We have a lot of new followers. Posting this again. open.substack.com/pub/shutdown...

Please read comments on this post. @carrigalpin.bsky.social rightfully called us out for our imprecise language. She is a doctor who cares for the poor and her comments are passionate and couldn’t be better articulated. We will keep striving to be more careful with our word choice.

Do people understand that insurance is pooling risk? That we pay in knowing we may never financially benefit? That healthcare is a bastard insurance? That we don’t pool our risk with all Blue Cross customers, but only fellow employees? That on ACA we pool our risk with no one?

Don’t forget.

Airlines charge you more for a last minute ticket if you received an email about funeral arrangements. You read that right. Opt out. Unsubscribe. Use cash. Use a VPN. Build a privacy stack. And contact lawmakers about ending surveillance pricing. go.bsky.app/redirect?u=h...

Who’s in? We are.

@generalstrikeus.bsky.social The momentum

ICE is running ads on Spotify. Boycott. Opt out. Unsubscribe.

We showed up in deep red Southeast, New England, Texas and the Rockies. We brought people who had never been to a protest before. This big guy misted up and wiped away tears because bc it was inspiring. And I felt community. Take a few days to take it in. And let’s get back to work.

Taking time to get outside and recenter can mean our account loses priority in the algorithm. Please visit our account page and like and repost. In the meantime, I took out 15 minutes each night to write down what has inspired me, made me laugh and has kept me going. Thank God for puffy frogs!

Opt the fuck out. Unsubscribe. Stop playing their game.

This is a little glimmer of hope. We have been encouraging people to opt out. Here is another reason why. Price fixing. The algorithms are killing democracy and any frail semblance of a ghost of a free market we pretend to have lived in.

We have a lot of new followers. Posting this again. open.substack.com/pub/shutdown...

General strike? Simple answer: maybe. open.substack.com/pub/psychope...

Big Tech's embrace of President Trump has left many of us wondering: What the hell happened to Silicon Valley? In our new politics issue, we're getting into it. Also, we're taking this cover across the US in billboards, posters and a mural. Clues to find us in the 🧵: www.wired.com/politics-iss...

The Jimmy Kimmel saga confirms that the only language these asshats understand is money. Boycotts work. It’s time to prepare. Learn how to build a privacy stack and the more ethical platforms to use. And when a General Strike is called, you’ll be ready to help others join. Organize.

Some people have been asking about boycotting streaming services and our thoughts on streaming companies in general. We don’t believe in purity tests. “Greener than thou” environmentalism stalled the movement. Not optimal, but batch processing streaming works. Suspend all but one. Watch one. Switch.

In April 2025, Oracle quietly confirmed a breach in its cloud infrastructure that exposed millions of authentication records, including API keys and hashed passwords. The disclosure came only after a lawsuit accused the company of covering up the breach for months. (1) continued in comments .

Reposting to support people building a privacy stack.

One ring to rule them all. Reminder: opt out.

Upset about Jimmy Kimmel? We all are. Now, punch them where it hurts. How to Opt-Out, and Why? substack.com/@shutdowntyr...

They slash school budgets while handing billionaires tax breaks. They gut teachers and programs, even cutting services for blind and deaf students, then blame kids for “falling behind.” Call it what it is 📢 #GOPCutsKillEducation

No matter how frustrating, inconvenient, time consuming…organize for the resistance. Start where people are. What do we do? We start with people’s underlying discomfort about the creepy reach of Big Tech. Offer some examples of the surveillance economy and show them how to begin opting out. HELP US!

@shutdowntyranny.bsky.social @generalstrikeus.bsky.social Imagine if millions of us opt out, unsubscribe, boycott and strike. We can shut this shit show down. #eattherich #generalstrike @aoc.bsky.social @adamkinzinger.substack.com @thebulwark.com @indivisible.org (start making a coalition asshats)

We are all writing Substacks analyzing how we got here. We know. A minority group co-opted everything to rule the world and crush the rest of us. Guiding principle is a never ending want for more. Now what? Let’s focus less on analysis and more on how to starve the oligarchy and ensure elections.

This is a land grab. Plain and simple. Their guiding principle is a never ending want for more. They want everything and claim we’re envious of what they have stolen from us.

The company’s “Gotham” platform enables law enforcement to connect vast datasets, creating detailed profiles of individuals by combining everything from DMV records to social media activity. Keep reading and you’ll question whether deals with the devil are real. fortune.com/2025/09/02/p...

Please opting out. Social media could spell the end of the resistance if we don’t manage our privacy. Build intentional online groups on Signal. The Big Three of the surveillance economy—Facebook + Google + Amazon—are able to track, profile and manipulate you. We need you. Opt out.

Unsubscribe. Opt out. @shutdowntyranny.bsky.social

Craven. The word we have all been looking for is craven.

CBP is procuring advanced digital forensics tools with multiple contracts from Cellebrite able to process data from devices and help border agents. One example is “searching a list of text messages to find patterns or ‘hidden language’ in suspect communications www.wired.com/story/phone-...

Waiting to opt out until someone calls a strike or announces the beginng of “economic nonparticipation” is almost obeying in advance. You need nobody’s permission to opt out, unsubscribe and begin to starve the oligarchy of your time, money and attention. Let’s fuck the algorithms. Migrate now.

It’s time to starve them. Who still has Meta accounts? My life has certainly been more peaceful without them

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Trumps building his personal Temu Praetorian guard. Smh

No agency insignia at all on their uniforms, so this is likely not DEA or ATF or FBI or Border Patrol. So probably it’s DHS, most likely ICE. And yeah, the comment about “liberal” is really telling. These guys are wildly unprofessional.

These types of borrowing catalogs (tools, board games, cameras, cookware, prom dresses, etc) are an incredible example of mutual aid using a preexisting system…the public library. No need to reinvent the wheel. Fundraise, gather donations and….GO!

Yo! Are people beginning to see the need to opt out, unsubscribe and shut down the tyranny? The oligarchs will bend if we refuse to support them with OUR money. It’s past time. Indivisible is calling it “strategic non participation.” Ok. @generalstrikeus.bsky.social says STRIKE! We say shut it down

A piece of good news.

In Birmingham, AL a group of us got together to eat lunch and loudly and unabashedly speak our hearts and minds about fascism. A few fuckers tried to stare us down. Guess who looked away first. Hint: it wasn’t me. Here’s my welcome to the resistance gift bag. Let’s get going.

Now the @washingtonpost is a shameless platform for inaccurate press releases by the Trump administration. I have lived in DC with 4 kids for years and this is just codswallop. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

The self-dealing rot. It’s like the whole damned country has termites. We’re going to have to pull up the baseboards www.propublica.org/article/texa...

Fascism is here. We are not “getting closer” or “in danger of.” This matters because it frames our discussion: We aren’t trying to prevent it, we’re trying to defeat it. It’s not taking over our institutions, it’s taken them over. Otherwise, we’re always behind, fighting a past we’ve already lost.

Fact checked as ✅ true. This is why we must focus on the reluctant and disillusioned voters. We aren’t going to change hearts and minds any time soon. www.snopes.com/fact-check/t...