#DueProcess #CivilLiberties #Constitution
These are the sort of escalations we need to closely watch. Seems like a clear test of how the public responds to posse comitatus type powers.
Trump announced a plan Friday (4/4) to turn a 60 ft strip along the MX border in CA, AZ & NM into a military installation and transfer authority over the federal border land to Defense Dept... Military patrolling there could then detain migrants for trespassing on a military reservation.
#politics #civilliberties #martiallaw
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/11/us/politics/trump-military-border.html
State of Emergency in US #HigherEd
Alan Wald of UMichigan's Faculty and Staff for Justice in #Palestine discusses the climate of #politicalRepression directed at #PalestineSolidarity work and the parallels with earlier periods including the McCarthy and Red Scare eras
https://marxedproject.org/event/state-of-emergency-in-us-higher-education/
#Gaza #GazaSolidarity #StudentProtests #FacultyProtests #USpol #USpolitics #stateRepression #FreeSpeechOnCampus #deportations #civilLiberties #civilRights #censorship #AcademicFreedom @palestine
Alan Wald presents an overview of the state of emergency in higher education in the United States that recalls earlier eras of extreme political repression, such as McCarthyism in the 1950s. Students, faculty, and staff at US colleges and universities who stand up for Palestinian human rights and stopping the genocide in Gaza are being threatened with deportation and punished by the administrations.
Pro-#Palestinian protester’s lawyer stopped and searched at US border: ‘They were going to take my device’
Amir Makled says immigration officials questioned him about his phone’s contents. Experts warn fourth amendment rights have been weakened at the border
from #TheGuardian #Guardian
Johana Bhuiyan
Sat 12 Apr 2025 08.00 EDT
"#AmirMakled thought he was being racially profiled. A Lebanese American who was born and raised in Detroit, the attorney was returning home from a family vacation in the Dominican Republic when he said an immigration official at the Detroit Metro airport asked for a “TTRT” agent after scanning his passport on Sunday. Makled said the expression on the agent’s face changed. He felt something “odd” was happening."
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/12/amir-makled-phone-search-border-immigration?CMP=share_btn_url
#DefendAcademicFreedom
#ReleaseMahmoudKhalil
#repression
#CivilLiberties
#DefendFreeSpeech
#ProtestIsNotACrime
#DefendStudentProtesters
#NeverStopTalkingAboutPalestine
#USA #US #USPolitics #Trump
#news #press @palestine
I haven't done a #FollowFriday list in a while. Here are some of my favorite #HumanRights accounts (in alphabetical order):
@404mediaco
404 Media is a journalist-founded digital media company exploring the ways technology is shaping–and is shaped by–our world. We're focused on investigative reports, longform features, blogs, and scoops about topics including: hacking, cybersecurity, cybercrime, sex, artificial intelligence, consumer rights, surveillance, privacy, and the democratization of the internet.
@AIF_Massachusetts
American Iron Front in Massachusetts: standing against Nazis, the alt-right, and fascists of all stripes in Massachusetts and the greater New England area.
@BLKNewsNow
News blog covering stories for Black America, the Black diaspora, and allies from all backgrounds.
@CrimethInc
CrimethInc. is a rebel alliance—a decentralized network pledged to anonymous collective action—a breakout from the prisons of our age. We strive to reinvent our lives and our world according to the principles of self-determination and mutual aid.
@DemocracyNow_Headlines_rss
Automated toots from Democracy Now's Headlines RSS feed. This account is not affiliated with #DemocracyNow.
@EndIsraeliApartheid
The UN report, entitled "Anatomy of a #Genocide", says Israel has violated three of the five acts listed in the UN Genocide Convention. The UN’s international court of justice (ICJ) has ordered Israel to end its occupation of the Palestinian territories “as rapidly as possible”.
@Freedom_Press
An independent, radical co-op controlled by its volunteers, Freedom runs Britain’s oldest anarchist press and its largest bookshop.
@humanrightswatch
This is the international organization #HumanRightsWatch.
@igd_news
In search of new forms of life. A digital community center and media platform featuring news, opinion, podcasts, and reporting on autonomous social movements and revolt across so-called North America from an #anarchist perspective.
@indybay
San Francisco Bay Area Independent Media Center • Anti-Oppression Anti-Capitalist Open Publishing Since 2000 Make media • Make trouble!
@MikeDunnAuthor
Working Class Historical Fiction from the not so gilded age. Labor History. Social justice. An injury to one is an injury to all!
@mondoweiss
We cover the movements, activists and policymakers who affect the struggle for freedom in #Palestine. We are now on Peertube! Watch our videos in the fediverse and follow us there for updated video content: https://video.mondoweiss.net
@MusiqueNow
#Music #Musique #Musica #Musik #pouetradio #WeAreTheRadio and #news. #SolidarityWithPalestineRadio
#TransAndNonBinaryrRightsAreHumanRights #QueersBashBACK #NEVERAGAINforANYONE
@PoliceStateUK
Tracking politics, policing and #CivilLiberties in the UK.
@RadicalGraffiti
Just sharing pics of #AntiCapitalist, Anti-#authoritarian and #AntiColonial graffiti, stickers and street art seen around the world.
@Resister
MSW, RSW • She/Her • Settler • #Activist • #Vegan • Critical Consciousness Raiser •
Creator of - https://radicalsocial.work/about
@rmblaber1956
I am a retired academic, with an MA & PhD in Social Policy & Administration from the Universities of York & Kent respectively. I am disabled, & am deeply concerned about human, gay and disability rights, the climate emergency and the biodiversity crisis. I was politically homeless, but am increasingly favouring the Green Party. I like films, classical music, jazz & reading.
@Sherifazuhur
Research prof. (UCLA PhD - MIT, American Univ. In Cairo, CSU, UCB, SSI-US Army War College, Fulbright scholar, Syria) #MiddleEastNorthAfrican #history, #politics, #defense, #IslamicStudies, #arts, #thought, #education Toots on MENA current news.
@ThailandWatch
Posts about human rights and conflict related to Thailand. Posts by @peacemakers_ca
@UnicornRiot
Independent media amplifying stories from the frontlines of social and environmental struggles. Bookmark our website: https://unicornriot.ninja/
@USAJusticeWatch
Focus on the USA with emphasis on human rights and conflict. Please send a direct message for information about the curator of this account, who watches the US from another country. Messages deleted from time to time.
@YourAnonNews
We are Anonymous, we are legion, we do not forgive, we do not forget. Expect us. Prepared to go forward w/it. Here live. Not a cat. #Anonymous #HackThePlanet
#FridayFollows #FollowFridays #HumanRightsDefenders #HumanRightsNews #HumanRightsList
A quotation from Abraham Lincoln
This declared indifference, but as I must think, covert real zeal for the spread of slavery, I cannot but hate. I hate it because of the monstrous injustice of slavery itself. I hate it because it deprives our Republican example of its just influence in the world — enables the enemies of free institutions, with plausibility, to taunt us as hypocrites — causes the real friends of freedom to doubt our sincerity, and especially because it forces so many really good men amongst ourselves into an open war with the very fundamental principles of civil liberty — criticizing the Declaration of Independence, and insisting that there is no right principle of action but self-interest.Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) American lawyer, politician, US President (1861-65)
Speech (1854-10-16), “In Reply to Senator Douglas,” Peoria, Illinois
Sourcing, notes: wist.info/lincoln-abraham/3661…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #lincoln #abrahamlincoln #abelincoln #abolition #civilliberties #createdequal #DeclarationOfIndependence #equality #example #freedom #hypocrisy #principles #selfinterest #slavery
>2 centuries later, the system…has comprehensively failed. The people & institutions that are supposed to check #ExecutivePower are refusing to restrain #Trump. We now have a de facto #tyrant who thinks he can bend reality to his will w/o taking any facts or evidence into consideration, & w/o listening to any contrary views. Although the economic damage…is easier to measure, he has inflicted the same level of harm to #scientific #research, #CivilLiberties, #healthcare, & the #CivilService.
Take It Down Act nears passage; critics warn #Trump could use it against enemies
An anti-deepfake bill is on the verge of becoming US law despite concerns from civil liberties groups that it could be used by President Trump and others to #censor speech that has nothing to do with the intent of the bill.
#deepfake #civilliberties
"Judith Butler and Aziz Rana join Adam Shatz to discuss Donald #Trump’s use of #executiveOrders to target #birthrightCitizenship, #protest, support of Palestinian rights, #academicFreedom, constitutionally protected speech and efforts to ensure inclusion on the basis of race, gender and sexual orientation."
https://www.lrb.co.uk/podcasts-and-videos/podcasts/the-lrb-podcast/trump-s-war-by-executive-order
#USpol #MAGA #FreedomOfSpeech #politicalSpeech #TransRights #immigrantRights #civilRights #civilLiberties #stateRepression #PalestineSolidarity #Gaza @palestine