Steven @Steven3lf

Many police are defending Flock cameras & other AI tools saying, “It makes our job easier.” News flash: Your job isn’t supposed to be EASY! It’s supposed to be restrained, heavy, and encumbered by the burden of proof, probable cause, the presumption of innocence, and always subject to OUR civil liberties!!! A free society is not about making things convenient for the state, it’s about protecting the individual FROM the state. So many people have forgotten this.

A State Senator received two maximum campaign contributions from someone she calls a "friend." Shortly thereafter, that same State Senator helped deliver a $200,000 earmark for that "friend." Now, the State Senator is all over social media, claiming that pointing out this fact is "manufacturing a scandal out of a routine process." That's exactly the problem with Beacon Hill. Abusing taxpayer dollars is "a routine process." #mapoli

🦔AI companies are bulk-buying rare books, scanning them through high-speed machines that cut the spines off, and shredding the originals. A service called ISBNdb facilitates orders of up to a million books and keeps buyers anonymous. Pre-2022 books are premium because they're free of AI-generated text. A federal judge ruled the practice is fair use because eliminating the original means only one copy exists at a time. Anthropic hired the former head of Google Books partnerships to obtain "all the books in the world." My Take This got to me. A bookseller told 404 Media that rare books with almost no surviving copies are being fed into this pipeline. Books that survived wars, fires, and centuries of handling are being shredded so an AI can learn to write a better marketing email. ISBNdb's website literally says "'AI company destroys two million books' is not a headline that generates sympathy," and they still built an entire business around making it happen quietly. They offer NDAs as a feature. They coach clients to call it "digital preservation." I've covered AI companies scraping the internet, torrenting libraries, and stealing music. This is worse because it's irreversible. You can re-upload a website. You can reprint a bestseller. You can't replace the last three copies of an 18th-century botanical text once someone shreds them for training data. And the judge said it's legal. So it's going to accelerate. "We shred rare books and offer NDAs so nobody finds out" is a legitimate business model in 2026. What a timeline. Hedgie🤗

EDWARD SNOWDEN'S MASSIVE WARNING. WHAT CHINA BUILT... IS EXACTLY WHAT WESTERN GOVERNMENTS ARE QUIETLY PREPARING FOR. SNOWDEN IS CRYSTAL CLEAR: EVERY PHOTO, EVERY PURCHASE, EVERY MESSAGE, EVERY MOVEMENT — ALL OF IT IS BEING FED INTO ALGORITHMS THAT DECIDE YOUR FUTURE. IN CHINA, AI "CITY BRAINS" NOW TRACK: WHERE YOU LIVE WHO YOU VISIT HOW YOU DISPOSE OF YOUR RUBBISH EVERY STEP YOU TAKE IN PUBLIC WHETHER YOU "FOLLOW RULES" OR NOT BREAK A RULE? A CAMERA CATCHES YOU FROM THREE ANGLES. YOUR SCORE DROPS. YOUR LIFE COLLAPSES. SNOWDEN'S WARNING: "IF ANY OF YOUR ACTIVITIES DIFFER FROM WHAT THE GOVERNMENT WANTS, YOU WON'T GET ON A TRAIN. YOU WON'T BOARD A PLANE. YOU WON'T GET A JOB. AN ALGORITHM WILL DECIDE YOUR FATE. AND WHAT THEY ARE SELLING... IS US." THIS IS NOT A FUTURE THREAT. IT IS HAPPENING NOW — IN SHANGHAI, IN BEIJING... AND CREEPING INTO THE WEST THROUGH DIGITAL ID, AI POLICING, AND "MISINFORMATION SCORING." CHINA BUILT THE PROTOTYPE. OUR GOVERNMENTS ARE IMPORTING THE BLUEPRINT. STAY INFORMED. STAY ALERT. DO NOT LET THIS SYSTEM TAKE ROOT.

Axon is the next Flock. Ban them all.

Jason Bassler @JasonBassler1

2 weeks ago

Let's set the record straight... We DO NOT want Flock. We DO NOT want Axon. We DO NOT want Motorola. We don't want ANYONE building a database of our daily lives. We just want to live without being tracked, monitored, logged, profiled, or monetized. Just leave us alone.

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The Anoka County, Minnesota Sheriff Brad Wise signed a $174,999 contract to spend taxpayer dollars with Flock in order to put cameras up across the county that will track every citizen without their consent. Why is the contract amount significant? Well, if it was $1 more it would require the County Board to vote on it. In the finance/banking world this is called "structuring" and is a felony. Apparently when armed agents of the State do it then it's just fine 🤡 Vote accordingly... #CityLife #minnesota #police #crime #policeState #4thAmendment #14thAmendment #CivilRights #ALPR #cops #stalking #women #anokacounty #flock #SurveillanceState #structuring #smurfing

Reminding Again: Zohran's family still keeps this mansion in Uganda in the richest neighborhood of Kampala surrounded by armed security because everyone else is so poor.

Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @NYCMayor

3 weeks ago

If you have a second home in New York City worth more than $5M, check your mailbox when you’re back in the five boroughs — because you've got mail. Today, we sent notification letters to property owners, letting them know that our new pied-à-terre tax is coming soon. The best

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Massachusetts Democrats are about to pass S.2134, a bill that establishes a permanent state body to protect & promote Islam. It guarantees Muslims will be appointed & hired across all levels of gov't. It ends separation of church & state in favor of Islam. STOP IT NOW! #mapoli

A FOIA request revealed that, in just one town, 3rd parties (credit card companies, cell phone companies, alphabet agencies, retailers, foreign governments, etc...) accessed camera data more than 500,000 times in a 9 week period. "Flock Safety could not guarantee that it's not sharing information with federal agencies." No shit. Several municipalities in CT are "turning off" their Flock cameras in response to what one FOIA request revealed. The problem - the towns don't control/own the cameras nor the data they collect so they can't turn them off. They can instruct their employees to not access them but Flock, a private company funded *almost exclusively* (outside of people like Marc Andreessen & his ilk) by taxpayer dollars, owns the devices and the data. Plan accordingly... #rural #CT #police #crime #policeState #4thAmendment #14thAmendment #CivilRights #ALPR #cops #stalking #women #windsor #flock #SurveillanceState

@DDV6762 @libsoftiktok @BristolCTSchool @SecretService @usdepted @Linda_McMahon @FBIBoston @FBIDirectorKash @CivilRights @DOJCrimDiv @CTGOP @RNC Wrong state

GOP candidate for Congress, Rob Burke, was ordered by an employee of Boston Mayor Wu to take down his 250th anniversary U.S. flag at City Hall Plaza - on the very day Wu held a ceremony at the Plaza to raise the flag of Somalia to celebrate its independence. DISGUSTING! #mapoli

Elon Musk:”You get taxed on what you earn, you get taxed on what you buy, and you get taxed on what you own. And what does it get spent on? A bunch of stuff you don’t even agree with. That’s why we need to reduce the size of government, spend less money and let the people keep a lot more of their hard-earned money.”

Chicago lost the Bears this week. A team that's been in the city since 1921. They didn't lose them to a bigger market or a better deal. The Bears decided they'd rather be a tenant in Indiana than deal with Illinois for one more year. Think about how badly you have to run a place for that to be the smart move. They lost them for two reasons. The people running Illinois would rather villainize a builder than keep one. And they're bad at their jobs. In 2021 the Bears spent $197M on the old Arlington Park racetrack. Before they could break ground, Cook County valued the empty lot at $192M (Bears said $60M). They were salivating at the chance to extort a building that didn't even exist yet. That fight dragged on for years. The Bears were ready to put $2B into the stadium. All they wanted was a promise the county wouldn't reassess them into oblivion, plus $855M for infrastructure everyone uses. Roads, transit, utilities. A $3B project, two thirds of it private money pouring into Illinois. Springfield had since 2021 to get this done. They dragged it to the final night of session, passed it through the Senate at 3:39AM, and the House went home without voting. So now it's all gone. The funniest part? This started because Cook County tried to grab the tax early. They knew a built stadium would pay $53M a year. Now they get under $4M on a vacant lot. No jobs, no buildout, no new anything. Congrats on fighting for scraps and losing the whole prize. Pritzker: they're "an $8.5B valued business" that doesn't need propping up. But be smart for a second. Almost every NFL city throws in public money for a stadium. Not charity. The return is real. Tourism, hotels, restaurants, jobs, game days, property tax on a huge development. The math works. Indiana did the math. While Illinois sat on it for years, Indiana passed a bill in months, put up $1B, and took the team. And the Bears took a worse deal to get there. In Illinois they were going to own their stadium. In Indiana they rent it from the state. A team that wanted to build its own home gave up ownership just to escape Chicago. Nobody won but Indiana. The Bears lost their stadium. Illinois lost the team, the $2B, and $53M a year in taxes. Pritzker after they left: "I wasn't willing to give up billions of dollars of taxpayer money to give it to a billionaire-owned family or team." There it is. "Billionaire-owned." That's how Democrats talk about any business right before they run it out of town. Call them a billionaire, act like you're saving working families, take a victory lap while the tax base drives across the state line. Meanwhile they're running the whole state into the ground. And you already know how this ends. You're living in it. Pensions are $143B in the hole, worst in the country and not close. You pay $6,285 a year in property taxes, double the $2,969 national average, for a city that's $1.15B in the red. The mayor called its finances "the point of no return." When you run things this badly, you sell what's left. They leased the parking meters for 75 years to Morgan Stanley and a sovereign wealth fund in Abu Dhabi. Took $1.15B and burned through it in two years. The investors already made it all back, with 58 years left to collect. Sold the Skyway. Sold the downtown garages. Every asset that made money, gone for one check. But a fixed property tax rate for a team that's been here 106 years? That's "propping up billionaires." Companies are leaving. Boeing for Virginia. Caterpillar for Texas. Citadel for Miami. In 2023 alone Illinois lost 56,000 people and $6B in income to other states. The ones who left earned a third more than the ones who moved in. Indiana didn't outbid anyone. AAA credit, 16 years straight. A $676M surplus. Fourth-lowest debt per person in the country. They just weren't a disaster. Illinois could have collected $53M a year. It chose zero. Ignore all the bad management but make sure to stick it to those evil, pesky billionaires.

@MikeMcMahonCHN You ever seen a goalie cover a puck and as the refs hand is moving to blow the whistle the puck gets tapped in. That’s why the rule exists. Game is too fast sometimes

The people voted for a full audit. Not a partial audit. Not a politician-approved audit. A full audit. Nothing has changed. The Legislature is still trying to avoid fulfilling the will of the voters. 72% of Massachusetts voters demanded transparency. Beacon Hill's response? More loopholes. More carveouts. More games. If they have nothing to hide, why are they working so hard to keep auditors out?

There is a reason the fight over the audit law has dragged on for over a year, despite being approved by 72% of voters. The original ballot question was clear and it passed overwhelmingly. Massachusetts voters did not ask for a negotiated audit, a limited review, or for the Legislature to define its own terms. The people approved an independent audit of the Legislature. Now, the response from Beacon Hill is a bill that: • Narrows the scope of what can be examined • Allows the Legislature to decide what records will be provided • Prevents courts from stepping in when disputes arise Who has ever heard of an independent audit where the entity being audited gets to decide what can be investigated? At the same time, lawmakers are presenting this as a “transparency package.” But even they acknowledge that many of the “new” public records provisions simply codify documents that are already available today. So what is actually changing? The audit. And that is exactly where the restrictions are being added. As Auditor @DianaDiZoglio warns in this clip, this is not an expansion of transparency. It is a restructuring of a voter mandate into something Beacon Hill can define, limit, and control. For the people of our state, the core question is straightforward: Should the Legislature be able to redefine a law that 72% of voters already passed when it becomes inconvenient?

There is a new scam going on in this home inspection industry - Large corporations are buying up all the small home inspection companies - They don’t care about making money off inspecting homes, they want the data Why? This is where it gets borderline criminal Home inspections are supposed to be confidential, but what they’re doing is buying all the companies to own the data Then they are going to sell that data to insurance companies and lenders Now with this new information the insurance company finds out, they're going to start charging you $3,000 (or whatever) extra a year to insure that house Here’s what I’ve found Large corporations and private equity firms are aggressively consolidating the home inspection industry primarily by buying inspection software platforms like Spectora, HomeGauge and larger inspection companies A home inspection report contains highly detailed property specific information like roof age and condition, electrical and plumbing issues, foundation problems, HVAC status, environmental hazards This is extremely valuable for: - Insurance companies (risk assessment and underwriting). - Lenders (property valuation and loan risk). - Home warranty providers, contractors, and data brokers Home inspections are supposed to be confidential between the buyer, inspector, and sometimes the real estate parties. However, many inspection software companies’ terms of service allow data aggregation and sharing That’s the loophole they found. That’s the scam

Did you know physician owned hospitals had better patient outcomes, so hospital lobbyists made the Democrats ban their competitors to support the Affordable Healthcare Act?

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The fraud I witnessed while producing this story was so blatant that it is unbelievable no other journalist had already reported on it In Lawrence, Massachusetts, where this fraud was discovered, blue shipping barrels can be seen for sale on every street. It is impossible to miss. These barrels are used to ship food, purchased with EBT and collected from charities, back to the Dominican Republic. In the same city, you can witness Dominican shipping companies picking up food from homes on a daily basis. The only way it would make economic sense to ship food from Lawrence, Massachusetts, to the Dominican Republic, is if the food was obtained for free. The whistleblowers we worked with also informed us that there is housing fraud taking place, where Dominicans, who are receiving housing aid, rent out the same houses that they are getting via government assistance, while they live in the Dominican Republic. If the current administration is serious about stopping fraud, this matter must be immediately investigated.

Muckraker @realmuckraker

2 months ago

MASSIVE EBT & CHARITY FRAUD EXPOSED: Immigrants Are Openly Buying Food with Food Stamps and Collecting It from Charities, Then Shipping It Overseas to Sell for Profit In Lawrence, Massachusetts, a whistleblower revealed a welfare scam that the Dominican community has been

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