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The ACLU has increasingly become exactly what he seeks to avoid.

https://reason.com/2022/08/31/the-student-loan-debate-shows-...

I would support a truly civil-liberties-only ACLU, but not what they currently are.

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Thanks for posting this, I was not aware how far they've strayed off civil liberties.

Have not investigated this, but pg [0] seems to thumbs down ACLU and thumbs up FIRE:

[0] https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1533824076896260098

FIRE is primarily funded by conservative and libertarian foundations and pg (much like most VCs) is libertarian. I'm not saying this to dunk on them, but it's unsurprising that pg would tend towards FIRE over ACLU, which is funded by slightly more progressive libertarian foundations (unless you consider George Soros a leftist).

>> a truly civil-liberties-only ACLU

Take a look at FIRE, https://www.thefire.org.

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