Maeleigh

{MayLee} | Texas A&M Alum

[Lovable Liberal and his Old English sheepdog @DougWahl1]

THIS CANNOT BE ALLOWED TO HAPPEN!

Trump wants to cut down Washington DC's oldest grove of cherry trees along and eliminate the public biking path and picnic areas so he can build a golf course on public land, using public dollars, and taking spaces away from the public.

[Marco Foster @MarcoFoster_]

Theo Von: “Nobody wants a data center dude. And the people that want them to me, they seem kind of evil. Nobody wants this shit. One of these companies is gonna own all of this information. There’s gonna become this social or emotional credit score and then AI is gonna try to become our new God”

[Quail 🪶🌥️ @GambelerQuail]

Amazing how many people opposed this because they don’t understand the concept of the passage of time.

[Mike Young @micyoung75]

Let's walk through what actually happened here, in order.

DOGE cut the USAID program specifically designed to prevent screwworm from crossing the U.S.-Mexico border. DOGE cut USDA's animal disease control and prevention funding. That funding had supported more than 180 outbreak investigations in 22 countries and capacity-building in more than 160 laboratories. The screwworm monitoring and response program that watched the border for exactly this parasite - cut.

Then screwworm showed up in Texas cattle. Texas Governor Greg Abbott declared a disaster for Zavala and Uvalde counties this week.

Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins went on CNBC this morning and blamed the Biden administration, 17 months out of office.

Her specific words: "obviously not much had been done to push back."

The program that was supposed to push back existed. DOGE eliminated it in March 2025. Rollins has been Agriculture Secretary since February 13, 2025. The cuts happened on her watch.

Beef prices are already high. Ranchers in south Texas are now dealing with a flesh-eating parasite that was eradicated in this country in the 1960s - eradicated, specifically, using the sterile fly program her department defunded.

The flies existed. The program existed. The budget existed.

Until it didn't.

[regular guy @regularguyguns]

Maybe you wonder why I, a mere gun blog, makes a big deal about Flock and similar tech?

OK here’s a real world situation that can easily happen and has likely happened.

Unfortunately to drive on public roads without getting hassled by the cops, your car needs a license plate. That’s tied to you, the owner of the vehicle.

Flock isn’t just a traffic camera, it’s an AI/ML enabled (wait for it) flock of cameras that transmit all their video and audio to the mothership. Not a government server somewhere but, to keep it simple, a big giant cloud computer instance owned and run by Flock, the company.

Government users, as well as Flock employees here in the US and overseas, can log in and query the system based on license plate number or even vehicle description and get a full history of that vehicle’s movements throughout the Flock network over multiple jurisdictions. Someone in New York can track a car from Armonk all the way to Homestead FL if they feel like it from the comfort of their desk.

On a daily level, someone can get a pretty accurate picture of someone’s life just by monitoring their movements via Flock. And I’m using this example to rattle the cage of the “back the blue unconditionally” crowd in 2A.

OK - your car has license plate ABC 123 - and Flock knows this. Someone can enter your tag in Flock and see what you are doing on a daily basis. You leave your home where the neighborhood is under the Flock panopticon. Flock sees you drive to Dunkin’ on Main Street, then you drop your kid off at XYZ Daycare. Then you go to work at the local IT consulting firm in ZZZ industrial park. You go pick up a quick deli sandwich for lunch at Food Lion. You go back to work. On the way home you stop off at Bob’s Guns, and stay for 20 minutes while buying some ammo. Then you go home. Everywhere there’s a Flock camera.

Now Flock knows the following about you:

- You live at 123 Wisteria Lane
- Your kid is in daycare (means he’s likely under 5)
- You work at ZZZ
- You go cheap on lunch
- You own at least one gun

Your license plate is tied to you so they now have your name and assumed-to-be-private details of your life, like that you are armed.

On the reverse of that, the Flock camera outside of Bob’s Guns has been recording the plates of everyone going into the parking lot. No need for a firearms registry when Flock is doing the work.

All of this is done without a warrant and the data is available to anyone with a certain level of access to the system, whether it’s a cop, or a Flock technician in the Philippines. FYI Flock uses overseas contractors for support and AI annotation.

The 2018 Carpenter decision at SCOTUS ruled that pervasive surveillance where one can divine private details of someone’s life is a 4th Amendment violation in absence of a specific warrant.

Flock is illegal, unconstitutional and immoral.

And a danger to everyone, not just gun owners.

[Organizermemes @OrganizerMemes]

We developed such effective vaccines and pasteurization that people now think preventable diseases are fake and basic precautions are tyranny.

[Non-Hyphenated American @NHAunleashed]

The sheer arrogance and hubris of these bastards to justify insider trading is nauseating.

[‏ً @itsnwts]

At times male anger at ‘women getting special treatment’ reminds me of a gorilla experiment. One gorilla gets a banana every hour. The females next to him get one every four hours. Then someone decides to be fairer and gives the females a banana every two hours instead. The original gorilla? He flips out. He's still getting his banana every hour, but it feels like a loss because his advantage shrank. That's how a lot of men react to basic fairness for women: not as justice, but as theft.

[Maryam @hell_line0]

2022: “Stop overreacting, they won’t overturn Roe.”
They did.

2023: “Stop overreacting, they won’t let women die rather than get an abortion.”
They did.

2024: “Stop overreacting, they won’t arrest women for miscarriages.”
They did.

2025: “Stop overreacting, they won’t turn women into incubators.”
They did.

2026: “Stop overreacting, they won’t attack mifepristone.”
They did, today.

Now: “Stop overreacting, they won’t go after birth control next.”
They will.

[Fred Guttenberg @fred_guttenberg]

I have been screaming to anyone who will listen that this White House plans something that will allow it to declare a state of emergency and cancel the election. What is happening in Louisiana is a dry run.

THIS IS ONLY POSSIBLE IF THE ELECTED ENABLERS IN CONGRESS ALLOW IT.

[Barry Bonzack @bonzack]

"...I looked at thousands of people cheering, and it's wonderful. All America stood together for this. That's what we need in America. I am proud of them all, from the Janitor to the astronauts"

Not a quote from Mr. Isaacman. Not Wiseman, not Glover, nor Koch.

THAT'S MY GRANDMA

[Senator Mark Kelly @SenMarkKelly]

In the middle of a historic mission back to the Moon, this Administration is proposing to a 47% cut to NASA science and a 23% cut to NASA’s budget overall. Last week’s launch showed our country and world what we’re capable of when we work together toward a common goal. None of that can happen without support for science and research.

[gwen howerton @kissphoria]

if the artemis astronauts don't throw out the first pitch at an astros game this season what are we even doing

[‏ؘ @helllojojo]

sorry i can’t hang out i have to watch my close and personal astronaut friends come back to earth

[Congressman Greg Casar @RepCasar]

Today, @SenSanders and I introduced the Home Team Act.

Too often, billionaire sports team owners are getting richer while fans and taxpayers get screwed.

Our bill requires team owners to offer locals the chance to buy a team before moving it away.

[Dexerto @Dexerto]

Wikipedia has banned the use of AI to write articles on the site

[• Black River • 🧚‍♀️✨ @blackriverx]

FYI the ai public backlash is working.

companies like Disney are avoiding using AI in their work cus when general population noticed its AI we have a negative outcry.

what im trying to say is AI hate is working. keep it up!!! maybe we will see this tech become obsolete.

[Bark @barkmeta]

Realizing they spent $450 billion on AI and all it did was fire millions of people, make everything worse, and add zero growth to the economy.

[DCinvestor @DCinvestor]

if this actually works

then there’s no absolutely way they’re going to let this one through

[DatNoFact ↗ (@datnofact.bsky.social) @datnofact]

"flouride in drinking water is scary" okay enjoy your forever chemicals instead