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** MARCH 3, 2024
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** WHITEHEAD: ON THE ISSUES
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Technocensorship: When Corporations Serve As a Front for Government Censors ([link removed])

COVID-19 Tested Our Commitment to Freedom. Three Years Later, We’re Still Failing ([link removed])

The Global Deep State: A Fascist World Order Funded by the American Taxpayer ([link removed])


** RUTHERFORD: ON THE FRONT LINES
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SCOTUS Fails to Hold Police Accountable for Firing Tear Gas at Onlookers Who Filmed Their Interaction with Protesters ([link removed])

Rutherford Institute Challenges Government Efforts to Censor Speech and Pressure Tech Companies to Block, Ban, De-Platform and Restrict Users ([link removed])

Supreme Court Gives Government the Green Light to Obstruct Citizens From Voting at Polling Places Based on the Content of Speech on Clothing ([link removed])

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** LEGAL FEATURES
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Constitutional Q&A: American Community Survey ([link removed])

Special Report: The Right to Be Let Alone: How to Safeguard Your Freedoms in the Face of the Government’s COVID-19 Power Grabs ([link removed])

The Case Against Technofascism: When Big Tech Companies Censor Speech ([link removed])
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** IN THE COURTS
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Opening Door to Further Challenges, DC Circuit Rules Jan. 6 Sentence Improperly Lengthened ([link removed])

New York Judge Denies Trump’s $100 Million Bond Offer for Stay of Civil Fraud Judgment ([link removed])

Federal Judge Mostly Upholds Arizona Proof-of-Citizenship Voting Laws ([link removed])

Montana Judge Declares 3 Laws Restricting Abortion Unconstitutional ([link removed])

The Supreme Court Appears Torn About a Trump-Era Ban on Bump Stocks ([link removed])


** PODCAST: FREEDOM UNDER FIRE
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We’ve Already Got a Dictator-in-Chief: How Absolute Power Corrupted the President ([link removed])

2024 Is the New 1984: Big Brother and the Rise of the Security Industrial Complex ([link removed])

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The White House's Secret Surveillance Program Breaks All the Laws ([link removed])

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** VODCAST, RECENT INTERVIEWS
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Counting the People (Interview with Financial Rebellion, CHD) ([link removed])

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The Rise of the Security Industrial Complex: One America News ([link removed])


** AMERICAN POLICE STATE
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NYPD Misconduct Settlements Have Cost the City Half a Billion Dollars in 6 Years ([link removed])

Trump Says Local Police Will Play Key Role In His Mass Deportation Plan ([link removed])


** OVERCRIMINALIZATION
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Florida House Passes Bill to Prevent Homeless People From Sleeping in Public ([link removed])


** BEHIND BARS
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Biden's Order to Ban Private Prisons Faces a Persistent Internal Challenge: The U.S. Marshals Service ([link removed])
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** SURVEILLANCE & PRIVACY
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Here’s What the U.S. Government Knows About You ([link removed])

US Airlines and TSA Partner on Expanded Use of Digital ID Through Face Biometrics ([link removed])

US to Ask Court to Renew Domestic Surveillance Program Before April Expiration ([link removed])

Here Are the Secret Locations of ShotSpotter Gunfire Sensors ([link removed])

When Eyes in the Sky Start Looking Right at You ([link removed])


** FREE SPEECH
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He Cursed at a Police Officer. Now He’s Caught in a Free Speech Fight ([link removed])

Almost a Third of Americans Say the First Amendment Goes 'Too Far' ([link removed])

DOJ Gives College Nearly $1 Million to Track Spread of “Mis-, Dis-, and Mal-information” ([link removed])


** TECHNOLOGY
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Facial Recognition Tech Is Probably Coming to a Lot More Vending Machines ([link removed])

How Scientists Are Using Facial-Recognition AI to Track Humpback Whales ([link removed])

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** HEALTH & MEDICINE
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** POLITICS
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Alabama Lawmakers Pass IVF Immunity Bills ([link removed])

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