“Proposals under discussion would replace the population-control policy with one called ‘independent fertility,’ allowing people to decide how many children to have.”
“Sessions’s child-removal policy actually extends the callousness of current American penal practices.”
“This fully electronic license, which is encoded into smartphones, will grant police officers the power to monitor citizens without even having to conduct routine traffic stops.”
Read more: https://www.aier.org/article/e-drivers-licenses-enable-round-clock-surveillance
“The Corker-Kaine AUMF is beyond dangerous. It is unconstitutional. And it is set up to never end.”
“Torture was illegal in 1946. It was illegal in 1968. And it was illegal in 2002, no matter what Bush Justice Department officials John Yoo and Jay Bybee said.”
Read more: http://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/the-conservative-case-against-gina-haspel/
“The sharpest plunge in America’s press freedom rating occurred during the Obama administration — thanks in part to its zealous prosecutions of journalists. Trump is continuing policies started by earlier presidents.”
“The Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe issued a circular Friday ordering all financial institutions to terminate servicing cryptocurrency exchanges within 60 days and begin to liquidate existing crypto-related accounts.”
“Australia’s Liberal Party government says it’s ‘encouraging the transition to a digital society,’ and cracking down on tax evasion.”
Read more: https://gizmodo.com/australia-bans-cash-for-all-purchases-over-7-500-start-1825946888
“A seemingly unsupervised CBP agent improperly attempted to force Twitter to produce records on a particular user without a court order — completely disregarding whether the summons was legal.”
Read more: https://theintercept.com/2018/05/07/cbp-alt-uscis-twitter/
“The story of their success is about thriving after surviving a brutal war that left them with nearly nothing.”