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@shutdowntyranny.bsky.social
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We are a mutual aid network. We began on March 15. Our mission? Total system reform within our government. Opt out of social media, boycott the oligarchs and build mutual aid communities. Find us on Substack

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Shutdown Tyranny @shutdowntyranny.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
anyone you know frozen or spinning, asking what can I do? Here’s a simple answer. Opt out. Unsubscribe. Migrate to more ethical platforms. Use this guide. Distribute. Either print or pass on electronically. Great to pass out at in person meetings.
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Shutdown Tyranny @shutdowntyranny.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...
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It's Time to Boycott Estée Lauder Companies--Here is The List
Clio2 has a highly rec’d diary that lays out the latest actions of Ronald Lauder encouraging our demented President to acquire Greenland. The Lauder family have been malevolent actors in funding ...
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Shutdown Tyranny @shutdowntyranny.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
Prime Minister Carney’s speech felt historic. A call for a values based pragmatism of fluid coalitions. He was speaking on a macro level, but it’s a framework for resistance. Be pragmatic. Do 1 thing. Cancel google. Change email. Fight corporate surveillance. www.weforum.org/stories/2026...
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Davos 2026: Special address by Mark Carney, PM of Canada
Canadian PM Mark Carney stressed the end of the rules-based international order and urged middle powers to act together to counter the great power rivalry.
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Shutdown Tyranny @shutdowntyranny.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
Took a holiday break. Rest is resistance. But I was dangerously close to being lulled into complacency. And the fire hose of 2026 hasn’t helped. With all that’s happened it can seem difficult and quaint to fight the oligarchy. But they fund and profit from all this fuckery. WHEN IN DOUBT, OPT OUT!
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Shutdown Tyranny @shutdowntyranny.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
We have a lot of new followers. Posting this again. open.substack.com/pub/shutdown...
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How to Opt-Out, and Why?
Oligarchs have kettled the people into submission with the promise of convenience. This is how we take the first steps into fighting back.
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Shutdown Tyranny @shutdowntyranny.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
Please read comments on this post. @carrigalpin.bsky.social rightfully called us out for our imprecise language. She is a doctor who cares for the poor and her comments are passionate and couldn’t be better articulated. We will keep striving to be more careful with our word choice.
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Shutdown Tyranny @shutdowntyranny.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
Do people understand that insurance is pooling risk? That we pay in knowing we may never financially benefit? That healthcare is a bastard insurance? That we don’t pool our risk with all Blue Cross customers, but only fellow employees? That on ACA we pool our risk with no one?
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Shutdown Tyranny @shutdowntyranny.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
Don’t forget.
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Shutdown Tyranny @shutdowntyranny.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
Airlines charge you more for a last minute ticket if you received an email about funeral arrangements. You read that right. Opt out. Unsubscribe. Use cash. Use a VPN. Build a privacy stack. And contact lawmakers about ending surveillance pricing. go.bsky.app/redirect?u=h...
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The Shady World of Surveillance Pricing (Ft. Lina Khan)
Should corporations be able to weaponize your personal data to rip you off? Well, they may already be doing that thanks to a shady tactic called “surveillance pricing.” Former FTC Chair Lina Khan explains what we can do about it.
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Shutdown Tyranny @shutdowntyranny.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
Who’s in? We are.
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Shutdown Tyranny @shutdowntyranny.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
@generalstrikeus.bsky.social The momentum
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Shutdown Tyranny @shutdowntyranny.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
ICE is running ads on Spotify. Boycott. Opt out. Unsubscribe.
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Shutdown Tyranny @shutdowntyranny.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
We showed up in deep red Southeast, New England, Texas and the Rockies. We brought people who had never been to a protest before. This big guy misted up and wiped away tears because bc it was inspiring. And I felt community. Take a few days to take it in. And let’s get back to work.
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Shutdown Tyranny @shutdowntyranny.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
Taking time to get outside and recenter can mean our account loses priority in the algorithm. Please visit our account page and like and repost. In the meantime, I took out 15 minutes each night to write down what has inspired me, made me laugh and has kept me going. Thank God for puffy frogs!
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Shutdown Tyranny @shutdowntyranny.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
Opt the fuck out. Unsubscribe. Stop playing their game.
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Shutdown Tyranny @shutdowntyranny.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
This is a little glimmer of hope. We have been encouraging people to opt out. Here is another reason why. Price fixing. The algorithms are killing democracy and any frail semblance of a ghost of a free market we pretend to have lived in.
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Shutdown Tyranny @shutdowntyranny.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
We have a lot of new followers. Posting this again. open.substack.com/pub/shutdown...
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How to Opt-Out, and Why?
Oligarchs have kettled the people into submission with the promise of convenience. This is how we take the first steps into fighting back.
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Psycho Pete @psychopete.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
General strike? Simple answer: maybe. open.substack.com/pub/psychope...
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Boycotts, Strikes, and the Last Firewall
Are we ready for a general strike?
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WIRED @wired.com · 22/09/2025
Big Tech's embrace of President Trump has left many of us wondering: What the hell happened to Silicon Valley? In our new politics issue, we're getting into it. Also, we're taking this cover across the US in billboards, posters and a mural. Clues to find us in the 🧵: www.wired.com/politics-iss...
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Shutdown Tyranny @shutdowntyranny.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
The Jimmy Kimmel saga confirms that the only language these asshats understand is money. Boycotts work. It’s time to prepare. Learn how to build a privacy stack and the more ethical platforms to use. And when a General Strike is called, you’ll be ready to help others join. Organize.
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Shutdown Tyranny @shutdowntyranny.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
Some people have been asking about boycotting streaming services and our thoughts on streaming companies in general. We don’t believe in purity tests. “Greener than thou” environmentalism stalled the movement. Not optimal, but batch processing streaming works. Suspend all but one. Watch one. Switch.
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Shutdown Tyranny @shutdowntyranny.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
In April 2025, Oracle quietly confirmed a breach in its cloud infrastructure that exposed millions of authentication records, including API keys and hashed passwords. The disclosure came only after a lawsuit accused the company of covering up the breach for months. (1) continued in comments .
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Shutdown Tyranny @shutdowntyranny.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
Reposting to support people building a privacy stack.
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Shutdown Tyranny @shutdowntyranny.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
One ring to rule them all. Reminder: opt out.
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Shutdown Tyranny @shutdowntyranny.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
Upset about Jimmy Kimmel? We all are. Now, punch them where it hurts. How to Opt-Out, and Why? substack.com/@shutdowntyr...
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How to Opt-Out, and Why?
Oligarchs have kettled the people into submission with the promise of convenience. This is how we take the first steps into fighting back.
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Shutdown Tyranny @shutdowntyranny.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 17/09/2025
They slash school budgets while handing billionaires tax breaks. They gut teachers and programs, even cutting services for blind and deaf students, then blame kids for “falling behind.” Call it what it is 📢 #GOPCutsKillEducation
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Shutdown Tyranny @shutdowntyranny.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
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Shutdown Tyranny @shutdowntyranny.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
open.substack.com/pub/shutdown...
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How to Opt-Out, and Why?
Oligarchs have kettled the people into submission with the promise of convenience. This is how we take the first steps into fighting back.
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Shutdown Tyranny @shutdowntyranny.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
No matter how frustrating, inconvenient, time consuming…organize for the resistance. Start where people are. What do we do? We start with people’s underlying discomfort about the creepy reach of Big Tech. Offer some examples of the surveillance economy and show them how to begin opting out. HELP US!
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Seth @seth23.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
@shutdowntyranny.bsky.social @generalstrikeus.bsky.social Imagine if millions of us opt out, unsubscribe, boycott and strike. We can shut this shit show down. #eattherich #generalstrike @aoc.bsky.social @adamkinzinger.substack.com @thebulwark.com @indivisible.org (start making a coalition asshats)
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Shutdown Tyranny @shutdowntyranny.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
We are all writing Substacks analyzing how we got here. We know. A minority group co-opted everything to rule the world and crush the rest of us. Guiding principle is a never ending want for more. Now what? Let’s focus less on analysis and more on how to starve the oligarchy and ensure elections.
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Shutdown Tyranny @shutdowntyranny.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
This is a land grab. Plain and simple. Their guiding principle is a never ending want for more. They want everything and claim we’re envious of what they have stolen from us.
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Shutdown Tyranny @shutdowntyranny.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
The company’s “Gotham” platform enables law enforcement to connect vast datasets, creating detailed profiles of individuals by combining everything from DMV records to social media activity. Keep reading and you’ll question whether deals with the devil are real. fortune.com/2025/09/02/p...
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Peter Thiel is delivering 4 private sold-out lectures about the Antichrist at a club in San Francisco
The Palantir cofounder will explore how Christian theology intersects with modern technology in four private lectures merging faith and business.
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Shutdown Tyranny @shutdowntyranny.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
Please opting out. Social media could spell the end of the resistance if we don’t manage our privacy. Build intentional online groups on Signal. The Big Three of the surveillance economy—Facebook + Google + Amazon—are able to track, profile and manipulate you. We need you. Opt out.
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Seth @seth23.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
Unsubscribe. Opt out. @shutdowntyranny.bsky.social
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Shutdown Tyranny @shutdowntyranny.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
Craven. The word we have all been looking for is craven.
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Seth @seth23.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
www.wired.com/story/data-b...
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Data Brokers Are Hiding Their Opt-Out Pages From Google Search
Dozens of companies are hiding how you can delete your personal data, The Markup and CalMatters found.
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Seth @seth23.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
CBP is procuring advanced digital forensics tools with multiple contracts from Cellebrite able to process data from devices and help border agents. One example is “searching a list of text messages to find patterns or ‘hidden language’ in suspect communications www.wired.com/story/phone-...
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Phone Searches at the US Border Hit a Record High
Customs and Border Protection agents searched nearly 15,000 devices from April through June of this year, a nearly 17 percent spike over the previous three-month high in 2022. "The real issue is the c...
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Shutdown Tyranny @shutdowntyranny.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
Waiting to opt out until someone calls a strike or announces the beginng of “economic nonparticipation” is almost obeying in advance. You need nobody’s permission to opt out, unsubscribe and begin to starve the oligarchy of your time, money and attention. Let’s fuck the algorithms. Migrate now.
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Shutdown Tyranny @shutdowntyranny.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
It’s time to starve them. Who still has Meta accounts? My life has certainly been more peaceful without them
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GeorgiaBlue @georgiablue.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
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Shutdown Tyranny @shutdowntyranny.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
Support independent journalism focused on truth.
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Tara Setmayer @tarasetmayer.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
Trumps building his personal Temu Praetorian guard. Smh
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
No agency insignia at all on their uniforms, so this is likely not DEA or ATF or FBI or Border Patrol. So probably it’s DHS, most likely ICE. And yeah, the comment about “liberal” is really telling. These guys are wildly unprofessional.
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Shutdown Tyranny @shutdowntyranny.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
These types of borrowing catalogs (tools, board games, cameras, cookware, prom dresses, etc) are an incredible example of mutual aid using a preexisting system…the public library. No need to reinvent the wheel. Fundraise, gather donations and….GO!
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Shutdown Tyranny @shutdowntyranny.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
Yo! Are people beginning to see the need to opt out, unsubscribe and shut down the tyranny? The oligarchs will bend if we refuse to support them with OUR money. It’s past time. Indivisible is calling it “strategic non participation.” Ok. @generalstrikeus.bsky.social says STRIKE! We say shut it down
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Shutdown Tyranny @shutdowntyranny.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
A piece of good news.
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Shutdown Tyranny @shutdowntyranny.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
In Birmingham, AL a group of us got together to eat lunch and loudly and unabashedly speak our hearts and minds about fascism. A few fuckers tried to stare us down. Guess who looked away first. Hint: it wasn’t me. Here’s my welcome to the resistance gift bag. Let’s get going.
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