Be careful what you say
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wrote on 28 Mar 2025, 18:32 last edited by
I've just decided this morning that I am going to do the travel I was planning to do over the next year. One trip to the Yukon, another to Bhutan. Have to, while I have the resources and the physical capacity still (the later may be questionable). I'll be 70 next February and it will be the 30th anniversary of when Mr Pique and I met next March.
If this ridiculousness is still going on, I will put my electronics, including my phone, in a bank lock box here at home, and get a burner phone for travel. Both trips are for extremely remote areas on horseback, so I'm going to go full Luddite, if I can manage it.
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I've just decided this morning that I am going to do the travel I was planning to do over the next year. One trip to the Yukon, another to Bhutan. Have to, while I have the resources and the physical capacity still (the later may be questionable). I'll be 70 next February and it will be the 30th anniversary of when Mr Pique and I met next March.
If this ridiculousness is still going on, I will put my electronics, including my phone, in a bank lock box here at home, and get a burner phone for travel. Both trips are for extremely remote areas on horseback, so I'm going to go full Luddite, if I can manage it.
wrote on 28 Mar 2025, 21:46 last edited by@pique said in Be careful what you say:
next February
It's hard to imagine what this country or world will look like by next February. I really wish he spent more time golfing.
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wrote on 28 Mar 2025, 23:06 last edited by
@kluurs I think everyone would be wise to come up with a Plan B. I don't want to plan to leave my country, but yes, by February I think it's going to be one of two things--either the Resistance is gaining ground or has even overthrown this nightmare, or, we are in what looks like the USSR. Except with raging capitalism.
The billionaires have decided that democracy is very inconvenient for them. How we take our power back is the dilemma to work out asap.
My own Plan B: I'm making tiny, incremental progress towards obtaining a European passport by right of descent. One major hurdle I just overcame a day ago--I got a photograph of my grandmother's birth record from 1897 and now know I can get a certified copy from the historical archives. For a long time I was pretty sure I would never find it.
Of course, Europe may fall to Russia, the way things are going. Then maybe on my European passport I can gain residency in Canada as a refugee.
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wrote on 29 Mar 2025, 02:59 last edited by
Years ago, I got to meet Paul Gastris as he was an invited speaker to one of the associations I worked with. He was smart and funny - and had delightful anecdotes of his time as Bill Clinton's chief speechwriter. The hopeful part of his talk was that the founding fathers of the country made it challenging to effect big change in the country - much like turning a huge tanker at sea. Sadly, I don't think he, like all of us, didn't think something like Trump would be possible.
His first term he had the kinds of people that might challenge bad ideas. This term, if he wants demonstrators shot in the legs, there’s a very good chance of that happening. We may see Elon Musk integrate AI to search the web to identify "traitors". Trump has historically weaponized the legal system against people - innocent people. It isn't a reach to think of him weaponizing the full resources of the government to stifle opposition. It's clear that big tech read the writing on the wall - and felt the safest course was to bow and pledge fealty to the new king.
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wrote on 29 Mar 2025, 18:58 last edited by
When I moved to Cambridge, Massachusetts, less than a year ago, I could never have imagined that writing a critical piece about the US government could put me at risk of deportation, threatening the life and career I’ve built here. But today, that threat is very real.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/mar/29/trump-ice-deportation-universities
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wrote on 31 Mar 2025, 01:14 last edited by wtg
News about and for green card holders. It’s just a link to a bunch of articles; I didn’t go though them in detail and am just posting the link to a Google News search.
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wrote on 31 Mar 2025, 01:42 last edited by
Deleting apps may not help. They can demand access to a foreign citizen’s Facebook and Twitter accounts as a condition of entry, even if it’s not on your phone.
And it’d be even worse to lie and say you don’t have an account, and then get caught.
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Deleting apps may not help. They can demand access to a foreign citizen’s Facebook and Twitter accounts as a condition of entry, even if it’s not on your phone.
And it’d be even worse to lie and say you don’t have an account, and then get caught.
wrote on 31 Mar 2025, 02:13 last edited by@Quirt-Evans said in Be careful what you say:
And it’d be even worse to lie and say you don’t have an account, and then get caught.
That was what I was thinking.
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wrote on 31 Mar 2025, 14:45 last edited by wtg
The Intercept had a good overview, too.
One I hadn't thought of:
Protect Your Contacts
Don’t forget to make sure you also protect any sensitive contacts. Go through your contacts lists and remove any persons whose affiliation with you may potentially cause issues; for instance, if you have the names of activists, human rights defenders, or other sensitive sources. You could even export and then delete your entire contacts list and restore it later.
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wrote on 31 Mar 2025, 15:00 last edited by wtg
Then there's this story of a journalist, US citizen, and his border crossing experience. Scary as hell.