The Department of Education Told Employees to End Support for Transgender Students
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The directive, which continues the Trump administration’s efforts to curb transgender rights, could end school-based mental health services and support for homeless students.

https://www.propublica.org/article/department-of-education-transgender-students-email?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #Education #Trump #Trans #TransRights #Transgender #Students #Government

Department of Education Told Employees to End Support for Transgender Students

^ProPublica

Are you on Signal or Wire yet? Go do that. Gently move your friends/fam over to one of the platforms. Set disappearing messages on both sides of the conversation. Be careful what you say in group chats, know who you trust, and who are your Vault people. For REAL sensitive stuff, in-person, no phones.

Normalize going places without your phones, leave them at home now and again to establish a pattern.

Please understand anyone who works in advocacy, healthcare (esp reproductive rights/women's healthcare), journalists, some gov officials, marginalized groups will likely be targeted.

If this doesn't fit your threat model/risk profile, you know someone who will be impacted by oversight, surveillance or someone snitching

#tech #infosec #security #safety #privacy #security #community #education

On the two year anniversary of joining #Mastodon I'm super proud to share:

🚀 The Future is Federated - issue no.13 👩‍🚀

"The #Fediverse has empowered me to take back control from Big Tech. Now I want to help others do the same."

https://blog.elenarossini.com/the-fediverse-has-empowered-me-to-take-back-control-from-big-tech-now-i-want-to-help-others-do-the-same/

with mentions of @forgeandcraft (who made this awesome Fediverse t-shirt) @phanpy @ivory @Tusky @nimi @Roneyb @davidoclubb

#FOSS #FLOSS #Matrix #TheFutureIsFederated #blog #tech #activism #BigTech #socialmedia #education

The Fediverse has empowered me to take back control from Big Tech. Now I want to help others do the same.

The Fediverse has helped me regain control from the behavior modification empires of Big Tech. Now I want to help other people do the same.

^{Elena Rossini}