Yesterday was such a nice day, and I just had to take a walk along the lake! That's all. That's the post.

Non-paywall version: https://archive.ph/i3G1r

Hey fellow federal workers, I noticed a DOGE "suggestion box" near the entrance to my building today, and I'm assuming other offices have them, too. Start putting your best suggestions in there and flood them with good ideas. Some examples: "Stop costly deportation flights" or "Disband DOGE" or "Stop targeting trans people"

Will it make a difference? Probably not, but at least some DOGE kid will have to read how much their policies suck while wasting their time combing through the mountain of paper. Or at the very least it'll bury any ideas from sympathizers that could be actually damaging.

cross-posted from: https://50501.chat/post/184725

Idea for a poster - WE DO NOT SERVE KINGS IN AMERICA 🇺🇸

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A whistleblower at the NLRB is pushing for a Congressional investigation and letting the public know about an ongoing data breach involving Russia. He's already been threatened.

PDF with the full text of the disclosure Reddit post discussing it on /r/fednews

"Republicans cannot know a moment of peace." This is the energy I've been looking for! I hope he keeps it up and protects Illinoisans who do have to take off work or get into good trouble with the feds.

After seeing Cory Booker's speech, I got an idea for another poster. Feel free to use it as you see fit. Distribute it and put it up where ever you want.

It's formatted for 8.5x11, so you should be able to just print it off and go.

Bezos' Washington Post refuses to run this ad and get paid over $100,000 for it. Let's run it ourselves! There are two pages. We can print them and post them up around our towns and cities. It would be great to post it on federal buildings, and if you are or know a federal worker, have them print it, too and distribute them.

With enough, it can have at least a small psychological effect on Musk and his followers.

Here's a link to the actual PDF

For those serious about organizing and sharing important sensitive information, e.g. you're a government whistleblower, you're sharing information with free press outlets, etc., it's important to communicate securely. The best (and probably easiest) way is to use a live bootable OS that leaves no trace. TailsOS can be written to a USB flash drive and run on any computer after rebooting. I linked to a get started guide.

I hope this helps! Every little bit helps!

Long text post incoming!

Any popular resistance movement dies in the cradle if people feel isolated. Isolation breeds inaction. Therefore, to make people feel less isolated, word needs to go out to the general public to build solidarity and make them feel part of a greater whole. Resistors are not alone! It also has the psychological benefit of making oppressors feel surrounded (and rightfully so).

Therefore, to get those who want to resist motivated, we must advertise our cause. Thankfully, we live in a modern age where designing good looking graphics and printing them has never been easier.

The best information campaign will rely on guerilla tactics. Put posters up in heavy traffic areas outside, at work, in your neighborhood, on public bulletin boards, wherever needed to get the message out. One priority place would be inside government offices. There are plenty of federal workers who are resisting. If they put up even a few, we can psychologically terrorize the fascists, and this will force them to focus inward and divert from the rest of society.

Of course, these will be damaged or destroyed, whether intentionally or not, so we must be ready to replace posters as that happens, especially if it's ripped down.

Design: This, I think, is paramount. To attract those who may not like the current actions but are hesitant to really resist, it is important to use American symbology. Don't let the fascists take our flag, our symbols, our iconography. These things bind us together as Americans, and it can have an inspiring effect. We are all part of the greater whole.

Also highly important, make sure the designs are good. Marketers, graphic designers: that's your cue. If your an amateur, get the opinion of a trusted friend on a design.

If you don't have the time or ability to design, just take one off the internet. Therefore, I propose that we make repository of resistance posters on the web. Domains are cheap. VPSes are, too. It can also serve as a virtual poster.

I'd love to hear your thoughts. If you have some designs, post 'em, print 'em, and distribute 'em!

Way to go Chicago! This was really great to see! I'm glad we are taking care of our neighbors.

Look, if these complete morons on the Right want to vote against their self-interests and America, they are beyond help, and all I will do is keep working my a-- off to make sure people understand this.

What we have is a failure to communicate on the Left.

The truth is these people support the America-attacking blowhard because he stirs their cold blood. He makes them feel good about looking backward instead of at all the possibilities ahead. He makes them feel good about thinking they are the only thing that matters and that they have somehow been cheated out of their dark, empty lives.

They don’t want to make America better. They want to make everybody else’s lives worse.

All they are is angry, and have finally found a lewd, racist conman who can put a megaphone to their tantrums, and deal the rest of America plenty of pain. He has no goddamn answers for them or us.

What we have right now is a MASSIVE messaging problem.

From the minute the Biden Administration took power it worked like hell to tackle a global crisis that was exacerbated by the previous administration. I mean, holy s--- even infrastructure got done, and do you know who has benefited most from that? White people.

If that didn't resonate, it’s not because it didn’t happen. It’s because too many people didn’t know about it.

Gov. Pritzker welcomed Jen Psaki to Chicago in the best way possible

Interesting research from Anthropic. I'm looking forward to reading follow-on work, and I really hope that this will be tested on open source models (like Mistral) to confirm the method.