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Hardcoded credentials in the Signal archiving tool used by the White House is a five-alarm security dumpster fire.

A Somerville, MA resident sends along this image of all the people who turned out for an emergency rally today for Romeysa Ozturk, the Tufts University PhD international student who was essentially abducted by ICE yesterday.

Thousands came "on six hours' notice."

If information design includes both infographic and data viz, then yes.

Hands Off! Donald Trump and Elon Musk think this country belongs to them. They're taking everything they can get their hands on and daring the world to stop them. On Saturday, April 5th, we're taking to the…

What you can do — our own annalovesvoting.bsky.social shares her rec:

"The pro-democracy movement is coming together on April 5 to protest against the Trump / Elon power grab. There are dozens of events planned in just about every state — make a plan to make your voice heard!"

The Underlying Problem This is happening because some people are too rich.

"The closest thing there is to a magical solution for our predicament would be: Erase three zeros from the net worth of every multibillionaire in this country. " www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/the-underl...

My local city government, local mutual aid networks, and people showing up in the tens of thousands to rallies.

What is giving you hope right now?

Stick it to the Fascists Help wake up the masses. Request your stickers below. Donate to help if you can.

Call to action ---

We have currently sent stickers out to 48 different states. This is phenomenal progress for a movement that began only three weeks ago. We would like to make a push to finish up the last 2 today.
We need:
SD, WY
stickittofascists.com

Realtime Fascism | Tracking Fascist Trends in the US Realtime Fascism is an automated system that tracks and analyzes news headlines against historically confirmed steps toward fascism in the United States. See the data in real-time.

This might be too much information as a first link, but it takes features of fascism and matches specific news articles to them? Not sure who is behind it, just saw someone share it on here:
www.realtimefascism.com

Visitation Network — Freedom for Immigrants

If you find this deplorable, you can do something about it: across the country there are groups who visit, witness, and advocated for people detained by ICE. They constantly need volunteers. You don't need to be a lawyer.

There are people counting on you to either panic or become so apathetic that you turn away completely & isolate.

That’s why the best thing you can do is to stay clear headed.
Focus on the facts.
Listen to experts.
Find what you can do.
See where you can help.
Build community.

This is how we win.

Charging into the weekend, time for a list.

5 ways to #Resist and #Recover:

1) meet up with friends at a protest. Go have a beverage afterwards.

2) do something that makes an immediate difference. Support people you know, share information to those who can promote it (FWS, DM me!), postcards.

The Big List of Protests The BLOP hosts a large and detailed list of upcoming protest events submitted by users across the United States.

Libraries of resources

theblop.org/index.html

www.nonviolent-conflict.org/resource-lib...

www.aeinstein.org/self-liberat...

docs.google.com/document/d/1...

libcom.org/collections

www.cawshinythings.com/take-one-ste...

bigthink.com/the-present/...

www.popularmechanics.com/search/?q=Pr...

Once I got the DIRTIEST look during a conference panel when a facilities manager asked me if technology gave me hope for the future. I said ramps are older than old and we still can’t get those put in, so no, it doesn’t.

Tech is only as good as the people doling it out.

Tesla is hanging by a thread. With collapse in resale market they are toast.

It’s Wednesday:

Let’s stay engaged to #Resist.

What will you do today to:

1) take specific action to uphold our Constitution and rule of law?

2) to take care of yourself and others being hurt by this Administration?

PLEASE REPLY— let’s motivate each other:

Thanks to all of you, the house Democrats put the second episode of democratic daily download on Bluesky! This is only their second post on this account, we got them to start using it!

Emails Reveal Top IRS Lawyer Warned Trump Firings Were a “Fraud” on the Courts The Trump administration cited “performance” failures to justify its mass firing of IRS workers. But this claim was “false,” a senior agency attorney warned officials, because the administration had n...

You will see a lot of this in the coming months. For many federal employees, an important act of resistance has been to write emails documenting points or transcribing verbal communications in the hopes it'll be revealed later in litigation, leaks or FOIA www.propublica.org/article/trum...

This is a fantastic point -- I think it better describes why I'm emphatically opposed to LLMs replacing front line government staff. The problems you could run into at a field office for almost any service can get *weird* and it's super easy for an LLM to mess it up. #civictech

I'm helping organize nationwide #HandsOffUSPS teach-in events in late April/early May (exact date tbd very soon). We will need folks to #volunteer to host an event in their neighborhood/community. Resources will be provided - we just need people to spread the word & step up to host! Stay tuned! 💌📬

California Ghost Guns, Stolen Guns, and More Data on ghost guns, unserialized guns and serialized guns recovered by law enforcement in California, as well as data on lost and stolen guns.

California! I have just updated the Gun Violence Data Hub's dataset on lost and stolen guns in the state.

We also have never-before-released info on the number of ghost guns recovered by agency. Check it out ⬇️ datahub.thetrace.org/dataset/cali...

Thank you! @albeccia.bsky.social for submitting this!

The Big List of Protests The BLOP hosts a large and detailed list of upcoming protest events submitted by users across the United States.

List of protests nationwide

theblop.org

Secrecy gives the government control. FOIA can restore the power imbalance • Michigan Advance Excessive government secrecy takes many forms, including denying or ignoring FOIA requests and deleting data from websites. These tactics prevent the public from meaningfully participating in self-gov...

Sunshine Week reminds us that the federal Freedom of Information Act is our best tool to counter "excessive secrecy and hold officials accountable," writes @laurenleharper.bsky.social.

"But FOIA is in trouble, and we need congressional help to fix it."

I don't personally do this, but I see my colleagues do it in real time when we are all looking at the same agenda google doc during a meeting.