Wednesday, September 17, 2025

GOP hypocrisy in full flower (Iowa House Clown Show edition)


Top headline:  Associated Press
Bottom headline:  Des Moines Register

Marissa Payne and Kevin Baskins report: 
State Rep. Taylor Collins, R-Mediapolis, who chairs the Iowa House Higher Education Committee, issued a joint statement with state Senate Education Committee Chair Lynn Evans, R-Aurelia, urging the Board of Regents to take stern action to tamp down such speech. 
"College campuses were once the epicenter of civil debate and respectful discourse, the very pillar of Charlie Kirk's ethos," the lawmakers wrote. "Now, we see through these social media posts, just how far higher education has strayed from its original mission, and how desperately we need to course correct.

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July-December 2025
Free speech for me but not for thee (Media Matters for America edition).  (7/29)
Free speech for me but not for thee (PBS and NPR edition).  (7/18)
Free speech for me but not for thee — “thee” being 6 Duluth EPA employees.  (7/16) 
Free speech for me but not for thee — “thee” being 144 EPA employees.  (7/5) 

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