Retiring Guy's Digest: Free speech for me but not for thee: GOP hypocrisy in full bloom

Sunday, January 25, 2026

Free speech for me but not for thee: GOP hypocrisy in full bloom

Bottom headline: New York Times

Zack Montague reports:

Secretary of State Marco Rubio personally approved the deportation of five student activists last year after receiving memos largely describing their participation in pro-Palestinian protests and their writings about the war in Gaza, according to internal government documents unsealed by a federal judge on Thursday. [emphasis added]

The documents reveal new details about how the Trump administration decided to target the activists, who were all foreign students visible in campus protests. They had been in the United States legally but were arrested and threatened with deportation last spring.

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