Note to the rest of the world: The US government does NOT represent the American people.

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Liberals will say, “We don’t support men who abuse women,” yet they support Raphael Warnock, whose wife accused him of hitting her with his car after an argument. They say, “We don’t support cheaters,” but then invite Bill Clinton to speak at every convention. They say, “We believe all women,” except when it comes to women who accused Joe Biden. The hypocrisy is astounding.

People really compare dyinġ from poverty to Darwin’s “survival of the fittest.” Poverty is a social construct driven by wealth hoarding in the post industrial age, not by any natural shortage of resources.

The larger picture gives perspective.

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This one hits hard.

RT @davidsirota: A day into vacation, with my brain healing from being (mostly) offline, I’ve been meditating on one thought: In many contr…

What if Platner, Rabb and El-Sayed all win and end up in Washington? What will all the Blue MAGA establishment defenders do? Think they’ll get jobs at Palantir or the WEF, working on the Project to Subjugate Humanity?

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To understand the stakes of the progressive vs. centrist fight to control the Democratic Party, just compare Zohran's term so far with Spanberger's. Zohran: - Free childcare for 2-year-olds - Banned junk fees - Filled 100,000 potholes - New bike and bus lanes across the city - Wealth tax on luxury second homes - Millions of dollars won for tenants and thousands of apartments repaired Spanberger: - Vetoed bill to let public workers unionize - Vetoed bill allowing class-action lawsuits - Vetoed bill to stop warrantless arrests by ICE - Vetoed bill legalizing cannabis sales - Vetoed bill to lower prescription drug prices Trump was defeated in 2020, only to return in an even more dangerous form four years later. So we already know that it is not enough to beat MAGA once at the ballot box. If Dems don't pair their next electoral victory with Mamdani's commitment to positively improving people’s lives, rather than Spanberger's model of selling out to corporations, we are going to be right back in the maws of fascism one election later. And this time, we might not be facing an authoritarian as incompetent and self-defeating as Trump has been. newrepublic.com/article/2108…

“No one is forcing you to work at that job you hate.” I really do think you will find that the threat of starvation, homelessness, unpaid bills, and losing access to basic healthcare is fairly coercive.

🧵 THREAD 1/ The absolute stupidest thing Americans can do right now is support a constitutional convention. You are being told we need one. That we need to add new amendments. That we need new rules to finally keep the government under control. This sounds reasonable. It sounds like the solution. It sounds like we are finally going to fix the problem. But you are about to hand the psychopaths in power the one thing they have been waiting for. The ability to rewrite the entire Constitution. And once you open it up, you will never get it back.

Seen in Richmond, Virginia today.

Bribes for everyone! Except you.

You have every right to know what your government is doing, and they have no right to know what you are doing. That is why they are called public servants and we are called private citizens. Instead, the relationship has been inverted. The state hides behind secrecy, classified files, and redactions while demanding total visibility into your finances, communications, movement, and behavior. A society where the rulers live in privacy while the population lives under surveillance is the very definition of tyranny.

This is horrifying and every American needs to hear this California resident exposes what’s really going on with Flock Cameras in America “I want to be clear what these cameras actually are, and I say that with somebody with 20 years of experience in IT. I've served as the chief network architect for Fortune 500 companies, I've designed data centers, and today I work on cloud infrastructure for one of the largest loan origination companies in the country. I'm not speculating on how this technology works. I've read their patents and I know how it works. Flock advertises these cameras as simple license plate readers. But their own patents tell a different story. They're AI-powered surveillance machines that capture every passing vehicle and person and transmit that data to a private corporate cloud, making it queryable by a multitude of state and federal agencies. The city of Corona does not control that database, and Corona residents have no public record rights against a private company's servers. Our daily movements are being harvested by a $7.5 billion corporation, that only answers to venture capital investors, not to us. Flock did not reach that valuation on their per-camera subscription fees. That math doesn't add up The city council should also understand who they're doing business with. Flock CEO was asked whether the company had any federal contracts. He said no. That was a lie. Public records revealed that Flock had been secretly running a pilot program giving the US Border Patrol access to local police camera data without the knowledge of the cities that paid for the cameras. Now consider who's behind the company and where your data flows. Flock integrates directly with Palantir, a data fusion platform, with a $30 million contract with ICE. Peter Thiel, the founder of Palantir, is also one of Flock's primary investors. These are not separate companies with separate agendas. They are connected actors that are building a connected infrastructure. Palantir's own CEO stated publicly just this month that his technology is being used as a political instrument, designed to reduce the political power of certain voters. And that's the ecosystem that our Corona cameras are feeding into. We're not anti-police at all. We're against mass surveillance of innocent residents by a company with a documented record of deception, built by investors with a stated political agenda. We're asking the City Council to start auditing the queries made against Flock's database, to disclose any data sharing agreements, and to take a vote to cancel the Flock safety contract” I looked more into this and he is 100% right Patents describe broader object detection, including tracking people and pedestrians, patents like US11416545B1. The system uses a centralized cloud database for nationwide queries Data goes to Flock’s private cloud, AWS-based, encrypted. Nationwide lookup is common, 75% of customers are enrolled enabling cross-jurisdictional searches. Residents have no direct public records access to the corporate servers. This creates a mass surveillance network feeding a private company’s infrastructure If you ask me this is laying the infrastructure for a mass surveillance network in America. We are being lied to. Cancel all contracts nationwide

Data center overload may be *intended* to break the grid. A subsequent emergency order could permit unregulated private ownership. This would allow direct control of electrical distribution by tech billionaires. They'll decide who gets power, and how much. businessinsider.com/nerc-iss…

Call his fucking office: (804) 698-7534

There is a specific absurdity in watching a country that cannot provide basic healthcare to its citizens spend more on its military than the next six countries combined. And having those citizens describe this as "strength." Strength. The inability to keep your own people alive unless they are profitable is not strength. The willingness to spend unlimited money projecting violence abroad while people ration insulin at home is not strength. It is the behavior of an entity that has confused the performance of power with the exercise of it. That has built its identity so completely around the capacity for violence that it has forgotten what the violence is supposed to be for. The empire does not make its citizens safe. It makes them afraid, of each other, of outsiders, of the future, because fear is what justifies the expense. A population that felt genuinely secure would ask questions about where the money goes. A population kept in a state of continuous, low-grade, expertly managed anxiety keeps writing the check.

Right, @GovernorVA?