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Huh.

"What followed was a 90-minute, back-and-forth verbal tussle between Makled and two federal agents, who, he said, ultimately released him without taking his phone, but looked at his contacts list instead. For the 38-year-old civil rights and criminal defense attorney, it was a daunting experience that he says highlights a troubling phenomenon that's occurring across the United States: Lawyers are getting targeted for handling issues the administration of President Donald Trump disagrees with."

https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/wayne/2025/04/07/lawyer-for-u-m-protester-held-at-airport-refused-to-give-feds-his-phone/82978891007/

Content warning Anti-trans hatred in the UK - Helen Joyce

Read this! The Chris Murphy explainer is great. The aren't tax policy; they are meant to bring us to our knees. Let's not bend. Off!

"Our brains are just not trained to understand that the president of the United States wants to make us beggars. The Secretary of HHS wants to give our kids measles. The president's corporate sponsor wants to destroy us because we respect his child [Vivian Wilson]."

https://thelastbillionaires.com/trump-declared-himself-king/





Normal Island News

Doctor cancelled by New York University for attempting to tell truth about Gaza
We have decided cancel culture is good now

It’s fair to say, the free speech situation in the US is improving by the day. New York University has just cancelled a presentation from a doctor, due to concerns she might say something Israel disapproves of. If you didn’t get the memo, cancel culture is good now.

https://open.substack.com/pub/normalislandnews/p/doctor-cancelled-by-new-york-university?r=12u3ju&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email

"...If the government or law enforcement starts treating all anti-Tesla actions as criminal, peaceful protesters could find themselves facing consequences meant for extremists...Per the Attorney General’s Guidelines, the FBI doesn’t require a factual basis for a suspicion of terrorism to begin conducting physical surveillance, which includes taking photos of people, cars, and license plates, deploying informants to infiltrate a group, accessing private databases, and more. ..."

“It’s also important to understand that law enforcement in the United States is primarily intended to protect the property of the wealthy,” German said.

“Corporations in the United States are politically powerful and have access to elected officials and top law enforcement officials. And when their interests are challenged, particularly by protest, they want to present that as a law enforcement issue, rather than as legitimate public concerns about their corporate activities.”

https://techcrunch.com/2025/03/28/tesla-takedown-protesters-are-planning-a-global-day-of-action-on-march-29-and-things-might-get-ugly/