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If you're looking to switch away from fascist enabling unaccountable tech giants these directories are all pretty good in their own way:

1. https://switching.software/
2. https://www.privacyguides.org/
3. https://alternativeto.net/
4. https://ethical.net/resources/
5. https://selfh.st/apps/
6. https://european-alternatives.eu/
7. https://prism-break.org/en/

There is also e.g. this nice bit of guidance too https://www.optoutproject.net/the-cyber-cleanse-take-back-your-digital-footprint/

switching.software

Ethical, easy-to-use and privacy-conscious alternatives to well-known software

switching.software
Worse than the Ugly American. We are now Murdering America. This is being done in our name.
U.S. Terminates Funding for Polio, H.I.V., Malaria and Nutrition Programs Around the World https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/27/health/usaid-contract-terminations.html?smid=tw-share
U.S. Terminates Funding for Polio, H.I.V., Malaria and Nutrition Programs Around the World

Here are some of the 5,800 contracts the Trump administration formally canceled this week in a wave of terse emails.

The New York Times

I interviewed former Republican women at an event in Philly.

What was striking was how deciding to leave the party often came at a high price. They alienated family, friends, and even often had to leave their church.

https://www.salon.com/2024/10/21/i-started-to-learn-what-patriarchy-was-how-donald-pushed-women-out-of-the/

"I was ashamed": Why women abandon Trump

Women leaving the GOP face losing community and church — even family

Salon.com

🚨🚨🚨TODAY is the voter registration deadline in Pennsylvania, Alabama & South Dakota🚨🚨🚨

15 days until the presidential election! https://ballotpedia.org/Voter_registration_deadlines,_2024

Voter registration deadlines, 2024

Ballotpedia: The Encyclopedia of American Politics

Ballotpedia

Silent plurality will gladly go along w/ Eugenics, Racism, Genocide, Inequality, Enslavement, injustice, if it means they aren't temporarily inconvenienced.

That's what 2010-2023 has taught me.

To be antifascist is to confront and combat such.

#TwitterMigration #AntiFascist #fascism #Resistance #CovidIsNotOver

Iranian and Russian hackers targeting politicians and journalists, warn UK officials

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-64405220

Iranian and Russian hackers targeting politicians and journalists, warn UK officials

Politicians and journalists are being targeted with espionage attacks, the UK government is warning.

BBC News

Ultimately, it will prove impossible to beat Elon Musk by remaining on the platform he controls.

He and his goons control the most powerful aspects of the site. They can, and will, use it to empower authoritarianism, hate, misinformation and white supremacy.

They are just getting started. By continuing to operate within the framework they control, you will be at a disadvantage. More at FrameLab:

https://framelab.substack.com/p/with-trump-returing-to-musks-twitter

With Trump returing to Musk's Twitter, it's time to get strategic

Whether you exit the bird app, or stay and resist, things are about to worsen

FrameLab
Now seems like a good time to remind you that the debt ceiling increased three times under Trump. There was no holding the economy hostage. There was no drama at all.
Today. Tomorrow. The day after that.

A new multi-part documentary coming to Hulu on February 3 called Killing County includes first-person interviews with Bakersfield and Kern County individuals and families plagued by gun violence, officer-involved homicides and other crimes. #politics #documentary #BLM #ColinKaepernick #Bakersfield

https://www.newsweek.com/colin-kaepernick-documentary-aims-kevin-mccarthy-district-1776645

Colin Kaepernick's New Documentary Takes Aim at Kevin McCarthy's District

Bakersfield, California, which is represented by McCarthy, saw a record number of homicides in recent years.

Newsweek