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Daniel McGowan is now serving the last six months of his seven-year sentence for an environmentally motivated arson at a halfway house in Brooklyn. The Bureau of Prisons has retaliated against McGowan for writing constitutionally protected political blogs by placing him in a special prison unit and then after he was released, re-imprisoned him when he exercised his free speech rights by writing an article complaining about it. Kafka is twirling in his grave.

“In the popular television series Stranger Things, the ‘upside down’ describes a parallel dimension containing a distorted version of our world,” Judge Walker wrote. “Recently, Florida has seemed like a First Amendment upside down.”

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Around 1987, Sagan gave an uncannily prescient lecture to the Illinois state chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union.

States battle over abortion rights, and the Amazonization of work

Technocrats and far rightists on the move

Tariq Ali on the Ukraine mess and the UK peace movement, and labor news from all over

A dress rehearsal for fascism, or did we just miss the opening credits?