In their replies there are people also saying it’s important so as to make sure to not get Covid and I just fucking can’t with these people anymore man

Nonviolent protest is tanking. You soak the brutality in light that the regime prefers to do in the privacy of isolation and darkness against the most vulnerable. And by doing so you gum up their ability to harm those without the tools to protect themselves from their state sponsored violence.

Posting from my cell phone "haha they'll never find me if I wear a mask!"

Exactly. At some level, one of the point of civil disobedience is to make the State arrest you and/or violate your rights!

The other thing (coming from someone in a RED area) is that rank-and-file R voters dismiss protests as "outside agitators bussed in by Soros" or whatever. Seeing their neighbors peacefully protesting makes it harder to maintain that lie.

from harming your more vulnerable neighbors.

Their credibility with courts is shit. They couldnt even convict the sandwich guy on a misdemeanor that he confessed to, and that was before two of their angry mall ninjas killed anyone. They cant dish out petty revenge on scale. In fact the endeavor to becomes a side quest that prevents them

Accept the reality that if they get two seconds of your face on their device they have your name in seconds. Opsec doesnt give you safety. It didnt for civil rights demonstrators against kkk infested police. What protects you is numbers and accessibility to the movement.

Every ICE/CBP clown wasting his time arresting, harrassing, or manhandling Joe Citizen is time he isnt spending kidnapping an immigrant. Every drone in the office wasting hours putting every twin cities resident in a revenge database is not spending that time locating immigrants to kidnap.

Obviously if someone feels it’s necessary, go for it! But it’s become de rigueur in some spaces to camouflage your identity before any form of dissent or activism, which actually makes low-risk activities feel a lot scarier and seem a lot more sinister.

Online security theater posting made me really afraid about having my phone or showing my face before going to a no kings protest and then when I got there it was a great time and my mom was taking pictures of everything lol. I felt ridiculous because I almost didn’t go people made it sound so risky

ICE has already spent $172 million to purchase two warehouses, one in Hagerstown, MD and one in Surprise, AZ.

ICE will then have to pay more to convert them into makeshift detention camps. Leaked reports suggest each of these two warehouses will hold 1,500 people each.

Update on the facility in Virginia mentioned above: bsky.app/profile/akur...

DHS is now claiming that the warehouses they are purchasing "will not be warehouses."

Except they are literally warehouses!

Thankfully, we never knew who Rosa Parks was, due to her absolutely perfect opsec

Everyone knew the FBI knew exactly whom they were.