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Little Rock, Minor Rights: Arkansas Leads with COPPA 2.0-Inspired Law
https://fpf.org/blog/little-rock-minor-rights-arkansas-leads-with-coppa-2-0-inspired-law/
@…

BeIN Sports extends its three-year Premier League live TV rights deal in MENA for ~£550M, up 10% over the last cycle; League's total overseas rights rose 27% (Matt Slater/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6432549/2025/06/17/p…

Premier League extends Middle East TV deal, overseas media rights value up 27%
The new three-year deal runs from next season through until the end of 2027-28 and is worth approximately £550m.

When Rights Erode for Some of Us, Something Corrodes in All of Us (Dara Lind/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/16/opinion/trump-immigration-deportations-rights.html?unlocked_article_code=1.PU8.BINY.oqGypsJFsJrW&smid=url-share
http://www.memeorandum.com/250616/p19#a250616p19

When Donald Trump deployed more than 2,000 National Guard troops and 700 Marines into Los Angeles earlier this month,
he did so without the consent of California Gov. Gavin Newsom or Mayor Karen Bass.
Not only that, but Trump’s justification
— that LA is “war zone” under siege by “foreign invaders”
— is a preposterous lie.
The suspected undocumented immigrants that masked ICE agents are rounding up at Home Depot
don’t have weapons of mass destruction,

What happened to "states' rights"?
Federalism for me, MAGA dictatorship for thee.

Hello!
I have a happy favour to ask.
Last year, I had a US intern working with us and she now is looking for help that you- good reader of this account- could give.
(She needs academic survey participants)
Check out her flyer below, click the link, and please RT
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Research Study on Data Privacy and Collective Redress
A researcher at University College Dublin wants to conduct anonymous interviews to learn about why you would or would not participate in a legal action to rectify a data protection violation. This information can be used to help nonprofit organizations better represent you when organizations violate your data protection rights. Provide your email to receive more information. All personally identifiable information will be deleted following completion of the study.

Alt National Park Servic "They’re cranking up the propaganda machine again: claiming Brad Lander “unlawfully interfered” and that ICE is just “enforcing Trump’s policy.” Reality: Lander stood up for civil rights. ICE’s conduct reflects a deeply troubling use of federal power." — Bluesky
https://

Sources: OpenAI wants Microsoft to take a ~33% stake in exchange for giving up future profit rights, and seeks to revise its exclusive cloud deal with Microsoft (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/opena…

OpenAI Seeks New Financial Concessions From Microsoft, a Top Shareholder
Negotiations between Microsoft and OpenAI over the startup’s plan to restructure its for-profit unit, which requires Microsoft’s approval, have entered their eighth month with no end in sight and new conflicts emerging. OpenAI wants Microsoft, the startup’s biggest outside shareholder, to have a ...

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-screen-social-media-immigrants-rights-advocates-raise-concerns-2025-04-09
Els EUA analitzaran les xarxes socials d'immigrants i turistes en cerca de contingut anti-Isra…

El Salvador arrests prominent human rights lawyer who defends deportees | Human Rights News | Al Jazeera
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/5/19/el-salvador-arrests-prominent-human-rights-lawyer-who-defends-deportees…

El Salvador arrests prominent human rights lawyer who defends deportees
Ruth Eleonora López has defended Venezuelan immigrants deported to El Salvador by US President Trump’s administration.

It's #NoKings day!
🚫👑🚫👑🚫👑🚫
Be loud. Be heard. Be safe.
⸻
EFF Protest Guide:
•⁠📱⁠https://mastodon.social/@eff/114678037068775207
Know Your Rights:
•⁠🚨⁠…

P~R~Z – bear pills
#Drone

"Brazil to auction oil exploration rights months before hosting Cop30"
#Brazil #Climate #ClimateChange #COP30

The WNBA and E.W. Scripps renew their media rights deal, ensuring Friday night WNBA matchups will continue on Ion, along with a new weekly studio show (CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/06/13/wnba-scripps-media-rights-deal.html

WNBA renews media rights deal with Scripps
The new agreement comes after Ion has seen huge growth with the WNBA and as the league gains in popularity thanks to stars like Caitlin Clark and Angel Reese.

The Rapid Response Network of Kern is a collaborative of local organizations, community leaders, and immigrant rights advocates supporting our immigrant communities.
The Rapid Response Network of Kern was established in February of 2018 to respond to the needs and challenges of our immigrant communities who are targeted by increased immigration enforcement activities.
Call our hotline to receive rapid help against ICE, including in person support, legal help, grocery delivery, …

How to Beat Back Trump on Trans Rights -- and Much Else (Ezra Klein/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/17/opinion/ezra-klein-podcast-sarah-mcbride.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250617/p59#a250617p59

Very Limited Time Deal: 50% OFF Know Your Rights Cards #nokings

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🤬 Framing social issues as 'civil rights' can sometimes backfire
#politics…

Framing social issues as 'civil rights' can sometimes backfire
Framing is a powerful tool in communications: It can help people grasp complex ideas, but it can also distort or mislead. A recent sociological study suggests that framing social issues as "civil rights" can sometimes have surprising and even negative consequences.

Trans rights! 🏳️‍⚧️

Tonga Poised to Be the First Country to Recognize Rights of Whales - Inside Climate News
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/10062025/tonga-rights-of-whales/

You say you represent my rights in Parliament? Alright, I want my rights asserted right now. Not later, not after some debate, right now.
What’s that, you can’t? Fine, then I’m done with your system. If you won’t give me my rights, I’ll claim them myself. Anarchy it is.
#Anarchy #Anarchism

The Marines and National Guard shouldn't be deployed to protests in LA, Texas or anywhere else.
But since they are, the Freedom of the Press Foundation and other press freedom groups wrote a letter to them explaining the basics of journalists' rights when covering demonstrations, and offering their help.
#Press #Freedom #Democracy

Is anyone aware of case law / settlements (in the USA or elsewhere, just curious) about copyright/trademark infringing tattoos?
People get fan-art tattoos all the time and most of the time the rights owner doesn't care... but under some circumstances, they might.
Obviously they could try to go after the artist, that's a "standard" copyright/trademark infringement case.
But what about the infringing work that is now part of your body?
The three plausi…

Digital rights organizations urge the FTC to investigate Character.AI and Meta's "unlicensed practice of medicine facilitated" by therapy AI chatbots (Samantha Cole/404 Media)
https://www.404media.co/ai-therapy-bots-meta-character-ai-ftc-comp…

AI Therapy Bots Are Conducting 'Illegal Behavior,' Digital Rights Organizations Say
Exclusive: An FTC complaint led by the Consumer Federation of America outlines how therapy bots on Meta and Character.AI have claimed to be qualified, licensed therapists to users, and why that may be breaking the law.

The LA Press Club and the investigative reporting site Status Coup sue LA, alleging that officers at LA protests are routinely violating journalists' rights (David Folkenflik/NPR)
https://www.npr.org/2025/06/16/nx-s1-5434279/la…

SIGN THE PETITION: PROTECT HUMAN RIGHTS. STOP BILL C-2
Prime Minister Mark Carney ran a campaign on leading Canada through Trump’s tariffs & attacks on sovereignty & a cost-of-living crisis. Instead, his first piece of legislation, Bill C-2, is an attack on migrants & privacy rights straight out of the Trump playbook.
Bill C-2 drastically restricts refugee protection, allows for mass deportations & gives security officials unchecked power to access everyone’s data…

SIGN THE PETITION: PROTECT HUMAN RIGHTS. STOP BILL C-2 - Leadnow

GOP Senate Version of the Big Beautiful Bill Includes an Ugly Attack on Courts' Ability to Protect Constitutional Rights (Ilya Somin/Reason)
https://reason.com/volokh/2025/06/14/gop-senate-version-of-the-big-beautiful-bill-includes-an-ugly-attack-on-courts-ability-to-protect-constitutional-rights/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250614/p77#a250614p77

Emperor Trump's spending $100M on a useless 'birthday' military parade for his small penis cuz he thinks weapons & machinery will make him more than the childish toddler he is?
☑️ #Trump threatens military parade protesters, says dissenters will face 'very heavy force'

Trump threatens military parade protesters, says dissenters will face 'very heavy force'
Ahead of his military parade, Donald Trump said those who dared to express their First Amendment rights should expect to face "very heavy force."

The ACLU claims we still have rights. I’m skeptical about that. But this might help someone, so I’m going to share it. #KnowYourRights #ICE #AmericanGestapo

Know Your Rights with ICE
If ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) agents show up at your workplace or home, remember: you have rights. Stay informed, stay calm and stand strong. Share this post to help your community know their rights too. See the below graphics in English, Spanish, and Haitian Creole.

Madleen Gaza flotilla live tracker: Greta Thunberg, crew near Gaza | Gaza News | Al Jazeera
https://aje.io/p6b8m7?update=3762371
UN rights expert says Israeli speedboats surrounding Madleen
(Via @…

'Know-Your-Customer' means 'Guarantee me a way to silence or destroy my political opponents'
"The ICC’s chief prosecutor has lost his email, and his bank accounts were frozen. American staffers told that if they travel to the U.S. they risk arrest."
https://

Trump's sanctions on ICC prosecutor have halted tribunal's work
Nearly three months ago, U.S. President Donald Trump slapped sanctions on the International Criminal Court's chief prosecutor, Karim Khan. He has lost access to his email and his bank accounts have been frozen. American staffers at The Hague-based court also have been told that if they travel to the U.S. they risk arrest. In addition, some nongovernmental organizations have stopped working with the ICC. Rights groups say these problems will prevent victims of war crimes from getting justice.

EU's Frontex has published a children's book for children who are about to be deported
😲
https://op.europa.eu/en/publication-detail/-/publication/6eea0e99-e464-11ef-be2a-01aa75ed71a1
Official PDFs availabl…

Toolbox for children in return - Publications Office of the EU
Addressing the return of unaccompanied minors or children within families is a delicate matter that demands a humane approach. This approach must not only respect fundamental rights but also prioritise the child's best interests. Additionally, clear and comprehensive information about the return procedures is essential for those involved, enabling them to prepare as effectively as possible. One of the primary objectives of Frontex is to assist MS throughout all stages of the return procedures. …

AI Therapy Bots Are Conducting 'Illegal Behavior,' Digital Rights Organizations Say https://www.404media.co/ai-therapy-bots-meta-character-ai-ftc-complaint/

According to @…'s newsletter this morning, the Citizen's Advice Bureau is now requiring #Trans employees (? and clients?) to use toilets according to their gender assigned at birth, which, if true, is not a good look at all. Journalist is Steph Paton, who I sli…

Scots charity in trans rights row after announcing change to bathroom access
A Scottish charity may be discriminating against transgender staff after announcing a change to bathroom access following the recent UK Supreme Court ruling on the Equality Act, say legal experts.

In the responses to my #rp25 talk this year I got a lot of "Now digital rights organizations are libertarian? When did that change?" and I am sorry to say that digital rights discourse has been imbued with if not based on libertarian belief systems since the beginning. That is the heritage we need to move beyond.

The targeted killing of scientists is murder. It is unacceptable that the government in #Israel simply decides to murder people because it suits their agenda.
I fear that deep hatred will cover Israel and its people for generations, that many Israelis will have to “pay” for the human rights and war crimes of a corrupt head of government

In World First, Mexicans Just Voted for Their Supreme Court Justices https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/in-world-first-mexicans-just-voted-for-their-supreme-court-justices/

In World First, Mexicans Just Voted for Their Supreme Court Justices
The first supreme court chief justice elected democratically on Earth is Hugo Aguilar, a noted indigenous rights defender.

Project 2025 isn’t a blueprint, it’s already 40% enacted or completed.
Surviving Trump: With Democracy On Life Support: EPISODE 29: Project 2025 Overview — Dismantling Democracy and Women’s Rights
Episode webpage: https://survivingtrump.buzzsprout.com
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Surviving Trump: With Democracy On Life Support
Surviving Trump is your indispensable guide to navigating the challenges and contradictions of life under the second Trump administration. In the first 20–25 segments we’ll uncover what’s truly at stake: our democracy. You'll deep dive into the ke...

The Trump administration has shifted from bureaucratic threats to armed suppression of political opponents.
By beginning with vulnerable groups who have less legal standing and social capital to resist repression,
the Trump administration is making a strategic choice, hoping to provoke less public outcry
and then use these precedents of repression later against a broader population.
This is a textbook example of democratic backsliding, similar to what we have witnesse…

Military Crackdown on LA Protests Portends Further Erosion of Everyone’s Rights
Governments at all levels from both parties have paved the way to an authoritarian response to dissent.

immigrant rights is a bike issue https://usa.streetsblog.org/2025/05/02/freedom-to-move-why-immigration-belongs-in-the-mobility-conversation

Freedom to Move: Why Immigration Belongs in the Mobility Conversation — Streetsblog USA
"If movement is a right, then that right must apply to everyone regardless of identity."

NFL executive Brian Rolapp leaving for PGA Tour CEO position https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6422717/2025/06/12/brian-rolapp-nfl-pga-tour-ceo/

Here's a document that deserves to be remembered, resurrected, and read (hey, that's 3 "R's!).
"Records, Computers and the Rights of Citizens: Report of the HEW Advisory Committee on Automated Personal Data Systems" July 1973
https://epic.org/documents/hew1973repo

Know Your Protest Rights.
#Trump #Protests #NoKings

Doublespeak, hypocrisy, and shameless lying are requirements to be a Republican these days.
#uspol #GOP #TrumpFascist

Human rights committee blames Guatemala for forcing girl who was raped to carry out her pregnancy
https://www.yahoo.com/news/human-rights-committee-blames-guatemala-024206489.html

Racist anti-immigrant bullshit going on in Los Angeles and all over the USA. Here are things you can to do to stop ICE assholes: https://crimethinc.com/2025/02/11/eight-things-you-can-do-to-stop-ice
Important points from the piece:
❗DO NOT OP…

Eight Things You Can Do to Stop ICE
Defend your community from ICE! A guide and handout to print and distribute.

Love the ACFC tifo from pride night on Saturday.
#NWSL #AngelCityFC

"The Right Kind of Family is a cross-border reportage podcast series ... [which] ... uncovers the rise of the Political Network for Values, a global network of conservative and far-right organisations which is orchestrating a clampdown on sexual and reproductive health rights across Europe, in the name of the so-called natural family."
Available in English, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Polish and Spanish.

The Right Kind of Family | WePod - We produce podcasts
The Right Kind of Family is a cross-border reportage podcast series in 6 episodes co-produced by El Paìs Audio, Chora Media, 444 and Europod.The series uncovers the rise of the Political Network for Values, a global network of conservative and far-right organisations which is orchestrating a clampdown on sexual and reproductive health rights across Europe, in the name of the so-called natural family.

The Trump regime's coordinated repression did not come from nowhere.
In 2024, TheNew York Times reported that the Trump transition team was already planning to use emergency powers, such as the one Trump invoked on June 7,
to confront political opponents who protest the administration.
While the Trump administration planned this move for about a year,
the deployment of troops in Los Angeles is the brutal culmination of a yearslong campaign to systematically erod…

Military Crackdown on LA Protests Portends Further Erosion of Everyone’s Rights
Governments at all levels from both parties have paved the way to an authoritarian response to dissent.

BREAKING: Trump Judges Strike Down Alabama Congressional Map for Violating Voting Rights Act
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IlCtcyh1QnU&ab_channel=DemocracyDocket

Brazil’s ANPD Preliminary Study on Generative AI highlights the dual nature of data protection law: balancing rights with technological innovation
https://fpf.org/blog/brazils-anpd-prel

In America, we don’t do kings
They’ve defied our courts, deported Americans, disappeared people off the streets, attacked our civil rights, and slashed our services. The corruption has gone too. far. No thrones. No crowns. No kings.
On June 14th, we rise up.
https://www.nokings.org/

No Kings
On June 14—Flag Day—Donald Trump wants tanks in the street and a made-for-TV display of dominance for his birthday. A spectacle meant to look like strength. But real power isn’t staged in Washington. It rises up everywhere else.

Replaced article(s) found for cs.DL. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.DL/new/
[1/1]:
Content ARCs: Decentralized Content Rights in the Age of Generative AI

It seems that Mayor Adams of #NYC is willing to giving up our First Amendment rights to protest the nation of Israel. I normally really appreciate @… reporting, but the passing mention of the problems of the IHRA definition is not good.

Mayor Adams signs executive order adopting antisemitism definition, urges Council to make it law
It follows the city’s launch of a dedicated office to combat anti-Jewish hate.

Whistleblower: Lockheed Martin Awarded Bonuses Based on Race (City Journal)
https://www.city-journal.org/article/lockheed-martin-civil-rights-law-bonuses-race-merit
http://www.memeorandum.com/250612/p121#a250612p121

This puts migration to the UK into perspective.
One in 67 people worldwide remains forcibly displaced: UNHCR report | Refugees News | Al Jazeera
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/6/12/one-in-67-p…

One in 67 people worldwide remains forcibly displaced: UNHCR report
About 123 million remain forcibly displaced as a result of conflict, violence, persecution and human rights violations.

Required reading.
✅ Human Rights Campaign | Tips for Preparedness, Peaceful Protesting, and Safety
https://www.hrc.org/resources/tips-for-preparedness-peaceful-protesting-and-safety

Tips for Preparedness, Peaceful Protesting, and Safety
Safety and preparedness are essential in uncertain times. Whether you're preparing for an emergency or participating in a peaceful protest, these…

The depth of the damage to the USA by the Republican party and this administration is catastrophic, especially in the long term.
Hundreds or thousands of incredibly damaging actions have been taken this year with seeming dozens more every week.
It is impossible to keep track of the destruction being done to the rule of law, our economy, human rights, our health...

[former top exec at well-known human-rights org] noted the frustration inherent in trying to draw evenhanded distinctions that were once elementary in the human-rights world. “Hamas has an obligation under international law not to use human shields and to distinguish between military and civilian targets,” this person, who asked not to be identified to avoid further alienating former colleagues, said. “But if you bring this up internally, it’s framed as a distraction, an Israeli talking poin…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.03883 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCR_…

Protecting Deep Learning Model Copyrights with Adversarial Example-Free Reuse Detection
Model reuse techniques can reduce the resource requirements for training high-performance deep neural networks (DNNs) by leveraging existing models. However, unauthorized reuse and replication of DNNs can lead to copyright infringement and economic loss to the model owner. This underscores the need to analyze the reuse relation between DNNs and develop copyright protection techniques to safeguard intellectual property rights. Existing white-box testing-based approaches cannot address the common…

China Mieville contra Perry Anderson: Anti-Streeck
»On immigration, socialist demands should include full labour and civic rights for migrants, full entitlement to benefits, unionisation across the economy, and an undoing of vulnerabilities that contribute to the super-exploitation of migrants.«
https://www.

This Wednesday afternoon April 9th from 3-6pm there's an end of life information event at the Westbury Community Centre.
Speakers include myself, the northern Palliative Care Tasmania coordinator and a social worker with palliative care.
There will also be a short film.
I'll be discussing rights, options, choices, and money saving tips.
#tasmania

AI Therapy Bots Are Conducting 'Illegal Behavior,' Digital Rights Organizations Say
https://www.404media.co/ai-therapy-bots-meta-character-ai-ftc-complaint/?ref=daily-stories-newsletter

Cynthia Santiago, an attorney in Southern California, won her high school presidential class race the same year Stephen Miller,
the current White House Deputy Chief of Staff,
lost the class speaker race.
More than 20 years later, Santiago is trying to fight Miller’s mass deportation efforts.
Santiago, the daughter of immigrants, has been working to defend immigrants’ rights since 2012.
But having gone to school with Miller, watching his rise to prominence in P…

She beat Stephen Miller in the race for high school class president. Now she’s fighting his deportation efforts
California attorney is fighting Miller’s mass deportation efforts by working as an immigration lawyer

The Judiciary Will Become Virtually Powerless in Protecting Your Rights if the Current Budget Bill Becomes Law (Clint Bolick/The UnPopulist)
https://www.theunpopulist.net/p/the-judiciary-will-become-virtually
http://www.memeorandum.com/250614/p69#a250614p69

I'm always wary about using environmental (or health) arguments in favor of going #vegan, mostly because veganism is about animal rights, not about benefits for us and thus you can only go plant-based for those reasons, not vegan, though for some veganism may follow more easily after having abstained from the use of animals.
Apart from this disclaimer, an amazing 10min talk.
OXFORD UNIVER…

Solnit: "It's...routine to blame the Democratic Party for what the Republican Party does. The two parties are unconsciously regarded as akin to a husband and wife in a traditional marriage in which it's the job of the wife to placate and soothe the husband and help him realize his goals or be held responsible for his outbursts and outrages."

Some Notes on the City of Angels and the Nature of Violence
I think maybe it's begun, the bigger fiercer backlash against the Trump Administration which is itself a violent backlash against every good thing that's happened over the past several decades – the advance of rights for nature, women, children, indigenous peoples, BIPOC and immigrants/refugees, queer people, trans people, people with

Donald Trump’s deployment of the National Guard and military against protesters in Los Angeles is widely being interpreted as
a display of intimidation and state power ahead of his birthday,
when Trump will oversee a military parade in Washington, D.C. in the style of a dictator.
The president has warned that protesters in D.C. will be
“met with very heavy force.”
Democrats and civil rights groups say the president is inflaming tensions to justify further repr…

Trump Is Rapidly Expanding the Surveillance State as Protests Grow
Immigrants are only the first target of a rapidly expanding digital dragnet that can track our individual movements.

BREAKING: Trump Judges Strike Down Alabama Congressional Map for Violating Voting Rights Act
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IlCtcyh1QnU&ab_channel=DemocracyDocket

Republican Mega-Bill Charges Federal Workers for Basic Rights on the Job - The American Prospect
https://prospect.org/politics/2025-06-03-republican-mega-bill-charges-federal-workers-for-basic-rights/

This is a great point. The Civil Rights movement iterated towards successful protests and strategies. You know what wasn't helpful for this process? Scolding by liberals.
https://bsky.app/profile/whstancil.bsky.social/post/3lr7wyq52ks2p

New apps are helping immigrants navigate Trump's deportation crackdown, including by alerting users to locations of ICE raids and informing them of their rights (Rest of World)
https://restofworld.org/2025/immigration-raids-migrant-safety-apps/

New apps help immigrants navigate Trump’s deportation crackdown
With tightening immigration policies and rising fears of deportation, new apps provide migrants with resources to stay prepared and connected.

Taylor Swift purchases her catalog of recordings, which were initially released through Big Machine Records, from Shamrock for an undisclosed nine-figure sum (Chris Willman/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/music/news/taylor-swift…

Taylor Swift Shocker: Singer Buys Back Rights to First Six Albums
Taylor Swift has bought her catalog back from Shamrock and will reissue her original albums, while 'Reputation (Taylor's Version)' will still come out.

The Trump admin's quiet (but deadly) attack on repro rights (Lisa Needham/Public Notice)
https://www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-administration-attack-reproductive-rights
http://www.memeorandum.com/250606/p36#a250606p36

Rights groups warn of canceled legal counsel for mentally incompetent migrants | Courthouse News Service
https://www.courthousenews.com/rights-groups-warn-of-canceled-legal-counsel-for-mentally-incompetent-migrants/

EHRC commissioner calls for trans people to accept reduced rights (Peter Walker/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/jun/06/ehrc-commissioner-calls-for-trans-people-to-accept-reduced-rights-after-years-of-lies
http://www.memeorandum.com/250606/p6#a250606p6

Protest on Saturday, June 14th.
"They’ve defied our courts, deported Americans, disappeared people off the streets, attacked our civil rights & slashed our services. The corruption has gone too. far. No thrones. No crowns. No kings."
✅ No Kings - National Protests
https://www.nokings.org/

DAZN, which paid $1B to show FIFA's Club World Cup, expects 2025 to be a "transformational" year, despite low usership in the US, UK, Africa, and South America (Philip Buckingham/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6404831/2

DAZN will broadcast the Club World Cup around the world. What is the streamer’s big idea?
DAZN is the global rights holder for the upcoming Club World Cup and is planning to use it to expand its reach

Registered nurses are appalled by this latest executive order that seeks to strip federal employees
-- including 15,000 registered nurses with National Nurses United
-- of their protected union rights.
As union nurses, we know this is union busting

NNU statement on executive order seeking to strip federal employees of their protected union rights
"Registered nurses are appalled by this latest executive order that seeks to strip federal employees of their protected union rights. As union nurses, we know this is union busting. Our nurses have been on the front lines, calling out this administration's attempts to dismantle and privatize our VA system."

PATATATTAK – Revisited Real Rock Riddim
#dub

The UK Conservative Party is in disarray. Since 1979, they have implemented changes with unintended consequences. Water privatisation, sale of social housing, deregulation of building societies, privatisation of railways, and leaving the EU.
Now they are considering withdrawing from the European Convention on Human Rights, born out of the ashes of the 1930s and 40s in Europe and World War 2.
Which of the 16 Articles do they really believe we should not be protected by?

‘Restricted’: Nearly 7 billion people worldwide lack full civil rights | Freedom of the Press News | Al Jazeera
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/6/2/restricted-nearly-7-billion-people-worldwide-lack-full-civil-rights?traffic_source=rss

A former leader of the Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights during the Obama and Biden administrations
called the Trump administration’s targeting of undefined diversity, equity and inclusion legally spurious
and urged colleges and universities to stand up for their values.
At a panel last week at the annual Education Writers Association conference here,
Catherine Lhamon said it’s “enormously frustrating to me to see the federal government use its voice to sa…

Biden Civil Rights Chief: Trump Anti-DEI Orders Aren’t Law
Catherine Lhamon joined the American Council on Education’s president and a student in criticizing the current federal administration’s targeting of universities over diversity, equity and inclusion.

Hegseth moves to rename Navy ship honoring gay rights icon Harvey Milk (Dan Lamothe/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/06/03/harvey-milk-navy-hegseth-civil-rights/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250603/p132#a250603p132

Hegseth Orders Navy to Strip Name of Gay Rights Icon Harvey Milk from Ship (Konstantin Toropin/Military and Veteran Benefits ...)
https://www.military.com/daily-news/2025/06/03/hegseth-orders-navy-strip-name-of-gay-rights-icon-harvey-milk-ship.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250603/p101#a250603p101

Discrimination cases unravel as Trump scraps core civil rights tenet
For decades, the federal government has used data analysis to ferret out race and sex discrimination
-- winning court cases and reaching settlements in housing, education, policing and across American life.
Now the Trump administration is working to unwind those same cases.
The administration is unwinding settlements built on “disparate impact,” -- which holds that even neutral policies can lead to …

Discrimination cases unravel as Trump scraps core civil rights tenet
The administration is dismissing cases and unwinding settlements built on « disparate impact, » which holds that even neutral policies can lead to biased outcomes.

Navy mulls new name for USNS Harvey Milk and ships named for civil rights leaders (Eleanor Watson/CBS News)
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/navy-new-name-usns-harvey-milk-ships-named-for-civil-rights-leaders/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250603/p104#a250603p104

PBS and one of its local affiliates sue the Trump administration, saying his executive order to cut federal funding violated PBS' First Amendment rights (Sara Fischer/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/05/30/pbs-funding-sue-trump

PBS sues Trump administration over funding cuts
The filing argues the president's executive order violates PBS' First Amendment rights.

MTG slams Trump for 'destroying states’ rights' with his Big Beautiful Bill - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/marjorie-taylor-green-slams-trump/

School desegregation: Trump officials vow to end Civil Rights-era orders | AP News
https://apnews.com/article/desegregation-race-consent-decree-school-1dd1a8be59bb0f9568d5685b8459f413

A Gaza-bound aid boat carrying Greta Thunberg and other activists arrived at an Israeli port Monday after Israeli forces stopped and detained them
Israel’s Foreign Ministry published a photo on social media of Thunberg after disembarking.
The 12 activists were expected to be held at a detention facility in Ramle before being deported, according to Adalah, a legal rights group representing them

Israeli forces detain Greta Thunberg after halting Freedom Flotilla aid boat
Israeli forces have seized a Gaza-bound aid boat and detained Greta Thunberg and other activists on board, enforcing a longstanding blockade of the Palestinian territory that has been tightened during the war with Hamas. The Freedom Flotilla Coalition, which had organized the voyage to deliver humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip and protest Israel’s blockade and wartime conduct, said the activists had been “kidnapped by Israeli forces.” Israel said the passengers would return to their home…

Trump Escalates Attack on Columbia by Threatening Its Accreditation (Sharon Otterman/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/04/nyregion/columbia-trump-accreditation-civil-rights.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250604/p172#a250604p172

‘Open prison’: The forced labour driving India’s $5 trillion economy dream | Labour Rights | Al Jazeera
https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2025/6/7/open-prison-the-forced-labour-driving-indias-5-trillion-economy-dream?traffic_source=rss

Fubo and DAZN announce a multi-year deal to distribute their linear channels, which include exclusive sports rights, on each other's platforms in the US (Lucas Manfredi/The Wrap)
https://www.thewrap.com/fubo-and-dazn-strike-multi-year-spo…

Fubo and DAZN Strike Multi-Year Sports TV Network Partnership
The pact will see the streamers distribute their owned-and-operated linear channels on each other's U.S. platforms.

"Putin believes Russia is a “civilization-state” with cultural-cum-religious significance, rights and responsibilities that justify the erasure of other nations."
Opinion | Putin’s agenda in Ukraine has long been clear. Trump ignores it. - The Washington Post
https://archive.ph/2025.06.07-145813/https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/06/06/putin-russia-ukraine-trump/#selection-1277.0-1281.114

An Amnesty report documents over 70 attacks and threats on journalists in Northern Ireland since 2019, with no prosecutions for threats from paramilitary groups (Rory Carroll/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/j

Opinion | Trump Is Helping Human Rights Abusers. I’m Suing to Stop Him. - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/06/opinion/trump-lawsuit-icc-suing.html

Donald Trump issued an Executive Order on April 9, 2025, directing federal agencies to investigate #Miles #Taylor, a former Chief of Staff at the Department of Homeland security, for his public criticisms of the president.
This appears to be the first time in U.S. history that a president has explicitly invoked his in…

End Presidential Revenge: Support Miles Taylor's Legal Defense
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The Trump people have just announced that they have sent a letter to Columbia’s accreditor, the Middle States Commission on Higher Education, accusing Columbia of being in violation of civil rights law.
My initial reaction is that this is good news since it implies both that Columbia hasn’t further caved-in yet and makes clear that the Trump people have run out of ammunition

The Situation at Columbia XXIII
This week I’m very happy to not be at Columbia, and not in the US, enjoying spending the week at the Perimeter Institute at a conference in honor of Lee Smolin. Since there’s a little b…

Hegseth orders renaming of ship named after gay rights icon Harvey Milk (Natasha Bertrand/CNN)
https://cnn.com/2025/06/03/politics/hegseth-orders-renaming-ship-named-harvey-milk
http://www.memeorandum.com/250603/p109#a250603p109