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Does the arresting officer ask this question at EACH and EVERY traffic stop? If not, this is #profiling and #racial #discrimination. That's #illegal. This officer should be facing #civil #rights violation charges. Meanwhile, keep the pressure on. Highlight every #detention. Get the #press involved. Shine a #light on these #wrong #arrests.

cnn.com/2025/04/17/us/lopez-go

#ICE#police#fascism

"ARE YOU JOKING? An immigration judge ordered a Venezuelan man sent to El Salvador on March 15 to be formally issued a deportation order under immigration laws for missing court.

He wouldn't have missed his court hearing🚨if Trump hadn't sent him to El Salvador!"
-A Reichlin-Melnick

Incompetence & the Trump regime's mass deportation crusade, jeopardize undocumented immigrants' lives💔.

So the rules currently are;
- If you're English, get out of the US.
- If you're German, get out of the US.
- If you're Swedish, get out of the US.
- If you're Australian, get out of the US.
- If you're Mexican, get out of the US.
- If you're American and not a Fascist, get out of the US.

Basically all the GOOD people need to leave the US and leave the cesspit to catch fire & consume the rest all on its own.

Civil Rights Division: acted as a sort of police of the police. When govt officials violate Americans’ #rights -the Div often enforces the law against LE.

H Dhillon heads it -helped Trump spread the Big Lie +ardent culture warrior & will likely be a major figure in the admin’s war on DEI -more pernicious: looking the other way on police abuse, leading to fed tolerance of over-policing policies like “stop & frisk” & racially biased pretextual stops of driv...

#DOJ #USPol thebulwark.com/p/justice-depar

The Bulwark · One Justice Department Office Is Key to Trump’s Authoritarian PlansBy Jonathan Blanks

"When the fed govt starts talking about ppl "hiding behind the #1A," look out."
-W Creeley

"🚨#DHS announced today: it's formalizing the #censorship practices it has engaged in for the past 3 months. By surveilling visa & green card holders & targeting them based on nothing more than their protected expression, the admin trades America’s commitment to free & open discourse for fear & silence. Unfortunately, that chill appears to be the admin’s aim."
-FIRE org

#ACLU People Power April Action Call: 100 Days Into The Fight For Our Rights. Join our next ACLU People Power Action Call on Thursday, April 17 at 8 PM ET for an update on where the fight stands—and how you can take action.

We'll share:
• A recap of what's happened since January
• How we're fighting back in court, in states, and in #Congress
• How you can stay in the fight for our communities and our rights

#humanrights #rights #law
act.aclu.org/a/aprilactioncall

PeoplePower.orgACLU People Power April Action Call: 100 Days Into The Fight For Our RightsTake action with ACLU People Power!

@eff , Civil Society Groups, Academics Call on #UK Home Secretary to Address Flawed Data Bill

Under sections 49 and 50 of the #DataProtectionAct 2018, solely automated decisions are prohibited from being made in the law enforcement context unless the decision is required or authorised by law. Clause 80 reverses this in all scenarios unless the data processing involves special category data.
#ai #rights

eff.org/deeplinks/2025/04/eff-

Electronic Frontier Foundation · EFF, Civil Society Groups, Academics Call on UK Home Secretary to Address Flawed Data BillLast week, EFF joined 30 civil society groups and academics in warning UK Home Secretary Yvette Cooper and Department for Science, Innovation...

WI's high turnout suggests that voters can grasp that courts/ #RuleOfLaw matters. It turns out families talk about more than the price of groceries. Dems shouldn’t shy away from raising issues of justice & fairness & indiv #rights.

One of the leading issues -was in the st SC contest 2 yrs ago, was #ReproductiveRights. Dems in WI hammered away at the theme that the R-backed cand -would ban abortion +ARG their SC could affect citizens’ access to HC.

#USPol #Resist #Courts thebulwark.com/p/wakeup-call-w

The Bulwark · A Wakeup Call in WisconsinBy William Kristol

Another preventable tragedy, on rights, disrupted lives, & on economic & societal terms:

">1.1M foreign students come to the US each year to study
--> they contributed >$43B to the US economy in foreign currency balances
--> students who came to the U.S. to study founded 55% of America’s 582 start-up companies worth at least $1B."
-J Allen

#Universities #Colleges #Trump #RIghts #Immigration #Racism #Economy #Trumpcession #USPol

newrepublic.com/article/193206

The New Republic · Trump’s Atrocious War on Higher Ed Demands an Aggressive ResponseAmerica’s colleges and universities enrich everyone in ways that aren’t often acknowledged. It’s high time to remind Americans of them.

PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT: If you are traveling you need to be aware of your #rights and those that could be taken from you when on the road. Axios has a helpful guide to understand how to secure your data. #SmartPhones #security #internet #politics #USpoli axios.com/2025/03/29/protectin

Axios · What to know about safeguarding phone data while travelingBy April Rubin

The #legal #rights people have if #ICE stops them

A sense of anxiety is gripping noncitizen residents of the #UnitedStates.

The 2nd #Trump admin kicked off w/a shock-&-awe effort aimed at arresting & deporting many immigrants without legal status. But stories are now emerging of both longtime legal permanent residents & visa holders being detained by ICE & other #immigration *officers*.

#law #Constitution #AlienEnemiesAct #DueProcess #Rendition #Abduction #CivilRights
npr.org/2025/03/28/nx-s1-53424

Continued thread

"Everyone on that group chat, including the Vice-President, the Director of National Intelligence, the National Security Advisor, and the Secretary of State, knew that what they were doing was against the rules, the guidance, and the law. But they were doing what they were doing, I would suggest, for a reason: precisely because it allowed them or their colleagues to compromise the rights of Americans."

#Trump #Signal #LawandOrder #rights
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"Using Signal enables American authorities to violate the rights of Americans. Signal is attractive not because it is secure with respect to foreign adversaries, which it is not, but because it is secure with respect to American citizens and American judges. The autodelete function, which Mike Waltz was using, violates the law."

~ Timothy Snyder

#Trump #Signal #LawandOrder #rights
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snyder.substack.com/p/signalga

Thinking about... · Signalgate: violating national securityBy Timothy Snyder