Thursday, May 22, 2025

Tag: surveillance

A threat to global democracy: How Facebook & surveillance capitalism empower...

This is just the latest in a string of controversies surrounding Facebook’s unprecedented influence on democracy in the United States and around the world.

America’s real red scare

The slow-motion collapse of the American Empire.

US Spy Sats See Everything, Except When the Government Says They...

If the U.S. has satellites monitoring the world, shouldn't they be willing to show what its satellites saw when Flight 17 was downed. The American people, and the people of the world, should demand this of the U.S. government.

Odd Bedfellows for Liberty

Liberty depends on whistleblowers willing to put themselves out there in the way of authoritarianism. These are the true patriots of American history fighting for our liberty.

Why Rand Paul Was Right to Kill the So-Called Patriot Act:...

While Sen. Rand Paul helped force the expiration of the so-called PATRIOT Act, it seems he is a better constitutional scholar than Barack Obama, who is not interested in the Fourth Amendment.

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Elon Musk has the blood of 19 Kentuckians on his hands

DOGE cuts are killing Americans.

Trump’s ‘big beautiful bill’ slashes healthcare and food aid while delivering massive tax cuts...

New CBO analysis confirms steep losses for poorest Americans under GOP-backed plan as Medicaid, SNAP, and public programs are gutted to fund tax cuts for the top 1 percent.

More than a dozen US officials sold stocks before Trump’s tariffs sent the market...

Ethics experts say such trading undermines faith in government and the markets.

Department of government chaos, revenge, and patronage

And MAGA, in the end, is just a load of DoGCRaP

Controversial ‘nonprofit killer’ clause quietly removed from GOP megabill—but advocates warn it could return

A sweeping provision to strip nonprofits of tax-exempt status without due process is no longer in the latest House GOP budget bill, but civil liberties groups say the threat to free speech and advocacy is far from over.