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@directactionworks

He/him Just trying to learn how to make the world a bit better a little at a time . Also- NSFW gets shared here so yeah you've been warned I'm all over the place.

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The WIRED Guide to Protecting Yourself From Government Surveillance Donald Trump has vowed to deport millions and jail his enemies. To carry out that agenda, his administration will exploit America’s digital surveillance machine. Here are some steps you can take to ev...

Since the US has no real privacy protections to speak of, you might want to do some of that yourself over the next few years.

www.wired.com/story/the-wi...

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LLMs can unmask pseudonymous users at scale with surprising accuracy Pseudonymity has never been perfect for preserving privacy. Soon it may be pointless.

Time to rethink whether #DeIdentification #Anonymization provides any #privacy protection at all.

Of _course_ #ArtificialIntelligence #LargeLanguageModels are fantastic at re-identifying users. It is the exact type of task they excel at--finding correlations in data

arstechnica.com/security/202...

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β€œIt is impossible to protect privacy from authoritarianism without addressing consumer privacy.” - from Daniel J. Solove, Privacy in Authoritarian Times - final published version here: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... #PrivacyMatters

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Subscribe to Erin In The Morning News and discussion on trans legislation and life. Click to read Erin In The Morning, by Erin Reed, a Substack publication with hundreds of thousands of subscribers.

10. Lastly, EITM is an award-winning media outlet covering LGBTQ+ issues every day. You can subscribe to support our journalism at www.erininthemorning.com/subscribe.

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9. The message from Democratic voters is not subtle. Abandoning transgender people does not win you new supportersβ€”but it may win you an uphill primary challenge you are likely to lose.

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Veteran Democrat Carla Cunningham suffers huge loss in Charlotte primary β€’ NC Newsline NC House Democrat Carla Cunningham faced a tough reelection campaign after controversial remarks about immigrants and a veto-override vote.

8. He tried to come back this year in a rematch, and lost this time 64-36%.

ncnewsline.com/2026/03/04/v...

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7. While Levy's victory was the most notable of the night, other anti-transgender and right-leaning Democrats faced similar fates. Former Representative Michael Wray, who voted with Republicans on sports bans and trans youth care bans, lost his primary by 34 votes in 2024.

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6. She ran on an explicitly pro-LGBTQ+ platform, writing on Facebook that "this campaign has always been about showing up for working families, Seniors, LGBTQ+ neighbors, immigrant communities, veterans and students to ensure our values are consistently represented in Raleigh."

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5. Instead, the district will be represented by progressive Democratic challenger Veleria Levy, a community health policy advocate with more than 20 years of experience in healthcare and HIV advocacy.

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A Purity Test for Democrats The North Carolina Democratic Party won’t share voter-turnout tools with certain candidates who previously voted to override the governor’s vetoes.

4. Asked to explain his vote, Majeed offered only: "There were some moral issues in there that I had some sentiments, some deep sentiments about it." Afterwards, the North Carolina Democratic Party revoked his access to VoteBuilder, the party's voter contact software.

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Gov. Josh Stein called House Bill 805 "mean-spirited" toward trans people. Now it's law Rep. Nasif Majeed, a Mecklenburg County Democrat, cast the deciding vote to override Stein's veto. The bill originally started as an effort to help people get pornographic material removed, but the Se...

3. In July 2025, Majeed became one of the most consequential anti-transgender Democrats in the country. He provided the sole Democratic vote necessary for Republicans to override Governor Josh Stein's veto of HB 805, a sweeping anti-trans omnibus bill.

www.wunc.org/politics/202...

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Veleria M. Levy
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Nasif Majeed
1,889
Tucker Neal
376
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Not Reported
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CHOICE TOTAL Veleria M. Levy 4,949 Nasif Majeed 1,889 Tucker Neal 376 Tie Not Reported Not Participating

2. Last night, primary elections in North Carolina told a different story: if you abandon trans people, your Dem voters will abandon you. The state's most prominent anti-trans Dem, Nasif Majeed, fell to progressive challenger Veleria Levy, who ran on a pro-LGBTQ+ platform, by more than 40 points.

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#NotNewsom

reason 1 bazillion and 2 why a newsom presidential run will fail. do not let him anywhere near even a primary

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To the center right and third way Democrats who have been trying to triangulate on a position that allowed them to abandon trans folks and push increasingly far right agenda items to appeal to the nazis, your time is over.
This should scare the newsom kkkrew deeply as they will lose the election

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no country should have permanent bases within another.

thats generally called occupation.

need a joint military base for allies , great, the host can provide it.

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I desire an absolute end to american hegemony and empire.

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the risk is the end of the petro dollar to avoid global war.

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People I trust who know about money are feeling like the world is on the brink of a financial crisis on the scale of 2008, so that's fun

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Let this serve as a warning to Dems who abandon trans folks and vote for anti trans bills. You will be primaried, and you will lose.

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The issue with the coverage of the far right is that it is generally done to make those covering it and their audience feel good about themselves rather that actually tackles the roots of the issue

We cannot defeat the far right if we refuse to address systemic forms of oppression

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no one talked about covid either.

not at first. then as deaths started happening to people they knew it happened.

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It's absolutely surreal how no one is talking about the Iran war in daily life. No one is discussing it and they seem oblivious. This conflict is spiraling and deteriorating in a way that it will substantially disrupt daily life for most of the world for the first time in decades.

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Funny thing about white supremacist Christian nationalists is no matter how many bribes you give them, if you’re not white and Christian, they ain’t gonna care about your safety or concerns.

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BREAKING: SHAMWOW GETS RINSED!

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JUST IN: Democrat Alex Holladay has flipped a GOP-held seat in the Arkansas state House.

The Republican governor had initially called the special election in June, but a court moved up the contest.

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Sex Workers Versus the Algorithm No seriously, fuck the algorithm.

today on @theflytrapmedia.com a banger (pun extremely intended) from @sesmith.lol on the censorship of sex workers and how the algorithm and payment processers screw (pun extremely intended) with their hard-earned $$

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so we’re just calling it β€œthe war” now?

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Maryland, New Mexico Become Latest Blue States to Ban Local Contracts with ICE Governors Lujan Grisham and Moore signed laws barring local sheriffs and police from partnering with ICE’s 287(g) program, joining eight other states with similar prohibitions.

A recent bill in New Mexico that bans local and state agencies from partnering with ICE also effectively shuts down three counties’ detention programs and prevents any future ones.

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