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Nonya Bidniss :CIAverified:

The reprehensible Ed Martin strikes again, attacking medical journals. BLUF: He can send all the letters he wants, no one has to answer.

"JT Morris, a senior supervising attorney at the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression, noted that in a First Amendment case such as this, the law is clear: "A publication's editorial decisions are none of the government's business, whether it's a newspaper or a medical journal."

"When a United States Attorney wields the power of his office to target medical journals because of their content and editorial processes, he isn't doing his job, let alone upholding his constitutional oath," Morris said in an email to MedPage Today. "He's abusing his authority to try to chill protected speech."

"Like with any bully, the best response is to stand up to them -- and that includes officials who try to intimidate Americans into parroting the government's view," he added. "The First Amendment packs a powerful punch, and it has these medical journals' backs.""
#FirstAmendment #FreedomOfSpeech #science #medicine #disinformation #corruption medpagetoday.com/special-repor

www.medpagetoday.comMedical Journals Get Letters From DOJAt least three journals received letters from a U.S. Attorney asking about 'competing viewpoints'
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Charlie McHenry

Yes!!! #Resist - Six men charged after woman was forcibly removed from Idaho town hall meeting…The city attorney for Coeur d'Alene confirmed charges have been filed against six men after a woman was forcefully removed from a town hall in February. #legal #politics #USPol #USPolitics #FreedomOfSpeech #RevengePolitics #coup #AmericanCoup
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Purple🐘

«A senior Washington figure, who has provided advice for the administration, claimed he (JD Vance) is “obsessed by the fall of Western civilisation”– including his view that free speech is being eroded in Britain – and that he will demand the Labour government rolls back laws against hateful comments, including abuse targeting LGBT+ groups or other minorities, as a condition of any deal» #TrumpAdministration #LGBTQIARights #FreedomOfSpeech #USPolitics #UKPOlitics #Trump

independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli

The Independent · Starmer told to accept Trump ‘free speech’ agenda to win trade dealBy David Maddox
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janhoglund

“Part of Trump’s fight with the Supreme Court is an attempt to demonstrate dominance…, but institutions, as well as the courts, are standing up to him. With Trump having won concessions from Columbia University…, other universities are banding together to defend education, academic freedom, and freedom of speech. On Monday, Harvard University took a stand against the administration’s demand…”
—Heather Cox Richardson, April 15, 2025
#trump vs #harvard #education #academicfreedom #freedomofspeech

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JdeB

#Privacy #FreedomOfSpeech

IMPORTANT MESSAGE for independent thinkers !
Carole Cadwalladr got 'SLAPPED' on it kept her busy for years and costed a lot of money. She dared to chalenge the #BigTechBros .

This Is What a Digital Coup Looks Like | Carole Cadwalladr | TED
by TED

youtube.com/watch?v=TZOoT8AbkN

Quote by TED:
"Apr 10, 2025
“We are watching the collapse of the international order in real time, and this is just the start,” says investigative journalist Carole Cadwalladr. In a searing talk, she details a fast-moving technological coup and the rise of the “broligarchy”: an unprecedentedly powerful class of tech executives (like Elon Musk) who are complicit in dismantling democracy and enabling authoritarian control across the world. She shares a guide on how to digitally disobey in this age of runaway corporate power, data harvesting and mass surveillance — and reminds you that you have more power than you think.
(Recorded at TED2025 on April 8, 2025)

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#FascistsAreHere#TimeToResist#FightOligarchy
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Miguel Afonso Caetano

"The thing about Europe is that it lacks an absolutist attachment to free speech. See how judges in Romania and France derailed the careers of hard-right politicians, who have convinced themselves (with little evidence) that it was their ideology rather than their lawbreaking that got them in trouble. Yet to many Europeans the idea that free expression is under threat seems odd. Europeans can say almost anything they want, both in theory and in practice. Europe’s universities never became hotbeds of speech-policing by one breed of culture warrior or the other. You can express a controversial view on any European campus (outside Hungary, at least) without fear of losing your tenure or your grant. No detention centres await foreign students who hold the wrong views on Gaza; news outfits are not sued for interviewing opposition politicians. Law firms are not compelled to kow-tow to presidents as penance for having worked for their political foes.
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The thing about Europe is that it is like an open-air museum, yesterday’s continent. Is its model even sustainable? A good question—one that presupposes the European model is worth defending. It is a place blessed with walkable cities, long life expectancies and vaccinated kids who do not need to be trained to dodge school shooters. Charlemagne’s realm is a place of many flaws, lots of them enduring. But in their own plodding way, Europeans have created a place where they are guaranteed rights to what others yearn for: life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness."

economist.com/europe/2025/04/1

Illustration of the statue of liberty sailing off on a boat with the EU flag on it, her plinth is in the foreground with a notice pinned on it that says gone to Europe
The Economist · The thing about Europe: it’s the actual land of the free nowBy The Economist
#Europe#FreeSpeech#FreedomOfSpeech
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LordWoolamaloo

“It’s vital that libraries feel able to provide access to a wide range of perspectives if they are to facilitate the free exchange of ideas.”

Exactly. Back our librarians against those attempting to ape the trend in the US to demand censorship. I understood this concept when I was just a child, first using libraries.

theguardian.com/books/2025/apr

The Guardian · Librarians in UK increasingly asked to remove books, as influence of US pressure groups spreadsBy Ella Creamer
#books#Livres#bookstodon
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