One Postcard at a Time ! We're reaching out from Townsquare Democracy, a grassroots civic campaign that brings neighbors together to defend democracy and the rule of law — one postcard at a time. Our Postcard Project celebrates the courage of judges and lawyers who uphold constitutional principles and human rights in difficult times — and gives the...
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Reports from the Front Line • Bay Area & CA Resistance • How We Can Help ★ FEATURED SPEAKERS ★ Jim Harvey, marine ecologist, professor and researcher on the critical role federal funding plays in advancing health, science, and the economyNeeta Thakur and Claudia Polsky, lead plaintiff and attorney on the UC researchers' case against T...
In 2025, Judge Beryl Howell publicly accused the DOJ of seeking to undermine her by attacking her character and requesting her removal from a case connected to an executive order targeting a law firm. Justice Department Move to Remove Judge Beryl Howell from a Case WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge accused the Justice Department on Wednesday ...
House of South Carolina Judge Criticized by Trump Administration Burns Down Police are investigating a fire that burned down the home of South Carolina Circuit Court judge Diane Goodstein, who had reportedly received death threats for weeks related to her work. "At this time, there is no evidence to indicate the fire was intentionally set," South C...
A federal judge in Massachusetts has sharply rebuked the Trump administration's immigration crackdown on pro-Palestinian college campus activists and invoked his own wife in the process. In a 161-page opinion issued September 30, U.S. District Judge William Young quoted his wife's remark that former President Donald Trump "seems to be winning. He i...
IndivisibleSFNewsletter9/10/25 Postcard Opportunity: GOTV for Pennsylvania's Pro-Democracy Supreme Court Justices This November, Pennsylvania will have a retention election for State Supreme Court Justices David N. Wecht, Christine L. Donohue, and Kevin M. Dougherty. Since Pennsylvania judges are not allowed to campaign for themse...
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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 ...
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...
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...
⚖️ 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...
Protest art featuring authoritarian resistance message.
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...
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 ...
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,...
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...
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...
