Absolute Free Speech Doesn't Exist/ Updates

Updates

• First, thank you so much to everyone who has become a paid subscriber to this newsletter, and/ or donated. It means a lot, it helps me justify doing this work on top of other writing and research, and it has tangible benefits. For example, this month you helped me pay for some minor surgery our cat Tig (or Tiglet, or if we’re being formal, Antigone, or Tiger Cat) needed this week. Tig is not happy about wearing a cone of shame, but we are happy to have been able to have a worrisome growth removed from her cute little face. (It was not cheap!) So thank you!

  Here is Tig (right), looking for love in all the wrong places:

Tig’s unrequited love affair for one of our other cats, Wiley (left), is the best-rated romantic drama in our household.

• Across the land, extremist groups continue to double down on transphobia, antisemitism, and white supremacy by primarily targeting books by and for marginalized communities in state-level and local bans. Most recently in South Caorlina, a singl…