Mahmoud Khalil’s detention is a frightening sign of an authoritarian slide.

Opinion [re arrest of #MahmoudKhalil] Michelle Goldberg March 10, 2025

“This seems like one of the biggest threats, if not the biggest threats to First Amendment freedoms in 50 years,” said Brian Hauss, a senior staff attorney at the American Civil Liberties Union. “It’s a direct attempt to punish speech because of the viewpoint it espouses.”

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  • Swordgeek@lemmy.ca
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    3 days ago

    Small, small minds see this as a threat to American liberties.

    That’s one tiny - TINY -aspect of what’s happening right now. It’s a symptom of what’s going on, and not even the most eggregious one by far.

    The US is self-destructing and simultaneously using that chaos to threaten other nations. It’s a race between total internal collapse and world war III, and at this point most of the world is hoping the US ends up killing itself in a 50-year civil war.