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California could send Wayne Hsuing, attorney and co-founder of Direct Action Everywhere, to prison for 3.5 years for rescuing chickens and ducks from cruelty. Where does the animal welfare movement go from here?

Following a two-month-long trial, former Berkeley mayoral candidate and Direct Action Everywhere, or DxE, co-founder Wayne Hsiung has been charged with misdemeanor trespass with intent to interfere with a lawful business for unlawfully entering Sunrise and Reichardt Farms in Sonoma County in 2018 and 2019.

As a principle of academic debate, speech should be presumptively allowed. The details of achieving that may get messy, but that goal is fundamental.

ZeroHedge - On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero

It’s truly shocking to see on college campuses such vicious anti-Semitism and support for Hamas’s brutal, violent attack on Israel. But it is not surprising.

Bill Blanken, a chemistry professor at Reedley College, said a new diversity and equity policy in California’s community colleges amounts to a “loyalty oath” and “compelled speech” that runs afoul

Pick a side. No nuance allowed.

The Dean of Berkeley Law School, Erwin Chemerinsky, racially discriminated [against whites] in faculty hiring. It was in secret, and it is illegal in California. Now, he's faced with the racially diverse hatred he fostered unwittingly. In an opinion piece in the LA Times, he wrote of his shock

A week into the Israel-Hamas war, a University of California, Berkeley, law professor published an op-ed in The Wall Street Journal under the headline "Dont Hire My Anti-Semitic Law Students."

Bill Blanken, a chemistry professor at Reedley College, said a new diversity and equity policy in California’s community colleges amounts to a “loyalty oath” and “compelled speech” that runs afoul