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MAY 19, 2024

WHITEHEAD: ON THE ISSUES

10 Things College Graduates Can Do in the Face of a New Age of Fear

A Nanny State Idiocracy: A Tale of Too Many Laws and Too Little Freedom  

Virtual Home Invasions: We’re Not Safe from Government Peeping Toms 

The Steady Slide Towards Tyranny: How Freedom Dies from A to Z 

Divide and Conquer: The Government’s Propaganda of Fear and Fake News 

Down with Big Brother: Warrantless Surveillance Makes a Mockery of the Constitution 

RUTHERFORD: ON THE FRONT LINES

SCOTUS Fails to Protect Citizens From Asset Forfeiture Delay Tactics That Let Police Keep Seized Cars & Cash

Michigan Supreme Court Allows Government to Conduct Warrantless Drone Surveillance of Excess ‘Junk’ Cars on Couple’s Secluded Property 

U.S. Supreme Court Allows Case to Move Forward That Could Dissuade and Chill the Right to Organize Peaceful Political Mass Protests 

Rutherford Institute Threatens First Amendment Lawsuit Over Censorship of Religious Content From High School Valedictorian’s Graduation Speech  

Rutherford Institute Defends Women’s Basketball Coach’s First Amendment Right to Religious Expression 

LEGAL FEATURES

Constitutional Q&A: American Community Survey 

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

The Case Against Technofascism: When Big Tech Companies Censor Speech 
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IN THE COURTS

10th Circuit to Revisit Police Use of Force and Threatening Statements During Violent Arrest 

Texas Sued Over Prison Clerk's Right to Wear Religious Head Covering 

RFK Jr. Tells Ninth Circuit Feds Ordered YouTube to Remove His Videos 

10th Circuit Agrees Police Unconstitutionally Detained Man Who Looked Nothing Like 911 Call 

Illinois Supreme Court Considers Expectation of Privacy in Hospitals 

Appeals Court: Wildlife Officers’ Warrantless Searches of Private Property Are Unconstitutional

PODCAST: FREEDOM UNDER FIRE

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 

We’ve Already Got a Dictator-in-Chief: How Absolute Power Corrupted the President 

2024 Is the New 1984: Big Brother and the Rise of the Security Industrial Complex   

Podcast Archive

ON TARGET VODCAST, INTERVIEWS

How to Stand Up for Freedom (Interview with Collapse Life)  

Counting the People (Interview with Financial Rebellion, CHD) 

Are You Being Watched? (Whitehead Interview with Good Morning, CHD) 

The Rise of the Security Industrial Complex: One America News  

AMERICAN POLICE STATE

Red Light Camera Money in Illinois Tops $1 Billion 

Dallas Police to Use AI Facial Recognition Technology at Real-Time Crime Center to Help Catch Criminals 

ICE Ordered to Stop Knock-and-Talk Tactic for Immigration Arrests in LA 

Less-Lethal Weapons Blind, Maim and Kill. Victims Say Enough Is Enough 

Airman’s Death Sparks Debate Over Race and Gun Rights 

Investigation Into Police Training on the Risks of Handcuffing Someone Facedown 

A SWAT Team Blew Up a Tennessee Couple's Home and Left Them With the Bill

AMERICA AT WAR

Biden Administration Is Giving $1 Billion in New Weapons and Ammo to Israel 

Ukraine Ups Pressure on US to Allow Strikes in Russia

BEHIND BARS

Our Immigrant Detention System Shows Why We Need Prison Abolition
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NATIONAL SECURITY

DHS and TSA Adjust Digital Strategies With Biometrics, Facial Recognition 

Top FBI Official Urges Agents to Use Warrantless Wiretaps on US Soil

SURVEILLANCE & PRIVACY

This November, Your Data Privacy Will Be on the Ballot, Too 

Records Show DC and Federal Law Enforcement Sharing Surveillance Info on Racial Justice Protests 

Technocrats Preparing Line of ‘Wearable’ AI Devices That Will Track Data of Users and ‘Anyone They Come in Contact With’ 

Documents Reveal How DC Police Surveil Social Media Profiles and Protest Activity

FREE SPEECH / CENSORSHIP

Business Titans Privately Urged NYC Mayor to Use Police on Columbia Protesters, Chats Show

TECHNOLOGY

Google Unleashes AI in Search Engine

EDUCATION

Zero Tolerance Policies In School ‘Promote Further Misbehavior,’ Study Finds

ECONOMY

Credit Card Delinquencies Surge, Almost 1 in 5 Users Maxed-Out

HEALTH & MEDICINE

Despite State Bans, Abortions Nationwide Are Up, Driven by Telehealth

POLITICS

Donald Trump Wants to Control the Justice Department and FBI

FURTHER READING 

America Faces an Identity Crisis 70 Years After Brown v Board of Education

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