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Adriel talks to Emily Del Beccaro and Ari Trujillo Wesler of Open Field about their new campaign app and the dynamics of grassroots campaign technology. Open Field, a web-based political canvassing app, launches February 3 and can be found at openfield.ai. Also, other campaign applications, and Slate's recent list of the 30 most evil tech companies, available at https://slate.com/technology/2020/01/evil-list-tech-companies-dangerous-amazon-facebook-google-palantir.html.

As another wave of women's marches takes place around the U.S. today, we hear a conversation between Jamie Cheek, Jackie Grimes, and Yana Ludwig. Cheek grew up in Newcastle WY and is running for Utah's 1st Congressional District U.S. House Seat. Grimes, who lives in Laramie, is running for Wyoming State Senate, while Ludwig, also of Laramie, is running for U.S. Senate from Wyoming. 

A conversation between Judd Legum and Adriel Hampton on Facebook's monetization of Trump's serial lies. Also: Twitter's new settings and managing an active stream. Listen to and support Judd's Popular Information here. Buzzfeed article is here,  this is Andrew Bosworth's Facebook post, Adriel on Twitter stuff here. 

Facebook is creating and funding a review and appeals board. Adriel and Matt discuss why public oversight is a better option--and explain the details of automated propaganda via Facebook and Twitter. Also: how to share video on Twitter with attribution and view count, but not a full re-tweet.

Northern Arapaho activist Ron Howard, and Chesie Lee of Riverton Peace Mission, discuss the police shooting of Andy Antelope, racist incidents in the community, and the efforts of the Riverton Peace Mission.

Critics outside and inside of Google are charging the company with doing unethical work, tolerating sexual harassment and assault, and suppressing dissent. We hear from fired workers Laurence Berland and Sophie Waldman on the details of allegations against Google and alleged targeted firing of dissenting workers. Also: Adriel talks about his favorite tech-political newsletters. Read more about the Google labor struggle here. 

On Christmas Eve, members of Solidarity Collective talk about how the meaning of the holiday seasons has evolved for each of them, including discussions of Kwanzaa, paganism, the 1914 Christmas Truce events, and other perspectives. Happy holidays from Solidarity House Cooperative! You can support us at Patreon.com/solidarityhouse.

Conservatives in the U.K. elections ran thousands of microtargeted ads per day on Facebook, an alarmingly high amount of them dishonest, with no practical means to adequately factcheck. Tech stocks continue to rise even though all the companies suck. Also, Twitter has just changed its verification rules and Adriel and Matt talk about how this will help progressive candidates. Adriel talks about how candidates can successfully deploy email funding.

The saga of Buffscotch the Cat, rescued by Solidarity Collective, in search of a safe and loving forever home. If you're interested in giving Buffscotch a forever home and you live in Wyoming, Colorado, you know, around here, or you know, wherever, and are nota creep, email Solidarity Collective at [email protected] with the subject line Buffscotch. And you can support us at patreon.com/solidarityhouse.

Adriel and Christine Kramar of Medicare 4 All Delegates discuss the dangers of microtargeting with fake ads, zombie-PACs and scam-PACS and Adriel talks about how to include captions in videos. Follow Christine Kramar here.