Posting History for First and Fourth
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| Washington Times sues Homeland Security The original incident was diaried here - http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/10/25/1250685/-Gun-Search-warrant-used-for-confiscating-journalist-s-files
Using a warrant to search for guns, Homeland ... |
ffour | 11/22/2013 | 2 | 9 | - | - |
| Anatomy of a dysfunctional Federal District Court district. Hopefully this comes across as something other than only routine sour grapes. "The First and The Fourth" subject matter area is, if anything, at least as important as the most committed proponents ... |
oldpotsmuggler | 07/06/2013 | 3 | 2 | - | - |
| Liberty or DAC. A Struggle Against "The Local Chapter of the NSA." A bit of street theatre took place Saturday, February 1st, in Oakland, just a block away from where Scott Olsen was shot and nearly killed by Oakland's Police Department during the first major ... |
jpmassar | 02/04/2014 | 5 | 17 | - | - |
| First Amendment Project: Caltrans broke law by confiscating anti-tunnel signs In the latest episode in the Brown administration's "Signgate" scandal, Restore the Delta Thursday released an expert legal opinion finding that the California Department of Transportation’s (... |
Dan Bacher | 07/11/2013 | 6 | 16 | - | - |
| Charlotte Moral Monday 8/19: Fighting for the soul of NC In just two days, Charlotte will host Moral Monday to protest the policies of Gov. Pat McCrory and NC's Republican-controlled General Assembly.
“We are not going to let the so-called religious ... |
SteelerGrrl | 08/17/2013 | 8 | 24 | 1 | - |
| The answer to the NSA and the FISA court: James Otis, "On the Writs of Assistance," February 1761 MAY it please your Honors : I was desired by one of the court to look into the books, and consider the question now before them concerning Writs of Assistance. I have accordingly considered it, and ... |
Superskepticalman | 07/09/2013 | 9 | 26 | 4 | - |
| U.S. spying on Americans: Unpopular, and unlikely to end The ongoing revelations about the government's spying programs have changed public opinion on the issue, but the institutions responsible for reining them in have no incentive to act.
Cross posted ... |
danps | 07/13/2013 | 9 | 9 | - | - |
| The National Security Agency's Captive Audience 1972 Supreme Court Dissenting Opinion re
Government Surveillance
This case [ Laird v. Tatum] involves a cancer in our body politic. It is a measure of the disease which afflicts us. Army ... |
Lynne Vogel | 07/16/2013 | 9 | 9 | - | - |
| Have you read the Amnesty International report on human rights abuses in Ferguson? Amnesty International Report on Human Rights Abuses in Ferguson, MO
I don't think I need to detail Amnesty International's widely respected pedigree here. Suffice it to say that the human rights ... |
KingCharlemagne | 10/25/2014 | 10 | 15 | 1 | - |
| Dream Defenders and The Special Session Is Happnin NOW, y'all Pay attention.
The Dream Defenders are a diverse group of progressives led by brown and black youth. As such, they have a special expertise in things like racial profiling and the school to prison ... |
nancyjones | 07/29/2013 | 11 | 19 | - | - |
| Protest arrests at New England coal plant I went to the Brayton Point coal plant protest down near Fall River in Massachusetts on Sunday and I diaried about my experience here:
New England coal plant protest
Rugbymom also diaried here:
... |
cordgrass | 07/30/2013 | 11 | 18 | - | - |
| MN-Sen: Al Franken (D) Worries That New iPhone Fingerprint Scanner Might Be A Privacy Menace
So the new iPhone came out this week:
http://minnesota.cbslocal.com/2013/09/20/sen-franken-has-concerns-over-iphone-fingerprint-tech/ |
poopdogcomedy | 09/21/2013 | 11 | 8 | 1 | - |
| Anatomy of a Murder: The Pentagon, Capitol Hill, and Religious Liberty
What would you do if you found out that a shocking murder plot was unfolding silently? What if this wasn’t just any murder, but the premeditated and carefully plotted unfolding of a terrifying ... |
Mikey Weinstein | 04/25/2014 | 11 | 50 | - | - |
| I'm old enough to remember "entrapment". I'm afraid that for younger cohorts of our citizenry the term "predisposition" is, largely, just another fancy word. For others of us, the connection to the erosion of Fourth Amendment rights/... |
oldpotsmuggler | 07/06/2013 | 13 | 21 | 1 | - |
| Chilling Effects: NSA Surveillance Drives U.S. Writers to Self-Censor Yesterday PEN American Center , 90 years old organization with a goal to defend free expression in literature, released a worrisome report Chilling Effects: NSA Surveillance Drives U.S. Writers to ... |
ScrewedByLawyer | 11/13/2013 | 13 | 10 | - | - |
| Police Utilizing Private Companies, Exploits To Access Data From Suspects' Smartphones "I'm thinking there's probably a wealth of information that just got tucked into your pocket," Norton says. "Something that we'd like to get our hands on." from the brute-force-attacks-that-don't-... |
xxdr zombiexx | 03/26/2014 | 13 | 17 | - | - |
| “Todd Gitlin, Are ‘Intelligence’ and Instigation Running Riot?” Do you want to maintain your constitutional rights to engage in unhindered social protest against Keystone XL, the destruction of our climate, our overwhelming surveillance state, the veritable ... |
bobswern | 07/09/2013 | 14 | 29 | - | - |
| Takeover of NC Speaker Thom Tillis' office Moments ago, a group of students and other North Carolinians moved into the office of N.C. Speaker of the House Thom Tillis and initiated a sit-in a la Wisconsin and Florida.
Those of us not at the ... |
MsSpentyouth | 07/24/2013 | 17 | 72 | 1 | - |
| Republicans Bum Rush the democratic process and lay siege to your future. This originated as a comment in LaFeminista's We're not amused post from yesterday. I was surprised by the reaction and elected to post it as a diary, fleshed out and spell-corrected.
In this ... |
xxdr zombiexx | 07/27/2013 | 17 | 28 | - | - |
| Warrior Cops--The New Men in Black If you hear someone banging on your door at about three in the morning, yelling, POLICE, SEARCH WARRANT. It’s unlikely you will be able to get up, put on something decent and get to the door ... |
ATexican | 07/20/2013 | 18 | 19 | - | - |
| Defending the American Dream
Florida governor Rick Scott will give the keynote address to the Americans for Prosperity's "Defending the American Dream Summit" scheduled for Aug 30-31 in Orlando, Florida. Ain't that some shit? |
nancyjones | 08/11/2013 | 18 | 13 | - | - |
| Heroes of the Day Sing Truth To Power Closing down the building singing truth to power for an hour, after consecutive weekday noon-hour Solidarity Sing Along #624, Tuesday, July 30, 2013, day #4 of the illegal mass arrests of peaceably ... |
Wisco Wherls | 07/31/2013 | 19 | 61 | 3 | - |
| Gun Search warrant used for confiscating journalist's files From here .
Using a warrant to search for guns, Homeland security officers and Maryland police confiscated a journalist's confidential files. The reporter had written a series of articles critical ... |
ffour | 10/25/2013 | 20 | 38 | 1 | - |
| Imagine a smiling man, with only a few questions If you want a vision of the future, imagine a smiling man. In body Armor. With A weapon held at the low ready. Who only wants you to answer a few questions.
He's not threatening you, at ... |
detroitmechworks | 07/08/2013 | 21 | 23 | - | - |
| Dream Defenders Occupy Florida's Capitol - Day Eight They're still at it and they aren't going away. The Dream Defenders and their supporters have been occupying the capitol building in Tallahassee, FL since the Tuesday after George Zimmerman was ... |
nancyjones | 07/23/2013 | 21 | 35 | - | - |
| Harry Belafonte Visits the Dream Defenders WE FIGHT THE CRIMINALIZATION OF OUR GENERATION BY DIRECTLY CONFRONTING THE SOURCES, SPONSORS AND SUPPORTERS OF IT.
The Dream Defenders are in their 12th day of standing their ground in the offices ... |
JoanMar | 07/28/2013 | 21 | 31 | - | - |
| Take 2. Taking The Freeway. Taking It Down as Oakland Rises Up For Trayvon Martin. At about 7:30 PM this evening, after one of the most idiotic manuevers by the Oakland Police I have yet seen, Trayvon Martin verdict protesters went up the down ramp onto an already backed up I880, ... |
jpmassar | 07/16/2013 | 23 | 40 | - | - |
| This Thanksgiving Americans Prepare For a New War - A War on the Homeless. Have no doubt about it. It's war, and a new front has opened in Los Angeles, as the New York Times reported yesterday :
Facing an uproar from homeowners, two members of the Los Angeles City ... |
jpmassar | 11/28/2013 | 23 | 81 | 1 | - |
| White House sues Sprint for overcharging on compliance with federal phone taps heh. The Obama administration filed a suit in U.S. District Court in San Francisco on Monday, alleging that Sprint overcharged the government $21 million for expenses it incurred while complying ... |
xxdr zombiexx | 03/03/2014 | 23 | 24 | 1 | - |
| Coleen Rowley has questions for James Comey If you do not remember who Coleen Rowley is, she was an FBI Special Agent and Lawyer in Minneapolis, where she served as chief legal advisor, who became well known because of the paper she wrote for ... |
teacherken | 07/09/2013 | 24 | 84 | 2 | - |
| Democratic Senators Feinstein, Schumer Press for Assault on Independent Journalism
California Senator Dianne Feinstein has proposed an amendment to the Media Shield Law that would limit the law's protection only to "real reporters," not bloggers and other alternative media.
... |
perceptionisrealityshow | 08/12/2013 | 24 | 17 | - | - |
| White house warning russia to not give Snowden a propaganda platform Hi,
I don't write too often here, but I should really do it more often.
Living outside the US I can often see things that don't get much attention in the states and maybe a different reflection of ... |
tyfon | 07/14/2013 | 26 | 19 | - | - |
| Massive protest at California Chevron refinery a show of movement strength This weekend, Oil Change International’s newest campaigner and I joined dozens of dedicated community leaders, climate movement allies and friends, and a couple thousand new friends in a march to ... |
dturnbull | 08/06/2013 | 26 | 63 | 2 | - |
| Obama pondering fate of NSA's bulk data collection | Joan McCarter | 01/09/2014 | 26 | 37 | - | 6 |
| N.C. Moral Monday #11: 101 unique arrests, things heat up Hundreds of observers crowded onto the third-floor balcony of the N.C. General Assembly to peacefully support the 101 civil-disobedience volunteers being arrested one floor below.
Amid sweltering ... |
MsSpentyouth | 07/16/2013 | 31 | 65 | - | - |
| Time To Unite Against NSA Abuses: A Proposal We are entering a very dangerous period in history. Our national security is now firmly in the hands of for-profit private corporations and their lackeys in government. They have built a veritable ... |
Ray Pensador | 08/11/2013 | 34 | 70 | 3 | - |
| Why Oil Companies can Declare a No Fly Zone Part II So the last diary was very very long.
I could have cut it up into pieces, but I figured it was just better to put that out and explain it as best as I was able, the disturbing material I am reading. |
GreenMother | 07/11/2013 | 35 | 35 | 2 | - |
| All Things Bookstore: Lawrence Ferlinghetti and the “Howl” Trial Booksellers can become political. A good example of that comes from San Fransico in the 1950s when Lawrence Ferlinghetti, the proprietor of the City Lights Bookstore (which is still very much there ... |
Dave in Northridge | 10/15/2013 | 38 | 40 | - | - |
| A giant sucking sound
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MattWuerker | 07/25/2013 | 39 | 44 | 2 | - |
| NSA and more lying to the courts Oops:
The spying agency crossed referenced a selected list of some 16,000 phone numbers against databases which contained millions of records, thus violating the law, two senior intelligence ... |
Horace Boothroyd III | 09/10/2013 | 41 | 33 | 4 | - |
| Religious Exemptions: The First and the Fourteenth This is the first of what I think will be three diaries that directly resulted from my experience at NN 14. Religious exemptions was identified as one of the five major post-marriage issues for the ... |
Dave in Northridge | 08/04/2014 | 41 | 25 | - | - |
| Under 300 Unique Phone Metadata Searches in 2012
That is a screengrab from a letter sent from the United States Department of Justice to the Judge hearing the NSA case. It illustrates the title to this diary with the following sentence: "In ... |
Tortmaster | 07/23/2013 | 43 | 9 | - | - |
| New suit challenges NSA surveillance
A large coalition of religious groups, privacy advocates, free speech, human rights and environmental organizations have joined with other groups in the Electronic Frontiers Foundation'... |
Joan McCarter | 07/17/2013 | 47 | 71 | 1 | - |
| Federal Judge Enjoins Walker Administration from Enforcing Wisconsin Capitol Permit Requirements I wish I had more time to analyze and write about this, but let's just say it was a good day for the Wisconsin chapter of the ACLU.
In addition to granting a 10 day injunction barring enforcement ... |
Giles Goat Boy | 07/08/2013 | 50 | 216 | 4 | - |
| "Collect it all" Alexander wanted PERSONAL instant access to ALL raw data As emptywheel put it (on her way to a characteristically subtle point on a specific pitfall of "big data"), "Shane Harris has a great piece of a bunch of people hanging Keith Alexander out to dry:"
The Cowboy of the NSA Inside Gen. Keith Alexander's... |
Simplify | 09/10/2013 | 60 | 196 | 5 | - |
| Christian extremist Klingenschmitt loses battle to shut down Right Wing Watch Given the fact that the extremist Christian right has only become more vicious and frothy as their dream of ushering in an American Theocracy continues to be our American nightmare, we need the ... |
Steven Payne | 11/20/2013 | 61 | 289 | 1 | - |
| Freedom of Assembly on Trial in NYC: Veterans Who Fought for Liberty Are Forced to Fight Again World War II veteran Jay Wenk tolls a bell while Vietnam veteran Tarak Kauff reads the names of the fallen moments before their arrest on October 7, 2012.
“Congress shall make no law… abridging�� |
Richard Riis | 07/10/2013 | 63 | 139 | 3 | - |
| Abbreviated pundit roundup: Fixing the nation's spying laws We begin today's abbreviated pundit roundup with an editorial from The New York Times :
As Eric Lichtblau reported in The Times on Sunday, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court has for years ... |
Georgia Logothetis | 07/09/2013 | 65 | 30 | - | - |
| Dream Defenders Go After Rick Scott & Co., Legally and Peacefully Using a clever and little-known tactic of calling for a Special Session, the Dream Defenders forced pro-Scott legislators to take sides. Who are the Dream Defenders? What have they done so far?
... |
nancyjones | 08/18/2013 | 65 | 98 | 1 | - |
| N.C. Moral Monday #13: What happens now? As many as 10,000 protesters took to the streets of downtown Raleigh to protest the repressive bills that made their way through the NC General Assembly this legislative session. Protesters wore red ... |
MsSpentyouth | 07/31/2013 | 66 | 115 | 3 | - |
| Wisconsin Capitol Arrests Continue for a 2nd Day
Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker’s administration ordered its Capitol Police force to arrest singing citizens for a second consecutive day. Singers participating in the daily, noon-hour ... |
Giles Goat Boy | 07/25/2013 | 67 | 174 | 4 | - |
| I was arrested for singing. Wednesday, August 7th, was a very strange day in my formerly wonderful state of Wisconsin. My friend and I went to Madison to shop, visit the State Capitol at noon to sing, and then we were probably ... |
MemaW | 08/20/2013 | 73 | 214 | 4 | - |
| Songs In the Key of Resistance: Dueling Sing Alongs, Guns, Trombones, and American Resilience. I sit on the hard marble floor of the elegant Wisconsin State Capitol building, listening to America The Beautiful, God Bless America and other "patriotic" songs being sung by about 50 rightwing ... |
noise of rain | 07/30/2013 | 74 | 134 | 6 | - |
| American Sharia, #1: Louisiana begins process to make Bible state's official book I wish this was snark. From nola.com : Legislation that would make the Holy Bible the official state book of Louisiana cleared the House Committee on Municipal, Parochial and Cultural Affairs with a ... |
Dave in Northridge | 04/11/2014 | 74 | 85 | - | - |
| NSA Revelations on Australia and Brazil; anti-Clinton warhorse on FISA court New revelations on the role Australia plays in NSA intercepts emerged in RT. New revelations on espionage against Brazil are in O Globo.
Also, separately, Ezra Klein of the Washington Post, ... |
CharlesII | 07/09/2013 | 77 | 143 | 4 | - |
| The NSA's Rank Incompetence ALMOST Overshadows its Authoritarian Agenda Egregious constitutional violations aside, highlighting the sheer level of incompetence and malfeasance at the NSA will ensure that congressional reform will indeed happen.
The U.S. government's ... |
markthshark | 08/28/2013 | 77 | 119 | 2 | - |
| Big Data and Big Brother The controversies surrounding the revelations about the NSA are bringing a lot of background information about recent developments in technology onto the radar screen. 20 years ago when internet ... |
Richard Lyon | 07/15/2013 | 79 | 42 | 1 | - |
| Bradley Manning the war on whistleblowers continues Standing up for the principle of righteousness in the face of adversity is a standard rarely encountered. Knowing a crime was committed Manning tried through inside channels to do the right thing. ... |
Horace Boothroyd III | 07/10/2013 | 80 | 60 | 1 | - |
| All Access Imagine
A complete file of your medical records.
A complete file of your banking records
A complete record of your credit card transactions
A complete record of all your internet activity
A ... |
LaFeminista | 07/12/2013 | 80 | 36 | 1 | - |
| FISA Court: "To date, no electronic communications provider has challenged a 702 directive" See FISA Court Presiding Judge Reggie Walton's letter in response to queries from Senate Judiciary Committee Chariman Patrick Leahy .
The FISA court is described as working much as described in my ... |
Armando | 07/29/2013 | 82 | 66 | - | - |
| Those Damned Hippies. They're Saving the Post Office. Yup. Hippies. Straight out of the 60's, looking oddly like grandparents these days. Hardcore labor unionists. Harscrabble activists. Street kids. Cal students. Throw in a few of Berkeley's famous ... |
jpmassar | 08/11/2013 | 82 | 304 | 4 | - |
| Songs In the Key of Persistence: The Zip Ties Aren't Tight Enough To Silence the Singing. The singing begins promptly at noon, and it is loud, exuberant and tuneful. There are easily 200 or more people here, down on the rotunda floor, and also lining the first floor balcony. The Raging ... |
noise of rain | 08/22/2013 | 82 | 174 | 4 | - |
| BREAKING: N.C. Moral Monday #12: Spontaneous sit-in shuts down Gen. Assembly buildings When NAACP-NC President Rev. William Barber suggested from the N.C. General Assembly building's second floor (where civil-disobedience arrests were beginning to take place) that people sit down if ... |
MsSpentyouth | 07/23/2013 | 84 | 171 | - | - |
| Walker forced to back off from arresting observers of Solidarity Sing Along I'm reposting this from Corrente
In Wisconsin, the Department of Administration has now released a statement that observers of the Solidarity Sing Along will no longer be arrested or threatened ... |
affinis | 08/09/2013 | 89 | 337 | 4 | - |
| NSA: u r pwnd It seems that our great protector the NSA is in the texting business in a very big way.
NSA collects millions of text messages daily in 'untargeted' global sweep
The National Security Agency has ... |
Richard Lyon | 01/16/2014 | 89 | 109 | 1 | - |
| Introducing a new DKos Group: The First and the Fourth Our First Amendment is under siege and our 4th Amendment rights have been forced into providing lapdances in clandestine VIP rooms. Since the eruption of the Snowden-NSA-spying issue/scandal/... |
xxdr zombiexx | 07/06/2013 | 90 | 96 | 3 | - |
| Songs in the Key of Resistance: "Nitro, Nitro: This Man Needs Nitro!" (Update) UPDATE on Reverend Dary's condition: He is resting comfortably at UW Hospital - he has had heart issues in the past and things are looking O.K. for now. He will have a stress test tomorrow - He is ... |
noise of rain | 07/26/2013 | 92 | 138 | 4 | - |
| Bloomberg Editorial Board calls for a repeat of the Church Committee First I have to get this off my chest. I am pissed. If one more person tells me to or even implies that I should sit down and STFU I'm not likely to deal with them in a generous manner.
I feel ... |
Just Bob | 08/18/2013 | 92 | 63 | 1 | - |
| Why Oil Companies can make No Fly Zones Let me start this diary by saying, this is the kind shit that keeps me up at night. Contemplating the outcomes of the subject explored in this diary scares me. It causes me to lose hope for the ... |
GreenMother | 07/08/2013 | 94 | 113 | 16 | - |
| "Today I learned I got my freedoms back": 7 Americans ALLOWED off No-Fly List. Government's Secretive "No-Fly List" Regime Crumbling, says ACLU Marking the first major victory against the U.S. government's secretive 'No Fly List' on Friday, seven people who challenged their ... |
xxdr zombiexx | 10/12/2014 | 94 | 152 | 3 | - |
| Secret court broadens NSA's powers, in secret
The New York Times' Eric Lichtblau has another must-read story on how the surveillance ... |
Joan McCarter | 07/08/2013 | 95 | 195 | 2 | 4 |
| Qwest CEO Who Resisted NSA Spying Finally Released From Prison After Four Years of Incarceration
Just one major telecommunications company refused to participate in a legally dubious NSA surveillance program in 2001. A few years later, its CEO was indicted by federal prosecutors. He was ... |
markthshark | 10/01/2013 | 95 | 238 | 2 | - |
| "The Nation's Surveillance Court" Creates New " Secret Body of Law" Granting NSA Even Broader Powers They're changing the rules on us.
Fundamental structural normalcy in the so-called intelligence community seem to be changing both quickly and [not surprisingly anymore] in secret. Old secret ... |
markthshark | 07/07/2013 | 99 | 193 | 8 | - |
| Detroit Free Press photographer arrested while filming another arrest
Another day, another incident of police arresting someone for filming them in public. This time it was Mandi Wright, a photographer from the Detroit Free Press :
As two officers ... |
Jen Hayden | 07/16/2013 | 100 | 185 | 2 | - |
| N.C. Moral Monday #10: at least 64 arrested, 746 unique arrests so far
Rev. Frederick Battle is all too familiar with civil disobedience and what spurs people to fight power with peaceful assembly. The mild-mannered minister was arrested 51 years ago in Greensboro, N.... |
MsSpentyouth | 07/09/2013 | 101 | 174 | 2 | - |
| PBS Newshour Gets Played By NSA Lawyers The other night, to it's credit, the PBS Newshour had NSA whistleblowers William Binney and Russell Tice on for an interview segment, titled, "NSA Collects 'Word for Word' Every Domestic ... |
joe shikspack | 08/05/2013 | 101 | 121 | 2 | - |
| NSA Extends Surveillance Program NSA surveillance program extended by court, intelligence officials say
A secret court on Friday extended the National Security Agency’s authority to collect and store the phone records of tens of ... |
Richard Lyon | 07/19/2013 | 102 | 46 | 1 | - |
| Insider Threats: Desperately Seeking Winston Smith
In an initiative aimed at rooting out future leakers and other security violators, President Barack Obama has ordered federal employees to report suspicious actions of their colleagues based on ... |
billmon | 07/11/2013 | 108 | 180 | 4 | - |
| How Hollywood sold America Total Information Awareness These guys would never violate the 4th amendment unless it was to keep us safe right?
In America people like to think of their hero's as being unimpeachable in character and motivations. That these ... |
Tool | 07/07/2013 | 113 | 124 | - | - |
| 17-Year-Old Who Blew The Lid Off Racial Profiling W/iPod There is a large segment of society that cannot understand why African American and Latinos don't like and/or trust the police or government in general. They can't understand it because they don't ... |
shevas01 | 07/21/2013 | 117 | 221 | 6 | - |
| Exactly when did America become a bunch of out-takes from Catch-22? I first asked myself this question in January, 2013, when I read this story:
Secrecy of Memo on Drone Killing Is Upheld
"I can find no way around the thicket of laws and precedents that ... |
arendt | 07/16/2013 | 119 | 198 | 13 | - |
| BREAKING: Wikileaks Journalist Sarah Harrison Safe in Germany: “Courage is Contagious.” Wikileaks journalist Sarah Harrison heroically rescued National Security Agency (NSA) whistleblower Edward Snowden from Hong Kong, helped him obtain asylum in Russia and remained by his side at ... |
Jesselyn Radack | 11/06/2013 | 126 | 322 | 5 | - |
| NSA Responds To ProPublica FOIA Request: We Don't Have The Technology To Search Our Own Emails ProPublica, without question, one of the most reliable sources for solid news anywhere on the planet, IMHO, is a little late to the table on this round of the NSA-surveillance-state stories. But, I’ |
bobswern | 07/23/2013 | 128 | 175 | 4 | - |
| "I will introduce legislation...to repeal the laws that brought us our current surveillance state." Representative Rush Holt (D-NJ) has announced, in an eloquent op-ed to his constituents, that he plans to introduce legislation which would, among other things, repeal the Patriot Act and establish ... |
David Harris Gershon | 07/10/2013 | 135 | 351 | 4 | - |
| North Carolina legislature determined to suppress voter turnout. Old times there not forgotten The Rev. William Barber II
A bill with a fat package of changes in state voter laws will likely be passed by the North Carolina legislature this week. Many of the changes are specifically designed ... |
Meteor Blades | 07/23/2013 | 138 | 146 | 2 | 10 |
| “FBI will soon have equivalent of 20 pcs of intel on every American–and they share this broadly" From Marcy Wheeler’s [http://www.emptywheel.net/2013/09/17/aclu-to-jim-comey-welcome-now-fix-this/ emptywheel] blog, late this morning…
Today, in honor of Constitution Day, the ACLU just ... |
bobswern | 09/21/2013 | 138 | 157 | 6 | - |
| FIGHTING BACK Against NSA Surveillance - Small Independent ISP in Utah Does What Other ISPs Won't "I would tell them I didn't need to respond if they didn't have a warrant, that (to do so) wouldn't be constitutional," the founder and chief executive, Pete Ashdown , said in an interview at his ... |
markthshark | 07/10/2013 | 141 | 251 | 10 | - |
| The White House is Trolling Democracy with its Statement on the Amash-Conyers Amendment Reps. Justin Amash, John Conyers, Jr., Thomas Massie, Mick Mulvaney, and Jared Polis are proposing an amendment to the Defense Appropriations Bill that would curtail funding for the implementation ... |
Liberty Equality Fraternity and Trees | 07/23/2013 | 141 | 199 | 4 | - |
| Mass Arrest of Singers in Wisconsin Capitol Wisconsin Capitol Police arrested and cited around 20 people today after declaring their singing of protest songs in the rotunda an "unlawful event."
Many of those arrested were senior citizens ( ... |
Giles Goat Boy | 07/24/2013 | 142 | 262 | 3 | - |
| Obama meets with key lawmakers on NSA revelations, vows reforms
The debate between privacy and national security that President Obama has said he welcomes has begun, with ... |
Joan McCarter | 08/02/2013 | 144 | 47 | 1 | 16 |
| Contrary to WaPo, NSA Massive Domestic Spying Predates 2005 The Washington Post has a front page story featuring embattled National Security Agency (NSA) Director Gen. Keith Alexander's hoarding complex.
“Rather than look for a single needle in the ... |
Jesselyn Radack | 07/15/2013 | 149 | 174 | 1 | - |
| Progressive Magazine Editor Arrested for Taking Pictures of Singers in Wis Capitol Wrong on so many levels .
Sorry about the 2nd diary today, but I didn't see anyone else posting this.
The longtime editor of The Progressive magazine was swept up in arrests Thursday during the ... |
Puddytat | 08/15/2013 | 151 | 317 | 3 | - |
| Chevron Granted Access to Nine Years of Activists' Email Information in Environmental Lawsuit This is another illustrative example of the insidious reciprocal relationships forged between our government and the huge corporations they represent. Frankly, after the Snowden revelations, I ... |
markthshark | 07/11/2013 | 166 | 240 | 3 | - |
| Ex-NSA Chief Michael Hayden is SO mad at Snowden... There was an opinion piece on CNN yesterday by former NSA chief, Ret. General Michael v. Hayden. In it he bristles with outrage over Edward Snowden, comparing him to Benedict Arnold.
Before we ... |
Dumbo | 07/20/2013 | 167 | 212 | 3 | - |
| UNINTIMIDATED in Wisconsin, as Walker's Palace Guard overreaches Recently, there's been considerable Wisconsin media coverage of the fact that non-participant observers at the Wisconsin Capitol Solidarity Sing Along were warned that they were subject to arrest ... |
affinis | 08/23/2013 | 170 | 365 | 4 | - |
| An NSA-proof operating system. Yes, for real. Let's start here: do you use Windows? Or an Apple operating system on your computer? You're hosed. The NSA owns you. They own every thought, all your dreams and aspirations. They own your ... |
Jaime Frontero | 07/13/2013 | 171 | 126 | 30 | - |
| Defund the NSA - ACTION (Now!)
Caucus Diary
This is a Caucus diary, a community diary created by The Caucus Project group at DailyKos.
The goal of this diary is not to debate the policy position of the diarist; it is for ... |
joanneleon | 07/23/2013 | 177 | 117 | 2 | - |
| One Nation Under Borg The source is a quick read so I encourage everyone to take a look . Just a teaser here:
DARPA insists that Atlas is not being designed for adversarial military tasks, but for humanitarian reasons—... |
Words In Action | 07/24/2013 | 180 | 61 | 3 | - |
| Police Are Beating Teachers At ALEC Protest Today is the big ALEC protest in Downtown Chicago at the Palmer House. Unions are there, ALEC Exposed is there, and teachers are there. They have shut down Monroe Street in front of the hotel.
And ... |
zenbassoon | 08/08/2013 | 185 | 191 | 5 | - |
| SCOTUS Buffer Zone Ruling May Be Good News . . . for Occupy In a unanimous decision on Thursday, the Supreme Court struck down a Massachusetts law that prevented anyone from standing within a 35-foot buffer zone outside of abortion clinics. The law was ... |
Geenius at Wrok | 06/28/2014 | 188 | 278 | 4 | - |