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smol-insurrection:

YOU NEED GOOD SECURITY CULTURE. The USA has one of the most powerful anti-radical police states in the world, and they WILL clamp down hard on any opposition, peaceful or otherwise.

Here’s some resources which might help:

privacytools, which should help teach you a bit about encryption and provide you with good starting points for making your communications that little bit harder to detect and read.

Download Tor, a browser which, with a little bit of extra caution will help keep a lot of what you do online secret.

Start using an encrypted messenger app on your phone. Telegram is the most popular, but its encryption is not the best. Personally I recommend using Wire (which also works as a desktop messenger app), or even WhatsApp functions acceptably.

Learn how to use and set up Proxies and a VPN

Start using an encrypted and independent email service. Many radical groups use riseup.net but they are very well known to security services and are monitored more closely than most. Their server ownership is also in question. I use Proton Mail but there are other services too.

When actually doing actions offline, learn how to maintain anonymity. Black Bloc is a good option for this (here’s a video on how to at a basic level, but the gist of it is to cover your face as much as possible, and to dress entirely in black), but there are other tactics such as all wearing boiler suits of the same colour, or simply destroying CCTV and other surveillance devices in the area you are operating in.

STAY SAFE. DON’T DO ANYTHING STUPID. WE NEED YOUR HELP.

chicaner:

-Get any doctor’s appointment taken care of if you have Obamacare
-Take advantage of any student loan forgiveness if you can
-Get an IUD if you need birth control
-Legally change your name if you’re trans
-Get a passport
-Save up your money

We have little under two months until the presidency changes over. Take advantage of your rights while you have them. Please feel free to add onto this post, these are the only things I can think of right now.

numb3r5ev3n:

jimmyfury:

nethilia:

senatorgana:

i was sitting on my couch, in tears, and my dad, an Old Liberal, sits down next to me and he says

‘i know i can’t say anything that will make any of this better, but i want you to know that, in 1980, when i was 18 years old, i watched the country elect ronald reagan, and i was just as devastated as you are now. it felt like everyone had gone insane. my friends and i joked about moving to canada or japan or england, just like you are with your friends. i was angry then, and i’m still a little bitter now, but I got through it. we all did. donald trump is not ronald reagan, i know, but if i can get through it, so can you.’

anyway that soothed my hurt a miniscule amount, hope it soothes you a bit

I keep seeing this comparison and @tiddybones? and I talked about it yesterday too.

“but if i can get through it”

A lot of gay men didn’t get through Reagan’s presidency.

A lot of black people didn’t get through Reagan’s presidency.

A lot of trans people didn’t get through Reagan’s presidency.

A lot of mentally ill people didn’t get through Reagan’s presidency.

Ronald Reagan’s presidency flat out murdered us. His policies and opinions about HIV murdered hundreds of thousands of at risk people. He defunded the mental healthcare system and it has NEVER been fixed. To this day mentally ill people are still disproportionately likely to be homeless because the hospitals that could have been overhauled to provide better care were instead shut down.

And we in 2016, 27 years after he left office, are STILL struggling with shit he put into effect. POC are still intentionally targeted and shoveled into the prison system by his war on drugs. His tax and wage policies are the reason our current minimum wage is 20 years behind the national inflation rate making it impossible to survive on. 

Too many poor, queer, non-white, non-binary, mentally ill, addicted, or just desperate people did not survive Reagan’s presidency.

The good news is we do have survivors of Reagan’s presidency. We have community leaders who managed to get through and can guide us through Trumps presidency together thanks to a level of communication and connectedness we didn’t have during Reagan’s reign. 

We will do better this time. We have to.

Yeah, anyone burbling “we survived” platitudes were never in danger of not surviving in the first place.

shadesofmauve:

leeshajoy:

Let’s be real here: the only reason Republican congressmen were distancing themselves from Trump was because they were afraid he was going to cost them their jobs and their majority.

He didn’t.

The Republican-led Congress has no reason not to go along with whatever President Trump says and does in office. There are no “checks and balances” for him.

This is exactly what I fear, with the lone hope being that he’s such an arbitrary loose cannon that he will, at some point, manage to genuinely piss them off.

okay–anyways:

i would try to make a joke but we just got a vice president who openly, proudly admits he would subject children to psychological torture if it meant there was even a chance that they wouldn’t grow up to be like me. a specific kind of psychological torture that is so traumatizing it often ends with children taking their own lives. we have a vice president who would rather have a dead child than a gay one. 

queen-nubiana:

The first transgender suicide hotline is now up and running in the U.S. You can reach Trans Lifeline at 877-565-8860.

platonicsheith:

summary of post election school day

– had a Puerto Rican kid come up to me and say “well. we’re both getting kicked out of the country.”
– had an Ecuadorean kid tell me we have to “stick together”
– bonded with three different teachers over our dismay at the election results. one sat down at my lunch table and talked about how scared he was
– talked about the main issues people were concerned with in my almost completely white ap lit class. most popular issue? climate change. “what issue were you most concerned about?” “trump’s stance on climate change really irked me”
– had a discussion about the candidates with my sociology class and realized i’m the only person of color in there
– had to hear a blatantly homophobic racist transphobic ableist misogynistic asshole talk about how happy he was very loudly first thing in the morning on the school bus
– every teacher I had today was tired, sad, and pissed off

afloweroutofstone:

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