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[ad_1] Over the past year and a half, Trump administration officials have gone after protestors—and even apps—critical of the government’s immigration policies. Now, federal agents are targeting individuals for constitutionally protected speech on social media. Last week, Syracuse resident Paigelynne Gonyea was approached by two Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents at her workplace and given a warning to remove a social media post on an Instagram account the agents believed was hers. In a letter given to Gonyea, the ICE agents say the post may have broken federal law, as reported by Syracuse.com. “YOU MAY BE IN VIOLATION OF…

[ad_1] On the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, it’s worth asking: What was the American Revolution actually about? We all remember the broad strokes we learned in school: Independence from the British crown. Taxes on tea. Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. But on a deeper level, the American Revolution was—and is—a revolution in political theory, reimagining what a legitimate government is and what its relationship to its citizens should be. Washington’s troops won the ground war 245 years ago at Yorktown, but the ideological battle continues against forces on both the left and the right who…

[ad_1] With people jumping into the Canal Saint–Martin in 100°–plus temperatures in Paris, it’s a good time to recall Paul Valéry and his regrets at the mental and spiritual consequences of Europe’s Great War on itself.   The heat wave in Europe as captured by this Copernicus Sentinel-3 mission on May 26. (European Space Agency/Wikimedia Commons/CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO) By Patrick LawrenceSpecial to Consortium News One hundred four degrees Fahrenheit in Paris, a new record? That is what I read Thursday. Paris, as I figured out while studying there decades ago and freezing through the dark winters, is latitudinally further north…

[ad_1] JD Vance as the Republican nominee? Or Marco Rubio? As voters look to Donald Trump for guidance on 2028, the president isn’t committing. [ad_2] Source link

[ad_1] Donald Trump built part of his 2024 campaign around the promise that he would put America first, arguing that his first term stood apart from those of his predecessors because “No New Wars” began on his watch. But as his administration engages in conflicts in Iran and Central America, new polling shows a reversal in the support of foreign engagement, with Democrats now less inclined than Republicans to support the U.S. taking the lead in foreign affairs. The Reagan Institute Summer Survey, conducted among 1,254 U.S. adults from May 26-June 3, found that Republicans are now more supportive than…

[ad_1] Declassified UK spoke to Ellie Kamio, one of the first people in British history to be sentenced as a terrorist for property damage. In the trial, defendants were not allowed to say the word “genocide” or why they targeted Israeli arms manufacturer Elbit Systems. Elbit rockets at the London arms fair in September 2023. (Matt Kennard / DeclassifiedUK) By John McEvoyDeclassified UK “Other than hexing the man, I really wasn’t surprised.” This is how Leona Kamio, known as Ellie, describes what was going through her mind when a judge announced she would be sentenced as a terrorist alongside three co-defendants…

[ad_1] Young progressives take for granted their constitutional right to criticize and protest their government-acts that in socialist regimes get citizens thrown in jail. [ad_2] Source link

[ad_1] Four years after Congress narrowly approved the 2022 Inflation Reduction Act, U.S. Rep. Mike Collins, a Republican Senate hopeful in Georgia, blamed the measure for worsening inflation and pointed voters to incumbent Democratic Sen. Jon Ossoff’s support for the legislation. Ossoff “cast the deciding vote for the inflation disaster that cost Georgia families at the gas pump, the grocery store, and the border,” Collins said in a television ad released June 17. Collins spokesperson Corbin Keown clarified that the ad referred to the Inflation Reduction Act but did not respond when asked for the campaign’s reasoning that Ossoff cast…

[ad_1] The U.S. Supreme Court has issued a far-reaching decision on the constitutionality of a law enforcement tool that allows police to access the location histories of millions of cell phone users. In a welcome result for civil libertarians, the Court ruled on Monday that “geofence warrants” count as a “search” under the Constitution and therefore trigger the Fourth Amendment’s safeguards against unreasonable searches and seizures. The geofence warrant at issue in this case, Chatrie v. United States, was issued to Google. It told the tech company to search the location histories of every one of its users in order…

[ad_1] ‘Age assurance’ is a backdoor for digital ID, internet passports & biometric surveillance to end online anonymity for all users: perspective Leaders of the G7 call on big tech companies to develop and deploy internet passports for all users through “effective and innovative age assurance mechanisms.” On Wednesday, the Group of Seven (G7) leaders from Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the UK, and the US, the non-enumerated member and the European Union, in collaboration with their partner countries Brazil, Egypt, India, Kenya and the Republic of Korea, published their “Leaders’ Call on a Safer Digital Space for Minors,” in…