Good evening. It's Wednesday, July 16th.

Welcome to a new episode of System Update, our live nightly show that airs every Monday

through Friday at 7 p.m. Eastern exclusively here on Rumble, the free speech alternative

to YouTube.

Tonight, American conservatism has morphed and changed over the decades, as ideologies tend

to do.

But one constant has been a professed belief in limited government, especially the powers of the federal government.

Yet over the last 18 months, first the U.S. Congress and now the White House have a seemingly insatiable appetite

to micromanage America's colleges and universities, including private ones.

And not just to dictate technical and administrative

or even admissions matters, but to govern the core of academic freedom.

Who can and cannot serve on the faculty or as deans, what they can and cannot teach.

The desire to micromanage universities does not extend to all issues, but seemingly just to

one, namely what can and cannot be said about Israel and about Jewish individuals in particular.

As they have done countless times over the past 18 months, the House yesterday held a hearing on anti-Semitism in America's universities,

hauling three more college presidents before them to interrogate them on why they allow certain people to teach or certain opinions about Israel or American foreign policy to be expressed.

This is all accompanied by a growing trend, a rapidly growing trend, of forcing these universities to implement radically expanded hate speech codes.

With the purpose of outlawing what can and cannot be said about Israel,

will report on the latest House hearing and how it is directly assaulting the free speech and academic freedom rights of Americans.

Then, when the CEO of United Healthcare, Brian Thompson, was gunned down in New York last week, allegedly by Luigi Maggioni in December of 2024, huge numbers of people across political spectrum use that event as an opportunity to vent their rage and contempt toward the health insurance industry in general, and United Health in particular.

But United Health, in response to all of that, has not focused on reforming what makes

them so hated, but rather exploiting Thompson's murder to suppress criticism of the company,

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