E. Syng 🪷

Wage Peace ☮️ War Is Not the Answer

[E. Syng 🪷 @Zeeklageek]

He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.

[Danica Priest🦇🦎🦇🦎🍃💚🍃 @DanicaPriest]

I had a magical experience with a bumblebee yesterday. I saw her on the bike path and thought she was a goner, she couldn’t move her front legs but I still didn’t want her squished so I tried bringing her to a flower and she starting eating! But the coolest thing was… 1/

[Fondazione Fratelli tutti @FratelliTuttiF]

Al World Meeting on Human Fraternity, il Premio Nobel @mariaressa lancia l'allarme: viviamo un "Armageddon dell'informazione". I social lucrano sulla polarizzazione e le bugie viaggiano 6 volte più veloci dei fatti, minando la democrazia.
Articolo completo https://t.co/qQVbqZuhRD

[David Frum @davidfrum]

If destruction of government property is a crime, I wonder what they'll do to the man who tore down the East Wing without a permit.

[Anarc-y princess @SatireAP]

DO NOT TOUCH THE REFLECTING POOL WATER OR THEY WILL CHOP YOUR HEAD OFF AND MAKE AN ANTIFA STATUE OUT OF IT!!!

[Rep. Mike Levin @RepMikeLevin]

This should be on the front page of every newspaper in America.   

Trump’s DOJ just shut down a federal investigation into a coal company owned by Sen. Jim Justice, one of his closest allies, after it racked up tens of thousands of alleged violations for dumping dangerous chemicals into our waterways. A veteran federal prosecutor with 24 years on the job said he had never seen anything like it.  

The man who killed the case was Todd Blanche, Trump’s former personal defense lawyer and current Acting Attorney General. This is the same guy who just gave Trump, his family, and his companies permanent immunity from IRS audits. Now Trump wants the Senate to make Blanche’s appointment permanent too.  

Equal justice under law was never supposed to come with exceptions for the President’s friends.  

The pattern isn’t subtle: protect Trump’s friends, prosecute his critics, and get rewarded with more power. That is corruption, plain and simple. Todd Blanche must not be confirmed.
https://t.co/95K8zIySPz

[Democracy Docket @DemocracyDocket]

⚠️ Voter registrations across the country could be canceled just days before the November midterms if the DOJ gets its way.

Here’s why they’re attacking a common-sense federal law that aims to protect voters – and how SCOTUS could get involved: https://t.co/j3QNhkD7WX

[E. Syng 🪷 @Zeeklageek]

We the people demand his immediate resignation!

[Tim Hogan 浩勤 @TimInHonolulu]

The Response to Betrayal: A Decisive Strategy to Hold the Regime Accountable and Liberate Iran

Donald Trump has surrendered to Iran. This is an unacceptable capitulation, and it demands an immediate, decisive response.

1. Immediate Impeachment and Removal

Donald Trump must be impeached and removed from office immediately. There is more than enough ground to bring forward devastating charges of corruption and betrayal of national security. If the current GOP majority refuses to act, the objective shifts to November: we must flip the House and secure a 67-vote Senate majority to remove Trump and dismantle his regime. We must show voters in the agricultural heartland—who are already turning on his failed policies—that they have the agency to vote these complicit Senate candidates out of office.

2. Cripple Iran’s Economic Leverage

We must make it clear to Tehran that they cannot withstand what is coming. Iran relies on two major oil transshipment hubs: Kharg Island and the terminals near the Strait of Hormuz. The United States should deliver an ultimatum: Iran must immediately open the straits unconditionally, waiving any claim to maritime dominance, or face the complete destruction of these facilities. If they refuse, we destroy their oil terminals, plunge the regime into economic collapse, and redirect future energy corridors toward the Mediterranean—permanently cutting off China from the energy source it used to bankroll the Mullahs.

3. Liberate the Iranian People

We must actively support the liberation of the Iranian people. The current regime promised to replace the Shah’s brutality, but instead delivered the Shah on steroids—run by hateful clerics whose primary mission is the vicious oppression of the Iranian population, particularly women and girls. To foster a transition, we must promise the Iranian people a federal system defined by local self-rule and local policing. The national government should be strictly limited to international affairs, national defense, and resource management. Clerics will return to the mosques, and the people will rule themselves.

4. Establish Trusted Alliances

Trusted American leadership must reach out directly to the Iranian people to assure them that Trump's chaotic foreign policy is over and that the United States stands firmly for democracy and equality. With an erratic administration out of the picture, regional groups in Baluchistan and Kurdistan can form the strategic core of a new, unified coalition to assist all Iranians in throwing off the Mullahs' yoke.

5. Neutralize Regional Interference and Execute Strategic Strikes

This strategy cannot succeed if neo-Ottoman imperialists like Erdogan and Turkey’s AKP party continue to pursue their own regional dominance. Once Iran’s export capabilities are neutralized, coalition forces must move strategically. By securing the northwest corner near Tabriz and cutting off corridors toward Qom and Tehran, we can isolate the regime from the Caspian Sea and its Russian allies. Concurrently, by supporting Balochi freedom fighters, we can seize and hold the southern coastline along the Strait of Hormuz. This operation will require US Special Operations Forces embedded with indigenous allies to provide forward air control, ensuring the swift and total destruction of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).

[Michelle Obama @MichelleObama]

There are truly no words to express how proud I am of the way you showed up — and continue to show up — every single day. It has been the honor of a lifetime to be by your side. I love you so much. ❤️

[Michelle Obama @MichelleObama]

And you did it all with such grace and class and cool that you made the hardest job in the world look like a walk in this beautiful park.

Never once did you change from that idealistic summer associate who showed up on that rainy day we first met without an umbrella. You always gave us the very best within you — and in doing so, you reminded the rest of us that we could, too.

[Michelle Obama @MichelleObama]

Barack: You told me all those years ago that you couldn’t promise me the world, but you could promise me an interesting life. Of course, you outdid yourself and managed to give me both.

Eight years in the crucible, and not once did you melt from the heat. Not once did you let it harden you. Instead, you used it to reveal your truest essence: your stubborn optimism and unflinching courage, your dazzling brilliance and unpretentious decency, your ferocious work ethic and absolutely unshakable moral fiber.

[Badd Company @BaddCompani]

Hello there!

[Kim Zetter @KimZetter]

Neighbors were told the generators would be turned on for just a brief test period, but they've never been turned off in more than a year. "The massive data center was never hooked up to the power grid, so the [loud] generators are the only source of electricity."

[Travis Akers 🇺🇸 @travisakers]

Y’all keep saying that, but ironically, it’s MAGA and far-right Republicans who keep flying the Confederate flag.

[Scarlett_OHara_Carrera @BluFnxResists]

“Juneteenth commemorates the end of slavery in 1865 when Union troops arrived in Galveston, to enforce the Emancipation Proclamation, finally freeing the last enslaved African Americans in the country.”

The Name: A blend of "June" and "nineteenth".”

[Scarlett_OHara_Carrera @BluFnxResists]

MAGA, “Don’t tread on me”?
Stop whining.

You are the ones treading.
You are.

You’re treading all over our privacy.
You’re treading all over our constitutional rights.

You’re treading on women, children, seniors, veterans, and LGBTQ people.

You’re treading on our safety and security.
You’re treading on our healthcare, social services, and public education.

You’re treading on our prosperity, stability, and peace.

You’re treading on religious freedom and First Amendment rights.
You’re treading on voting rights, due process, and the right to a fair trial.

You’re treading on people of color, disabled people, immigrants, and the most vulnerable.

You’re treading on workers’ rights and unions.
You’re treading on science, medicine, and public health.

You’re treading on the environment and the future we’re supposed to hand our kids.

You’re treading on truth, history, and reality itself.

You’re treading on our institutions.
You’re treading on our alliances and global credibility.
You’re treading on our democracy.
You’re treading on our future.

*YOU* ARE TREADING ON AMERICA.

So don’t wave that snake flag like it means freedom.
It doesn’t. You ain’t free. Nobody is because you’re selfish shortsighted traitors.

The only thing you should be standing against is authoritarianism, corruption, and cruelty —
not your neighbors,
not the Constitution,
not the country you claim to love.

And be honest for once — who actually tread on you, MAGA?
Who?

When you had to wear a mask during a deadly pandemic?

When you were asked to social distance so other people wouldn’t die?

When harmful COVID disinformation got taken down from social media?

When you see a rainbow flag existing in public?

When you have to wear a fucking seatbelt? Stop at traffic lights?

NOT. ONE. OF. THESE. THINGS.
IRREPARABLY. FKNG. HARMED. YOU.

No one took your homes.
No one took your children.
No one stripped your bodily autonomy.
No one erased your vote.
No one locked you in cages.
No one treated you as disposable.

You weren’t oppressed.
You were inconvenienced, maybe.
You were expected to be a decent person. Impossible. I see it’s impossible for you to act like adults,
Instead, you chose cruelty, lies, and oppression.

You’re not patriots.
You’re not rebels.
You’re not victims.

You’re whiny, fragile cwy-baby snowflakes
throwing a national tantrum who voted for tyranny and the oppressor.

Nobody dumber than a MAGAT
Crying over all of the wrong things.
STFU !

[Scarlett_OHara_Carrera @BluFnxResists]

Why is Trump so hell bent on national security?

Me: He’s not. He’s done so many things to weaken our national security.

This war Trump started just made the United States extremely vulnerable to terrorist attacks.

He reallocated funds and personnel from counterterrorism efforts and sent them to ICE and CBP.

1. DHS Grant Axed: $18M gone—dedicated to preventing lone-wolf terror attacks, was axed.

2. CP3 Downsized: The very agency tasked with addressing domestic extremism, the far-right, was not only cut to the bone but refocused away from these pressing issues. Far-right extremism? Where?!

3. State Department Drastically Cut: means that the we are now LESS equipped to counter terrorist recruitment online. In a world where social media plays a pivotal role in radicalization, this move is as dangerous as it is shortsighted. Countering terrorist recruitment online? No more!

4. Elimination of the Countering Violent Extremism Team, US. Institute of Peace: By cutting this nonpartisan organization's efforts, Trump is silenced a key player in the fight against domestic and international extremism. This ain’t good

5. USIP Team Eliminated: In the fight against domestic and international extremism, Trump silenced a key counter-violence group that keeps Americans safe!

6. Terrorism Database Cut: The halt of a national database tracking domestic terrorism compromises the ability of professionals to collect data and generate insights essential for effective counter-violence strategies. Data collection halted—dangerous ignorance!

7. JTTF Mission Diverted: The reallocation of FBI resources towards immigration enforcement rather than traditional counterterrorism efforts sends a clear message: the administration is prioritizing a political agenda over national security.

Focus on immigration over real terror threats!

Trump reallocated funds and personnel from ATF DEA FBI DOJ and sent them to ICE CBP

Trump is in the midst of getting rid of TSA and Noem revoked the “shoes off” policies at airport security

Trump pardoned kingpins of drug trafficking, murderers, hitman for hire website creators, embezzlers, frauds, violent criminals like J6ers and other predators.

Trump made enemies of our allies after building relationships that took decades.

Trump made allies out of our enemies, countries that can’t be trusted.

Trump is going from country to country causing upheaval and starting wars Iran, Yemen, Somalia, Nigeria, Syria, Iraq, Venezuela, Ecuador and next Cuba. (PeAcE pReSiDeNt)

Trumps focus is on ICE creating turmoil and our enemies are gonna see weaknesses and attack.

Trump chopped our cybersecurity, CISA, by 3/4s making us vulnerable to hackers.

Trump has appointed incompetent sycophants in every department and everyone of those people are bloodthirsty opportunists- not even qualified to be dog catcher in my town

So, that’s just the start.

Our country has never been less safe… than right now.

[Henry Winkler @hwinkler4real]

Is it possible that the contractor did not spend the 14 million dollars completely on the repair .. AND pocketed most of it ?? Maybe?

[0️⃣BlackBetty ⚓️ @BabyD1111229]

If you thought Flock cameras were concerning, meet what comes next.

A company called Leonardo has developed a system called ELSAG SignalTrace. It broke into public awareness just days ago and is already being marketed to law enforcement agencies across the country. It makes Flock Safety look modest by comparison.

Here is what SignalTrace does:

It clips sensors directly onto existing license plate reader cameras — the same poles, the same hardware already installed in your community. No new infrastructure required. A software and sensor upgrade is all it takes.

Every time you drive past one of these upgraded cameras, the sensor sweeps up the unique electronic identifiers of every device in your vehicle. Your cell phone. Your smartwatch. Your wireless headphones. Your fitness tracker. Your laptop. Your tablet. Your car's own infotainment system. Your tire pressure sensors. Your vehicle's Bluetooth hotspot.

And your pet's microchip.

Every one of those devices emits a signal. SignalTrace captures those signals, timestamps them, ties them to your license plate, and stores them in a searchable database for future investigative use. The result is what Leonardo calls an electronic fingerprint — a unique profile built not from your face or your name, but from the constellation of devices you carry with you every day.

Leonardo announced the ELSAG EOC Plus patent as early as May 2024, describing it as an electronic detection system for identifying people of interest through electronic device signatures. SignalTrace is the commercial product built on that foundation. The patent came first. The marketing came after. The sales calls are happening now.

Here is where it gets worse.

SignalTrace is explicitly designed to track vehicles even when the license plate cannot be read. If your plate is obscured, dirty, or misread — it does not matter. The system identifies your vehicle by the electronic fingerprint of the devices inside it instead. The plate reader becomes optional. The surveillance does not.

The strategic advantage for police agencies is adoption friction. SignalTrace can be pitched as an extension of an existing ALPR ecosystem rather than a wholly separate surveillance buildout. That is exactly what happened with Flock. License plate readers went in first. Video came later through a software update. Nobody voted on the expansion. Nobody was told. SignalTrace follows the same playbook — attach to existing infrastructure and expand what it captures without requiring a new procurement process, a new vote, or a new public conversation.

Who is Leonardo and why does their background matter?

Leonardo US Cyber and Security Solutions is not a Silicon Valley startup. It is the American subsidiary of Leonardo S.p.A. — one of the largest aerospace, defense, and security conglomerates in the world, headquartered in Rome, Italy. Recent public market estimates place Leonardo S.p.A.'s market capitalization at approximately €29.76 billion — roughly $32 billion USD. For context that is nearly four times Flock Safety's valuation.

Leonardo's US operations trace back to a joint venture with Remington Arms in 2004, became a wholly owned subsidiary in 2008, and in 2024 rebranded from Selex ES Inc. to Leonardo US Cyber and Security Solutions — a change the company said better reflects the synergy between its brand and the cutting-edge products it offers. Leonardo US has manufacturing facilities in Greensboro, North Carolina and software engineering in Brewster, New York. Its US arm holds contracts with US Special Operations Command and the General Services Administration. This is a major international defense contractor with a direct pipeline from special operations military applications to local American law enforcement.

The Italian government holds a significant ownership stake in Leonardo S.p.A. That means a foreign government — through a defense contractor — is selling surveillance technology to American law enforcement. If the Flock Safety story involves a CIA-seeded venture capital network, the Leonardo story involves a partially state-owned Italian defense conglomerate with US Special Operations Command contracts. Neither of these companies is what most Americans picture when their city council votes to upgrade the cameras on a street pole.

What is ELSAG — and why SignalTrace is more dangerous than it sounds.

ELSAG is Leonardo's license plate recognition product line — the company's core law enforcement technology that has been deployed across American communities for over two decades. ELSAG cameras are what you think of when you picture a standard license plate reader. Fixed cameras on poles. Mobile units mounted on patrol vehicles. Solar powered. Cellular connected. Reading plates and logging vehicle data.

ELSAG is already deployed in all fifty states. Virginia State Police is a documented customer. Leonardo holds statewide procurement contracts in New York, Maryland, New Mexico, Ohio, and Pennsylvania among others, and is listed on the federal GSA schedule available to agencies nationwide. Their cameras are already on street poles and patrol vehicles across the country — quietly, routinely, and largely without public awareness.

SignalTrace is not a new camera. It is not a new company. It is an upgrade — a sensor that clips directly onto ELSAG cameras already in the field and adds a new layer of data collection on top of the license plate reading that was already happening. The same pole. The same hardware. A new sensor attached to it that now also sweeps up every electronic device signal in every passing vehicle.

That is precisely what makes it so significant. The deployment barrier is almost zero. Any law enforcement agency that already has Leonardo ELSAG cameras can add SignalTrace capability without purchasing new infrastructure, without a new procurement process, and — depending on how their existing contract is written — potentially without returning to their city council for approval. Sound familiar? It should. It is the exact same function creep mechanism that allowed Flock Safety to add video streaming, vehicle fingerprinting, and AI people search to cameras that were originally sold as simple plate readers.

The infrastructure goes in first. The capabilities expand later. The public finds out last — if at all.

Leonardo's defense of the system sounds very familiar.

They say SignalTrace captures device signals but does not read the contents of communications. They say it stores data until a specific investigative request is made of the system by an investigator. They say it was designed to ensure it does not infringe on the rights of individuals.

That is the exact same argument Flock Safety makes about license plate readers. It captures plate numbers but not driver information. It stores data until law enforcement queries it. It was designed with privacy in mind.

Courts are still debating whether Flock's version of that argument is constitutionally sound after eight years of deployment and 80 plus cities canceling contracts. SignalTrace captures exponentially more data about exponentially more people — not just the vehicle but every person inside it and every device they carry. If the argument barely holds for plate readers, it almost certainly does not hold for a system that vacuums up every electronic signal emitted by every device in every vehicle passing a sensor.

The data retention problem.

With Flock we at least know the default data retention period is 30 days — though the contract language grants Flock a perpetual license to use that data regardless. With SignalTrace the situation is more opaque. Leonardo's product materials state that all data collected may be uploaded to the EOC server and archived for future queries and analysis — with no published retention limit. How long does Leonardo store your electronic fingerprint? Who has access to it? Can it be shared with other agencies or federal entities? Can it be purchased by data brokers? Leonardo's materials do not answer these questions. That silence is itself an answer.

The retail and private deployment problem.

Leonardo is actively marketing SignalTrace to shopping malls, retail centers, and private businesses — not just law enforcement. Their materials describe deploying SignalTrace in parking lots and inside shopping centers to track individuals involved in organized retail crime. By identifying and correlating electronic devices carried by suspects, retailers can gain critical insights into criminal patterns.

That means SignalTrace sensors could be on private property you visit every day — your grocery store parking lot, your shopping mall, your workplace — operated by a private company with no law enforcement oversight, no warrant requirement, no public accountability, and no notification to you. Your electronic fingerprint captured every time you park your car. Stored indefinitely. Shared with whoever the private operator decides to share it with.

The no-plate-needed problem — and what it means for pedestrians.

The implication of being able to track a vehicle by its electronic fingerprint without reading the plate goes further than most people realize. Deliberately obscuring your plate — which some people do to avoid surveillance — provides zero protection against SignalTrace. The sensor does not need the plate. It reads your phone.

More critically — the sensor does not know or care whether the device it is reading is inside a vehicle or in the pocket of a pedestrian walking past the pole. A person walking down the sidewalk past a SignalTrace-equipped camera is emitting the same Bluetooth and Wi-Fi signals as a person driving past in a car. The system's sensors capture signals from whatever passes within range. Whether that includes pedestrian device capture is not addressed in Leonardo's public materials. The fact that it is not addressed is worth noting.

Does Flock plan to integrate or copy this technology?

No confirmed partnership between Flock and Leonardo has been announced. But four things are worth noting.

Flock already expanded into audio detection in October 2025 — their Raven devices now listen for human distress and alert officers when they detect screaming. Device signal detection is the next logical step in exactly the same direction. Flock's product roadmap has consistently expanded from vehicle data toward person data. Vehicle fingerprinting. FreeForm people search by physical description. Audio detection of human behavior. Electronic device fingerprinting would complete that progression.

Flock's Wing platform is specifically designed to pull third-party camera infrastructure into its ecosystem. If Leonardo's SignalTrace cameras are deployed in a city that also uses Flock, the data from both systems could flow into the same FlockOS platform without any formal partnership between the two companies.

Flock's Nova platform already combines license plate data with court records, jail records, CAD records, and commercially available personal data. Adding device signal intelligence to that profile would be consistent with what Nova is already designed to do.

And Flock's entire business model is built on continuous software-defined capability expansion through over-the-air updates. No new hardware. No public vote. Whether Flock is currently developing device signal detection capability is something we do not know. Whether the competitive pressure from Leonardo creates a powerful financial incentive for them to do so is not in question.

The constitutional problem is worse than anything we have discussed before.

The Fourth Amendment arguments against Flock center on the aggregation of license plate reads into a comprehensive record of your vehicle's movements. Courts are divided on whether that crosses the constitutional line.

SignalTrace does not aggregate your vehicle's movements. It aggregates your personal electronic identity — every device you carry, every signal you emit — and ties it permanently to a location, a timestamp, and a plate number. It does not track your car. It tracks you. Personally. Individually. Every time you pass a sensor, whether you are suspected of anything or not.

The legal issue is that public policy often treats each input separately — a plate image, a device signal, a timestamp, a location record. SignalTrace's purpose is to combine recurring signals into a searchable investigative profile. The Mosaic Theory argument we have made against Flock says that aggregated location data eventually reveals the whole of a person's life. SignalTrace is designed from the ground up to reveal exactly that — not as a byproduct but as the product.

The Supreme Court has not ruled on whether device signal collection at this scale requires a warrant. The courts have not yet caught up to Flock. They are further still from catching up to what Leonardo is now selling to law enforcement agencies in all fifty states.

Why this matters right now.

We are currently waiting on the City of Texarkana to respond to our public records requests about Flock Safety cameras already operating on our streets. We do not yet know how many cameras exist here, which features are active, or what data sharing agreements are in place.

What we do know is that the surveillance infrastructure being built across America — of which Flock Safety is the most visible example — is expanding faster than public awareness, faster than legislation, and faster than the courts can rule on it.

The cameras in our area are one node. SignalTrace shows you what the next node looks like. And the one after that. Each addition is sold as a modest upgrade to existing infrastructure. Each addition captures something your government previously could not capture without a warrant. Each addition happens without a public vote.

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SOURCES

1. Leonardo US — ELSAG SignalTrace Product Page

https://t.co/HmnXStfH3V

2. Leonardo US — SignalTrace Product Sheet

https://t.co/DH3VLIpuOg

3. Leonardo US — Procurement Contracts

https://t.co/D4pBW7clAQ

4. CarBuzz — "Don't Like Car License Plate Readers Invading Your Privacy? It's About To Get A Lot Worse" (June 2026)

https://t.co/hd7j97eqHl

5. The Deep Dive — "Leonardo's SignalTrace Could Let Police Plate Readers Track Your Devices" (June 2026)

https://t.co/HvGl2xbkK2

6. Security Industry Association — Leonardo/ELSAG Member Profile

https://t.co/EzRYrc4MTH

7. DHS — Automated License Plate Readers Market Survey Report (June 2025)

https://t.co/XfJf84A3hA

8. Senator Ron Wyden / Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi — Letter to FTC regarding Flock Safety cybersecurity (November 2025)

https://t.co/etluNhx9np

🎩 Deflocking Texarkana

[Barack Obama @BarackObama]

More than 40 years ago, I arrived in Chicago in search of an idea. I was a young man looking for purpose, who believed deeply in America, was inspired by the Civil Rights Movement, and wanted to be a part of something larger. The America I believed in was one where everyone has opportunity, everyone is seen, everyone belongs—because that was an America that had a place for me, too.

[BlackHistoryStudies @BlkHistStudies]

The meaning of the Juneteenth flag ❤️💚🖤