Notices by Diligence Jones (deliachristina@sfba.social)

As the national park system lies exposed and vulnerable to exploitation, watch how quickly militia-affiliated ranchers and others with large ag concerns squat and claim federal land for their own use.

Y'all in the PNW know what I'm talking about.

quick #italian lesson. (i'm learning how to talk about travel.)

the Italian word for german is *tedesco.*

that's weird to me.
where the heck is that from?

my unit on using plurals was good but sort of maddening.

my sister, an AP Spanish teacher, rolls her eyes when i told her i was learning Italian on duolingo. yeah, i know it's not the perfect pedagogical tool. but it's working....ish.

[no one talk to me in Italian yet. I'll panic and run screaming.]

#DuoLingo

'War happens in policy-making.'

What happens to quality of life when a fascist takes power.

Me: I'm effing frustrated that folks aren't immediately glomming onto the fact that re-segregation* is what we're fighting against.

Bestie: Huh. I never thought of that before.

Me: Seriously?? That's where my brain immediately went with all the EOs.

Bestie: [sigh] Yes, you probably have knowledge other people don't have.

Me: This is what I'm talking about. Who lives in America and doesn't realize we're speedrunning backward to the resegregation of the public sphere? Where were disabled folks back then? In institutions. Gay people? In the closet. Black folks? Domestic servants. Mexicans? In the fields. White women? At home.

[silence]

Me: Just to be clear, when I say who, I mean white folks.

Bestie: I really don't want to hear this right now.

Y'all, interracial friendships during these Interesting Times are going to undergo some *stress.*

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*Yes, I know it's ONE of the things we're fighting against.

I'm here all week, people.

Brimming with ideas.

#IWishTheDemsHadIdeas

With that settlement from that case against the Proud Bois, that Black church should hire a trademark lawyer on retainer to send desist letters to every PB chapter in the country and force them to pay for use of a trademark that no longer belongs to them, or face legal action.

Fucking bury them in obscure paper.

More FAFO ideas:
All the experts being let go from the govt -- disease, environment, lawyers, analysts, infused-- guess it's time to go private and get top dollar for your consultancy.

Oh, small red anti vaxx town that has a ginormous measles/bird flu/raw milk/polio outbreak, here's some ex CDC epidemiologists & scientists offering to solve your problem --- for a price. No? Ok. We'll just use your town as a lab/case study afterwards, then.

McKinsey the fuck out these assholes.

You have crops, products that were part of a regular contract with the feds and that contract is now on the blocks and you're stuck with a crop/products surplus that you can't offload?

Dump 'em at your local Tesla dealership since Musk likes being an efficiency and govt procurement master. Let his team figure it out.

It's also fantastic visuals for media and a good opportunity to tell a story about how what happens at the fed level touches a local community.

1. Organize (secretly shhhhhh) with others. Make plans to also find a community use for some of that surplus.

2. Drop a press release.

3. Do it Live on TikTok or Insta (or YT). Or not.

4. Give an interview or two. Or not.

5. Drop a press release about that surplus product being shared with a mutual aid autonomous group/purpose.

6. Give an interview. Or not.

Keep doing it.

I appreciate all the earnest folks who are explaining why their institution's DEIA program was good, what impact it had, and why the govt eliminating it is awful. Really. I do.

But you're communicating the wrong thing. Because that's not the fight you're in.

The fight you're in is about segregation. The government is forcing you to choose segregation -- the obstruction of non white people (and white women) from entering or advancing in your industry.

You need to start clarifying THAT.
Be. Clear.

Help the media and public call a Thing a THING.

Hold your industry accountable by CALLING THE THING THE THING.

Make that room, that meeting, effing uncomfortable.

And force the question: Are we choosing segregation so that we don't end up on a fucked up list monitored by some 19 yo incel?

I've basically been an emotional mess all day.

Bursting into tears when Benson booped me on his way to boarding.

Again, when the daycare lady said they'd take good care of Benson while I was with family.

More tears after helping a woman who is the age of my father navigate an airport kiosk to order coffee.

Everyone is telling me to feel the feels.
So get ready. I'll be the lady openly sobbing on the LAX hotel shuttle line.

The three Southwest Air ladies who helped me just now are freaking angels.

I reserved the wrong date for my ticket home. When she said my reservation was for March I broke into tears and whispered, My father just died i have to get home.

Immediately two other women came over helping the first lady navigate their system to rebook me. I didn't even ask. One of the women was watching me and also crying and she had to walk away. She whispered to her coworker, This is too much.

There was now a small crowd of southwest folks grabbing my bag, making sure I was on preboard while I was just hunched over, crying quietly. All I could think was how if I fucked this up my sister would never forgive me.

One of the women grabbed my hand and said, We did it. You're rebooked for LA at 1 and you're coming back on Saturday. Don't worry. You're going home.

I could barely thank them. I started to walk away then came back and got their names.

Polaine
Lanice
Tami

Thank you SO much.

🖐🏾 Raise your hand, fingers spread.

Put down a finger if you haven't read *1984* since junior high.
Put down another finger if you refreshed your memory because of Recent Events.
Put another finger down if you didn't remember that Big Brother breaks Julia and Winston like 2 crackers.

Put down the 2 remaining fingers and make a fist.

#StayWoke

@alissaazar

Re: the Black kids burning that nazi flag - MOAR please.

(and no one slide into my mentions about why I noted those kids were Black - because it matters. as a Black woman, it makes my heart warm to see kids from my community taking direct action. inspiring AF.)

This is the most bonkers example of cognitive dissonance I've seen .... in the past 48 hours.

#uspol

What i just said to my fed friend who is still freaking out:

Girl, don't panic. Keep your head low and find where you can fuck things up quietly.

These arrogant assholes think they know everything.

They don't.
Which is why they are asking career folks to point them in the right direction before firing them.

Girl. Lie. Forget. Obfuscate. Be vague. Be a bad employee.

#ActuallyResist

I just also want it to be clear: while it's terrible and chilling that US agencies are removing information from their sites (especially like the CDC), often this information exists elsewhere. (Especially if it's scientifically accurate and part of the research record.)

For instance, the CDC has wiped info on contraception contraindications. Is the cdc the only source for contraception contraindications? No.

Because you can find it here. (See link.)

If you note what is disappearing, if you can, post where else the info can be found.

Let's not imply that this knowledge has been eradicated. That gives this administration too much power.

They can't eliminate knowledge. Only certain pathways to it.
https://www.reproductiveaccess.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/chart.pdf

What.
Is.
Happening.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/02/us/notam-outage-faa-alerts.html?auth=login-google1tap&login=google1tap

Do you know the symbols of neo nazis?

Thanks to an Ex who monitored the far Right (particularly American Nazis and militias) rather closely, I soaked up some things from his info dumping.

But some of these I've never seen before. Also, the SPLC has a running encyclopedia of hate group iconography.

When you see these symbols in public -- rub them out. Take down the sign. Rip off the sticker. Cover the graffiti. Don't let these symbols sink into the public consciousness.

And certainly don't F*CK anyone wearing these tats. Yuck. Gross. Ptooey.

#KnowTheEnemy #Education

Is anyone asking the question why a NON employee of the federal govt, someone who's not even FROM here, has his computers running shit in the govt?

Where's that contract?
Who approved it?
Where's the oversight?
What was paid for it?
Who's managing it?
Some dogged dork needs to dig into the federal procurement weeds and bring this up at every gaggle like Sam Donaldson and make that comms girl cry.

Slow them down and accuse them in the open.

Among the rubric (paraphrase) they're using to decide fed grant lines to cut/preserve:

Does this program provide fed funding to ngo's supporting or providing services to removable or illegal aliens?

Does this program provide funding that is implicated by recession or revocation of US Intl Climate Finance Plan?
Does it impose undue burden on domestic energy resources?

Does it provide funding for DEI?

Does it promote gender ideology?

Does it promote or support abortion or related activities in the Hyde Amendment?

If NOT covered in the preceding columns does this program cover activities that should not be supported based on EOs as of Jan 25, 2025.

Y'all.

#USPol #Nonprofits