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With GOP Candidate Also Overseeing Georgia Elections, 107,000 Voters Purged in Yet Another Suppression Effort

LGBTQ Community and Dissidents Main Targets as Israel Exports High-Tech Spying Tools to Despots Worldwide

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"It's a weapon—like selling a pistol. The thing is that in this industry people think about the technological challenges, not about the implications."

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"Trump is a psychopath. With a lot of followers."

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PEN Sues: It Is Up to Those of Us Who Depend Upon A Free Press To Rise In Defense Of It

Conceding Trump's 1st Amendment right to abuse, demean or even noxiously slam the media as "enemies of the people" but fiercely rejecting his right to use the power of government to "punish and stifle" it, PEN America, representing thousands of writers, is suing him in federal court. The suit seeks to stop any move to "retaliate or threaten reprisals" against news coverage he dislikes - the sort of thing wannabe dictator Trump has repeatedly engaged in, and that the courts have found illegal.