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Judge Orders That ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ Detention Center Be Shut Down for Now

Judge Kathleen M. Williams of the Federal District Court in Miami ruled the federal and state governments did not conduct environmental reviews before building Alligator Alcatraz, and that was illegal. The judge ruled that most of Alligator Alcatraz must be dismantled, and no more immigrants can be sent there. Judge Williams told federal and state ...

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SAMPLE SCRIPT FOR POSTCARDS TO JUDGES

Thank you for standing up for the Constitution and the Rule of Law in the United States!   Thank you for your impartial and fair rulings in the court of law. Thank you for standing up for our Democracy even in the face of personal threats and intimidation. We are depending on you!   We support you.

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T. Snyder 20 Lessons - on Tyranny, illustrated

TWENTY LESSON ON TYRANNY- TIMOTHY SNYDER 1. Do not obey in advance. Most of the power of authoritarianism is freely given. In times like these, individuals think ahead about what a more repressive government will want, and then offer themselves without being asked. A citizen who adapts in this way is teaching power what it can do. 2. Defend institu...

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Pencil Drawings Cartoons

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Poland - Defending Judiciary

Email 1 - To Free Courts Foundation (Fundacja Wolne Sądy) Subject: California Citizens and Law Professional Seeking Contact with Polish Legal Advocates for Democracy Forum Dear Fundacja Wolne Sądy Team, I am reaching out to you because we are organizing community meetings in San Francisco about defending democratic institutions against authoritaria...

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Judiciary Watch - May-June 2025

⚖️ Legislative & Executive Actions Undermining Judicial Independence   May 24  "No Rogue Rulings Act" (H.R. 1526): This bill, passed by the House and awaiting a Senate vote, aims to restrict federal district courts from issuing nationwide injunctions against executive orders. Critics argue it threatens constitutional checks and b...

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Postcards to Brave Judges and Lawyers – Please Help !

We need the institutions, especially the judiciary, to stand up as a critical defense of a democratic country and application of the rule of law. Unfortunately, for now the parliament has given up its role to counterbalance the whims of the executive and is tolerating the corruption and weaponization of all government activities. We need the judici...

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Poster: No Kings

Protest art featuring authoritarian resistance message. 

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Joy – In Spite of It All

Joy - In spite of it all. Beethoven's Ninth. (Even in loss, we make music.) In the spring of 1824, a deaf composer stood before an orchestra in Vienna.He could not hear the outlandish sounds his own mind had created. When the final notes of his Ninth Symphony faded – so goes the story - Ludwig van Beethoven remained facing the orchestra, unaware of...

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San Francisco - A Center of Civic Innovation?

STRATEGY - IDEAS ! What can we do to make San Francisco civic life and politics an example - instead of an embarrassment?  Here is an idea!  THE URGENT CRISIS San Francisco's bureaucracy has become a corrupt, calcified system that blocks progress on our most critical challenges: Housing Crisis: 87 permits across multiple departments ...

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Gratitude for Judges With Spine

Gratitude for Judges with Spine is it appropriate to write thank you letters to judges who have opposed Trump executive orders that violate the constituion? Short answer: You can send a polite note of appreciation, but only after the litigation over that executive-order is completely finished (including appeals) and the letter must not contain anyt...

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Thoughts on next steps

Sept 1 is the next national event - Labor Day.  Indivisible is organizing nationwide rallies and action.  What do we do

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2 Each of my two grandfathers in 1928

2 Each of my two grandfathers in 1928, what do you think about the Jews? My Anschuetz Grandfathers' my mother's father – his Spirit: Prof. Wilhelm Anschuetz, Geheimrat (Honorary Medical State Counsel): "I don't have an opinion about Jews one way or the other.There are lots of good ones around, all over the hospital and the university.Good families,...

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The Decision: "Please send a car to get us out"

 The Decision: "Please send a car to get us out", One Brother to another, Feb 1945 "Please send a car to get us out".In early February 1945, this note was sent to the residence of my grandfather Hans Kolbe.His brother Viktor Kolbe had sent it from Pritzlow, the family estate a few miles west of Stettin (Szczecin), today about 2 miles into Pola...

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Weekly Watch: July 28, 2025

  Week of 28 July 2025 Education & Academic Freedom Federal 'Antisemitism' Task‑Force now wielded to pressure universities into scaling back DEI and altering admissions; Harvard & Columbia remain prime targets.Federal Harvard sues feds over a $2.3 billion funding freeze and threatened loss of international‑student certification, callin...

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