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** MAY 22, 2022
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** WHITEHEAD: ON THE ISSUES
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Get Ready to Be Muzzled: The Coming War on So-Called Hate Speech ([link removed])

You’ve Been Flagged as a Threat: Predictive AI Technology Puts a Target on Your Back ([link removed])

When the Government Plays God: The Slippery Slope from Abortions to Executions ([link removed])


** RUTHERFORD: ON THE FRONT LINES
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Texas School District Restricts First Amendment Activity, Bans Teachers and Employees From Publicly Criticizing School Policies ([link removed])

Boston Violated First Amendment by Prohibiting Christian Flag, Rules Unanimous Supreme Court ([link removed])

Supreme Court Allows Police to Use Warrantless Real-Time Cell Phone Data to Sweep Americans Into Digital Data Dragnet ([link removed])
HELP US MAKE THE GOVERNMENT PLAY BY THE RULES OF THE CONSTITUTION: $250,000 MATCHING GIFT CAMPAIGN ENDS ON 6/30 ([link removed])


** IN THE COURTS
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Wisconsin Supreme Court: Disorderly Conduct Doesn’t Disqualify a Person From Holding a Concealed Weapons License ([link removed])

NJ Appeals Court: There Is an Expectation of Privacy Even When Possessions Are in a Location Owned by Someone Else ([link removed])

Tennessee Supreme Court: State’s Education Savings Account Pilot Program Is Constitutional ([link removed])

Habeas Rights for Elephants at Heart of Bronx Zoo Case ([link removed])

Federal Court Blocks Law Restricting Transgender Minors From Using Puberty Blockers and Hormone Therapies ([link removed])

Ninth Circuit: Lower Court’s COVID-19 Protocols Violated Sixth Amendment Right to a Public Trial ([link removed])

Supreme Court: Government Has Carte Blanche To Deport Immigrants Based on Its Own Factual Errors ([link removed])

California Law Requiring Female Board Directors Deemed Unconstitutional ([link removed])

Appeals Court Lifts Injunction Against Iowa Ban on School Mask Mandates ([link removed])


** PODCAST: FREEDOM UNDER FIRE
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Get Ready to Be Muzzled: The Coming War on So-Called Hate Speech ([link removed])

Flagged as a Threat: Predictive AI Technology Puts a Target on Your Back ([link removed])

When the Government Plays God: The Slippery Slope from Abortions to Executions ([link removed])

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** VODCAST: ON TARGET
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Free Speech in an Age of Government Bullies, Corporate Censors and Compliant Citizens ([link removed])


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** JUSTICE SYSTEM
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Feds Sue Virginia Dog Breeding Facility, Seize More Than 140 Dogs After Extensive Animal Welfare Violations ([link removed])


** AMERICAN POLICE STATE
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Judge Won’t Release Bodycam of Deadly Police Dog Attack ([link removed])

Police Aren’t Happy With Facial Recognition Surveillance Bans ([link removed])

Cops Forced to Return Over $1 Million for Organizing Armored Car Heists, Robbing Innocent People ([link removed])


** OVERCRIMINALIZATION
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Amish Farmer Faces $250K Fine, Jail Time and Losing His Sustainable Farm for Processing His Own Meat ([link removed])


** AMERICA AT WAR
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Hate Crime Initiatives Launched in US After Back-to-Back Racist Shootings ([link removed])


** BEHIND BARS
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Illinois Counties Ask Seventh Circuit To Lift Ban on Immigration Detention Contracts ([link removed])

Former Ohio Prisons Chief Top Contender To Run US Prisons ([link removed])
HELP US CONTINUE TO SOUND THE ALARM: $250,000 MATCHING GIFT CAMPAIGN ENDS ON 6/30 ([link removed])


** NATIONAL SECURITY
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The Domestic Terrorism Prevention Act Will Do Nothing to Stop Terrorism and Everything to Grow the Police State ([link removed])

Disinformation Governance Board ‘Paused’ After Just 3 Weeks ([link removed])


** CORRUPTION
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Southern Baptist Leaders Covered Up Sex Abuse, Explosive Report Says ([link removed])


** WAR ON KIDS, FAMILY
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The Prosecution of Idaho Mom Sara Brady ([link removed])


** SURVEILLANCE & PRIVACY
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With Roe in Doubt, Some Fear Tech Surveillance of Pregnancy ([link removed])

Investigation Reveals Ice Has Data on Most of the American Public ([link removed])

Threats to Privacy in the Age of Big Tech ([link removed])

NY Gov. To Create New Police Unit To Increase Social Media Monitoring ([link removed])

Human Rights Group Oppose Zoom’s Planned A.I. Tech ([link removed])

Driverless Cars Record Everything, Making Them Moving Surveillance Machines ([link removed])


** FREE SPEECH
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Florida Signs Bill Into Law Banning Protests Outside Homes ([link removed])

Roe Dissent Must Be Protected, Even Outside Homes of Justices ([link removed])

Texas Church Evicted After Pastor Criticized LGBTQ Mural In City Meeting ([link removed])

Eckerd College Government Refuses To Recognize Republican Group Unless It Censors Its Social Media Posts ([link removed])


** TECHNOLOGY
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Technology Will Transform War ([link removed])


** EDUCATION
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Carroll ISD Officials Warned About Non-Disparagement Agreement ([link removed])


** ECONOMY
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Why the Baby-Formula Market Is a Mess: Low Competition, High Regulation ([link removed])

Social Security Anti-Fraud Program Ensnared Poor With Massive Fines ([link removed])


** HEALTH & MEDICINE
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Biden Says ‘Everybody’ Should Be Concerned About Spread of Monkeypox ([link removed])

The Next Big Scare? USA and Europe Buy up Millions of Doses of Monkeypox Vaccine ([link removed])

Belgium Becomes First Country To Introduce Compulsory Monkeypox Quarantine ([link removed])


** POLITICS
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Archbishop Bars Pelosi From Communion Over Her Support for Abortion Rights ([link removed])

Circuit Court of Appeals To Consider the Argument That Florida’s Vaccine Passport Ban Is Somehow a Free Speech Violation ([link removed])

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