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Opt Out October: Daily Tips to Protect Your Privacy and Security Trying to take control of your online privacy can feel like a full-time job. But if you break it up into small tasks and take on one project at a time it makes the process of protecting your privacy

There’s something for everyone in here, from installing Signal to filing a privacy request from a data broker. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

graphic with blue, pink, and white horizontal stripes. reads: Transgender Awareness Week of November 13 - November 19 Day of Remembrance, November 20

The only reason we have to “protect trans people” is because we (cis people) maintain a violent system that makes them unsafe.

Choosing your security and privacy tools is an ongoing process, not a one-time purchase or download. ssd.eff.org/en/module/c...

Flock Safety and Texas Sheriff Claimed License Plate Search Was for a New documents and court records obtained by EFF show that Texas deputies queried Flock Safety's surveillance data in an abortion investigation, contradicting the narrative promoted by the company and

License plate readers were sold as tools for finding stolen cars, but records have shown that they're being used in abortion investigations. States must ban law enforcement from using ALPRs to investigate healthcare decisions and prohibit sharing data across state lines. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

Black-Owned Farms Fill Gaps Left by SNAP Funding Delays From North Carolina to Mississippi, small businesses work to feed their communities while benefits are paused.

From North Carolina to Mississippi, Black-owned farms are filling the gaps left by SNAP funding delays

Please, read this.
I love you Chicago.

Thank you for this

Thank you for speaking up

Here is help:
The Trevor Project US LGBTQ: (866) 488-7386
US Suicide Prevention Lifeline: (800) 273-8255
LGBT US Hotline: (888) 843-4564
Trans Lifeline: (877) 565-8860
US Runaway Safeline: (800-786-2929)
US Domestic Violence Hotline: (800) 799-7233 PLEASE REPOST, THANKS!!!

Donate to URGENT: Disabled elder needs consistent community support!, organized by Friends of Eli Eli (Elizabeth) is a lifelong and beloved movement worker, or… Friends of Eli needs your support for URGENT: Disabled elder needs consistent community support!

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My dear friend @elithunderwood.bsky.social is a “lifelong and beloved movement worker, organizer and writer who has devoted their life to offering so much ongoing care and support to community. Now the pendulum swings, and it's time for community to show up for Eli!”

Photo description: POV looking up at tree canopy. A larger maple with green leaves and smaller maple with autumn yellow leaves. Bright blue sky can be seen through the leaves.

Let us be a sheltering canopy for those who have watered our roots.

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Screenshot description Post by: Martha Figueroa Coach Abed Update: Coach Abeds family remains together and are hopeful that the illegal seige of Palestines access to the Mediterranean ends soon. In the meantime, they are experiencing some difficulties breathing as the air quality is very poor due to the daily bombs. They are currently seeking support for the following and I promised to pass it along: - under garments ($180) - tomatoes ($45) - bag of flour ($600, but $100 has already been collected)

Screenshot from language learning app, showing a cartoon Black person with a yellow hair scarf, yellow shirt, and blue pants. There is a speech bubble with some Arabic words. Above that it says: Translate this sentence Translation below in English: I must eat

I’ve been learning Arabic, and I’m on the section for food.

While I sound out
Falafel
Tabbouleh
Kebab

I think of my friends in Gaza.

I think about how long it has been - and how long it will be - before they, and their children, will eat any of these things.

Please, help if you can.

Photo description: a black butterfly with blue-green markings and white spots along its wings, perched on a purple-pink flower. Background is blurry grass and yellow flowers.

Please enjoy this picture of a Spicebush swallowtail / green-clouded butterfly, Papilio troilus, on Eastern Purple coneflower, Echinacea purpurea, and share this post because my friend needs a kidney.

kidney4naomi.info

The BS asymmetry principle: The amount of energy needed to refute BS is an order of magnitude bigger than that needed to produce it.

Thank you to every science communicator who is doing the almost impossible work of countering misinformation every day. Every single one of you is saving lives!

My beloved friend needs a kidney

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The Washington Post Fired Me — But My Voice Will Not Be Silenced. I spoke out against hatred and violence in America — and it cost me my job.

Some personal news:

I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting.

Thread incoming.

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Image description: a European oil painting in a realistic style. A pale-skinned, nude woman climbs out of a stone well in the corner of a courtyard, her mouth open in a wail. She is looking directly at the viewer. In one hand she holds a scourge (whip). Background shows some greenery on a stone wall, and a pulley system with a rope and bucket.

Truth coming from the well, armed with her whip to chastise humanity.

“La Vérité sortant du puits armée de son martinet pour châtier l'humanité,”
Jean-Léon Gérôme, 1896.

Tribal nations’ flags raised in historic moment at Minnesota State Capitol Flags of the 11 federally recognized tribes in the state were raised for the first time Friday morning at the new Tribal Flag Plaza. Some tribal leaders say the plaza will serve as a reminder that tri...

“The Capitol Mall area gets visited by people from all around the world, and it's a good way to remind them of the land they're standing on and the people who have been here for a thousand years,” said Bruce Savage, chairman of the Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa.

The “problem” with vaccines? They so effective at preventing deaths that they create generations of people that question whether disease was a problem in the first place because they have never experienced the horrors of a world without vaccines.

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YouTube video by The E Pluribus Unum Project 2025 Pluralistic Education Conference

“Learn about Black, Asian American, Latine and LGBTQIA + history, and our history of solidarity in civil rights struggles at our hybrid event.
The in person conference is reserved for educators only, but the virtual conference is open to all.”

#Education #Solidarity

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Mainland Living Native Hawaiians Asked to Contribute to Boarding School Oral History Project - Underscore Native News The National Boarding School Healing Coalition meets with survivors in Portland as part of an ongoing oral history project with the Library of Congress.

As the National Native American Boarding School Healing Coalition (NABS) continues to gather oral testimony from Indian boarding school survivors, Native Hawaiians who live off-island have also been asked to contribute to the oral history project.
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With cellphone cameras and tip lines, D.C. residents find small ways to fight ICE How neighbors and school communities are organizing against the immigration crackdown.

Residents are finding all sorts of ways to fight ICE: They're recording and reporting. They're wheatpasting and sharing know-your-rights materials. And they're stepping up to care for each other, from delivering groceries to walking kids to school. 51st.news/dc-residents...

Photo description: a cart overflowing with a prickly plant with some half-open purple-pink flowers, in an asphalt driveway.

Satisfying. Got rid of some invasive Cirsium vulgare, Bull/Spear Thistle. This thing was as tall as me.

#PlantNative
#NativeHabitatRestoration
#ProtectEcoSystems
#ThisIsStolenLand

Donate to Help Me Overcome Pain and Hardship, organized by Donnie Cianciotto Hi folks, it's me again. Once again, very humbly asking for help. I know this has… Donnie Cianciotto needs your support for Help Me Overcome Pain and Hardship

My friend Donnie needs community support

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Erin In The Morning | Erin Reed | Substack News and discussion on trans legislation and life. Click to read Erin In The Morning, by Erin Reed, a Substack publication with hundreds of thousands of subscribers.

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