Hopefully-Poetic

Let’s act together to fight racism, injustice, and police brutality. People are dying because of the color of their skin, and we can’t stay silent and ignore it. Black Lives Matter.

Please don’t comment that “all lives matter” - saying black lives matter in no way means other lives don’t matter. It means black people are dying at higher rates from police violence due to racism and police brutality, and saying all lives matter is completely dismissive and insensitive of that fact.

I’ve already listed funds to donate to in my IG stories, but Campaign Zero and NAACP Legal Defense Fund are ones I’m donating to outside of Minnesota. There are many resources online to educate yourself and those around you with facts like blacklivesmatters.carrd.co and mappingpoliceviolence.org.

Her name is “Reality Leigh Winner” and she was a NSA Contractor. She passed a top secret NSA document to a news source (an article from The Intercept) that contains information about a Russian cyber-attack with one voting machine DAYS before the 2016 presidential election. This is considered the most detailed piece of proof regarding Russia’s interference with the elections to date. 

Here’s how the NSA document described how the Russians did the hacking: 

“As described by the classified NSA report, the Russian plan was simple: pose as an e-voting vendor and trick local government employees into opening Microsoft Word documents invisibly tainted with potent malware that could give hackers full control over the infected computers.

But in order to dupe the local officials, the hackers needed access to an election software vendor’s internal systems to put together a convincing disguise. So on August 24, 2016, the Russian hackers sent spoofed emails purporting to be from Google to employees of an unnamed U.S. election software company, according to the NSA report. Although the document does not directly identify the company in question, it contains references to a product made by VR Systems, a Florida-based vendor of electronic voting services and equipment whose products are used in eight states.