Amy Sample Ward

YouTube video by Taylor Lorenz My Response To Joseph Gordon-Levitt

Joseph Gordon-Levitt made a 12-minute response video to people mad at him supporting mass surveillance and censorship, and somehow got even MORE wrong about Section 230 than his original congressional testimony.

30 countries use mail voting

YouTube video by Evan Greer Evan Greer - "You Will Have to Come Through Us" [Tiny Desk 2026]

I brought an actual desk out into the snow and gathered a bunch of my neighbors to sing this anti-ICE protest song.

On the desk is:

-A mug from the North Dakota AFL-CIO I happened to have in my cabinet, containing two (2) pride flags

-A photo of Anne Feeney

-A sign that reads "Abolish ICE"

Without naming your job, tell me something you say over and over again at work.

"We build our world. We can build it differently."

Thank you! It was such a full room and generous group. My cup is full!

Event flier that reads: Portland Nonprofit Tech Club Meetup Wednesday, February 4 5:00 PM - 6:15 PM Annex @ Taborspace 5441 SE Belmont Street Portland, OR Use lower-level entrance on Belmont or entrance on 54th Ave (with easy ADA access) for direct access to Annex.

Local #PDX area tech + social good friends, there's still time to join us this afternoon to help launch the Portland Nonprofit Tech Club! Come network, help suggest future topics/speakers, and spend some time with good people.

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Thank you @wyden.senate.gov (see thread) - we need everyone joining these efforts. Surveillance tech is fueling violence across our country and communities. Call on your elected leaders to stop it: www.fightforthefuture.org/actions/no-f...

As someone who was a bike commuter for many years and is not anymore, it feels like often in these discussions there's a missing reality of folks (like me, though my experience is not universal) that stopped because we no longer commute and not that we no longer bike. My office is just now my home.

FCC Commissioner Anna M. Gomez issued the following statement after the FCC proposed changes to the Lifeline program that could cause eligible households to lose critical federal support, increasing phone and internet bills for families who stand to lose up to $9.25 per month, and as much as $34.25 per month on Tribal lands.

At a time when millions of families are already struggling with the rising cost of living, the FCC should be focused on making connectivity more affordable.

Instead, it is erecting new barriers that risk raising phone and internet bills for the people who can least afford it. 🧵

Congress Picked a Fight With TikTok When It Should Have Fixed Tech Policy Congress' bipartisan mobilization for the so-called "TikTok ban" was a missed opportunity for American data privacy.

Congress claimed it was passing the "TikTok ban" bill to protect American data privacy, but the results from last week's deal to save the US version of the short-form video app show anything but. Read the latest from @publicknowledge.bsky.social Director of Government Affairs Sara Collins:

DHS Is Lying To You About ICE Shooting a Woman At least four videos show what really happened when ICE shot a woman in Minneapolis on Wednesday. DHS has established itself as an agency that cannot be trusted to live in or present reality.

THREAD: 404 Media has been covering ICE and the technology they've been using to surveil and raid "targets", detain people based on a flawed facial recognition app, and lie about violence on the streets.

They have established itself as an agency that cannot be trusted to live in or present reality.

ICE Asks Companies About ‘Ad Tech and Big Data’ Tools It Could Use in Investigations A new federal filing from ICE demonstrates how commercial tools are increasingly being considered by the government for law enforcement and surveillance.

NEW: ICE is asking companies to provide information about “commercial Big Data and Ad Tech” products that could “directly support investigations activities,” reports @carolinehaskins.bsky.social www.wired.com/story/ice-as...

If you are a techie and not sure what to say, tech is a huge enabler for the violence you are witnessing and you can speak to that.

Here's a calling tool that connects you w/ lawmakers and has a script to follow: fftf.link/ICEfunding

Making change requires all of us trying from the angles we can.

What is it like to stay in a Portland-area homeless shelter? We want to hear from you The Oregonian/OregonLive wants to hear directly from people who have used homeless services what works and what doesn't.

We’re doing a survey of people who have stayed in homeless shelters. No paywall. Please send to anyone you think has something to say! Or like/re-post to increase the likelihood the right people will see it. THANKS
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How local police extend ICE's reach, even in sanctuary cities : Code Switch Sanctuary policies have been described on both sides of the aisle as protecting immigrants. But in many ways, in practice, they have given rise to a specific kind of policing that gives ICE a much wid...

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Gresham family detained by immigration officers while seeking medical care for their 7-year-old The family’s detainment marks the first confirmed detainment of an entire family in Oregon, advocates say.

On Thursday, 7 yr old Diana Crespo suffered a nosebleed that lasted most of the night. The next morning, Diana's parents took her to urgent care at Portland Adventist Health, but they only made it to the parking lot before they were detained by immigration officers.

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When it all feels like too much, I ground myself in the directive to do what I can, with what I have, from where I am.

If all of us did just that, each day, we would all be doing enough to change everything.

"Terrible things are happening outside ... poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart; men, women and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared." — Anne Frank (Jan 13, 1943)

The effort it took to have such a wrong read.

No Funding for ICE Surveillance Tech!

‼️CONGRESS VOTES ON ICE FUNDING TOMORROW‼️
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CALL NOW AND TELL YOUR REPS: NO FUNDING FOR ICE TERROR ‼️‼️

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NTEN and 40+ other orgs demand Congress vote no on funding that fuels surveillance of our communities by ICE, including automated license plate readers, access to data broker databases, spyware, drones, facial recognition, phone snooping and surveillance, and social media and internet use trackers.

The Pizzigati Prize | NTEN Celebrate software developers who create open source technology for good.

So much is hard or scary or awful across tech topics, so please help me uplift one small spot of light!

The Pizzigati Prize provides $10k to support an open source project helping communities and making positive social impact. Applications are open until Feb 2! www.nten.org/change/pizzi...

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Not commenting on the directives they've been given but just the fact that Walz called them in is, to my understanding, essentially because if the state has called them the US can't. More of a "I called dibs" situation.

ICE Is Going on a Surveillance Shopping Spree We need to have a hard look at the surveillance industry. It is a key enabler of vast and untold violations of human rights and civil liberties, and it continues to be used by aspiring autocrats to

ICE surveillance sweeps up activists, organizers, journalists, family members, and entire communities. When the government buys access to location data and online histories, everyone’s rights are at risk. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

Data Brokers Harm Abuse Survivors, We Need a Law to Stop Them Data Brokers Harm Abuse Survivors, We Need a Law to Stop Them

Quick edit- not passed, it’s actually going into effect AND there’s a federal version of this bill you can press lawmakers to support so these protections can be extended NATIONWIDE.

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And can media please stop using the term "nonconsensual deepfakes" - by the very definition, no one is consenting to a deepfake.

Nonprofit Radio for January 5, 2026: 2026 Outlook | Tony Martignetti

Excited to kick off 2026 with @amysampleward.bsky.social and @gtak.bsky.social on #NonprofitRadio! Tune in as they share insights and predictions for the #nonprofit world this year. Don't miss out on what's next! tony.ma/NonprofitRad...

A Website To End All Websites | Henry From Online How to win the war for the soul of the internet, and build the Web We Want.

"Instead of designing and using tools to build a society, our society changes to adapt to the demands of our tools." Over and over again. We can make a different choice. henry.codes/writing/a-we...

Just 0.001% hold three times the wealth of poorest half of humanity, report finds Data from World Inequality Report also showed top 10% of income-earners earn more than the other 90%

The world's richest 0.001% now control 3x as much wealth as the entire bottom half of humanity combined.

56,000 wealthy individuals have more than roughly 4 billion people.

Read that back.

Bad Internet Bills All of the bad internet bills. One website.

TOMORROW: Congress is pushing through a package of bills which include an online ID check mandate that would fence off the internet & kill anonymity online.

Contact committee members that are considering these bills + make your opposition crystal clear using our call tool at
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