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Woke UK video game backfires: ‘Extremist’ Amelia becomes viral symbol of British pride
Hull City Council in Yorkshire, England — an area overwhelmed by third-world asylum seekers in recent years — wasted no time setting a high bar for self-owns this year.
The local authority teamed up with the East Riding of Yorkshire Council and the woke media literacy outfit Shout Out UK to create an online choose-your-own adventure video game targeting young Britons titled “Pathways: Navigating the Internet and Extremism.”
‘The government is betraying white British people.’
To the chagrin of the re-education tool’s makers, one of its supposed villains, a purple-haired patriotic character named Amelia, has been appropriated and used to great effect in counter-messaging campaigns by the right and other critics of the woke British establishment.
The game
Hull City Council announced last year that the game would be “made available to schools, education settings, and community and youth organizations throughout the city” and used to teach youths “about the dangers of extremism and radicalization.”
One of the stated objectives of the propaganda tool was to “demonstrate the local threat picture of Extreme Right Wing activities specifically.”
The game offers six scenarios in which users decide the path the protagonist, Charlie, will take.
In the third scenario, Charlie — who is referred to as “they” — watches a video that claims both that “Muslim men are stealing the places of British war veterans in emergency accommodation” and that “the government is betraying white British people.”
Screenshots from Pathways: Navigating the Internet and Extremism.
If the player decides that “this seems unfair” and has Charlie engage with the post, Charlie ends up inadvertently sharing the content with online bad actors, sending the player’s radicalization risk score through the roof.
Charlie avoids arrest long enough to attend class with Amelia in the third scenario, where she suggests that “immigrants are coming to the U.K. and taking our jobs.”
Amelia features prominently in the fourth scenario, where she is introduced as a close friend of Charlie who has “made a video encouraging young people in Birdlington to join a political group that seeks to defend English rights.”
After Amelia — who is depicted holding the Union Jack and a sign that says, “No entry” — asks Charlie to join a group called Action for Britain and shares a video on-theme, the player is given the option of having Charlie: ignore the video, like the video but not join the group, or share the video and join the group.
If the player chooses the third option, their radicalization risk score increases just as it will increase if they agree in the final scenario to go in Amelia’s place to protest “the erosion of British values.”
Screenshot from Pathways: Navigating the Internet and Extremism.
Regardless of inputs, the game inevitably suggests that exposure to supposedly extremist views such as love for nation, concern over wage suppression by immigrants, and cultural erasure warrant Charlie’s referral to an anti-terrorism expert and re-education on “how to engage positively with ideology and the difference between right and wrong in expressing political beliefs.”
The Telegraph, citing official documents, revealed last year that the British government listed “cultural nationalism,” defined as the belief that Western culture is “under threat from mass migration and a lack of integration by certain ethnic and cultural groups,” as a terrorist ideology.
The game concludes with the suggestion that only after receiving counseling on “harmful ideology” from a hijab-wearing counselor is Charlie able to “rebuild their confidence, find their identity, and continue their college course successfully.”
New pathway for Amelia
Amelia has recently featured in numerous viral online videos and memes where she warns of the Islamification of Britain, champions national pride, promotes normalcy, and criticizes leftist policies.
In a popular Amelia meme shared by Elon Musk, the character underscores that the English people aren’t “immigrants” and “didn’t ‘arrive’ in England. They became England — over more than a millennium.”
In another popular meme, Amelia is shown bonding with Charlie over their common love of country, getting married, then starting a family.
Amelia has also been depicted as the Lady of the Lake of Arthurian legend, handing an armored knight the sword Aerondight; in photo-realistic images mocking political figures; and in a multitude of other images making a wide range of political commentary.
British journalist Mary Harrington writing for UnHerd noted that “Amelia stands as a potent illustration of how desperately an officialdom accustomed to comparatively comprehensive public message control is struggling to adapt to the recursive online environment.”
When pressed for comment, Hull City Council referred Blaze News to the U.K. Home Office, which did not respond. Shout Out UK for comment similarly did not respond.
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Liberal reporter frustrates American tennis stars by asking the same tired question
The Australian Open has become about politics instead of tennis, thanks to one reporter’s questions.
As men and women have won matches at the tournament in Melbourne, Australia, a male reporter has consistently popped up to ask players about their feelings about current U.S. politics.
‘We are very diverse, we are a home of immigrants.’
“I’ve been asking a lot of the American players just how it feels to play under the American flag right now. And I’m curious how you feel,” the man asked No.4-ranked Amanda Anisimova on Wednesday, with noted vocal fry.
Anisimova was praised for shutting the questions down, but it turns out the same reporter has asked the same divisive question to at least four other American tennis players.
The Women’s Tennis Association’s No.6-ranked Jessica Pegula faced almost the same question on Wednesday, though more specifically about living in Florida.
Pegula’s answer likely won’t please nationalists as much as Anisimova’s did.
“Personally Florida’s been, I think, OK. I think Florida, there’s a big melting pot of different people from all over, in Florida,” the 31-year-old went on. “So I feel like especially me being in South Florida, near Miami, I mean, there’s people of all over the country that come to move to Florida, and there’s a lot of international people that are there. I don’t know if that’s maybe why you kind of get a lot of different cultural differences in a good way honestly.”
The reporter, who is alleged by several outlets such as Breitbart and Yahoo to likely be the Athletic’s Owen Lewis, has not publicly confirmed he has asked the questions despite sharing that he has been in Australia covering the event.
Next up was men’s No.9-ranked Taylor Fritz from California, who on Thursday had just completed a second-round win. Fritz buried his head in his hands as he answered the question, albeit reluctantly.
“Not sure what we’re, like, specifically talking about, but there is a lot going on in the U.S., and I don’t know, I feel like whatever I say here is going to get put in a headline, and it’s going to get taken out of context,” he groaned. “So I’d really rather not do something that’s going to cause a big distraction for me in the middle of the tournament.”
On Thursday, No.9-ranked female Madison Keys from Illinois faced the reporter. Her reaction was much more progressive than her compatriots, saying, “I’m not a fan of divisiveness, and I think the beauty of the U.S. is we are a mixing pot.”
“We are very diverse, we are a home of immigrants. And I hope that we can get back to those values,” she added.
No.3-ranked woman and Florida native Coco Gauff took it a step further by bringing race politics into the mix with her response.
Gauff initially said she feels “a bit fatigued talking about it.”
She then claimed, “It is hard, also I think, being a black woman in this country and having to experience things, even online.”
She argued that “marginalized communities” are being affected, and the only thing she can do is “donate and speak out.”
Gauff then cited the fact that she posted a Martin Luther King Jr. video online recently and said, “We must keep moving forward,” as an example of her activism.
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Indian students score $200K ‘food racism’ payout from UC Boulder
A 35-year-old Indian student says he was told that curry stinks, but sandwiches do not.
Aditya Prakash and his fiancée, Urmi Bhattacheryya, won a settlement of $200,000 from the University of Colorado Boulder in a story dripping with progressivism.
‘My food is my pride, and notions about what smells good or bad to someone are culturally determined.’
The BBC described the ordeal as a case of “food racism” while outlet Indian Express said Prakash was the “target of racism” over his microwaved food.
Ate crime
The couple reportedly claimed they faced a series of “microaggressions and retaliatory actions” after a staff member at the university — who was British, according to the BBC — complained about the “smell” of the food Prakash had in the microwave.
The staffer allegedly said the food was giving off a “pungent” odor and informed Prakash there was a rule against heating foods that have strong odors. Prakash reportedly claimed there was no such rule publicly stated and said, “It’s just food. I’m heating and leaving.”
The Indian also said he later inquired what foods were considered pungent. He was allegedly told that smelly foods included curry but not sandwiches.
In a pickle
The couple claimed they soon lost their research funding and teaching roles, and a lawsuit followed. Prakash claimed it was not about money, though.
“It was about making a point — that there are consequences to discriminating against Indians for their ‘Indianness,'” he said.
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Prakash also claimed he was a victim of “systemic racism” because his department “refused to grant” his Master’s degree.
“That’s when we decided to seek legal recourse,” he said.
The May 2025 lawsuit alleged discriminatory treatment and a “pattern of escalating retaliation” but was settled with the university that September. The terms reportedly include giving the students their degrees while denying all liabilities and banning them from studying or working at the school in the future.
Paneer miss
The dish at the center of the controversy is called palak paneer, which, according to cooking website Hooked on Heat, contains some strong ingredients.
The main parts of the dish include spinach and paneer, a soft white cheese considered to be the Indian version of cottage cheese. Also added to the dish are onion, ginger, garlic, chili powder, garam masala (Indian spices), and more.
Prakash reportedly argued that his food only stinks according to some people.
“My food is my pride, and notions about what smells good or bad to someone are culturally determined,” he posited.
Cruciferous context
A counterargument he allegedly faced was that even broccoli is not allowed to be heated because of its odor, but Prakash claimed that “context matters,” before adding, “How many groups of people do you know who face racism because they eat broccoli?”
His fiancée says that President Trump’s re-election has caused a “narrowing of empathy” toward foreigners.
“Institutions talk a lot about inclusion, but there is less patience for discomfort, especially if that discomfort comes from immigrants or people of colour,” she claimed.
Currying favor
The university told BBC that while it cannot comment on the specifics of the claims due to privacy laws, it is “committed to fostering an inclusive environment for all students, faculty and staff regardless of national origin, religion, culture and other classes protected under U.S. laws and by university policies.”
“When these allegations arose in 2023, we took them seriously and adhered to established, robust processes to address them, as we do with all claims of discrimination and harassment,” the school continued. “We reached an agreement with the students in September [2025] and deny any liability in this case.”
The couple has reportedly not since returned to the United States, with Prakash saying he is willing to start over.
“If this case can send out a message that this (‘food racism’) cannot be practiced with impunity, that we, as Indians, will fight back, that would be the real victory,” he said, per Indian Express.
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Iron MAGA? Comedian Chris D’Elia rants that in ‘real life,’ Marvel heroes would all vote GOP
Captain America and Iron Man would be feigning progressivism in public while secretly voting Republicans down the ballot, according to stand-up comedian Chris D’Elia.
D’Elia was discussing political influence in television shows with fellow comedians Erik Griffin and Brendan Schaub when he presented his theory.
‘Wolverine! Cyclops! Professor X, hello?!’
The trio said that while some TV shows simply have entertaining characters that happen to be gay, the “gay agenda” becomes evident when certain storylines are forced.
Team Trump
“What I do think they do do, though, is with their big shows, they try to figure out how to put gay characters in it, or trans characters,” D’Elia said on “The Golden Hour” podcast.
This led D’Elia to theorize that even though superheroes are “all woke in the movies,” they are definitely voting Republican at the ballot box.
“What superhero would be left-wing?! They wouldn’t. They have so much power,” D’Elia said, launching into a signature screaming tirade.
“Jarvis, what’s up with this f**kin’ trans s**t?!” he joked, mimicking actor Robert Downey Jr. in “Iron Man.”
“You know the real Captain America would be f**king Republican, secretly voting for Trump. And you know Iron Man would be talking to Jarvis about f**king woke bitches, dude!” he continued.
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Stable genius
Griffin prompted D’Elia to explain which members of the X-Men he feels are Republicans, which had the New Jersey native yelling into the microphone.
“Who’s Republican, dude? Wolverine! Cyclops! Professor X, hello?! You think he’s out there — in his mind, he’s like, ‘But secretly, f**k these woke, white liberal women.’ Killing them left and right, dude, with his brain.”
Griffin — known for his work on shows like “Workaholics” — calmly delivered his thoughts about when shows go too far with their political agenda. The 53-year-old explained that shows have jumped the shark when they become “an after-school special” that has a political lesson to teach.
“To me, that’s the agenda thing, is when you’re trying to control how people think about stuff,” he said.
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Tranovision
This inspired Griffin and Schaub to develop an idea for a new filter on platforms like Netflix, where users can opt out of seeing transgender or overly gay content.
“They just need a filter,” Griffin explained. “Like, more than just age filter, right? What if they had a ‘gay agenda’ filter?”
Schaub put a stamp on the topic and said that while he certainly enjoys a lot of new shows, “with the gay narrative, just leave it all out of the kids’ stuff. But for the grown-ups, dude, you’re a grown-ass person.”
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FEMPIRE STRIKES BACK: Kathleen Kennedy leaves ‘Star Wars’; is it too soon for fans to celebrate?
“Star Wars” fans may be celebrating a bit too early when it comes to Kathleen Kennedy’s departure.
Kennedy headed Lucasfilm for 14 years, controlling iconic franchises like “Star Wars” and “Indiana Jones.”
‘After destroying a beloved modern myth … Kathleen Kennedy is finally stepping down.’
Fans rejoiced online as Disney announced Kennedy will be replaced by two executives: chief creative officer Dave Filoni and Lynwen Brennan, president and general manager. Filoni will be president at Lucasfilm, while Brennan will be co-president.
Director Filoni’s pairing with Brennan was described by Variety as a move that suggests Disney wanted to pair a strong filmmaker with a person who has a solid sense of budgets.
However, despite what appears to be good news for “Star Wars” fans, Kennedy’s tenure is not exactly coming to a screeching halt.
One to ‘Grogu’ on
Kennedy will still serve as a producer for two theatrical “Star Wars” films, the first being 2026’s “The Mandalorian and Grogu.”
This is the same wing of the franchise’s universe that fired former MMA fighter and actress Gina Carano for speaking out against mask mandates.
Additionally, Kennedy will produce “Star Wars: Starfighter,” which is set for a 2027 release.
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Photo by Gerardo Mora/Getty Images for Disney
That didn’t seem to bother detractors like Babylon Bee editor Joel Berry, who posted, “After destroying a beloved modern myth and replacing it with a 14-year, malice-filled tantrum against the patriarchy, Kathleen Kennedy is finally stepping down. Finally.”
Cartoonist George Alexopoulos joked that Kennedy put the franchise “in a grave.”
Others screamed from X’s rooftops that “Star Wars” is now “free” and is “going to be amazing.”
Put a chick in it
X owner Elon Musk even jumped into the mix by simply posting a clip from “South Park: Joining the Panderverse.”
The 2023 episode was internationally recognized for hilariously mocking the downward spiral of Disney’s intellectual properties at the hands of Kennedy. The episode showed Kennedy demanding the diversification of every character Disney had to offer, changing movies to ensure they had “lame,” gay, and female characters, no matter how unsuccessful they were.
The cartoon popularized the phrase, “Put a chick in it! Make it lame and gay!” as a way to describe needless and forced diversity in media.
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Your worshipfulness
Disney CEO Bob Iger praised Kennedy in a statement on her way out, saying “We’re deeply grateful for Kathleen Kennedy’s leadership, her vision, and her stewardship of such an iconic studio and brand.”
During her time at Lucasfilm, Kennedy has been criticized by fans not only for her film choices, but for comments that she made toward them.
In 2024, Kennedy accused fans who were unhappy with the show “The Acolyte” of attacking women online.
“I think a lot of the women who step into ‘Star Wars’ struggle with this a bit more. Because of the fan base being so male dominated, they sometimes get attacked in ways that can be quite personal.”
While adding that she too has been a victim, Kennedy alluded to the fact that some of the fans were bigots.
“I stand by my empathy for ‘Star Wars’ fans. But I want to be clear. Anyone who engages in bigotry, racism or hate speech … I don’t consider a fan.”
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FREE WILLY: Miffed Maher blames Hollywood speech police for awards snubs
Bill Maher’s first-ever Golden Globes nomination didn’t exactly leave him giddy with excitement.
Days before losing to fellow Best Performance in Stand-Up Comedy on Television nominee Ricky Gervais, the caustic comic seemed resigned to defeat.
‘I speak freely, and this woke town f**king hates that.’
Speech impediment
In a conversation with his “Club Random” podcast guest Joel Edgerton, Maher said he knows exactly why he’s always ignored when Hollywood hands out the hardware.
“Obviously, it’s something I said. Well, it’s everything I said.”
“I speak freely, and this woke town f**king hates that,” Maher continued. “And that’s OK. I’ve made my peace with that. So I know how this goes.”
Maher noted that he’s never won an Emmy either, despite a combined 33 nominations (a figure Variety later corrected to 41) for his shows “Politically Incorrect” and “Club Random.”
Thanks to the Globes’ new Best Podcast category, the pot-addled pundit has a whole new way to get snubbed. This year the award went to “Good Hang with Amy Poehler.” “Club Random” failed to secure a nomination.
I’m with stupid
As Maher’s rant built up steam, he rejected Edgerton’s gentle suggestion that as “two white dudes,” they should be careful with their critiques.
“The epicenter of woke stupid is this town. It really is,” Maher said, referring to accusations of “cultural appropriation,” which he said has been levied against everyone from Elvis Presley to Bradley Cooper.
“[Elvis] sang the way he sang. He grew up in the South. I mean, the cultures mixed, you know. I don’t — I think it’s just pointless to hate him for it,” Maher said.
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Nose woes
As for Cooper, Maher mocked those who accused him of “Jewface” for wearing a prosthetic nose to play Leonard Bernstein.
“The ‘Jew nose’ they called it. … I mean, ‘Jew nose?’ Do they even know how stupid they sound?” Maher asked.
“I mean, to use that word. They made up this horrible word and then were like, ‘Oh, but we’re the good people. We’re saying, whoa, no Jew nose.’ It’s just so silly.”
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Colbert praises Soviet feminism — forgets the Gulags, mass murder, and forced labor
By the time of its collapse in 1991, the Soviet regime had overseen a democide of tens of millions of Russians, thrown millions of people into the regime’s hellish Gulag labor camp system, and spent nearly 70 years brutally persecuting those at odds with dissenting views, especially Christians.
Stephen Colbert, the departing host of CBS’ “The Late Show” who pushed COVID-19 vaccination during the pandemic, recently suggested that the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics wasn’t all bad on account of its purported feminism.
‘Russia and the Soviet Union were the vanguard of world feminism.’
During her Monday appearance on Colbert’s show, Soviet-born reporter Julia Ioffe peddled her new book about the feminist experiment in the USSR — a “fairy-tale country” whose communist regime forced women to work, legalized abortion, ushered in no-fault divorce, and took other efforts to transform men and women into interchangeable units of labor devoid of strong loyalties outside the state.
“I remember seeing Soviet posters basically saying, ‘In the West women are not allowed to do any of this,'” Colbert told Ioffe. “There was a forward-looking feminist agenda to the communist enterprise.”
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Julia Ioffe and Stephen Colbert. Photo by Scott Kowalchyk/CBS via Getty Images.
“I think a lot of people forget, including Russians, that Russia and the Soviet Union were the vanguard of world feminism,” said Ioffe.
Ioffe’s apparent efforts to paint the Soviet Union as the “vanguard of world feminism” didn’t get past critics.
Newsbusters noted that whereas women’s right to vote, which was granted by the Provisional Government that replaced Tsar Nicholas II in 1917, was taken away by “Colbert’s Soviet poster children” after the October Revolution, 15 American states allowed women to vote before 1917, and the 19th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution was ratified in 1920 without suffering the country to communism.
Although Ioffe acknowledged that women’s right to vote in the USSR became “largely irrelevant very quickly,” she suggested to Colbert that there were other perks made available to women under the totalitarian regime, including access to free higher education, abortion, child support, no-fault civil divorce, and paid maternity leave.
Ioffe noted further that the regime gifted roughly 800,000 women, mostly teenage girls, the responsibility to fight in active combat during World War II.
Colbert, apparently upset to learn that the USSR’s efforts to maximize the utility of women to the state dissipated over time, asked, “Why did it go away?”
“Because men,” answered Ioffe.
“I’m so sorry,” said Colbert.
Colbert, who recently told fellow travelers that a 2028 presidential run was not in the works despite speculation to the contrary, is leaving “The Late Show” in May.
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The Spectator P.M. Ep. 180: The Woke Claims Jingle Bells Is Racist
Joy Reid furthered yet another woke message by reposting a video that criticized the beloved Christmas tune “Jingle Bells” as…
Seattle professor punished for mocking land acknowledgments fights back, scores win against woke university
A professor at the University of Washington was punished for having the audacity to poke fun at the school’s moral exhibitionism. Stuart Reges, a professor at UW’s Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science and Engineering, fought back and, on Friday, secured a decisive victory.
Reges ruffled feathers at the university where he has worked for decades by including a parodic land acknowledgment in his 2022 course syllabus.
‘The Coast Salish people can claim historical ownership of almost none of the land.’
According to the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression, the outfit that represented Reges, the university recommended in its “best practices” guide that instructors incorporate an “Indigenous Land Acknowledgment” in their course syllabi, providing the following as an example statement: “The University of Washington acknowledges the Coast Salish peoples of this land, the land which touches the shared waters of all tribes and bands within the Suquamish, Tulalip, and Muckleshoot nations.”
In a December 2021 faculty email thread, one of Reges’ colleagues referred to an article that characterized land acknowledgments as “moral onanism.” Reges said in response that he was uncertain about the value of making such statements and noted that he might include a mock statement in his syllabus.
Sure enough, the professor included the following land acknowledgment on the syllabus of his winter 2022 computer science course: “I acknowledge that by the labor theory of property the Coast Salish people can claim historical ownership of almost none of the land currently occupied by the University of Washington.”
Administrators at UW’s Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science and Engineering punished Stuart Reges over his failure to conform, which they claimed had caused a “disruption to instruction” but had in reality enraged only ideologically delicate members of the faculty and the school’s DEI student committee.
Stuart Reges. Courtesy of Twinkle Don’t Blink
The director of UW’s computer science department, Magdalena Balazinska, ordered Reges to remove the statement because it was supposedly “offensive” and generated a “toxic environment.”
According to court documents, when Reges refused to remove his dissenting statement, Balazinska unilaterally removed it, then apologized to Reges’ students, detailing ways that they could file complaints against their professor.
‘Land acknowledgments are performative acts of conformity that should be resisted.’
In addition to inviting students to switch out of Reges’ computer programming course and into a “shadow” class section taught by a different professor, university administrators launched a years-long disciplinary investigation into Reges.
In July 2022, Reges sued Balazinska, then-UW President Ana Mari Cauce, and other school officials, accusing them of violating his First Amendment rights.
“University administrators turned me into a pariah on campus because I included a land acknowledgment that wasn’t sufficiently progressive for them,” Reges said at the time. “Land acknowledgments are performative acts of conformity that should be resisted, even if it lands you in court.”
U.S. District Court Judge John Chun, an appointee of former President Joe Biden, dismissed Reges’ lawsuit last year, claiming that “the disruption caused by Plaintiff’s speech rendered it unprotected.”
Reges appealed and found a court that viewed his case differently.
In a 2-1 decision on Friday, a Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals panel disagreed with and reversed the Biden judge’s ruling, remanding the case for further proceedings.
Circuit Judge Daniel Bress, writing for the majority, noted, “Debate and disagreement are hallmarks of higher education. Student discomfort with a professor’s views can prompt discussion and disapproval. But this discomfort is not grounds for the university retaliating against the professor. We hold that the university’s actions toward the professor violated his First Amendment rights.”
Bress, an appointee of President Donald Trump, highlighted the long-standing debate over the value, factual basis, and political nature of land acknowledgments as well as Reges’ sense that they are part of “an agenda of ‘diversity, equity, and inclusion’ that treats some groups of students as more deserving of recognition and welcome than others on account of their race or other immutable characteristic.”
While acknowledging the right of members of the UW community to speak out against Reges and his views, Bress stressed that “Reges has rights too. And here, we conclude that UW violated the First Amendment in taking adverse action against Reges based on his views on a matter of public concern.”
Will Creeley, the legal director of FIRE, said that the ruling “recognizes that sometimes, ‘exposure to views that distress and offend is a form of education unto itself.'”
“If you graduate from college without once being offended, you should ask for your money back,” added Creeley.
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‘We’re still on the air, Tim’: Hockey announcer’s hot mic sexual remarks result in suspension
Philadelphia Flyers radio play-by-play announcer Tim Saunders may have some explaining to do to his superiors.
Saunders has been suspended for two games by the Flyers, and now the organization is apologizing for comments he made on Thursday night.
‘We take this matter very seriously.’
During a commercial break in the third period of the Flyers and Buffalo Sabres game, Saunders went to a commercial break before he was heard making some non-hockey-related remarks.
“Now, they’re going to take the TV time-out. We’ll take it as well. Seven [minutes] gone in the third [period]. It’s 3-2 Buffalo on the Philadelphia Flyers Broadcast Network,” Saunders said, thinking he would then be off the air.
After a few seconds, the announcer is heard humming a tune to himself before more dead air, as muffled audio of in-arena promotions are heard in the background.
It was nearly 20 seconds after the start of a would-be commercial break when Saunders said, “While you’re down there, would you mind blowing me?”
Following a few more seconds of silence, broadcast partner and former NHL player Todd Fedoruk inserted, “I think we’re still on the air, Tim.”
Saunders then seemingly has a good chuckle before stopping to seriously ask, “No, we’re not, are we?”
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As reported by Crossing Broad, Saunders took another long pause before laughing again and asking, “Are we? Do you have us? Mikey, talk to me.”
On Friday morning, the Flyers issued an official statement on their social media saying they were “aware of the inappropriate comment” made during the TV time-out.
“These remarks do not reflect the standards of conduct or values we expect from anyone associated with our organization,” the team wrote.
The Flyers then announced that, effective immediately, a two-game suspension had been issued while they “address this matter with all parties involved.”
“We take this matter very seriously, and sincerely apologize to our listeners, fans and all those affected by these comments,” the statement concluded.
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The majority of Flyers fans on X reacted negatively to the announcement, with one Philly sports fan calling it an “incredible overreaction.”
“A suspension??? World gone soft,” a fan named Ryan said.
Jeff added, “Give him a raise.”
The Flyers would go on to lose the game 5-3.
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