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    Nader Hashemi

    New Lines Magazine

    A visit to the ICE facility housing the Georgetown postdoctoral fellow Badar Khan Suri, whose case parallels those of Mahmoud Khalil and Rumeysa Ozturk.

    Published On: 04/23/2025

  • Legal • Resistance

    US Philanthropists Warn Against Capitulating to Trump

    David Smith

    The Guardian

    Foundation leaders say charitable organisations could be next in the firing line – but must ‘stand together’ to resist

    Published On: 04/19/2025

  • Democracy • Journalism • Legal • Press Freedom

    Why the Fight for Local Journalism Matters

    Joel Simon

    Columbia Journalism Review

    To sustain this new system, Thornton told me, nonprofit news organizations need diversified funding from membership, sponsorship, events, and philanthropy, which will need to support local media in perpetuity, the way they do the arts.

    Published On: 04/16/2025

  • Corruption • Legal

    Kleptocracy, Inc.

    Anne Applebaum

    The Atlantic

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    Published On: 04/14/2025

  • Legal

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    Steve Holland

    Reuters

    U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday signed directives targeting two former government officials who criticized him during his first term, calling one of them a traitor and saying they should be investigated.

    Published On: 04/10/2025

  • Democracy • Legal

    Trump’s New Executive Order Is an “Astonishing and Unprecedented Voter Suppression” Effort

    Ari Berman

    Mother Jones

    On Tuesday afternoon, President Donald Trump signed a far-reaching executive order that Eliza Sweren-Becker, senior counsel for the Brennan Center for Justice’s voting rights and elections program, described as “an astonishing and unprecedented voter suppression” effort. It would upend how Americans register to vote, how they cast their ballots, and how their votes are counted.

    Published On: 03/26/2025

  • Democracy • Legal

    Trump-Musk Order Will Cost 21 Million Their Vote

    Greg Palast

    gregpalast.com

    President Donald J. Trump issued an extraordinary Executive Order that would give Elon Musk access to the voter files of every state.

    Published On: 03/26/2025

  • Democracy • Legal

    Trump Ramps Up Retribution Campaign Against Legal Community

    Hugo Lowell

    The Guardian

    President ordered attorney general to refer partisan lawsuits to White House and recommend sanctions against firms

    Published On: 03/22/2025

  • Corruption • Legal

    Trump’s Biggest Corruption is Flying Under the Radar

    Chris Murphy

    Chris Murphy's Substack

    It’s all just a shameless scheme for Trump to legalize large scale bribery, and shockingly, very few people seem to have taken notice.

    Published On: 03/07/2025

  • Democracy • Legal

    Is Trump preparing to invoke the Insurrection Act? Signs are pointing that way

    Brett Wagner

    San Francisco Chronicle

    A joint Department of Defense and Homeland Security report will soon recommend whether or not to invoke the Insurrection Act over illegal migration

    Published On: 03/05/2025

  • Legal

    Energy Transfer’s High Stakes Legal Attack on Greenpeace

    Janine Jackson

    FAIR Counterspin

    ...this case is one of the most extraordinary examples of abuse of the US legal system that we have encountered in at least the last decade. And anyone who is concerned about protecting free speech rights, or is concerned about large corporations abusing their power to silence their critics, should be paying attention to this case, even though it’s happening in North Dakota state court." -- Kirk Herbertson, EarthRights International

    Published On: 02/28/2025

  • Democracy • Legal

    FCC’s Knives Are Out for First Amendment

    ARI PAUL

    FAIR

    Brendan Carr, newly appointed chair of the Federal Communications Commission, is waging a war on the news media, perhaps the most dangerous front in de jure President Donald Trump and de facto President Elon Musk’s quest to destroy freedom of the press and the First Amendment.

    Published On: 02/26/2025

  • Legal • Technology

    DOGE Sparks Surveillance Fear Across the US Government

    Paresh Dave, Dell Cameron, Alexa O'Brien

    Wired

    A federal law enforcement source warns that monitoring could theoretically be used to gather political intelligence on federal employees, while the administration looks for more palatable reasons to terminate them later; similar to how law enforcement may obtain evidence that's inadmissible in the course of a criminal investigation, but then search for another evidentiary basis to file charges.

    Published On: 02/21/2025

  • Democracy • Legal

    We Might Have to “Shut Down the Country”

    David Remnick

    The New Yorker

    Anthony Romero, the A.C.L.U.’s executive director, talks about what he thinks could happen if the Trump Administration defies the authority of the courts.

    Published On: 02/16/2025

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    Perversion of Justice: Jeffrey Epstein

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    Miami Herald

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