Patricia

The growing surveillance state in the U.S. is far worse than you imagined Through legal loopholes, executive orders, and shady contracts, the Trump administration crushes safeguards protecting against surveillance

prismreports.org/2025/07/10/s... This administration is rapidly consolidating a surveillance state with diminished privacy rights and due process, ensuring that all our sensitive information can be used against us @protectdemocracy.org ‪‬ @eff.org ‬ @cdt.org @pogo.org @georgetownprivacy.bsky.social

Congrats to you! I'm a little late, but I hope you know that I'm really happy for you.

Really cool!

They say it to avoid algorithms flagging them.

Do these folks have anything at all to do with the Fellowship Foundation? It really feels like they took notes from that group and are using similar tactics from the sound of it.

I feel like this is good practice to work as groups. We'll need more than this, but I feel good about contributing to this effort.

I don't honestly know what I would have done, and hopefully this is so rare a situation that I never have to find out.

They literally said, "You are a meaningless little girl."

Democratic response in that county:
www.facebook.com/watch/?mibex...

UPDATE on town hall chaos: Woman who was dragged out speaks, police chief condemns security, name of security firm confirmed A legislative town hall organized by the Kootenai County Republican Central Committee devolved into chaos Saturday when unidentified, plainclothes security personnel dragged a Post Falls woman from th...

This kind of shit shouldn't be able to stand. I notice folks took video of these events, but didn't help this woman with the physical assault she endured. We have to be willing to get involved and help each other.

cdapress.com/news/2025/fe...

*Minor inconvenience.*

"Well, you know the rule. You can't have anything."

Rhys in the flower jacket is epic.

You look so super cute in these pics! Happy Birthday!

Ugh...sorry for the sickness in your household. I hope you all feel better soon!

Supreme Connections: Search Supreme Court Disclosures — ProPublica Search Supreme Court financial disclosures for organizations and people that have paid justices, reimbursed them for travel, given them gifts and more.

Propublica is just excellent when it comes to helpful tools that uncover information. Here is one that tells you who is giving money to Supreme Court Justices.

projects.propublica.org/supreme-conn...

Tell Congress to prioritize our care!

Another fast track way to tell Congress that you don't want cuts to medicaid.

go.caringacross.org/a/congress-p...

Democracy is Crumbling. Is Anybody Doing Anything? Yes. And You Can Too.

“I have come to wonder whether these expressions of despair and surrender are really masking an irrational longing for a magical way out of this nightmare - a hope that some deus ex machina will swoop down and spare us what we are facing.”

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I do, indeed.

Medicaid is Under Attack! Tell Your Elected Officials “Hands Off Our Medicaid!” - DREDF Disability Rights Education & Defense Fund

Elected officials in Washington, D.C., are talking about cutting Medicaid.

dredf.org/hands-off-ou...

Texas v. Becerra: What it is and How You Can Help Stop the Attack on Section 504 - DREDF Disability Rights Education & Defense Fund

Section 504 is an important law that protects people with disabilities. Section 504 says you can’t discriminate against disabled people if you get money from the United States government.

That is being challenged.

dredf.org/protect-504/

Did Willie 'Whoopass' Johnson Hit a Klansman? The details behind this image are still a bit unclear.

The name itself and the erasure of black resistance is an issue. I can't really feel like folks who started spreading this initially were anti-racists.

I'm seeing a lot of stuff meant to appeal to progressives so they will repost, but is fake/misrepresented.

www.snopes.com/fact-check/w...

This feels like quite good news.

You can go directly to it here:
bookshop.org/ebooks

Watch the Webinar: Medicaid Advocacy in 2025 Learn about the growing concern of potential cuts to Medicaid and what you can do to help protect it.

If you want to protect Medicaid, here is a discussion of what is happening and what you can do:

thearc.org/resource/cal...

Proof positive that I have found the right Rob. hah

DuckDuckGo - Your protection, our priority. The Internet privacy company that empowers you to seamlessly take control of your personal information online, without any tradeoffs.

My very favorite browser and search engine is DuckDuckGo. I change up what I use, but you actually have functional searches on that site.

duckduckgo.com

Tools from EFF's Tech Team EFF’s team of technologists and computer scientists engineers solutions to the problems of sneaky tracking, inconsistent encryption, and more. Where users face threats to their privacy and security on...

Anyone that knows me has heard of @eff.org before, because I go on about them a lot (in a positive way).

If you want to read some useful things about Surveillance Self-Defense, it has some great stuff.
www.eff.org/pages/tools

Find Out Why Health Insurance Denied Your Claim You likely have the right to access records that explain why your insurer denied your claim or prior authorization request. Use ProPublica’s free tool to generate a letter requesting your claim file f...

I've been referring a lot of folks to this @propublica.org tool called Claim File Helper. It helps you to start the process of challenging a denial from your health insurance.
projects.propublica.org/claimfile/fo...

Find Out Why Health Insurance Denied Your Claim You likely have the right to access records that explain why your insurer denied your claim or prior authorization request. Use ProPublica’s free tool to generate a letter requesting your claim file f...

I don't know if this will be helpful, but I've used this site to go through the steps to challenge weird bills before.

projects.propublica.org/claimfile/fo...

Pixelfed - Decentralized social media Learn more about Pixelfed, the free and open-source decentralized photo sharing social media platform

I don't really use Instagram. I have an account, but don't look at it often and post nothing. Anyway, my partner made me aware of a federated alternative called Pixelfed. It seems that it may be a good alternative, if you are looking to replace Insta.

pixelfed.org

Mad at Meta? Don't Let Them Collect and Monetize Your Personal Data If you’re fed up with Meta right now, you’re not alone. Meta tracks you across millions of websites and apps and its business model relies on your data. If you want to limit Meta’s ability to collect ...

For the folks trying to leave Meta. It is not just as easy as not posting there or leaving.

www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...

I just woke up from a dream with you in it. You were making a huge sunflower and putting it in your studio. I watched you do that as Aurora and Orion purred and loved on me. (They are both gone, and yet in the dream they were young and happy.) I'll be thinking of you and sunflowers today.