What waste, fraud and abuse looks like:

Four Tesla dealers said they sold 8,653 cars in 3 Days in Canada, allowing them to claim tens of millions in government rebates.

The numbers appear to be made up.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/27/world/canada/tesla-canada-sales-musk.html?unlocked_article_code=1.704.djNd.9_EAZadygWzw&smid=url-share

Open letter to anyone with a protest or rights-based website:

PLEASE get rid of Facebook and Google SSO login options and analytic tracking codes from your sites.

You are literally handing over your user data to unscrupulous players that are in direct opposition to your cause. These sites can and do hand over user-specific data.

To everyone, stop using these options. Set a strong password. Use an alias email. Use a VPN.

#indivisible #democrats #plannedparenthood #privacy

A quick Do This: call about a detained activist

okay Cascadia and Washington State in particular let’s go

A Washington State activist & Indivisible member was detained by ICE – here’s how to help

From Indivisible National and Indivisible Skagit:

“Alfredo (Lelo) Juarez, a well-known and well-loved activist and member of Indivisible Skagit, was violently taken By I.C.E [on March 25]. It is widely believed that it was a targeted attack on Farmworker leadership. You can find more information about Lelo and how to help on the Community to Community Development Facebook Page.

Now that he has been moved to the NW Detention Center in Tacoma, the only way he will be released is if our elected officials step in. Please call your elected officials and demand that they intervene and take action to get him out.

Here’s everything you need including what you can say and who to call, with their numbers.

The Feds will send you straight to voicemail. At least so far. Leave the message anyway.

And don’t forget – tomorrow is Tesla Takedown day. Get out there, show your strength.

#cascadia #fascism #politics #uspol #uspolitics #wapol

Detained Tufts student can’t be deported to Turkey without court order, judge says
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/detained-tufts-student-cant-be-deported-to-turkey-without-court-order-judge-says?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into Politics @politics-PBSNewsHour

I did a lot of talks on student surveillance last year, including talks aimed at college administrations trying, to convince them that turning the campus into a surveillance state was not a good idea. I have not been invited to do a single talk on student surveillance in 2025 for some reason.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/29/us/universities-students-search-warrants.html

Today's my birthday, my 75th—impossibly old!—and I'm receiving this wonderful video of John Lithgow reading Timothy Snyder's twenty lessons in tyranny as a birthday gift. Which I now offer to readers here….

#tyranny #authoritarianism #dictatorship #Trump #Musk #Republicans #TimothySnyder
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https://snyder.substack.com/p/twenty-lessons-read-by-john-lithgow

Dumb electronics

https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/40823897

Think your VPN kill switch protects you on iOS? Think again. Apple allows some traffic to leak outside the VPN tunnel—without warning.
Here's why that matters for your privacy:
https://unshakled.org/the-ios-vpn-leak-apple-doesnt-talk-about/

#VPN #Privacy #iOS #Apple