For those of us foreseeing that "things are going to get very bad," Sherrilynn Ifill offers some valuable pragmatic tips about surviving

William Lindsey :toad:

@bob I didn't create the list to which you're responding. Sherrilyn Ifill did, as the initial posting in the thread says. Perhaps some or many homelessness services are run by church organizations. I think it's a good idea always, as one makes donations, to see how effectively a group is serving its target population.

William Lindsey :toad:

@evacide "Think about tightening security on your electronic devices" is her opening statement in this section of her advice points.

William Lindsey :toad:

@Nonya_Bidniss Yes, I think of that, too, and of the sudden yanking of Social Security and Medicare. I think much more is possible than many folks have begun to imagine.

William Lindsey :toad:

@hacks4pancakes @Nonya_Bidniss Yes, a definite concern.

Nonya Bidniss :CIAverified:

@wdlindsy Yep all of it. And my Federal pension which I live on.

William Lindsey :toad:

@Nonya_Bidniss Yes — sad to say, everything's now vulnerable.

lolonurse

@wdlindsy
Obviously not speaking to low-income seniors living on nothing but SS, or the working poor juggling bills/ food/rent/healthcare... etc.

lolonurse

@wdlindsy
Resilience & a backup have become luxuries.

therieau

@wdlindsy This is probably a good spot to share a link to the privacy tools page on the @eff site. Lots of great stuff here.

Tools from EFF's Tech Team

EFF’s team of technologists and computer scientists engineers solutions to the problems of sneaky tracking, inconsistent encryption, and more. Where users face threats to their privacy and security online, EFF’s technology tools are there to defend them. For those with design, programming, and/or...

Electronic Frontier Foundation (www.eff.org)

lolonurse

@wdlindsy @Nonya_Bidniss
I'd be screwed.

Philip Cardella

@wdlindsy @MoiraEve even if this is a pessimistic appraisal everyone needs to come to grips with the fact that it's a very possible outcome. Given it's possible, likely even, we have to prepare as if it's certain.

William Lindsey :toad:

@philip_cardella @MoiraEve I agree.

William Lindsey :toad:

@lolonurse @Nonya_Bidniss Same for me.

William Lindsey :toad:

@therieau @eff Thank you for this helpful information.

William Lindsey :toad:

@lolonurse So it appears, doesn't it?

William Lindsey :toad:

@lolonurse I don't read her that way, myself. I think as a well-informed an African-American woman, she's likely well-informed about the struggles many of us have to set some money aside. I suspect she's also very aware of the strength her own community has shown historically at supporting one another, pulling together to combat oppression, scrimping and saving in family units and larger communities to gather money to sustain folks during crises.

William Lindsey :toad:

@Nonya_Bidniss I honestly do think about this possibility — as one whose income is almost entirely limited right now to SS, though my spouse keeps bringing in income for both of us in retirement by taking contract work.

Nonya Bidniss :CIAverified:

@wdlindsy I have to hope that crashing the banks would be against the oligarchs' interests...as to our fixed incomes, I don't trust the Republicans at all.

William Lindsey :toad:

@Nonya_Bidniss Yes — and even today, I can hear my grandmother telling me that when the banks shut down as the Depression hit, she and my grandfather realized five cents on every dollar they had saved. I know what can happen since I heard those stories right from my grandmother, about the hardship that ensued for so many people.

Nonya Bidniss :CIAverified:

@wdlindsy When my mom was little they pretty much lived on catfish they caught and potatoes. All this can easily happen again and remember, this is Bannon's entire plan. I don't know how well that meshes with the Heritage nuts but I can tell one thing, I think we're gonna see.