There is more robust and rambunctious free speech on X in many ways than existed before Elon Musk bought and renamed Twitter. But my experience this week with X blacking out images of the FBI in my posts reminded me of dealing with Facebook in 2017. I walloped Facebook in USA Today for blocking my […]
The video I made on Tuesday tied to my article, “How I Busted the Ruby Ridge Coverup,” now has 50,000 views on Twitter. This is ironic since X blacked out the first image I posted with the video – the Playboy magazine article showing a rifle and sniper crosshair on a Madonna and child. I […]
Also posted on Zero Hedge, Counterpunch, Brownstone Institute, Eurasia Review, BeforeItsNews, One News Page, USSA News, Era of Light, etc. Germany’s Latest War on Freedom by James Bovard, January 13, 2026 “There is no censorship here in Germany,” according to Steffen Meyer, a top spokesman for the German government. In reality, Germans have freedom of […]
New York Post, January 4, 2026 Soulless censors by James Bovard Vice President J.D. Vance denounced European politicians for blighting democracy with brazen censorship in a February speech in Munich. Vance warned: “If you’re running in fear of your own voters, there is nothing America can do for you.” European politicians were outraged because their […]
[reposted on the Mises Institute blog and the Libertarian Institute blog and elsewhere] FEDERAL JUDGE SETS FREE OP-ED WRITER Federal judge orders Trump administration to release Tufts University grad student Rumeysa Ozturk from ICE lockup. Ozturk, who had a valid student visa from Turkey, was only guilty of writing an op-ed. Secretary of State Marco […]
Ryan McMaken and I had fun smacking the Trump administration for sending 6 masked federal agents to seize a Turkish grad student to punish her for writing an op-ed. Is this case the bellwether for a sweeping crackdown on free speech – first with foreign students, & then American citizens? Trump, discussing the protests over […]
Zero Hedge, April 18, 2025 Bovard Warns Conservatives, Libertarians Over Foreign Student Persecution Cases Authored by Jim Bovard “If it is known that authorities have power to coerce, few people will wait for actual coercion,” economist Friedrich Hayek wrote in the 1956 foreword to his 1944 classic, The Road to Serfdom. Hayek’s insight could be the Rosetta Stone […]
1994 C-SPAN Interview on Lost Rights: “So far I haven’t gotten knocked off, so what the hell.”
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Tom Blanton, Heroic Hell-raiser for Freedom, R.I.P.
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Our Foreign Aid Programs Have Killed People for 50+ Years
charles bukowski
Trump caused this. Do Not Forget.
Mac
My condolences on Tommy's passing. I didn
Jim
Will, please accept my condolences on your father&
Will Blanton
Thank you for the write up Jim! Dad would be proud
