Last updated: 6 Feb 25 07:07:41 (UTC)

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0. reliable information sources

  • project 2025 tracker - spreadsheet with 300 measurable objectives from the project 2025 original document.

  • fact checkers - bluesky list of people who work in fact-checking.

    • wondering if something you read is true or not? maybe it’s misinformation or, even worse, disinformation. don’t get dissed! see what these folks have to say about it.

  • news - bluesky feed with news from verified sources.

  • belingcat - independent journalism site

    • bellingcat is an independent investigative collective of researchers, investigators and citizen journalists brought together by a passion for open source research. we design and share verifiable methods of ethical digital investigation. by publishing walkthroughs to open source research methods and holding tailored training sessions on their use for journalists, human rights activists and members of the public, we’re broadening the scope and application of open source research. with over 30 staff and contributors in more than 20 countries, we operate in a unique field where advanced technology, forensic research, journalism, transparency and accountability come together.

  • 404 media - independent tech news site.

    • 404 media is a journalist-founded digital media company exploring the ways technology is shaping–and is shaped by–our world. we’re focused on investigative reports, longform features, blogs, and scoops about topics including: hacking, cybersecurity, cybercrime, sex, artificial intelligence, consumer rights, surveillance, privacy, and the democratization of the internet.

  • ProPublica - independent investigative journalism site

    • ProPublica is an independent, nonprofit newsroom that produces investigative journalism with moral force. we dig deep into important issues, shining a light on abuses of power and betrayals of public trust — and we stick with those issues as long as it takes to hold power to account.

  • AP news - a nonpartisan news site

    • accurate, fact-based, nonpartisan reporting.

  • democracy docket - news site

    • founded in 2020, democracy docket is a reliable source of news that delivers detailed analysis and expert commentary on voting rights and election litigation and policy that will shape our elections and democratic institutions for years to come. with a comprehensive database of over 800 cases, democracy docket tracks and reports on the latest election and voting-related litigation, providing filings, in-depth analysis and up-to-date developments about court proceedings

  • ballotpedia - digital encyclopedia

    • Ballotpedia is the digital encyclopedia of American politics, and the nation’s premier resource for unbiased information on elections, politics, and policy. We provide our readers curated content on all levels of U.S. politics that is relevant, reliable, and available for all. In addition, Ballotpedia’s policy content and assets are a gateway to learning about public policy and an unparalleled resource for clear, comprehensive, and factual information on key policy areas. We are firmly committed to neutrality in all our content.

  • bright line watch - political think-thank

    • at a time of potential danger to american democratic norms and institutions, it is more urgent than ever for scholars to highlight the risks to our system of government. in this spirit, bright line watch brings together a group of political scientists to monitor democratic practices, their resilience, and potential threats.

  • jacobin - socialist digital & printed magazine.

    • jacobin is a leading voice of the american left, offering socialist perspectives on politics, economics, and culture.

  • atmos - nonprofit focused on climate issues with a printed magazine and digital features.

    • atmos is a nonprofit media organization focused on the cross-pollination of climate and culture, delivering award-winning journalism and creative storytelling through a biannual print magazine, daily digital features, original newsletters, and more. our mission is to re-enchant people with nature and our shared humanity. we inspire cultural transformation and illuminate solutions to heal and protect the planet–now, and for generations to come.

  • leeja miller - youtube channel with fact-checked news & legal commentary from a progressive attorney.

  • user mag - independent tech publication.

    • a tech and online culture publication by Taylor Lorenz, featuring exclusive reporting, interviews, and insights about the online world.

  • power user - weekly and independent news podcast that reports on weekly relevant issues in tech and social media.

  • what the fuck just happened today ? - daily newsletter that delivers the most important actions taken by the trump administration per day.

    • wtf just happened today? is a sane, once-a-day newsletter helping normal people make sense of the news. curated daily and delivered to 200,000+ people every afternoon around 3 pm pacific.

  • protectors of democracy - bluesky list with pro-democracy accounts.

    • accounts that keep you engaged, updated, informed, and aware of news, actions, strategies, and events that aid in the preservation of our democracy to protect and defend our civil liberties

  • white house - here, you can directly read the executive orders, statements and remarks issued by trump.

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1. educational resources

1.0

  • on tyranny: twenty lessons from the twentieth century - by timothy snyder
    • on tyranny focuses on the concept of tyranny in the context of the modern united states politics, analyzing what snyder calls “america’s turn towards authoritarianism”. explaining that “(h)istory does not repeat, but it does instruct,” he analyzes recent european history to identify conditions that can enable established democracies to transform into dictatorships. the short (126 pages) book is presented as a series of twenty instructions on how to combat the rise of tyranny, such as “defend institutions”, “remember professional ethics”, and “believe in truth”.
  • hitler’s first hundred days: when germans embraced the third reich - by peter fritzsche
    • this book details the story of how germans came to embrace the third reich. germany in early 1933 was a country ravaged by years of economic depression and increasingly polarized between the extremes of left and right. over the spring of that year, germany was transformed from a republic, albeit a seriously faltering one, into a one-party dictatorship. the book examines the pivotal moments during this fateful period in which the nazis apparently won over the majority of germans to join them in their project to construct the third reich. it scrutinizes the events of the period—the elections and mass arrests, the bonfires and gunfire, the patriotic rallies and anti-jewish boycotts—to demonstrate both the terrifying power that the national socialists came to exert over ordinary germans and the powerful appeal of the new era that they promised.
  • the war that hitler won - by robert edwin herzstein
    • while the book addresses all forms of propaganda, beginning with newspapers, special mention must be given to the use of motion pictures as a means of indoctrinating the masses. some of the films summarized were intended to promote anti-semitism and aryan supremacy, others were more subtle. it is disturbing to think that the truth can be subverted so effectively and it will make you question how the mass media could be used for the same ends today by unscrupulous individuals.
  • the history of white people - by nell irvin painter
    • the author explores the idea of whiteness throughout history, beginning with ancient greece and continuing through the beginning of scientific racism in early modern europe to 19th- through 21st-century america.
  • a people’s history of the united states by howard zinn
    • in the book, zinn presented what he considered to be a different side of history from the more traditional “fundamental nationalist glorification of country”. zinn portrays a side of american history that can largely be seen as the exploitation and manipulation of the majority by rigged systems that hugely favor a small aggregate of elite rulers from across the orthodox political parties.
  • your computer is on fire - by various authors
    • the essays in your computer is on fire interrogate how our human and computational infrastructures overlap, showing why technologies that centralize power tend to weaken democracy. these practices are often kept out of sight until it is too late to question the costs of how they shape society. from energy-hungry server farms to racist and sexist algorithms, the digital is always irl, with everything that happens algorithmically or online influencing our offline lives as well. each essay proposes paths for action to understand and solve technological problems that are often ignored or misunderstood.
  • mutual aid - by dean spade
    • this book is about mutual aid: it explains why it is so important, what it looks like, and how to do it. it provides a grassroots theory of mutual aid as well as concrete tools for addressing some of the most difficult questions facing mutual aid groups, such as how to work in groups and make decisions together, how to prevent and address conflict, and how to deal with burnout so that we can build a lasting mobilization that can win.

1.1 what is happening right now within the USA government?

1.2 digital privacy

  • surveillance self-defense - guides for learning about digital privacy.
  • the hitchhiker’s guide to online anonymity - a bunch of guides for learning about digital privacy.
  • security gladiators
    • security gladiators is a source for online security and mobile security. to avoid internet scams, deceptive, fraudulent business implementations, use security gladiators’ how-to articles. security gladiators serves as online protection and security information source along with a protection agency for the internet users’ privacy and security. from vpns to the anti-virus programs, security gladiators is an encyclopedia of web security for every possible internet vulnerability for the web users.
  • privacy guides
    • privacy guides is a not-for-profit, volunteer-run project that hosts online communities and publishes news and recommendations surrounding privacy and security tools, services, and knowledge.
  • r/SelfHosted Wiki - a guide to self-hosting.
  • stop using TOR with VPNs - youtube video about best practices when using TOR and VPNs.
  • r/Privacy wiki - wiki with a lot of useful articles, guides, and links for becoming more secure online.

1.3 fascism, genocide & totalitarianism

1.4 democracy & democratic elections

  • about clark county
    • using the cast vote record (“cvr”) data for clark county, the election truth alliance (ETA) has identified voting pattern anomalies of significant concern. our analysis uncovers unusual phenomena in the early voting results not present in election day voting or mail-in voting results.

1.5 economic issues

  • keds - a creator with a phd in economics, who talks about economics in a simple yet fact-based way.

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  • immigration advocates network
    • search for immigration legal services providers by state, county, or detention facility. Only nonprofit organizations that provide free or low-cost immigration legal services are included in this directory.
  • know your rights under the u.s. constitution - no matter who is president
    • includes a card that you can print and use in case of detention.
  • what to do if you are stopped by the police, immigration agents or fbi
  • what to do before & after an arrest - digital poster.
    • the back of this poster includes a script and a general national number to report a raid and seek support.
    • there is an additional Chicago focused poster below that offers Chicago specific information.
  • attorney Martinez - licensed attorney specialized in immigration. she posts a lot of useful content on tiktok and other social media platforms.
  • here to stay network
    • united we dream is the largest immigrant youth-led community in the country. we create welcoming spaces for young people – regardless of immigration status – to support, engage, and empower them to make their voice heard and win! over 60% of our members are womxn and 20% identify as lgbtq. we are made up of fearless youth fighting to improve the lives of ourselves, our families and our communities. our vision is a society which celebrates our diversity and we believe in leading a multi-ethnic, intersectional path to get there. whether we’re organizing in the streets, building cutting edge technology systems, opening doors for lgbtq immigrant youth, clearing pathways to education, stopping deportations or creating alliances across social movements, united we dream puts undocumented immigrant youth in the driver’s seat to strategize, innovate and win.

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  • LGBTQ equality by State
    • the movement advancement project (map) tracks over 50 different LGBTQ-related laws and policies. this map shows the overall policy tallies (as distinct from sexual orientation or gender identity tallies) for each state, the district of columbia, and the five populated U.S. territories. a state’s policy tally scores the laws and policies within each state that shape LGBTQ people’s lives, experiences, and equality. the major categories of laws covered by the policy tally include: relationship & parental recognition, nondiscrimination, religious exemptions, lgbtq youth, health care, criminal justice, and identity documents.
  • them
    • them is powered by a diverse team of journalists, editors, artists, and creatives. each of us brings a distinct perspective to the lgbtq+ stories we tell, and our efforts are strengthened by the wide range of backgrounds and abilities that drive our work. with decades of journalism and artistic experience on staff, we aim to produce the most nuanced, carefully reported, and entertaining lgbtq+ journalism and content available today.
  • Prep4All
    • we’re identifying the laws, science, and research that empower the united states government to make hiv medication available to everyone who needs it, using that knowledge to hold our policymakers accountable, and driving the movement to finally establish a national prep program for un- and underinsured populations.

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4. non-privately owned social media sites & digital tools

4.0 social media

  • signal - whatsapp/private and secure messaging service
  • threema - private and secure messaging service
  • tox - private and secure messaging service
  • lemmy - and secure reddit alternative
  • redlib
    • an alternative private front-end to reddit, with its origins in libreddit.
  • bluesky - twitter alternative
  • pixelfeld - instagram alternative
  • invidious - youtube alternative

4.1 file sharing

  • scynthing- data sharing platform.
    • syncthing is a continuous file synchronization program. it synchronizes files between two or more computers in real time, safely protected from prying eyes. your data is your data alone and you deserve to choose where it is stored, whether it is shared with some third party, and how it’s transmitted over the internet.
  • send
    • send lets you share files with end-to-end encryption and a link that automatically expires. so you can keep what you share private and make sure your stuff doesn’t stay online forever.

4.2 internet browsing

  • duck duck go - google search alternative. it is not privacy-focused, but you won’t be giving your data to google.
  • firefox - privacy-focused browser.
  • tor browser - decentralized browser.
  • mullvad vpn - no personal info needed to use the service. you can pay anonymously as well.
  • proton vpn
    • proton was founded in 2014 by scientists who met at cern, the birthplace of the internet. we have always had a central mission: to build a better internet where privacy is the default. we’re community supported and believe in putting people over profit. we don’t answer to venture capital investors, advertisers, or other third parties and will never sell your data.

4.3 note-taking

  • joplin - markdown note-taking app with local storage.
  • obsidian - markdown note-taking app with local storage.
  • appflowy - an open-source alternative to notion.

4.4 other tools

  • proton mail - privacy-focused mail provider.
  • imazing
    • imazing is the world’s most trusted software to transfer and save your messages, music, files and data from your iphone or ipad to your mac or pc. gain powerful backup, data extraction, media, and file transfer capabilities, and much more with imazing.
  • pastebin
    • privatebin is a minimalist, open source online pastebin where the server has zero knowledge of pasted data.
  • virus total
    • analyse suspicious files, domains, ips and urls to detect malware and other breaches, automatically share them with the security community.

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5. how can you take action ?

  • join DemCast and engage in direct digital political action against fascism.
    • over the next year, DemCast will work to build a massive digital field team across all platforms. as a team, we will use tactics like social media swarming, algorithmic boosting and strategic commenting in addition to native posting and mutual amplification to help pro-democracy messaging trend across all social media platforms, garner attention from legacy media and pierce the algorithmic bubbles that surround political communities. we will also aim to lift clips from the left’s alternative media infrastructure to help it grow organically. we hope you’ll join us. our goal is not only to make a collective impact online, but to help each member grow their social presence. we need stronger, louder pro-democracy voices.
  • look for volunteering opportunities in your local library.
  • activist handbook
    • we write guides for activists. learn how to become an activist, plan a political campaign strategy, and start a grassroots movement - all while not burning out.
  • 198 methods of non-violent action
    • listed below are 198 of them, classified into three broad categories: nonviolent protest and persuasion, noncooperation (social, economic and political), and nonviolent intervention. a description and historical examples of each can be found in volume two of the politics of nonviolent action by dr. gene sharp.
  • run for something
    • run for something will recruit and support young, diverse progressives to run for down-ballot races in order to build sustainable power for democrats in all 50 states.
  • you do not flee a storm or: morale as a terrain of struggle - an essay about self-care and resistance.
  • join generalstrikeus - a decentralized strike network of collective resistance.

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6. digital communities

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7. hotlines

  • call blackline - centers BIPOC, LGBTQ+ black femme lens
    • 800-604-5841
  • trans lifeline - run by and for trans people
    • 877-565-8860 (US)
    • 877-330-6366 (Canada)
  • wildflower alliance peer support line - trained peer supporters
    • 888-407-4515
  • stronghearts native helpline - centering native americans & alaska natives
    • 844-762-8483
  • thrive lifeline - trans-led and operated
    • 313-662-8209
  • LGBT national help center
    • 888-843-4564
  • inclusiveTherapists.com/crisis
    • warmlines that do not call the police, helplines, alternatives to suicide

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8. other resources

  • “Shit’s Getting Weird” prep list by Mina Markham
  • goblin page a bunch of super useful resources about various topics such as digital privacy, open-source software, activism, etc).
  • university of colorado boulder - student legal services
    • student legal services is a trusted law firm dedicated exclusively to serving the legal needs of cu boulder students. our attorneys provide high-quality, accessible legal services to help eligible students resolve or minimize their legal situations so they can focus on school and learn to avoid legal problems in the future. see our services, eligibility requirements, attorneys and client testimonials below or by using our main menu. services are by appointment only.

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