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Delete your Facebook account.

While you still can.

#Privacy #Meta #Facebook #DeleteFacebook

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If this actually has legs, I'll be switching away from #Duolingo to #LibreLingo. :flan_awe:

https://librelingo.app/

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one's worth has no relation to how successful they are in a system rigged against them

I swear my autistic gift is accidentally pissing people off & being confused as to why. No amount of self help reading seems to help. It’s always “my fault” & not “hearing the needs”. But the needs are shared indirectly & I miss it. Then they get pissed when I try to be direct to understand. I refuse to be a doormat by putting everyone else’s needs ahead of mine. I can’t help others, if I’m not helping myself. “Put on your oxygen mask, before helping others” ✈️ #actuallyautistic #autism #audhd

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#DOGE Is Just Getting Warmed Up

DOGE has tapped into some of the most sensitive and valuable data in the world. Now it’s starting to put it to work.
#pii #privacy

https://www.wired.com/story/doge-is-just-getting-warmed-up-data-immigration/

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Please read this from Senator Murphy and then urge your elected officials to do everything in their power to bring Kilmar Abrego Garcia home.

Senator Murphy on Bluesky: “Bone chilling. A court ordered Kilmar Abrego Garcia to stay in the United States. The Supreme Court ruled 9-0 that he was illegally removed. Trump is pretending he won the ruling 9-0. 1/ You may not think this case means anything to you. But let me tell you why it does. 2/ Abrego Garcia came to the U.S. over 10 years ago. He married a U.S. citizen and has three U.S. citizen children. But he put in removal proceedings because he didn't apply for asylum in time and because of alleged ties to drug gangs. He denies any gang affiliation.”

Senator Murphy on Bluesky: “3/ You can think whatever you want about the merits of him staying (his U.S. family, his steady job) or being deported (the alleged gang affiliation), there's really only one key fact: A court ruled he CANNOT be deported to El Salvador bc he would face threat of death there. 4/ In the United States, the executive is REQUIRED to follow a court ruling. Trump did not. He put Abrego Garcia on a plane to El Salvador. And worse, despite no allegation of criminal behavior, Abrego Garcia was put in a heinous El Salvador prison.”

Senator Murphy on Bluesky: “5/ Trump's violation of law was so brazen the Supreme Court stepped in. In a rare 9-0 ruling, they said Trump had to bring Abrego Garcia back. But in the video above, you see Trump advisor Miller lying through his teeth and saying Trump won the ruling 9-0. 6/ Trump's people are engaged in nuclear grade gaslighting. They say it's up to El Salvador if they want to send him back. Bullshit. We bring people back all the time when we wrongfully remove them. They could get this guy in a hot second if they wanted to.”

Senator Murphy on Bluesky: “7/ You may not think this case matters to you. But Abrego Garcia was legally in the U.S., just like all the rest of us. His status as an immigrant doesn't matter as a matter of law. If Trump can lock up or remove ANYONE - no matter what the courts say - we are all at grave risk. 8/ This is a watershed moment, as Trump thumbs his nose at a Supreme Court ruling, gaslighting the public by pretending his won 9-0 when he lost 9-0. If we normalize this, there's no end. He can lock up or remove anyone. We will no longer exist in a democracy.”

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In the MAGA imagination, America is simultaneously threatened by outsiders – immigrants, invaders who are “poisoning the blood” of the nation, as Trump has put it – and by the “enemy within.” The core promise of Trumpism is to purge those inherently connected “threats.”

Utterly terrifying.
https://www.threads.net/@aaron.rupar/post/DIby-pap66_

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this is a full-blown constitutional crisis and the mask is off.

the supreme court ordered the government to facilitate the return of a man it wrongfully deported. the administration shrugged. bukele parroted trump's line, calling the return "smuggling a terrorist." they admit it was an error, but won't correct it. this is defiance of the judiciary in broad daylight.

if the executive can ignore a court order by blaming foreign policy, the constitution is dead letter. and if that foreign leader is coordinating the excuse? it's a show trial without the trial.

this isn't about one man. this sets the precedent: the government can disappear someone, ignore due process, then blame someone else for not letting him come back. if they can do that to him, they can do it to anyone.

CECOT is becoming a legal black site. if this stands, the next step is american citizens sent abroad to rot in foreign prisons with no recourse. and trump is already floating that publicly.

this isn't theoretical. this isn't hyperbole. this is the state testing how far it can go. and the answer so far is: as far as it wants.

the courts have no power without enforcement. congress won't act. the people are stunned or paralyzed. but make no mistake, we are past the line. the only question left is what anyone is willing to do about it.

EDIT:

"[they will] need to build 5 more places" - Trump
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https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-administration/president-el-salvador-wont-return-deported-man-kilmar-abrego-garcia-rcna201136

#uspol #fascism #canary

NBC NEWS Headline: President of El Salvador says he won't return mistakenly deported man to U.S. - The Trump administration is also now claiming that Kilmar Abrego Garcia was not deported by mistake, as the Justice Department stated, but was “the right person sent to the right place.”

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If you want to be able to access information from US federal agencies without using Twitter, a true hero has created a mirror on Bluesky. Now my parents and I can get info from Social Security and the VA without using fascist owned social media. https://bsky.app/starter-pack-short/6hGESnZ

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****we are post-constitutional now****

start building real community, where you live. in physical space, not online. learn who lives around you. look them in the eye. check on the vulnerable. check on the quiet ones. this is the time for proximity, not posts.

who's at risk? immigrants. black and brown folks. trans people. poor people. outspoken dissenters. anyone with a record. differently abled. people with drug issues. anyone who ever got flagged by a system. anyone who doesn't fit the image of "real american" they're pushing.

they're testing the edges. the rest of us are next.

Click the images to play the videos with audio in the post. Now that’s proper hacking. #uspol #hacking https://mastodon.social/@jwz/114332459730310958

Build your library now via https://bsky.app/profile/montemader.bsky.social

libgen.rs is a great place to start or llibro.fm

#uspol #library #bannedbooks #books

Just a reminder of why they keep destroying disability rights. “My Uncle Donald Trump Told Me Disabled Americans Like My Son ‘Should Just Die’” #disability https://time.com/7002003/donald-trump-disabled-americans-all-in-the-family/

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If you haven’t done this yet, I highly recommend you install Libation and liberate your audiobooks from Audible.

It’s been a month since I first learned of this fantastic, free, libre, open-source project from u/darchangel (not sure if they’re on the fediverse). And unlike so many other OSS projects this one is dead simple to use, accessible to the less technical, and very well documented.

I was able to download my entire Audible audiobook library, with included documents, in just minutes.

#Libation #OSS #OpenSource #Amazon #Audible #DRM

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And yet Joe Rogan puts guests on who say "Vaccines aren't actually responsible for the reduction in infectious diseases.”

The image is a heatmap titled "Measles," showing measles cases across U.S. states from 1928 to 2003. States listed on the y-axis include Alaska, Arkansas, California, Connecticut, Delaware, Georgia, Iowa, Illinois, Kansas, Louisiana, Maryland, Michigan, Missouri, Montana, North Dakota, New Hampshire, New York, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Utah, Vermont, Wisconsin, and Wyoming. The x-axis spans years from 1928 to 2003. A vertical line marks the introduction of the measles vaccine around 1963. The color scale at the bottom ranges from blue (0 cases) to red (4,000+ cases), with shades of green, yellow, and orange indicating intermediate values (1,000, 2,000, 3,000 cases). Before 1963, many states show frequent high case numbers (yellow to red), while after 1963, cases drop significantly, with mostly blue indicating near-zero cases.

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My wife looked at that and said, "What next? Dig up the graves?"

Don't give them any ideas, Honey!

A Xitter post: "Pete Hegseth removed Colin Powell's name from a list of notable Americans buried at Arlington National Cemetery. Hegseth also removed the names of every person of color and every woman on the same list. Only White men were left in place."

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Privacy isn't just a solo journey. If you care about privacy rights, you must also care for the data of the people around you. Together, we must start building a culture of data privacy where everyone cares for the data of others.

https://www.privacyguides.org/articles/2025/03/10/the-privacy-of-others/

#Privacy #PrivacyCulture #Article #PrivacyGuides

@amerpie Logseq has been great for PDFs. Can also annotate them in plain text side by side with the view panel.

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