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Trump ally says grand jury empaneled in Florida to investigate a sweeping conspiracy against Trump 2 mahatmakanejeeves Oct 2025 Oct 2025 2 1131
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Man challenges arrest for mocking DC troops with Darth Vader's theme song 3 cbabe Oct 2025 Oct 2025 26 1327
6 ICE monsters attack blind 4'6" man 2 Nululu Oct 2025 Oct 2025 12 1319
ICE agents hold teens at gunpoint at Dutch Bros in Hillsboro 2 cbabe Oct 2025 Oct 2025 16 1402
DoDEA Must Return Books to Shelves, Judge Rules 1 mahatmakanejeeves Oct 2025 Oct 2025 12 976
After hours of oral argument ... in Callais v. Louisiana... Supreme Court is ready to decimate ..Voting Rights Act 1 littlemissmartypants Oct 2025 Oct 2025 9 990
Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, Stonewall Veteran and Legendary Trans Activist, Has Died at 78 0 cbabe Oct 2025 Oct 2025 2 798
Hey Desperate Times, this is Desperate Measures. Desperate Measures, this is Desperate Times. 1 ck4829 Oct 2025 Oct 2025 3 862
Can Police Enter Your Home Without a Warrant? The Supreme Court Will Soon Decide. 0 littlemissmartypants Oct 2025 Oct 2025 10 944
Official border patrol FB page is posting the banned lyrics of Michael Jackson's song. "Jew me sue Kick me k*ke me." 0 mahatmakanejeeves Oct 2025 Oct 2025 7 938
Supreme Court to hear arguments in pivotal case on the Voting Rights Act 1 mahatmakanejeeves Oct 2025 Oct 2025 4 997
"MIT's response to the Trump admin's proposed "compact" is excellent and should be a model for other universities." 2 mahatmakanejeeves Oct 2025 Oct 2025 9 1168
"Honestly very impressed by Newsmax, the Washington Times, and the Washington Examiner." 11 mahatmakanejeeves Oct 2025 Oct 2025 22 2311
Kilmer Abrego-Garcia will not challenge a deportation to Costa Rica, which has agreed to accept him for residency. 10 mahatmakanejeeves Oct 2025 Oct 2025 38 2663
Discussion Highlights False Confessions on International Wrongful Conviction Day 0 ck4829 Oct 2025 Oct 2025 4 804
This Family Made Billions on Trump-Branded Condos. Now Their Private Jet Is Taking Shackled Migrants to Prison in Africa 4 mahatmakanejeeves Oct 2025 Oct 2025 10 1357
Attorneys for Kilmar Abrego Garcia return to court as his deportation saga continues 0 mahatmakanejeeves Oct 2025 Oct 2025 3 772
"They are clearly trying to terrify everyone out of showing up to the No Kings protest." 7 mahatmakanejeeves Oct 2025 Oct 2025 10 1714
How Right-Wing Influencers Are Shaping the Guard Fight in Portland 1 mahatmakanejeeves Oct 2025 Oct 2025 3 954
"Trump (1) reveals he doesn't know what habeas corpus is and (2) punts to Noem." 5 mahatmakanejeeves Oct 2025 Oct 2025 7 1349
The Civil-Military Crisis Is Here 2 mahatmakanejeeves Oct 2025 Oct 2025 13 1399
"It's important to flood social media and news channels with news about how ICE lies, so that potential jurors see it." 1 mahatmakanejeeves Oct 2025 Oct 2025 12 949
Supreme Court to decide if states may ban attempts to 'convert' gay and transgender youth 3 mahatmakanejeeves Oct 2025 Oct 2025 2 1114
"Pretty clear Stephen Miller, Noem, Hegseth and Trump are trying to provoke a Civil War at this point." 12 mahatmakanejeeves Oct 2025 Oct 2025 57 3826
" Fascism occurs twice: ..." 3 mahatmakanejeeves Oct 2025 Oct 2025 6 1271
"This is a neo-Nazi meme normally found on TRS and the Daily Stormer being shared by the official DHS account." 4 mahatmakanejeeves Oct 2025 Oct 2025 6 1447
crazy kop. Cop sees guy pumping gas, mistakes it for pistol. doesn't apologize, tries to justify his actions 4 BlueWaveNeverEnd Oct 2025 Oct 2025 12 1436
This is a declaration they will use federal resources to deploy violence against judges, prosecutors, attorneys general. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Oct 2025 Oct 2025 19 1205
Watchdog group files Hatch Act complaint over federal agencies blaming Democrats for shutdown 2 mahatmakanejeeves Oct 2025 Oct 2025 11 1027

Civil Liberties Continued...

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Fiercely Anti-Abortion Judge Has Bowed Out of Blockbuster Mifepristone Case 2 mahatmakanejeeves Oct 2025 Oct 2025 6 1095
"Kavanaugh Stops" 2 mahatmakanejeeves Oct 2025 Oct 2025 51 2488
"Instead of the next judicial education session, all the judges watch this tiktok instead." 2 mahatmakanejeeves Sep 2025 Sep 2025 10 2497
Justice Clarence Thomas says legal precedents are not 'the gospel' 9 mahatmakanejeeves Sep 2025 Sep 2025 5 2298
A federal judge has ordered the University of South Dakota to reinstate a professor who posted criticism of Charlie Kirk 4 mahatmakanejeeves Sep 2025 Sep 2025 41 3285
Indiana AG Todd Rokita urges public schools to fire teachers who speak poorly of Charlie Kirk. 2 mahatmakanejeeves Sep 2025 Sep 2025 5 3310
"'Major terrorist organization' is not a thing in any US law." 5 mahatmakanejeeves Sep 2025 Sep 2025 6 3609
Trump's Censorship Binge After Kirk's Killing Is Part of an All-Out Effort to Crush the Opposition 0 mahatmakanejeeves Sep 2025 Sep 2025 2 1220
US appeals court orders deportation of Atlanta journalist detained by ICE 1 mahatmakanejeeves Sep 2025 Sep 2025 8 2945
Brendan Carr Makes It Clear That He's Eager To Be America's Top Censor 2 mahatmakanejeeves Sep 2025 Sep 2025 22 3203
Protester found not guilty of assault despite top Border Patrol official's testimony 0 mahatmakanejeeves Sep 2025 Sep 2025 1 950
New Edict from the Trump Regime 1 mahatmakanejeeves Sep 2025 Sep 2025 6 3300
The Danger of Silencing Dissent 0 littlemissmartypants Sep 2025 Sep 2025 2 1734
Clay Higgins sent a letter to social media sites threatening investigations if they don't censor speech. 2 mahatmakanejeeves Sep 2025 Sep 2025 8 3589
Total porn ban proposed by Michigan lawmakers. (Fox2, Detroit) 13 usonian Sep 2025 Sep 2025 2 2028
Top FEMA official resigns after staffers ousted for negative Charlie Kirk comments 1 mahatmakanejeeves Sep 2025 Sep 2025 12 3090
Lawyers fear 1,000 children from Central America, dozens in California, are at risk of being deported 0 mahatmakanejeeves Sep 2025 Sep 2025 5 2918
ICE Spends Millions on Clearview AI Facial Recognition to Find People 'Assaulting' Officers 3 mahatmakanejeeves Sep 2025 Sep 2025 1 1298
"Pam Bondi is letting a powerful white man engage in violence in part bc GOP Majority depends on her doing so." 1 mahatmakanejeeves Sep 2025 Sep 2025 2 1348
Trump's Most Dangerous Executive Order 0 mahatmakanejeeves Sep 2025 Sep 2025 14 2274
"The president of the United States just declared war, actual military war, on a major American city." 33 mahatmakanejeeves Sep 2025 Sep 2025 50 6389
Justice Breyer Defends Judge Accused of Defying Supreme Court Order 1 mahatmakanejeeves Sep 2025 Sep 2025 4 1237
Governor JB Pritzker: "Conoce tus derechos, Illinois." 1 mahatmakanejeeves Sep 2025 Sep 2025 18 2173
Former Fox News Producer With History of Racist Social Media Posts Lands New Gig at EEOC 1 mahatmakanejeeves Sep 2025 Sep 2025 2 1192
‪Qasim Rashid: A Florida Judge Tried To Strip Me Of My Law License 0 mahatmakanejeeves Sep 2025 Sep 2025 12 1074
Know Your Rights with ICE 1 struggle4progress Sep 2025 Sep 2025 3 862
'Scan your face' laws for the web are having unexpected consequences 1 mahatmakanejeeves Sep 2025 Sep 2025 3 1122
He Burned a Flag and Won an American Right. He Worries It's at Risk. 3 mahatmakanejeeves Sep 2025 Sep 2025 4 1246
Judge Halts U.S. Effort to Deport Guatemalan Children as Planes Sit on Tarmac 0 mahatmakanejeeves Sep 2025 Sep 2025 4 849
The Trump administration tried to use the holiday weekend to secretly and illegally deport children. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Sep 2025 Sep 2025 15 1400

Civil Liberties Continued...

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How ICE Spies On American Citizens 0 struggle4progress Aug 2025 Aug 2025 8 1010
Trump's National Guard plans are 'basis of civil war' - Malcolm Nance - Times Radio 2 TexasTowelie Aug 2025 Aug 2025 14 1469
Trump no longer expected to sign executive order to punish those who burn American flags 5 Eugene Aug 2025 Aug 2025 2 1360
Dystopian definition 0 brakester Aug 2025 Aug 2025 7 924
Judge Orders That 'Alligator Alcatraz' Detention Center Be Shut Down for Now 3 mahatmakanejeeves Aug 2025 Aug 2025 9 1385
Kilmar Abrego Garcia could be released from jail Friday. Here's what to know 4 mahatmakanejeeves Aug 2025 Aug 2025 4 1247
Judge orders DOJ to give more info on subpoenas targeting trans minors' medical care 0 mahatmakanejeeves Aug 2025 Aug 2025 1 938
"Last week, Boston received a letter from AG Bondi threatening to prosecute officials and withhold funds ..." 3 mahatmakanejeeves Aug 2025 Aug 2025 46 2336
DC and civil liberties 0 Be Leave On Aug 2025 Aug 2025 2 973
"Our leading papers failed to stand up to Trump's criminal justice authoritarianism" 10 mahatmakanejeeves Aug 2025 Aug 2025 25 2108
Exclusive: An internal planning road map obtained by The Post shows the strategy behind ICE's breakneck expansion 1 mahatmakanejeeves Aug 2025 Aug 2025 6 1081
"Declaring a fake emergency as an excuse to deploy the military to police civilians is ..." 12 mahatmakanejeeves Aug 2025 Aug 2025 73 3341
"NYT keeps publishing stories sourced entirely to Susie Wiles and White House staffers ..." 0 mahatmakanejeeves Aug 2025 Aug 2025 5 1052
A whistleblower's disclosure details how DOGE may have taken sensitive labor data 2 mahatmakanejeeves Aug 2025 Aug 2025 3 1059
I find myself thinking about historian Robert Paxton's 2004 definition of fascism far too often than I'd like these days 2 mahatmakanejeeves Aug 2025 Aug 2025 15 1170
"Trump's entire regime consolidation strategy is to persuade everyone through displays of force ..." 3 mahatmakanejeeves Aug 2025 Aug 2025 16 1248
IRS has officially passed over taxpayer information to ICE, per court filing 1 mahatmakanejeeves Aug 2025 Aug 2025 9 1038
Trump Allies Were Told to Stop Saying They'll Put Migrants in 'Camps' 5 mahatmakanejeeves Aug 2025 Aug 2025 7 1338
Will the Supreme Court revisit its ruling on same-sex marriage? 4 mahatmakanejeeves Aug 2025 Aug 2025 7 1322
Florida Officials Won't Say If COVID Is Spreading at Everglades Concentration Camp 4 mahatmakanejeeves Aug 2025 Aug 2025 15 1429
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