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generalbetrayus

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Thu Sep 18, 2025, 04:49 PM Sep 18

Now MAGA's Free Speech Warriors Plot to Censor Our Teachers [View all]

Source: The Daily Beast

Three words were emblazoned across the front of the pop-up tent where Charlie Kirk was sitting when he was struck by a sniper’s bullet.

“PROVE ME WRONG,” they read, in what the right-wing activist had described as an invitation to a mutual exercise of free speech as guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution.


But Texas school officials are now proceeding as if the tent’s message was: “I’LL FIRE YOU IF I DISAGREE WITH YOU.”

The Texas Education Agency (TEA) says it is investigating 281 educators for posting or sharing “reprehensible and inappropriate content on social media related to the assassination of Charlie Kirk.” The Texas American Federation of Teachers (TAFT) described it as an “extreme case of government officials witch-hunting those who disagreed with Kirk’s politics.”

Read more: https://www.thedailybeast.com/magas-free-speech-warriors-plot-to-silence-281-teachers/

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