#civilliberties

https://www.europesays.com/uk/1146/ The Quaker Meeting House raid shames the Met #CivilLiberties #CrimeAndTheLaw #News #Police #UK #UnitedKingdom

"[C]onciliation only fuels #Trump’s momentum and his predatory instincts to exact more retribution—just as ABC News’s choice to pay Trump $15 million to settle his lawsuit against the organization only invites further attacks on the press, and Columbia’s capitulation to his unprecedented intervention in its internal affairs bodes ill for the rest of America’s colleges and universities."

https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/lawyers-face-an-existential-choice/
#USpol #USpolitics #civilLiberties #FreedomOfSpeech #censorship #lawfare #MAGA

Utah's new law bans most flags, including Pride, at schools and government buildings, raising concerns over civil liberties and expression. Activists warn this sets a dangerous precedent for repressive governance. How do we balance state regulations with individual rights? #LGBTQ #CivilLiberties #Privacy

Read more: https://steelefamlaw.com/UWuPRE

Farewell to Mark Klein, network engineer, civil libertarian, citizen, hero.

#surveillance #civilliberties #nsa #att #eff #citizen #whistleblower

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/03/memoriam-mark-klein-att-whistleblower-about-nsa-mass-spying

The #UnitedStates was added to the CIVICUS Monitor #Watchlist due to concerns about declining #CivilLiberties, particularly under the #Trump Administration. #CIVICUS, a global alliance of civil society groups, cited actions such as: cuts to #ForeignAid; crackdowns on #diversity initiatives; attempts to restrict #MediaFreedom or the #FreePress; and threats to #dissent. The #WhiteHouse has rejected this assessment, asserting that President Trump is leading the most transparent administration in history.

#HumanRights #Watchlist #DEI

https://time.com/7266334/us-h

Challenging Fear And Trepidation, #Democracy Activists Rally In Somerville Following #Student #ICE Arrest: “Justice is something that people ignore until it happens in the neighborhood.” https://horizonmass.news/2025/03/27/challenging-fear-and-trepidation-democracy-activists-rally-in-somerville-following-student-ice-arrest/ #RumeysaOzturk #protest #news #activism #Tufts #SomervilleMass #Massachusetts #civilliberties

Horrifying video shows masked goons from the Department of Homeland Security muscling in and handcuffing a Turkish graduate student on a street in Somerville, MA. She was then abducted to Louisiana.

Supposedly her being one of four authors of an anti-Israel student newspaper op-ed last March justifies this police state thuggery.

#USPolitics #RumeysaOzturk #Tufts #DHS #DepartmentOfHomelandSecurity #PoliceKidnapping #CivilLiberties
#DonaldTrump #IsraelPalestine

https://apnews.com/article/tufts-student-detained-massachusetts-immigration-6c3978da98a8d0f39ab311e092ffd892

The latest from the Quad9 blog => The Public Risk of Governments Controlling #DNS Providers
https://www.quad9.net/news/blog/the-public-risk-of-governments-controlling-dns-providers
We'd love to hear your thoughts!

#privacy #censorship #civilliberties

The #FBI Is Investigating Attacks on #Tesla as ‘Domestic #Terrorism.’ Here’s Why That Matters

The domestic terrorism designation could give law enforcement sweeping authority to surveil people protesting against Elon Musk's role in the US federal government, civil liberties experts warn.
#privacy #Musk #ElonMusk #surveillance #domesticterrorism #civilrights #civilliberties #takedown #takeover

https://www.wired.com/story/fbi-tesla-arson-domestic-terrorism-protests/

Federal law bars improper disclosure. But it is so ordered! Under a draft of agreement between #IRS and #ICE, the tax agency would verify whether #immigration officials had the right home address for people who have been ordered to leave the United States, according to a copy of the document viewed by The New York Times. #humanrights #civilliberties #taxes #Tens of millions of workers are failing to file tax returns in fear of #deportation #fascism #fear #trump #maga #GOP #privacy

The FBI Is Investigating Attacks on Tesla as ‘Domestic Terrorism.’ Here’s Why That Matters

https://www.wired.com/story/fbi-tesla-arson-domestic-terrorism-protests/

#fbi #doj #uspolitics #uspol #uslaw #civilliberties #lawenforcement #surveillance #tracking #privacy #security #protests #civics

#Trump Purges DHS’ #CivilRights and #CivilLiberties Office

A spokesperson claimed the office “obstructed #immigration enforcement by adding bureaucratic hurdles and undermining DHS’ mission.”
#dhs

https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-purges-dhs-civil-rights-and-civil-liberties-office/

Republicans: "Terrorism is every act of civil disobedience that we don't agree with. And if you don't agree with that, go to Venezuela, Cuba, or China" --->

"The government will now need to prove (in the case of American citizens) that individuals plotted against Tesla and undertook their laws to influence government policy. Even if what they did can be argued to meet the dictionary definition of terrorism, its legal application would give the government a frankly terrifying amount of power. Trump is now unleashing the deep state (their deep state) to go after associates and others who support or contemplate similar acts, in other words to criminalize and then stigmatize opposition.

When I reported last month that FBI Director Kash Patel’s vow to carry out “the world’s largest manhunt” against “anyone that wishes to do harm to our way of life,” I warned that Americans would be caught in the dragnet. But I had no idea how quickly."

https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/trumps-domestic-war-on-terrorism

#USA #Trump #Terrorism #CivilDisobedience #Activism #CivilLiberties #Authoritarianism

The #DHS Office for #CivilRights & #CivilLiberties is being ENTIRELY ELIMINATED through a Reduction in Force (#RIF).

Also, the staff were not given reassignments.

Purportedly the office’s operations will be taken up by other offices — highly doubt that’ll happen.

(source Maria Kabas)
#Trump #law #immigration #HumanRights

"According to the doctrine’s principles, judges should avoid ruling on whether or not #immigration laws are constitutional, even when it appears they are not."

The Insidious Doctrine Fueling the Case Against #MahmoudKhalil

https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/the-insidious-doctrine-fueling-the-case-against-mahmoud-khalil/

#PlenaryPowerDoctrine #USlaw #immigrationLaw #USpol #USpolitics #deportations #massDeportations #immigrantRights #civilRights #civilLiberties #FreeSpeechOnCampus #StudentProtests #PalestineSolidarity #StateRepression #FreeMahmoudKhalil @palestine

"The Democratic Party, which campaigned on the existential threat #Trump posed to democracy, has offered little more than begrudging responses to acts of #repression that rival, if not surpass, those of the McCarthy era."

https://thebaffler.com/latest/guilt-by-association-jindia

#USpol #USpolitics #PalestineSolidarity #lawfare #StateRepression #StudentProtests #FreeSpeechOnCampus #SJP #CivilLiberties @palestine

Mahmoud Khalil speaks out from the ICE detention facility in Louisiana:

"Visa-holders, green-card carriers, and citizens alike will all be targeted for their political beliefs. In the weeks ahead, students, advocates, and elected officials must unite to defend the right to protest for Palestine. At stake are not just our voices, but the fundamental civil liberties of all."

https://writer.oliphant.social/dispatch/a-letter-from-mahmoud-khalil

#FreeKhalil #FreeMahmoudKhalil
#CivilLiberties
#HumanRights
#Palestine

@alissaazar

"Visa-holders, green-card carriers, and citizens alike will all be targeted for their political beliefs. In the weeks ahead, students, advocates, and elected officials must unite to defend the right to protest for Palestine. At stake are not just our voices, but the fundamental civil liberties of all."

#America
#CivilLiberties
#HumanRights
#quotes
#Palestine

It is not just #russia who in control of our failing #democracy - #Chinese Nationalists Praise Trump’s Cuts to Voice of America #voa #Beijing has long criticized the outlet, as well as Radio Free #Asia, for highlighting #HumanRights rights abuses in #China. Can you imagine up until 6 months ago running on a platform that championed serving the China's Communist Party that ruled for 75 years https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/18/world/asia/china-trump-voice-of-america.html #maga #fascism #doge #trum #gop #republicans #civilliberties

Five political science profs from Columbia U. respond to the latest Trump/MAGA assaults on civil liberties and academic freedom.

https://danieldrezner.substack.com/p/guest-post-we-are-professors-at-columbia

#highered #academia #democracy #civilliberties