Sadly, Syncthing is dropping Android support.

One of the greatest advantages of the totalitarian elites of the twenties and thirties was to turn any statement of fact into a question of motive. – Hannah Arendt

The EU has such, General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), works reasonably well. Pretty good place to start.

Desktops, tablets, phones: Kiwix can use a bunch of reference works downloaded to your machine(s), from Wiktionary to the 100 GB Wikipedia (with thumbnail pics) to Gutenberg books.

might

That word is carrying a mighty big load.

What’s one that doesn’t suck?

Historical background on current events: Heather Cox Richardson.

Sumsnag

Gotta start somewhere though, gotta start somewhere.

Hope, Pray, become Aware < Get Educated and Educate Others < Act with Understanding and Compassion (vote, call or write government officials, get together with others, run for public office)

Be careful of printers with chipped toner though. Older models still rock.

Here’s a start: Understanding Power has a PDF of all the sources in the footnotes of the book by the same name. Or, if you’re really looking for voluminous elaboration, this purports to be a list of source references, sorted by publisher, with links to the books.

someone who can explain how the world really works.

And that person is?

There is something to this; however, there are historical examples of rather quick progress. FDR for one (public work projects and infrastructure, financial reforms, regulations, social security, etc.), when old and young, the president, government employees, the whole general public (with some exceptions), held to popular principles of egalitarian fairness against the few unconscionably rich. A time of tasty pills.