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Newsletter: Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill is really One Big Surveillance Bill, and it's drastically underreported. OBBB increases biometric surveillance, extending it into *domestic transportation*, funding surveillance on highways and Amtrak routes near the border. OBBB will deploy autonomous surveillance towers that include remote video surveillance systems, expand the integration of real-time facial recognition and fingerprint analysis in law enforcement, and automate risk-scoring, turning Silicon Valley’s small-scale pilot programs into foundational infrastructure. Fittingly, the Trump administration also plans to extend facial recognition in Customs and Border Protection’s Traveler Verification Service via a newly proposed regulation, scanning the faces of *every* US American that travels via sea, land, or air – and is of course bypassing the public comment and review process to get it done. This will go well with the 9/11 era Real-ID, an identification program mandated for domestic air travel since May of this year, which is planned to effectively function as a digital identity. But hey, at least you’ll pay less taxes or something. Sign up for free or read all issues online 👇
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…and Jeffrey Epstein had no clients🤷🏽‍♂️🤣🤣 ….ya know I’m prolly crazy but sometimes it seems like it doesn’t matter which party is in power?!?!🤔🤯🤣🤌🏽 …but did u catch the game last night?🤦🏽‍♂️⭕️ image
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Newsletter: Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill is really One Big Surveillance Bill, and it's drastically underreported. OBBB increases biometric surveillance, extending it into *domestic transportation*, funding surveillance on highways and Amtrak routes near the border. OBBB will deploy autonomous surveillance towers that include remote video surveillance systems, expand the integration of real-time facial recognition and fingerprint analysis in law enforcement, and automate risk-scoring, turning Silicon Valley’s small-scale pilot programs into foundational infrastructure. Fittingly, the Trump administration also plans to extend facial recognition in Customs and Border Protection’s Traveler Verification Service via a newly proposed regulation, scanning the faces of *every* US American that travels via sea, land, or air – and is of course bypassing the public comment and review process to get it done. This will go well with the 9/11 era Real-ID, an identification program mandated for domestic air travel since May of this year, which is planned to effectively function as a digital identity. But hey, at least you’ll pay less taxes or something. Sign up for free or read all issues online 👇
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Rage Weekly: A Big Dumb Surveillance Bill
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systematic and deliberate exporting of criminal classes across borders is no less harmful. neither of the big parties in US federal politics actually solve any problems, except the ones created by the other side. none of this would matter if local jurisprudence were unbound from federal jurisprudence. if there was no USA, and instead 51 nations, the picture would be radically different. in practice, this is how it works, but the feds create friction against the borders between states in favor of friction between federations. mexico is a federation also, let's be clear. the history of the region is replete with conflicts between the territories, between the toltecs and the aztecs and the mazatecs, and all the rest.