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Save the date, Phoenix: August 19-20, 2025!

DHS is coming to town, hiring Deportation Officers for ICE, onsite!

Free event!

Don't miss your chance to be part of ICE history!

Please come prepared or you may be turned away:

"Candidates interested in applying for Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) should plan to bring a small bag with comfortable workout attire and tennis shoes for a physical fitness test."

#AbolishICE#DHS#ICE

Wonder if this has anything to do with a certain someone’s propensity for lifts 🤔

#TSA to Let #Travelers Keep Their #Shoes On, Ending Hated Rule

Most passengers had been required to remove their footwear at checkpoints since 2006, a policy later eased only for members of trusted traveler programs.

nytimes.com/2025/07/07/travel/

The Transportation Security Administration is no longer requiring all travelers to take off their shoes at airport checkpoints.
The New York Times · TSA to End Shoe Removal Requirement at Airport Security CheckpointsBy Christine Chung

So the #TSA in the #USA are flagging more women at the airports due to false alarms from scanners over vagina sweat & periods‽

👉🏾 Goodbye to discretion—the TSA is detaining passengers at US airports for an incredibly embarrassing reason unionrayo.com/en/tsa-detaining

The #UnitedStates 🇺🇸 could request companies create scanners with a way to significantly reduce these false readings.

The last thing we need is to make air travel even more uncomfortable for women in #America 🇺🇸.

Unión Rayo EN · Goodbye to discretion—the TSA is detaining passengers at US airports for an incredibly embarrassing reasonBut what’s happening in U.S. airports now is something no one saw coming. The TSA is stopping passengers and putting them through seriously embarrassing

(Je repartage en mode public)

Parce que le vocabulaire est important pour moi et que je lis souvent des trucs choquants ici depuis ma perspective nord américaine, voici trois ressources québécoises sur le vocabulaire **suggéré** qui ont écrites par des autistes.

Versions courtes

autisme123.com/

autcreatifs.com/tag/terminolog

Version beaucoup plus longue

collectifa.org/vocabulaire/

Autisme 123L'autisme simplifiéExpliquer l'autisme en des termes clairs, que tout le monde peut comprendre, ce n'est pas compliqué. Autisme 1•2•3 veut fournir de l'information simplifiée, avec la possibilité d'aller plus loin si on le désire. De tout, pour tous.

(Je repartage en public)

Je viens de finir la lecture du roman graphique de l’auteure québécoise Mélissa Perron.

C’est un ouvrage qui sans aucun doute va parler aux copain.e.s autistes qui le savent comme moi depuis peu, et qui ont ont dû / doivent faire face à de mauvais diagnostics parce que les filles sont pas autistes… (sarcasme)

**ATTENTION** le texte et les dessins peuvent être perturbants et réveiller des traumas car elle parle ce qu’elle a traversé.

Je vous laisse chercher où vous procurer le livre, je mets le lien pour ici :

leslibraires.ca/livres/femme-c

Un article qui la présente :

lapresse.ca/societe/2025-04-17

leslibraires.caFemme caméléon de Mélissa Perron | Bande dessinée | Roman graphique | leslibraires.ca | Acheter des livres papier et numériques en ligneUn réseau de plus de 100 librairies, plus de 500 000 livres papier ou numérique, une expertise inégalée. Acheter local sur le Web, c'est possible!
click.actionnetwork.orgTell Congress: Stop Trump’s attacks on TSA For decades, airport security was staffed by the lowest-cost private companies on an airport-by-airport basis. After the terrorist attacks on 9/11, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) was created to standardize airport security and strengthen safety nationwide. In 2011, TSA workers unionized. In 2023, they secured a long-awaited 30% pay raise. TSA workers’ ability to collectively bargain made security better, and allowed dedicated public servants to make a career out of keeping us safe on our flights. But in March, Trump’s Department of Homeland Security abruptly ripped up the union’s contract with no warning. The move was part of the Trump administration’s broader push to target federal employees and attack unions nationwide. Trump’s attack on TSA’s collective bargaining rights betrayed more than 50,000 workers who had signed a seven-year contract guaranteeing better wages and fair working conditions. Now, our airport security is being thrown into chaos. The people responsible for ensuring weapons, explosives, and other dangerous items don’t make it through airport security are facing uncertain futures. Many are facing layoffs. Workers say that Trump’s attacks on the TSA will cause unnecessary security vulnerabilities, and leave us open to terrorist attacks. TSA agents are also warning that by cutting staff and slowing down security, the Trump administration is letting TSA security fail so they can open the door to corporate privatization. In fact, Project 2025 outlined a two-step plan for TSA: End the union and privatize TSA screening. We can’t stand by while Donald Trump and Elon Musk attack the federal public servants that make flying safe for all. Tell Congress: Stand up for workers’ rights and airport security. Stop Trump’s attacks on TSA.
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@mshelton @freedomofpress @eff I did prepare peoples' devices for that in the past.

My suggestions:

0. Never assume you'll have any #HumanRights or #CivilRights. Always assume #TSA staff is looking for a reason to jail, deport, deny entry or shoot one on the spot.

1. Do not have data on them! #CPB will seize any storage media under threat of lethal violence! Use a #ThinClient-like device without any persistent storage. Keep anything important in your head or don't keep it at all.

2. Have someone to setup a #RemoteDesktop for you post-entry and enshure you've got a #SafeWord to indicate you're acting under duress, so they can redirect stuff to a inconspicuous system.

3. Have a #decoy system ready. CPB have full, unrestricted bulk access to all data from companies that are located, do business in or have an office within the #USA as per #CloudAct. So much so that they consider it "suspicious" if one doesn't have an #NSABook account.

4. Make shure all your devices are #clean. Get yourself new throwaway devices and don't trust them if you ever let them out of sight for a second!

5. Test your setup before you travel to the #US on a different system.

6. This applies to every single device from #SimCard to #Laptop. Assume that if authorities plug anything in them, they are irredeemably compromised!

7. Practise proper #ITsec, #InfoSec, #OpSec & #ComSec. Have proper contingencies and emergency contacts in place.

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@amcasari Granted I trust neither but that would still make this assessment correct.

  • Not that the #TSA & #CPB let non-#US - citizens choose anything, they simply decline entry purely based off vibes with neither appeals nor recourse for travelers.

Makes them as annoying if not worse than Turkish Customs Agents…

click.actionnetwork.orgTell Congress: Stop Trump’s attacks on TSA For decades, airport security was staffed by the lowest-cost private companies on an airport-by-airport basis. After the terrorist attacks on 9/11, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) was created to standardize airport security and strengthen safety nationwide. In 2011, TSA workers unionized. In 2023, they secured a long-awaited 30% pay raise. TSA workers’ ability to collectively bargain made security better, and allowed dedicated public servants to make a career out of keeping us safe on our flights. But in March, Trump’s Department of Homeland Security abruptly ripped up the union’s contract with no warning. The move was part of the Trump administration’s broader push to target federal employees and attack unions nationwide. Trump’s attack on TSA’s collective bargaining rights betrayed more than 50,000 workers who had signed a seven-year contract guaranteeing better wages and fair working conditions. Now, our airport security is being thrown into chaos. The people responsible for ensuring weapons, explosives, and other dangerous items don’t make it through airport security are facing uncertain futures. Many are facing layoffs. Workers say that Trump’s attacks on the TSA will cause unnecessary security vulnerabilities, and leave us open to terrorist attacks. TSA agents are also warning that by cutting staff and slowing down security, the Trump administration is letting TSA security fail so they can open the door to corporate privatization. In fact, Project 2025 outlined a two-step plan for TSA: End the union and privatize TSA screening. We can’t stand by while Donald Trump and Elon Musk attack the federal public servants that make flying safe for all. Tell Congress: Stand up for workers’ rights and airport security. Stop Trump’s attacks on TSA.