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Darth Vader takes the podium at a San Diego city meeting to mockingly defend Flock police surveillance cameras, suggesting the technology could be a powerful asset to the dark side.
"This is what the emperor needs."
The man, dressed in Vader's signature helmet and dark cape, weighs in as the city discusses law enforcement's use of the controversial technology to monitor license plates and vehicles.
“This technology will help us find the rebel scum and their hidden base on Hoth.”
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How fucking stupid does someone have to be to keep repeating and believing this primitive Israeli propaganda?
I hear “the mullahs” also were pulling babies out of incubators until Israel stopped them..
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New: Cops keep getting arrested for using Flock to stalk people. Seemingly every week there's a new case, the details usually similar. Cops use unfettered access to Flock to surveil an ex. They most often search plates hundreds of times over months
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A reminder that the Constitution was not written to restrain the citizens' behavior.
It was written to restrain the government's behavior.
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If we strip away the headlines about Mythos 5, the story is brutally simple: someone, somewhere, is deciding what level of intelligence you and your company are allowed to access.
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Republicans are in charge because we promised:
to Make America Healthy Again.
to start No New Wars,
to put people above corporations,
to put America above foreign countries,
to release the Epstein files,
to not spy on citizens,
to eliminate fraud,
what the hell happened?!
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This isn’t complicated: Get a warrant if you want to pilfer through Americans’ data. That’s what we ask, and what the Constitution demands.
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‘We protect your privacy by reading your messages without a warrant.’
-Pete Hegseth
Orwell couldn’t write this.
America faces real threats from foreign adversaries, terrorists, cyber actors, and hostile intelligence services. Section 702 remains one of our nation’s most effective tools for identifying and disrupting those threats before they reach our shores.
The bipartisan Senate reauthorization strengthens both security and civil liberties by adding new safeguards, increasing transparency, expanding congressional oversight, imposing criminal penalties for misuse, and enhancing protections for Americans’ constitutional rights.
Democrats are choosing to halt action on reauthorization, undermining national security and putting politics ahead of the safety of the American people. At a time of growing threats around the world, Congress should be strengthening the tools that protect our nation—not weakening them. We call on Senator Schumer and Senator Warner to bring Senate Democrats back to the table with Senate Republicans and pass this critical piece of legislation.
Reauthorizing Section 702 is about protecting Americans’ privacy and protecting Americans’ security. We can—and must—do both.
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
Both Democrats and seven Republicans voted against advancing the FISA 702 extension in a 47-52 procedural vote. cbsnews.com/news/senate-fi… senate.gov/legislative/LI…
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It’s all talk. Just withhold foreign aid to Israel for a month and they’ll stop bombing their neighbors - instant peace, the Strait of Hormuz can be opened, and gas drops $2 a gallon. Israel has been, and continues to be, the biggest welfare recipient from American tax payers.
"You're f****** crazy. You'd be in prison if it weren't for me. I'm saving your a***. Everybody hates you now. Everybody hates Israel because of this."
That's what a U.S. official tells Axios President Trump unloaded on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during a heated phone call over Israel's military actions in Lebanon.
Trump was reportedly furious that Israel's moves risked blowing up U.S. diplomatic efforts in the region, at one point also asking Netanyahu: "What the f*** are you doing?"
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Thomas Massie says there are two reasons he believes Trump flipped on the Epstein files.
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Congrats to Israel, they killed another peace deal. We were at 95% done. After Puppet Trump talked to Netanyahu, he came out with new completely unrealistic demands:
1. Israel doesn't have to abide by the peace deal and can keep attacking Lebanon. So, only a ceasefire for one side.
2. We have to take out all the enriched uranium on day one, not in the second stage.
3. All Middle Eastern countries have to betray the Palestinians and sign Abraham Accords to normalize relations with Israel without ending the occupation.
These are purposely impossible, so that the war continues. And Israel is bombing Lebanon heavily now to try to reignite the war.
They are not our allies, Israel is a terrorist government which has captured our government and media. They're using it to drive permanent war that Americans are forced to pay for.
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I did not see this coming, but my election has become an inflection point for our whole country. Today we make history.
Will you be part of this historic day by voting, calling friends who can vote, posting to social media, or making a donation?
Spread the word fellow patriots!
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How is it that I just discovered this today?!
The People Stand with Massie
The pressure is on and the millions are flowing to kick @RepThomasMassie out of Congress. Despite pressure, smear campaigns, deepfake ads and a persistent effort by Donnie himself, the people stand with Thomas Massie.
We're not letting foreign interests and diddler-associates decide the fate of the nation, this race or this man.
Sorry Miriam, Paulson, Singer, Donnie and all the lizards online trying to pile on.
We ride with Thomas Massie.
Clips from @TuckerCarlson @freethepeople and more.
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The People Stand with Massie
The pressure is on and the millions are flowing to kick @RepThomasMassie out of Congress. Despite pressure, smear campaigns, deepfake ads and a persistent effort by Donnie himself, the people stand with Thomas Massie.
We're not letting foreign interests and diddler-associates decide the fate of the nation, this race or this man.
Sorry Miriam, Paulson, Singer, Donnie and all the lizards online trying to pile on.
We ride with Thomas Massie.
Clips from @TuckerCarlson @freethepeople and more.
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No, absolutely not. Look at the newer articles. She now says I gave her the money in December, before she even started the job with Spartz.
This is a hatchet job and you’re complicit.
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This is remarkable and you should watch this entire video.
The House was going to pass a 45 day extension of FISA 702 (Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act), BY VOICE WITHOUT VOTING, and Thomas Massie courageously forced a debate and demanded a recorded vote.
Jim Jordan who has fought FOR warrants for FISA for years ironically led the debate AGAINST warrants and urged a YES vote for a clean extension WITHOUT warrants, which is what Trump is demanding even after FISA was used against him by the Democrats to spy on him and his campaign. Trump literally says give up your rights and just pass it and Jordan won’t go against Trump even though he wants warrant requirements.
Chip Roy, Warren Davidson, and Keith Self joined Thomas Massie and made strong cases as to why Congress must add warrant requirements to FISA 702 and why a Central Bank Digital Currency must be banned and how both are powerful tools of control and surveillance and violation of your privacy and liberties.
And Jamie Raskin (D) gave compelling arguments as to why bipartisanship is needed in the House to make reforms to FISA 702 yet after doing so he voted YES to a clean 45 day extension of FISA 702 without warrant requirements, which makes no sense. Why demand change and then literally vote for what you just argued against? However never forget under Biden and Democrats FISA 702 was used to spy on hundreds of thousands of Americans.
Also, the Republican controlled Senate and its leader John Thune will not vote for a ban on Central Bank Digital Currency, saying it’s dead on arrival in the Senate. And neither will the Democrats.
To sum it up, Americans are literally losing our precious privacy and freedoms right now under Trump and Republicans, yet Democrats are no better and have made no major policy changes that caused them to lose in 2024. They are only winning because Trump and Republicans have betrayed the most important campaign promises.
111 members of Congress voted NAY (NO) to the 45 day FISA 702 extension without warrant requirements for Americans so that your government can spy on you. Some voted NO in a partisan manner and because they hate Trump and some voted NO because they truly want change.
Either way, those who voted NO should be recognized.
Out of 111 ONLY 26 Republicans bravely voted NO. Here is the list of GOP NOs and pictured is the full list of both D’s and R’s who voted NO.
Republican NO votes:
Begich, Biggs (SC), Boebert, Brecheen, Burchett, Cammack, Cloud, Collins, Crane, Davidson, Downing, Fry, Fulcher, Gosar, Hageman, Harshbarger, Higgins (LA), Kennedy (UT), Luttrell, Massie, Miller (IL), Ogles, Perry, Roy, Self, and Tiffany.
But after all this, the House passed the clean 45 day extension of FISA 702. After years of Trump and Republicans campaigning and demanding on Fox News that warrant requirements must be added to FISA, nothing changed.
The promises they made to you are broken.
The only thing that matters is voting records, none of their words. Words are meaningless puffs of air.
If your Representative is not on this list, who voted NO, then you should tell them you are withdrawing your support and not voting for them. On both sides of the aisle.
It doesn’t matter anymore whether you vote Republican or Democrat.
Behind the veil, they are one and the same.
Lastly, KY-4 your Representative Thomas Massie is a giant among men in Congress and fights for you harder than the entire House and Senate combined.
Don’t be fools, vote for Thomas Massie!!!
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Big ideas from the prior era… I keep this in my office, the Saturn C-5N with NERVA
steve.blog/2022/01/17/nuclea…
