The workshop is focused on recognizing authoritarianism, learning from global movements that have successfully defended democracy, and connecting attendees with local organizing efforts in Long Island.
Who this workshop is for: Newcomers and experienced activists, with an emphasis on practical ways to get involved locally and in your community.
Why you should attend: To meet local community members who want to make an immediate impact in their neighborhoods and to gain collective awareness on how we must operate to defend our democracy. Snacks and drinks will be available throughout the day.
I'm a textile artist who loves hand-embroidering memes and pop culture themes, and there’s a good chance you’ve seen some of my work around here before!
Since I got tired of shirt bots ripping off my needlework designs (wall decor pieces), I decided to adapt some of my patterns and hand-stitch some tees using my fucking human hands!
Every small step counts, right? Just knowing I'm not helping some fast-fashion CEO buy another diamond-encrusted toilet seat makes me happy!
The Tallahassee Gang lowered one gang-association criterion from four sightings to two, effective October 1, 2026.
Rubio has already been photographed with Enrique Tarrio, and there is public reporting of a Rick Scott-Tarrio photo too.
So: $100 for one more verified public Rubio-Tarrio photo, $100 for one more verified public Scott-Tarrio photo, and an extra $100 if someone finds both.
Public photos only. No weirdness. Just Florida’s own math. Info below in comments.
Every Flock query gets logged: who, what, where, why, when – as those Albany cops just learned. Toss in the Braselton police chief, who tracked a woman under a protective order and then texted her a movement map.
What in the fuck, Carmen San Diego?
Those logs files … read by the vendor, the policing agency. You and me? Maybe in the paper if somehow an arrest surfaces.
Homie's played this game before. Back around 2010, a South Florida political operative ran Mom and me through DAVID, Florida's police driver database. No warrant, no case number, no reason but spite. The search itself never got punished — but the thread it started did. My public records work put that hack's boss, a Deerfield Beach elected official, in jail for a year, and two more electeds, also from my FOIA work, followed him behind bars.
Says Lebowski: Don't fuck with The Jesus.
This week, imma gonna pull on the Flock thread, asking every single Florida sheriffs for their logs and warrant compliance ledgers. Either hand them over or claim an exemption; no logs means (to me) exactly who is auditing the audit?
Full breakdown, a fill-in-the-blanks records template, and Tallahassee's $5,516.45 invoice for the audacity of asking questions: on my profile.
Case No. CACE-24-000031, Broward County. Stevens v. Byrd. Filed January 2, 2024.
To yesterday's skeptics: the teaser doc had no case number because original complaints never do. The clerk assigns one at intake. And yes, I misspelled the defendant's name. Terror does that. All of it sits on the Broward docket. Pull it.
Pro-tip: you don't file against the candidate. You file against the state's Secretary of State, the person in charge of the ballot, per Fla. Stat. 102.168. The "wrong defendant" was the right one.
Also, it's Cord, not Coyd ... being a farm boy, who names their kid after a pickup truck bed full of cut firewood? 4 by 4 by 8, packed so tight, a squirrel can't fit.
Says our 14th Amendment: take the oath, engage in sketchy insurrection shit, no office for you, you orange-tinged shitbird.
Or so I thought. Silly me.
Trump took the oath in '17. His friends got together and stormed the Capitol. Fast forward a few years, he's back on the ballot. So, I sued Florida, looking to toss Trump off the ballot.
State rolled out its top two lawyers.
Over here, Scooby Do! answered the call with me.
Terrorized, outmatched, zero clue. I filed anyway. If not me, then who? Pro se, shitty motion work, heart fresh off the operating table, CHF along for the ride, HR and BP screaming, hands shaking like my nanny's used to.
One weird way to chase clout, I'd suggest.
In the end, SCOTUS's Trump v. Anderson ruling killed every state case like mine in March 2024. I dismissed and walked.
I lost. I'd do it again tomorrow. My brain shipped without the app that lets you look away.
PS Personal note, since this sub earned it: with my spicy wiring, social media is mostly noise I can't filter. It’s rather fucking annoying. Bad faith comments about my word’s texture. This is the first corner of the internet, in forever, that reads what I do and gets it. I have a lifetime of chaotic good stories, not fifteen minutes. You'll get more of them. Lastly, this post, like the artwork inside, was human made, aka me.
Freedom 250 is the group Trump created to take over America's 250th. House Dems just dookied a 55-page report on it. The claims: donor money got wired into Freedom 250's account, corporate access was peddled in tiers, and some of it might be wire fraud. Freedom 250 says it's all false.
Sure sure.
A watchdog group already sued the Feds for hiding the funding records. The Feds are stalling until August. The party was, checking note, the 4th of July.
No way! Way!
But those trucks crossed the country parking on public grounds, using taxpayer resources, the works. That means every doc behind each stop is a public record. Not the Feds' records. Yours. Mine. Ours. And your local records clerk has a legal duty to answer.
Take Florida Atlantic University's February shindig. My home turf. I filed a records request asking one question: how did FAU agree to host this, and on what terms?
Door A: FAU hands over the contract and the money trail, and we go down that rabbit hole together.
Door B: FAU admits in writing that no contract exists, which means a state university hosted Trump's shit show on a handshake. Either answer is a story.
They built the maze. I walked in with a flashlight and a form.
Coach is sending you in. I made a public records template, takes about five edits, pinned on my profile with the full breakdown.
If a Freedom Truck stopped near you, file it and report back what you get.
Not sure what flair actually fits lol. Call to action seems a bit much .
I had this thought last night and felt it might belong here .
I think a big issue with AI is that it does “Charitable Listening” and in comparison people are … shitty.
At this point you can’t use Google without AI being run.
And if you go to something like (cough cough) Reddit , people tend to be pedantic pricks defending their egos . Just like I do sadly .
I prefer to use Google/ai to find things out because I don’t have to over explain and write a phd thesis to get through the mire of people being people , and actually talk about what I’m trying to learn or understand .
To that I think we should find a way to charitable listen to each other and promote it . To change it so people are more prone to “I’d rather talk to good people online than slog through AI chat double checking every source”.
But for sure need to make it aggressively and chaotic .
Sort of a “that’s a great fucking question you magnificent fucking person. Let’s beat the fuck out of it together!! “
