the law is very similar to FARA and would allow them to better understand Russian influence there. but it would also allow them to better understand US/EU influence, which is why Western media outlets want to promote these protests. the people in all these countries want to be independent and play the two sides of each other. obviously the US/EU don't want that. recall Victoria Nuland's leaked call from Ukraine in 2014. this is just another #uspol coup effort.
South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem is now banned from entering nearly 20% of her state after two more tribes banished her this week over comments she made earlier this year about tribal leaders benefitting from drug cartels #AureFreePress#News#press#headline#GOP#Politics#uspolitics#uspol
"They Used to Say Arabs Can’t Have Democracy Because It’d Be Bad for Israel. Now the U.S. Can’t Have It Either"
"Arab publics favor the Palestinians, the thinking goes, & will vote in governments that act accordingly — & that is a no-go zone."
Now, "the U.S., it seems, can’t have democracy either, lest an American democracy end its support for everything & anything Israel wants to do to the Palestinians."
Norman Finkelstein at Columbia University's Gaza solidarity encampment
"The most powerful weapon you have is the weapon of truth & justice. You should never create a situation where you can be silenced on the grounds of feelings & emotions."
Columbia President Shafik’s remarks were all about hurt feelings. "That whole language has completely corrupted the notion of free speech & academic freedom."
As someone who keeps her children (born and unborn) away from data detection, I know how catastrophic the #MOMS bill’s national #pregnancy database is.
But I am also a scholar who studies #NASA, so I know a government handout bill when I see one.
Look past the website to Title II, section 1a, eligibility for government grants for maternal support.
This is a #handout for pro-life nonprofits, with restrictions against funding for orgs like #PlannedParenthood , dressed up as maternal support.
@failedLyndonLaRouchite I’m not a #uspol expert, but the novel enmeshing of a privacy-violating technical system with anti-abortion politics might mean there is an opportunity for new bedfellows when it comes to lobbying on the Hill. Pro-choice and pro-privacy advocates must join forces to guard against the dual dystopias inherent to this Attwoodesque proposal. As in, @eff meet #PlannedParenthood
It is wild to me that the #NYT would call the right to be free from social consequences a “fundamental right” and it presumably made it past multiple reviews.
It is directly in conflict with First Amendment rights of free speech and association.
Which is the core set of (truly) fundamental rights which underpins their entire organization.
It’s a warning. No, like many other institutions which are critical to democracy: the Press cannot save us either.
#Georgia feels like an effort to weaken their ties to #Russia and increase them with the #EU, when what the people there probably want is independence from both. To play them off each other for economic advantages. The same deal most of #Ukraine wanted before 2014.
The law they're protesting in #Tbilisi AFAIK is just like the FARA law we have in the US (and Russia). The goal being to know which nations are trying to secretly manipulate your government (like #uspol did).
My housing plan would provide a tax credit that would give Americans $400 a month to put toward their mortgage when they buy their first home or trade up for a little more space.
Senator Katie Britt would like to turn The Handmaiden’s Tale into reality, because she has religious beliefs she wants to see imposed on everyone else.
The American Federal Court System is organized by territories, so if you file a federal lawsuit, your case will land on the lap of a subset of federal judges. This means that even with a balanced makeup of Democrats and Republicans judges at the federal level, you can increase your odds of getting your case handled by a judge receptive to your arguments by filing it in a specific town/state.
Conservatives seem to have taken full advantage of this loophole at least since the 2016 Trump administration nominated a bunch of conservative-leaning federal judges in defiance of the unwritten rule to keep the federal courts ideologically balanced.
Donald Trump used a dubious accounting maneuver to claim improper tax breaks from his troubled Chicago tower, according to an IRS inquiry uncovered by ProPublica and The New York Times.