loving how my old history teacher talked about them like a terrorist group
boost me up
Wow okay so for those skimming, there’s a memo up there from THE DIRECTOR OF THE FBI that sets a mission to LIE about the good things the Black Panthers were doing, spread rumors of them being terrorists, and terrorize the communities supporting them.
If you think the Black Panthers were terrorists and you’ve never heard of the community-building, it’s because there was a literal government conspiracy to make you and people 45 years ago think that way.
i’m reblogging again (bolding mine), because people need to fucking know this. especially white americans.
A special place in hell is reserved for people who saw other people feeding children and thought, “How can we sabotage this?”
Paul Manafort, one-time Trump campaign manager, has been indicted for
cooking his books in order to qualify for a loan; prosecutors secured
the evidence of his fraud by searching his email, which contained
attachments that clearly showed him doctoring his financial statements
and then emailing them to his co-conspirator Richard Gates so Gates
could convert them to PDFs, which literally just involves selecting
“Save As…” and choosing “PDF.”
The kids’ response to the shooting has been something truly incredible.
Normally, it’s always been very young children and it’s only their parents that can speak about it. The narrative gets controlled, the conspiracy theorists talk about how it’s all an act, so much bullshit.
But these are kids who are active on social media, incredibly close to voting age, and they’re demanding their voices are heard. Every single thing that downplays, dismisses or conspiracies the shooting has been subverted by their efforts, and they’re not letting adults who’ve never lived what they lived through control the narrative.
“It was a conspiracy!” “No, we have video evidence of it happening.” “Shouldn’t you be calling 911 instead of making videos?” “We called 911 so many times they told us to stop.” “But he was a troubled child!” “We were ALL troubled, that’s no excuse.” And it just goes on like this.
Honestly, I’m so proud of my fellow Floridians.
I said to my husband the other day that “This one feels different”, referring to this precisely.
The whole energy around it feels different. These kids are not having this bullshit, and while they should not have to stand their ground and fight this battle, goddamn it they are going to. If the adults won’t, then goddamn it these kids will draw a fucking line and say ‘no, no more, this is bullshit’.
I don’t know what it means, or how it will play out long term. But there’s a sense around this whole tragedy that this one is different, and I hope, maybe, that means some actual change will come.
People compare this to Sandy Hook and talk about how different the reactions have been because they’re teenagers and not six and seven year olds. And I think it’s easy for people to miss that these teenagers, they’re peers of the children killed in Sandy Hook. They’re the same age (give or take a year or so) as the children who survived Sandy Hook.
They watched that tragedy as children of the same age. And then watched as absolutely nothing changed. This has happened over and over and now it’s happened to them. And they are rightfully angry, except unlike their peers at Sandy Hook, they are old enough now to have the words and the knowledge and the means to speak out. And they’re not just speaking out, they’re screaming so they aren’t overheard.
This is what happens when a generation is brought up watching tragedy after tragedy, and have known since they were six, seven, eight years old that their lives are worthless to politicians. They aren’t going to sit back and let this be forgotten.
In this powerful new article, BuzzFeed News’ Remy Smidt reports from inside the grassroots activist group that’s been formed by teens who survived the school shooting
at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, which
left 17 dead and 14 wounded. The students have emerged as vocal
activists on both social media and traditional media platforms (a CNN
excerpt of senior Emma González’s impassioned speech
has been shared thousands of times on Twitter). And they’ve inspired a
wave of other young activists too; high school students in Maine
recently staged a gun control protest in place of a routine lock-down drill.
The Marjory Stoneman Douglas students have done an incredible amount
of organizing over the past week, including planning the nationwide March for Our Lives demonstration on March 24. And Smidt reports on what it’s like to watch the young activists at work:
The only thing worse than driving a car with defective breaks is unknowingly driving a car with defective brakes – and learning about them the hard way.
That’s why Zack Whittaker’s excellent roundup of civil lawsuits filed
against infosec researchers and journalists is so fucking terrifying.
Deep-pocketed, thin-skinned companies are able to abuse the law in bids
to become the custodians of who can utter inconvenient truths about the
defects in their products. Whittaker describes these suits and threats
used against young, independent researchers, senior researchers at large
corporations, and journalists who report on their findings.
He also reveals that in the past year his own employer, Zdnet, “did not
publish three security stories after researchers’ abandoned their work,
fearing legal threats.”
The belligerents involved in these suits run the gamut as well: there’s
Keeper Security, suing Ars Technica and reporter Dan Goodin over news of
a defect in their flagship password manager; River City Media is suing
veteran security researcher Chris Vickery, reporter Steve Ragan and his
publisher CSO over an investigation into evidence that River City had
been running a “massive, illegal spam operation…using illegal IP
hijacking techniques during some of their campaigns”; PwC threatened to
sue a researcher who found a defect in a security product; Ashley
Madison threatened to sue a reporter who obtained information suggesting
the company had hacked its competition; drone maker DJI threated to sue
a researcher who submitted a critical bug to its bug-bounty program.
Whittaker quotes researchers who say they’re now just dumping bugs
anonymously, rather than risking civil liability for going through
channels.
Securing computers is hard. Getting it right requires, at a minimum:
1. The right to investigate computers;
2. The right to tell the truth about what you find in those investigations; and
3. The right to reconfigure computers to try to fix defects affect you or people you want to help.
This is the minimum, necessary precondition for security. But laws like
the CFAA and DMCA 1201, as well as license agreements, civil threats,
weak anti-SLAPP protections and patchwork cost-shifting mechanisms for
people victimized by corporations seeking to silence them means that all
of these are under threat.
Our world is made of computers; they are woven into devices in our
bodies and devices we put our bodies into – they hold the power of
financial security, integrity in our health and personal information,
and even life-or-death. Unless we get this right, we are in enormous
trouble.
So, your landlord/parents/home inspector/favorite movie star is dropping by, and your place is a disaster. You don’t have much time to clean it up. You’re in emergency mode. Let’s get started.
Don’t panic. Panic leads to fear, fear leads to procrastination, procrastination leads to the dark side. You can do this, but you have to stay calm.
Unlike maintenance cleaning, we’re not looking to completely unfuck one space at a time. Instead, we want to decrease the overall mess in stages, spread evenly across the whole area that we’re concerned about. If you think your home is at Level 10 filth, we want to bring the whole thing down to a Level 9, and then down from there. One really clean spot in an otherwise messy home is not going to be helpful here.
Get prepared. You’ll want to shut the computer down (or turn the modem off if you need your computer to play music). Trust me. Get your music going. Gather up trash bags, your vacuum and mop, some rags or paper towel, sponges, and other cleaning supplies. Use what you have on hand. Don’t get distracted running to the store and spending an hour browsing cleaning supplies. A multi-purpose cleaning concentrate or a jug of vinegar will be just fine.
Breaks are very important. Depending on your time constraints, work in 20/10s (20 minutes working, 10-minute break) or 45/15s. But take breaks because otherwise you’re marathoning, and marathon cleaning is no one’s friend. Keep hydrated, don’t forget to eat, and check in with yourself frequently to make sure you’re physically doing OK.
Make your bed. This will be your home base if you get overwhelmed or need somewhere clear to take a break.
Start with the garbage. Going from room to room, throw out anything that is obvious trash. Once you fill a bag, take it out. Repeat as many times as necessary.
Move on to dishes. Gather the dishes from all over your house and bring them to the kitchen. If you can, start them soaking in a sink of hot, soapy water or start loading the dishwasher. After the dishes are all in one place, spend one 20/10 getting started getting them under control.
Now it’s time for your flat surfaces. Countertops, tables, dresser tops, etc. Clear them off and wipe them down. Don’t get distracted in too much sorting and organizing. We’re in crisis mode here. There will be time to get in-depth once this is all done. The same applies to cabinets and closets. Unless you have reason to believe people will be opening closed doors, leave these alone for now.
Attack the floordrobe and shoe pile. Get your clothes either put away or in the hamper. Start a load of laundry if you need to, but keep in mind that laundry and dishes have three steps: wash, dry, and put it away, goddammit!
Get random stuff up off the floors. If something is trash-worthy, throw it away now rather than just move it around a bunch of times. Otherwise, put stuff where it belongs.
Take another 20/10 or 45/15 to catch up on more dishes, if needed.
Head into the bathroom. Pour some cleaner in the toilet bowl, fill the sink with hot water and cleaner, and either spray the tub and shower with cleaner, or fill the tub up with some hot water and add cleaner and let it soak. Put everything away that’s out and shouldn’t be, clean the mirror, counters, and toilet seat. Sweep or dry mop the floor. Wipe down the sink and tub/shower, and give the toilet bowl a scrub. Mop the floor.
Sweep and mop the kitchen floor.
Vacuum everything you can, and sweep everything you can’t.
Walk outside of your house (don’t lock yourself out, please). Walk back in and see what catches your eye first. Go and deal with that.
If you’re being inspected or your landlord is coming in for repairs, spend time on whatever area they’ll be focusing on.
Give the whole place one more once-over and pay attention to anything you’ve missed so far.
It’s an old trick, but if your place is a little funky-smelling, put a pan of water on the stove on low heat and add some citrus or cinnamon or vanilla. Don’t leave it unattended or forget about it.
Take a shower, put on something clean, and eat something.
You can do this. It’s overwhelming, yes, but it is not impossible. You just need to do it. You have a list. You have directions. You have a whole bunch of Internet strangers who have been there before and who are cheering you on. You can do this, but you need to get started.
Why are you still here? GO. START. NOW.
the number of times in my past that I desperately wanted/needed someone to sit me down and tell me this stuff. I will never get back the hours and hours lost to headless-chicken mode, but it’s nice to know that in the last year I’ve learned so many coping mechanisms 😀
