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** MAY 19, 2024
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** WHITEHEAD: ON THE ISSUES
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10 Things College Graduates Can Do in the Face of a New Age of Fear ([link removed])

A Nanny State Idiocracy: A Tale of Too Many Laws and Too Little Freedom ([link removed])

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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SCOTUS Fails to Protect Citizens From Asset Forfeiture Delay Tactics That Let Police Keep Seized Cars & Cash ([link removed])

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])


** 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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10th Circuit to Revisit Police Use of Force and Threatening Statements During Violent Arrest ([link removed])

Texas Sued Over Prison Clerk's Right to Wear Religious Head Covering ([link removed])

RFK Jr. Tells Ninth Circuit Feds Ordered YouTube to Remove His Videos ([link removed])

10th Circuit Agrees Police Unconstitutionally Detained Man Who Looked Nothing Like 911 Call ([link removed])

Illinois Supreme Court Considers Expectation of Privacy in Hospitals ([link removed])

Appeals Court: Wildlife Officers’ Warrantless Searches of Private Property Are Unconstitutional ([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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Red Light Camera Money in Illinois Tops $1 Billion ([link removed])

Dallas Police to Use AI Facial Recognition Technology at Real-Time Crime Center to Help Catch Criminals ([link removed])

ICE Ordered to Stop Knock-and-Talk Tactic for Immigration Arrests in LA ([link removed])

Less-Lethal Weapons Blind, Maim and Kill. Victims Say Enough Is Enough ([link removed])

Airman’s Death Sparks Debate Over Race and Gun Rights ([link removed])

Investigation Into Police Training on the Risks of Handcuffing Someone Facedown ([link removed])

A SWAT Team Blew Up a Tennessee Couple's Home and Left Them With the Bill ([link removed])


** AMERICA AT WAR
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Biden Administration Is Giving $1 Billion in New Weapons and Ammo to Israel ([link removed])

Ukraine Ups Pressure on US to Allow Strikes in Russia ([link removed])


** BEHIND BARS
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Our Immigrant Detention System Shows Why We Need Prison Abolition ([link removed])
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** NATIONAL SECURITY
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DHS and TSA Adjust Digital Strategies With Biometrics, Facial Recognition ([link removed])

Top FBI Official Urges Agents to Use Warrantless Wiretaps on US Soil ([link removed])


** SURVEILLANCE & PRIVACY
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This November, Your Data Privacy Will Be on the Ballot, Too ([link removed])

Records Show DC and Federal Law Enforcement Sharing Surveillance Info on Racial Justice Protests ([link removed])

Technocrats Preparing Line of ‘Wearable’ AI Devices That Will Track Data of Users and ‘Anyone They Come in Contact With’ ([link removed])

Documents Reveal How DC Police Surveil Social Media Profiles and Protest Activity ([link removed])


** FREE SPEECH / CENSORSHIP
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Business Titans Privately Urged NYC Mayor to Use Police on Columbia Protesters, Chats Show ([link removed])


** TECHNOLOGY
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Google Unleashes AI in Search Engine ([link removed])


** EDUCATION
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Zero Tolerance Policies In School ‘Promote Further Misbehavior,’ Study Finds ([link removed])


** ECONOMY
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Credit Card Delinquencies Surge, Almost 1 in 5 Users Maxed-Out ([link removed])


** HEALTH & MEDICINE
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Despite State Bans, Abortions Nationwide Are Up, Driven by Telehealth ([link removed])


** POLITICS
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Donald Trump Wants to Control the Justice Department and FBI ([link removed])


** FURTHER READING
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America Faces an Identity Crisis 70 Years After Brown v Board of Education ([link removed])

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