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Lisa Melton
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Federal Judge Orders Some #Texas #Schools to Remove #TenCommandments Posters
The judge sided with families of students who had argued that the displays infringed on their #ReligiousFreedom.
#law #Constitution
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/us/politics/texas-ten-commandments.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share
The ruling from Judge Orlando L. Garcia, of U.S. District Court for the Western District of #Texas, comes after Gov. #GregAbbott signed in June a #law requiring school districts to display the #TenCommandments in a “conspicuous location” in each classroom. The ruling applies to 14 #PublicSchool districts, including ones in Fort Worth, Arlington & Conroe.
Federal Judge Orders Some #Texas #Schools to Remove #TenCommandments Posters
The judge sided with families of students who had argued that the displays infringed on their #ReligiousFreedom.
#law #Constitution
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/us/politics/texas-ten-commandments.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share
Federal Judge Orders Some #Texas #Schools to Remove #TenCommandments Posters
The judge sided with families of students who had argued that the displays infringed on their #ReligiousFreedom.
#law #Constitution
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/us/politics/texas-ten-commandments.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share
der.hans
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"No Kings Day has begun this morning in London, as one poster noted a crowd of about 400 people protested outside of the United States embassy in London. Protests are expected in Ireland as well."
~ Aaron Parnas
#NoKings #FreeSpeech #ReligiousFreedom #FreedomofAssembly #HumanRights #England #Ireland
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https://aaronparnas.substack.com/p/news-no-kings-day-protests-begin
der.hans
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"And number five, politically. Because by being at a protest, you're cooperating with others, taking a step towards more cooperation, towards finding a way out to something better." Then he adds, "It's fun and makes you feel better."
#NoKings #FreeSpeech #ReligiousFreedom #FreedomofAssembly #HumanRights
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No Kings in Times Square, New York City from Ana Navarro-Cárdenas.
#NoKings #FreeSpeech #ReligiousFreedom #FreedomofAssembly #HumanRights
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No Kings protesters in France from Carolyn Cohagan.
#NoKings #FreeSpeech #ReligiousFreedom #FreedomofAssembly #HumanRights #France
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Live coverage of No Kings demonstrations by Joy Reid.
#NoKings #FreeSpeech #ReligiousFreedom #FreedomofAssembly #HumanRights
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No Kings in Times Square, New York City from Ana Navarro-Cárdenas.
#NoKings #FreeSpeech #ReligiousFreedom #FreedomofAssembly #HumanRights
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"No Kings Day has begun this morning in London, as one poster noted a crowd of about 400 people protested outside of the United States embassy in London. Protests are expected in Ireland as well."
~ Aaron Parnas
#NoKings #FreeSpeech #ReligiousFreedom #FreedomofAssembly #HumanRights #England #Ireland
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https://aaronparnas.substack.com/p/news-no-kings-day-protests-begin
Live coverage of No Kings demonstrations by Joy Reid.
#NoKings #FreeSpeech #ReligiousFreedom #FreedomofAssembly #HumanRights
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Steve Beschloss from the No Kings protest in New York City.
#NoKings #FreeSpeech #ReligiousFreedom #FreedomofAssembly #HumanRights
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"No Kings Day has begun this morning in London, as one poster noted a crowd of about 400 people protested outside of the United States embassy in London. Protests are expected in Ireland as well."
~ Aaron Parnas
#NoKings #FreeSpeech #ReligiousFreedom #FreedomofAssembly #HumanRights #England #Ireland
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https://aaronparnas.substack.com/p/news-no-kings-day-protests-begin
"And number five, politically. Because by being at a protest, you're cooperating with others, taking a step towards more cooperation, towards finding a way out to something better." Then he adds, "It's fun and makes you feel better."
#NoKings #FreeSpeech #ReligiousFreedom #FreedomofAssembly #HumanRights
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Steve Beschloss from the No Kings protest in New York City.
#NoKings #FreeSpeech #ReligiousFreedom #FreedomofAssembly #HumanRights
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"And number five, politically. Because by being at a protest, you're cooperating with others, taking a step towards more cooperation, towards finding a way out to something better." Then he adds, "It's fun and makes you feel better."
#NoKings #FreeSpeech #ReligiousFreedom #FreedomofAssembly #HumanRights
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From the Franklin Delano Roosevelt memorial in Washington, DC.
#NoKings #FreeSpeech #ReligiousFreedom #FreedomofAssembly #HumanRights
Timothy Snyder on why we protest:
"Why do we protest? Number one, constitutionally. It's our right. Number two, morally. We have the right to show what we think is right. Number three, socially. By showing up, we show those around us that we don't think this is normal. Number four, practically. Nonviolent resistance, nonviolent opposition works to hold off the worst."
#NoKings #FreeSpeech #ReligiousFreedom #FreedomofAssembly #HumanRights
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bhaugen
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From the Franklin Delano Roosevelt memorial in Washington, DC.
#NoKings #FreeSpeech #ReligiousFreedom #FreedomofAssembly #HumanRights
From the Franklin Delano Roosevelt memorial in Washington, DC.
#NoKings #FreeSpeech #ReligiousFreedom #FreedomofAssembly #HumanRights
"... the U.S. Supreme Court in 2021 ... found that Minnesota courts overstepped. It said the burden was on the government to prove that the mulch basins wouldn’t work, not on the Amish to show they would. And it sent the case back to the Minnesota courts for reconsideration. Justice Neil Gorsuch wrote that if 'the government can achieve its interests in a manner that does not burden religion, it must do so'."
#MargeyBeck, #SteveKarnowski, 2023
https://apnews.com/article/amish-septic-tanks-court-minnesota-ad2fdc9d51a12a3292e6c9a740f57f6e
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Alex Akselrod
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How #Maine churches are reckoning with fear of #ImmigrationRaids
by Sean Scott, August 24, 2025
Excerpt: "Selma, an asylum seeker from Angola, moved to Texas at the start of the pandemic and then to Maine in January 2022. She fears persecution if she returns because of a family member’s involvement in a #HumanRights group.
" 'As a Christian, I was praying, and then God just gave me direction, which was Maine,' she said.
"She joined a nondenominational Christian church in Portland right away, and she and her two children have been regular attendees ever since. After President Donald Trump’s inauguration in January, her 12-year-old daughter asked if it was still safe to go to school.
"As immigration enforcement efforts have increased dramatically this year, many migrants have also reckoned with whether it’s safe to go to places of worship, whether they’re congregants or faith leaders like one Westbrook pastor detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement earlier this month.
"In one of his first acts in office, Trump rescinded a policy that essentially barred #ICEAgents from making arrests at sensitive locations like #churches, #hospitals and #schools. A coalition sued the Department of Homeland Security over the policy in February, arguing it violated #ReligiousFreedom. A judge declined to block the policy, citing a lack of evidence that churches were 'singled out as special targets' for immigration enforcement.
"Faith leaders are preparing for the possibility of enforcement regardless, and several other lawsuits have been filed on similar grounds, including one in late July with a New England plaintiff.
"#MichelTshimankinda, a Westbrook man who founded a church in South Portland, has been in ICE detention in New Hampshire since Aug. 14, according to the Portland Press Herald. He wasn’t arrested on church property, but his detention has shaken his family and congregation."
Read more:
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/maine-churches-reckoning-fear-immigration-100000727.html
#ICESucks#ICEKidnapping#MaineNews#DHS#Gestapo#FascismInTheUSA#Racism#Fascism#Authoritarianism#TrumpIsARacist
How #Maine churches are reckoning with fear of #ImmigrationRaids
by Sean Scott, August 24, 2025
Excerpt: "Selma, an asylum seeker from Angola, moved to Texas at the start of the pandemic and then to Maine in January 2022. She fears persecution if she returns because of a family member’s involvement in a #HumanRights group.
" 'As a Christian, I was praying, and then God just gave me direction, which was Maine,' she said.
"She joined a nondenominational Christian church in Portland right away, and she and her two children have been regular attendees ever since. After President Donald Trump’s inauguration in January, her 12-year-old daughter asked if it was still safe to go to school.
"As immigration enforcement efforts have increased dramatically this year, many migrants have also reckoned with whether it’s safe to go to places of worship, whether they’re congregants or faith leaders like one Westbrook pastor detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement earlier this month.
"In one of his first acts in office, Trump rescinded a policy that essentially barred #ICEAgents from making arrests at sensitive locations like #churches, #hospitals and #schools. A coalition sued the Department of Homeland Security over the policy in February, arguing it violated #ReligiousFreedom. A judge declined to block the policy, citing a lack of evidence that churches were 'singled out as special targets' for immigration enforcement.
"Faith leaders are preparing for the possibility of enforcement regardless, and several other lawsuits have been filed on similar grounds, including one in late July with a New England plaintiff.
"#MichelTshimankinda, a Westbrook man who founded a church in South Portland, has been in ICE detention in New Hampshire since Aug. 14, according to the Portland Press Herald. He wasn’t arrested on church property, but his detention has shaken his family and congregation."
Read more:
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/maine-churches-reckoning-fear-immigration-100000727.html
#ICESucks#ICEKidnapping#MaineNews#DHS#Gestapo#FascismInTheUSA#Racism#Fascism#Authoritarianism#TrumpIsARacist