-Story gets out that Blinken is ignoring Israeli human rights abuses
-PR story appears that Biden admin is going to do something
-Israel publicly acts outraged that laws may apply to them
-Biden admin quietly decides to do nothing

What a perfect summary of this admin

The right to protest America’s support of foreign wars is under 'sustained and serious assault.”

Glenn Greenwald explains: pro-Israel activists have been obsessed with college campuses for years…looking for opportunities to suppress student speech criticizing Israel.

It was painfully obvious from the start of Oct. 7 -- everything from Bill Ackman's fraudulent posture against DEI to the Congressional hearings on campus speech -- that the real and sole goal was the formal expansion of speech limits in academia to suppress Israel criticisms:

The ACLU enters the fray:

Messages of support and strength from Rafah to the student movement ❤️ this is who we fight for

can't imagine why

Report: The Biden Administration, cowed by Israeli pressure, may hold back on fully enforcing the Leahy Law on an extremist Israeli army unit that engaged in gross violations of human rights.

If accurate, it’s likely to be seen as another failure to uphold US law and interests.

Remember the expansion of warrantless spying that Biden rammed through Congress and signed into law a week ago despite public outcry? That the FBI had already used to spy on Americans more than 278,000 times? You'll never guess what he's using right now against student protests:

Privacy is normal.

Living in a surveillance state in which the government demands to watch everything we do with our money at all times without obtaining a warrant is NOT normal.

Treating software developers who build privacy-preserving technology as criminals is reprehensible.

Call me crazy, but I truly believe crypto is on the front line of the war for individual liberty in the digital age.

So many rights are at stake: free speech, association, financial privacy, property ownership, on and on.

I'm grateful each day to fight alongside all of you 🙏

As the joke goes, 'we have free speech. We just do not have freedom after speech.'

Western liberals spent the four years of the Trump presidency yammering on about the 'authoritarian playbook' which they have clearly embraced themselves as an instruction manual

EXCLUSIVE: The ACLU is suing the NSA, DoD and ODNI for records about how they're using AI in their surveillance programs.
news.bloomberglaw.com/privacy-and-da…

SCOOP: Biden is now often surrounded by aides when walking across the South Lawn to and from Marine One.

• They usually walk between the 81-year-old and journalists' camera position to draw less attention to his halting and stiff gait. trib.al/hhVdRni

President Biden averaged 38.7% job approval during his recently completed 13th quarter in office, which ended April 19 — lower than any president since Dwight Eisenhower, Gallup reports: news.gallup.com/poll/644252/bi…

As a kid, the magic of software was that I could sit down and make something with no license, degree, or ~money.

Gotta say, publishing an iOS app from scratch today is a verrry diff vibe. I wonder how many young people's ideas we've lost at 'and now register for a DUNs number.'

Encryption is one or two badly-constructed laws from being broken the world over.

In India the government is close to passing laws that make end to end encryption unworkable, with the consequence that WhatsApp may leave the country. In Europe it’s worse: the EU may mandate mass scanning of conversations.

We tracked a record number of press freedom violations during the 2020 election.

With a possible rematch less than seven months away, our digital security training team sat down to talk about what journalists can do now to prepare for the year ahead. freedom.press/training/blog/…

Banning TikTok is blatantly unconstitutional and sure to lead to further censorship. axios.com/2024/04/24/joe…

We explained why in CJR 👇🏽 cjr.org/analysis/tikto…