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Preventing witnesses to testify

mardi 2 novembre 2021 à 01:00

The University of Florida told three professors they were forbidden to testify as expert witnesses in a case against Florida's latest voting restrictions law.

What the state is doing is much worse than an infringement of academic freedom. It is an attempt to bias the trial about the constitutionality of the voting restrictions law, and thus a second attack on democracy piled on the first one.

Driving while black

mardi 2 novembre 2021 à 01:00

*Philadelphia to become first major US city to ban police from stopping drivers for low-level traffic violations.* The point of this is to protect black drivers from one frequent opportunity to harass them for "driving while black".

Fascist threat to democracy

mardi 2 novembre 2021 à 01:00

Prominent Liberal and Conservative activists and academics have joined to condemn the fascist threat to democracy.

This includes condemning the Republican Party as it has become, despite the fact that some of them supported that party in the past.

Killing of billionaire tax

mardi 2 novembre 2021 à 01:00

Pelosi helped Manchin kill the billionaire tax.

Drones in protests

mardi 2 novembre 2021 à 01:00

The UK government wants to film protesters with drones operating 1500 feet up, and identify them without their being able to tell.