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Trump’s Threat to Invoke the Insurrection Act, Explained | ACLU President Donald Trump is threatening to invoke the act, which is a rarely used power that Congress intended only for extreme emergencies. We break down what this means for our civil liberties.

If the president invokes the Insurrection Act, even more harm would descend on our communities.

Congress must rein in the Trump administration's already dangerous abuses in Minnesota.

US Senate passes bill to boost federal science spending after White House sought major cuts The U.S. Senate voted on Thursday to approve billions of dollars in funding for federal science agencies, rejecting deep cuts proposed by President Donald Trump in space and other areas.

Wow! Yay! The Senate just rejected Trump’s proposed science cuts, voting 82–15 to boost funding for NOAA, NASA, and the NSF. The bill already passed the House 397–28. Strong bipartisan support for science still exists.

ICE agents eat at small-town Mexican restaurant — then detain workers “Would your mama be proud of you right now?” a bystander said as agents returned at closing time to nab the workers.

ICE agents ate at El Tapatio in Willmar, MN, then came back hours later and detained the workers who served them. Turning a meal into surveillance isn’t public safety it’s intimidation. Remember private businesses can refuse service to ICE agents!

Trump threatens to halt federal money next month not only to sanctuary cities but also their states President Donald Trump says that his administration is planning to halt federal payments to "sanctuary cities" and the states where they're located starting Feb. 1.

Trump’s goal is to force the resistance into obedience. He has stated that beginning February 1, his administration will deny federal funding to any state that is home to local governments resisting his immigration crackdown carried out by ICE.

FBI executes search warrant at Washington Post reporter’s home The search came as part of an investigation into a government contractor accused of illegally retaining classified government materials.

This should alarm everyone. The FBI searched a journalist’s home and seized her work devices, despite no criminal charges. This is a direct threat to press freedom.

Trans Kids at SCOTUS: Our Freedom Is More Than A Game Politicians are targeting trans kids and their families for political points - now proposing school sports bans that would subject children to invasive sex testing and make all of us less safe. Join t...

Politicians nationwide have introduced more bills targeting trans student athletes than there even are trans athletes.

Join us in telling the Supreme Court that freedom, families, and rights are more than a game.

US suspending immigrant visa processing from 75 countries | CNN Politics The United States is indefinitely suspending immigrant visa processing from 75 countries in another expansion of the Trump administration's crackdown on immigration.

The Trump administration's suspension of immigrant visa processing is just the latest attempt to virtually gut our entire immigration system and turn it into one that's overtly racist and focused on harming communities, tearing apart families, and eliminating all legal pathways for immigration.

Trump is threatening to invoke the Insurrection Act this is a dangerous escalation.

Tell Nexstar and Sinclair: Protect our TV against Trump. Don't censor Jimmy Kimmel. Jimmy Kimmel returned to air. But this fight isn't over – broadcasting giants Nexstar and Sinclair declared that they still won't air the show on their ABC affiliates.

Nexstar and Sinclair are sending a message — they want to give in to President Trump's anti-free speech demands.

Tell Nexstar and Sinclair: Don't give in to President Trump's anti-free speech demands and defend our right to joke.

ABC bringing Kimmel back to air, but some station owners are boycotting him Nexstar and Sinclair say they will continue to preempt the late-night show, a move that affects dozens of markets, including D.C., St. Louis and Nashville.

After widespread public pressure, including from over 475 artists and 40,000 ACLU supporters, Jimmy Kimmel is back on air, but Nexstar and Sinclair, two of the biggest local TV station owners in the country, have announced that they won’t air the show on their ABC affiliates.

Judges Don’t Know What AI’s Book Piracy Means Can AI companies keep stealing books to train their models?

And this article by tech journalist
@alexreisner.bsky.social (who is worth following), in @theatlantic.com:
www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
#academicsky
#bookpirates

with polling Americans on their views about vaccines. The move comes as Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. pushes a broader effort to scale back federal health agencies that oversee vaccine development and recommendations.

US appeals court rejects Trump bid to restore passport policy targeting transgender people A federal appeals court on Thursday declined to allow U.S. President Donald Trump's administration to refuse to issue passports to transgender and nonbinary Americans that reflect their gender identities.

This ruling reaffirms that the Trump administration has no legal basis to deny us passports that reflect who we are.

We'll keep fighting to make sure this harmful policy stays blocked.

More than 40 people detained in ICE raid at Central NY factory: Gov. Hochul ‘outraged’ More than 50 agents, some in masks and wearing bullet proof vests, raided the nutrition bar factory in Cato.

Yesterday's ICE raid near Syracuse was a chilling and unnecessary show of force - officers descended upon the factory with crowbars and masks to detain people who were just doing their jobs.

Many of their kids came home from school to find their families torn apart. This is senseless and cruel.

Texas AG Ken Paxton encourages students to recite Lord’s Prayer in latest test of church-state separation The endorsement comes as Texas elected officials push for more Christianity in public life and as Paxton’s office fights a legal challenge to religion in education.

The First Amendment is clear: Politicians like Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton have no business telling public school students or anyone else whether or how to pray.

We're in court today challenging the Trump administration's targeting of people attending their mandated immigration court hearings.

Systematically arresting people carrying out their legal duty is unconstitutional.

NEW: We filed a brief in support of federal workers targeted by President Trump's executive order eliminating their right to collectively bargain.

The administration is unconstitutionally retaliating against unions for their protected speech, including lawsuits they've filed against the government.

There is no cure for rabies

I know, I know, but: The president of the US saying, literally, "we're going in" in reference to sending the military to an American city for no reason beyond terrorizing the local population should be the most immediately impeachable shit imaginable

Appeals Court Blocks Trump’s Use of Alien Enemies Act to Deport Venezuelans The case appears set to return to the Supreme Court in a decisive battle over President Trump’s use of the 18th-century law to deport migrants.

Late last night, a federal appeals court blocked President Trump from using the Alien Enemies Act to deport immigrants.

This is a huge win for the rule of law. Once again, a court ruled that Trump can't invoke a false emergency to grab power.

NEW: We filed a public comment opposing the Department of Labor's plan to strip wage protections from millions of home care workers.

Most home care workers are women of color, and many already live in poverty. This change will push them further into hardship and worsen the home care labor shortage.

Palestinian student Mohsen Mahdawi returns to Columbia University: ‘They have failed to silence me’ Mahdawi was targeted and arrested for deportation due to his activism but the permanent US resident is resuming postgraduate studies

The Trump administration thought they could scare Mohsen Mahdawi into silence by detaining him for his advocacy in support of Palestinian human rights.

But he is proof that the First Amendment is stronger than the government.

BREAKING: A court rejected the Trump administration's attempt to dismiss our lawsuit challenging government censorship of medical research that references the LGBTQ community.

This is great news, and our work to defend scientific research will continue in court.

Military troops have no place patrolling our streets.

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We won’t back down from fighting President Trump’s escalating abuses of power.

DeSantis administration pushes to eliminate all vaccine mandates in Florida • Florida Phoenix School children, college students, and even nursing home residents would no longer have to be vaccinated against infectious diseases and viruses if Florida Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo and his boss, ...

Wow, Florida at it again… planning to become the first state to end all vaccine mandates, even for schoolkids. Don’t let the facts of decades of preventing outbreaks and protecting public health get in the way.

Federal agents arrest firefighters working on WA wildfire Federal agents showed up northeast of Lake Cushman to check identification of crew members fighting Washington's largest active wildfire.

Detaining firefighters risking their lives to keep us safe shows a blatant disregard for our communities.

Once again, the Trump administration is placing its cruel anti-immigrant agenda above public safety.