Dear @resistbot developers

STOP asking for DOB which you are linking to first and last names and phone over insecure SMS.

I’m stunned. This is the sort of info we opposed Trump’s gathering en masse last year.

#justSayNo to today’s ask about being registered to vote.
Reminder that @resistbot org fails basic transparency test on “about” page.

Resist.bot/about

Nothing about how they manage your data, protect your #privacy , who is advisory board, who makes decisions, etc. #Opaque.
You can find two names buried near the bottom of long, densely-packed about page. No details/links.
Via Google search:
ED is Jason @Putorti
Tool built by @EricRies (per @Mlsif)
No filing docs or financials for the claimed 501(c)4 organization.

Google is no help there.

This is the opposite of transparent

@resistbot is an #opaque organization. #justSayNo
I am subbed to several of these services in "monitoring" mode. Today's seemed innocuous enough: are you registered to vote?
I replied "yes."
But @resistbot didn't want to take my answer on face value: it asked for confirming details. #privacy
Hell, no.
Give name. phone, DOD and residence info (that would have been next) to an unknown entity? With no info on what they plan to use it for or how they plan to manage it?
Hell, no.
Here’s the next screen with fake DOB.
And here’s that request for address.
Inearly 2017, @Mlsif pointed out some challenges with systems like @resistbot (not unlike the ease of clicking 'like')
civichall.org/civicist/how-t…
March 2017:
Civic Hall had a “Resist Projects” spreadsheet "cataloging more than 150 new initiatives and tools that have cropped up since the November election. It’s clear that there’s no shortage of action-alert sites or call-to-action tools."

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Feb 17
Current state of NEWS MEDIA focus, driven by Bannon’s “flood the zone with shit” + grasping for $$$

“Endemic delusion”

Case in point: #TruckerConvoy
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science.org/content/articl…
Even @ScienceInsider is waffling in the hede: “some scientists”

With a nod to politics rather than public health by including a political scientist near the top.

NO quotes from public health arguing to open things up.

And THIS near the bottom:

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There’s a LOT about Denmark with NO context of how 🇩🇰 differs from the US, especially vax rates. 🤦🏼‍♀️

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Feb 15
Elmer Stewart Rhodes III is an ex-Army paratrooper; worked for Rep. Ron Paul in 2008; graduated from Yale Law School; and was an AZ SC law clerk.

These credentials (including full name) should be mentioned early in any story to show him as the privileged White guy that he is.
The Montana Supreme Court disbarred him after it “found that he'd abandoned clients in Arizona, a 2015 court order shows.”

So much for oaths and honor, right?

nbcnews.com/politics/polit…
Rhodes’ lawyers claim that the Oath Keepers (an extremist group, @splcenter) were waiting for Trump to invoke the Insurrection Act to stop transfer of office.

Here’s Rhodes, reinforcing this legal claim in public statements:
splcenter.org/fighting-hate/… ImageImage
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Feb 14
Why are US media not raising questions like @Garossino has in @NatObserver about @gofundme and the Canadian #trucker protest? 🚩
#Ottawa #cdnpoli
attn: @Will_Bunch
Not a registered charity 🚩
Not non-profit 🚩
Not a trucking organization 🚩

Yet: “At the time of its suspension, the convoy campaign had racked up approximately $10.1 million in just over two weeks… impossible to achieve organically within Canada.”

nationalobserver.com/2022/02/04/opi…
@gofundme did not independently verify donor identities and accepted foreign funds for a campaign that had as one objective the dissolution of Parliament…”

“…at least a third of the donor identities were anonymous or faked” 🚩 Image
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Feb 12
The best account of @SoundTransit #applecup fiasco is THEIR blog post, which Google doesn’t consider news.

Although it looks like a template for “news org” reporter-as-stenographer stories, only @UrbanistOrg links to it:

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soundtransit.org/blog/platform/…
Also, only @UrbanistOrg notes this deflection/finger pointing: an unamed “contractor had failed to fully implement the construction drawings.”

No mention of @SoundTransit responsibility to INSPECT.

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theurbanist.org/2022/02/11/tra…
Irony alert missing from any local coverage: @SoundTransit received the 2018 “Tunnel Achievement Award for Project Excellence” for the UW> Northgate Link extension.

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soundtransit.org/get-to-know-us…
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Feb 10
Classified documents removed from the White House. Constant circumvention of public White House phone records.

TFG demonstrates a pattern of behavior that is criminal; he should be in prison not running for 2024 on lies.

@5DollarFeminist

abovethelaw.com/2022/02/trumps…
Or starting yet another social network that news media will amplify rather than contextualize.
And news orgs failed to hound TFG on his flouting of the law, unlike the shark attack on Clinton in 2016 RE email.
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Feb 2
“Some of them get paid to have takes. We get paid to end this pandemic.”*

@DrLeanaWen, how much does @cnn pay for your “takes”?

Do you pitch @washingtonpost or did they $olicit this?

Transparency is imperative.

WHAT STATE OF EMERGENCY? #covid19
There is no national US state of emergency on #COVID19, @DrLeanaWen, except the one that loosens purse strings and makes it easier for public health to, you know, do public health. Not one imposing behaviors.

statnews.com/2020/03/13/nat…
GOP leaders and people with large microphones are still spreading lies/misinfo.

The SCOTUS has neutered mandatory vax-or-test requirements.

Vax as silver bullet in the US is not possible. We are not Denmark, @DrLeanaWen. Reminder that vax efficacy wanes; look at booster rate!
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