicating directly with the lieutenant governor’s office about the incident, promising swift action.
...Shortly after, Sharp sent a text directly to the lieutenant governor: “Joy Alonzo has been placed on administrative leave pending investigation re firing her. shud [sic] be finished by end of week.”
https://www.texastribune.org/2023/07/25/texas-a-m-professor-opioids-dan-patrick/
Speaking of opioid crisis, are you ready to admit that fentanyl overdose may have contributed to George Floyd’s death, and that if he’d been sober and able to follow police commands he’d be alive? Or is that too much free speech for you?
Hey, great point! Fentanyl is known to weaken tracheas, and make them vulnerable to police brutality.
On the next Visiting Day, go talk to Officer Derek Chauvin and tell him through the glass window that rightwing social media thinks George Floyd was 2% responsible for his own murder.
Good news like that should make the next 16 years fly by for your hero cop.
The Right hates free speech: the reality
ICV2: CBLDF, ABA, AAP, Booksellers Sue Over New Texas Law
The Comic Book Legal Defense Fund, American Booksellers Association, the Association of American Publishers, the Author’s Guild, and two Texas booksellers, Austin’s BookPeople and West Houston’s Blue Willow Bookshop, have sued in federal court to prevent the implementation of a new Texas law, which would require booksellers to rate materials sold to libraries.
The new law, due to go into effect on September 1, would require any vendor selling to a school library, including booksellers, to determine "current community standards of decency" and label books sold to school libraries as "sexually relevant" or "sexually explicit" based on depictions or descriptions of "sexual conduct."
Students would require special permission to check out books labeled "sexually relevant," and school libraries would be banned from acquiring titles labeled as "sexually explicit," a term so broadly defined it could apply to A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Romeo and Juliet, Of Mice and Men, Jane Eyre, I know Why the Caged Bird Sings, and the Bible. Those standards are different from those used to determine obscene content, as defined by federal law and Supreme Court rulings.
In a Kafka-esque twist, booksellers would also need to rate any books sold to school libraries before the act goes into effect that are still in active use.
Booksellers found to have violated the law will be subject to censure through a public listing; school libraries would be prohibited from buying from those booksellers in the future.
https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/54718/cbldf-aba-aap-booksellers-sue-over-new-texas-law
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