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Zhi Zhu 🕸️

‘Hands Off’ rally in Saranac Lake
Hundreds of locals rally to protest federal government
adirondackdailyenterprise.com/

"The protestors want the government’s #HandsOff a lot of things — immigrants, veterans’ #health care, #LGBTQ+ rights, #SocialSecurity, schools, #women, #penguins, the #FirstAmendment, the climate, #Canada, #Greenland and the #Constitution. Signs primarily focused on #DonaldTrump and his billionaire advisor #ElonMusk."

Jump Miller leads a crowd of hundreds of protestors down River Street on Saturday at one of hundreds of “Hands Off” rallies around the country. (Enterprise photo — Aaron Marbone) His sign says, "Cuts that deep kill a nation"
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Helen Demong and Dorothy Waldt walk in a crowd of hundreds of protestors down Broadway on Saturday at one of hundreds of “Hands Off” rallies around the country. (Enterprise photo — Aaron Marbone) The front sign reads, "By the people, for the people. Remember? No kings."
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Hundreds of protestors turned out on Saturday to Saranac Lake’s “Hands Off” rally, one of hundreds around the country that day. (Enterprise photo — Aaron Marbone) One sign reads, "Stop trampling our laws and morality." Another reads, "Human rights belong to everyone"
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Dana Fast, who survived the Holocaust in Poland as a child, attended Saranac Lake’s “Hands Off” rally on Saturday, one of hundreds around the country that day. (Enterprise photo — Aaron Marbone) An older lady sits in front of a sign that reads, "I survived the Holocaust. I don't want another one."
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#Resist#Resistance#Protest
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Frank (he/him)
"Resist like it's 1930s Germany"
"Silence = Death"
"Hiatory is Now"
"When Injustice Becomes Law, Resistance Becomes Duty"
I love these women, spotten on Market Street at the Hands Off protest this afternoon. 🙂

More pics to come

#HandsOff #Protest #Philly #SilenceEqualsDeath #justice #TransRightsAreHumanRights #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #TransIsBeautiful #transgender #trans #HumanRights #Resist #FuckTrump #RBG #freedom #FreedomFromFascism #FirstAmendment #FreedomOfSpeech
Two women standing at the Hands Off Rally. Their shirts and sign are printed with the slogans in the post.
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#freedomofspeech
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kriykat

Taking the US Constitution Seriously
consortiumnews.com/2025/04/04/
Everyone should be free to speak their minds and live without fear of masked men grabbing them for deportation to a hell hole in Louisiana or El Salvador, writes Andrew P. Napolitano. By Andrew P. Napolitano The U.S. Constitution was…
#Politics #CivilRights #Commentary #FreeSpeech #History #Legal #Protest #TrumpAdministration #U.s. #U.s.Congress #U.s.SupremeCourrt #UntilThisDayHistoricalPerspectivesOnTheNews #AndrewP.Napolitano #ElSalvador #FifthAmendment #FirstAmendment #JamesMadison #JusticeAntoninScalia #SeparationOfPowers

Consortium News · Taking the US Constitution SeriouslyEveryone should be free to speak their minds and live without fear of masked men grabbing them for deportation to a hell hole in Louisiana or El Salvador, writes Andrew P. Napolitano. By Andrew P. Napolitano The U.S. Constitution was crafted in 1787 both to establish a new central government
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Brian Greenberg

⚠️ Congress is reviving site-blocking laws—and EFF says it’s as reckless as ever.

Proposals like the Foreign Anti-Digital Piracy Act (FADPA) would empower courts to order ISPs and DNS providers to block entire websites—without due process.

Why it matters:
・🛑 Site-blocking doesn’t just target piracy—it silences speech
・💥 It can unintentionally take down thousands of innocent sites
・🕵️ Evading blocks is trivial—using VPNs, alternate DNS, etc.
・⚖️ Many cases would be handled ex parte, with no one to defend the accused

EFF calls this an internet kill switch in disguise, and it’s a dangerous precedent for free expression and open web access in the U.S.

The entertainment industry is thriving without these laws. So why hand them censorship power?

👉 eff.org/deeplinks/2025/04/cong

Electronic Frontier Foundation · Site-Blocking Legislation Is Back. It’s Still a Terrible Idea.More than a decade ago, Congress tried to pass SOPA and PIPA—two sweeping bills that would have allowed the government and copyright holders to quickly shut down entire websites based on allegations of piracy. The backlash was immediate and massive. Internet users, free speech advocates, and tech...
#DigitalRights#EFF#InternetFreedom
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kriykat

Israeli Lawsuits Target Americans
consortiumnews.com/2025/04/02/
The wave of litigation against pro-Palestine Americans could help the “non-profit killer bill” passed by Congress target opposition to Israeli policies, writes Robert Inlakesh. By Robert Inlakesh MintPress News A wave of lawsuits filed by Israeli plaintiffs against pro-Palestinian American…
#Politics #CivilRights #Gaza #Israel #Palestine #Protests #TrumpAdministration #U.s. #U.s.Congress #AmericanIsraelPublicAffairsCommittee(aipac) #AmericanMuslimsForPalestine(amp) #ColumbiaUniversity #FirstAmendment #Hamas #JewishVoiceForPeace #MahmoudKhalil #NationalJewishAdvocacyCenter #NonprofitKillerBill #PalestineChronicle #PalestinianIslamicJihad #RobertInlakesh #ShlomiZiv #StudentsForJusticeInPalestine(sjp) #U.s.ImmigrationAndCustomsEnforcement(ice) #U.s.TreasuryDepartment #WithinOurLifetime

Consortium News · Israeli Lawsuits Target AmericansThe wave of litigation against pro-Palestine Americans could help the "non-profit killer bill" passed by Congress target opposition to Israeli policies, writes Robert Inlakesh. By Robert Inlakesh MintPress News A wave of lawsuits filed by Israeli plaintiffs against pro-Palestinian American
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Austrian

"On March 25, six masked federal agents seized a Turkish graduate student on the streets of Somerville, Massachusetts. Rumeysa Ozturk—who was wearing a hajib—is a Fulbright scholar working on a doctorate at Tufts University. She was abducted and vanished into the maw of the federal prison system. The Trump administration ignored a federal court order and took Ozturk from Massachusetts to Louisiana federal detention ..." mises.org/mises-wire/first-the #freespeech #firstamendment #trump #ruleoflaw

Mises InstituteFirst They Came for the Op-Ed Writers | Mises InstituteThe Trump administration continues its assault on the First Amendment and the rights of dissenters. The latest casualty is a Turkish graduate student at Tufts
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DesertPaws

So much for #Trump and the #maga #Trumplicans supporting free speech and the #FirstAmendment. They are defiling the very essence of this country and #weaponizing our law institutions. They are hunting down those who speak against their ideology like other #fascist and #nazi governments. And just like in those countries, they have groups of #traitors that are turning in fellow Americans. We have turned a corner and are proceeding down the road to a fascist and #totalitarian state.

#resist #fightback Be a #Patriot .

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Nonilex

In a stmnt on Monday, the #Trump admin said it was examining ~$256M in contracts, as well as another $8.7B in what it described as “multiyear grant commitments.”

“While #Harvard’s recent actions to curb institutionalized *antisemitism*—though long overdue—are welcome, there is much more that the university must do to retain the privilege of receiving federal taxpayers’ hard-earned dollars,” Josh Gruenbaum, a snr ofcl at the #GSA, said.

#USpol#education#research
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Hélène Collon ⏚

« In an address to Congress this month, President Trump claimed he had “brought free speech back to America.” But barely two months into his second term, the president has waged an unprecedented attack on the #FirstAmendment rights of journalists, students, universities, government workers, lawyers and judges.

This story explores a slew of recent actions by the Trump administration that threaten to undermine all five pillars of the First Amendment to the U.S. #Constitution, which guarantees freedoms concerning speech, religion, the media, the right to assembly, and the right to petition the government and seek redress for wrongs. »

krebsonsecurity.com/2025/03/ho

krebsonsecurity.comHow Each Pillar of the 1st Amendment is Under Attack – Krebs on Security
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N-gated Hacker News

🗞️🚨Breaking: The First Amendment needs a lawyer! Apparently, everything's "under attack"—like a scene from a bad disaster movie! Meanwhile, President #Trump claims to have single-handedly resurrected free speech. 🤡
krebsonsecurity.com/2025/03/ho #FirstAmendment #FreeSpeech #NewsMedia #DisasterMovie #Comedy #HackerNews #ngated

krebsonsecurity.comHow Each Pillar of the 1st Amendment is Under Attack – Krebs on Security
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