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[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

🇺🇸 Somebody in the Senate FINALLY asked who authorized 120,000 cameras tracking American drivers

The letter to Flock Safety's CEO:

"Congress never authorized the network your industry has built."

Hawley is demanding documents on data access, camera placement, contracts with local governments, investors, and every known case of misuse since 2021.

He can push for a subpoena if the company stalls. Finally.

This network went up while nobody was looking, and the only rules governing it were written by the company selling it.

A Florida woman sat in jail for 13 days off a plate misread.

Missouri police have already been caught misusing the system.

Flock says the cameras helped find 10,000 missing people.

Fine... then open the books and prove the rest of it.

Source: Axios @HawleyMO / Writer: Daniel

[Rand Paul @RandPaul]

Here is what still bothers me about the pandemic: The decisions that closed schools, shuttered businesses, and mandated vaccines were not made by anyone who faces voters. They were made by career bureaucrats, advised by outside interests, funded by private money, and none of it was disclosed as it was happening.

I have spent years trying to get to the bottom of what really happened and hold people accountable. I’m not backing down.

[Murray Rothbard @MurraySuggests]

They’ll fine you because a microphone decided your car was too loud.

They’ll dispatch cops because an aerial scan found a backyard shed that wasn’t in the database.

They’ll build a searchable record of every church, clinic, gun store, protest and political meeting you visit.

They’ll identify you through street cameras and dispatch police without ever asking your name.

The police state of the future will be contactless: no checkpoint, no inspector, no conversation - just a camera, an algorithm, and an automatic penalty.

Every new power will be sold as “efficiency.”

Keep pushing against it.

If not, freedom will be the inefficiency they eliminate.

[Resist CBDC 🏁 @Resist_CBDC]

No one will force you to use your mandated Digital ID as your carbon wallet. You just won't be able to buy groceries, pay rent, see a doctor, gas up your car, get on a train or check your e-mail until you do. But no one is forcing you.

[Former Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene🇺🇸 @FmrRepMTG]

I wonder if it was being called a traitor at his own rally yesterday that caused him to dictate his lies and insult laden attack on Tucker, Thomas, and I, while he flew back on the plane.
It’s also the bad polling that I’m sure he’s seen by now.

He attacks us with such vitriol because we actually are everything he claimed to be, conservative and America First, and he has proven as President that he is nothing more than a neocon puppet for Israel, corporations, big donors with special interests, and his dear friends in the Epstein class.

We never changed, Trump did.

Thomas and I have some of the most conservative America focused voting records and legislative work in the House of Representatives. We both consistently voted against funding foreign countries and foreign wars. There is nothing liberal or Democrat about us, however we gladly worked with Democrats to release the Epstein files and to our shock had to fight President Trump, who instead ordered everyone to stop us. This is why Trump now calls me a traitor because instead of bowing down to him like some false little god, I stood up and fought for women who were raped as teenagers and abused by the richest most powerful men in the world, friends of Donald Trump. I’m proud to have done it and never ever regret it.

Tucker is beloved by many Americans, so many that he is indeed a serious Presidential contender because he consistently leans in to the truth and bravely tells the stories that mainstream news refuses to cover yet most Americans are interested in. Because of Tucker’s strength and leadership, young men adore Tucker and look up to him, and they now think Trump is an old fraud.

Young people are our future and we believe in fighting for them and the important issues that help them build successful prosperous lives.

We are strongly against replacing American’s jobs with the foreign visas Trump and his admin support, their place in college that Trump ensures goes to 600,000 foreign students from China and other countries, and we are adamantly against sending off our best and brightest to be killed in war in foreign lands for foreign causes and foreign interests that does nothing for America.

But the most important thing I can tell you about us is that we are devoted Christians and Trump is not a Christian at all.

My dear friends, Tucker and Thomas both have led me in prayer to the Lord our God, in the name of His one and only son our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. They are my brothers in Christ.

Donald Trump never once prayed with me and only recognizes God when it’s in his staff written speeches. Most Americans don’t know what religion he is, if any, but many speculate that he is Jewish or Kabbalah if he is anything at all.

President Trump’s demeanor, name calling, absurd and reckless rhetoric is unbecoming of the office of the president, is a bad example of leadership, and is hurting America’s reputation and place in the world. At this point, he’s no different than an internet troll or one of the many millions of bots that say awful horrible things.

In the past, I supported him because of the policies he professed to support and passionately campaigned on, but now as president he’s been revealed to be the Trojan horse who enforces many of the policies he claimed to be against.

I’m sorry I didn’t see it earlier and wish I had never supported him.

My biggest concern remains that as Donald Trump loses power and influence he will turn more and more towards war and take actions to make himself feel more powerful and in control, as he grasp and clings to the Oval Office.

Hopefully I’m wrong.

Because of this, I will continue to pray for President Trump to humble himself in the eyes of the Lord and turn to God with sincere faith and repentance for his sins in order to be the president and leader that America needs.

[Former Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene🇺🇸 @FmrRepMTG]

If Trump really wanted to lower beef prices he would support Massie’s PRIME Act which allows individual states to permit local custom slaughterhouses to sell individual cuts of meat directly to consumers, restaurants, and grocery stores within that same state. But instead the Big Four major meat processors in America control over 85% of the market and consequently the cost of processing meat is high. But with Massie’s PRIME Act, small processors would be allowed to compete and would drive down costs. It would also help smaller meat producers to sell their beef to local markets.

And we need Country of Origin labeling for foreign imported and foreign processed meats. Americans deserve to know where the meat they are buying to feed themselves and their families is coming from, and we have the right to reject it based on its country of origin.

Both of these I cosponsored and are Republican sponsored bills, why won’t the Republican controlled Congress pass these bills?

Why won’t the Republican elected President support these legislations which are America First?

The answer is the Big Four meat processors and their well paid lobbyists roam the halls of congress and get to go to meetings and fundraisers at the White House and YOU don’t!

[SaltyGoat @SaltyGoat17]

I keep hearing "You don't need 30 rounds to hunt"

Maybe...

But our Forefathers didn't write the 2nd Amendment because the Deer were coming did they?

[NotKennyRogers @NotKennyRogers]

I need more clarity as to why the guy on the left was just sentenced to 4 years of house arrest after shooting 4 people in a bar at Indiana University in 2022 while the grandma on the right was sentenced to two years in prison for praying outside of an abortion clinic in 2020:

[Diomedes Appreciator @HomericFuturist]

What I’m driving at is that Christianity on its own didn’t produce a warrior culture, it only did so when fused with European heroic DNA

I have many of Militant RW Christian friends and followers. I would argue that subset of Men in particular is drawing heavily on their ancestral heroic/pagan ethics even if they would deny it

If we are going to admit that modern America is a fusion of these two themes, then we should be honest about both contributing forces

If we can do that, it will go a long way to defeating our present foes

[Wings Over Scotland @WingsScotland]

I'd never heard of Nathan Cofnas until this week, and all I know about him is that the worst people in the world are very angry at him and don't want me to listen to him, so I guess I have to follow him now.

[Rand Paul @RandPaul]

Flock has 120,000 cameras tracking cars across America, no warrant required. Over 5,000 police agencies have signed on. This isn't crime fighting. This is mass surveillance of every American, and a violation of our 4th Amendment rights.

[Scott Morefield @SKMorefield]

Imagine a stay-at-home order with teeth, a $100 ticket mailed to you if a Flock camera takes a picture of your vehicle during certain hours. And that's just the tip of the iceberg of possibilities. If you had the slightest problem with the government's insane overreach during the Covid era, just imagine how much easier enforcement would have been if they had had this technology. This is the wettest of all wet dreams for the powers that be, and Americans are just rolling over and letting it happen.

[Pascal @KnowsPascal]

Tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions.

-G.K. Chesterton

[Modern Caesar @ModernCeasar]

In 4th century AD a lot of Goths begged Romans to take them in as refugees to escape the Huns. The emperor agreed to let them in, give them food and land.

But Goths swarmed in such large numbers that Rome lost control of the situation. These Goths then rebelled, formed their own army within Rome and killed Emperor Valens who let them in the first place.

After few decades in 410 AD these same "refugees" sacked Rome. The last time Rome was sacked was in 390 BC, almost a millenium ago.

I think there is a lesson here for Europe.

[Humble Flow @HumbleFlow]

As you probably know by now, I have very little patience for the modern version of Christianity that Raymond Ibrahim calls “doormat Christianity,” the idea that being Christian means surrendering before your enemies, feeling embarrassed by your own civilization, or confusing passivity with virtue.

Christians have enemies in two senses: spiritual and physical, and Scripture speaks to both. Against the spiritual enemy, the Christian fights with prayer, faith, repentance, truth, and the Word of God; against a physical enemy who comes to kill, conquer, or destroy, Christian charity does not require helplessness. Christ Himself told His disciples, “he who has no sword, let him sell his garment and buy one” (Luke 22:36), and when they answered that they possessed two swords, He replied, “It is enough” (Luke 22:38).

Our forefathers understood that distinction. They could pray for their enemies while defending their people from them, forgive personal injuries while resisting invasion, and fight the spiritual battle for souls while taking up the physical sword when their families, churches, and homelands required protection.

And when Muslim armies came against Christendom, they did exactly that.

Fortunately, many of them left us their own words.

Here is what they said: https://t.co/p8e9tWPn4r

[Diomedes Appreciator @HomericFuturist]

My point is appealing to other groups sense of compassion is suicidal

Nobody cares about our rights to a homeland

We need to be hardening our peoples hearts, steeling their resolve, not training them to make moral appeals to indifferent enemies

[Aesthetica @Anc_Aesthetics]

More indians die of diarrhea per day (1266) than the total amount of Americans who have died in school shootings in the entire history of our country (457).

[Diomedes Appreciator @HomericFuturist]

Russia could fire a hundred hypersonic missiles into the Hague, I’m not fighting the Russians while my homeland is overrun with foreigners

[Orwell Day @OrwellDay]

State Reps in Ohio are preparing to ban Flock and mass surveillance technologies at the state level!

We need to do this in every state.

https://t.co/Nz9yuM5TGT

Sign the petition to ban in Texas: https://t.co/T47Ew83Mby

Sign the petition to ban in Georgia: https://t.co/QihRbV4Nk7

All other states: https://t.co/ADZdaIpLJB

[Thomas Massie @RepThomasMassie]

Albert Bourla, veterinarian and CEO of Pfizer, did not get a pardon. Prosecute him. Pharmaceutical companies are not permitted to make such blatantly false claims about the efficacy of their products. Tweet is from April of 2021, before the vaccines were licensed and mandated.