#JackDorsey has invested $10 million in a #nonprofit called #andOtherStuff to fund #opensource #socialmedia projects.

The team, including Dorsey, is focused on creating technologies like Nostr-based #socialapps and #developertools.

They aim to build a social media #BillofRights to ensure #useraccountability and are working on various projects, including Shakespeare, heynow, Cashu, and White Noise.

https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/16/jack-dorsey-backs-nonprofit-and-other-stuff-experimenting-with-open-social-tools-like-nostr/?Fedizen.EU #Fedizen #Fediverse #ActivityPub #News

A quotation from George Carlin

Folks, I hate to spoil your fun, but — there’s no such thing as rights. Okay? They’re imaginary. We made ’em up. […] Now, if you think you do have rights, one last assignment for you. Next time you’re at the computer, get on the Internet, go to Wikipedia. When you get to Wikipedia, in the search field for Wikipedia I want you to type in “Japanese-American 1942,” and you’ll find all about your precious fucking rights, okay? […] Just when these American citizens needed their rights the most, their government took ’em away. And rights aren’t “rights” if someone can take ’em away — they’re privileges. That’s all we’ve ever had in this country is a Bill of Temporary Privileges. And if you read the news, even badly, you know that every year the list gets shorter and shorter and shorter.

George Carlin (1937-2008) American comedian
Show (2008-03-01), It’s Bad for Ya, Wells Fargo Center for the Arts, Santa Rosa, California (HBO)

Sourcing, notes: wist.info/carlin-george/54395/

A Police State Coming to a Town Near You
https://consortiumnews.com/2025/06/26/a-police-state-coming-to-a-town-near-you/
Andrew P. Napolitano examines the moral and historical errors in the argument that less freedom produces more safety. By Andrew P. Napolitano We have seen this before. A foreign entity attacks American persons or property and the government warns that its…
#Politics #Commentary #Constitution #Legal #U.s. #U.s.JusticeDept. #UntilThisDayHistoricalPerspectivesOnTheNews #AmericanRevolution #AndrewP.Napolitano #BillOfRights #DeclarationOfIndependence #JamesMadison #NaturalLawTheory #ThomasJefferson

The Australian Constitution

Post-9/11 Australia has pushed a tradition of exclusion to constitutional extremes
"The Constitution says nothing direct about what it means to be Australian, when a person is entitled to Australia’s protection, or who can claim to ‘belong’ to Australia. In contrast to many written constitutions, the Australian Constitution is silent on Australian citizenship."
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https://verfassungsblog.de/os2-exclusion-extremes/

Constitutional Rights in Australia Versus the United States
Calls for Federal Bill of Rights
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https://www.sydneycriminallawyers.com.au/blog/constitutional-rights-in-australia-versus-the-united-states/
#rights #constitution #BillofRights #Australia #Australian #US #citizens #citizenship #democracy #exclusion #crisis #breakdown #FundamentalRights #ConstitutionalLimitations

Hey everyone, I know both Zain & his wife, Sophia. We all worked together for #SaveOldGrowth & #StopEcocide work here in #BritishColumbia. What's happened to Zain is unjust & I'm asking you all to please read this whole post & sign the #petition. Thanks for your time & help. Please boost for wider reach.

* Last week, Prime Minister #MarkCarney revealed Lena Metledge Diab will serve as Canada’s new Immigration Minister.

The first thing Diab should do as Minister is bring #ClimateActivist Zain Haq back to Canada by greenlighting his Temporary Residence Permit that has been processing since January.

Zain was deported to Pakistan in January for climate activism that resulted in low-level mischief charges. He’d been living in Canada his entire adult life, and with his Canadian wife, Sophia Papp, since 2023.

Sophia has been given the devastating choice to remain in Canada without her spouse or relocate to #Pakistan , where she doesn’t speak the language and faces significant barriers to her health and wellbeing.

A mere 48 hours before Zain was deported, he and Sophia’s Spousal Sponsorship application was rejected by Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) without substantive explanation.

The couple’s lawyer, Randall Cohn, has stated that this eleventh-hour rejection is likely illegal. It also denied Zain and Sophia’s right to procedural fairness, since they didn’t have time to access the appeal process enshrined in the #BillOfRights.

Zain and Sophia’s situation is reminiscent of the #unethical treatment of many #migrants in the U.S.

#IRCC ’s last minute rejection of a young couple’s Sponsorship Application without substantive reason should raise alarm bells for anyone of conscience, but especially for those with a #legal background – and before getting into #politics , Minister Diab was a #lawyer in Halifax. That’s why we have to get Zain’s file on her desk as soon as possible. *

https://info.dogwoodbc.ca/Nzc0LVNITy0yMjgAAAGaojayXiZm_H7wcAp51xUGCu4p2_h2edKAe6DW18ZVVROirXyyQRTyy9tQvopvAaCqJ1jgk0U=

Folks REALLY need to review this content. If not this then look at the School House Rock stuff.
#Civics #Constitution #USConstitution #Voting #BillOfRights #SchoolHouseRock

Original post: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:5jgtd2kd6gpg2wuoy7fwnygm/post/3lpv5lp2vhs24

I know I posted this a little over a month ago, but Teri Kanefield's new book, Rebels, Robbers, and Radicals: The Story of the Bill of Rights dropped today, and it's well worth a read. Teri brings the history of the Bill of Rights to life in a way few have. This is the part of the Constitution about us all, about our individual rights, something we all need to be aware of, especially today.

https://agoodreedreview.com/2025/04/05/book-rebels-robbers-and-radicals/

Hocus Pocus, There Goes Habeas Corpus
https://consortiumnews.com/2025/05/15/hocus-pocus-there-goes-habeas-corpus/
Andrew P. Napolitano on the American heritage of a legal right that was recognized by even the most tyrannical and absolute of monarchs in Britain. By Andrew P. Napolitano What if the writ of habeas corpus has been guaranteed to…
#Politics #CivilRights #Commentary #Constitution #Legal #U.s. #U.s.Congress #U.s.SupremeCourrt #UnitedKingdon #UntilThisDayHistoricalPerspectivesOnTheNews #AmericanRevolution #AndrewP.Napolitano #BillOfRights #DeclarationOfIndependence #DivineRightOfKings #HabeasCorpus #JamesMadison

If you are not already following Freedom of the Press Foundation at https://social.freedom.press/@freedomofpress --I highly recommend it.

Enough is Enough

It is time to stop fucking around and start a serious discussion about secession.

Not only will they not return someone who was incorrectly deported to a concentration camp in El Salvador, but now the so-called president is planning to start deporting US citizens to the same gulag.

In addition to deporting alleged Venezuelan gang members, Trump and several officials have floated sending U.S. citizens convicted of violent crimes to the infamous El Salvador prison or other foreign prisons — something legal experts have said would violate the Constitution.

MORE: Trump says he’d deport US citizens convicted of crimes ‘in a heartbeat’ if legal

“I’m all for it,” Trump said of the idea on Monday.

“If it’s a homegrown criminal, I have no problem. Now we’re studying the laws right now … If we can do that, that’s good,” Trump said.

The orange shit clown can have his little tin pot banana republic while the actual Americans can leave and start over. Enough is enough.

Loudly defend the First with the Second armed to the teeth, to avoid hiding for the Third, then they won’t take the Fourth, the Fifth will be unspoken, the Sixth would be inappropriate, the Seventh wouldn’t be seated in the first place, the Eighth would be overkill, no need to outline the Ninth, and the Tenth is shared.

Teri Kanefield has a new book coming out in May, and that's always a good thing. This one is particularly timely in that it's about the history of the Bill of Rights. Our rights are currently in peril. We need to make sure we know what they are.

https://agoodreedreview.com/2025/04/05/book-rebels-robbers-and-radicals/

A smackdown in #congress by #jasminecrockett. #musk, #trump, #project2025 & the #plutocracy including #socialmedia #billionaires shouldn’t be above the law governing society via the #constitution & the #billofrights.
#antifa #fakenews #propaganda #eattherich #oligarchy
https://youtu.be/1sf2Fxb5_p8?si=X9A1S44AYNJK4q63

A Brief History of ‘The’ Freedom of Speech
https://consortiumnews.com/2025/03/28/a-brief-history-of-the-freedom-of-speech/
The government’s respect for speech is often at its lowest ebb in wartime, when it is also most important and timely, writes Andrew P. Napolitano, By Andrew P. Napolitano “I disagree with what you say but will defend to the…
#Politics #CivilRights #Commentary #FreeSpeech #Legal #Militarism #PressFreedom #U.s. #U.s.SupremeCourrt #UntilThisDayHistoricalPerspectivesOnTheNews #AlienAndSeditionActsIn1798 #AndrewP.Napolitano #BillOfRights #BrandenburgV.Ohio #DeclarationOfIndependence #FirstAmendment #JamesMadison #PresidentAbrahamLincoln #PresidentJohnAdams #PresidentWoodrowWilson #U.s.CivilWar

The nightmare continues.

Russian scientist working at #Harvard detained by #ICE at Boston's Logan Airport—

Kseniya Petrova was returning to the US from a trip to France when officials revoked her #visa and detained her.

#defundICE #Amerika #Russia #transfrogs #impeach47 #impeachNoem #impeachVance #impeachThemAll #immigration #overincarceration #BillOfRights

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/27/russian-scientist-harvard-medical-school-ice-detention

"So we have a contradiction. We basically have the #Constitution that says everyone, persons in the #UnitedStates have due process rights, have the #BillofRights on their side, but we also have law that has been in power for 200 years saying, oh, well, except for when the president wants to #deport people. So these are in conflict. There will have to be some decision making."

#trump
#immigration

https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/rand-paul-republican-kentucky-face-the-nation-transcript-03-23-2025/

https://archive.is/3FdBF <=== Administration violates 4th Amendment #thump #MangoMussolini #ICE #BillOfRIghts #Constitution
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/20/us/politics/trump-alien-enemies-immigration-agents.html

Taking Rights Seriously
https://consortiumnews.com/2025/03/07/taking-rights-seriously/
A right is not a privilege, says Andrew P. Napolitano. A right is an indefeasible personal claim against the whole world. It does not require a government permission slip. By Andrew P. Napolitano “If all mankind minus one were of&#8230;
#Politics #Commentary #U.s. #AndrewP.Napolitano #BillOfRights #DeclarationOfIndependence #JamesMadison #JohnStuartMill #LudwigVonMises #MurrayRothbard #ThomasJefferson