“A dangerous bill called the CLOUD Act would allow police at home and abroad to seize cross-border data without following the privacy rules where the data is stored.”
Read more: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/03/new-backdoor-around-fourth-amendment-cloud-act
“Keep in mind, Trump adamantly supported the legalization of drugs, long before he made a serious run at the presidency.”
Read more: https://fee.org/articles/the-evidence-is-in-the-death-penalty-wont-win-the-drug-war/
“Internal NYPD files show that hundreds of officers who committed the most serious offenses — from lying to grand juries to physically attacking innocent people — got to keep their jobs, their pensions, and their tremendous power over New Yorkers’ lives.”
Read more: https://www.buzzfeed.com/kendalltaggart/secret-nypd-files-hundreds-of-officers-committed-serious
“The film documents the struggle of north St. Louis County residents who live near areas illegally dumped with World War II-era nuclear waste, particularly the West Lake Landfill Superfund site.”
“Rubin’s order shows that board staff were tracking blogs and news articles chronicling Geier’s downfall, mocking him and his son in emails and reveling in their humiliation. When they got a tip that Mark Geier may have still been prescribing medication, they vowed to look into it. Before holding an evidence hearing, board attorney Victoria Pepper drafted the cease-and-desist order.”
Read more: https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Regulators-who-targeted-anti-vaccine-physician-12549294.php
“The 2016 Senate appropriations bill forbids the use of federal funds, which many law enforcement agencies receive and rely on, to prohibit the growing, processing or distribution of properly licensed industrial hemp.”
“The Swedish media giants involved in the anti-‘fake news’ project consist of Swedish State Television, Swedish State Radio, Bonnier, Schibsted Sverige, and NTM. Together, these media companies effectively own Swedish mainstream media in the form of newspapers, online news outlets, and state and private television and radio. The Swedish state is financing the technical aspects of the project with 1.9 million Swedish kroner ($240,000), while the Swedish mainstream media is financing the remaining project costs themselves.”
Read more: https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/11830/europe-governments-fake-news
“The officer who shot McDonald, Jason Van Dyke, was charged with first-degree murder. Van Dyke’s lawyers sought to compel me to testify on the basis of their claim, for which they offered no evidence, that the source had given me documents protected under the Garrity rule, which protects public employees from being compelled to incriminate themselves during internal investigations conducted by their employers.”
Read more: https://theintercept.com/2018/02/07/laquan-mcdonald-case-first-amdendment/
“People should be thrilled to learn their friends, neighbors, and coworkers are gun permit holders. It means they are in the presence of some of the least likely people in society to commit a crime.”
Read more: http://www.thedailybell.com/news-analysis/4-complaints-about-gun-owners-debunked/
“Roughly two-thirds of Americans live within 100 miles of the oceans or the borders. And while the law in question specifically exempts dwellings from warrantless searches, that is the only exception.”