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Check out the nifty article from my (younger, wiser) brother about the oligopoly on smartphones, and what you can do about it.
https://www.aclu.org/news/free-speech/app-store-oligopoly

Your Smartphone, Their Rules: How App Stores Enable Corporate-Government Censorship | ACLU
Big Tech Oligopoly helps the Trump Administration crack down on free speech

ACLU and EFF Sue a City Blanketed With Flock Surveillance Cameras https://www.404media.co/aclu-and-eff-sue-a-city-blanketed-with-flock-surveillance-cameras/

Scoop: ACLU sues Trump at record pace in year one (Russell Contreras/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/01/15/aclu-trump-lawsuit-record-pace-immigration
http://www.memeorandum.com/260115/p33#a260115p33

“sudden, brutal and terrifying”
ACLU hits ICE with what will be the first of multiple legal actions over ICE’s illegal and unacceptable behavior in Minnesota.
My hope is that this is the road to an injunction.
https://www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/news/aclu-minnesota-accuses-ice-of-violating-constitutional-rights/

Human Rights groups warn an immigration detention camp at Fort Bliss has reached a “breaking point”
Human rights experts are sounding the alarm about living conditions at the immigration detention camp that houses hundreds of people.
“Fort Bliss is a human and civil rights disaster,”
said Eunice Cho Senior Counsel for the American Civil Liberty Union’s prison program.
The ACLU and other organizations allege physical abuse,
unsanitary conditions and medical negle…

Human Rights groups warn immigration detention camp at Fort Bliss reaching “breaking point”
Human Rights groups are calling the immigration detention camp at Fort Bliss a human and civil rights disaster. They demand the federal government shut down the tent facility and warn living conditions are putting hundreds of people held there at risk.

ICE are racists…
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/15/aclu-lawsuit-ice-minnesota-trump

The American Civil Liberties Union of Minnesota filed a class action Thursday against the Trump administration,
accusing immigration agents of racially profiling members of Minnesota’s Somali and Latino community
throughout the ongoing surge of federal enforcement in the Twin Cities.
“Over the past six weeks, the Trump administration has increased its deployment of federal forces by the thousands,”
the ACLU said in a press release.
“Masked federal agents in mil…

I want to reiterate, per my earlier thread, that what the ACLU is bringing to court is a small fraction of what’s actually happening on the ground. These are only the incidents for which they have the best documentation, the ones most presentable in court.
You don’t even hear about 95% of the illegal stuff ICE is doing in MN — not in court, not on social media, certainly not on the news. This is the tip of the illegal action iceberg (pun intended, no apologies).
https://hachyderm.io/@inthehands/115720161014479157

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