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College students told to “tone down” divisive speech file lawsuit against college
Our take: Freedom of speech is enshrined in the First Amendment of the US Constitution because it is one of the most important rights in our country. Barring the government from censoring speech, especially speech that dissents or is controversial, is the entire point of the amendment. The administrators at Golden West Community College in the LA area have not grasped the concept.
2 students from the Young America’s Foundation have filed a federal lawsuit against the college, alleging their first amendment rights were violated when administrators threatened them with discipline if they did not “tone down” their political rhetoric and opinions.
The students had previously displayed a whiteboard with statements such as “illegal immigration is a cancer upon any society in the world,” “men do not belong in women’s sports and spaces,” and “Hamas is a terrorist organization, and they must be wiped off the face of the earth.
Administrators called them in for a meeting during which the students allege the administrators threatened them with disciplinary action because their statements were “offensive and potentially incited harm and a call to violence.”
Quick note—this speech is 100% protected by the first amendment. The rights under the First Amendment are broad and overarching. Speech prohibited by law must meet strict criteria, including specific threats to individuals or groups, i.e., “Let’s all go kill Hamas right now.”
The speech exercised by these students does not come anywhere near this line. The administrators would be wise to issue an apology and not try to bully students they don’t agree with in the future.
COURTESY: MSN
Ratings for Jen Psaki’s show, positioned as the new flagship, continue to plummet
Our take: MSNBC started virtue signaling a long time ago. It worked for a while, when society lost its way and embraced the woke ideology. Many tuned in to join in the righteous indignation of “microaggressions,” “DEI,” and “believe all women.” Now that many have snapped out of their stupor, MSNBC is paying the price.
Jen Psaki negotiated her deal with MSNBC while she was still the White House Press Secretary! Such incestuous dealings were a shaky start for the venture, which has been a miserable failure by all accounts.
Psaki was seen as the replacement to Rachel Maddow, who MSNBC inexplicably pays $30 million a year to do one show a week. At her height, Maddow was a heavyweight in the ratings. But even her show started shedding viewers in droves several months ago.
Psaki’s show, in the 9pm time slot, averaged 971,000 viewers in May 2025, a 47% drop from the same time in 2024. Unfortunately for MSNBC, Psaki is only one of many failures in programming.
Fox News overall ratings rose 24% in May, while MSNBC dropped 24%, and CNN dropped 18%. This is after they “revamped” their lineup with a new batch of virtue signaling dimwits, including Michael Steele, Joe Scarborough, and Simone Sanders.
At least we don’t have to listen to Joy Reid yell about black olives being in a can and green olives being in a jar proving America is racist anymore.
COURTESY: MSN
Imane Khelif, a male who won an Olympic Gold Medal in boxing in 2024, plans to defend his title in LA in 2028
Our take: We include this story for one reason. Imane Khelif is a man who boxes against women. The IOC and several other organizations desperately want to avoid making this fact public, so much so that in 2023 they dismissed DNA testing proving Khelif had XY chromosomes, a trait found exclusively in males.
The IOC has tried multiple times to create confusion around Khelif’s gender by claiming the DNA testing was “Russian disinformation” and that Khelif was born with both male and female genitalia.
Don’t fall for it. Khelif is a man who boxes women. Boxing is one of the most physical and dangerous sports even when the playing field is level and people of the same gender are boxing each other. Put a man against a woman, and it becomes not only unfair, but extremely dangerous.
His nonsense needs to stop when it threatens women’s safety. 10-year-old boys and girls competing against each other is fine. Once things become competitive, which is long before the Olympics, we need to do what has worked for centuries—let people of the same biological gender compete against each other, and only each other. Anything else is wildly inappropriate and endangers the health and well-being of the women forced to compete against men.
COURTESY: MSN
Tip of the Day
When most people struggle to build new habits, they say something like, “I just need more motivation.” Or, “I wish I had as much willpower as you do.”
This is the wrong approach. Research shows that willpower is like a muscle. It gets fatigued as you use it throughout the day. Another way to think of this is that your motivation ebbs and flows. It rises and falls. Stanford professor BJ Fogg calls this the “motivation wave.”
Solve this problem by picking a new habit that is easy enough that you don’t need motivation to do it. Rather than starting with 50 pushups per day, start with 5 pushups per day. Rather than trying to meditate for 10 minutes per day, start by meditating for one minute per day. Make it easy enough that you can get it done without motivation..
Quote of the Day
“Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.”- Confucius