New: For @msnbc.com I wrote abt Trump’s absurd EO declaring antifa a “domestic terror org” I trace history of MAGA manufacturing antifa bogeyman to both distract from v real far right violence, & to create a pretext for vigilantes & police to target the wider left www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

1. Republicans are attempting to get the FBI to label trans advocacy as domestic terrorism. Project 2025's parent org is pushing it. It would not label all trans people as terrorists, but it would open the door for heavy surveillance and disruption. Subscribe to support our journalism.

There's no legal authority to do this at all. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

The open letter, published by the American Civil Liberties Union Monday morning, calls Kimmel’s suspension “unconstitutional and un-American” and a “dark moment for freedom of speech.”

More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

Bill C-2, the rights-violating “Strong Borders” Act, is back in Parliament. C-2 is anti-privacy, anti-migrant and anti-refugee and will make us all less safe. It can’t be allowed to pass! For more details on why Bill C-2 must be stopped, our ongoing work & how to support us: iclmg.ca/help-protect...

Just now, 11 state and city lawmakers were arrested by DHS police on the 10th floor of 26 Federal Plaza after a hour of demanding access to the ICE lock up on the same floor. @thecity.nyc

URGENT : C-2, le projet de loi omnibus sur les frontières, qui porte atteinte aux droits, à la vie privée et est anti-migrants, est débattu au Parlement AUJOURD'HUI! SVP envoyez un courriel pour qu'il soit retiré avant le vote pour l'envoyer en comité : iclmg.ca/fr/non-a-c-2/ Merci! #qcpoli

URGENT: Bill C-2, the rights-violating, anti-privacy, anti-migrants omnibus "border" bill, is being debated in Parliament right NOW! Please send an email (again if you have already) to stop it before the vote to send it to committee: iclmg.ca/stop-bill-c-2/ thank you! #Canada #cdnpoli #stopbillC2

ICLMG is one of 32 signatories to this call to withdraw Bill C-2, the "Strong Borders" Act - which would, among many other issues, force services to install “technical capabilities” to access Canadians’ encrypted communications & sensitive data. Take action at iclmg.ca/stop-bill-c-2/ 1/

Now I am being silenced by the Washington Post for -- *checks notes* Lamenting America's acceptance of apathy towards political violence and gun deaths-- especially when the violence is encouraged and carried out by white men.

The Trump administration has abused its powers to "secure a foothold inside CBS’s newsroom. That doesn’t mean CBS will never criticize Trump again ... But its owners know they might get slapped if it goes too far,” FPF’s @seth-stern.bsky.social writes in @theguardian.com.

Our News Digest is out! conta.cc/46YHKjR - Watch the Stop Bill C-2 webinar - Confronting the legacy of the “War on Terror” 24 years on - Submission to the Financial Action Task Force re #Canada - Call to withdraw from “counterterrorism” summit in Israel amid genocide in Gaza 1/ #cdnpoli

Click to register: www.thenewhumanitarian.org/events/what-...

Today marks the 24th anniversary of the attacks of 9/11. We remember the thousands killed that day, but also the millions killed during the decades-long “War on Terror” & its ongoing legacy of human rights attrocities around the world. iclmg.ca/remembering-...

Register at armsembargonow.ca/webinar/

Carney’s new Bill C-2, the so-called “Strong Borders Act,” is sounding a littleee too familiar (by familiar, yes, we’re talking about a move right out of the 🍊 man’s playbook)... Sign the petition: act.gp/3Kfo6Xb Send a letter to your MP: migrantrights.ca/actionslist/...

If you've missed the Stop Bill C-2 webinar, you can watch it now, take two actions and share widely: Watch: youtu.be/g0DuDtdBuJ4 Send an email: iclmg.ca/stop-bill-c-2/ Make a call: migrantrights.ca/actionslist/... 1/ #cdnpoli #StopBillC2 #Canada #humanrights #privacy

Let’s tell PM @mark-carney.bsky.social that the time is long overdue for the government to address this Canadian’s human rights. Write us for postcards for you and your friends: [email protected] #JusticeForDiab #NoExtradition

"A tsunami of AI-enabled disinformation is already upon us, polluting the public sphere and seeping back into the language models that AI systems feed upon. What to do?" My latest oped in @theglobeandmail.com 👇 www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...

Canada has been sharing intel with the US on traffickers in the Caribbean since 1993. Enhanced intel-sharing has been underway since 2024. If the Avoiding Complicity in Mistreatment by Foreign Entities Act means anything, all sharing that might lead to extrajudicial killings must now cease.

Bill C-2, “Strong Borders Act,” grants sweeping new surveillance powers to police and spy agencies. CANADIANS! You need to sign this and repost to prevent Trump-style security here, and if you value your privacy at all! www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...

Here is a thread 🧵 about what happened in the Bill C2 Webinar from @openmediaorg.bsky.social / @iclmg-csilc.bsky.social & @citizenlab.ca in case you couldn’t join.

🚨URGENT ACTION: Use the new Click 2 Call tool to call your MP & relevant Ministers and tell them you're opposed to Bill C-2 before the Liberal caucus meeting this weekend! migrantrights.ca/actionslist/...

We're live! youtube.com/live/g0DuDtd... Join us & the movement against Bill C-2!

The "Stop Bill C-2!" webinar is tonight at 7pm ET! Register to join us on Zoom (where you can participate in the Q&A): us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi... or tune into the livestream on YouTube: youtube.com/live/g0DuDtd...

We cannot, we must not, look away. Canada must evacuate Mamdouh. His story is one we bring to our weekly Wednesday vigil (11 am-1 pm) at Immigration HQ in Ottawa, 300 Slater (at Kent) August. We demand immediate evacuation corridor for all Gaza-Canada visa applicants, waiting & dying for 19 months

There are so many sweeping counter-terrorism powers in Britain that if Home Secretary Yvette Cooper suddenly announced she was adding Irish novelist Sally Rooney to the terrorist financial sanctions list, it would be entirely in character and no longer a surprise www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/08...

More than 500 registrants so far! Join us in the movement to stop the "Strong Borders" Act #StopBillC2

Let’s tell PM @mark-carney.bsky.social that the time is long overdue for the government to address this Canadian’s human rights. Write us for postcards for you and your friends: [email protected]

🚨The "Strong Borders" Act is anti-refugee, anti-migrant, anti-privacy & threatens the rights of everyone in Canada!🚨 Want to learn more about the bill & how to help oppose it? Register for the "Stop Bill C-2" webinar on Aug. 27: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi... More details: iclmg.ca/webinar-stop...

Excellente chronique qui démontre clairement pourquoi le projet de loi C-2 doit être complètement retiré! www.ledevoir.com/opinion/chro... Passez à l'action pour que le Parlement rejette C-2, et partagez largement: iclmg.ca/fr/non-a-c-2/ Merci! #polcan #qcpoli #vieprivee #Canada #Quebec

Sudan’s army is torturing detainees to death, says a human rights group. With “execution chambers” in Khartoum and mass arrests, both the army and RSF continue to commit atrocities. Silence is complicity!

TAKE ACTION NOW: actionnetwork.org/letters/nogo... Tell #Canada to reject Trump’s #GoldenDome and a foreign policy based on ever-increasing militarization and warmongering in lockstep with the US. Invest those BILLIONS in improving the lives of people in Canada instead! #NoGoldenDome #cdnpoli

When surveillance companies sell their technology to the government for hundreds of thousands of dollars, the public has the right to know. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

Our News Digest is out! conta.cc/46YHKjR -Webinar: Stop Bill C-2 the dangerous "Strong Borders" Act -Feat. ICLMG: Migrant surveillance data no longer has to stay in #Canada. That has civil liberties advocates worried -As Gazans Starve, Families in Canada Struggle to Get Loved Ones Out 1/ #cdnpoli

🚨STOP BILL C-2!🚨 Join the upcoming webinar on Aug. 27 to learn more about 🇨🇦's proposed "Strong Borders Act" that threatens privacy, migrant, refugee and human rights, and how we can work together to beat it! Register at: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

“GeoSpy has proven to not be very accurate in my experience & this tool could lead to false accusations and further harassment of innocent people,” EFF’s @cooperq.com warned @404media.co. “It’s also a powerful tool for stalking or other misuse by police.”

CJPME calls on journalistic associations in Canada to publicly condemn Israel’s continued killing of journalists and to denounce the spread of fabricated claims about Palestinian journalists, which endanger their lives. cjpme.org/pr_2025_08_11

Media alert: The National Post has run an article justifying Israel’s murder of Al Jazeera journalist Anas al-Sharif. Help us hold them accountable for spreading disinformation that legitimizes the killing of Palestinian journalists: cjpmemap.ca/2025_08_11_jns

No more loopholes! Sign the petition urging Carney and Anand to close the US loophole which currently allows Canada to discreetly transfer weapons to Israel, fuelling its genocide against Palestinians. Add your name: www.cjpme.org/petition_clo...

President Trump said the police can do “whatever the hell they want” to our DC communities. Let us be clear: Local and federal law enforcement are not above the law, no matter what Trump says.

Tell PM @mark-carney.bsky.social that the time is long overdue for the government to address this Canadian’s human rights. Write us for postcards for you and your friends: [email protected]

iclmg.ca/stop-bill-c-2/ #StopC2 #BlockTheBorderBill #KillBillC2

Five more people were arrested yesterday for allegedly breaking into the Elbit Systems site near Bristol in August 2024, on suspicion of "the commission, preparation and instigation of acts of terrorism, contrary to Section 41 of the Terrorism Act 2000". www.bbc.com/news/article...

1. We interrupt this programming for some LEGITIMATELY GOOD NEWS Violent crime in Baltimore has PLUMMETED to historic lows How did the city do it? Baltimore adopted a comprehensive set of "woke" policies, treating violence as a public health issue

The banning of Palestine Action is an outrageous attack on free speech and protest, and demonstrates the incredible danger when governments are allowed to recklessly expand the definition of "terrorism". Solidarity with everyone who took to the streets in London! www.thestar.com/news/world/e...

After seeing Mark Carney fold on the digital services tax, AI regulation, and the Online Harms Act, US Republicans are turning their sights to the Online Streaming Bill that makes streaming companies promote and fund Canadian content.

On Thursday, the Metropolitan Police'a Counter Terrorism Internet Referral Unit contacted Zoom and requested it pull the plug on an online briefing meeting for today's mass noncompliance with the ban of Palestine Action taking place in Parliament Square www.middleeasteye.net/news/over-50...