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ICE Digital Arms Buildup Equipping Agency for Mass Surveillance Operations
A new piece from Reason warns that ICE is rapidly acquiring the tools to conduct mass surveillance operations. While these capabilities are being amassed in the name of enforcing immigration law and detaining violent agitators coincident to anti-ICE demonstrations, the … Read more »
Trump Administration Threatens to Wield FCC Against Speech Foes
As reported by NPR, Trump-appointed FCC Chair Brendan Carr has made thinly veiled threats to revoke ABC’s broadcast license over comedian Jimmy Kimmel’s remarks on Trump ally Charlie Kirk. After Kimmel made remarks regarding Kirk’s assassin which many conservatives … Read more »
Trump Administration Closes in on Free Speech with Conspiracy Charges Against Protester
According to a new article in The Guardian, a nonviolent anti-ICE demonstrator is facing federal conspiracy charges. The accused, Bajun Mavalwalla II, attended a social media-publicized meetup at a DHS facility in Spokane, WA to oppose ICE detentions, … Read more »
Trump Attempts to Erode Free Speech with Executive Order Prosecuting Flag-Burning
As detailed in a press release issued by FIRE, Trump is attempting to chip away at free speech with a newly signed executive order cracking down on flag-burning. The new decree from Trump represents the latest and most dangerous … Read more »
With the Help of a Good DOGE, Trump Admin Unleashes Federal Data Aggregation Practices
A new piece in The Hill underscores the dangers of Trump’s moves to consolidate all the federal government’s data stores. Leading the charge is Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), which is insatiably chewing through records from widely-ranging government … Read more »
Trump Admin Continues Aerial Surveillance Creep with CBP Drone Deployed Over LA
The Guardian has reported that Customs and Border Protection (CBP) deployed a surveillance-capable drone in response to the anti-ICE protests in Los Angeles. In a statement, CBP maintains that the drone’s mission is purely to ensure the safety of … Read more »
Trump Administration Launches Major Challenge to First Amendment in Arrest, Threatened Deportation of Columbia Pro-Palestine Activist
According to The Guardian, the Trump administration has arrested a leader of the pro-Palestine demonstrations on the University of Columbia campus with the intent to deport him. In its announcement of the arrest of Mahmoud Khalil (a green card … Read more »
Justice Department Steps Up Assault on Press Freedom with Records Request Into New York Times Journalist
A new article from the New York Times reports that the Department of Justice sought, and was granted, communications records for a journalist as part of an investigation into a former Senate Intelligence Committee staffer who allegedly acted as a … Read more »
More Trump Inauguration Protester Prosecutions Dropped as Judge Rules Government Suppressed Evidence
Al Jazeera reports that US attorneys prosecuting a group of protesters at a Washington, DC Inauguration Day demonstration (known as J20) for felony rioting charges have dropped charges against a new group of defendants after a judge ruled that the … Read more »
From the President: Say No to Torture, Oppose Gina Haspel Nomination as CIA Chief
There is urgency to this posting because Congress will return from its Spring break April 9 and the Senate Intelligence Committee is expected to schedule quickly thereafter the Haspel confirmation hearings, to be followed almost immediately by full Senate vote.… Read more »
