Re: the recent debate about old time organizers and newbies: you can tell often who understands the risks of OpSec and who doesn’t by those who have historically had to confront undercover folks infiltrating their organizing and who hasn’t.
There is a role for everyone right now AND
Feb 4, 2026 13:31please listen to those of us who grasp deeply the risks of just putting your shit out for everyone to see when lives are on the line.
People have lost their lives over this shit and will continue to unless folks grasp where we are (and have been for a long while now).
A group I was in once discovered that someone who we thought was benign was actually a contractor with the DoD, for instance.
How did she find us? Someone slipped up on social media.
And that was ten years ago.
