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🆘🇺🇸🆘🇺🇸🆘🇺🇸Lynne🆘🇺🇸🆘🇺🇸🆘 @notsilenced.bsky.social · 12h

“I feel that I personally have to start thinking realistically about how to flee the country. Everyone else in a similar position should have a 2029 plan as well. And it is not even clear that it will wait until 2029: losing the Congress will instantly put the administration on the defensive.”

Panicked Curtis Yarvin—JD Vance's guru—plans to flee USA

‘I feel that I personally have to start thinking realistically about how to flee the country.’

www.thenerdreich.com

🆘🇺🇸🆘🇺🇸🆘🇺🇸Lynne🆘🇺🇸🆘🇺🇸🆘 @notsilenced.bsky.social · 1d

FU Elon!
“Borges says that career cybersecurity officials within the SSA described the decision to copy the data as "very high risk" and even discussed the possibility of having to reissue Social Security numbers to millions of Americans in the event the cloud server was breached.”

Whistleblower says Trump officials copied millions of Social Security numbers

A whistleblower complaint says the personal data of over 300 million Americans was copied to a private cloud account to allow access by former members of the Department of Government Efficiency team.

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🆘🇺🇸🆘🇺🇸🆘🇺🇸Lynne🆘🇺🇸🆘🇺🇸🆘 @notsilenced.bsky.social · 1d

“The video paints a troubling picture for pets and the people who love them: fewer independent options, rising prices for routine and emergency visits, and growing pressure on veterinarians to meet corporate revenue targets.”

Private Equity Is Coming for Your Pets : What it means for you

Cats have nine lives – and private equity is betting that pet owners will paw up big bucks to save every last one of them. More Perfect Union’s recent video “Private Equity Is Coming for Your Pets”…

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🆘🇺🇸🆘🇺🇸🆘🇺🇸Lynne🆘🇺🇸🆘🇺🇸🆘 @notsilenced.bsky.social · 3d

Where will the children go once public schools are closed? 🧐

Project 2025 proposes reducing protections for child labor, allowing more minors to work in conditions with fewer regulations, which some critics describe as exploiting child labor by permitting work in dangerous workplaces.

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🆘🇺🇸🆘🇺🇸🆘🇺🇸Lynne🆘🇺🇸🆘🇺🇸🆘 @notsilenced.bsky.social · 5d

👏👏👏“After saying Jeff Bezos “supports this government”, Young wrote: “The time is here. FORGET AMAZON. Soon my music will not be there. It is easy to buy local. Support your community. Go to the local store. Don’t go back to the big corporations who have sold out America.””

Neil Young pledges to remove music from Amazon

Legendary singer-songwriter Neil Young has announced his plans to remove his back catalogue from Amazon as a protest over Jeff Bezos' politics.

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🆘🇺🇸🆘🇺🇸🆘🇺🇸Lynne🆘🇺🇸🆘🇺🇸🆘 @notsilenced.bsky.social · 8d

“According to the lawsuit, the final chat logs show that Adam wrote about his plan to end his life. ChatGPT allegedly responded: "Thanks for being real about it. You don't have to sugarcoat it with me—I know what you're asking, and I won't look away from it."

Parents of teenager who took his own life sue OpenAI

The Raine family alleges ChatGPT "actively helped" their 16-year-old son take his own life.

www.bbc.com

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🆘🇺🇸🆘🇺🇸🆘🇺🇸Lynne🆘🇺🇸🆘🇺🇸🆘 @notsilenced.bsky.social · 9d

The radical right groups Mom’s for Liberty & the Heritage Foundation are coming for ALL school board seats. They want complete control over the hiring and firing of every teacher and staff member in all public school districts across the US. The curriculum will be laden with fascist ideology.

The Librarians Film | Official Site

Librarians under siege join forces as unlikely defenders fighting on the frontlines of democracy

thelibrariansfilm.com

🆘🇺🇸🆘🇺🇸🆘🇺🇸Lynne🆘🇺🇸🆘🇺🇸🆘 @notsilenced.bsky.social · 10d

“The benefit to declining “is you don’t have to submit your picture to the government, for the government to scan it and store it under their rules,” said Travis LeBlanc, a lawyer and a former member of the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board, an independent federal agency.”

Why You Can (And Should) Opt Out Of TSA Facial Recognition Right Now

Do you really want to be submitting a face scan to the current U.S. government?

www.huffingtonpost.co.uk

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🆘🇺🇸🆘🇺🇸🆘🇺🇸Lynne🆘🇺🇸🆘🇺🇸🆘 @notsilenced.bsky.social · 10d

“We have written extensively that client-side scanning fundamentally undermines end-to-end encryption, and obliterates our right to private spaces. If the government has access to one of the “ends” of an end-to-end encrypted communication, that communication is no longer safe and secure.”

Chat Control Is Back on the Menu in the EU. It Still Must Be Stopped

The European Union Council is once again debating its controversial message scanning proposal, aka “Chat Control,” that would lead to the scanning of private conversations of billions of people. Chat ...

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🆘🇺🇸🆘🇺🇸🆘🇺🇸Lynne🆘🇺🇸🆘🇺🇸🆘 @notsilenced.bsky.social · 10d

“Every photo, every message, every file you send will be automatically scanned—without your consent or suspicion. This is not about catching criminals. It is mass surveillance imposed on all 450 million citizens of the European Union.”

Fight Chat Control - Protect Digital Privacy in the EU

Learn about the EU Chat Control proposal and contact your representatives to protect digital privacy and encryption.

fightchatcontrol.eu

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🆘🇺🇸🆘🇺🇸🆘🇺🇸Lynne🆘🇺🇸🆘🇺🇸🆘 @notsilenced.bsky.social · 11d

“The pilot program will roll out on Jan. 1 and is slated to run through 2031. During that time, Medicare patients, providers and facilities in Arizona, Ohio, Oklahoma, New Jersey, Texas and Washington will be impacted.”

Trump administration to test new AI Medicare gatekeeper in 6 states — but experts worry the cost-saving program could compromise care in the US - NewsBreak

While we adhere to strict editorial guidelines, partners on this page may provide us earnings. AI is increasingly becoming a part of everyday life. But in

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🆘🇺🇸🆘🇺🇸🆘🇺🇸Lynne🆘🇺🇸🆘🇺🇸🆘 @notsilenced.bsky.social · 11d

“The project harnesses technology from Israeli GenAI pricing startup Fetcherr. At a November investor’s day, Hausenstein compared the AI to “a super analyst… working 24 hours a day, seven days a week and trying to simulate [in] real time, what should the price points be?”

Delta Bets Big on AI for Ticket Pricing—But Is It Fair to Travelers? - Business Traveller

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🆘🇺🇸🆘🇺🇸🆘🇺🇸Lynne🆘🇺🇸🆘🇺🇸🆘 @notsilenced.bsky.social · 12d

“Planned obsolescence is when someone purposely plans and designs a product in a way that it has a limited life span and will fail after a pre-determined time period. This greatly reduces the time between repeat purchases, increasing long-term sales.”

The Greatest Conspiracy You've Never Heard Of — 1000Bulbs Blog

Did you know that a secretive international group engineered incandescent light bulbs to fail? In this post, we’ll take a look at the Phoebus cartel, perpetrators of the greatest conspiracy you’ve nev...

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🆘🇺🇸🆘🇺🇸🆘🇺🇸Lynne🆘🇺🇸🆘🇺🇸🆘 @notsilenced.bsky.social · 14d

👏👏👏”A geopolitical earthquake just hit Washington and Tel Aviv. Spain has barred U.S. planes and ships carrying weapons to Israel from using its Rota and Morón bases. The message: no weapons for genocide — not through our soil.”

Spain Slams Door on U.S. Arms to Israel

YouTube video by Broken Borders

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🆘🇺🇸🆘🇺🇸🆘🇺🇸Lynne🆘🇺🇸🆘🇺🇸🆘 @notsilenced.bsky.social · 16d

“The Trump administration said Monday it will open 13 million acres of federal lands for coal mining and provide $625 million to recommission or modernize coal-fired power plants as President Donald Trump continues his efforts to reverse the year-long decline in the U.S. coal industry.”

Trump to open more federal land for coal mining, provide industry $625M to boost coal plants

The Trump administration said it will open 13 million acres of federal lands for coal mining and provide $625 million to recommission or modernize coal-fired power plants.

www.pbs.org

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🆘🇺🇸🆘🇺🇸🆘🇺🇸Lynne🆘🇺🇸🆘🇺🇸🆘 @notsilenced.bsky.social · 17d

Will this be mandated in the US? 🧐
“Bev Turner gets the facts on the Brit Card: Is it a tool for streamlining services, or a step towards a UK surveillance state? We break down how this digital ID could link your finances, health, and daily movements and why critics warn it threatens your freedom.”

DIGITAL ID TRAP: Why You Should Be Worried About Government Overreach

YouTube video by GBNews

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🆘🇺🇸🆘🇺🇸🆘🇺🇸Lynne🆘🇺🇸🆘🇺🇸🆘 @notsilenced.bsky.social · 17d

“We are watching the collapse of the international order in real time, and this is just the start,” says investigative journalist Carole Cadwalladr. You have more power than you think,” she says.”

This Is What a Digital Coup Looks Like | Carole Cadwalladr | TED

YouTube video by TED

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🆘🇺🇸🆘🇺🇸🆘🇺🇸Lynne🆘🇺🇸🆘🇺🇸🆘 @notsilenced.bsky.social · 20d

Max from ‪@UNFTR‬ unpacks Trump’s white nationalist agenda that was revealed through Project 2025 and is being implemented with stunning speed.

Trump’s REAL Economic Plan EXPOSED Hiding in PLAIN SIGHT

YouTube video by MeidasTouch

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🆘🇺🇸🆘🇺🇸🆘🇺🇸Lynne🆘🇺🇸🆘🇺🇸🆘 @notsilenced.bsky.social · 21d

Attend your school district board of education meetings! Many radical right groups are pushing curriculums of indoctrination.

“We’re going to destroy the teachers unions,” Walters said on Fox. “We have seen the teachers unions use money and power to corrupt our schools, to undermine our schools.”

Ryan Walters resigns as Oklahoma's top public schools official to lead conservative educators' group

Oklahoma's top public schools official, Ryan Walters, says he's resigning to lead a conservative educators' group.

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🆘🇺🇸🆘🇺🇸🆘🇺🇸Lynne🆘🇺🇸🆘🇺🇸🆘 @notsilenced.bsky.social · 25d

“The less democratic the country, the harder it is for companies to respect human rights in practice. So the recently released V-Dem report matters for companies: we are back to 1985 levels of democracy. 71% of the world’s population – that is 5.7 billion people – live in autocracies.”

V-Dem 2024 Democracy Report

If a country is operating in a democracy...

www.wearehumanlevel.com

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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 26d

Anti-fascists (Antifa) storming the beaches of Normandy.

a black and white photo of a group of soldiers getting off a boat in the ocean .

Alt: Allied forces landing on Normandy beaches in WW2.

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🆘🇺🇸🆘🇺🇸🆘🇺🇸Lynne🆘🇺🇸🆘🇺🇸🆘 @notsilenced.bsky.social · 29d

“Donald J Trump loves making history. So, on Wednesday Channel 4 will do just that: we’ll show what we believe to be the longest uninterrupted reel of untruths, falsehoods and distortions ever broadcast on television.”

🆘🇺🇸🆘🇺🇸🆘🇺🇸Lynne🆘🇺🇸🆘🇺🇸🆘 @notsilenced.bsky.social · 29d

“In honor of President Trump’s visit to the UK, Britain’s Channel 4 News will run what they describe as the “longest uninterrupted reel of untruths, falsehoods and distortions ever broadcast on television.””

British Media Puts American Media to Shame with Longest Reel of Untruths Trump Fact-check

It’s titled: Trump v the Truth, and sadly, this highlights the lack of rigorous fact-checking of the Trump regime from U.S. media.

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🆘🇺🇸🆘🇺🇸🆘🇺🇸Lynne🆘🇺🇸🆘🇺🇸🆘 @notsilenced.bsky.social · Sep 14

“People on X/Twitter also hit back at Musk’s "irresponsible" comments, with one stating: "Elon Musk says that the left is the party of murder and unless we fight back, they are going to kill us all. These words are truly irresponsible and so far from the truth that it's laughable."

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🆘🇺🇸🆘🇺🇸🆘🇺🇸Lynne🆘🇺🇸🆘🇺🇸🆘 @notsilenced.bsky.social · Sep 14

Musk called for violence telling Robinson that "a change of government" was needed in the UK and even calling for a "dissolution of parliament."

Musk told protesters “either fight back or you die," framing his message as an appeal to "British common sense."

Elon Musk sparks outrage with 'fight back or die' speech at Tommy Robinson rally

An estimated 110,000 to 150,000 people gathered in London on Saturday (13 September) for the 'Unite the Kingdom' rally, organised by far-right figure Tommy Robinson. The Metropolitan Police confirmed ...

www.indy100.com

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