In 1961, just one month after the Bay of Pigs fiasco, President John F. Kennedy made his first foreign trip to Canada. The charismatic Kennedy entered Parliament, giving an eloquent speech that produced a standing ovation: Geography has made us neighbors. History has made us friends. Economics has made us partners. And necessity has made us allies. Those whom nature hath so joined together, let no man put asunder. We are allies. This is a partnership, not an empire. […]
Take some time during your Spring Break to catch up on the latest digital rights news by subscribing to EFF’s EFFector newsletter! This edition of the newsletter covers our new open source tool to detect cellular spying, Rayhunter; The Foilies 2025, our tongue-in-cheek awards to the worst responses to public records requests; and our recommendations to the NSF for the new AI Action Plan to put people first. You can read the full newsletter here, and even get future editions directly to your […]
Alex Nowrasteh and Krit Chanwong Ezra Klein recently interviewed David Shor, a data scientist at the Democratic consulting firm Blue Rose Research. Shor made two important immigrant-related points. First, the foreign-born share of the population in a county was highly correlated with a shift toward Trump. Second, Trump likely won the immigrant vote. Naturalized immigrants went from favoring Biden in 2020 by 27 points to favoring Trump by one point. This abrupt change destroys the common immigration-restrictionist argument […]
Happy Liberation Day! Aside from our senses, what are we being freed from? A properly functioning market? The greatest quality and quantity of goods sold at competitive rates? Producers having to innovate to excel? The ability to buy what we want without giving government a bigger cut? Whatever deliverance we’re promised was postponed by a day, so Americans wouldn’t think the jokers in charge were playing them for fools. But this afternoon, at long last, our president will […]
O procurador-geral do Maranhão, Valdênio Caminha, apresentou ao Supremo Tribunal Federal (STF) e à Procuradoria-Geral da República (PGR) uma denúncia sobre uma “possível atuação criminosa” de dois assessores do gabinete do ministro Flávio Dino. Valdênio Caminha afirmou que Túlio Simões e Lucas Souza, do gabinete de Dino, acessaram indevidamente o sistema interno da Procuradoria estadual, onde estavam licenciados, com o objetivo de embasar uma ação judicial no STF. As informações são do jornal O Estado de S.Paulo. + […]
“I’m not joking,” said President Donald Trump to NBC this past weekend, referring to his talk of seeking a third term. “A lot of people want me to do it,” said Trump on the air. “But I mean, I basically tell them we have a long way to go, you know, it’s very early in the administration.” “I’m focused on the current,” he added. When pressed on how exactly he could seek a third term—something barred by the 22nd […]
Important! After watching the main video, there’s a supplementary video: https://www.actualized.org/insights/deconstructing-property-rights The supplementary video is just as important as the main video. I think this video is a very decent deconstruction of freedom and how those who are opposed to Government take a lot of freedoms for granted, and he brings up serious possible errors in Libertarian philosophy. So Don’t think of me posting this as a troll post, I’m posting this to introduce new perspectives. You can’t […]