Monica C. Camacho

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Open Source Investigator @ Lighthouse Reports. Jack of all trades. She/her.

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Monica C. Camacho

I’ve been up to something really exciting in recent months—launching a worker-run local news outlet in DC!! News cooperatives are a bright spot in a bleak media (and everything?) landscape & we need them more than ever. Read about our crowdfunding launch in The Washington Post t.co/R1s2UOmJfO

Former DCist staff launch the 51st, new local news site for Washingtont.co The 51st is a worker-run newsroom that will attempt to fill a niche its founders say opened when WAMU closed DCist.

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Bilbo Yaga

Want to mask but lack resources? Look up a local covid action group. They provide free masks, often including sampler packs to help you find the n95-type mask for your specific needs! Size, shape, hair texture, sensory needs, etc matter. So does normalizing masking to resist bans. Mask in public.

COVID Action Map - Google My Mapscovidactionmap.org Mapping COVID action groups worldwide. Groups are not pinned to exact addresses. On Instagram and Twitter as @covidactionmap.

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Aliera

It might help to get through to nativists + xenophobes who put stock in bloodlines but it still creeps me out. My mom’s mom used to brag about us supposedly being related to John Adams (or was it Sam Adams?) on the maternal side in order to distract from her father being Mexican and pass for white

She did really extensive genealogical research and was even head of a genealogical society but somehow only found the time to study one branch of the family tree And least the Adams boys seem to have been anti-slavery, I guess

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Kingfisher & Wombat

The other day a new friend landed on my bag

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Monica C. Camacho

Reminder: any resident of Texas can get a FREE digital library card from the Houston Public Library system. Only $40/year for non-Texas folks! Their Libby hold lines tend to be long but you can have up to 15 holds. If your local library system is limited, check it out: houstonlibrary.org/mylink

If you want access to free books, please get a library card. In the US, the more people there are with library cards, the more funding libraries have access to. Libraries provide more than books. They are a community resource. As an author and reader, I support libraries! #books #libraries

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Monica C. Camacho

Tempted to read J. D. Vance's Hillbilly Elegy? Skip it and listen to this instead

‎If Books Could Kill: Hillbilly Elegy on Apple Podcastspodcasts.apple.com ‎Show If Books Could Kill, Ep Hillbilly Elegy - Mar 23, 2023

The discourse this week

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Monica C. Camacho

Some great titles listed in this thread! I would also recommend: – Black Madness :: Mad Blackness by Therí Alyce Pickens – Bodyminds Reimagined by Sami Schalk – Crip Kinship by Shayda Kafai – Care Work by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha – Heart Berries by Terese Marie Mailhot

Disability Reading Thread for Disability Pride Month. Drop your favorite books. ♿️ 📚

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Rebecca Shapiro

My hunch is, the through line between the different interpretations is a belief that innocence has been contaminated. It’s about repelling perceived threats from out-groups and maintaining the purity of the in-group, with children serving as a kind of disputed territory

TERFs believe that “social contagion” can brainwash children into believing they’re trans. Christian fundamentalists believe queer ppl are inherently sexual at all times so if children are aware we exist, that defiles their purity. Stranger-danger means that predators lurk outside, never inside

Also explains imo why the right so often turns a blind eye to CSA within institutions and families: it’s maintaining a hierarchy, not introducing foreign contamination

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Rebecca Shapiro

For some it’s literal, as in QAnon/blood libel and its watered-down forms like # savethechildren. For others it’s about watering down the term so it can be weaponized against anyone perceived as a threat to Christian Nationalist orthodoxy, eg LGBTQ rights, feminism, reproductive rights

Eg “Grooming” is a specific process in which an adult assumes a position of trust and authority in a child’s life so they can gain access to the victim and avoid accountability afterwards, but far right ideology applies the term to anything from adults being out to rainbows on kid’s clothing

It’s intended to conflate completely innocent activities with the most horrific CSE, and it loses all meaning. I suspect that even amongst themselves, reactionaries aren’t sure what the hypothetical victims are being groomed for: Gender affirming care? satanic ritual abuse? Sex trafficking? Atheism?

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Fomenting panic on the U.S.-Mexico border has created, not just a massive surveillance infrastructure, but also billions of dollars for technology vendors. @eff.org has compiled a public dataset of companies that are selling equipment to the DHS.

Hundreds of Tech Companies Want to Cash In on Homeland Securitywww.eff.org The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) today has released a near-comprehensive dataset of the vendors who supply or market the technology for the U.S. government’s increasingly AI-powered homeland

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Monica C. Camacho

If you need help pitching an oped you can email me lollardfish at gmail and I will help. I will do it for free because I think more experts, writing and accessible ways for the public is a fundamental good.

Junior Scholars: Project 2025 is now breaking through to public consciousness. The more people learn about it, the more they hate it. Now is a great time to search that website, go to the section of your expertise, and write an oped. Keep the drip of bad news for them coming, all the way to Nov.

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Wonkish

+1. Publicly reaching out to strangers on Xitter was a core function of my last job, so getting yelled at OBO my corporate overlords was just accepted as an occupational hazard. Otoh Bsky isn’t a professional tool so I don’t have to worry about blocking too many ppl and missing something important

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If you wish you had a succinct, mainstream explanation of the horrors of Trump's Project 2025 you could send to your friends and relatives, People magazine has provided one. Please spread this link. No matter how bad you think it is, it's worse. people.com/what-is-proj...

What Is Project 2025? Inside the Far-Right Plan Threatening Everything from the Word 'Gender' to Public Educationpeople.com Donald Trump's far-right allies created Project 2025 as a blueprint for his possible second term. The controversial plan would push a Christian nationalist agenda that dramatically reshapes the U.S. g...

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One of the big issues here: the channels journalists use to speak with sources are often driven by sources. You want them to feel comfortable, so you accommodate. This is a good example of why it's also important to nudge people to use safer channels before speaking. www.usenix.org/conference/u...

Investigating the Computer Security Practices and Needs of Journalists | USENIXwww.usenix.org

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Murph

I stopped using but a few months ago I realized I’d completely fallen out of touch with so many people that I don’t see on a regular basis. I logged in for the first time in three years and…crickets. Hardly anyone still there, and the feed is just lowest common denominator garbage

Strangely, while FB’s feed acts like it never met me, my IG feed is uncannily accurate. It even gave me ads for my own engagement ring. I wonder why Meta hasn’t figured out how to use a similar algorithm on FB

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Cheryl Lynn Eaton

The way I see it is this--if people want to boycott the NYT, then I am all for it. If people want to harass a black person for taking money from the NYT for op-eds where they haven't once altered their views for money or power, I'm going to look at them funny.

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Meta is lifting Trump’s account restrictions ahead of 2024 election

Meta is lifting Trump’s account restrictions ahead of 2024 electiontcrn.ch Meta announced former President Donald Trump’s Facebook and Instagram accounts will no longer be subject to heightened suspension penalties, according to an updated blog post on Friday. The company says it made the decision to ensure all Presidential…

YES PLEASE

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Monica C. Camacho

#OSINT I will be teaching this webinar end of the month academy.plessas.net/store/EDB9T5PJ

Maxing Out the Internet Archive: Advanced No-Touch Research Techniquesacademy.plessas.net

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Monica C. Camacho

F*ck the fascist white supremacists who want to erase this history from American memory. Remember this victim, CL Daniel, when they say how much they love and honor veterans. #Tulsa #NeverForget #BlackHistoryIsAmericanHistory #BlackWallStreet www.theguardian.com/us-news/arti...

Oklahoma identifies first victim in Tulsa race massacre mass gravewww.theguardian.com War veteran CL Daniel was in his 20s when he was killed in 1921, in one of deadliest acts of racist violence in US history

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Art Demon

If someone does the right thing for the wrong reasons, I’ll take it

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RidgewayGirl

Awe-inspiring!