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cleaned up and interlinked my collection of #EpsteinFiles sites where you can browse files of particular interest with color highlighting of interesting keywords
https://michelcrypt4d4mus.github.io/epstein_text_messages/
(these pages are not optimized for mobile)
#crypto #Epstein #uspol #uspolitics #JeffreyEpstein #Trump #bitcoin #jeremyRubin #peterThiel #Scaramucci #SteveBannon #MAGA #orban #mandelson #BorisNikolic #billGates #MashaDrukova #cryptocurrency #blockchain #MIT #MediaLab #MITMediaLab #JoiIto #LarrySummers #BrockPierce
"As U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents have swarmed cities across the United States, American politics has appeared to enter a new phase, one in which armed federal forces turn civilian neighborhoods into active conflict zones. Part of what is driving this political shift is a potent technical infrastructure: ICE operations are now expedited by mobile surveillance and targeting systems, where agents’ most powerful weapon can fit in the palm of their hands.
Recent reporting has revealed ICE is relying on at least two applications to guide its crackdown. The first is ELITE (Enhanced Leads Identification & Targeting for Enforcement), a new geospatial system built by the data analytics firm Palantir for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), and designed for use on smartphones and tablets. ELITE “populates a map with deportation targets, brings up a dossier on each person, and provides a ‘confidence score’ on the person’s current address,” according to a user manual published late last month.
The second is Mobile Fortify, a facial recognition application manufactured by the biometrics company NEC that allows immigration enforcement officers to identify both citizens and undocumented migrants. ICE and other DHS agents have reportedly photographed and scanned the faces of Americans in cities like Minneapolis and Chicago — images that are cross-checked with biometric databases, compiled into dossiers, and stored for up to 15 years.
It’s no coincidence that, reporting on ICE’s incursion into Minnesota, New York Times columnist Lydia Polgreen described an “occupation designed to punish and terrorize.” The technologies supporting their operations illustrate how thoroughly ICE is following in Israel’s footsteps: both ELITE and Mobile Fortify bear a striking resemblance to mobile targeting applications Israeli forces have..."
https://www.972mag.com/ice-immigration-israeli-occupation-surveillance/
#USA #Trump #Immigration #ICE #Surveillance #PoliceState #Fascism #Palantir #Israel #FacialRecognition
#FBI agents arrived at the #elections hub just south of #Atlanta with a search warrant seeking documents related to the #2020election in #FultonCounty, #Georgia including: all ballots, tabulator tapes from the scanners that tally the votes, electronic ballot images created when the ballots were counted & then recounted, & all voter rolls. The county has filed a motion seeking the return of the seized materials.
#law #ElectionLaw #ElectionInterference #privacy #InfoSec #midterms #Trump #coup
They also want the judge to order that the #FederalGovernment disclose an inventory of all documents & records seized, the identity of anyone who has accessed the records outside of those involved in the criminal investigation, any copying of the records & all efforts to secure the information.
#law #ElectionLaw #ElectionInterference #privacy #InfoSec #midterms #Trump #coup
The motion filed late Sunday asks the judge to “order reasonable limits on the government’s use of the seized data” & to prohibit the government from using the data for purposes other than the criminal investigation cited in the search warrant affidavit. That includes prohibiting any efforts to use it for voter roll maintenance, election administration or #immigration enforcement.
#law #ElectionLaw #ElectionInterference #privacy #Trump #coup
The #NAACP & other organizations are asking a judge to protect personal voter information that was seized by the #FBI.…
#Georgia residents entrusted the #state with their “sensitive personal information” when they registered to #vote, & the Jan 28 seizure of ballots & other #election documents from the #FultonCounty #elections hub “breached that guarantee, infringed constitutional protections of #privacy, & interfered with the right to vote,” the orgs said…
#law #Trump
https://apnews.com/article/fbi-georgia-elections-fulton-county-2020-ballots-e0eb5970169ade6f775e317f7fa12d5e
Broken bones, burning eyes: How Trump's DHS deploys 'less lethal' weapons on protesters
Federal immigration officers have repeatedly used force in ways that appear to violate their own policies or general policing guidelines, NBC News found.
#DHS #Republicans #MAGA #GOP #Trump #politics #protests #press
The prostitution / pedo / slavery (yes!) / basically human trafficking depravity of the #Epstein case is a SMALL slice of this huge shit pie. This is about #POWER and no amount of "oh, it's the #russians (lol, try harder) and "oh, #Trump's name is in it a lot" (duh) will stop this wildfire.
The 🐯 is out of the bag. Yeah, it's a tiger. It's ROARING.
When the buried remains of dozens of #rape #victims are exhumed from #Trump properties #republicans will say it was immigrants that did it, or "look at how well the stock market is doing" and Susie Collins will be "very concerned"
Israeli exec at Paragon accidentally exposed Graphite spyware dashboard on LinkedIn—real-time access to Czech user's WhatsApp, Signal, geolocation, camera/mic via zero-click exploits 🔍
Post deleted, shows US agency sales after Trump lifted rights bans, fueling surveillance concerns ⚠️
🔗 https://news-pravda.com/world/2026/02/12/2071096.html
#TechNews #Privacy #Spyware #Security #Surveillance #Cybersecurity #Data #Encryption #Graphite #HumanRights #Tech #FOSS #DigitalRights #Cyber #Israel #Paragon #CzechRepublic #US #Trump
The #IRS’s #privacy dept was largely sidelined from the talks, & its #IT dept took over implementing the data sharing. That team had largely been taken over by ofcls from #Trump’s US #DOGE Service, the White House’s “efficiency” office charged with shrinking the federal government.
#Treasury ofcls justified the data-sharing agreement by arguing #immigration enforcement was pursuing individuals who had violated #criminal statutes, though immigration violations are generally #civil, not criminal.
When the #IRS began conversations with #DHS over data sharing after #Trump returned to the White House, snr IRS employees warned admin ofcls that the program was likely #illegal & could sweep up misidentified people….
During meetings on the project, one IRS staffer asked #immigration ofcls how many people with the same name may live in the same state,…illustrating how easy it would be…to inadvertently breach taxpayers’ #privacy, including those who are not targets of immigration investigations.
There is little evidence that undocumented #immigrants have attempted to participate in US elections, nor is there a link between undocumented immigrants & higher levels of crime.
In a statement, a #DHS spox said that under the data-sharing agreement, “the government is finally doing what it should have all along.”
“Information sharing across agencies is essential to identify who is in our country, including violent criminals, determine what public safety & terror threats may exist so we can neutralize them, scrub these individuals from voter rolls, & identify what public benefits these aliens are using at taxpayer expense,” spox said.
Charles Littlejohn, an #IRS contractor, pleaded guilty in 2023 to leaking the #tax returns of Donald #Trump & other wealthy individuals.
Littlejohn was sentenced to five years in prison. Trump in January sued the IRS for $10 billion in damages related to the Littlejohn leak. [For he but not for thee]
When the #IRS shared the addresses with #DHS, it also inadvertently disclosed private information for thousands of #taxpayers erroneously, a mistake only recently discovered, said people familiar….
The affected individuals could be entitled to financial compensation for each time their #information was improperly shared. And government officials can personally face stiff #civil & #criminal penalties for sharing #confidential #tax information.