Craig Cunningham @craigevil@librem.one

Facts:

India has nearly 1.4 billion citizens

Nearly 800 million of them live on less than $1.90 per day

Yet EVERY singly Indian citizen is required to have a voter ID to vote in national elections

There's no excuse!

RT if we should do the same! https://twitter.com/charliekirk11/status/1290341825291489280 #Turning_Point_USA #Election #ID #India

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Joe Biden wants:

––To abolish the Hyde Amendment

––To implement taxpayer-funded abortions

––Legalize abortions up until the point of birth

Yet in 2008, he openly stated that life begins at conception

What changed?

🤔 https://twitter.com/charliekirk11/status/1290324408087674893 #Turning_Point_USA #Biden

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Searching for a compact desktop that also respects your #privacy ?

Have a look at the Librem Mini: https://puri.sm/products/librem-mini/

- Disabled & neutralized Intel Management Engine
- Detect hardware & software tampering
- Free, private, secure and stable GNU/#Linux

#security #freedom

ReverseEagle is a young community thriving to stop monolithic organizations taking over the web and the software we use, for the sake of our privacy, security, freedom and health.

Currently, we are dedicated to helping developers with removing or replacing the unnecessary proprietary code in their open source projects, and also helping you find free and open-source alternatives to everyday software and services.

The liberal media criticizes Republican governors from Texas, Florida and Arizona.

But New York has almost twice as many COVID-19 deaths than those three Republican states COMBINED! https://twitter.com/LifeNewsToo/status/1290334978367160327 #Arizona #Florida #NewYork #Republican #Texas

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RT @torproject: Tor’s Bug Smash Fund is back for its second year! 👾💥

Every donation made today through the month of August will go toward…

7th Consecutive Month Of Record Firearm Background Checks https://rantingly.com/7th-consecutive-month-of-record-firearm-background-checks/ #middle-misc

#invidious the instance closes down, long live invidious the software!

The lead developer is stepping down, but the project lives on. If you don't host your own, other public instances are listed at instances.invidio.us/ .

> Starting September 1st, I'm shutting down the user-facing portion of invidio.us and stepping away from development. [ . . . ]‌

> [ . . . ]‌ If you're a patron on Liberapay, I would urge you to switch your donation to iv-org, as that will ensure it goes to the stewards of the project going forward.

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Exclusive: Arizona bar owner charged with crime for violating COVID-19 executive order, says business may not survive https://www.theblaze.com/news/arizona-bar-owner-charged-with-crime-for-violating-covid-19-executive-order-says-business-may-not-survive

@michel_slm @vfrmedia @onepict @PINE64

https://e.foundation/ went a step further and actually removed any Google calls from the LineageOS code, which is probably closest to what you're looking for

Challenge coins: a symbol of kinship and respect for great achievements. For the first time, EFF challenge coins are available (only this summer) and they’re individually numbered for each supporter. https://supporters.eff.org/eff30-challenge-coins

"Even as the #government attempts to frame the #debate over the banning of #Chinese companies like #TikTok and #Huawei over privacy concerns, it continues to try to ban the #encryption of #data and #communications at home."
by @AlanRMacLeod
https://www.mintpressnews.com/microsoft-purchase-tiktok-us-tightens-grip-international-media/269945/ https://twitter.com/MintPressNews/status/1290351895735701504 #BehindTheHeadline #Microsoft

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There is no one-size-fits-all solution when it comes to VPNs. Just like email, there are many VPN services out there and you should choose the service that works best for you. https://ssd.eff.org/en/module/choosing-vpn-thats-right-you

Just a periodic reminder: make sure you have a *different* password for every website you use. Store them all in a password manager. The best option, in my opinion, is to host your own Bitwarden instance for your friends and family. Here's how: https://tech.oeru.org/setting-your-own-bitwarden-password-keeper-and-sync-server Cheap & easy.

Also, use 2FA if you think you can manage it! If you don't think so or don't know what it is, probably best not to.

Bill Gates: “You Don’t Have a Choice – Normalcy Only Returns When We Largely Vaccinate the Entire Population” (Video) https://sonsoflibertymedia.com/bill-gates-you-dont-have-a-choice-normalcy-only-returns-when-we-largely-vaccinate-the-entire-population-video/ #usnews #videos

Teachers protest across US over reopening schools in pandemic https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/08/teachers-protest-reopening-schools-pandemic-200803171744232.html

Trump threatens to sue Nevada to stop universal mail-in ballots https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/08/trump-threatens-sue-nevada-stop-universal-mail-ballots-200803175534662.html

‘Do As They Say’: Minneapolis Police Tell Residents To ‘Be Prepared To Give Up’ Personal Belongings To Robbers https://freenorthcarolina.blogspot.com/2020/08/do-as-they-say-minneapolis-police-tell.html

Judge Blocks Removal of Giant Robert E. Lee Statue with Injunction https://www.westernjournal.com/ap-judge-starts-new-injunction-barring-lee-statue-removal/ #americanhistory #georgefloyd #democrats #civilwar #virginia #lawsuit #usnews #news

Earthstar looks like a really interesting new decentralized-web project! Like Secure Scuttlebutt, but mutable and not log-structured!

This removes a lot of my worries about SSB as a scalable, privacy-preserving foundation layer going forward. Really keen to see where this might be heading.

https://github.com/earthstar-project/earthstar