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🚨 Big Votes This Week — Take Action!

📅 Tim Kaine’s War Powers Resolution
• Potential floor vote as soon as Thursday

☎️ Tell your Senators to SUPPORT this vital check on executive authority!

📅 H.R. 1, the “One Big Bullshit Bill Act”
• Could hit the floor Thursday

☎️ Tell your Senators to OPPOSE this dangerous power grab!

🔗 Get info at 5calls.org

5 Calls5 CallsSpend 5 minutes. Make 5 calls. Make your voice heard.

Big Tech prioritizes profit over democracy. Their algorithms amplify hate and polarization, undermine public debate, and can even manipulate elections. Using social media consciously-such as employing ad blockers and being aware of algorithmic influence-is an act of defending democracy. Open-source and decentralized platforms are essential for a free and open digital public sphere. 🛑📉🤖 #ProtectDemocracy #StopBigTech #OpenSource #Decentralization #SocialMedia #fckafd #unplugtrump

Hello, readers and followers.

Last week, feeling rather bored, I decided to write a small
script to assist in identifying centralised servers within the fediverse.

This is particularly useful as the fediverse is intended to be free, open, and decentralised, in order to safeguard democracy, free speech, and, most importantly, to protect democracy and human freedom, which are
fundamental human rights and online privacy.

At this stage, the script identifies centralised and privacy-invasive servers operating on the
#MITM networks of AWS, CloudFlare, and Azure (Microsoft). By now, we should all be aware that these networks are detrimental to privacy, as they do everything possible to identify you for the purpose of collecting your Personally Identifiable Information (PII), fingerprinting your browsers, and censoring the internet for those who refuse to be part of the walled garden.

The results from running the collection of previously connected servers to my fediverse instance are as in the file attached

#fediverse #freespeech #decentralization #cloudflare #crimeflare #infosec #privacy #azure #aws #amazon #onlineprivacy #privacymatters #democracy #protectdemocracy

#May2nd Events in #Maine

#PineTreeActivism Calendar
Scheduled Events

Details confirmed as of Thurs, May 1st

MAY 2, Fri 12-1:00PM – #FarmingtonME
196 Main St, Farmington Post Office, Farmington, Maine
Advocate for #Peace & #ProtectDemocracy – supported by Third Act Western Mountains Hub

MAY 2, Fri 2:30PM (& every Fri) – #SacoME
291 North St, Saco, Maine
NO MORE BOMBS – Join us in Saco for our weekly rally to call attention to the fact that General Dynamics in Saco builds components for the bombs being dropped on #Gaza.
nenjp.org/calendar/

May 2, Fri 4-5:00PM (& every Fri) – #SanfordME
920 Main St. in front of Central Park, Sanford, Maine
Weekly Peaceful Protest. Help support this new #resistance event as it grows stronger every week!

MAY 2, Fri 4-5:30PM (& every Fri) – #BiddefordME
Mechanics Park, Main & Water St by the bridge, Biddeford, Maine
#StopTheCoup Protest at Mechanics Park – Indivisible/Biddeford Saco
Bring a sign, bells, drums and a loud voice!
Area #SURJ.org: mobilize.us/mobilize/event/773

MAY 2, Fri 5-6:00PM (& every Fri) – #BrunswickME
156 Maine St. Opposite Walgreens, Brunswick, Maine
Vigil for Peace – Join PeaceWorks of Greater Portland as they call for permanent ceasefire in #Gaza.

Very cool! Hubby's photos were linked in The Guardian! (He had posted them to Bluesky and tagged #50501Movement)

Protesters fill the streets in cities across the US to denounce Trump agenda

Organizers call for 11 million people to march and rally in this weekend’s effort to ‘#ProtectDemocracy

by Robert Tait and Edward Helmore, April 19, 2025

"Opponents of Donald Trump’s administration mobilized from the east coast to the west, including at rallies in #PortlandMaine, and #PortlandOregon, decrying what they see as threats to the nation’s democratic ideals."

theguardian.com/us-news/2025/a

Archived version:
archive.ph/hoXQe

The Guardian · Protesters fill the streets in cities across the US to denounce Trump agendaBy Robert Tait