While Elon Musk is rightly credited for transforming X into a battleground for unfiltered truth, he dropped two bombshells this week that could significantly reshape the platform.
A blunt but clarifying tactic proved a turning point in the Biden administration's immigration crisis. Border-state governors argued that national leaders were dismissing the costs of illegal crossings as a regional nuisance instead of a national emergency-and began transporting migrants to Democrat-led cities far from the border. Once the crisis was no longer confined to overwhelmed border states, political leaders elsewhere could no longer ignore it and started pressing the Biden administration to stem the illegal migrant flow. Whatever one thinks of the tactic, the political logic was...
"I am outraged, and you should be too." That message from former Vice President Kamala Harris has been a virtual mantra of the Democratic Party for years. For several months, this has meant decrying the imminent death of democracy and our descent into authoritarianism. Now, it means falsely claiming that ICE "kidnapped" or "arrested" a five-year-old boy and used him as "bait" to catch someone.
Encrypted chats show activists tracked ICE agents using a sophisticated database before the fatal shooting of Alex Pretti in Minneapolis. They then used it to mobilize agitators.
President Donald Trump indicated he'll make changes to his administration's deportation crackdown in Minnesota after the killing of two US citizens during immigration raids sparked nationwide uproar.
The First Amendment protections for free speech have inspired people worldwide and laid the foundation not just for American society but also for entire industries - from social media to this very publication. But as someone who travels the country both speaking and setting up events on college and university campuses, I can tell you that "free speech" isn't free.
On January 23rd, residents of Minneapolis who have been protesting the presence of ICE agents in their city declared a general strike. I had spent much of the previous week there, and the strike had been talked about as the culmination of the city's anger at the deployment of three thousand immigration agents into the region.