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pravda_news·Pravda News!byRedWizard

Algorithmic Monocultures in Hiring

Over 90% of U.S. employers rely on hiring algorithms to screen job applicants. Many different employers use algorithms from the same few vendors. We conduct the largest empirical study of algorithmic hiring with data for 3.4 million real job applicants submitting 4 million applications to 156 employers across 11 market sectors. Every application was assessed by algorithms from a single vendor: we test whether this algorithmic monoculture bottlenecks job opportunities. We are the first to demonstrate large-scale evidence of racial disparities and homogeneous outcomes in high-stakes hiring decisions.

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pravda_news·Pravda News!byRedWizard

🟦⬜🟩 Introducing c/Britain & other thoughts.

cross-posted from: https://news.abolish.capital/post/57303

Howdy folks!

I've been reflecting on the spread of content found in [email protected] and did a little investigating. I had a feeling that there were some British publications that were highly represented in the feed, but wanted to confirm if that was really true. Here are my findings:

SourceShare of pravda_newsRank
thecanary.co18.4%#1 (dominant)
morningstaronline.co.uk4.6%#5
novaramedia.com2.2%#13
Total Share of British Sources25.2%-

25% of the feed, is quite a lot. It doesn't help as well that morningstaronline.co.uk has sports coverage that I've tried to filter out of the feed. Sadly, the RSS they provide does not tag their posts in any way. This means I would need to perform some kind of look up on that specific publication for sports related keywords and bounce the post, which is going to be very prone to error and false positives.

A new community focused on Great Britain.

So, I've decided to move these publications into a new community [email protected]. Which will house them going forward. If you want leftist news about Britain, you can find it there. This also allows for more British publications to be added to the site without feeling like I'm contributing more Britain focused content into an already British skewed feed. At the time of this posting, there are about 15 stories in the queue, once those have run their course, you'll see the publications in the table above begin posting in this new community.

My goal for pravda_news has always been one to highlight world news, and that can be a struggle depending on available sources, and those sources rate of posting. theconnary.co Is a good example. This brings me to another idea that I've had in my head for a while now.

Cross posting from communities (idea)

This isn't implemented yet, but it could be easy to do. The idea is simple. In the other communities, top stories (of a given time-span, undecided at this moment) would be cross-posted into [email protected]. This would effectively act as a community filter, taking what people found upvote worthy over the last X hours in other communities, and automatically cross-posting those stories into [email protected].

This would allow the site to have these siloed communities with focused themes, but still serve that content into the larger, more populated feed. Hopefully in turn it encourages people to join those other feeds.

No timeline on this feature currently. But would be interested in hearing people's thoughts.

Reflecting

I hope this content has been useful to you in some way. I'm always surprised to see how many people engage with the feeds provided here! There is a great diversity of participation from across the network, which is encouraging! It feels like this site has been in operation for much longer, but we've only been up for the last 8 months. So much has happened in that 8 months time as well, and these feeds have chronicled a lot of it.

Thanks for reading!

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🟦⬜🟩 Introducing c/Britain & other thoughts.

Howdy folks!

I've been reflecting on the spread of content found in [email protected] and did a little investigating. I had a feeling that there were some British publications that were highly represented in the feed, but wanted to confirm if that was really true. Here are my findings:

SourceShare of pravda_newsRank
thecanary.co18.4%#1 (dominant)
morningstaronline.co.uk4.6%#5
novaramedia.com2.2%#13
Total Share of British Sources25.2%-

25% of the feed, is quite a lot. It doesn't help as well that morningstaronline.co.uk has sports coverage that I've tried to filter out of the feed. Sadly, the RSS they provide does not tag their posts in any way. This means I would need to perform some kind of look up on that specific publication for sports related keywords and bounce the post, which is going to be very prone to error and false positives.

A new community focused on Great Britain.

So, I've decided to move these publications into a new community [email protected]. Which will house them going forward. If you want leftist news about Britain, you can find it there. This also allows for more British publications to be added to the site without feeling like I'm contributing more Britain focused content into an already British skewed feed. At the time of this posting, there are about 15 stories in the queue, once those have run their course, you'll see the publications in the table above begin posting in this new community.

My goal for pravda_news has always been one to highlight world news, and that can be a struggle depending on available sources, and those sources rate of posting. theconnary.co Is a good example. This brings me to another idea that I've had in my head for a while now.

Cross posting from communities (idea)

This isn't implemented yet, but it could be easy to do. The idea is simple. In the other communities, top stories (of a given time-span, undecided at this moment) would be cross-posted into [email protected]. This would effectively act as a community filter, taking what people found upvote worthy over the last X hours in other communities, and automatically cross-posting those stories into [email protected].

This would allow the site to have these siloed communities with focused themes, but still serve that content into the larger, more populated feed. Hopefully in turn it encourages people to join those other feeds.

No timeline on this feature currently. But would be interested in hearing people's thoughts.

Reflecting

I hope this content has been useful to you in some way. I'm always surprised to see how many people engage with the feeds provided here! There is a great diversity of participation from across the network, which is encouraging! It feels like this site has been in operation for much longer, but we've only been up for the last 8 months. So much has happened in that 8 months time as well, and these feeds have chronicled a lot of it.

Thanks for reading!

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pravda_news·Pravda News!byRedWizard

U.S. troops to Iran? Join tomorrow’s (3/7) nationwide protests!

BREAKING: New reports suggest that the Pentagon may be preparing to deploy the 82nd Airborne Division to take part in a ground invasion of Iran. The Washington Post reports that this elite unit has been instructed not to participate in scheduled exercises, and is awaiting further orders. Will they be the first "boots on the ground" as Trump escalates the war with Iran to new heights?

A U.S. ground invasion would be absolutely catastrophic. Huge numbers of U.S. troops would die, unthinkable Iranian casualties would ensue, and the economic crisis would deepen. It would be just like George Bush's disastrous invasion of Iraq, but perhaps even more bloody. The U.S. public knows this — that's why Trump administration officials have lied about their intentions so insistently.

Now is the decisive moment. The people of this country need to take a stand before it's too late and Trump plunges us into yet another forever war in the Middle East.

Protests are taking place nationwide tomorrow as part of a powerful coordination day of action. Join a demonstration near you!

Endorse the Call to Action

Register Your Action

Please make an urgently-needed donation to support emergency anti-war mobilizations as Trump and Israel unleash war against Iran.

March 7 actions (check here for frequent updates)

March 7 actions (check here for frequent updates)

Akron, OH
Highland Square
12:00 p.m.

Aliso Viejo, CA
Aliso Creek Road & Enterprise
11:00 a.m.

Allenstown, NH
Memorial Park Main St, Durham, NH
6:00 p.m.

Allentown, PA
Memorial Park Main St, Durham, NH
6:00 p.m.

Anchorage, AK
Anchorage Veteran's Memorial (W. 10th Ave & I St.)
5:30 p.m.

Asheville, NC
Pack Square
2:00 p.m.

Baltimore, Maryland
G.H. Fallon Federal Building (31 Hopkins Pl)
4:00 p.m.

Baton Rouge, LA
7122 Perkins Rd
2:00 p.m.

Bennington, VT
Main Street - Four Corners
10:00 a.m.

Brainerd, MN
Intersection of Sixth and Washington Streets, across from the historic Brainerd water tower
1:00 p.m.

Boise, ID
Boise City Hall
5:30 p.m.

Cadillac, MI
Shay Locomotive (130 W Cass St)
10:00 a.m.

Charlotte, NC
CLT Military Entrance Processing Station
12:00 p.m.

Chicago, IL
Water Tower Park, 806 N Michigan Ave
12:00 p.m.

Cincinnati, OH
Jacob Hoffner Park - 4109 Hamilton Ave
3:00 p.m.

Cleveland, OH
W 25th Market Square
5:30 p.m.

Columbia, SC
City Hall (1737 Main St.)
11:30 a.m. — March to State House at 12:00 p.m.

Corvallis, OR
Benton County Circuit Court
12:00 p.m.

Columbus, OH
Ohio Statehouse
4:00 p.m.

Dayton, OH
Dayton Courthouse Square
3:00 p.m.

Eugene, OR
Wayne Lyman Morse Federal Courthouse
2:00 p.m.

Fort Myers, FL
Corner of Daniels Pkwy and Cleveland Ave
9:00 a.m.

Fresno, CA
Blackstone and Nees
3:00 p.m.

Gainesville, FL
Alachua County Clerks Office - 201 E University Ave
4:00 p.m.

Hudson, NY
5th & Warren Sts.
11:00 a.m.

Indiana, PA
IRMC Park - North 7th Street
12:00 p.m.

Indianapolis, IN
Indiana Statehouse, east side
2:00 p.m.

Junction City, OR
Eugene Federal Courthouse
2:00 p.m.

Kent, OH
Downtown Kent (Gazebo)
2:00 p.m.

Kingston, NY
Academy Green Park
3:00 p.m.

Lake Forest Park, WA
Intersection of Bothell Way and Ballinger Way
11:00 a.m.

Lancaster, PA
Penn Square, King & Queen St
12:00 p.m.

Largo, FL
Central Park
5:30 p.m.

Las Vegas, NV
City Hall - 495 S. Main Street
6:00 p.m.

Long Beach, CA
Cherry Ave and Ocean Blvd
2:00 p.m.

Los Angeles, CA
LA City Hall
2:00 p.m.

Lowell, MA
Lowell City Hall
4:00 p.m.

Montpelier, VT
Vermont State House
5:00 p.m.

New London, CT
70 Huntington street
12:00 p.m.

New Orleans, LA
Congo Square
4:30 p.m.

New York, NY
Union Square
2:00 p.m.

Oneida, NY
Oneida City Building - 109 N Main Street
4:00 p.m.

Pittsburgh, PA
Corner of S. Highland Avenue & Penn Avenue
2:00 p.m.

Richmond, VA
Monroe Park
1:00 p.m.

St. Louis, MO
Arsenal and Grand
1:00 p.m.

Salem, MA
Riley Plaza
12:00 p.m.

San Diego, CA
4812 W Point Loma Blvd
10:00 a.m.

San Francisco, CA
Embarcadero Plaza
2:00 p.m.

San Jose, CA
Cesar Chavez Plaza
2:00 p.m.

Santa Ana, TX
411 W 4th St
3:00 p.m.

Twin Cities, MN
Chicago Ave & Franklin Ave
3:00 p.m.

Washington, DC
White House
3:00 p.m.

West Springfield, MA
Park Street, Town Common
2:00 p.m.

Wilton, NH
NH State House, 107 North Main Street, Concord, NH
2:00 p.m.

(Taken from an email sent to me by the ANSWER Coalition. Emphasis original.)

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pravda_news·Pravda News!byRedWizard

Luigi Mangione will not face death penalty if convicted, judge rules

Luigi Mangione will not face the death penalty if convicted of killing UnitedHealthcare chief executive Brian Thompson, a federal court has ruled.

US District Judge Margaret Garnett dismissed the federal firearms charges against the 27-year-old that carried the possibility of the death penalty.

But she left in place stalking charges against him that can bring a maximum punishment of life in prison.

...

Jury selection in the federal trial is scheduled to begin on 8 September with opening statements due to start on 13 October.

But state prosecutors are seeking to try Mangione as soon as July.

In her ruling, Judge Garnett, a Biden appointee, said two of the four federal charges did not "meet the federal statutory definition of a 'crime of violence' as matter of law".

She noted that her decision was "solely to foreclose the death penalty as an available punishment to be considered by the jury".

Garnett's ruling was a setback for the justice department, which had called Thompson's murder a "premeditated, cold-blooded assassination".

The judge has given the government 30 days to challenge her decision ruling out the death penalty in the Mangione case.

In a win for prosecutors, Garnett said they could present evidence to the jury from Mangione's backpack that he had at the time of his arrest at a McDonald's in Altoona, Pennsylvania.

Among the items in the bag were a gun, fake IDs and a notebook with writings that allegedly detailed Mangione's grievances against the US healthcare system.

Defence attorneys had sought to dismiss that evidence from trial, arguing that authorities obtained it illegally without a warrant.

Luigi Mangione will not face death penalty if convicted, judge ruleshttps://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c78egdg3r0poOpen linkView original on news.abolish.capital
pravda_news·Pravda News!byRedWizard

ICE vs. Everyone | Erin West

At 9 AM I fall in love with Amy. We’re in my friend’s old Corolla, following an Immigration and Customs Enforcement vehicle in our neighborhood. We only know “Amy” through the Signal voice call we’re on together, alongside more than eight hundred others, all trying to coordinate sightings throughout South Minneapolis. Amy drives a silver Subaru and is directly in front of us, expertly tailing a black Wagoneer with two masked agents in front. The Wagoneer skips a red light to try and lose us, but Amy’s fast. She bolts across the intersection, Bullitt-style, and we follow just behind, shouting inside the car, GO AMY! WE LOVE YOU! “I’m gonna fucking marry Amy,” my friend says. “You think it’s chill to propose over this call?”

You can’t walk for ten minutes in my neighborhood without seeing them: boxy SUVs, mostly domestic-made, with tinted windows and out-of-state plates. Two men riding in front, dressed in tactical gear. Following behind is a train of three or four cars, honking. Sometimes there are bikers, too, blowing on neon-colored plastic whistles that local businesses give out for free. Every street corner has patrollers on foot, yelling and filming when a convoy rolls by.

If the ICE vehicles pull over, people flood the street. Crowds materialize seemingly out of nowhere. The honking and whistling amps up, becoming an unignorable wail, and more people stream out of their houses and businesses. When agents leave their cars they’re met with jeers, mostly variations on “Fuck you.” Usually someone starts throwing snowballs. Agents pull out pepper spray guns, threatening protesters who get too close. If there’s enough of a crowd, they use tear gas. Meanwhile they go about their barbaric business: they’ve pulled someone out of their car or home and are shoving them into a vehicle, handcuffed. Over the noise, an observer tries to ask the person being detained for their name and who they want contacted. Sometimes a detainee’s phone, keys, or a bag make it into an observer’s hands. Everyone is filming. The press is taking photos.

Soon the agents are back in their vehicles. They pull risky maneuvers to move through the crowd and speed off. No more than six or seven minutes have elapsed, and another neighbor has been kidnapped. Observers are left to deal with the wreckage: tow an abandoned car, contact family, sometimes collect children. There are lawyers on call, local tow companies offering free services, mutual aid groups to support families after an abduction. Some observers stay behind to do this kind of coordination, and some get back in their cars or on their bikes and speed off again. If enough people get there fast enough, ICE might back off next time. At a minimum, their cruelty can’t go unchallenged.

I’m in my kitchen typing out “do swim goggles protect you from tear gas.” The AI search response that I’ve failed to disable tells me they can “help significantly.” I laugh at this ridiculous tableau. The local ACE Hardware store posted on Facebook that they’ve stocked up on respirators and safety goggles. What I once considered hardcore riot gear is now essential for leaving the house.

I live near the intersection of Chicago Avenue and Lake Street, two major South Minneapolis thoroughfares that mark the northwest corner of the Powderhorn Park neighborhood. My house is a mile north of where George Floyd was murdered by Minneapolis Police officer Derek Chauvin in 2020 and even closer to where Renee Good was murdered by ICE agent Jonathan Ross this month. Since the Department of Homeland Security initiated “Operation Metro Surge” in December, there have been at least half a dozen abductions that I know of on or around my block. A nearby house of recently arrived Ecuadorians used to be home to sixteen adults and six children. Six weeks into the federal invasion, only eight adults remain.

Citywide, hundreds of people are being abducted from their homes and separated from their families. Citizens are racially profiled and asked for papers. Exact numbers on detainees are unreliable, but the number of federal agents is roughly three thousand. These numbers are similar in scale to ICE operations in other cities across the US, including LA and Chicago, but what’s new in Minneapolis are the extreme tactics that federal agents are using to repress organized resistance. The stories circulating online and by word of mouth are harrowing: federal agents surrounding observer cars to trap them, then smashing car windows and dragging observers out; agents spraying mace six inches from someone’s face or spraying mace into intake vents so that the inside of cars are immediately flooded; agents suddenly braking at seventy miles per hour on the freeway and forcing tailing vehicles to swerve; agents throwing observers on the ground, punching observers in the face, agents taking observers on aimless rides around the city while taunting them with racial or sexual epithets; agents holding observers at the federal detention building for hours without access to phone calls or lawyers. (This is merely how ICE terrorizes US citizens.)

What also feels new is the frequent candor with which ICE agents are displaying hateful ideology. Two days after Good was murdered, DHS overtly referenced a Neo-Nazi anthem in a nationwide recruitment post. Agents seem to feel empowered to say new kinds of chilling things out loud. One told an observer: “Stop following us, that’s why that lesbian bitch is dead.” (He was referring to Good.) A friend of mine was sexually harassed by an ICE agent, who called them “too pretty” to stay locked up while in detention. Another was shoved to the ground and asked, “Do you like the dirt, queer?” Sometimes the behavior is simply bizarre. After an attempted abduction left a couple dozen observers standing on a neighborhood street, one ICE vehicle circled the block, broadcasting a looped audio recording of a woman screaming.

In these moments the whole situation can seem ridiculous. The professional kidnappers step out of their flashy American cars with their special outfits on. They wave their little mace guns at us, but we’re not scared—we have oversized ski goggles! A particularly comic element at play is that we’re in the middle of another winter with wild variations in temperature, meaning that Minneapolis streets are covered in thick sheets of ice. There are some heartwarming videos of agents falling down (“ICE on ice!”) but we slip too, running towards or away from them. It can feel kind of slapstick, until you remember that they will destroy someone’s life today, and that they can kill you.

A black gloved hand reaches out of the Wagoneer window and begins to give a princess wave to us, then the peace sign, then a thumbs up. They’re mocking us. The agents stop their vehicle suddenly but Amy brakes in time. Luckily, so do we. ICE has been using “brake-checks” as pretense for detaining observers. Another observer car pulls up and my city council member steps out. He strides up to the Wagoneer, blowing his whistle. (Absolutely everyone is confronting ICE—I’ve encountered my old boss from the local cafe scuffling with agents, too.) Someone on the street starts filming and the bicyclist we know in the chat as “small fry” shouts at the agents to get out of Minneapolis. We’re honking. The Wagoneer idles for a few minutes and then takes off towards the freeway. We follow until they’re on the exit ramp. It feels good to watch them leave the neighborhood, but I worry about where they’re headed next. We drive towards home and come across another two vehicles with observers tailing behind. Lake Street, a major corridor of immigrant businesses in the neighborhood, has been crawling with ICE vehicles every morning this week.

Powderhorn Park is a middle-class neighborhood known for its May Day parade, replete with larger-than-life puppets and steampunk Mad Max vehicles. Artists and families live here, and young queer people, and many immigrants, most arriving from Ecuador in recent years. The past few summers, the block south of me has become impassable every evening as hundreds of my Spanish-speaking neighbors use the park for massive volleyball tournaments. Food vendors set up tables and families bring lawn chairs to watch the games. Last year, two women sold grilled chicken on the corner closest to me. My neighbor’s lawn became a kind of informal restaurant, where customers would sit at the warping picnic table and eat. I bought their chicken a few times, and it was awesome.

A week into the invasion my neighbor with the picnic table called to ask if I was available to come with one of the two vendors to an immigration appointment. The woman had been contacted by USCIS that morning and was told to come in at 3 o’clock that same afternoon. She was worried she could be detained on the spot and had a newborn with her. Several neighbors gathered to arrange a ride, but in the end she only wanted a lawyer and translator to attend with her. I heard later that at the appointment she announced she wanted to self-deport, trading a planned exit for the fear of being taken at random. Her sister, the other vendor, is still here. The Saturday after Good’s murder, she and I sit with a small group of volunteers gathered to talk about how to improve rideshare coordination over WhatsApp. She tells us in Spanish that migrants can’t use corporate rideshare services because there have been reports of Uber drivers taking people directly to ICE. Of the more than two hundred people in the rideshare text thread, half are citizens offering rides and half are requesting. “I like being in this group because I’m meeting so many neighbors I would not have met otherwise,” someone says at the meeting. “I hope we stay connected after this is all over.”

Powderhorn is the same park where, in June 2020, a majority of Minneapolis City Council members stood on stage and announced their support for defunding the Minneapolis Police Department. It’s also where more than ten thousand people gathered to protest ICE the weekend after Renee Good was shot. Minneapolis learned a lot from the George Floyd protests and it shows. Well before Kristi Noem announced DHS operations in Minnesota, the neighborhood got ready. It started with rapid response preparation in the park’s recreation center and legal observer trainings at a church. Then it was block-by-block meetings. Small networks that formed in 2020 were reactivated to distribute 3D-printed whistles and practice scenarios for confronting agents. When ICE deployed in December, Signal threads for local alerts quickly surpassed the thousand-user limit, and an extensive mutual aid ecosystem of grocery runs and rideshares emerged overnight. After Good’s murder and Noem’s announcement that the number of ICE agents in Minnesota would triple, everyone I know cancelled their social plans. Lots of people called off work.

What we’re doing now is this: The trainings have evolved into street medic workshops on protecting yourself from chemical weapons and lessons on digital security; there’s a meet-up to sew reinforced umbrellas as shields from mace and a collection spot for barricade materials. And this is what it’s like: Sometimes you’re chasing ICE off your street, maybe you’re buying groceries for a family, but a lot of the time you’re on your phone. Behind every actionable piece of organizing are hours spent coordinating in Signal threads, calling to check up on someone, scrolling live feeds. At night, over dinner, it’s all anyone can talk about. Did you hear? Did you see that post? Did you read in the thread?

I moved to Minneapolis in 2019 because I was looking for a mid-sized city where rents were still relatively cheap. I knew it was a place where people could afford to be punks and experimental artists and career anarchists. I also knew it was a city with “good politics,” whatever that meant to me at the time. The first summer I lived here, my new friends were going to northern Minnesota on the weekends to support Indigenous resistance camps opposing construction of the Line 3 tar sands pipeline. During Covid, they were standing in parking lots, distributing food and diapers, or defending homeless encampments from police. The uprising following George Floyd’s murder brought everyone out to the streets each night for a week. It’s simply true, I learned, that when you only work part-time, when your main expense is a $400-a-month room in your punk house, you have time to organize. From anarchist info shops to nonprofit worker centers, from the founding of the American Indian Movement in 1968 to the first formations of Anti-Racist Action in the 1980s, grassroots organizing undergirds the culture of the city in a unique way.

Trump officials have made it clear that Operation Metro Surge is as much about seizing migrants from their homes as it is about repression of dissent to fascism. But they seem confused about how exactly the dissent works, and about where it’s coming from. Tricia McLaughlin, Assistant Secretary of DHS, lambasted Minneapolis mayor Jacob Frey, governor Tim Walz, and Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison—all varyingly pro-cop centrist liberals—for their non-compliance with federal operations on X. “Sanctuary politicians like Ellison are the EXACT reason that DHS surged to Minnesota in the first place,” she wrote. Did she think the attorney general was out in the streets, throwing snowballs with his constituents?

One tactic of fascism is to shift the scales of political alignment: centrists become stalwarts of the radical left; moms become “domestic terrorists.” Everyone with a whistle becomes antifa. And actually, that last part is correct—or at least it should be. A general strike has been called for Friday, January 23. With luck, thousands of Minnesotans will join in on what many further left are already doing: stopping business as usual and withdrawing their consent from fascism. Among many things I hope for, I want to see volleyball games in the park again this summer.

ICE vs. Everyone | Erin Westhttps://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/ice-vs-everyone/Open linkView original on news.abolish.capital
pravda_news·Pravda News!byRedWizard

Kash Patel says the FBI is investigating Signal chats of Minnesotans tracking ICE

This is on the heels of some chud "infiltrating" the Minnesota signal chats.

A couple of notes here:

Organizers have to walk a tight balance between security and usability when organizing these rapid response teams. That said, NO software is going to serve you well without a solid security culture. Give that link a read, but here are the questions the folks at Anarchist News presents us, reformulated for ICE Resistance:

Questions

  1. What security concerns do you find are most overlooked in [Rapid Response] circles? What about overdone?
  2. How are security concerns changing in light of the development of companies like Flock Safety, Oracle and Palantir? (Do you know what a Flock camera is, and how to spot it?)
  3. What are ways security culture and protocols change between [Rapid Response] groupings, particularly those separated by geography? (Say, in different cities or [states]) [How can you find out?]

If you are a member of a RR group ask yourself these questions now. Ask your teams how you can develop a security culture. You must understand how this security failure happened (using a zero blame approach) and learn from it.

How do people get invited to your RR groups? Is it open invite? Or is a trusted group handling invites?

How often do you audit it's members to see if anyone stands out?

Are people using their real names in your RR group?

Another note regarding communication platform:

I find this essay Why not signal? useful in terms of both outlining the shortcomings of signal and outlining alternatives and their pros and cons. You might have pre conceived notions about the author, but leave those aside for the sake of improving your own operational security if you are actively in a RR group.

That said, I want to reiterate the above: NO software is going to serve you well without a solid security culture.

Stay safe out there.

Kash Patel says the FBI is investigating Signal chats of Minnesotans tracking ICEhttps://www.ms.now/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/kash-patel-says-the-fbi-is-investigating-signal-chats-of-minnesotans-tracking-iceOpen linkView original on news.abolish.capital
pravda_news·Pravda News!byRedWizard

Greg Bovino Loses His Job

This is great news, but I want to add that this is only one small victory. We can not look at this moment and think the worst is behind us. The struggle for our streets will continue. The forces behind what is playing out with ICE is bigger then just one person. This is a blow, and we should celebrate. But tomorrow we should collect ourselves and get back to the task at hand. All across the country communities are calling for a general strike. The mood is changing, the atmosphere is filling with solidarity. Do not let this victory slow our momentum.

Abolish ICE. Abolish Capital!

Greg Bovino Loses His Jobhttps://web.archive.org/web/20260127000713/https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/2026/01/greg-bovino-demoted-minneapolis-border-patrol/685770/Open linkView original on news.abolish.capital