@macacator @mikelovesbikes @admin @painting_squirrel @bridgeenjoyer @aho

but there won't ever be a trial later if we don't vote

we have to #vote

any rationale for not voting is simply self-subjugation to #fascism out of entitlement ("it doesn't affect me") or mindless cynicism and learned helplessness: personal weakness

#MarALago

#Trump's Plutocrat-Bigot-Child Rapist power nexus

Now in a #Democrat ruled state district in #MAGA #Florida

https://www.politico.com/news/2026/03/24/dems-win-mar-a-lago-gregory-00843333

"They'll steal the vote"

You'll do #prematureCapitulation and not vote?

"Both sides the same"

You're an idiot fine with MAGA #fascism?

"But my obsessive single issue"

You're fine with destroying #transRights, #womensRights, #immigrantRights, etc in #ToxicIdealism?

#Vote

#Primaries and November

#Democrats suck but we can freeze Trump's agenda

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A Mar-a-Lago flip: Dems win Trump's hometown Florida House district Tuesday's results add more tallies to a trend of Democrats flipping Republican-held seats in state legislatures across the country over the past 14 months. FILE - This is an aerial view of former President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate, Aug. 10, 2022, in Palm Beach, Fla. (AP Photo/Steve Helber, File) "I think it demonstrates where the Florida voter is," Gregory told POLITICO after her win. "They want someone who is focused on solutions and the issues and not focused on the noise." | AP

@aho

they can't

see people are worried about the erosion of #democracy in the #usa and they are correct

and the solution is we vote *more* and get real leftists in power and close the loopholes

but there is this unfortunate human hopelessness where people just give up (or outright troll #psyop cosplaying left encouraging that)

i don't understand why people don't #vote. they only help #fascism. it's #entitlement: "won't affect me." or cluelessness (it will affect them but they don't know)

Mark Zuckerberg really can’t be bothered to pretend to be a good guy anymore.

Meta kills its end-to-end encryption on Instagram DMs so it can mine ever more personal & private information so they can sell you things you don’t need.

Be wary of how you communicate on any Meta apps even WhatsApp.

https://www.wired.com/story/the-danger-behind-metas-decision-to-kill-end-to-end-encrypted-instagram-dms/

#BigTech #RootesNews #meta #fascism #privacy #surveillance

Look who is behind the ID verification shit? Oh, who would have thought?

https://github.com/upper-up/meta-lobbying-and-other-findings

#Meta #Facebook #DigitalID #Fascism

Palantir's ELITE App: "Kind of Like Google Maps" for Finding Deportation Targets | State of Surveillance https://stateofsurveillance.org/news/palantir-elite-ice-targeting-app-confidence-scores-2026/ #palandir #ice #deportation #technology #surveillance #fascism

" #Democrats deliver ‘stunning’ flip in New Hampshire special election, latest in series of 28 upsets"

remember the game plan:

1. #vote in the #primaries, get real left #candidates

if you don't, don't complain about corporatist dems ever again: you're the fucking problem

2. #vote in the general #election no matter who wins the primary

yes the dems fucking suck. but if you're willing to do nothing, helping #fascism, because you want perfect: you're an entitled moron

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/11/democrat-new-hampshire-bobbi-boudman

Ad-tech is fascist tech

https://pluralistic.net/2026/03/10/ice-tech/#foreseeable-outcomes

#HackerNews #AdTech #Fascism #Tech #Critique #Privacy #DigitalRights

Good news: the US citizen DHS disappeared from Chicago O'Hare was found, in Wisconsin... not found dead in a ditch, and thankfully alive. But they did dump her out on the street.

ABC7: DHS detains US citizen from Evanston at O'Hare, releases her in Wisconsin after nearly 2 days

"...The family said Naqvi was later sent to a facility in Dodge County, Wisconsin, where she was later released early Saturday morning.

They said her phone was dead, so she had to hitch hike with a person driving nearby to a hotel, where her family was able to pick her up...."

https://abc7chicago.com/post/sunny-naqvi-us-citizen-detained-dhs-chicago-ohare-airport-sent-broadview-ice-facility-dodge-county-wi-released/18693499/

#Fascism #ICE #HabeusCorpus #USpol

LAist: Some South Pasadena residents want the city’s Flock license plate readers gone — they’re not alone

https://laist.com/news/some-south-pasadena-residents-want-the-citys-flock-license-plate-readers-gone-theyre-not-alone

#alpr #bigbrother #flock #privacy #fascism

We cannot continue to live in fear while big tech and an authoritative, parasitic, pedophilic, ruling class continues control our lives!

We need to take it all back now!

CBP Tapped Into the Online Advertising Ecosystem To Track Peoples’ Movements

https://www.404media.co/cbp-tapped-into-the-online-advertising-ecosystem-to-track-peoples-movements/

#CBP #ACAB #AdTech #BigTech #Surveillance #Privacy #Security #Fascism #Tech

Can we all please recognize that this idea, inverted to its opposite, is what is driving the frenzy towards AI?

"Management" including battlefield management, "non-lethal" crowd-control management

Immigration management, insurance management, medical management, education management

#uspol #ai #hegseth #fascism

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Famous IBM slide from 1979: "A COMPUTER CAN NEVER BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE THEREFORE A COMPUTER MUST NEVER MAKE A MANAGEMENT DECISION"

#Anthropic had sought guarantees that its #AI would not be used for fully #AutonomousWeapons or for mass #domestic #surveillance - applications in which the #Pentagon claimed it had no interest [wink wink nudge nudge].

#law #privacy #security #InfoSec #Trump #fascism

Do not comply.

Do not share your ID or biometric data with abusive platforms requesting it. You have a choice to say no, complain, and leave.

This is an important act of resistance for the future of humanity.

This isn't just about privacy, this is also about safety, diversity, democracy, and human rights.

#Privacy #MassSurveillance #HumanRights #Fascism #AgeVerification #IdentityVerification

"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

So this is #democracy? Hum ; Can I see #fascism again, please?

CNBC: Amazon’s Ring cancels Flock partnership amid Super Bowl ad backlash

"...The partnership between Flock and Ring came under scrutiny after the Amazon doorbell company ran an ad during the Super Bowl that touted a “Search Party” feature that uses AI to help locate lost pets. When a user initiates the feature, it activates a network of participating Ring cameras, which scan footage for images resembling the missing dog. The Electronic Frontier Foundation called the feature a “surveillance nightmare.” ..."

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/12/amazons-ring-cancels-flock-partnership-amid-super-bowl-ad-backlash.html

#alpr #privacy #fascism #flock #ring #amzn

"Who owns this network of secret license plate readers in San Diego and Imperial counties? "

https://inewsource.org/2026/02/11/hidden-license-plate-readers-san-diego-imperial/

#flock #alpr #licenseplates #sandiego #imperialcounty #fascism #privacy

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Techcrunch: Google sent personal and financial information of student journalist to ICE

https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/10/google-sent-personal-and-financial-information-of-student-journalist-to-ice/

#privacy #journalism #google #fascism

I wish I could force every legislator
in favor of Age Verification to watch this amazing talk by Carissa Véliz,

So that they understand the dangers
of the surveillance infrastructure they are currently putting in place.

You should watch it too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xSPRouBvgFE

#Privacy #Democracy #HumanRights #AgeVerification #MassSurveillance #Fascism

From 2019:

What the President Could Do If He Declares a #StateOfEmergency
From seizing control of the #internet to declaring #MartialLaw, President #Trump may legally do all kinds of extraordinary things.

by Elizabeth Goitein | January/February 2019

"It would be nice to think that America is protected from the worst excesses of Trump’s impulses by its democratic laws and institutions. After all, Trump can do only so much without bumping up against the limits set by the Constitution and Congress and enforced by the courts. Those who see Trump as a threat to democracy comfort themselves with the belief that these limits will hold him in check.
But will they? Unknown to most Americans, a parallel legal regime allows the president to sidestep many of the constraints that normally apply.

"The moment the president declares a 'national emergency' — a decision that is entirely within his discretion — more than 100 special provisions become available to him. While many of these tee up reasonable responses to genuine emergencies, some appear dangerously suited to a leader bent on amassing or retaining power. For instance, the president can, with the flick of his pen, activate laws allowing him to shut down many kinds of electronic communications inside the United States or freeze Americans’ bank accounts. Other powers are available even without a declaration of emergency, including laws that allow the president to #DeployTroops inside the country to subdue #DomesticUnrest.

"This edifice of extraordinary powers has historically rested on the assumption that the president will act in the country’s best interest when using them. With a handful of noteworthy exceptions, this assumption has held up. But what if a president, backed into a corner and facing electoral defeat or impeachment, were to declare an emergency for the sake of holding on to power? In that scenario, our laws and institutions might not save us from a presidential power grab. They might be what takes us down."

Read more:
https://archive.li/hyWR6#selection-1745.0-1767.508

#NDAA
#ExpandedPowers
#USPresidency
#NationalEmergency #Fascism #CharacteristicsOfFascism

ICE and CBP’s Face-Recognition App Can’t Actually Verify Who People Are

„ICE has used #MobileFortify to identify immigrants and citizens alike over 100,000 times, by one estimate. It wasn't built to work like that—and only got approved after #DHS abandoned its own #privacy rules….“

https://www.wired.com/story/cbp-ice-dhs-mobile-fortify-face-recognition-verify-identity/

#ICE #Surveillance #USA #Fascism

#ICE #fascism #privacy #europe #eu #datenschutz
Autralia is handing over the biometric data of their citizens to the US. To ICE and other parts of "law enforcment", border control probably to anyone who wants it.
The EU is in negotiations to do the same. The US wants it to be done by 31 December this year. That's their deadline. No acces to ESTA after that, without giving them acces to the biometric data of our citizens.
The Australians were not being told about this.

Gizmodo: Amazon’s Ring Wants to Wash Away Your Surveillance Concerns With Lost Puppies

https://gizmodo.com/ring-wants-to-wash-away-your-surveillance-concerns-with-lost-puppies-2000716802?

#privacy #cybersecurity #fascism #ring #bigbrother

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Gizmodo: Amazon’s Ring Wants to Wash Away Your Surveillance Concerns With Lost Puppies

"What we are witnessing in America is technofascism. This is fascism partnered with advanced surveillance technologies. And this is what we see playing out in Minneapolis in real time, and with one company playing a pre-eminent role: Palantir.

It’s not just Palantir. We’ve seen other data-harvesting monopolies and Silicon Valley companies paying homage to Trump: Meta and Google and OpenAI and Oracle and Amazon and Nvidia, many of which have financial and other links to Thiel. Palantir is the very tip of this extremely poisonous spear.

What is happening in Minneapolis is a trial balloon. It’s where Trump is testing the limits of his power. That includes his ability to suppress dissent, to create an atmosphere of fear and intimidation, to break people’s will. And surveillance is at the heart of this.

It’s no coincidence that ICE officers wear masks. For them, privacy is impunity. That’s what the killing of Alex Pretti showed last week: that no one would be held to account. But for everyone else, there was another lesson: that there is nowhere to hide.

Personal data is the key to Trump’s political project. It’s an essential part of ICE’s work, the foundation for what is now under construction, and Minneapolis is where you can see it being built: an authoritarian surveillance state."

https://www.thenerve.news/p/technofascism-us-america-fascism-trump-palantir-peter-thiel-uk-nigel-farage-reform

#USA #Trump #Palantir #TechnoFascism #Fascism #UK #Reform #ICE #Surveillance #PoliceState

"Ms. Cleland was one of at least seven American citizens told by ICE agents this month that they were being recorded with facial recognition technology in and around Minneapolis, according to local activists and videos posted to social media, which were verified by The New York Times. None had given consent for their faces to be recorded.

Facial recognition is just one technology tool that ICE has deployed in Minneapolis, where thousands of agents are conducting a crackdown. The technologies are being used not only to identify undocumented immigrants but also to track citizens who have protested ICE’s presence, said three current and former officials of the Department of Homeland Security who were not authorized to discuss confidential matters.

ICE is using two facial recognition programs in Minnesota, they said, including one made by the tech company Clearview AI and a newer program, Mobile Fortify. The agency is also using cellphone and social media tools to monitor people’s online activity and potentially hack into phones. And agents are tapping into a database, built by the data analytics company Palantir, that combines government and commercial data to identify real-time locations for individuals they are pursuing, the current and former officials said.

“The technologies are being deployed, or appear to be deployed, in a much more aggressive way than we have seen in the past,” said Nathan Freed Wessler, a lawyer at the American Civil Liberties Union, which has sued the Homeland Security Department over the immigration operation in Minneapolis. “The conglomeration of all these technologies together is giving the government unprecedented abilities.”"

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/technology/tech-ice-facial-recognition-palantir.html

#USA #Trump #ICE #Immigration #Militias #PoliceState #Paramilitary #Surveillance #FacialRecognition #Biometrics #Fascism

Those privacy advocates were right. 😬

"....based on data sourced from the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and other government agencies..."

#bigbrother #privacy #fascism #cybersecurity