#BlueLeaks: How the War on Drugs helped kill the leader of a revolutionary underground needle exchange in Maine called the "Church of Safe Injection" https://mainernews.com/the-crucifixion-of-jesse-harvey/

i know what capitalism is when i see it, if it comes to exist then i will simply Abolish It

it has to be a lot easier the second time around, right?

But tbh, hypothetical political memes feel like unironic actual brain worms to me

For those of you who live in California, please for the sake of labor rights go to the polls on November 3 and vote "NO" to Prop 22, which would classify Uber/Lyft drivers as independent contractors, thus exempting these companies from providing benefits to drivers. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_California_Proposition_22

Please share this wherever you can. Get the word out. Polls are indicating that Prop 22 may pass. This would be a major blow to workers who are already struggling to stay afloat in the gig economy.

Two major Portland resistance accounts were just suspended by Twitter for no clear reason:

https://twitter.com/popmobpdx/status/1314551148511019009?s=21

Maya is missing please share and spread the word.

Found a long but very thorough guide to establishing community gardens!

Kontrrazvedka - The story of the Makhnovist intelligence service
by Vyacheslav Asarov

#history #intelligence #anarchism #sabotage #document #book

"The text presented here is an attempt by the contemporary Ukrainian anarchist Vyacheslav Azarov to reconstruct the history of the Makhnovist Kontrrazvedka. Azarov has not carried out new research but has resurrected a number of obscure sources, in some cases undeservedly forgotten, which will certainly be unfamiliar to the English reading public. In a previous essay, Azarov has demonstrated the connection between the Makhnovist movement and the Kronstadt rebellion of 1921. In the present study he shows how the Makhnovist Kontrrazvedka was involved in the wave of counter-terror which attacked the heartland of the Soviet regime in the fall of 1919."

No matter where or who you are; no matter how you're communicating; no matter how careful you are; if you are actively anti-establishment in any way (in our case, as anarchists), you are ALWAYS at risk of the prying-eyes of feds and their analysis tools. The best way to protect yourself is simple: if you don't need to say it, don't say it. Don't identify yourself. Don't talk about where you live. Don't talk about your plans, your experiences, your friends, unless you can do so in a way that will not be useful for anyone trying to keep a tab on you, your friends and your activities. DON'T MAKE IT EASY FOR LAW ENFORCEMENT! Their strategy is to let you incriminate yourself as they quietly record as much as they can about you.

The following are some tips and tricks to preventing feds and undeclared bots from infesting Telegram chats you would rather keep as private as possible. The information may be useful for other services too, however keep in mind that Telegram is not a very secure platform. Other networks, such as the Matrix network, are far more private and secure. For more sensitive matters Telegram shouldn't be your go-to. Please note that not all of this can be applied to public chats as they cannot avoid the possibility of quiet infestation through chat previewing.

First and foremost, make the chat private. Private chats cannot be previewed, and you can change the history settings for new members.

Do not allow new members to view the history. By allowing full history access, you are allowing undeclared bots and feds to simply join and export everything immediately. This makes their job insanely easy.

Use a chat management bot of some kind. My personal favorite is @shieldy_bot, a free and open-source guardian bot with customizable captchas and other helpful features. Unfortunately, however, it does not seem to be able to remove lurkers. I usually configure mine to make new users solve a simple arithmetic equation within five seconds or get banned. Oh, and remember to lock features to admins only when using this bot, it does not seem to come that way by default.

REMEMBER: ONLY FEDS AND UNDECLARED BOTS JOINLURK.

If someone has been inactive/lurking after a set amount of time, you should remove them, even if they've held conversations in the past. It's not like they were participating, anyway.

Study the behaviour of feds online. The following text file after this post titled "The Gentleman's Guide to Forum Spies (spooks, feds, etc.)" is a good starting point that contains useful information. If they have no other choice but to participate in a community, they will fuck up somewhere. Feds can be geniuses just as easily as they are often morons, but when you're trying to look normal in a community about something you know nothing of, you'd be bound to fuck up somewhere too.

If you have a bad feeling about a recently-joined member, you're probably right in feeling that way. Has anyone else heard of them? Have they recently joined Telegram? Do they have any profile pictures? If so, how long ago were they uploaded? Do they have a bio? Are their username and screen name too "normal"? Does anything about that account seem randomly-chosen or computer-generated? Are they actively participating in the chat? Does anything about what they're saying seem odd or unusual?

Do not tolerate baitposting. "Who here wants to bomb a police station?", "can someone tell me how to make a bomb?", "anyone in X area?", etc.

And now I will reiterate what I said in the beginning. If it can be used against you, don't say it. You can never fully trust someone on Telegram unless you know them personally. Trust your gut.

#security #communications #discussion #essential