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After Missouri residents voted to repeal their state’s near-total abortion ban
and enshrine abortion rights into their state constitution,
Conservative advocates quickly got to work.
In a lawsuit filed the day after the 2024 election,
abortion providers challenged not only the constitutionality of the state’s ban,
⚠️but also a slew of other restrictions that, they said,
made their jobs so arduous as to be impossible.
More than a year later, they are…

Ampere expects global sports streaming spend to hit $14.2B in 2026, with Prime Video contributing 27%, DAZN 22%, YouTube TV 14%, Paramount 8%, and Netflix 5% (Jesse Whittock/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2026/02/prime-video-top-streaming-sports-righ…

Prime Video Set To Replace DAZN As Biggest Sports Rights Spender In Streaming – Ampere
Prime Video is set to replace DAZN as streaming's largest investor in sports rights, according to Ampere Analysis.

Imagine thinking it was in any way appropriate to hold a fucking vote on whether to support a marginalised group or not. Imagine. 🤦‍♀️
#ukpolitics https://flipboard.co…

Your Party overwhelmingly votes to make trans rights party policy
Your Party has officially made trans liberation a party line after members overwhemlingly voted to include trans rights in its founding …

"Rights" is a fictional abstraction. No one has "Rights", neither machines
nor flesh-and-blood. Persons... have opportunities, not rights, which they
use or do not use.
-- Lazarus Long

"Stingless bees from the Amazon granted legal rights in world first"
#Amazon #Bees #Insects

ESPN closes deal for NFL Network, RedZone rights https://www.espn.com/espn/story/_/id/47793895/regulators-ok-espn-purchase-nfl-network-redzone-rights-nfl-equity-stake

Versant-owned E! acquires the US broadcasting rights for the 2026 BAFTA Film Awards, taking over from previous rights holder BritBox (Peter White/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2026/02/bafta-film-awards-e-britbox-1236706176/

BAFTA Film Awards Move To E! From BritBox In U.S.
The cable network has taken over the rights from BritBox, which aired the event for the last couple of years.

The ‘pleasant fiction’ of a rules-based order has been blown apart. It’s time for Australia to codify a bill of rights | Julianne Schultz | The Guardian
#Australia #BillOfRights #AusPol

The ‘pleasant fiction’ of a rules-based order has been blown apart. It’s time for Australia to codify a bill of rights
What’s happening on American streets makes clear that a charter of rights does not prevent state overreach. But human rights must be more than a debating point

If only there were some clue about why the Democrats keep losing to Trump…
…It couldn’t possibly be that denying the basic humanity of Palestinians and going all in on genocide doesn’t resonate with people who aren’t fascists, could it? https://mastodon.social/@QasimRashid/1156562588…

I think the root of the “AI” evil is when AI researchers in the 1960s recognized that they outrageously underestimated the complexity of the human mind.
They became humiliated by their promises that AGI was just a few years away—and then went full goblin mode that’s lasting to this day.
Some of the OG researchers took it quite badly that they stalled and weren’t in the limelight anymore.
‣ Marvin Minsky (co-founder of MIT AI lab and arguably the most important early AI bro) went on to visit Epstein’s island multiple times.
‣ Karl Steinbuch, who came up with the German term for computer science ("Informatik")—who also was a literal Nazi (and likely war criminal) in World War II—later wrote articles in ultra-right magazines about things like “equal rights rob women of their children”.
‣ John McCarthy (inventor of Lisp, co-authored document that coined the term “Artificial Intelligence”) was a staunch Republican who years later claimed (in a serious article) that “thermostats have beliefs”.
[one moment, I am receiving more information]
‣ There’s a second Epstein Island AI pioneer? Who also was Chief Learning Officer at… Trump University? That would be Roger Schank (founded one of the first AI companies in the 1980s AI boom, it even had an IPO. Of course the 1980s AI bubble burst).
Obviously all of the above received all the awards in computer science and are very revered people.

Is it really foss?
Where Projects are Evaluated — To see if they're as free and open source as advertised. The software rights of users are continously (and often opaquely) being eroded by the desire of growth.
This website aims to push back against that by bringing transparency to FOSS software users.
💻 https://isitreallyfoss.com

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
The Clash:
🎵 Know Your Rights
#TheClash
https://bobnanna.bandcamp.com/track/know-your-rights-the-clash
https://open.spotify.com/track/31l6t3Jq09uywRTVGbzant

Policy on trans students' pronouns didn't violate teacher's rights, court says (Nicole Asbury/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2026/02/02/transgender-pronouns-schools-maryland-teacher/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260202/p127#a260202p127

“‘People demanding that AIs have rights would be a huge mistake,’ said Bengio.”
Yes, but not because “Frontier” AI models already show signs of “self-preservation,” but because it’s a huge scam aiming to make a few people even richer, who don’t care about destroying everything else.
https://www.

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.

The hard turn of the liberal established media (NYT, Guardian) against trans existence is puzzling.
The whole anti-trans obsession that has bubbled up in recent years is weird. It almost feels like a concerted project but it’s too big, right?
I mean, there just aren’t that many trans people to be upset about. It’s easy to go for years without knowing that you’ve interacted with a trans person, mostly because it’s a non-issue for most folks. @…

Tomorrow night at YDS! Our annual Parks-King Lecture, to be given by Civil Rights Movement scholar AnneMarie Mingo, who will speak on "The Courage to Imagine Freedom.”
5:30 p.m. ET. https://vimeo.com/yaledivinityschool

Guardian faffing around the issue.
The government should clearly overturn Javid's cruel decision to strip this victim of grooming of her citizenship.
But they won't, being on human rights, even worse than the last Tory government.
Ministers cannot go on ignoring the Shamima Begum case, for two important reasons | Shamima Begum | The Guardian

WTF with a burning marshmallow!!!
Here's a pair of stupid Cheeto appointed "judges" who wrote:
“The historical record makes unmistakably plain that open carry is part of this Nation’s history and tradition,”
These judges have absolutely no foundation for that statement.
The do not seem to comprehen that California was until 1822 part of Spain and until 1846 was a part of Mexico. Our traditions and legal history are quite different than that of the easte…

California's open carry ban unconstitutional, appeals court rules
Judge Lawrence VanDyke, a Trump appointee, said in the 2-1 decision that the state law could not stand under the Supreme Court’s 2022 landmark gun rights ruling.

#journalism #rights #usa

U.S. Press Freedom Tracker
The U.S. Press Freedom Tracker is a project that aims to comprehensively document press freedom incidents in the United States — such as the arrests of journalists, seizures of their equipment, interrogations and searches at the U.S. border, subpoenas to testify about sources, leak prosecutions and physical attacks. The Press Freedom Tracker documents cases across the country, involving national, state and local authorities.

We Have Rights When Documenting ICE Arrests
https://www.wehaverights.us/
ICE arrests and deportations are on the rise in the U.S., and it is your right to film an interaction as long as you don’t interfere — here are some best practices if you are a witness.

The federal watchdog system at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS)
that oversees complaints about civil rights violations, including in immigration detention,
has been gutted so thoroughly that it could be laying the groundwork for the Trump administration to
“abuse people with impunity”, experts warn.
Former federal oversight officials have sounded the alarm at the rapid dismantling of guardrails against human rights failures
– at the same time as the gov…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #CraigCharles
Death From Above 1979:
🎵 Romantic Rights
#DeathFromAbove1979
https://erolalkan.bandcamp.com/track/romantic-rights-love-from-below-re-edit
https://open.spotify.com/track/2PKgrfkc1HRaN9FnGlz9o5

Brigitte Bigot has died.
https://www.irishtimes.com/world/europe/2025/12/28/brigitte-bardot-french-screen-legend-and-animal-rights-activist-dies-aged-91/

Brigitte Bardot, French actor and animal rights activist, dies aged 91
Bardot shot to fame in the 1950s, subsequently retiring and becoming active politically

“‘People demanding that AIs have rights would be a huge mistake,’ said Bengio.”
Yes, but not because “Frontier” AI models already show signs of “self-preservation,” but because it’s a huge scam aiming to make a few people even richer, who don’t care about destroying everything else.
https://www.

“‘People demanding that AIs have rights would be a huge mistake,’ said Bengio.”
Yes, but not because “Frontier” AI models already show signs of “self-preservation,” but because it’s a huge scam aiming to make a few people even richer, who don’t care about destroying everything else.
https://www.

We ARE judging you on what you do. That’s what you don’t seem to like…
https://flipboard.com/@pinknews/uk-news-3r20qt2qz/-/a-0NQ8YJCoRie8SeoBl-flsA:a:2382343751-/0

New EHRC chair tells trans people to ‘judge me on what I do’ following criticism
The Equality and Human Rights Commission’s (EHRC’s) new chair has asked trans people to “judge me on what I do” after receiving criticism. Dr May-Ann …

Spyware maker is hijacking diplomatic efforts to limit commercial hacking, civil society warns https://therecord.media/spyware-maker-pall-mall-process-reputation

David #Lammy,
“Trials are a fundamental part of our democratic settlement. Criminal trials without juries are a bad idea.”
And,
<<I have principles. If they are inconvenient, I have others,>>
Why is the UK scaling back jury trials, and why is it controversial? | Civil Rights News | Al Jazeera

Why is the UK scaling back jury trials, and why is it controversial?
Right to trial by jury seen as a touchstone of the British justice system, but severe court backlogs may prompt change.

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/

I want to sell scented candles that are topical to the times 🕯️
Like “AI infused nightmare” and “autocratic breakthrough” and let’s not forget “soupçon of human rights lost.”
I’ll call them Zeitgeist Scented Candles.
And in future years, their scents can really take you back to the halcyon days of 2025 😳
#HappyNewYear

ICE has purchased “a smorgasbord of spy technology: social media monitoring, cellphone location tracking, facial recognition, remote hacking tools, and more … the government openly says it will use [these] capabilities to target people who oppose ICE’s actions [including] anti-ICE protesters.”
#ICE #protest

ICE Wants to Go After Dissenters as well as Immigrants
The Trump administration is being open about its plans to violate Americans’ First and Fourth Amendment rights.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #DriveTime
Peter Tosh:
🎵 Equal Rights
#PeterTosh
https://wendyortizproject.bandcamp.com/track/peter-tosh-equal-rights-clean-146-track-72

DOJ Opens Civil Rights Investigation Into Alex Pretti Shooting (Hamed Ahmadi/NOTUS)
https://www.notus.org/trump-white-house/doj-fbi-civil-rights-investigation-alex-pretti-shooting
http://www.memeorandum.com/260130/p103#a260130p103

❌Mobile Fortify,
the new app used by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to use face recognition technology (FRT) to identify people during street encounters,
is an affront to the rights and dignity of migrants and U.S. citizens alike.
That's why a coalition of privacy, civil liberties and civil rights organizations are
🔥demanding the Department of Homeland Security (DHS)
shut down the use of Mobile Fortify,
release the agency's privacy anal…

Rights Organizations Demand Halt to Mobile Fortify, ICE's Handheld Face Recognition Program
Mobile Fortify, the new app used by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to use face recognition technology (FRT) to identify people during street encounters, is an affront to the rights and dignity of migrants and U.S. citizens alike. That's why a coalition of privacy, civil liberties and...

“... The West is the first and only civilization to import a foreign labor class that is granted full political rights, including welfare & the right to vote ..."
#StephenMiller, Trump's Chief of Staff, quoted by historian #HeatherCoxRichardson
Mr. Miller is the m…

January 31, 2026
White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller posted on social media this morning:

So, #Trump is threatening people that do not like hate speech, claiming this is #censorship. But at the same time, he is restricting the rights to free speech for anyone who doesn't agree 120% with his opinion.
Here's a great Guest Essay by Nora Benavidez in the

"A woman's work is never done", is a saying especially relevant when applied to women's rights. Someone is always trying to take them away from us - we can never relax and think that fight is over. Please sign this Holyrood petition. https://petitions.parliament.scot/petitions…

Petition: Ensure abortion services are available up to 24 weeks across all parts of Scotland
Calling on the Scottish Parliament to urge the Scottish Government to ensure abortion services are available up to the twenty-fourth week of pregnancy across all NHS health boards in Scotland.

Why do I get the feeling that there is an org going around offering “free legal advice” on this that might be somewhat biased?
#ukpolitics #trans

Women’s Institute bans trans women from joining from April
The Women’s Institute has said it will no longer accept trans women as members in yet another blow for the community. The 110-year-old women’s rights …

RE: https://sfba.social/@drahardja/115812265055419716
Torture until you surrender your rights or die in custody.

If you, like me, enjoy sheer Gothic terror and early feminists wondering why we still have to protest this shit, maybe you'd like the two audiobooks I just released.
"On the Pleasure Derived from Objects of Terror" https://amzn.to/45HoHsR
"The First Essay on the Political Rights of Wome…

RE: https://mstdn.social/@Free_Press/115963303958988100
Our soldiers and many others sacrificed an awful lot for 20 years... and for all intents and purposes the overall mission of creating a human rights respecting government in Afghanistan completely failed.
Lesson: Wars don't make human rights happen.

"Speaking about jokes, “Considered Harmful” is one of the most recurring ones in the history of programming. Not that the countless papers, blog posts, videos, podcast episodes, and conference talks that featured these two words as a suffix were funny, but because it is a trigger: one that fires up specific alarms in the systems of software developers, immediately commanding our utmost attention."

Harmfully Considered
We, the authors of the magazine you are reading right now, sometimes joke that the true legacy of these articles would be realized if someone presented a paper titled “De Programmatica Ipsum Considered Harmful”. Alas (or not), we do not think this is ever going to happen, although I know that some members of academia follow our ramblings month after month, so who knows; if you ever publish such a contraption, we would love to print and frame a copy for the sake of bragging rights.

Justice Department opens civil rights investigation into Pretti shooting
The Justice Department said Friday it has opened a civil rights investigation into the shooting of Alex Pretti by federal agents in Minneapolis last weekend,
a reversal from its handling so far of shootings involving agents during the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown in Minnesota.

“We’re looking at everything that would shed light on that day,”
Deputy Attorney General
Todd Bla…

Justice Department opens civil rights investigation into Pretti shooting
Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche’s announcement signals an apparent shift from its handling so far of shootings involving agents.

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

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.

Local Hero.
"The head of a leading disability rights charity turned down an MBE in the New Year Honours over what she described as the "simply intolerable" situation facing disabled people in the UK."
"Tressa Burke, chief executive of the Glasgow Disability Alliance, was recognised by the prime minister for her services to people with disabilities."

Disabled charity chief condemns UK government as she rejects MBE
Tressa Burke, chief executive officer of the Glasgow Disability Alliance, says the situation facing disabled people in the UK is "simply intolerable".

"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.

A 5-year old boy should not be in a detention centre but at school (where he was), regardless the facts/circumstances. These are violations of basic human rights of children.
https://www.startribune.com/lawmakers-visit-…

Ampere: US sports rights spending expected to increase 20% by 2030 to over $78B; recent NBA and MLB rights deals will account for nearly half of all spend (Tony Maglio/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business

New NBA and MLB TV Deals Will Drive Global Sports-Media Spend to $78 Billion in Five Years
Ampere Analysis forecasts a 20 percent increase by 2030.

Gutting of key US watchdog could pave way for grave immigration abuses, experts warn (José Olivares/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/30/us-watchdog-human-rights-department-homeland-security
http://www.memeorandum.com/251130/p52#a251130p52

Gavin Newsom accused the Trump administration official
Dr Mehmet Oz
of discrimination in a civil rights complaint filed with the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).
Oz, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) administrator, recently visited Los Angeles
and filmed a video alleging that members of the city’s Armenian community orchestrated large-scale healthcare fraud.
The post set off a days-long public quarrel that culminated in the Ca…

Consider supporting your favorite organization, free-software project, or digital-rights activist. I donate $10 every month to my email provider: https://autisitci.org, avalable at @……

"In his aping of Farage, Starmer is now contemplating a ‘review’ in the new year of how the European Convention of Human Rights — drafted by British lawyers to enshrine in law fundamental basic rights after the Second World War — is implemented in the uk. That is, watering it down."
As I Please: Starmer and/or Kafka
htt…

As I Please: Starmer and/or Kafka
Despite his apparent respect for so-called liberal norms, Keir Starmer is likely to go down as one of the most authoritarian prime ministers in modern history. Is he trying to eradicate popular dissent entirely?

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Peter Tosh:
🎵 Equal Rights
#PeterTosh
https://wendyortizproject.bandcamp.com/track/peter-tosh-equal-rights-clean-146-track-72
https://open.spotify.com/track/1o0lfRVsQfRZ6VeAb82vum

“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…

"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.

Trump puts Republicans in a tough spot on gun rights (Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/01/28/republicans-congress-gun-rights-trump
http://www.memeorandum.com/260128/p11#a260128p11

Judge says ICE violated court orders in 74 cases—see them all here #ice

Judge says ICE violated court orders in 74 cases—see them all here
The extraordinary document offers a glimpse of a national campaign by the federal government to deprive detained immigrants of due process rights.

Spain's LaLiga grants Telefonica and DAZN domestic broadcast rights for five matches each from 2027 to 2032, in a deal estimated at €1B per season (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-11-28/telefonica-d…

U.S. Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights Finds San José State University Violated Title IX (U.S. Department of Education)
https://www.ed.gov/about/news/press-release/us-department-of-educations-office-civil-rights-finds-san-jose-state-university-violated-title-ix
http://www.memeorandum.com/260128/p97#a260128p97

The Justice Department plans to expand "gun-rights" protections
with a new office in its civil rights division dedicated to enforcing the U.S. constitutional right to bear arms
The office, called the
Second Amendment Rights Section,
expects to open on December 4
and will be dedicated to investigating local laws or policies limiting gun rights.

So a little while back, @… wrote an excellent introductory book on accessibility and inclusive design called Accessibility for Everyone for A Book Apart.
Then, A Book Apart folded and the authors managed to get their rights back.
And yesterday, after Laura put a huge amount of work adapting the book into a beautiful website she built using Kitten…

Accessibility For Everyone by Laura Kalbag
Read the book online for free.

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

Gun rights groups blast Trump over Minnesota response (Andrew Howard/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/01/27/gun-rights-groups-blast-trump-over-minnesota-response-00748217
http://www.memeorandum.com/260127/p4#a260127p4

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.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Johnny Osbourne:
🎵 Truths and Rights
#JohnnyOsbourne
https://punxionair.bandcamp.com/track/johnny-osbourne-truths-rights-pirate-radio-dubplate
https://open.spotify.com/track/1JPOOb8pQdyLm6qyitkeft

Gun-Rights Groups Clash With Trump Officials Over Fatal Shooting of Armed Protester (Cameron McWhirter/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/us-news/gun-rights-groups-clash-with-trump-officials-over-fatal-shooting-of-armed-protester-acf5e433
http://www.memeorandum.com/260126/p84#a260126p84

Sources: BMG, a division of Bertelsmann, is weighing a bid for music rights investor Concord in a deal that could value Concord as high as $7B (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-01-29/bertelsmann-is-said-to-conside…

In style, as in life, timing is everything:
Brigitte Bardot became the poster girl for that sweet spot of postwar France in which the storied heritage of Gallic culture was electrified by the Bohemian spirit of Paris in the 1950s and 60s.
https://www.…

Gun Rights Advocates Want Answers About the Minneapolis Shooting (NOTUS)
https://www.notus.org/trump-white-house/minneapolis-shooting-gun-rights
http://www.memeorandum.com/260124/p87#a260124p87

Hi, it’s Al Franken.
I don’t usually send messages like this, so I’m hoping you’ll read to the end for a GREAT story. 
Before that, though, I want to tell you about Peggy Flanagan.
She is unbelievably great and she’s running to keep Minnesota’s Senate seat blue. 
Her end-of-month fundraising deadline is tonight so I’ll get to the point: Please donate now. 

Peggy Flanagan for Minnesota | Democrat for U.S. Senate
Lt. Governor Peggy Flanagan's ready to take our Minnesota values to D.C. — to fight to rebuild the middle class, protect our rights, and hold the extremist billionaires trying to run off with our country accountable. If elected, she’ll be the first Native American woman to ever serve in the U.S. Senate. Will you join us in this Minnesotan-powered campaign?

Don Lemon is released from custody on a no money bond; Lemon's lawyer says he intends to plead not guilty (Winston Cho/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general-news/don-lemon-released-arrest-church-pro…

Don Lemon Released After Arrest Over Coverage of Minnesota Church Protest
The government has accused the former CNN anchor of interfering with church-goers' rights to freely practice their religious beliefs.

Trump administration goes after Second Amendment rights in justifying Minneapolis shooting (Jonathan Allen/NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-administration/trump-administration-second-amendment-rights-minneapolis-shooting-rcna255784
http://www.memeorandum.com/260125/p67#a260125p67

The killing of two unarmed Palestinians by Israeli soldiers in the northern West Bank city of Jenin
has provoked international outrage
after video footage of the incident went viral on Friday.
Credited to the local Palestine TV station, the footage shows two young Palestinian men surrendering to Israeli soldiers
and lying on the ground in front of a garage under soldiers’ instructions.
They then appear to be directed by the soldiers to go back inside the garag…

Outrage after footage of Israeli soldiers executing two Palestinians in Jenin goes viral
Human rights organizations call the killing of two unarmed Palestinians in Jenin by Israeli soldiers an “extrajudicial execution.”

Brigitte Bardot, French screen legend, dies aged 91 (The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2025/dec/28/brigitte-bardot-french-screen-legend-and-animal-rights-activist-dies
http://www.memeorandum.com/251228/p28#a251228p28

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.

American Samoans living in Alaska faced felony charges stemming from confusion over their status as United States nationals rather than citizens.
The cases drew attention to the legal vulnerabilities created by the territory’s political status
and raised broader questions about voting rights,
equal treatment,
and how territorial residents are understood
—or misunderstood—by state and federal systems

From emancipation to women’s suffrage, civil rights and BLM, mass movement has shaped the arc of US history
How effective is protesting❓
According to historians and political scientists: ⭐️VERY ⭐️
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/d

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.

Journalist Don Lemon is charged with federal civil rights crimes in anti-ICE church protest (Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/don-lemon-arrest-minnesota-church-service-d3091fe3d1e37100a7c46573667eb85c
http://www.memeorandum.com/260130/p122#a260130p122

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.

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.

GOP fractures grow as Minnesota shootings erode immigration crackdown support (Avery Lotz/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/01/26/minnesota-shooting-republican-reaction-gun-rights
http://www.memeorandum.com/260126/p31#a260126p31

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 people who tried to overturn the 2020 election have more power than ever – and they plan to use it.
Bolstered by the president,
they have prominent roles in key parts of the federal government.
🔸Harmeet Dhillon, a lawyer who helped advance Donald Trump’s claims of a stolen election in 2020, now leads the civil rights division of the justice department.
An election denier, 🔸Heather Honey, now serves as the deputy assistant secretary for election integrity in the …

Donald Trump’s weaponization of the US department of justice
to focus on retribution against political foes,
on fulfilling Maga goals and on granting pardons for allies
has seen thousands of lawyers depart or be fired
and weakened investigations in civil rights, national security and other areas, say ex-prosecutors and legal experts.
Data compiled by the nonpartisan Justice Connection showed that overall DoJ employment has dropped by about 5,500 lawyers and non-…

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.