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** MAY 13, 2024
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** WHITEHEAD: ON THE ISSUES
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Virtual Home Invasions: We’re Not Safe from Government Peeping Toms ([link removed])

The Steady Slide Towards Tyranny: How Freedom Dies from A to Z ([link removed])

Divide and Conquer: The Government’s Propaganda of Fear and Fake News ([link removed])

Down with Big Brother: Warrantless Surveillance Makes a Mockery of the Constitution ([link removed])


** RUTHERFORD: ON THE FRONT LINES
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Michigan Supreme Court Allows Government to Conduct Warrantless Drone Surveillance of Excess ‘Junk’ Cars on Couple’s Secluded Property ([link removed])

U.S. Supreme Court Allows Case to Move Forward That Could Dissuade and Chill the Right to Organize Peaceful Political Mass Protests ([link removed])

Rutherford Institute Threatens First Amendment Lawsuit Over Censorship of Religious Content From High School Valedictorian’s Graduation Speech ([link removed])

Rutherford Institute Defends Women’s Basketball Coach’s First Amendment Right to Religious Expression ([link removed])

Rutherford Institute Denounces Oregon City Law Against Sleeping, Camping in Public as Unconstitutional Attempt to Criminalize Homelessness ([link removed])


** 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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Blockbuster Cases Abound as Supreme Court Enters Opinion Season ([link removed])

Ninth Circuit Finds That Convicted Felons Also Have Second Amendment Rights ([link removed])

The Supreme Court Rules That Cops Can Steal Your Stuff—as They Always Have ([link removed])

Warrantless Searches of Private Land Unconstitutional, Appeals Court Rules ([link removed])

TikTok Sues U.S. Government, Saying Potential Ban Violates First Amendment ([link removed])

California Supreme Court: Acting ‘Odd’ in High-Crime Area Did Not Justify Detention ([link removed])


** PODCAST: FREEDOM UNDER FIRE
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Freedom Under Fire is a free weekly podcast available on SoundCloud and iTunes.

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

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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** ON TARGET VODCAST, INTERVIEWS
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How to Stand Up for Freedom (Interview with Collapse Life) ([link removed])

Counting the People (Interview with Financial Rebellion, CHD) ([link removed])

Are You Being Watched? (Whitehead Interview with Good Morning, CHD) ([link removed])

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


** AMERICAN POLICE STATE
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When Bad Cops Become Private Security Guards ([link removed])

Looking Up an NYPD Officer’s Discipline Record? Many Are There One Day, Gone the Next ([link removed])

Some Police Units Are Murdering and Torturing Civilians. We Need a National Investigation ([link removed])

A Police Youth Program Is Plagued by Sexual Abuse Allegations Across the U.S. ([link removed])


** BEHIND BARS
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Lawsuit Alleges Decades of Child Sex Abuse at Illinois Juvenile Detention Centers ([link removed])

California Ends Use of Out-of-State Prisons After 13 Years ([link removed])

Breaking a Prison's Code of Silence ([link removed])
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** NATIONAL SECURITY
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The 2025 Real ID Deadline for New Licenses Is Really Real This Time, DHS Says ([link removed])

Report Shows CBP Expanding Mass Surveillance System Along Mexican Border ([link removed])

14 Senators Slam TSA Facial Recognition in Airports ([link removed])


** SURVEILLANCE & PRIVACY
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Congress Is Working on a Federal Privacy Law. Here’s Why We Need One ([link removed])

Leaked FBI Email Stresses Need for Warrantless Surveillance of Americans ([link removed])

The Dark Side of Virtual Try-On Tools ([link removed])

Microsoft Bans US Police Departments From Using Enterprise AI Tool for Facial Recognition ([link removed])


** FREE SPEECH / CENSORSHIP
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Can University Protest Camps Be Removed? What Does the Law Say? ([link removed])

Justice Alito Warns of Declining Support for Freedom of Speech on College Campuses ([link removed])

Florida Bar Maoist War on Free Speech Continues ([link removed])


** EDUCATION
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Virginia School Board Votes to Restore Confederate Names to 2 Schools ([link removed])


** ECONOMY
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Medicare and Social Security Go-Broke Dates Are Pushed Back ([link removed])


** POLITICS
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Trump Promises To Give Police 'Immunity From Prosecution' ([link removed])

The Controversy Surrounding the Antisemitism Bill, Explained ([link removed])

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