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Mallard Fillmore’s onto Something
On June 11, Bruce Tinsley’s nationally syndicated comic strip Mallard Fillmore targeted university speech codes and the wayward administrators who love them. As he has in previous comic strip shout-outs to FIRE, Tinsley advises the countless students and professors whose expression has been silenced by intrusive and chilling speech codes to find help at thefire.org.
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