The way that encrypted chat apps handle backups can be a loophole, so knowing how they work—and how those you communicate with use this feature—is very important. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

Read this thread. This is what @katmabu.bsky.social was protesting, and why she repeatedly says getting beaten up by ICE outside is nothing compared to the torture and crimes being committed inside Broadview. These thugs must be held to account.

The media is about to blitz us with stories about how awful Maduro is and I want you to remember that even if they're all true, they are being issued solely for the purpose of manufacturing consent for invading Venezuela and killing innocent people.

Israel’s top military lawyer has resigned after taking responsibility for the leak of a horrific video showing the sexual abuse of a Palestinian prisoner by Israeli guards, after the military launched a investigation into the leak this week.

In addition to L.A. food banks, pantries, community fridges, and other food donation programs, we see free Cambodian chicken rice porridge, kids goodie bags, and a program that allows you to buy a meal for someone at a growing chain. The full story: lataco.com/free-food-la... By Hadley Tomicki

NEW: ICE is planning to build a shadow deportation network in Texas. A proposal outlines a 24/7 transport operation run by armed contractors—turning Texas into the logistical backbone of an industrialized deportation machine. My latest @wired.com: www.wired.com/story/ice-is...

"UN refugee agency official Jacqueline Wilma Parlevliet said that the new arrivals told stories of widespread ethnic and politically motivated killings, including reports of people with disabilities shot dead because they were unable to flee" this keeps getting worse www.ctvnews.ca/world/articl...

EFF urges governments not to sign the UN Cybercrime Convention. “It creates expansive cross-border surveillance and data sharing channels without enforceable human-rights safeguards and applies far beyond cybercrime,” Katitza Rodriguez told SC Magazine. www.scworld.com/news/us-abs...

Quite a world when a federal judge has to call in a federal official to specifically tell him he can't use tear gas on children in Halloween costumes

An understated reason figures like Newsom are so dangerous is because what really advances the most violently reactionary parts of the American state aren't just the openly far-right rulers, it's their successors entrenching what they did. Newsom types aren't an end to fascism but its completion. 🧵

Dude, I post like this because I'm *not* a fucking senator. You have power. Use it!

Both Windows and Mac computers include a free way to encrypt your entire storage drive. You should turn it on, if you haven't already. ssd.eff.org/module/how-...

Reminder that the US under both R and D administrations sent billions of dollars in weapons to Saudi Arabia, including illegal cluster munitions, to kill Yemeni kids. And the US, under both R and D administrations, is still sending billions of dollars in weapons for the UAE to do genocide in Sudan

Hey. Random question: Why are more folks saying "comfortability" when they mean "comfort?" "Comfort" is the feeling. "Comfortability" should be about the ability to provide comfort or the ability to be comforted.

New, from me: Trump's 3 step plan to create a military omniforce 1. Purge - those deemed disloyal 2. Merge - different parts of law enforcement/military 3. Surge - impose the omniforce on Dem cities; instigate unrest; assert dominance; silence dissent donmoynihan.substack.com/p/purge-merg...

we need to abolish this shit

This is why neither the companies profiting from a technology nor the agencies deploying it can be trusted to tell the full story about how it's being used. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

"Rafa" is a Merced county farm worker. He does 2 shifts in 2 different jobs as rent is so expensive. He harvests tomatoes in the am. Then he sorts sweet potatoes under a hot sun - working 13 hours total. He worries about driving home because of lack of sleep. #WeFeedYou

85 percent of Khan Younis flattened by Israeli attacks - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/85-percent-khan-younis-flattened-israeli-attacks

In a new paper, we provide fresh evidence on the macroeconomic effects of public investment in 27 EU member states. We find that public investment has favorable effects on output and unemployment; doesn't crowd out private investment; and doesn't jeopardise debt sustainability.

Something you should not need to be told: * You cannot trust the people in power to tell you how to protest "the right way." If you *actually* do it right, they won't be in power. Hence, their "right way" is not in your interests.

Fascists win because liberal shitbags like Newsom abandon liberal values.

Y'all who keep lecturing protesters to "not give them an excuse" need to pause for a minute. Imagine yourself telling a DV victim, "Be sure not to mouth off or make any mistakes so he won't hit you. Don't give him an excuse! It's what he wants!" That's what you fools sound like.

It's a shame when a politician tricks hopeful journalists into writing and sharing puff pieces. Mayor Thompson sided with ICE the very next day, as reported by a different journalist.

Under the Third Reich, most Germans generally lived in the law-bound normative state, while Jews and other disfavored people were victims of the arbitrary and violent prerogative state. The dual state is characterized by the facade of normalcy obscuring the fact of an authoritarian state.

You've got it backwards. NYT Company's Board is not liberal, and they are not trying to be fair about their coverage. They target their liberal readers with content that shifts the Overton Window further right. Old media is not on your side. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New...

Weird thing where people say “no one could have predicted it” when really what they mean is their political commitments and orientation were such that they ignored everyone who was predicting it Sorry but “no one could have“ and you having your head stuck up your ass are two different situations

With so few journalists left alive, US-backed Israel's genocidal slaughter of civilians gets less coverage, as was the plan.

Bad news feels inescapable. There’s a lot of it, it goes viral, and things are getting worse. But resistance is also everywhere, and it doesn’t get the same attention. We need to share mass resistance, to inspire hope and so that more and more people join in. www.jphilll.com/p/resistance...

This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram. Community action works. Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...

It’s true that sometimes the law holds back Trump and affords us some semblance of safety. But the more we lean into the law as our shield, the more powerful it will become as a sword when Trump changes it in his favor and wields it against us. Only mass antifascism, legal or not, can save us.

““They dragged little Greta [Thunberg] by her hair before our eyes, beat her, and forced her to kiss the Israeli flag. They did everything imaginable to her, as a warning to others,” the Turkish activist ErsinÇelik, a participant in the Sumud flotilla, told Anadolu news agency.”+

I visited the apartment building ICE raided on Tuesday today. Story to come, but you can walk right in. Half of the apartments have no doors on them. Children's stuff abandoned in some flats. *Citizen* residents told me they were arrested and held for hours in zipties. This is America

important for us in the US to note: even a solidly right wing government can't ignore this.

Plain clothes, no warrant. This isn't an arrest. "Arrest" is when there's a legal process. This is assault and kidnapping of a US citizen by a federal agent.

The lesson of history is that tyrants cannot be appeased. Appeasement only feeds their insatiable hunger for power. Tyrants prey on people who feel unsafe and vulnerable. But without mass submission, a tyrant is powerless.

Dam been writing a book about this and she just TikToked it in 90 seconds.

Only 27% of Democrats in Congress have enough spine to fight fascism. The rest need to be replaced immediately.

“It is troubling that corporate interests are spying on activists who are trying to protect the public from the actions of these corporations,” EFF’s Adam Schwartz told @DeSmog.com; big businesses have been known to share such intel with law enforcement. www.desmog.com/2025/09/19/...

ICE continues to assault us. We are peacefully protesting. They are kidnapping and hurting us.

Some personal news: I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting. Thread incoming. substack.com/@karenattiah...

What's being "protected" is not "free speech" but rather the RIGHT for white men to be white supremacists in public without any criticism or any consequences. I hope that's clear.

This isn't Republicans vs Democrats. This is regular people vs power. Political violence is a tool that the powerful reserve exclusively for themselves to use against regular people, so they only condemn it when one of us kills one of them. Fuck the ruling class. Fuck their condemnations.

I have no idea what white people are talking about right now. The warnings that the fascists will "use this" to do more violence. WHAT WON'T THEY USE? You've watched them deploy the US military on US soil using bullshit pretexts. What even are you talking about?

There's a rather crude joke about carrying ID in the third reich. It roughly goes "Papers please." When you hand them over, the cop/soldier throws them into the trash, and drags you to the camps for not having any papers. Point is, they do not care about any rules, and they will lie to hurt you.

"Don't fight back, they'll use it as justification t-" Anyone saying this is being actively harmful. Fascists don't need your help making accusations. They will attack you completely unprompted. Fight back. Don't obey in advance.

Speaking of despicable violence, Obama was the first American president to drone strike an American citizen, a 16yo boy. You only condemn violence when the people use it against power, and never when your ilk uses it against us.

He said this shit by choice, thinking it was a good idea. Nobody held a gun to his head, but they might now.

The commenters are correct to chastise this opinion. Fascist violence against the poor and minorities was already the norm. It was already escalating. You are living in a fantasy world if your plan was to wait it out while 350,000,000 Americans acted with perfect civility in the face of violence.