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fromThe Atlantic
1 month ago

The Federal Bureau of Paranoia

Political loyalty tests in U.S. intelligence undermine national security efforts by prioritizing internal dissent over foreign threats.
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 months ago

We live in a second Red Scare': what can we learn from a chilling book about Florida's past?

Charley Johns was the state senator and governor who steered his eponymous committee. It came into being in 1956, towards the end of the national red scare.
SF politics
Left-wing politics
fromTruthout
2 months ago

US Communities Are Resisting ICE Raids to Protect Students and Neighbors

Truthout is appealing for support to counteract increased political repression under the Trump administration's McCarthy-style tactics.
Left-wing politics
fromTruthout
2 months ago

McCarthy Attacked Individual Professors. Trump Is Going After Entire Campuses.

The Trump administration's policies present a significant threat to academic freedom, described as worse than McCarthyism by historian Ellen Schrecker.
fromABA Journal
3 months ago

'Is this a throwback to the McCarthy era?' Judges consider injunction bids by firms targeted in Trump orders

U.S. District Judge Beryl A. Howell questioned whether the government's executive orders against law firms were reminiscent of the McCarthy era's anti-communist measures.
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