The FAA’s “Temporary” Flight Restriction for Drones is a Blatant Attempt to Criminalize Filming ICE

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/04/faas-temporary-flight-restriction-drones-blatant-attempt-criminalize-filming-ice

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The FAA’s “Temporary” Flight Restriction for Drones is a Blatant Attempt to Criminalize Filming ICE

Legal intern Raj Gambhir was the principal author of this post.The Trump administration has restricted the First Amendment right to record law enforcement by issuing an unprecedented nationwide flight restriction preventing private drone operators, including professional and citizen journalists,...

Electronic Frontier Foundation

#ICYMI: “It’s pretty facially an attempt to mollify the White House post Charlie Kirk’s assassination. … What I’m seeing is the unfettered use of these very powerful tools and these very powerful statutes, absent any sort of norms or guardrails that normally would be in place to guard against overreach.” https://www.texasobserver.org/prairieland-antifa-verdict-threatens-anti-trump-resistance/

#Trump #politics #USpol #FreeSpeech #antifia #terrorism #law #Texas #NorthTexas #ICE

How the Prairieland 'Antifa' Verdict Threatens the Anti-Trump Resistance

Last week's convictions related to a July 4 ICE detention center demonstration raise red flags about the right to protest. “This can happen to you, and if they can do it to you, they will.”

The Texas Observer
When an airport rejected this harassment lawyer's small ad, she sued. Now she has a giant billboard
A New York airport authority rejected sexual harassment lawyer Megan Thomas's ad copy and asked her to tone it down, so she filed a free speech lawsuit. The judge took her side, and now she has two massive ads on full display.
https://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/sexual-harassment-billboard-9.7152106?cmp=rss

Australia

Where parliaments, industry and institutions are headed up by mediocracy. Their hierarchical underlings look up and see brilliance. The rest of us ponder whether there is anything we can do to make things better.

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Australia

The PM tells us to keep quiet, it is just an acorn.

#auspol #democracy #freespeech

Australia

Some people would like to go back to the way things were. However the way things were is what got us here. We need to progress and adapt to a changing world, in politics, power and relationships.

A clever country would be building relationships and infrastructure for the future.

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NASA killed Archduke Franz Ferdinand to hide the truth that John Lennon discovered Lucifer's crypt and was killed to keep it a secret ... Archduke Franz Ferdinand found out using mind reading. Lucifer's crypt is on Google Maps , and there's a video about it on YouTube. We all know what's going on here. WHEN THEY DID AN AUTOPSY ON JOHN LENNON IT TURNED OUT IT WAS A LOOK-ALIKE ! #freespeech #truth

Weakening Speech Protections Will Punish All of Us—Not Just Meta

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/04/dont-weaken-speech-protections-just-punish-meta

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Weakening Speech Protections Will Punish All of Us—Not Just Meta

Recently, a California Superior Court jury found that Meta and YouTube harmed a user through some of the features they offered. And a New Mexico jury concluded that Meta deceived young users into thinking its platforms were safe from predation. It’s clear that many people are frustrated by big tech...

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Australia

The Epstein class parties on while the rest of us try and balance what we need today with what we might need in the coming year.

We still do not know how bad it needs to get!

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