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• in Social Media
  Jodia Arias: Texts to Death
  Be careful what you text. Obsolete privacy laws allow police to track cell phones without a warrant.
  by sweaterart / on May 21, 2013
• in Technology
  Lose Free Speech or "F" Israel?
  Free Speech, the political right to communicate one's opinions and ideas, is about to be lost in America.
  by stephengfm / on Feb 4, 2013
• in Politics
  The Controversial KKK Looks to Adopt a Highway
  Why can't the Ku Klux Klan adopt a highway?
  by kdbarclay / on Jun 30, 2012

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “aclu”

 

• Petition urges wedding for "Modern Family" characters

  
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  The American Civil Liberties Union has launched a petition to encourage producers of the television comedy "Modern Family" to allow gay characters Cam and Mitch to marry.  "[S]eeing them get married, and seeing the characters in the story grapple with their desire to get married, makes it real for a ...
  3 days ago

• ACLU Demands ‘Modern Family’ Hold Big Gay Wedding

  
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  The ACLU has demanded Modern Family have a big gay wedding, according to a new campaign launched by the American Civil Liberties Union last week. The movement — which now has its own website — calls for two of the series leads to make their civil partnership official in an effort to draw more interest to the ...
  3 days ago

• Scandal news

  
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  All via HotAir. IRS told pro-life groups that they should stop peacably demonstrating. Where is the ACLU on this? You know: freedom of assembly, something the ACLU proudly defended in Skokie ? Are pro-lifers really lower (in the ACLU’s eyes) than actual KKK-hooded neo-Nazis? The “Benghazi e-mails were ...
  4 days ago

• Santa Barbara, California tribute on the beach!

  
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  Please pass this on. Please feel free to copy and paste in entirety instead of reblogging. Santa Barbara, California The first picture and the last picture are taken at the beach in Santa Barbara right next to the pier. There is a veterans group that started putting a cross and candle for ...
  1 week ago

• Biometric Database of All Adult Americans Hidden in Immigration Reform

  
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  BY DAVID KRAVETS 05.10.13 6:30 AM Illustration: National Institutes of Health The immigration reform measure the Senate began debating yesterday would create a national biometric database of virtually every adult in the U.S., in what privacy groups fear could be the first step to a ubiquitous national ...
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• Pro abortion groups seek to exclude pro-life group in Arkansas abortion suit

  
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  THV (AP) : Opponents of Arkansas law banning most abortions 12 weeks into a pregnancy say a group that wants to help defend the restriction shouldnt participate in a hearing next week.
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• Strata Week: President Obama opens up U.S. government data

  
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  U.S. government data to be machine-readable, Nicole Wong may fill new White House chief privacy officer role The U.S. government took major steps this week to open up government data to the public. U.S. President Obama signed an executive order …
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• Privacy picks: ACLU efforts, reviving Snapchat stuff, anonymity and Big Data, government access to emails

  
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  We’ve got privacy on the brain, what with a Mercury News interview with an ACLU lawyer, news about Snapchat photos being recoverable, anonymity in the age of Big Data, and the feds thinking they don’t need warrants to access people’s emails. I talked recently with Nicole Ozer , director of  tech and civil ...
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• Veteran Pro Bono Lawyers Fight Health Care Law | Womenenews via Reuters

  
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  Womenenews via Reuters : On May 22, the Alliance Defending Freedom, a nonprofit center based in Scottsdale, Ariz., is hoping that the 7th Court of Appeals in Chicago will issue an injunction so its client, Grote Industries, wont be subjected to fines for not providing the contraceptive coverage required by law since ...
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• US: California Assembly passes two bills on transgender rights

  
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  The California Assembly has approved two transgender rights bills despite opposition from Republican members. Yesterday the Assembly cleared two bills protecting the rights of transgender people, which will now proceed to be considered by the state Senate. One bill would allow transgender students to use bathrooms ...
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• Mediatwits #79: FBI Reads Emails Without Warrants; Henry Jenkins on ‘Spreadable Media’

  
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  Have we reached the point of a Big Brother state online? It sure seems that way with the recent revelation that the FBI and Department of Justice routinely read private emails, Facebook messages and Twitter direct messages without a warrant — flouting the Fourth Amendment. We’ll discuss that and more on this ...
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• Colorado ‘Treatment’ Facility Held Mentally Disabled Teen in Solitary for 25 Days

  
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  Fourteen-year-old Kiondre Davison had a habit of acting up in school and running away from home. Social services officials stepped in to help. They sent him to El Pueblo Boys and Girls Ranch, a teen treatment center that touts its “environment of safety and loving care.” Kiondre – with an IQ of 62 and ...
  2 weeks ago

• In Arkansas, You Can’t Spell “Graduation” Without G-O-D

  
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  From KAIT , an ABC affiliate in Jonesboro, AR (via Glenn Beck’s The Blaze , of all places): It starts out in pretty standard fashion (skip if you’ve seen this before): the Riverside school district has been having prayer at sixth-grade graduation ceremonies for a while. This year, a parent complained, the ACLU ...
  2 weeks ago

• Park Romney’s legal challenge to exmo’s everywhere

  
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  I am absolutely convinced that the only thing that stands between the successful prosecution of the leadership of the Mormon Church for fraud and their exposure for blasphemy, is the simple collective united grass roots will of a relatively modest representative number the American people and, particularly of the ...
  2 weeks ago

• Urge Gov. McDonnell to Issue Executive Order Restoring Voting Rights to Virginians!

  
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  Via ACLU: It is estimated that over 450,000 individuals – about 7.3% of the states population – are barred from exercising their right to vote in Virginia due to a felony conviction. Virginia is one of only four states that permanently disenfranchise every individual with a felony conviction, ...
  2 weeks ago

• [ACTION] Tell Obama: Enough Talk, Time for Action on Gitmo – Petition

  
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   Tell Obama: Enough Talk, Time for Action on Gitmo!        … [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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• Viagra online follows Plan B over the counter; sex ed for 5 year olds looming

  
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  Last week a judge decided Plan B abortion-causing birth control pills should be available over-the-counter for girls of any age. Today we learn Viagra.com will offer doctor-avoiding access online to the blue pills. At the same time, "Its Perfectly Normal"...
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• Latest Crack at Campaign Finance Reform Not Pleasing Free-Speech Advocates

  
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  Sens. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) and Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) call their Follow the Money Act of 2013 a bipartisan compromise.
  2 weeks ago

• ACLU, EFF sue for license plate record disclosure in Los Angeles

  
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  The Los Angeles Sheriffs Department is the nations fourth-largest law enforcement agency, after the New York Police Department, the Chicago Police Department, and the Los Angeles Police Department. Rennett Stowe For months now, we’ve been following the rapid expansion of license plate ...
  2 weeks ago

• Red Lion Pennsylvania High School Refuses ACLU Request Allowing Transgender Student’s Chosen Name To Be Read At Graduation; Issak Wolfe Will Be Called By His Female Birth Name

  
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  In Red Lion, Pennsylvania, the ACLU has issued a statement that says the Red Lion Area School District has refused to change its policy around transgender candidates for prom court. The district also will not agree to allow transgender students to use a name at graduation to match their gender identity, according to a ...
  2 weeks ago

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