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Please read this article to the end. Even before ICE got involved, this started because this *blind man who speaks no English and uses a curtain rod as a walking stick* got lost on a walk and some Karen called the police on him and they tasered and beat him bc he didn’t drop the rod. WTF

This App Warns You if Someone Is Wearing Smart Glasses Nearby The creator of Nearby Glasses made the app after reading 404 Media's coverage of how people are using Meta's Ray-Bans smartglasses to film people without their knowledge or consent. “I consider it to ...

New: this app warns you if someone is wearing smart glasses nearby.

Meta plans to add facial recognition to its Ray-Ban smart glasses. A 404 Media reader made this app after we showed men filming people w/o their consent, and DHS officials were wearing the glasses www.404media.co/this-app-war...

A few simple steps can drastically decrease the amount of personal information that’s available about you online. ssd.eff.org/module/how-...

no amount of medication, therapy, or treatment can fix an intolerable and meaningless life.

YouTube video by The News Movement Why Native Americans aren’t safe from ICE

youtu.be/ZR1UKaF86hk

How to Organize Safely in the Age of Surveillance From threat modeling to encrypted collaboration apps, we’ve collected experts’ tips and tools for safely and effectively building a group—even while being targeted and tracked by the powerful.

“If your (Signal) group has more than 50 people in it, it's not a private space for communication,” EFF’s @evacide told @WIRED. Keep truly sensitive information to the smallest possible groups, or to one-on-one communications. www.wired.com/story/how-to...

YouTube video by OlurinattiPOP! Why Bring It On Was Ahead of Its Time

youtu.be/o1F9qcLgoMo

DHS Opens a Billion-Dollar Tab With Palantir "If you are interested in helping shape and deliver the next chapter of Palantir’s work across DHS, please reach out,” a Palantir executive wrote to employees about the massive purchasing agreement.

"If you are interested in helping shape and deliver the next chapter of Palantir’s work across DHS, please reach out,” a Palantir executive wrote to employees about the massive purchasing agreement. www.wired.com/story/depart...

Black History Month 2026 wisdom I'll be taking into the next year.

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attack on free speech and the freedom of our most oppressed, exploited, and abused class.

ICE Expands Watchlist Effort Meanwhile, homeland's spokesperson is resigning

🚨 ICE is hiring people to work on a "watchlisting team," contracting records show:
www.kenklippenstein.com/p/ice-expand...

"Selling Safety": A Journalist's Guide to Covering Police Technology selling_safety.pdf

Behind police tech's slick marketing is a sprawling, under-scrutinized industry that relies on manufacturing the appearance of effectiveness, not measuring it. EFF partnered with CJJ and IPVM on a new report to help you see through the spin: www.eff.org/document/se...

EFFecting Change: Get the Flock Out of Our City Flock contracts have quietly spread to cities across the country. But Flock ALPR (Automated License Plate Readers) erode civil liberties from the moment they're installed. While officials claim these ...

This Thursday, February 19! 🗓️

"We'll break down the legal implications of the data these systems collect, examine campaigns that have successfully stopped #Flock deployments, and discuss the real-world consequences for people's #privacy and freedom."

#deflock #surveillance #alpr

FBI Counterterrorism Agents Spent Weeks Seeking a Climate Activist — Then Showed Up at His Door The visit suggests a possible FBI probe into Extinction Rebellion NYC as the Trump administration increases surveillance of activist groups.

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more innocent young lives cut short.

there are too many grieving families.

if you truly didn't want pro-palestinians to engage with you, you'd block them upon the first reply. but your continued ideologically empty emotional outbursts only serve as further proof that Zionists only desire to dehumanize those who oppose them.

thank you for the practice.

be well.

we could do without the ad hominem attacks. i am not a Christian.
and they in fact are killed. there are Palestinian Jews who suffer the same fate as Palestinian Christians and Muslims.
not to mention the mistreatment and discrimination against Sephardim in Israel.

scripture doesn't support a return to the land that requires corruption, atrocities, and the killing of indigenous Semitic and Arab peoples. in fact, scripture gives many examples of the Jews who did these things being brought down and scattered by God's will, no matter the strength of the kingdom.

I wouldn't assume what you know or don't know. i was just sharing my conclusions after studying Abrahamic scripture and beliefs for 20+ years.

zionism is incompatible with Abrahamic scripture, history, and values.

Nick Fuentes: “The number one political enemy in America is women. … They have to be imprisoned.”

we're in the hell dimension timeline fs

major conservative influencer wants to imprison women in "breeding gulags"

we do in fact need to fight for our lives and for our daughters'

www.mediamatters.org/nick-fuentes...

YouTube video by Psychology with Dr. Ana Dangerous red flags to NEVER ignore in a person

youtu.be/HEsB2m_oi_Q

CBP Signs Clearview AI Deal to Use Face Recognition for ‘Tactical Targeting’ US Border Patrol intelligence units will gain access to a face recognition tool built on billions of images scraped from the internet.

United States Customs and Border Protection plans to spend $225,000 for a year of access to Clearview AI, a face recognition tool that compares photos against billions of images scraped from the internet.

we need to talk about that Ring Super Bowl ad

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YouTube video by Psychology with Dr. Ana Become outrageously unbothered by petty drama this year

youtu.be/mV62cWB27CI

Here's the video from this excellent webinar in case you weren't able to join live.

The four guest speakers, including reps from @uwchr.bsky.social and @eff.org, all bring valuable insights and advice for organizers. ✅

#deflock #surveillance #alpr #flock #ring