Advocate.comTexas A&M fired a professor for teaching about gender identity. Now, she's suing
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.advocate.com/news/texas-am-melissa-mccoul-lawsuit
Jonathan EmmesediTexas conservatives are busy destroying academic freedom in higher education.
The failure of the university's president to stand up for the faculty member under attack and for the principle of academic freedom is appalling.
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FlipboardIt must be exhausting, being Brian Harrison. The Republican representative for Ellis County in the Texas legislature is constantly outraged. ”About what, exactly, depends on the day,” says @TexasObserver’s Joelle DiPaolo. Here’s her story about how Harrison is just one in a long line of loud, dissenting hard-right legislators that aim to disrupt and change things — and that are turning off even the staunchest Republicans. “Harrison’s insatiable scorched-earth tactics and his holier-than-thou rhetoric have alienated his fellow House members to the point where valid criticisms remain unheard, or more often, ridiculed,” writes DiPaolo.
https://www.texasobserver.org/brian-harrison-texas-lege-self-righteous-crusade/
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