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Jonathan Friedman 📚 retweeted
"With humor and humility, Jimmy Kimmel returned to the airwaves last night," writes @jonfreadom.
"Kimmel’s return was in many ways a victory for free speech and its advocates, including PEN America, who had fiercely coalesced against his suspension." pen.org/jimmy-kimmel-returns…
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ARC condemns the Whitney Museum’s cancellation of No Aesthetic Outside My Freedom, a vital performance mourning Palestinian lives. This act of censorship echoes the troubling trends we documented with @MuseumDirectors & @PENamerica.🧵👇
artistsatriskconnection.org/…
#ArtisticFreedom
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“This policy risks upending the long-standing place of the U.S. as a beacon for intellectual and cultural exchange with the world,” said PEN America's @jonfreadom as Trump administration halts scheduling of new visa interviews for international students apnews.com/article/internati…
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PEN America: AI-Generated Fake Book List Seems Funny, but Reflects the Technology’s Danger to Journalism pen.org/ai-generated-fake-bo…
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Five major U.S.-based press freedom organizations — @pressfreedom @FreedomofPress @IWMF @PENAmerica and @rcfp — announced today the launch of a network to provide legal and safety resources and training to journalists and newsrooms in the United States.
pen.org/press-release/pen-am…
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Revoking Harvard's right to enroll international students is "a brazen escalation of the Trump administration’s attacks on the higher education sector... (that) reduces international students to pawns in a political game," says PEN America's @jonfreadom. pen.org/press-release/trump-…
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PEN America: Decision to Cancel Kehlani Concert at NYC’s Central Park is “Cowardly” and Suppresses “Artistic Expression” pen.org/press-release/decisi…
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“What we’re seeing now is very dangerous,” said PEN America's Jonathan Friedman (@jonfreadom). “When you attach these punitive potential actions to these concepts, you can comb through anything a university is doing and find fault.” nytimes.com/2025/05/05/arts/…
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The decision in Alabama may have been the first time a local public library was targeted for defunding by a state government, said @jonfreadom, who directs U.S. free expression programs at the nonprofit PEN America. nytimes.com/2025/05/04/us/fa…
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In response to a public records request from the @TXFreedomRead Project, a school district in Texas has acknowledged it removed the entry for "Virginia" from its online learning platform for violating the school board’s new policy against "frontal nudity."
pen.org/yes-virginia-your-fl…
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PEN America announces A Pledge to Our Democracy – a powerful call-to-action endorsed by more than 100 former college and university presidents and chancellors representing all sectors of higher education: pen.org/press-release/over-1…
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New pod: PEN's @jonfreadom is brilliant on the larger stakes of Trump war on Harvard.
"It's a game changer. It says to every institution that is feeling like they have to capitulate that there is something greater that they have to stand for."
Listen:
newrepublic.com/article/1940…
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Harvard’s pushback against the Trump administration "is a game changer," @jonfreadom tells @GregTSargent. "It says to every institution that is feeling like they have to capitulate that there is something greater that they have to stand for."
Listen:
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Jonathan Friedman 📚 retweeted
PEN America, @PENCanada, and @PENquebec Jointly Call for Books and Literature to Flow Freely Across the Shared Border: pen.org/press-release/pen-am…
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“Columbia’s concessions today strike at core principles of academic freedom and self-governance in the higher education sector,” says Kristen Shahverdian, PEN America's program director for Campus Free Speech.
Full statement: pen.org/press-release/columb…
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"The gutting of the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) will weaken our nation’s library system,” said @jonfreadom. "We call on Congress to ensure the IMLS remains strong, independent, and robustly funded."
Full statement: pen.org/press-release/guttin…
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NEW: PEN America today criticized WY Governor Mark Gordon for signing the first law to censor higher education in 2025. The law prohibits DEI programming, restricts coursework, and threatens government services across Wyoming. Read more here. pen.org/press-release/newly-…
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1/6 The Trump administration’s letter this week to Columbia University making breathtaking demands of its policies represents an “unprecedented assault on free speech, academic freedom and institutional autonomy” pen.org/press-release/columb…
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BREAKING: While boasting on Fox News about her efforts to dismantle the Department of Education, Linda McMahon couldn’t even explain what the IDEA (Individuals with Disabilities Education Act) is.
This is the person trying to destroy education in America. Let that sink in.