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[Miami HEAT @MiamiHEAT]

Bright lights. Vice City.

A Night in Vice City tips off November 18.

[Kyle Chassé 🐸 @Kylechasse]

It's absolutely crazy to me a room full of grandparents are deciding the future of digital assets in America!!

[Senator Cynthia Lummis @SenLummis]

Senate Democrats trying to figure out how to vote NO on the Clarity Act after receiving over 120+ wins and a majority of their ethics requests.

The time for negotiating is over. Let's vote. Let's pass this strong, bipartisan bill.

[Brad Garlinghouse @bgarlinghouse]

This bill isn't just a compromise…it's the product of real, substantive trades policymakers made to get here.
I said this many months ago: perfect can't be the enemy of good…
and let's be clear: those trades weren't small. This isn't a deal Senators should be ‘settling for’ — it's a deal that they should stand behind.

Senate: the world is watching and voters are watching. Now is the time to vote yes.

[Senator Cynthia Lummis @SenLummis]

After a year of intense daily bipartisan negotiations, this bill is ready. Here is the final text. President Trump voluntarily agreed to new ethics provisions holding every federally elected official, judge, and their spouses to some of the toughest ethics restrictions in U.S. history. This new text includes more than 120 of Democrats' demands. A no vote on Tuesday means opposing real ethics reforms on politicians' personal investments, handing American leadership in digital assets to our foreign competitors, and leaving Americans with zero protections in the digital asset markets. Democrats got what they wanted; now they need to take yes for an answer. Here's the latest: https://t.co/pd9VjCk9MA

[GTA 6 Info Brasil @gtainfobr]

Defensora de GTA 6 dizendo que jogou varios jogos da franquia e isso não a influenciou a cometer algum tipo de violência na cidade.

(Comissão de Miami Beach sobre o marketing de GTA 6 na cidade).

[Wall Street Apes @WallStreetApes]

American shows up in a disco suit and his own homemade Flock safety camera that he made in his garage to the Lee’s Summit, Missouri City Council meeting

He’s exposing how the city spent $909,000 on only 54 Flock cameras the cameras remain property of Flock. Even if the contract runs its course and they cancel, Flock will keep the cameras despite paying nearly a million dollars for them

It’s true I looked into the flock contracts and they maintain all rights and ownership over the cameras, once installed the city can’t even move the location of the cameras or remove them

- Flock hardware “is owned and shall remain the exclusive property of Flock.”
- “Title to any Flock Hardware shall not pass to [the city].”
A The city may not remove, move or take possession of the units
- At the end of the term, Flock removes the cameras

The city is leasing the cameras and using the software…. This sounds like one of the biggest ripoffs to taxpayers in history

That’s $16,833 per camera over the 5 year contract

[ᒪᗩᑎE @lanechanged]

Wow.
Just fucking WOW.

YESSSS, GIRL!! 🎯💥

[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

[0️⃣BlackBetty ⚓️ @BabyD1111229]

A police chief in Oshkosh, Wisconsin caught Flock lying to his city council, and killed the $8 billion surveillance company's contract less than a day after the council had approved it.

Here's how it happened.

The night before, Oshkosh's council was set to renew its deal with Flock Safety, the license plate camera company backed by a16z and Tiger Global.

One council member asked the Flock rep a plain yes-or-no question. Does this system build a heat map of everywhere a specific car travels over time?

Flock's rep said no.

The council believed him and voted 5 to 2 to renew. By the next morning, Chief Dean Smith's own officers had told him that answer was false.

So he pulled up the system himself. He watched it generate the exact heat map Flock had just sworn it couldn't make.

Then he walked into an emergency meeting and said it out loud: "Because of this misrepresentation, I can no longer recommend Flock."

Understand what a heat map is, because it's the whole trick.

Flock sells cities a tidy little story. A car drives by, we snap a photo, we read the plate, that's all it is.

But the same system can quietly average out where your car goes day after day and paint your routine onto a map.

Not one snapshot at one corner. Your pattern. Where you sleep, where you work, where you keep going back and how often.

A Flock employee later admitted on the record that the software does exactly that.
So the pitch and the product are two different things. The company wins the contract selling a plate reader, then sits on a moving map of your life.

The only reason Oshkosh caught it was one skeptical question and a police chief who bothered to check the answer.

The vote to rescind was 7 to 0. Unanimous.

Flock called the whole thing "one small misconception" from a long meeting and said it was disappointed nobody let it explain.

A surveillance company worth eight billion dollars got caught lying about whether it maps where you drive. Its defense was that the lie was small.

Oshkosh got one honest answer by accident. Congress can make it the rule.

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🎩The Other 98%

[Rockstar Games @RockstarGames]

Quick clarification: you are free to livestream An Extended Look from 3 p.m. ET on August 27 providing you adhere to platform-specific guidance and you do not simply restream or repost the unedited video in full without context or commentary.

[TradeSmartFree @TradeSmartFree]

@_ROB_29 Yo tremendous!!!! Man and best friend!!! Love this!!! More videos please

[TradeSmartFree @TradeSmartFree]

@CalH4mpton @RockstarGames @netflix You nailed it lmao!!!

[Chad Steingraber @ChadSteingraber]

The same Jay Clayton who started the Ripple lawsuit.

Something stinks about this. 🤨

[𝗕𝗮𝗻𝗸XRP @BankXRP]

JUST IN: Jay Clayton is officially the 9th Director of National Intelligence.
Senate confirmed him 51-47

Same Jay Clayton who, as SEC Chair, launched the massive lawsuit against @Ripple that lit the crypto world on fire.

From Wall Street regulator to SDNY U.S. Attorney… and now running America’s entire intelligence apparatus.

Crypto Twitter is about to have a field day.
What do you think — perfect pick or polarizing as hell? 👇

[TradeSmartFree @TradeSmartFree]

@luireigns This was real not a work Rob spoke about this on his podcast!

[Senator Tim Scott @SenatorTimScott]

The Clarity Act protects everyday Americans and their hard-earned money, gives entrepreneurs a fair shot to build and create jobs here at home, and strengthens our national security by making it harder for criminals and foreign adversaries to exploit our financial system. 

I’m grateful to @SenateAgGOP Chairman @JohnBoozman and @SenLummis for their partnership, and I look forward to working together to get this bill across the finish line.

[Ripple @Ripple]

Proud to announce 25 recipients of the Ripple Effect: Certified Veteran Employer Grants — $250K invested in veteran- and military spouse-owned businesses through our partnership with @HireHeroesUSA.

Each recipient receives $10K + employer training + access to 20,000+ military-connected job seekers.

Meet the awardees:
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