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The Los Angeles Sheriff's department produced the names of about 8,500 deputies
-- but refused to produce any photographs except of the sheriff and his undersheriffs.
They claimed that producing photographs of the deputies would violate their right to privacy and might endanger them in the future, if they ever go undercover.
But the department’s rationale seemed suspect because it also refused to comply with separate requests for headshots of three deputies who have b…

LA sheriff ducks journalist’s request for deputy photographs
ICE won’t be the only secret police in town if the department gets its way

Affinity being bought by Canva was disappoiting but what really bugs me is the campaign they are building right now. Its slogan ""Creative Freedom is coming" sounds more like a threat for me. This smells of the idea of cloud service being sold as freedom as if it was the 2010s.

Newsom chides USC to 'do the right thing' for academic freedom and resist Trump compact (Los Angeles Times)
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-10-03/newsom-usc-trump-campus-university-compact
http://www.memeorandum.com/251003/p142#a251003p142

We are 30.000 people in front of the Brandenburg gate in Germany right now protesting for the freedom of Palestine, the end of Israeli occupation, ending the genocide and especially German complicity in it! Something like this would've been unthinkable, only a short time ago.

Draw elixirs of songs
Right from my tongue, and
Right from my brow, and
Right from my arm.
Now I can't give them
For promise, or
For solace, or
For freedom.
And I can't take them back.
#Poetry

Ukraine picks '2,000 Meters to Andriivka' as its 2026 Oscars contender: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/28/ukraine-picks-meters-to-andriivka.html

Benny Johnson, a right-wing podcaster, has enjoyed rare access and promotion from the Trump administration.
“Clearly we’re dealing with an administration that’s far more focused on narratives than truth,
and this conduct is consistent with that,”
said Seth Stern, director of advocacy for the Freedom of the Press Foundation,
a First Amendment nonprofit.
“It is awful that real journalists who attempt to report real news and feel constrained by the pursuit of trut…

Benny Johnson Was Fired for Plagiarism. At the White House, He’s Embraced.
Benny Johnson, a right-wing podcaster, has enjoyed rare access and promotion from the Trump administration.

As a general matter, societies (and countries) have a right to protect themselves.
This protection ranges from things like civil laws (e.g. to require people to live up to contracts or not to assault one another.) Stronger protective measures are found in criminal laws that can restrict physical freedom (i.e. jail/prison time), force the disgorgement of taken property (such as taken by fraud or robbery), and even to take away a criminal's life. The strongest is war in which whole…

The Right to Communications Confidentiality in Europe: Protecting Privacy, Freedom of Expression, and Trust
Frederik J. Zuiderveen Borgesius, Wilfred Steenbruggen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08247

The Right to Communications Confidentiality in Europe: Protecting Privacy, Freedom of Expression, and Trust
In the European Union, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) provides comprehensive rules for the processing of personal data. In addition, the EU lawmaker intends to adopt specific rules to protect confidentiality of communications, in a separate ePrivacy Regulation. Some have argued that there is no need for such additional rules for communications confidentiality. This Article discusses the protection of the right to confidentiality of communications in Europe. We look at the right's…

#Blakes7 Series C, Episode 01 - Aftermath
AVON: So you have very little to fear from Servalan. There is no real Federation anymore. It's unlikely that anyone will come looking for you. You won't have to hide any longer.
MELLANBY: It's odd. For the last twenty years that's all I've dreamed of, freedom to do what I want, go where I want. Now that I've got it,…

$D_N$-Orthogonal Freedom in the Canonical Seesaw: Flavor Invariants and Physical Non-Equivalence of F-Classes
Jianlong Lu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.13363 https://

$D_N$-Orthogonal Freedom in the Canonical Seesaw: Flavor Invariants and Physical Non-Equivalence of F-Classes
This work is a companion to our previous papers showing that the data-favored $μ$-$τ$ modulus relation $|U_{μi}|=|U_{τi}|$ does not imply the ''minimal'' condition $R=PR^*$ and exhibiting six right-multiplications $F$ of the heavy-light block $R$ with $(RF)D_N(RF)^{T}=R D_N R^{T}$, leaving $m_ν$ unchanged. Here we give a complete classification and basis-invariant diagnostics that distinguish inequivalent completions with the same $m_ν$. We prove all $m_ν$-preserving …

"how are free people supposed to stay free? One short answer: don’t trust anyone over thirty. Paine, reversing centuries’ worth of regard for age and experience, argued that freedom is not a privilege that the old may confer, but a right that the young must demand. Every rising generation should hold its predecessors accountable, boldly taking its rights from them"
I am an old man and I approve this message.

Inventing the American Revolution: On Thomas Paine’s Guide to Fighting Dictatorship
Back in 2018, two years into the first Trump presidency, when the ground was shifting beneath our feet in ways that, today, might barely register on our wearied internal seismographs, political ana…

Anisotropic Spacetimes in $f(G)$-gravity: Bianchi I, Bianchi III and Kantowski-Sachs Cosmologies
R. Bogadi, A. Giacomini, M. Govender, C. Hansraj, G. Leon, A. Paliathanasis
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.18055

Anisotropic Spacetimes in $f(G)$-gravity: Bianchi I, Bianchi III and Kantowski-Sachs Cosmologies
We investigate the evolution of cosmological anisotropies within the framework of $f\left(G\right)$-gravity. Specifically, we consider a locally rotationally symmetric geometry in four-dimensional spacetime that describes the Bianchi I, Bianchi III, and the Kantowski-Sachs spacetimes. Within this context, we introduce a Lagrange multiplier which allows us to reformulate the geometric degrees of freedom in terms of a scalar field. The resulting theory is dynamically equivalent to an Einstein-Gau…

Sonnet 046 - XLVI
Mine eye and heart are at a mortal war,
How to divide the conquest of thy sight;
Mine eye my heart thy picture's sight would bar,
My heart mine eye the freedom of that right.
My heart doth plead that thou in him dost lie,
A closet never pierc'd with crystal eyes,
But the defendant doth that plea deny,
And says in him thy fair appearance lies.
To 'cide this title is impannelled
A quest of thoughts, all t…

The US right has increased its influence on mainstream media in America in recent weeks,
especially in television news which has been a major target of the Donald Trump administration.
CBS News
– once home to legends of US journalism like Walter Cronkite and Edward R Murrow
– installed a Trump ally as its ombudsman,
weeks after the family of Larry Ellison, one of the world’s richest men, and a friend of the US president, sealed control over Paramount, the owner …

Ideology, institutions, and economic growth: panel evidence 1995 2022
Eduardo Koffmann Jopia, Patricia Galilea Aranda
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.04532 https://

Ideology, institutions, and economic growth: panel evidence 1995 2022
Does it matter whether a government is "left wing" or "right wing" for economic growth? Using a panel of 113 countries (1995 2022), we combine: (i) the economic ideology of the executive branch (V Dem), (ii) the disaggregated institutional quality of the economic freedom index (Heritage), separating a core institutional block (HN: property rights, government integrity, judicial effectiveness) from a block of liberalization policies (HL: trade/financial openness, regulatory efficiency, size of g…

If both are gone, you will talk differently.
#privacy #freespeech #freedom #snowden