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#freespeech

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> [ #US Supreme Court] ruling green-lighted a wave of state-level #laws that allow meddling parents in conservative states to team up with personal injury #lawyers to sue people across state lines for untold damages (literally millions of dollars in some current cases) for a single paragraph of sexually-explicit speech on writers’ personal websites, if the parents think might harm the precious eyes and ears of their little munchkins.

ellsberg.substack.com/p/free-s

news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4

Michael Ellsberg's Missives · The Supreme Court’s Ruling Practically Wipes Out Free Speech for Sex Writing OnlineBy Michael Ellsberg
#FreeSpeech
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ℒӱḏɩę :blahaj:

After spending Thursday and Friday in Philadelphia, to attend RE+, I'm back and able to get some of these new drives into the antifa torrent server. I intend to swap two of these into the server this weekend, which is good timing because another old drive is now failing as well. That's like five 2TB drives that have dropped in the last 6 months lol. Thank you all so much for your generous donations to make this project continue! #resist #fascism #datahoarder #digitalpreservation #archive #archiveeverything #digitalactivism #resistanceculture #dataprivacy #infofreedom #independentsource #preservememory #solidarity #nocensorship #archivethefuture #digitalsurvival #freespeech #antifascist #historyisours #digitalsovereignty #safespace #fightfascism

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DoomsdaysCW

"Fusion centers like #JRIC play a central role in how police understand #protest movements. The intelligence they produce is rapidly disseminated and draws heavily on open-source data. It often reflects broad, risk-averse assumptions and includes fragmentary and unverified information. In the absence of concrete threats, bulletins often turn to ideological language and social media activity as evidence of emerging risks, even when tied to lawful expression.

"DHS’s risk-based approach reflects a broader shift in US law enforcement shaped by post-9/11 security priorities—one that elevates perceived intent over demonstrable wrongdoing and uses behavior cues, affiliations, and other potentially predictive indicators to justify early intervention and expanded surveillance."

#ThoughtCrime #ACAB #Fascism
#Authoritarianism #Resistance #Journalism #PoliceState #CriminalizingDissent #FreeSpeech #Protestors #USPol #CriminalizingProtest #Orwell #BigBrother #DoublePlusUngood
#SurveillanceState #NineteenEightyFour

AMonkeyInSilk 🇺🇦🇵🇸

Special Envoy, Jillian Segal’s Plan to Combat Antisemitism is a wide ranging deeply troubling plan to restrict fundamental freedoms and rights Australians take for granted.

Her desire to use the problematic International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s (IHRA) working definition of antisemitism, including its examples will stifle media, educators, institutions, universities, schools, dramatic arts and entertainment and make it practically impossible to legitimately criticise Israel.

Her plan to use political processes to enforce her biased views will damage Australian democracy, undermine judicial processes, natural justice and free speech.

Australia must not allow this plan to come anywhere close to being realised

#auspol #antisemitism #jilliansegal #freespeech

aseca.gov.au/sites/default/fil

DoomsdaysCW

#ColumbiaUniversity #protester #MahmoudKhalil files $20M claim against #Trump administration

By JAKE OFFENHARTZ
Updated 3:47 PM EDT, July 10, 2025

NEW YORK (AP) — "On a recent afternoon, Mahmoud Khalil sat in his Manhattan apartment, cradling his 10-week-old son as he thought back to the pre-dawn hours spent pacing a frigid immigration jail in Louisiana, awaiting news of the child’s birth in New York.

"For a moment, the outspoken Palestinian activist found himself uncharacteristically speechless.

" 'I cannot describe the pain of that night,' Khalil said finally, gazing down as the baby, Deen, cooed in his arms. 'This is something I will never forgive.'

"Now, weeks after regaining his freedom, Khalil is seeking restitution. On Thursday, his lawyers filed a claim for $20 million in damages against the Trump administration, alleging Khalil was #FalselyImprisoned, maliciously prosecuted and smeared as an #antisemite as the government sought to deport him over his prominent role in campus protests.

"The filing — a precursor to a lawsuit under the #FederalTortClaimsAct — names the #DepartmentOfHomelandSecurity, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the #USStateDepartment.

"It comes as the deportation case against Khalil, a 30-year-old recent graduate student at Columbia University, continues to wind its way through the immigration court system."

apnews.com/article/mahmoud-kha

#ResistICE#DHS#HomelandInsecurity
Alex T

FUN FACT: Canadian “high-speed” Internet (Bell, Rogers, etc) relies on peering with US networks. 🕵️ This means much of our (Canadian) online activity often travels through US datacenters and may be subject to US surveillance. 🕵️

If you’re privacy-conscious, consider a VPN for your most opinionated hours. Bitdefender offers a free VPN (200MB per day), and ProtonVPN is another free option with no limits, though it can be slower sometimes.

Feel free to share your thoughts.

#Privacy#Canada#Internet
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Kim Perales

"Agree. Is #ICE performing that "important job" or not?🚨Is arresting legal #immigrants for #freespeech part of its "impt job"? Rendering legal IMMs to foreign prisons w/o trial? Masked arrests? #DueProcess free removals? Inhumane #detention? Racial profiling?

Is ICE ignoring INTL criminal ENTs to arrest noncriminal asylum seekers part of its "impt job"? Is ICE ignoring court orders part of its "impt job"?"
-D Bier

🚨ICE no longer focuses on cartels, drug cases, trafficking, child expl...
#USPol

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