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"Blues were here when the world was born." -JL Hooker “Music is the divine way to tell beautiful, poetic things to the heart.” — Pablo Casals

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From Flock to ICE, Here’s a Breakdown of How You’re Being Watched To better understand what exactly we’re looking at in this dystopian surveillance hellscape, 404 Media’s Jason Koebler and Joseph Cox joined Reddit's r/technology for an Ask Me Anything session.

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11.03.2026 15:08 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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From Flock to ICE, Here’s a Breakdown of How You’re Being Watched To better understand what exactly we’re looking at in this dystopian surveillance hellscape, 404 Media’s Jason Koebler and Joseph Cox joined Reddit's r/technology for an Ask Me Anything session.

What surveillance tools do we anticipate seeing develop and integrate further into American society in the next three years without legislative oversight?

- Police drones
- Real-time facial recognition
- AI cameras
- AI persona bots cops use to infiltrate online groups

More here:

11.03.2026 14:36 👍 158 🔁 47 💬 2 📌 2

Like a kid walking around in Dad's shoes

11.03.2026 15:00 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

@halfmarshall.bsky.social
@davidhemond.bsky.social

AI super attorney strikes again.

10.03.2026 23:37 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Does it glow in black light like my Elvis portrait?
If not, I'll pass.

10.03.2026 23:32 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

yep. and this isn’t a new dynamic. the political press loved bush for the same reason and before him, reagan. a professional culture defined by laziness and indifference to substance.

10.03.2026 14:11 👍 223 🔁 22 💬 5 📌 0

A swing and a miss.

10.03.2026 04:08 👍 92 🔁 16 💬 6 📌 1

About time. Any evidence of wrong doing would have been "fresher" if Trump DoJ had not stopped the investigation under Trump 1.0

10.03.2026 02:46 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

Has the current DA called a grand jury to examine the actions of ICE and Border Patrol agents in Cook County?
If not, it is well withing precedent to ask for a special prosecutor when the current cannot or will not fulfill his office.

10.03.2026 02:45 👍 5 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0

I got 4 out of 5 right. Modern Poetry fooled me.
Not for the first time.

10.03.2026 02:17 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

But that would show his baldness.
The image is more important than the substance.

10.03.2026 01:15 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

This what it will take.
State & local government, local DA, local police enforcing local and state laws. Arrest, indict and put them on trial if they acting in a lawless manner.

10.03.2026 01:14 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Shot my evening cleaning and updating home laptops.
Geeeez. Someone could make a living doing this.

10.03.2026 01:09 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Seemed appropriate.

10.03.2026 01:06 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Running the boats past the guns.

10.03.2026 00:04 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

👏to article author and editors for using the Secretary's correct title. The Sec or Defense, not War (nonexistent since 1947).
As for the spending. When you give someone with substance abuse problems an unlimited budget, what do you expect.

10.03.2026 00:01 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

That's nice but will he caucus with the Democrats?
If not, just a change in name with no real consequences.

09.03.2026 23:33 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Add in the Virginia Declaration of Rights (1776) Sec 16-

09.03.2026 23:31 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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President John Adams, Members of the Senate who participated in the Revolution and that generation stated explicitly in the Treaty of Tripoli (1979- Art 11) that the US wasn't a Christian nation. Approved, signed and published through out the country at the time, to little objection.

09.03.2026 23:28 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 0

But they are paid to ignore and enable that poor soul, his crew of incompetents and wishful warriors.

09.03.2026 22:58 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I like the "___" around the Dept of War.
It shows the poster is aware the name is informal.
The National Security Act of 1947 created the Dept of Defense and removed the former Dept of War.

09.03.2026 22:54 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

This is interesting as we don't have similar dotting the landscape. What we do have are the remains of battles. Revolutionary & Civil Wars. Trenches, bulwarks. Enclosed in parks but their martial purpose no longer evident. Just features to walk over or kids play on.

09.03.2026 15:37 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 3 📌 0
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me paying $30 in gas to buy imported things that have been hit with tariffs bc joe rogan is learning about politics at age 58

08.03.2026 23:55 👍 39177 🔁 6916 💬 448 📌 164

2/Reagan was tip of the spear. Once in place all other parts began their work. Media control. Soviet style Big Lie Campaigning. Control of courts (remember Bork?). Enough older GOPers were present to delay it but once they died out...the party is too diseased to survive, for our survival.
End

09.03.2026 15:28 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0

🧵1/You may or may not remember the Vietnam protests. The "right" had a feeling that the Dirty F**** Hippies had betrayed the country. Then Watergate driving a "good" President out. All that set up the atmosphere for BigMoney to take advantage of a Culture War and media to exploit those feelings.

09.03.2026 15:21 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

For me, ice cream covers up the flavors.
Coke is improved by ice cream, though haven't had a float in a while.

09.03.2026 04:58 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

He was paid and is still being paid to lie.
The GOP's paymasters wanted the deluded masses who listen to Fox & RW media to accept the lies for BigMoney's benefit. What do they care about gas, grocery, healthcare prices. They are insulated.
Its the GOP which allows the lies & criminality.
Bury them.

09.03.2026 01:37 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0

If only the peons had kept their donkeys.

09.03.2026 00:29 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Very welcome. Hope you eat lots of cake and ice cream and get good presents.

You deserve it!

09.03.2026 00:23 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Well, this aged exactly how I was afraid it would

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