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The Solution to the Third-Term Threat Republican leaders need to speak up now, loudly and clearly, against any schemes to put Donald Trump back into the White House yet again.

Donald Trump’s supposed ambition for a third term is a legal problem with a political answer, Brian C. Kalt writes. “The people are the ultimate enforcers” of the Constitution:

A surveillance camera on an exterior wall.

We’ve mapped over 13,000 surveillance technologies used by police across the U.S.
Drones. License plate readers. Body-worn cameras.
It’s all in EFF’s Atlas of Surveillance—because you deserve to know who’s watching. Help us Take Back CTRL. takebackctrl.org/stop-survei...

Loved learning about this in law school

Jones Day partner, double-Gorsuch and Scalia clerk … on his way to the Ninth Circuit.

He will be replacing Judge Ikuta, a GWB nominee, if confirmed.

Every proposal from both major parties to tackle crime involves further intrusions into our privacy.

The attacker was already known to the authorities—just like the perpetrator of the Nottingham attacks.

So why is no one talking about the chronic underfunding of mental health services?

#r4today

Application Gatekeeping: An Ever-Expanding Pathway to Internet Apple and Google use their app stores to shape what apps you can and cannot have on devices, but now more governments—including the U.S. government—are using legal and extralegal tools to lean on

Google creating a global centralized registration system for new Android apps is a bad idea for users, for developers, and competition. Google should nip it in the bud now. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

We could fund over four months of SNAP benefits with the $40 billion Argentina received.

Zohran, Tish James and Brad Lander lead a procession of hundreds walking across the Brooklyn Bridge at dawn.

Tish James, Brad Lander, Tony Simone and Rita Joseph wait for the march on the bridge.

Zohran at a packed press conference outside city hall, Tish James and others raising their hands in the air.

Early this morning, our city still plunged into darkness, I set off to walk the Brooklyn Bridge.

As the sun came up, we were joined by canvassers, labor leaders, elected officials, and working people — a movement to bring a new day to our city.

Tomorrow, we win it together.

This is real and not a New Yorker comic or Onion headline

ACLU sues University of Michigan after pro-Palestine protesters banned from campus The civil rights group sued the University of Michigan to challenge the Ann Arbor school's policy that barred pro-Palestine protesters from campus.

"We're seeing heightened attacks on civil liberties and civil rights right now across the entire nation, including the right to speak out, among other things, on university campuses."
www.detroitnews.com/story/news/...

“This lack of transparency violates the First Amendment by denying the public the right to access and disseminate records of critical judicial proceedings, many of which constitute the bedrock upon which a functioning democracy is built.”

Read the full press release here: www.aclumich.org/en/press-re...

Amid Trump’s Assault on Free Speech, Advocates Stay Busy Three nonprofit legal organizations say their caseload has ramped up significantly since Trump took office. But so has public support for their work. Jameel Jaffer, a civil rights litigator for more than 25 years, said there is no question that President Donald Trump’s assault on free speech is unprecedented in his lifetime. And while he noted there may be some rough comparisons to be made with the McCarthy era, it almost certainly has no parallel in the last 100 years.

No place is President Trump's crusade against free speech more evident than in public schools and universities.

This new McCarthyism endangers our right to learn and speak free from government censorship, but President Trump can't rewrite the First Amendment no matter how hard he tries.

How Governors and Mayors Can Protect Nonprofits from Trump's NSPM-7 | ACLU President Trump’s new directive, NSPM-7, targets charities and advocacy groups under the guise of national security. State governors and local mayors can protect them by refusing to cooperate with politically motivated federal investigations.

President Trump's new national security memo aims to target activists and advocacy organizations that he perceives as political opponents.

States and cities must protect sensitive data that could be used by the Trump administration to identify and go after these nonprofits and advocates.

Judge hears testimony to decide if 7 facing felonies for U of M encampment will face a jury Ann Arbor Judge J. Cedric Simpson presided over two full days of preliminary exams for seven people charged with resisting arrest and trespassing at a May 21 police raid on an encampment created to ca...

On March 10 we heard the state's witnesses - all UMPD cops - defend their violence against UMich campers. We watched videos of them hitting people in the back as campers tried to get away from batons & pepper spray.
The cops should be prosecuted, not us.
www.michiganpublic.org/criminal-jus...

It might not have gotten through to Hawley, but this great line from @kateshaw.bsky.social really landed with the Hawley aide sitting behind his chart as she said it:

... and taking Harvey Milk's name off the ship during Pride month. For shame.

So the folks who want merit based hiring just rejected someone for [checks notes….] non-merit based reasons?

BREAKING: The Florida higher education system Board of Governors rejects the hiring of Santa Ono as University of Florida president. Vote was 6 yes, 10 no.

"I wrote this article condemning Dana Nessel for actively politically retaliating against our pro-Palestine activism at UofM. To build awareness on our cases, and to continue the fight to Drop the Charges + for Palestine, please read + share! ✊🏾🇵🇸" -Sammie Lewis
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Rubio says U.S. will 'aggressively' revoke visas for many Chinese students The announcement to revoke visas is the most drastic move yet to curtail the numbers of international students studying in the U.S.

The announcement to revoke visas most drastic move yet to curtail the numbers of international students studying in the U.S.

Insanity. Universities are not political enemies.

Trump is going to lose in court

At least 300 Russian websites were targeted and hacked since May 9th by Anonymous. Extent of damage unknown. #OpRussia

Bill Gates Has Harsh Words For Elon Musk’s Effect On Humanity “The picture of the world’s richest man killing the world’s poorest children is not a pretty one,” the Microsoft mogul said bluntly.

“The picture of the world’s richest man killing the world’s poorest children is not a pretty one,” the Microsoft mogul said bluntly.

Unchecked Balances No one is above the law, not even Pam Bondi. Freshman swing-state Democrat Dave Min is trying to hold Republicans accountable.

"The more you allow for violation—gross and brazen violations of the rule of law, of defying the Constitution, of defying the courts—to go unchecked, the harder it is to walk that back"
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CoreCivic CEO: Trump Administration Plans Will ‘Supercharge’ the Private Prison Industry In a quarterly earnings call, the private prison company told investors that it plans to expand its operations across the country.

In an earnings call this morning, CoreCivic's CEO told investors that Trump will "supercharge" the private-prison industry.

"Never in our 42-year company history have we had so much activity and demand for our services as we are seeing right now.” theappeal.org/corecivic-ea...

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