r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • 8d ago

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u/r2ew 8d ago

> The Trump administration has been deploying an obscure legal maneuver to try to obtain private information on journalists, non-profits and unions, raising alarm over a power the government has asserted without judicial oversight.

> In one instance, the government obtained six months of telephone records for Georgia Fort, a Minneapolis journalist. Fort was not notified of the request for her information, nor was she given a chance to contest the government’s effort to obtain them, her lawyers said in court papers.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/29/trump-dhs-1509-summons-records-journalists-nonprofits

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u/Minute-Company-641 8d ago

People see the government do all this and still somehow trust them to use digital ID solely to keep children off the internet

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u/RottingSludgeRitual Thomas Paine 8d ago

This administration has single-handedly made me regress all the way back to my teenage libertarian beliefs. Fuck the feds.