Get in my replies with good mutual aid fundraisers and I’ll share them.

if you read enough history you understand that the very best people, following their instincts, tend to make themselves targets in times like these.

Not getting killed by ICE is easy, simply avoid driving a car or holding up your phone anywhere near wherever ICE is operating (everywhere)

Four of the eight Democrats who voted for DHS funding have since condemned the killing of Alex Pretti

Conservatives: “who brings a gun to a protest besides a domestic terrorist”

Also conservatives:

ICE is going to investigate themselves.

This month, ICE...
- killed an unarmed American mom
- admitted to adding people filming them to a database
- had its budget fully re-authorized by Congress

it's never the crazy weird conspiracy theory weapons. they are poisoning you with toxins they are well-documented to have. they are beating you with ordinary sticks and shooting you with ordinary guns

the only conspiracy is how they gained legal immunity to do this

Threat of a Newsom veto killed a California law that would have forced Facebook and Google to pay their fair share to the state's journalists, whose work they profit from. The (bad) compromise was Google would help fund journalism in CA for 5 years. Newsom has apparently killed that, too.

Trump administration admits DOGE may have misused Americans' Social Security data | TechCrunch The revelation comes as part of a series of corrections in a legal case over DOGE’s access to Social Security Administration data.

NEW: Two members of Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) who were working at the Social Security Administration may have shared SSNs to help an advocacy group that had the aim "to overturn election results in certain States," according to a court document.

After the failure of negotiations in Damascus, a general mobilization has begun in Rojava. Youth from northern Kurdistan appear To have crossed the border to join the defence. it feels like 2014 again, complete with horrific executions of SDF prisoners.

You should read this book.

​Newport co-ed cheerleading team is at center of Trump transgender athlete crackdown​Trump admin focuses on swimming, cheerleading in Maine transgender athlete probes The U.S. Department of Education announced a slew of Title IX-related investigations this week that include 2 school districts in Maine.

If anyone was still pretending this isn’t just about excluding trans kids from public life, the Trump administration just opened a Title IX investigation into a Maine school district because a trans student is on a *co-ed* cheerleading squad.

I have been invited to give the keynote speech on combatting authoritarianism at the Japanese-American National Museum's Echoes of History symposium on January 23rd in Los Angeles. You can buy tickets in person or to watch via the Livestream!

www.janm.org/democracy/ev...

I realized That I do not have a pinned post about my book! It can seem like a dark time right now, but if you’d like to learn about how people have built a beautiful life for themselves amidst the horrors of war, you can pre order my book! www.akpress.org/against-the-...

Cop Used Flock to Wrongfully Accuse a Woman Then Refused to Look at Evidence That Exonerated Her, Body Camera Shows "Nothing gets in or out of the town without us knowing about it," the cop told her.

New: I got body camera footage from a case in which a cop used Flock to wrongfully accuse an innocent woman of stealing a package: "Nothing gets in or out of the town without us knowing about it"

www.404media.co/cop-used-flo...

If you're a philanthropist who appreciates this story, give me a small fraction of the money you're already giving bloated nonprofits and I can produce way more

Trump continues to threaten to get involved to stop the killings of protesters in Iran.

I mean he should probably get involved in stopping the killing of protesters in the US first….

ICE just killed someone else in Minneapolis.

fwiw this is the program that the local cops who help ICE use Flock are signed up for

Also, very important reminder in hopes the context here doesn't escape us:

The IWMF have opened their emergency fund for folks reporting in minneapolis. Iwmf.org

You've been targeted by government spyware. Now what? | TechCrunch Tech companies are increasingly warning their customers that they have been targeted by governments with advanced government spyware, such as NSO's Pegasus or Paragon's Graphite. What happens after re...

NEW: Apple, Google, and WhatsApp now regularly notify their users if they suspect they have been targeted or hacked with government spyware, such as that made by NSO Group or Paragon.

We spoke to experts and wrote a guide on what to do, and where to go, if you receive one of those notifications.

What a beautiful way to summarize the past year

Newest drop who this?