Digital books and libraries are more important than ever. We need to be up on what is happening with them in terms of access, surveillance, and more. So we highly recommend this new series from our friends at Library Futures
https://engelberg-center-live.simplecast.com/episodes/so-what-is-an-ebook-anyway
Instead of lowering grocery prices, taking on Big Tech or stopping data broker fueled murders like what we saw in Minnesota, the FTC is picking on trans kids.
https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/us-ftc-workshop-criticizing-medical-care-transgender-youth-draws-staff-2025-07-02/ https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/us-ftc-workshop-criticizing-medical-care-transgender-youth-draws-staff-2025-07-02/
New music releases that are inspiring us rn:
https://blossom.primal.net/838ad24e00cb8aacffd8aee0b12dfec004f33409f7173f45a68134b73ad61f85.mov
We want to make sure everyone, including queer + trans people, are able to share content online without being censored. If you want to help go to
New music releases that are inspiring us rn:
https://blossom.primal.net/838ad24e00cb8aacffd8aee0b12dfec004f33409f7173f45a68134b73ad61f85.mov
The AI moratorium Senate is voting on THIS WEEKEND is disastrous.
AI algorithms are increasingly used to decide who gets a job, a loan, an apartment, or quality healthcare, with little oversight.
If you care about this, TAKE ACTION! Link in bio
https://blossom.primal.net/18fea3ff805ef0e852d4d3d565b013e01993e1090a0903968cce5cd3fc3fe89c.mov
This 10-year AI regulation moratorium that Republican Senators are pushing as part of their “One Big, Beautiful Bill” budget package would not only block new state + local rules protecting us from AI discrimination in housing, employment, and healthcare but could also erase years of hard work passing bans on privacy-invading AI tech like facial recognition. The same tech being actively used by police, ICE + military to target vulnerable people, especially black and brown communities.
The Senate is voting THIS WEEKEND. Make some noise and urge your Senators to stop this backdoor AI moratorium + protect our civil rights over tech companies’ profits.
813-213-3989
https://www.fightforthefuture.org/actions/stop-the-ai-regulation-moratorium
Regular reminder that consumer credit scores are younger than cell phones 💗
Using FICO and mass, computerized consumer surveillance as a startpoint here. For a detailed history, read:
JUST RELEASED: Ryan Cassata dropped a new song about resisting LGTBQ censorship bills like KOSA that’ll destroy queer spaces + vital health resources
online.
Go to fftf.link/cantpridewithus + tell lawmakers there’s no pride in censorship! ✨
https://blossom.primal.net/4863b19ec74a5e35d296207eb826c83159f8f4d3536485fc64f43da054c9d1ee.mp4
Journalists traveling to the U.S.
BEWARE
Mahmoud Khalil is free👏 But he should never have been detained in the first place.
“Dissent is not grounds for deportation.” - ACLU
🚨Over 180 million passwords for email, social media, health + government platforms were leaked this week. Change your passwords, make sure they’re alphanumeric, and turn on 2FA.
There’s a thing called the politician’s fallacy that explains a lot about congressional dysfunction. Here’s why this is especially tricky when it comes to tech + free speech:
The lawmakers assassinated in MN are not the first victims of murder enabled by the data broker industry. Many victims are women + marginalized people targeted by abusers or stalkers.
https://www.wired.com/story/minnesota-lawmaker-shootings-people-search-data-brokers/
Our Deputy Director, Evan Greer, spoke with Wired about simple, concrete steps protestors can take to make your communications, location + private information harder to access: https://www.wired.com/story/how-to-protest-safely-surveillance-digital-privacy/
WEDNESDAY @7pm ET
We’re joining Media Justice, Muslims for Just Futures + other activists to discuss how Big Tech is supercharging the rising violence we’re seeing in free speech suppression and how to resist.
RSVP here to join: https://mediajustice.zoom.us/meeting/register/azQp-Ew7RceAq1k-_jg1tg#/registration
Join the Action Hour tomorrow to hear updates from tech workers + organizers on a range of efforts targeting Big Tech's contracts with apartheid Israel –– including a Google shareholder resolution that will be voted on this Friday –– and take action with us to hold these companies accountable:
https://www.bigtechfuelsgenocide.com
The FBI has re-upped a number of investigations claiming ‘potential public corruption’ without any apparent criminal violations or new evidence of federal statute violations- we've got some concerns. 🪡🧵
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/05/27/fbi-investigation-dobbs-leak-dc-pipe-bombs/
We joined a press freedom coalition with Defending Rights + Dissent, Pen America and other advocates + experts in a letter to the FBI demanding answers.
The FBI has re-upped a number of investigations claiming ‘potential public corruption’ without any apparent criminal violations or new evidence of federal statute violations- we've got some concerns. 🪡🧵
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/05/27/fbi-investigation-dobbs-leak-dc-pipe-bombs/
Is the true aim of this probe about confronting public corruption?
Likely not. It's about threatening journalists + constitutionally protected newsgathering activities.
The FBI has re-upped a number of investigations claiming ‘potential public corruption’ without any apparent criminal violations or new evidence of federal statute violations- we've got some concerns. 🪡🧵
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/05/27/fbi-investigation-dobbs-leak-dc-pipe-bombs/
One investigation is focused on sniffing out the #journalist who leaked the #SCOTUS decision to end the constitutional right to #abortion in May of 2022...which has already been done + showed no crime related to the leak.
The FBI has re-upped a number of investigations claiming ‘potential public corruption’ without any apparent criminal violations or new evidence of federal statute violations- we've got some concerns. 🪡🧵
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/05/27/fbi-investigation-dobbs-leak-dc-pipe-bombs/