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fromenglish.elpais.com
1 month ago
US politics

Trump's show of force

Trump's agenda seeks to weaken the United States abroad, militarize cities, intimidate citizens, and use government power to establish authoritarian rule at home.
fromFast Company
1 month ago
US politics

Americans are losing their democracy in the same way they've failed to stop climate change-not with a bang but a whimper

Americans are gradually acclimating to growing authoritarian measures, showing slow political and civic resistance despite escalating erosions of freedoms and democratic checks.
fromFast Company
1 month ago
US politics

Americans are losing their democracy in the same way they've failed to stop climate change-not with a bang but a whimper

#ice
#first-amendment
fromFast Company
3 days ago
US politics

May the First Amendment be with you: Protester sues after 'Imperial March' performance sparks arrest

fromFast Company
3 days ago
US politics

May the First Amendment be with you: Protester sues after 'Imperial March' performance sparks arrest

US politics
fromThe New Yorker
3 days ago

What if the Big Law Firms Hadn't Caved to Trump?

Failure of institutions and firms to resist executive abuse of power enables political leaders to weaponize law enforcement and erode democratic norms.
#digital-id
UK politics
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 month ago

Keir Starmer says digital ID cards an enormous opportunity' for the UK

UK government proposes a Digital ID 'Brit card' to tighten borders, reduce illegal work, and offer citizens streamlined access to services amid civil liberties concerns.
UK politics
fromwww.independent.co.uk
1 month ago

Every adult in Britain to require new Brit Card' ID

The UK government plans a mandatory digital ID for all adults to verify right to live and work, aiming to reduce illegal migration and black-market employment.
#immigration-enforcement
fromKqed
5 days ago
US politics

Activists, Federal Agents Clash at Coast Guard Base During Immigration Crackdown | KQED

fromGothamist
5 days ago
US politics

Lawyers call Canal Street ICE raid a show of force that targeted low-level sellers

fromKqed
5 days ago
US politics

Activists, Federal Agents Clash at Coast Guard Base During Immigration Crackdown | KQED

fromGothamist
5 days ago
US politics

Lawyers call Canal Street ICE raid a show of force that targeted low-level sellers

SF politics
fromSFGATE
5 days ago

SF institution hangs protest banners as federal agents are sent to Bay Area

City Lights Bookstore displayed banners condemning deceptive leaders, silenced voices, rising bigotry, and eroding freedoms as federal agents were sent to the Bay Area.
US politics
fromwww.amny.com
5 days ago

ICE raid fallout: Goldman says feds detained four American citizens detention overnight, pledges task force in response | amNewYork

Four American citizens were arrested during an ICE raid in Chinatown and detained overnight at 26 Federal Plaza before release without charges.
US politics
fromwww.theguardian.com
6 days ago

US military destroys alleged drug-trafficking boat in Pacific for first time

US forces struck and destroyed a drug-smuggling boat off Colombia — the first Pacific-side strike amid an expanding, controversial campaign that has caused multiple deaths.
#immigration
fromwww.aljazeera.com
1 week ago
US politics

Lawyers urge US appeals court to uphold Mahmoud Khalil's release order

Mahmoud Khalil, a legal permanent resident, was freed from immigration detention while appeals courts consider challenges to his deportation over pro-Palestine campus activism.
fromBoston.com
2 weeks ago
US news

Using helicopters and chemical agents, immigration agents become increasingly aggressive in Chicago

Federal immigration raids in Chicago have involved helicopter assaults, chemical agents, mass arrests and detentions of citizens, legal residents, and children, intensifying community tensions.
fromBoston.com
2 weeks ago
US news

Using helicopters and chemical agents, immigration agents become increasingly aggressive in Chicago

#domestic-militarization
#nypd
fromGothamist
1 week ago
US politics

Legal experts question Rep. Goldman's call for NYPD to arrest ICE agents if they act unlawfully

fromGothamist
1 week ago
US politics

Legal experts question Rep. Goldman's call for NYPD to arrest ICE agents if they act unlawfully

US politics
fromenglish.elpais.com
1 week ago

ICE intensifies surveillance of immigrants with facial recognition programs, human tracking, and social media monitoring

ICE is acquiring expansive surveillance tools, including biometrics, spyware, and social-media monitoring, raising concerns about targeting immigrants and threats to free expression.
US politics
fromwww.aljazeera.com
1 week ago

US appeals court says Trump can send soldiers to Portland, Oregon

Court allows Trump administration to federalize and deploy 200 National Guard members to Portland despite lack of serious emergency and local objections.
US politics
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 week ago

Lawmakers slam Ice after US military veterans are arrested, injured

Decorated congressional veterans expressed outrage after multiple US military veterans were arrested or injured during protests over immigration enforcement and proposed national guard deployments.
US politics
fromwww.mercurynews.com
1 week ago

Blazakis: Trump's new order could redefine protests as domestic terrorism'

Executive orders create a template to weaponize federal law enforcement against dissent, threatening free expression, political protest, and municipal autonomy.
US politics
fromPortland Mercury
1 week ago

Portland City Council is Using City Codes to Fight Back Against Trump

Portland City Council approved two resolutions strengthening sanctuary protections and directing city bureaus to resist federal militarization and protect immigrant and protester rights.
#no-kings-protests
fromFast Company
1 week ago
US politics

No Kings October 18 protest: Millions expected in all 50 states for biggest rally yet against Trump. Here's what to know

fromFast Company
1 week ago
US politics

No Kings October 18 protest: Millions expected in all 50 states for biggest rally yet against Trump. Here's what to know

fromThe Nation
1 week ago

The Right Is Lying About Left-Wing Violence

Portlanders deploying inflatable animal costumes, a brass band, mass ukulele renditions of "This Land Is Your Land," naked bike rides, and other tactics in their ICE protests are undermining the Trump administration's lurid claims that Portland, Oregon, is a "war-torn" city under siege by a violent left. It's hard to portray someone dancing in an inflatable frog or chicken costume as a terrorist.
US politics
UK politics
fromwww.independent.co.uk
1 week ago

Labour bank spying bill will bring unprecedented surveillance,' charities warn

Labour's Fraud, Error and Debt Bill lets the DWP access claimants' bank accounts and deduct funds, risking mass surveillance and disproportionate harm to vulnerable groups.
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 week ago

Outcry after US strips visas from six foreigners over Charlie Kirk remarks

On Tuesday, the state department announced it was systematically identifying visa holders who celebrated the heinous assassination of Charlie Kirk, declaring in a social media statement that the United States has no obligation to host foreigners who wish death on Americans. The visa cancellations represent an escalating government-wide campaign to suppress criticism of Kirk, who was killed last month. The administration cut visas for nationals from Argentina, South Africa, Mexico, Brazil, Germany and Paraguay.
US politics
fromComputerWeekly.com
2 weeks ago

Why Keir Starmer's mandatory national digital ID system may be neither mandatory nor national | Computer Weekly

Civil service officials last week attempted to quell the second uproar of the year from private sector digital ID app providers in a behind-closed-doors meeting, while this week (Monday 13 October) new technology secretary Liz Kendall attempted to face down MPs from all parties in a House of Commons debate as they expressed their concerns and protestations at the plans.
UK politics
World politics
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 weeks ago

Right to protest is under sustained attack in the west, report finds

Western governments have increasingly criminalised pro-Palestinian protests, using counter-terrorism and antisemitism measures to suppress dissent and target racialised communities.
#nspm-7
US politics
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 weeks ago

Page one of the authoritarian playbook': how Trump and allies are exploiting Kirk's killing

Trump and Maga allies have used Charlie Kirk's killing to intensify attacks on liberal groups and label critics as the radical "enemy within."
US politics
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 weeks ago

US immigration enforcement using military hardware and tactics on civilians

Federal law enforcement agencies deploy military-style hardware and tactics, conducting raids that render civilian homes uninhabitable and traumatize residents.
fromThe New Yorker
2 weeks ago

ICE Job Postings

ICE wants YOU to betray your fellow-HUMANS. Join ICE today and receive UP TO a $50,000 signing bonus, which YOU can spend on anything YOU want-like a LAWYER when you're eventually TRIED at THE HAGUE. ICE wants YOU to forget that YOU and nearly everyone YOU have ever KNOWN are descended from IMMIGRANTS. We also want YOU to ignore the FACT that the FIRST LADY worked in the U.S. before ever getting a WORK VISA.
US politics
US politics
fromThe Nation
2 weeks ago

Mahmoud Khalil Warns That the US Is Failing the Palestine Test

U.S. authorities detained Mahmoud Khalil for his pro-Palestine advocacy and seek his deportation, illustrating authoritarian suppression of dissent.
UK politics
fromwww.theguardian.com
3 weeks ago

How would tougher powers for police affect protests in England and Wales?

Police will gain powers to impose tougher conditions on protests by considering the cumulative impact of prior similar demonstrations.
fromNextgov.com
3 weeks ago

Keep Senate confirmation for top intelligence lawyers, civil liberties groups urge

"The general counsels of the CIA and ODNI wield extraordinary influence, and they do so entirely in secret, shaping policies on surveillance, detention, interrogation and other highly consequential national security matters," they wrote in the letter sent Friday and addressed to the top Republican and Democratic leaders on the Senate and House intelligence committees. "Moreover, they are the ones primarily responsible for determining the boundaries of what these agencies may lawfully do."
US politics
UK politics
fromwww.theguardian.com
3 weeks ago

It starts with Palestine protests. But where will the crackdown on Britain's democratic freedoms end? | Owen Jones

Protest in Britain has been reduced from a right to a government-controlled privilege, with new rules and penalties restricting dissent and criminalizing defiance.
US politics
fromTruthout
3 weeks ago

Lawmakers Demand Information About Potential Use of Paragon Spyware by ICE

Federal lawmakers demanded DHS disclose ICE's plans to use Graphite spyware that can access phones' location data, photos, and encrypted apps without owners' consent.
UK politics
fromwww.independent.co.uk
3 weeks ago

Zack Polanski warns Keir Starmer's Britain is descending into authoritarianism

Zack Polanski vows to defend Britain from a descent into authoritarianism under Sir Keir Starmer and to protect civil liberties and privacy.
#military-drills
fromThe Mercury News
3 weeks ago
US politics

Letters: We must wake Congress to the danger of Donald Trump

Military drills and rhetoric risk enabling authoritarian suppression of dissent, threatening civil liberties and requiring political pressure to stop.
fromwww.mercurynews.com
3 weeks ago
US politics

Letters: Trump's police state isn't on anyone's wish list

Trump's rhetoric about using military in U.S. cities is seen as preparing authoritarian control and prompts calls to remove surveillance cameras to protect civil liberties.
Chicago
fromwww.esquire.com
3 weeks ago

Federal Agents Are Using This Gang as a New Excuse to Target Immigrants in Chicago

Federal agents conducted a pre-dawn immigration raid at a Chicago apartment building, detaining dozens and leaving residents displaced with damaged or missing belongings.
fromTruthout
3 weeks ago

Trump's ICE Turns Its Target to Activists, Not Just Immigrants

As President Donald Trump prepares to further unleash a rapidly expanding surveillance state against the administration's critics, recent legal struggles from activists who document and protest Trump's mass deportation campaign may be a preview of what's to come as part of a broader effort to silence dissent. Trump made headlines on September 22 with an executive order declaring "Antifa," short for anti-fascist, a domestic terrorist organization.
US politics
New York City
fromwww.amny.com
3 weeks ago

ICE attack on reporters: Press freedom and civil liberties groups condemn assault of amNewYork journalist, and others | amNewYork

ICE officers shoved and injured multiple journalists and a photographer at Manhattan's immigration court, prompting demands for investigation and accountability.
fromBoston.com
3 weeks ago

U.S. argues that detained protesters can't seek release in federal court

Now, the government is seeking to convince a New York appeals court that the tool, a habeas corpus petition, should be generally off-limits in such cases, arguing that it runs afoul of American immigration law. If the U.S. argument is successful, noncitizens detained by the administration and placed in immigration proceedings could lose one of the most dependable methods of challenging their detention.
US politics
Social justice
fromwww.berkeleyside.org
3 weeks ago

Remembering Ann Fagan Ginger, 100, 'oracle of justice' who fought McCarthyism and championed human rights

Ann Fagan Ginger dedicated seven decades to civil liberties and human rights law, founding the Meiklejohn Institute and challenging McCarthyism despite persecution.
fromTruthout
4 weeks ago

Trump Hints at Using Military to Quell Domestic Dissent and "Enemy From Within"

On Tuesday, President Donald Trump told U.S. military leaders to prepare to engage in domestic missions, saying the military would likely be targeting the "enemy from within" - a phrase Trump has used in the past to refer to progressives and left-leaning groups. The nation's top military heads gathered at Marine Corps Base Quantico, about 30 miles south of Washington D.C.
US politics
US politics
fromwww.mediaite.com
1 month ago

Trump Says He's Sending Troops To War Ravaged' America City Authorizes Full Force'

President Donald Trump ordered federal troops to protect Portland and ICE facilities, authorizing use of "full force" against alleged Antifa and other domestic threats.
US politics
fromSlate Magazine
1 month ago

This Poem Explains Why Jim Comey Got Indicted and Why None of Us Are Safe

Rapid, simultaneous targeting of diverse groups shows political repression can be immediate and communal, undermining assumptions that oppression occurs sequentially.
US politics
fromenglish.elpais.com
1 month ago

ICE's unprecedented recruitment campaign is transforming US law enforcement

ICE is recruiting local police with large bonuses and loan forgiveness, rapidly expanding agents while raising concerns about training, rights abuses, and weakened local crime-fighting.
#political-violence
fromTruthout
1 month ago
Right-wing politics

Conservatives Are Using Charlie Kirk's Death to Enact Sweeping Speech Crackdown

fromTruthout
1 month ago
Right-wing politics

Conservatives Are Using Charlie Kirk's Death to Enact Sweeping Speech Crackdown

US politics
fromBoston.com
1 month ago

'Disturbing trend': Malden man, married to U.S. citizen, detained by ICE

Federal immigration agents arrested and detained Edgar Hernan Elias Escobar during an ICE 'Operation Patriot 2.0' action, injuring him and prompting calls for his release.
#executive-order
#antifa
Law
fromWIRED
1 month ago

DHS Has Been Collecting US Citizens' DNA for Years

Agencies expanded DNA collection and Rapid DNA deployment for immigration and arrestee processing, causing massive sample increases and backlogs that threaten civil liberties.
fromTruthout
1 month ago

DHS Official Calls California Ban on Masked Agents "Garbage"

No one wants masked officers roaming their communities and kidnapping people with impunity,
US politics
fromLos Angeles Times
1 month ago

Predator drones shift from border patrol to protest surveillance

When MQ-9 Predator drones flew over anti-ICE protests in Los Angeles this summer, it was the first time they had been dispatched to monitor demonstrations on U.S. soil since 2020, and their use reflects a change in how the government is choosing to deploy the aircraft once reserved for surveilling the border and war zones.
US politics
UK politics
fromwww.bbc.com
1 month ago

Lib Dems consider ditching opposition to ID cards

The Liberal Democrats are reconsidering opposition to ID cards and may support a citizen-centered digital ID while warning against authoritarian misuse.
US politics
fromFast Company
1 month ago

The house that ICE built

Geo Group profits from detaining immigrants, exemplified by Mahmoud Khalil's out-of-state imprisonment despite being a legal permanent resident and not accused of a crime.
fromThe Nation
1 month ago

Trump's Petty-Tyrant Brand of Fascism

What are you supposed to call it when masked and uniformed federal police show up at a political rally for an opposition politician? Or when the president essentially declares martial law in the capital city? Or, for that matter, when the executive is trying to enforce its cultural policy on a nation's universities and museums? And what else to call it when the administration is trying to cook the unemployment numbers to hide a struggling economic picture?
US politics
#live-facial-recognition
US politics
fromTruthout
1 month ago

New Bill Would Allow Rubio to Strip US Citizens' Passports Over Political Speech

A proposed bill would allow the Secretary of State to revoke or deny U.S. passports without legal due process, potentially punishing political speech.
US politics
fromTruthout
1 month ago

11 Dems Join House GOP to Pass Bill to "Supercharge" Trump Anti-Migrant Agenda

The House advanced HR 3486, Stop Illegal Entry Act, increasing penalties for repeated illegal entry and felonies, drawing critics who call it dehumanizing and overbroad.
fromwww.standard.co.uk
1 month ago

'Major escalation' in Palestine Action protests as Parliament Square 'national mobilisation' demo announced

Palestine Action have been branded as a terrorist organisation', for trying to stop crimes against humanity and for exposing the British government's complicity in genocide. 'Yvette Cooper, the Home Secretary, introduced the ban after Palestine Action entered the RAF base at Brize Norton and spray painted two military planes red, shining a spotlight on the role of the British military in partnering Israel's genocide against the Palestinian people.
UK politics
Alternative medicine
fromNatural Health News
1 month ago

US Has Rejected the Amendments to the International Health Regulations

The United States formally rejected WHO's 2024 IHR amendments because they would transfer binding public health authority to an unelected international body.
US politics
fromThe Atlantic
1 month ago

Trump's Military Rule

President Trump's foreign-policy actions and domestic deployments undermine U.S. alliances, democratic norms, and risk normalizing authoritarian tactics ahead of future elections.
fromwww.aljazeera.com
1 month ago

Banksy mural of UK judge hitting protester scrubbed from London court wall

The mural, believed to comment on the UK's crackdown on the group Palestine Action, was removed just days after its unveiling in London. Anonymous street artist Banksy's mural showing a judge hitting a protester with a gavel has been removed from the wall of a court building in London two days after it was revealed, in what appeared to be a response to a crackdown on protests in solidarity with the Palestine Action campaign group.
UK politics
US politics
fromThe Nation
1 month ago

The Cubs Should Ban Charlie Kirk From Wrigley Field

Chicago faces the threat of domestic military occupation while political leaders label justice-seeking protestors as enemies and advocate forceful suppression.
US politics
fromwww.mercurynews.com
1 month ago

Amid growing backlash to masked ICE agents, San Jose could be the next city to try prohibiting federal agents from concealing their identities

San Jose seeks an ordinance banning law enforcement masks and requiring visible identification to ensure transparency, accountability, and public safety.
fromThe Washington Post
1 month ago

UK police arrest over 800 people at pro-Palestinian demonstration

Britain's Metropolitan Police arrested 857 peoplefor "showing support" for Palestine Action, an activist group thatthe government designated under the Terrorism Act in July. In doing so, the government made it a crime to wear an item of clothing, or display or carry something that might "arouse reasonable suspicion" that one is a member or supporter of the group. The penalty is prison time, a fine, or both.
UK politics
US politics
fromwww.aljazeera.com
1 month ago

US Supreme Court allows Trump's controversial immigration raids to continue

Supreme Court allows federal agents to resume broad Los Angeles immigration raids, permitting targeting based on language, ethnicity, job type, and location, enabling racial profiling.
fromTruthout
1 month ago

Tens of Thousands March to White House to Protest Trump's Occupation of DC

It was the city's first major organized protest since President Donald Trump declared a state of emergency and unleashed federal troops onto its streets. Banners waved and voices rose in unison at the "We Are All D.C." march, a massive show of resistance led by a coalition that included Free DC, defenders of local self-rule, Democracy Forward, and the American Civil Liberties Union. Their message was clear: the federal occupation of the capital must end.
US politics
fromwww.mercurynews.com
1 month ago

Thousands protest against Trump's occupation' of DC

Thousands of protesters marched across Washington, D.C., on Saturday in one of the largest demonstrations against President Donald Trump's federal takeover of policing in the nation's capital. Behind a bright red banner reading END THE D.C. OCCUPATION in English and Spanish, protesters marched over two miles from Meridian Hill Park to Freedom Plaza near the White House to rail against the fourth week of National Guard troops and federal agents patrolling D.C.'s streets.
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