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"Countries with state subsidies for abortion, transgender-friendly policies for children, hate speech laws and affirmative action policies will now be considered to be violating human rights under rules imposed at the State Department that will impact how the agency conducts its annual Human Rights Report."
**Abortion And DEI Policies Now Considered Violations Of Human Rights, U.S. Says**
https://www.forbes.com/sites/maryroeloffs/2025/11/21/abortion-dei-now-considered-violations-of-human-rights-us-officials-say/

Media advocacy group Free Press analyzed 35 top corporate media and tech companies for their DEI goals and says 26 retreated from those goals in 2025 (George Winslow/TV Tech)
https://www.tvtechnology.com/regulatory-leg…

Report Blasts Major Media Companies as `Complicit’ in Attacks on Civil Rights
In a detailed analysis of the 35 most dominant U.S. media companies, the Free Press report reveals a disturbing reversal on prior civil-rights commitments

A prominent civil rights attorney and at least two other people involved in an anti-immigration enforcement protest that disrupted a service at a Minnesota church
have been arrested, Trump administration officials said Thursday,
even as a judge rebuffed related charges against journalist Don Lemon.
The developments unfolded as Vice President JD Vance arrived in the state.
Attorney General Pam Bondi announced the arrest of Nekima Levy Armstrong in a post on X.
On …

3 people involved in Minnesota church protest are arrested
A prominent civil rights attorney and at least two other people involved in an anti-immigration enforcement protest that disrupted a service at a Minnesota church have been arrested, Trump administration officials said Thursday, even as a judge rebuffed related charges against journalist Don Lemon.

40 Years Of Copyright Obstruction To Human Rights And Social Justice | Techdirt
https://www.techdirt.com/2025/12/23/40-years-of-copyright-obstruction-to-human-rights-and-social-justice/

Appeal Seeks to Force the Congress to Uphold the Rights of Indigenous Peoples | https://schoolsforchiapas.org/appeal-seeks-to-force-the-congress-to-uphold-the-rights-of-indigenous-peoples/

Trump says Greenland framework with NATO involves mineral rights for U.S. (Spencer Kimball/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/01/21/trump-says-greenland-framework-with-nato-involves-mineral-rights-for-us.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260121/p149#a260121p149

A UN, but no one has veto rights. Anyone who thinks they deserve veto rights can stay out of it.

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Flock Safety cameras used to monitor protesters, rights group finds https://therecord.media/flock-safety-rights-group-eff

TRAHRSL
The trans rights are human rights software license
You have to agree that trans rights are human rights to be granted a license to use the software

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.

I freelanced for @… for 10 years, writing 37 articles/features
They were an amazing team, interested in global #justice, #labor, &

As Equal Times closes, the work continues
This is it. Our final article. Equal Times, the global labour news platform, will cease to publish as of December 2025. The website – which was, for more than a decade, an invaluable resource on the realities of work, society, fundamental rights, and more: the victories secured, the innovations introduced, but also the many indignities, injustices and stubborn anachronisms endured – will remain online, but no new content will be added. We launched back in autumn 2012 with a simple mission …

Two rights make a detour.
#ProverbsGoneWrong
#HashTagGames

"According to the report, the spearphishing emails relied on links that appeared trustworthy because they passed through legitimate online advertising and click-tracking systems commonly used to track user engagement."
North Korea-linked hackers pose as human rights activists, report says
<…

North Korea-linked hackers pose as human rights activists, report says - UPI.com
North Korea-linked hackers are using emails that impersonate human rights organizations and financial institutions in phishing attacks, according to a report released Monday.

Fair Vote Canada is pleased to announce the Teacher Resources section of our website. The first teacher resource has now been added.
A Fair Vote? Rights, Responsibilities, and Decision-Making in a Democracy is an exciting new resource for Grade 5 Social Studies teachers, which was developed by the Elementary Teachers of Toronto and Fair Vote Canada.

Some years back my wife made the front page of the Wall St. Journal. They did a piece about how she made up fake data (names, locations, dates, CV, etc) to feed to social media in order to disrupt data linking.
We are one of the few places that has a paper copy of the highly prescient HEW report from 1973 that warned of the dangers of the now ubiquitous practice of data linking.
"Records, Computers and the Rights of Citizens: Report of the HEW Advisory Committee on Automate…

"Billions live in environments that violate human rights, global analysis finds"
#Environment
https://phys.org/news/2025-11-billions-environments-v…

Billions live in environments that violate human rights, global analysis finds
More than 99% of the world's 7.7 billion people have one or more of their environmental rights threatened, according to new research.

Source: UEFA Champions League media rights sold for €10B over four years, starting in 2027, across the UK, Germany, France, Italy, and Spain (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/business/media/paramount-wins-…

The life of civil rights hero Claudette Colvin should teach us this: resistance is collective, and it never stops
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jan/17/claudette-colvin-collective-resistance-civil-rights-ros…

The Neo-Right's Multi-Front Revolt Against America (William Galston/The UnPopulist)
https://www.theunpopulist.net/p/the-neo-rights-multi-front-revolt
http://www.memeorandum.com/251123/p16#a251123p16

In the #China Pavilion at the Osaka #Expo, robots dance and #AI sings. But on closer look, these companies on display are the same ones sanctioned by the US for trade, human rights, and geopolitical reasons.

“Arguing that ‘no country should be above international law,’ Mayor Brandon Johnson urged the United Nations Human Rights Council on Friday to hold President Donald Trump’s administration accountable for what he called a ‘worsening human rights crisis in the United States.’”

Johnson urges UN panel to hold President Trump accountable for what he calls 'human rights abuses'
In a virtual appearance before a United Nations Human Rights Council meeting in Switzerland, Mayor Brandon Johnson invited UN experts to come to Chicago to witness firsthand the “abuses” by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) during raids that have wreaked havoc in neighborhoods across the…

✊🏿 How One Black Labor Union Changed American History
#politics

How One Black Labor Union Changed American History
A century ago, the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters launched a union drive against a railroad giant, changing the course of the 20th century and forever entwining the causes of labor and black civil rights.

Immigrant rights advocates are sounding the alarm
about a high-pitched noise they say is coming from machines installed outside the Home Depot in the Cypress Park area of Los Angeles.
Day laborers say the machines were put in place to drive them away amid immigration raids at the store.
City officials and advocates gathered earlier in the week to protest these alleged noise machines.
They claim that a loud piercing sound has been emitted for months.
The L.A. Ti…

The US DOJ says at least two DOGE employees accessed Social Security data that was off-limits under a court ruling and shared agency data on third-party servers (April Rubin/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/01/20/doge-employees-social-security-inform…

DOGE employees may have improperly accessed social security data, DOJ says
It's a stunning admission from the Trump administration, after it battled in court over DOGE's rights to access and use Social Security data .

“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/

today, rich & i present an overstuffed deadcast season finale, a triple episode, feat. new musical scales, saudi acidhead regicide, connections between the dead & the gay rights movement, crickets, the quieting of ned lagin's biomusic & more. https://www.dead.net/deadcast/blues-allah-

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The folks, here on the fediverse, who malign those of us that speak up for the human rights of Palestinians and against Israel’s ongoing genocide, who label us “antisemitic” for rejecting the antisemitic co…

It might sound reasonable in theory, but it restores discrimination in practice.
https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/department-justice-rule-restores-equal-protection-all-civil-rights-enforcement

Department of Justice Rule Restores Equal Protection for All in Civil Rights Enforcement
Today, the Justice Department issued a final rule updating its regulations under Title VI of the Civil Rights of 1964. This rule ensures that our nation’s federal civil rights laws are firmly grounded in the principle of equal treatment under the law by eliminating disparate-impact liability from its Title VI regulations.

Muslim civil rights group sues Texas governor after terrorist accusation
https://religionnews.com/2025/11/20/muslim-civil-rights-group-sues-texas-governor-after-terrorist-accusation/

Annex 1 of the Anti Coercion Instrument sets out possible measures that the EU could impose, including,
"7.  The imposition of restrictions on the protection of intellectual property rights or their commercial exploitation, in relation to rightholders that are nationals of the third country concerned, which may amount, as necessary, to the non-performance of applicable international obligations with respect to trade-related aspects of intellectual property rights."

Microsoft’s aiding of Israel’s genocide against Palestinians exposes company and its leadership to legal liability
https://glanlaw.org/news/microsofts-aiding-o…

On November 20th, women stop being paid compared to men.
This is the point in the year when,
on average,
women effectively work for free.
The gender pay gap is now 11.3%,
up from 10.7% last year.
It’s a stark reminder that while progress has been made,
gender pay inequality persists
- and may be higher than we thought.

YouTube quietly erased more than 700 videos documenting Israeli human rights violations;
The tech giant deleted the accounts of three prominent Palestinian human rights groups — a capitulation to Trump sanctions
https://theintercept.com/2025/11/04/yo

YouTube Quietly Erased More Than 700 Videos Documenting Israeli Human Rights Violations
The tech giant deleted the accounts of three prominent Palestinian human rights groups — a capitulation to Trump sanctions.

From @…
https://doctorow.medium.com/https-pluralistic-net-2025-11-18-im-not-bad-im-just-drawn-that-…

Student Tased by GA Cops on School Bus Hires National Civil Rights Attorney | Atlanta Daily World
https://atlantadailyworld.com/2025/12/20/student-tased-by-ga-cops-on-school-bus-hires-national-civil-rights-attorney/

Paramount wins UK rights to show most UEFA Champions League games from 2027 to 2031; sources say its bid was much higher than TNT's current £1B per year deal (Matt Hughes/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/football/2025/nov…

As Donald Trump and his administration have rolled back rights, cut social safety net programs to pay for tax cuts for the wealthy and ignored or failed to comply with court orders,
new demographics are being activated to join a broader coalition of people fighting for education, racial justice, gun control, science, the environment, immigration and the LGBTQ community.
From local grassroots efforts to nationwide groups, today’s organizers are breaking down barriers and creati…

Another ML(#MarxismLeninism) blocked me when I posted this: https://social.linux.pizza/@midtsveen/115581081054226799
Love it or hate it, we can disagree on topics …

Dems' potential 2028 contenders cautious on trans rights (Holly Otterbein/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/01/18/democrats-2028-struggle-trans-rights
http://www.memeorandum.com/260118/p83#a260118p83

An FBI agent conducted an initial review of the Renee Good killing and determined sufficient grounds existed to open a civil rights probe into the actions of the ICE officer who shot her.
The Justice Department says no inquiry is warranted. @perrystein.bsky.social https://www.

FBI opened probe on Minneapolis shooting; none exists now, Justice Dept. says
After the death of Renée Good in Minneapolis, FBI agents launched a civil rights probe into the shooting. The Justice Department says no such case now exists.

YouTube confirms it removed 700 videos from three prominent Palestinian human rights groups in early October to comply with US State Department sanctions (The Intercept)
https://theintercept.com/2025/11/04/youtube-google-israel-palestine-human-ri…

YouTube Quietly Erased More Than 700 Videos Documenting Israeli Human Rights Violations
The tech giant deleted the accounts of three prominent Palestinian human rights groups — a capitulation to Trump sanctions.

“Danny Danon, the Israeli ambassador to the U.N. … disparaged Albanese personally, calling her a ‘witch.’”
https://apnews.com/article/united-nations-israel-gaza-human-rights-albanese-e1a4fbde166e34bc8d305bfbf6e2bd51

UN investigator delivers Gaza report virtually due to US sanctions
An independent U.N. investigator is taking world nations to task for not standing up to the U.S. over sanctions it imposed on her. The sanctions prompted the expert to give a report to the U.N. by video on Tuesday. Francesca Albanese is an Italian human rights lawyer assigned to explore human rights abuses in the Palestinian territories. She told the U.N. General Assembly by video that the U.S. sanctions are “spiteful” and attack the world body's independence and integrity. The U.S. has acc…

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The Clash:
🎵 Know Your Rights
#TheClash
https://bobnanna.bandcamp.com/track/know-your-rights-the-clash
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Since Donald Trump’s return to the White House, the president has made it clear that voter suppression is a top priority.
In March, Trump issued a sweeping anti-voting executive order that could disenfranchise millions.
And while courts have blocked key provisions of his order, the White House promised that another order, likely targeting mail voting, is on the way. 
Meanwhile, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) is engaged in an unprecedented attack on voting rights,

Trump’s Administration Is Full of Election Deniers — They’re Already Working to Rig the Vote
Read about the fight for democracy from activists, elected officials, legal experts and others.

Lately, I’ve been feeling burned out by how much people in my life assume things about me and my beliefs, so let's talk about it.
I spend some parts (not all) of my evenings online, usually from around 20:00 to 22:00 or sometimes even until midnight (00:00), not because I am consumed by politics but because I like to learn and reflect on how society could be better. I enjoy exploring ideas about justice, solidarity, and human rights in a way that feels meaningful to me. For me, spe…

Check out today's Metacurity for the critical infosec developments you might have missed over the weekend, including
--Black Basta suspects’ homes raided; gang leader added to most-wanted list,
--Jordanian national pleads guilty to access broker charges,
--Acting head of CISA was blocked by colleagues from removing CIO,
--Iranian campaign sought to steal Gmail and other account credentials,
--Man pleads guilty to hacking US S.Ct.,
--DPRK hackers impersona…

Black Basta suspects’ homes raided; gang leader added to most-wanted list
Jordanian national pleads guilty to access broker charges, Acting head of CISA was blocked by colleagues from removing CIO, Iranian campaign sought to steal GMail and other account credentials, Man pleads guilty to hacking US S.Ct., DPRK hackers pose as human rights orgs, much more

A list of times the Trump administration tested the limits of the First Amendment during his second term, stoking alarm among civil rights experts and critics (CNN)
https://www.cnn.com/politics/free-speech-trump-timeline-vis

Trump tests the First Amendment: A timeline
Within weeks of retaking the White House, President Donald Trump boasted that he had “brought free speech back to America.” But since then, he has tested the limits of the First Amendment time and again.

Head of workplace rights agency urges white men to report discrimination | Financial Post
https://financialpost.com/pmn/head-of-workplace-rights-agency-urges-white-men-to-report-discrimination

TikTok tracked user’s Grindr activity in violation of European law, rights group alleges https://therecord.media/tiktok-grindr-data-tracking-noyb

A Danish court sentences a man for sharing 347 copyrighted nude scenes on Reddit featuring 100 actresses and 25TB of pirated content via a torrent tracker (Ernesto Van der Sar/TorrentFreak)
https://torrentfreak.com/redditor-conv…

FBI opened probe on Minneapolis shooting; -- but none exists now, Justice Dept. says
An agent in Minnesota conducted an initial review of the shooting of Renee Good and determined that sufficient grounds existed to open a civil rights probe into the actions of Jonathan Ross -- the officer who shot Good,
according to the people, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss internal deliberations.

The existence of the civil rights investigation stands in sharp contra…

FBI opened probe on Minneapolis shooting; none exists now, Justice Dept. says
After the death of Renée Good in Minneapolis, FBI agents launched a civil rights probe into the shooting. The Justice Department says no such case now exists.

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The Clash:
🎵 Know Your Rights
#TheClash
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"The proposals would also reportedly force transgender firearm buyers to out themselves by listing their birth sex on purchase paperwork"
Justice Department planning to weaken gun restrictions to placate Second Amendment activists, report says | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-gun-rights-second-amendment-doj-b2903603.html

Make no mistake, the only values the European Commission gives a single damn about are expressed in Euros and cents.
The guiding principle of the successor to the European Coal and Steel Community isn’t human rights, democracy, and the rule of law, it’s the Single Market.
How dare you even pretend to care when you are beyond silent in Israel’s ongoing genocide of the Palestinian people, you despicable bunch of fancy-suited hypocrites.

European Commission (@EUCommission@ec.social-network.europa.eu)
Attached: 1 image 🤝75 years of the European Convention on Human Rights A landmark treaty that reshaped Europe after the second World War, protecting millions of Europeans and supporting our shared values of human rights, democracy and rule of law. Because human rights aren’t optional. They’re universal.

Judge deals blow to the Trump Justice Department's use of the Civil Rights Act to 'clean' voter rolls (Tierney Sneed/CNN)
https://cnn.com/2026/01/14/politics/voter-rolls-lawsuits-civil-rights-act
http://www.memeorandum.com/260115/p134#a260115p134

Sources: during the bidding process, Paramount promised WBD that its foreign partners and Jared Kushner's fund wouldn't have any voting or governance rights (Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/12/11/paramount-wbd-voting-rights

Scoop: Original Paramount bid for WBD didn't exclude foreign voting rights
Paramount has now made a hostile bid after WBD accepted Netflix's offer.

State Department to refocus global rights report on those ‘given by God’ - The Washington Post
https://archive.ph/Gl5Im

Hey, I’m your friendly neighborhood leftwing extremist; anarcho-syndicalist, anti-imperialist, non-binary mess (they/them, bi as fuck) from Bergen, Norway.
I overthrow capitalism in my free time because states are silly, bread is for the people, trans rights are sacred, and Thinkpads reign supreme 4eva, lol!! 🏳️‍⚧️💻
#Anarchism

An interview with IMG President Adam Kelly on streaming platforms' increasing share of sports media rights, live sports as an antidote to AI content, and more (Josh Noble/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/d03bef02-0cf6-4aee-a4ab-0455cdca98cd

IMG’s Adam Kelly: sport is the antidote to AI
As Netflix and Apple expand their sports ambitions, the head of IMG says media rights are entering a new phase driven by scarcity, retention and measurable returns

Trump blocked from gutting Voice of America collective bargaining rights (Ryan Knappenberger/Courthouse News Service)
https://www.courthousenews.com/trump-blocked-from-gutting-voice-of-america-collective-bargaining-rights/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251115/p65#a251115p65

The Rev Jesse Jackson,
longtime civil rights activist and founder of the Rainbow PUSH Coalition,
is being treated at Northwestern Memorial Hospital for the neurological disorder,
supranuclear palsy.
The 84-year-old was moved from the intensive care unit Monday after being admitted last week.

Bill and Hillary Clinton visit Rev. Jesse Jackson in Chicago hospital
The former president and secretary of state visited Jackson Friday at Northwestern Memorial Hospital, where he’s being treated for a neurological disorder, according to Jackson's family.

A look at the auction for the Oscars' TV rights, as sources say Netflix is out, NBCUniversal gains ground, and YouTube and ABC remain active bidders (Matt Donnelly/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/film/news/oscars-tv-rights-nbcuniversal-a…

Oscar TV Rights Auction: NBCUniversal Leads Charge to Nab Telecast
NBCUniversal is in the lead to nab TV rights to the Oscars starting in 2029 as the Motion Picture Academy shops around for a new deal.

Transgender Day of Remembrance is Nov. 20
Miss Major Griffin-Gracy paved the way for today’s transgender rights revolution
https://www.washingtonblade.com/2025/11/17/miss-major-griffin-gracy-paved-the-way-for-todays-transgender-rights-revolution/

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📣 Let’s fight to make 2026 the year of victorious struggles, Mutual Support, Direct Action, Self-Management, Social Justice, and greater rights for everyone!
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In Colorado, students taunted their Black classmates by playing whipping sounds on their cellphones and saying they should be shot “to make us a better race.”
The only two Black students in a small district in Ohio were called the N-word by white peers starting on their first day.
They got accustomed to hearing slurs like “porch monkey” and being told to go pick cotton.
And at a school in Illinois, white students included Confederate flags in their PowerPoint presentations …

Monkey Sounds, “White Power” and the N-Word: Racial Harassment Against Black Students Ignored Under Trump
Since Trump returned to office, the Education Department’s civil rights office has not resolved a single racial harassment investigation. It sends a message that “people impacted by racial discrimination ... don’t matter,” one attorney said.

FBI opened probe on Minneapolis shooting; none exists now, Justice Dept. says (Perry Stein/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2026/01/18/fbi-minnesota-shooting-civil-rights-investigation/?pwapi_token=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJyZWFzb24iOiJnaWZ0IiwibmJmIjoxNzY4NzEyNDAwLCJpc3MiOiJzdWJzY3JpcHRpb25zIiwiZXhwIjoxNzcwMDk0Nzk5LCJpYXQiOjE3Njg3MTI0MDAsImp0aSI6ImQ2N2EwNjNiLTc2YjMtNGNiNi04Yjc2LWQxNTFkZGYxNjA5YiIsInVybCI6Imh0dHBzOi8vd3d3Lndhc2hpbmd0b25wb3N0LmNvbS9uYXRpb25hbC1zZWN1cml0eS8yMDI2LzAxLzE4L2ZiaS1taW5uZXNvdGEtc2hvb3RpbmctY2l2aWwtcmlnaHRzLWludmVzdGlnYXRpb24vIn0.rnodOY554DuLmH4kr8f2mzgpDFAD8AGocpkHUYS5Ptc&itid=gfta
http://www.memeorandum.com/260118/p75#a260118p75

The Justice Department refuses to open a criminal civil rights investigation into the killing of a woman by a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer in Minneapolis.
The decision to keep the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division out of the investigation into the fatal shooting of #Renee #Good marks a sharp…

DOJ sees no basis for civil rights probe in Minnesota ICE shooting
A top Justice Department official says there is not currently any basis to open a criminal civil rights investigation into the killing of a woman by a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer in Minneapolis. The decision to keep the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division out of the investigation into the fatal shooting of Renee Good marks a sharp departure from past administrations, which have moved quickly to probe shootings of civilians by law enforcement officials for potential…

"The attorneys general of California and nearly 20 other states to submit a comment letter on the US Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) proposed rule that would reverse HHS regulations concerning the definition of “disability” under Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 to exclude gender dysphoria, which is the underlying diagnosis for transgender individuals."
‘We Strongly Support The Rights Of Transgender People’
https://washingtoncurrent.substack.com/p/we-strongly-support-the-rights-of

U.S. President Donald Trump has a long and well-documented history of launching
incendiary rhetorical attacks against the press and his political opponents.
But rights groups warn that the president’s anti-free speech crusade reached an alarming and dangerous new level this week,
raising grave concerns about the potentially rippling consequences for reporters and freedom of expression more generally.
Ongoing reports and analysis
Since last Friday alone, Donald Tr…

It’s Been a Chilling Week for Free Speech in America
Trump’s attacks hit a “new low,” the head of the Committee to Protect Journalists said.

Death toll from Iran approaches 2,600, rights group reports (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/china/death-toll-iran-approaches-2600-rights-group-reports-2026-01-14/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260114/p165#a260114p165

AFSCME Members Help Win Fight To Repeal Utah Law Taking Away Union Rights | Portside
https://portside.org/2025-12-16/afscme-members-help-win-fight-repeal-utah-law-taking-away-union-rights

Supreme Court considers Trump administration’s bid to fire Lisa Cook,
asking lawyer to provide evidence for alleged mortgage fraud
During today’s arguments, both conservative justice Amy Coney Barrett
and Ketanji Brown Jackson of the liberal wing of the court
pushed solicitor general Sauer to explain how the administration’s allegations against Cook would harm the public if she were to remain in her position.
Jackson went on to press Sauer to provide “evidence t…

YouTube confirms it removed 700 videos from three prominent Palestinian human rights groups in early October to comply with US State Department sanctions (The Intercept)
https://theintercept.com/2025/11/04/youtube-google-israel-palestine-human-ri…

YouTube Quietly Erased More Than 700 Videos Documenting Israeli Human Rights Violations
The tech giant deleted the accounts of three prominent Palestinian human rights groups — a capitulation to Trump sanctions.

Women's Rights Are Human Rights 😉 🏳️‍⚧️

Today is the federal holiday that honors Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
He was born January 15, 1929.
He was assassinated April 4, 1968, at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee.
He was just 39 years old.
While Dr. King is primarily remembered as a civil rights leader,
he also championed the cause of the poor and organized the Poor People’s Campaign
to address issues of economic justice.
Dr. King was also a fierce critic of U.S. foreign policy an…

MLK Day Special: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in His Own Words
Today is the federal holiday that honors Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. He was born January 15, 1929. He was assassinated April 4, 1968, at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee. He was just 39 years old. While Dr. King is primarily remembered as a civil rights leader, he also championed the cause of the poor and organized the Poor People’s Campaign to address issues of economic justice. Dr. King was also a fierce critic of U.S. foreign policy and the Vietnam War. We play his “Beyond Vietnam…

DOJ's top civil rights prosecutors depart as office is cut out of key probes (Perry Stein/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2026/01/13/justice-department-civil-rights-resignations/?pwapi_token=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJyZWFzb24iOiJnaWZ0IiwibmJmIjoxNzY4MjgwNDAwLCJpc3MiOiJzdWJzY3JpcHRpb25zIiwiZXhwIjoxNzY5NjYyNzk5LCJpYXQiOjE3NjgyODA0MDAsImp0aSI6IjExZDg5ZGQxLTljMDItNGM1MC05MDg5LTFkZjcyMDc2MjQ4MCIsInVybCI6Imh0dHBzOi8vd3d3Lndhc2hpbmd0b25wb3N0LmNvbS9uYXRpb25hbC1zZWN1cml0eS8yMDI2LzAxLzEzL2p1c3RpY2UtZGVwYXJ0bWVudC1jaXZpbC1yaWdodHMtcmVzaWduYXRpb25zLyJ9.I2JIbp1zVNnNmX1whIYkF0od4QhnaL85Hng0g3SkjK8&itid=gfta
http://www.memeorandum.com/260113/p87#a260113p87

The National Press Club is deeply troubled by President Trump’s comments today regarding the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
Mr. Khashoggi’s murder inside a diplomatic facility was a grave violation of human rights and a direct attack on press freedom.
That fact is not in dispute.

National Press Club Statement on President Trump’s Remarks on the Murder of Jamal Khashoggi
WASHINGTON, Nov. 18 – The National Press Club is deeply troubled by President Trump’s comments today regarding the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi. Mr. Khashoggi’s murder inside a diplomatic facility was a grave violation of human rights and a direct attack on press freedom. That fact is not in dispute. For reporters around the world — and for those who risk their lives to report on powerful figures, governments, and global events — statements that appear to minimize or excuse t…

A Danish court sentences a man for sharing 347 copyrighted nude scenes on Reddit featuring 100 actresses and 25TB of pirated content via a torrent tracker (Ernesto Van der Sar/TorrentFreak)
https://torrentfreak.com/redditor-conv…

Trump’s claim of forthcoming deal with Nato over Greenland is ‘not real’
Sascha Faxe, a member of Denmark’s parliament,
has said that the deal Donald Trump claims to have struck with Nato over Greenland is “not real”.
“The thing is, there can’t be a deal without having Greenland as part of the negotiations, first of all,” Faxe said.
She went on to reference earlier comments from Aaja Chemnitz Larsen, a Greenlandic member of the Danish parliament, saying:
“I have…

The letters 'f', 'b', and 'i' can also spell 'fib'
FBI denies shutting down civil rights investigation into ICE shooter Jonathan Ross | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/ice-shooting-investigation-jonathan-ross-fbi-b2904055.html

2025 deadliest year for civilians in Ukraine since 2022, UN human rights monitors find (Kris Janowski/admin)
https://ukraine.ohchr.org/en/2025-deadliest-year-for-civilians-in-Ukraine-since-2022-UN-human-rights-monitors-find
http://www.memeorandum.com/260113/p11#a260113p11

Netflix obtains global rights to Sony films after the films' theater runs, expanding the deal that gave Netflix rights for the US, Germany, and parts of Asia (Thomas Buckley/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Koons’s T-shirt featured half a rainbow pie, with the slogan:
“Equal rights for others does not mean fewer rights for you. It’s not pie.”
She said after some discussion,
the RCMP respectfully asked her to leave the town hall,
as well as two other women at the event that were also wearing T-shirts with slogans that some at the event didn’t like.
“I found it alarming,” Koons said.
“I’m an engaged community member and I often sit at (discussion) tables with pe…

Woman alarmed after being asked to leave Conservative town hall over T-shirt - R.NF
Cowichan businesswoman Kristi Koons said she’s alarmed and concerned over the fact that she and another two women were asked to leave a town hall featuring federal Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre on June 10 because of the T-shirts they were wearing. Koons said she was quiet and respectful at the town hall, which was held at Mellor Hall at the Cowichan Exhibition grounds and attracted more than 1,000 people, before a group of men and RCMP officers approached her and said she was not welco…

FIFA makes Stats Perform its first official data and betting streaming rights distributor to licensed sportsbooks for the 2026 World Cup and other events (Rohith Nair/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/sports/soccer/fifa

DOJ civil rights chief blasts Don Lemon for covering anti-ICE protest inside church, vows charges against protesters
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/dhillon-don-lemon-anti-ice-protest-church-doj-charges-renee-good-rcna254815

House passes bill to restore federal workers' bargaining rights (Lawrence Ukenye/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/12/11/congress/house-passes-bill-federal-workers-bargaining-rights-00687594
http://www.memeorandum.com/251211/p122#a251211p122

Secretary Noem will rescind bargaining rights for TSA employees effective January 11th, 2026. : r/fednews
https://www.reddit.com/r/fednews/comments/1pl4281/secretary_noem_will_rescind_bargaining_rights_for/

When an agency can grab people first and sort out rights later
(if they bother at all)
everyone is at risk.
-- Citizen or not.
https://bsky.app/profile/cwebbonline.com/post/3mckfsaf3xk2n

Christopher Webb (@cwebbonline.com)
ICE isn’t making rare mistakes. This is the point. When an agency can grab people first and sort out rights later, if they bother at all, everyone is at risk. Citizen or not.

Seein's how Kristi wants to make this a thing:
**How to Handle a Knock-and-Talk: 7 Ways to Protect Your Rights When Police Come to Your Door**
https://marclopezlaw.com/how-to-handle-a-knock-and-talk-7-ways-to-protect-your-rights-when-police-come-to-your-door/

The House has voted on a bipartisan basis
to restore labor rights to 1 million federal workers
after Donald Trump yanked them away in an executive order earlier this year,
in a rare show of defiance against the president by over a dozen GOP members.
In a 231 to 195 vote on Thursday afternoon,
the House passed the "Protect America’s Workforce Act",
which would nullify Trump’s ordersin March and August to exempt workers at dozens of agencies from c…

House Passes Bill to Undo Trump Order to End Federal Workers’ Bargaining Rights
The bill passed with 20 Republicans joining all Democrats in voting “yes,” in a rare rebuke to Trump.

Airstrikes by the United States of America on boats in the Caribbean and in the Pacific violate international human rights law.
The U.N. human rights chief said Friday that
U.S. military strikes against boats in the Caribbean Sea and eastern Pacific Ocean allegedly carrying illegal drugs from South America are
“unacceptable” and must stop.
The U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk, called for an investigation into the strikes, in what appeared to mark t…

UN human rights chief says US strikes on alleged drug boats are 'unacceptable'
The U.N. human rights chief says U.S. military strikes on vessels allegedly carrying illegal drugs from South America are unacceptable and must stop. The condemnation on Friday appeared to mark the first from a U.N. organization. U.S. President Donald Trump has justified the attacks as necessary to stem drug flow into the U.S. Volker Türk, the rights chief, calls for an investigation, noting over 60 reported deaths since early September. The strikes reportedly violate international human right…

Dozens of unions, community and faith organizations are calling on every Minnesotan to take a stand on January 23rd.
The ICE “surge” that cost the life of Renee Nicole Good is violating the Constitutional and human rights of Americans and our neighbors.
On January 23rd there will be a unified, statewide pause in economic activity.
We are demanding:
🔸ICE must leave Minnesota now.
🔸The officer who killed Good must be held legally accountable.
🔸No additiona…

The California Supreme Court rejected a First Amendment challenge to a state law that protects the rights of gay and transgender people in nursing homes and forbids employees of those sites from using the wrong pronouns to address a resident or coworker.
The ruling, handed down today, held that violations of the"LGBT Long-Term Care Residents’ Bill of Rights" are not protected by the First Amendment because they relate to codes of conduct in what is effectively both a workplace…

California Supreme Court rejects free speech challenge to LGBT protections in nursing homes
A 2017 California law is meant to protect the rights of gay and transgender people in nursing homes, including by forbidding employees from misgendering those patients

Exactly one year before Dr King was assassinated, on 4 April 1967,
he gave his famous “Beyond Vietnam” speech at Riverside church in New York City.
More than 3,000 people were in attendance.
At the time, King had come under intense fire for having renounced the Vietnam war;
his outspokenness put him at odds with Lyndon Johnson,
who felt King should have been indebted to him for his efforts in pushing through civil rights legislation.
It also put King at …

Russia’s Ministry of Justice designated Human Rights Watch
an “undesirable organization”
on Nov. 28,
effectively banning the group from operating in the country.
Human Rights Watch noted that Russia had already forced the closure of its Moscow office in 2022.
“Our work hasn’t changed, but what’s changed, dramatically, is the government’s full-throttled embrace of dictatorial policies,
its staggering rise in repression,
and the scope of the war crimes…

Russia declares Human Rights Watch an 'undesirable organization'
Russia’s Ministry of Justice has designated Human Rights Watch an “undesirable organization,” effectively banning the group from operating in the country, on Nov. 28.

RE: https://c.im/@cdarwin/115923688571752430
If police can come to your door in the middle of the night and put you behind bars
based on nothing more than an entirely false and contrived interpretation of a Facebook post,
no one’s First Amendment rights a…

An appeals court in Missouri
✅has ordered the rewording of a misleading explainer for a Republican-backed ballot measure
🔥that aims to undo a previously passed initiative that expanded abortion and reproductive rights in the state.
The order from the three-judge panel within Missouri’s Western District of Appeals
represents the second time in just a few months that the explanation accompanying the anti-abortion ballot measure was found to be confusing or deceptive.

Missouri Court Orders Clearer Wording on GOP Measure to Undo Abortion Rights
The ballot measure seeks to undo a citizen-driven one that passed in 2024, which expanded abortion rights in the state.

It's the latest in a series of moves by Trump acolytes at the Department of Justice
who are transforming the voting section of the agency from an office focused on protecting Americans’ voting rights
to one that is in lockstep with an election denial movement
that incessantly demands investigations and drastic reductions in access to the polls
based on Donald Trump’s lies about elections.