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I know some people don't want to hear this, or act on it, but if we want to save our democracy everyone who cares has to do something, even a little thing, every single day until this nightmare is behind us. Here are a few ideas. racebannon.medium.com/citizen-powe...

submitted 2 days ago • 5 comments

Email Hakeem he’s the House minority leader! Tell him not 1 dem better vote for any cuts or for the rich tax cuts! Say whatever you feel. We got 1 chance at all this & your voice matters just like those ppl that stayed home & didn’t vote! Tell him!!! democraticleader.house.gov/contact

submitted 9 days ago • 9 comments

☎️ Vets in crisis USE THIS LINE 2024 🆘 >7.6M Calls 🆘 360K Texts 🆘 910K Online Chats 🚨I in 3 vets struggle w/mental illness 🚨~18 VETS DIE by SUICIDE DAILY ONE IS TOO MANY! We CAN'T allow vets who served to protect OUR freedoms to DIE at the hands of assholes who NEVER served! #Voices4Victory #BSV

submitted 9 days ago • 43 comments

Back in my day, there was so much toilet paper and so many eggs that we would gather at night and hurl them at the houses of our enemies.

submitted 13 days ago • 4 comments

Signal alone is not enough. If you are an activist, you need a complete self-defense against surveillance. @eff.org has been maintaining these resources for years: ssd.eff.org

submitted 91 days ago • 138 comments

Suddenly, out of nowhere, a declassified World War II-era CIA guide to sabotaging fascism in the workplace has become one of the most popular free ebooks on the internet: www.404media.co/declassified...

submitted 27 days ago • 1272 comments

OpenAI says it has proof that Deepseek used its work without permission to create something meant to undermine and destroy its product. On behalf of all the authors whose novels and stories were taken as training data, oh no that must be so hard for you.

submitted 27 days ago • 339 comments

Ooof. Some - honestly difficult - wisdom.

submitted 35 days ago • 0 comments

1. Did you know that Girl Scouts has, for a long time, accepted trans girls and nonbinary scouts? Trans kids are under attack. Every year, I make a thread of trans and nonbinary girl scouts you can get your cookies from. Lets get our cookies from them this year in solidarity!

submitted 44 days ago • 406 comments

alright, I'm seeing renewed interest in #pixelfed so I figured I'd explain the #fediverse in a way that makes sense to people. with pictures. sit back, it'll be interesting, I promise! 🧵 (note that this isn't about bluesky. they're built different and I don't know enough about how they work)

submitted 43 days ago • 11 comments

Meta has quietly removed major sections of its hate speech policy protecting LGBTQ people, people of color, women, immigrants, and other marginalized groups. Today’s alarming policy changes will allow anti-LGBTQ rhetoric, and cease to protect LGBTQ users from being targeted with such attacks

submitted 49 days ago • 123 comments

Send our boy a Christmas card: Luigi Mangione 52503-511 MDC Brooklyn Metropolitan Detention Center P.O. Box 329002 Brooklyn, NY 11232.

submitted 67 days ago • 47 comments

A kink light evening

submitted 82 days ago • 0 comments

A fun time was had…

submitted 91 days ago • 0 comments

Rainy day has me in a mood

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