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If you're critical of the US government and you are planning to cross the US border any time soon, today is a good day to review EFF's border search pocket guide: www.eff.org/document/eff...
EFF Border Search Pocket Guide
border-pocket-guide-2.pdf
www.eff.org
March 19, 2025 at 7:46 PM
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Also, if anyone wants to make winter warm kits, you can find the info here. It's a decentralized mututal aid project that anyone can take part in wherever they are:

docs.google.com/document/d/1...
#Warm4Holidays2024
#Warm4Holidays Public Library Edition For a few years on Twitter, I used the #Warm4Holidays hashtag to organize crafters to join a New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day challenge. Crafters were invited t...
docs.google.com
February 4, 2025 at 9:06 PM
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Palestine was the test to see what they could do. Not standing in solidarity with Palestinians was not only a major moral and ethical failing it was a strategic mistake that everyone will pay for.
February 2, 2025 at 7:31 PM
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Folks who can’t be out and about, volunteer opportunity:
February 1, 2025 at 8:54 PM
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For #BlackHistoryMonth we're offering 40% OFF Haymarket Books on the Struggle for Black Liberation
40% OFF Haymarket Books on the Struggle for Black Liberation
Black History Month is not only a celebration of the rich history of Black life, politics, culture, and struggle. It is also a reminder to engage every day with that history as we ...
www.haymarketbooks.org
February 1, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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Hello everyone! We have an offer for 300,000 N95 masks, most of which expire at the end of July. 😷

If there are any mutual aid groups interested in these, please DM us your email and we will send you more information.
February 1, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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If you're a journalist downloading CDC data today, please consider filling out this form so we have a centralized guide to who has what. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Downloaded CDC Data And Where To Find It
Journalists and scientists are downloading a bunch of public health data they suspect might be at risk of deletion. Instead of all of us privately reinventing the wheel over and over, what if we share...
docs.google.com
January 31, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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RIP Hind Rajab.

Today is one year on since this little six year old was killed (my daughter's age) - and then so were the two brave medics who came to rescue her, as agreed by the IDF, as she cowered in her family car with her family dead around her.

I will never forget this story.
January 29, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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Funding freeze temporarily blocked by federal judge. Take a deep breath, unclench your jaw, and stretch.
January 28, 2025 at 10:48 PM
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I think some people hear “grants” and think that without them, scientists and government workers just have less stuff to play with at work. But grants fund salaries for students, academics, researchers, and people who work in all areas of public service.

“Pausing” grants means people don’t eat.
White House pauses all federal grants, sparking confusion
The Trump administration has put a hold on all federal financial grants and loans, affecting tens of billions of dollars in payments.
www.washingtonpost.com
January 28, 2025 at 3:03 AM
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"The left is to blame for this genocide"

-people who refused to call it a genocide until noon on january 29 2025
January 27, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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I don't want my appliances to be connected to the internet. I don't want them to have blinky lights or touch screen controls or be accessible by phone. All I want is for them to do the one thing they are supposed to do, and to beep less.

Hear that, manufacturers? Less beeping.
January 27, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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The theatrics of Trump’s first week in power: above all, we will put the coloreds back in their place

We will sow terror, uncertainty, fear, and despair.

It remains to be seen whether Trump will break Biden’s deportation records. But that’s not the point, fear is. This is exemplary violence.
January 27, 2025 at 1:13 AM
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There are lots of good step-by-step guides

EFF's is solid: ssd.eff.org
Digital Defense Fund is excellent specifically for abortion related privacy: digitaldefensefund.org/ddf-guides

Wired has a guide: www.wired.com/2017/12/digi...

But the first step is just committing to yourself to take a step
Surveillance Self-Defense
We’re the Electronic Frontier Foundation, an independent non-profit working to protect online privacy for over thirty years. This is Surveillance Self-Defense: our expert guide to protecting you and y...
ssd.eff.org
January 24, 2025 at 12:10 PM
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we will keep track of all the changes, fight in every way we can, and deepen into our visions. but find your grief practice. so many people are going to suffer and die in so many unnecessary ways in the short term because of the decisions and moves being made. learn to feel your grief as we go.
January 25, 2025 at 5:25 AM
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Y'all, I am simply begging you to start masking up again. We will have no information on the pandemic currently underway AND no information when/if H5N1 makes the jump.

Don't wait for someone from the government to tell you to start protecting yourself because it will be way too late if they do.
With Trump's withdrawal from the U.N. World Health Organization, the U.S. will likely fall behind on public health innovation and disease prevention, putting the country and the world at greater risk to the next pandemic.
Trump’s Exit From WHO Could Make Next Pandemic More Likely — and More Deadly
Global health law professor Lawrence Gostin explains the risks of the US withdrawal from the World Health Organization.
truthout.org
January 23, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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The added bonus of masking up is making things harder for the surveillance state. Win-win
Y'all, I am simply begging you to start masking up again. We will have no information on the pandemic currently underway AND no information when/if H5N1 makes the jump.

Don't wait for someone from the government to tell you to start protecting yourself because it will be way too late if they do.
With Trump's withdrawal from the U.N. World Health Organization, the U.S. will likely fall behind on public health innovation and disease prevention, putting the country and the world at greater risk to the next pandemic.
January 23, 2025 at 8:14 PM
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Fire and ice.

A frozen and partially snow covered slough near Punnichy, #Saskatchewan, Canada shortly before sunrise. A #ThrowbackThursday post from the late 1990s on Fujichrome #Velvia.

#sunrise #winter #ice #snow #cloud #photography
January 23, 2025 at 11:06 AM
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We have been defanged by the idle politeness this society demands, to the point where if you call someone out for doing something bad or selfish, the argument then becomes about you calling them bad or selfish, not the harm they did. Do we see now how that is just abuser culture & leads to fascism?
January 22, 2025 at 11:50 PM
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It actually is very important that you do things that you take pleasure in, regularly. That is part of how you survive the things that feel like they are going to destroy you.
January 23, 2025 at 3:50 AM
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Roads in the west bank blocked, Palestinians from Jerusalem receiving text messages telling them to go back to Jerusalem, mass arrests, and almost 900 checkpoints set up across the territory.
Whats going to happen to the west bank?
January 21, 2025 at 11:44 AM
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Apparently you cannot say/post, “Free Palestine,” on Tik Tok anymore.

The application that aided in people learning about an ongoing ethnic cleansing, genocide, occupation, and was used in courts to showcase Zionism is now somewhere you cannot say a basic for justice phrase of the devastation.
January 20, 2025 at 3:44 PM