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Hardening your device is what security professionals call OPSEC, Operational Security, but here, we also define it as community care.

Protecting your digital footprint is an act of solidarity that keeps your friends, family, and organizers safe from being “stitched together” into a map of movement activity. You don’t need to be a hacker to be safe. You just need to raise the “cost” of watching you so high that surveillance systems look for an easier target. You don’t have to disappear, you just have to stop making it easy for them.

Phones are tracking devices by design. However, you can take back control without throwing your phone in a lake. This guide walks through the essential “locks” for your device like strong passcodes, revoking app permissions, and using encrypted messaging for safer organizing.

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I’ve been following bunker stories ever since Douglas Rushkoff wrote about them. Soon after, someone sent me a 2017 article from The New Yorker that revealed the secret bunker culture of bankers and hedge fund managers. They really do get together over tapas and brag about their doomsday plans.

A wide range of Democratic voices are in the process of shaping new political language to move their party, and the country, forward.

From immigration detention to voter restrictions to Bible passages in public schools, the old order is not proving strength. It is confessin

I wrote that conservatism does not rise because it is correct…it rises only because it is afraid. Every time the world changes shape, the old order reanimates, drapes itself in duty, sanctity, nostalgia, family, nation, law, and God, then pretends the costume is a skeleton.

A federal judge has halted President Donald Trump’s executive order that sought to create a federal voter list and limit who can receive a m

A federal judge halted Trump’s executive order seeking to create a federal voter list and restrict mail-ballot access, siding with nearly two dozen states and the District of Columbia. The ruling is very important because the order reached toward the machinery of counting itself. Voter rolls, mail delivery, citizenship lists, eligibility screens, federal agencies, all of that bureaucratic machinery can sound dull until someone realizes dull tools are still tools.

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Ford has rehired hundreds of senior engineers after replacing them with AI backfired and has cost the company billions of dollars.

AI adoption is blamed for Ford being the most recalled automaker in the U.S. with 51 recalls covering over 11 million vehicles in the first half of 2026 alone.

(via Gulliver's Travels: The Broligarchy - by SJStone)

And suddenly I wonder if there’s a bottom to this land, if all of life here is about falling. Because that’s how nightmares work. You never go up. You never find a staircase to sunlight, a clean lobby, a working door with an exit sign and a polite employee saying, “We’re sorry for the inconvenience, Miss Gulliver, your civilization appears to have collapsed while you were browsing clearance handbags.”

Destroying the patriarchy from the inside like a virus. Gulliver’s Travels: The Broligarchy -- a dystopian serial novel for right fucking now.

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Most people know data centers are becoming an increasing problem via their fresh water consumption and there are many suggestions for their true purpose but I want to bring attention to possibly the bigger picture here.

The Heritage Foundation.

They discuss water in three parts.

1. They argue water should be priced based on supply and demand

2. Private companies operating water and wastewater systems, making the pipes, treatment plants, and operations subject to private ownership (even if water is still "public"). Public systems remain but funding, control, and decision-making increasingly align with financial incentives and large-scale investors.

3. Less federal regulation over the water supply through more local, private avenues.

Now pair that with Trumps recent interview, in which he referenced water resources and suggested that major wealth could be generated through water-related systems and infrastructure. Add to that, Blackrocks substantial investment in USWR (stock) and the hairs on the back of my neck are standing up. But now, let me talk about the data centers and what I believe their purpose is.

These enormous data centers "connect" to this water privatization agenda by allowing water demand to become anchored to industrial demand. Data centers sign long term contracts with utilities that require guaranteed water and electrical access and who can also justify expansion because of their already enormous scale. This makes it incredibly easy and "Justifiable" to shift water demand towards industrial need over common household demand.

When these monstrous facilities move into a region, local governments often have to expand their infrastructure to accomodate and most times, the funding for that project comes from private investors and thats where companies like Black rock come in......owning the "equipment" required for local infrastructure without ever "owning" the water itself.

These data centers will cause a water shortage and scarcity changes how water is allocated. They know this. Municipal systems would then prioritize high-volume contractual users (such as AI date centers) to maintain revenue stability. As a result, residential users experience restrictions first such as drought rules and tiered pricing, similar to what we are seeing now with the electrical grid. These data centers are enabling water allocation to reflect economic value of use and not just human need.

Ai data centers are functioning as a high intensity demand driver inside a system that has already started the train to water privatization. If this hasnt made the hairs on the back of your neck stand up, I need you to do some more research and attempt to "connect the dots" between all these occurences. Go read the Heritage Foundation and their goal for water in the US.

Data centers arent just a byproduct of Ai. Their purpose is much more sinister and they are only a spoke in the wheel on water.

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Gregg Phillips, the far-right activist installed as a high-ranking Federal Emergency Management Agency official, is out of a job at the agen

Charisma Madarnag at Rolling Stone:

Gregg Phillips, the far-right activist installed as a high-ranking Federal Emergency Management Agency official, is out of a job at the agency. Sources told CNN that he was pushed out after a series of wild remarks he made on right-wing podcasts, which included his claims that he had found himself “teleporting” into ditches, or even into a Waffle House. “Teleporting is no fun,” Phillips said in an interview last year. “It’s no fun because you don’t really know what you’re doing. You don’t really understand it, it’s scary, but yet so real. And you know it’s happening but you can’t do anything about it, and so you just go, you just go with the ride. And wow, what just an incredible adventure it all was.” Phillips, who was tapped to helm the Office of Response and Recovery in December, assumed the role despite his long history of spreading election conspiracy theories, violent rhetoric and alleged abuse of office, CNN previously reported. Although the Department of Homeland Security, which oversees FEMA, confirmed Thursday that Phillips was stepping away from his post for personal reasons, sources told CNN that his exit was not voluntary. The outlet said that DHS leadership had become concerned over the public’s perception of Phillips and his frequent disputes with other top officials.

Waffle House teleporter Gregg Phillips is out of a FEMA job.

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