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Don’t Post About Crimes @katerosebee.bsky.social · 7h

And this is my eternal reminder that I did this in an area with like 10,000 people! A digital security study hall, circulated amongst assorted organizing groups (everybody from Food Not Bombs to Indivisible chapters, seriously) would probably be even more of a blast in a bigger town or city.

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Don’t Post About Crimes @katerosebee.bsky.social · 7h

I'm coming to believe these "body double and work on your privacy to-dos" meetups are worth 100 activist checklists that we mean well when we link, but like 5% of people actually read.
Instead everyone legit installed Signal, practiced with it, added each other, and ate breakfast sandwiches.

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Don’t Post About Crimes @katerosebee.bsky.social · 7h

Held our first digital security study hall, sent out to all assorted lefty organizing groups in our area and it was so much fun! People installed Signal, worked on their to-do lists, and taught each other.
Gonna try to do this at least 2x a month. Feel like the social aspect is what makes it work.

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Don’t Post About Crimes @katerosebee.bsky.social · 9h

How incredibly cute this would be as a tattoo.

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Don’t Post About Crimes @katerosebee.bsky.social · 9h

I have no tattoos but I feel like if I did, something inspired by these indefinite dinner party scenes would def be one of them. Longer tables are core to my ethos.

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Don’t Post About Crimes @katerosebee.bsky.social · 11h

The rural aesthetic paradox: the Gorge must keep pristine views for Portland visitors at the expense of housing, and also be dumping ground for the Portland Harbor superfund site. No apartments allowed, but 120 truckloads a day of carcinogenic material: www.columbiagorgenews.com/news/portlan...

Portland superfund cleanup could multiply truck traffic on Wasco’s dangerous landfill road

THE DALLES — The trucks would come six days a week, 24 hours a day, from July to October. Roughly 120 of them per day, climbing a steep two-lane grade

www.columbiagorgenews.com

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Don’t Post About Crimes @katerosebee.bsky.social · 1d

I'm keeping a long list of research questions for if/when I someday get graduate students interested in how surveillance tech has become yet another extraction economy in rural America. I will help you write your grants, for real.

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Don’t Post About Crimes @katerosebee.bsky.social · 1d

Even the issue of huckleberries being overpicked and poached berries fenced to commercial buyers, I keep hearing people suggest solving this problem with more forest service policing and even cameras. The encroachment of surveillance tech into the most remote places instead of addressing poverty.

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Don’t Post About Crimes @katerosebee.bsky.social · 1d

Much like at the US border, where tech is tested on border town populations, other rural places are also testing sites for surveillance tech and practices, "understaffing" a typical excuse.
With our tiny budgets, policing, prisons, and surveillance also disproportionately drain our counties dry.

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Don’t Post About Crimes @katerosebee.bsky.social · 1d

Dumps, prisons, distribution warehouses, data centers, telecomms, water treatment, energy production facilities are typically sited in rural places.
Areas like where I live are also home to what we locally call "Bombs Incorporated," aka military drone tech, especially imaging systems.

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Don’t Post About Crimes @katerosebee.bsky.social · 1d

Were that I had five more lifetimes worth of time, I'd be transitioning to working more on surveillance in rural America, the inversion of how highly-surveilled systems and industries are pushed out to places with growing BIPOC, poor, elderly, populations.
Ex: drones are built and tested out here.

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Don’t Post About Crimes @katerosebee.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah I think most BLM "full time" campers are the people who put in a lot of work to stay out of sight and out of the enforcement crosshairs. I'm in a car camping group for women on FB and I would venture a guess that it's about 1/3 people who are living this way.

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Don’t Post About Crimes @katerosebee.bsky.social · 1d

The aesthetic and moral paradox of rural America plays out over and over again: people want it to be these beautiful "unspoiled" places where they can recreate or be closer to nature. But it's also where they push everything they don't want to look at, including people with no other home.

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Don’t Post About Crimes @katerosebee.bsky.social · 1d

No commercial licenses were given out for huckleberries in our local forests this year. I can't read this @highcountrynews.org article on the current crisis for Indigenous huckleberry needs without seeing how poverty plays a role in who goes out to pick anyway. www.hcn.org/issues/57-3/...

The true cost of the huckleberry industry - High Country News

The Ḱamíłpa Band of the Yakama Nation has wanted an end to commercial picking of a critical cultural resource for years. Finally, the Forest Service is expected to make a decision.

www.hcn.org

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Don’t Post About Crimes @katerosebee.bsky.social · 1d

In my own tiny 12000 person mostly federal land county, the fingerprints of the housing crisis from larger cities like Vancouver and Portland are everywhere. National forests are not built for ex: a meaningful level of trash removal, and forgeable food now needs to feed many more people full time.

Don’t Post About Crimes @katerosebee.bsky.social · 1d

An excellent article from @highcountrynews.org that digs into the role public lands play in the question of where unhoused families go when they're pushed out of everywhere else. www.hcn.org/issues/53-10...

Where do public lands factor into the homelessness crisis? - High Country News

As the housing crisis in the West deepens, more unhoused people are making a home outside.

www.hcn.org

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Don’t Post About Crimes @katerosebee.bsky.social · 1d

An excellent article from @highcountrynews.org that digs into the role public lands play in the question of where unhoused families go when they're pushed out of everywhere else. www.hcn.org/issues/53-10...

Where do public lands factor into the homelessness crisis? - High Country News

As the housing crisis in the West deepens, more unhoused people are making a home outside.

www.hcn.org

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Don’t Post About Crimes @katerosebee.bsky.social · 1d

I just don't think there's any conversation you can really have about public lands, about preserving them and managing them and funding them without talking about how (much like public libraries) they become this unintentional safety net for people who are violently "swept" out of everywhere else.

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Don’t Post About Crimes @katerosebee.bsky.social · 1d

On the number of unhoused people living in national forest land:

Howard Hudson @hwrdhdsn.bsky.social · 1d

It’s certainly true in Oregon. It also makes delivering any level of services vastly more complicated. Well baby care? Food delivery? Vaccines? Child protective services? Schooling? Elder care? Emergency services? Drug & alcohol treatment services?
BLM is REMOTE, and often cut off by rough weather.

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Don’t Post About Crimes @katerosebee.bsky.social · 1d

I feel like most people truly have no concept of how many unhoused people now live in state and national forests, particularly on BLM land. Especially families living out of vehicles.
I've become really impatient with environmental orgs and activists who refuse to engage with this reality.

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The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 2d

Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight.

Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

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Don’t Post About Crimes @katerosebee.bsky.social · 1d

Thinking a lot about how it's often Jews who get disproportionate punishment from Zionists for "stepping out of line," for implied betrayal of some obligation.

Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 2d

Out of nine groups targeted by the Trump admin in its initial crackdown on left-wing organizing, two - Jewish Voice for Peace and IfNotNow - are explicitly Jewish. Throw in Soros and it’s three of nine - one third. Trump thinks a third of the US left is Jewish. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

www.reuters.com

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 2d

During the Red Scare of the 1950’s, two-thirds of the people questioned by McCarthy were Jewish. A war against the left is always going to disproportionately target Jews.

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 2d

Out of nine groups targeted by the Trump admin in its initial crackdown on left-wing organizing, two - Jewish Voice for Peace and IfNotNow - are explicitly Jewish. Throw in Soros and it’s three of nine - one third. Trump thinks a third of the US left is Jewish. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

www.reuters.com

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Don’t Post About Crimes @katerosebee.bsky.social · 2d

The Cold Open has become so consistent in horror that it really jumps out at me when there isn't really one, or it kind of softballs it on a weird bit of visual. Ex: House of the Devil (no cold open at all, retro!) or Vivarium (softball).

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Don’t Post About Crimes @katerosebee.bsky.social · 2d

The Cold Open (spooky thing in the first scene to prep the audience) has become ubiquitous in horror movies. I really like it, and appreciate its place in the distraction age.
I think it helps the audience to context-switch from whatever they were up to before they sat down for the movie.

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