Activism Resources

Journalist Contacts

Kevin Collier: Cyber reporter at NBC. Also privacy, elections, infrastructure, etc. I like to tell stories about the cyber affecting everyday people. If you have firsthand knowledge and want the public to know, your opsec is a top priority and I promise to keep you anonymous in all our coverage. I'm kevincollier.01 on signal; please turn on disappearing messages. (also by email: kevin.collier@nbcuni.com) https://mastodon.social/@kevincollier

Jospeh Menn: Washington Post cyber reporter. Author of Cult of the Dead Cow and Fatal System Error. I continue to report on the urgent cybersecurity and privacy issues resulting from DOGE access across the government. If you know something our readers should be aware of, please reach out to me on Signal at joemenn.01. Thank you. Joseph.Menn@washpost.com. Joemenn.01 on Signal.  https://www.washingtonpost.com/people/joseph-menn/

Pro Publica Tip Line: https://propublica.org/tips or Signal 917-512-0201

Protest Safety and Resources

Safely Attending a Protest: https://ssd.eff.org/module/attending-protest

It's safer in the front: https://crimethinc.com/2025/01/28/its-safer-in-the-front-taking-the-offensive-against-tyranny

Protest Medic Info: https://riotmedicine.net/downloads#street-medics-checklist

Data Privacy

Intro to Tor: https://www.privacyguides.org/videos/2025/03/02/why-you-need-tor/

Job Hunting Resources

Keep Track of your Job Hunting Process (not a jobs board) from Bill Hunt: https://job.hunt.works/

US Federal Employees / DOGE

DOGE is Implementing a Regime Change https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/02/doge-civil-servant-purge/681671/?gift=hVZeG3M9DnxL4CekrWGK38OD13Rx0lhyd5fWjR1YAEk

Federal Unionists Network - The Federal Unionists Network (FUN for short) is an informal association of federal unionists and our allies organizing to support each other in strengthening our unions, improving our agencies and building solidarity across the federal sector of the labor movement.

https://www.federalunionists.net/home

https://www.federalunionists.net/resources

Federal Workers Against DOGE - The goal of the group is to inspire federal workers to feel brave enough to defy and disobey illegal orders from DOGE. Text NoDOGE to 51905 to join the fight.

https://www.instagram.com/federalworkersagainstdoge/

We Are The Builders - We don't work for DOGE. We have always worked for you. Here, you'll find stories from real government employees: How we save you time and money, how we protect your personal information, and how DOGE's dangerous dismantling of government technology puts you at risk.

https://www.wethebuilders.org/

Discussion: Can we still govern?

DOGE Privacy Act Records Request: https://jamieraskin.com/doge-privacy-act-requests/

List of DOGE employee names and email addresses source

US Federal Websites and Data

Feds: if you’re being directed to destroy records, report it to the National Archives Office of Records Management Oversight and Reporting: https://www.archives.gov/records-mgmt/resources/unauthorizeddispositionoffederalrecords

Gov Wayback

you can find nearly all missing .gov websites archived by replacing .gov with .govwayback.com

e.g., https://www.nasa.govwayback.com/universe/nasa-intern-found-hope-in-the-moon-2

source: https://fosstodon.org/deck/@lpryszcz@genomic.social/113968675709997542

Harvard Data Vault

Today we released our archive of data.gov on Source Cooperative. The 16TB collection includes over 311,000 datasets harvested during 2024 and 2025, a complete archive of federal public datasets linked by data.gov. It will be updated daily as new datasets are added to data.gov.

“It can be freely copied, and we're sharing the code behind it to help others make their own archives of data they depend on.” -Harvard Library Innovation Lab

Description: https://lil.law.harvard.edu/blog/2025/02/06/announcing-data-gov-archive/

Archive: https://source.coop/repositories/harvard-lil/gov-data/description

Safeguarding Research (Discourse Group)

https://safeguarding-research.discourse.group/about

Research Grants

Five Things to Know if your Federal Grant is Terminated: https://www.thetransmitter.org/funding/five-things-to-know-if-your-federal-grant-is-terminated/

US Emmigration

Trans World Express

We are collecting information on possible exit routes into various countries. We focus on work, study and self employment visas as they are available at the moment.

https://transworldexpress.org/wiki/Main_Page