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Our authoritarian society: When an American political party needs an armed paramilitary wing to rule

Our authoritarian society: When an American political party needs an armed paramilitary wing to rule

Posted by | Dec 6, 2022

When I was a child there was a kid in our neighborhood who made my life hell. Dennis was a bully and delighted in chasing and beating up me and several others; we’d alter our route home from elementary school to avoid him. Some of the kids he pounded on joined him as a way of protecting themselves from him — the way Lindsay Graham sucks up to Donald Trump — which only increased the terror level for the rest of us in our little lower-middle-class suburb as Dennis and his friends formed their own gang. If there was...

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When Republicans politely deny antisemitism in public while fueling their base who actively embrace it

When Republicans politely deny antisemitism in public while fueling their base who actively embrace it

Posted by | Dec 5, 2022

Republicans finally got around to condemning Trump for having a Thanksgiving week dinner with Nick Fuentes. In front of a crowded dining room that rose to their feet and applauded when Trump, West, and Fuentes walked into the room. For the cameras and the world to see. Senator John Cornyn of Texas is the Senate Minority Whip — essentially the number two Republican in the Senate behind Mitch McConnell — and for four years was the chair of the Republican Senatorial Campaign Committee, in charge of getting Republicans elected. And, like the old pro he is, Senator Cornyn knew...

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GOP silent as Trump grabs headlines by advocating his dictatorship with overthrow of Constitution

GOP silent as Trump grabs headlines by advocating his dictatorship with overthrow of Constitution

Posted by | Dec 4, 2022

One of former president Trump’s messages on the struggling right-wing social media platform Truth Social went viral on December 3. In the message, Trump again falsely insisted that the 2020 presidential election had been characterized by massive and widespread fraud and deception. So, with the revelation of MASSIVE & WIDESPREAD FRAUD & DECEPTION in working closely with Big Tech Companies, the DNC, & the Democrat Party, do you throw the Presidential Election Results of 2020 OUT and declare the RIGHTFUL WINNER, or do you have a NEW ELECTION? A Massive Fraud of this type and magnitude allows for the...

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Digital Privacy: Federal bill aims to give users control over what personal data companies can collect

Digital Privacy: Federal bill aims to give users control over what personal data companies can collect

Posted by | Dec 2, 2022

By Anne Toomey McKenna, Visiting Professor of Law, University of Richmond Data privacy in the U.S. is, in many ways, a legal void. While there are limited protections for health and financial data, the cradle of the world’s largest tech companies, like Apple, Amazon, Google, and Meta (Facebook), lacks any comprehensive federal data privacy law. This leaves U.S. citizens with minimal data privacy protections compared with citizens of other nations. But that may be about to change. With rare bipartisan support, the American Data and Privacy Protection Act moved out of the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Energy...

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How private organizations are filling gaps in Federal programs to help Dreamers fulfill their dreams

How private organizations are filling gaps in Federal programs to help Dreamers fulfill their dreams

Posted by | Dec 1, 2022

As a high school junior, Denisse Amezquita knew she wanted to go on to college and someday become a lawyer. But when she sought state and federal financial aid, she quickly learned assistance was not an option because she lacked permanent legal status in the United States. Although she was a recipient of the embattled Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, which shields from deportation people who were brought to the U.S. as children, the federal program does not include educational government benefits. Amezquita, who has lived in the U.S. since she was 2 years old, needed alternatives....

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Conservative-leaning states make last-ditch effort to keep court from lifting Trump asylum policy

Conservative-leaning states make last-ditch effort to keep court from lifting Trump asylum policy

Posted by | Dec 1, 2022

A coalition of conservative-leaning states is making a last-ditch effort to keep in place a Trump-era public health rule that allows many asylum seekers to be turned away at the southern U.S. border. On November 21, the 15 states filed what is known as a motion to intervene — meaning they want to become part of the legal proceedings surrounding the public health rule referred to as Title 42. The rule, first invoked by Trump in 2020, uses emergency public health authority to allow the United States to keep migrants from seeking asylum at the border, based on the...

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