Growing up a kiddo in the surveillance state must really suck. Everyone's a snitch. Your friends. Your friends' phones'. Your friends' parents. Your teacher. Your school. That Karen on the corner. All desperate to upload every last piece of privacy you try to hold onto. How do you grow, smothered by so much scrutiny?
'[T]he Trump administration is expanding its focus, telling 1News today instructions were sent out as part of diplomatic cables to all US embassies in Europe, Canada, Australia and New Zealand to engage with their respective governments, and β€œlet them know that the United States stands ready, willing, and able to support them in handling what we see as an existential crisis”. 'It also requested those embassies β€œbegin collecting data and reporting on migrant-related crimes and human rights abuses facilitated by people of a migration background".' US regime announces direct far-right interference in domestic politics across Western hemisphere.
1News
Trump govt warns NZ of migration 'risk', asks embassy to collect data
The US State Department has ordered the US embassy in Wellington to begin collecting information on migration data and "migrant-related crimes and ...
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Canary's already dead but its zombie carcass will leap up and theatrically die again if/when the asylum seekers and refugees start showing up.
Gallup.com
Record Numbers of Younger Women Want to Leave the U.S.
The percentage of younger women in the U.S. who express a desire to migrate permanently has surged in the past decade.
 https://immi.homeaffairs.gov.au/what-we-do/refugee-and-humanitarian-program/about-the-program/seek-protection-in-australia/australia-protection-obligations via @npub1xaua...pfnu @npub1jdww...awld #auspol #uspol
Today is cancelled. Please return to bed.
Google and Meta, advertising industry mated with the Stazi.
Agoraphobic astronauts just need a little space.
Australian Government ramps up attempts to force citizens to hand personal data to United States big tech.
eSafety Commission reviewing whether to add Twitch to social media ban
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Forcing children to give up their privacy to US tech corporations is a gross violation of their rights. Promoting protections is both civil service and duty.
Online Safety Amendment - Wikipedia
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Why do old media talk to every conservative back bencher about every fucking thought bubble they have. So much useless activity. Just tell them to fuck off and come back when they have a cohesive plan they plan sticking to, if ever.
A Labor 'stuff-up' could be the Coalition's only hope
To borrow the words of former prime minister Tony Abbott, the net zero emissions by 2050 policy for the Coalition is now dead, buried and cremated.
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If Australia's so strategically well located and our rare earths so critical to US production, why haven't we told the United States to go fuck itself unless it can come up with a better deal? That's how it works now isn't it? Aren't we holding 'all the cards'? #auspol #uspol