OJ 1914

Truly blessed!!

[OJ 1914 @juiceman008]

We in the house!! #LetsGoCanes

[The Root @TheRoot]

.@Sen_Alsobrooks (D) expressed her frustration and anger over President Trump abruptly cancelling plans to sign a bipartisan housing affordability bill on Wednesday.

The first-term congresswoman said he “woke up having another tantrum” and called him a “man child.”

[Rep. Summer Lee @RepSummerLee]

The Pentagon is the only place in America where you can fail 8 audits in a row, admit you’ll fail the next few & still get handed more money than you asked for.

But let a family need help buying groceries and suddenly it’s a lecture about hard work, responsibility & bootstraps.

[The Cake Lady @got_cake]

This is a Black intellectual checkpoint.

[Don Salmon @dijoni]

The Europeans like to tell Black people just forget it was a long time ago. but never tell that to Jewish people.

[rnbmusic @rnbmusic]

Eve takes us back with her iconic hit “Let Me Blow Ya Mind” for NPR’s Tiny Desk

[The Root @TheRoot]

.@PastorHJW, the senior pastor at the Alfred Street Baptist Church, In Alexandria, Virginia, had a powerful message for his congregation on Sunday. He described those who are silent and chose not to vote are complicit and called them sellouts.

[Bri Gillis @Bgilly13]

Dems have been looking for their message for years, and @AnnieAndrewsMD just did it (in under two minutes). Take note 📝

[Gary Chambers @GaryChambersJr]

I’m Black first.

This nation was founded treating Black people as property, and even today there are ongoing efforts to restrict Black political and economic power.

Conservatives will try to gaslight you, but I prefer facts. Under @mayorbmscott and @govwesmoore, Baltimore has seen its lowest homicide levels in decades.

Even Stephen A. Smith had to ask Officer Tatum what’s wrong with identifying as Black first when you understand America’s history and its relationship with Black people.

I know exactly who I am, and I’m not afraid to say it.

Share if you care. 🦾

[Summer Lee @SummerForPA]

The silence from Democrats when Muslim colleagues and candidates are attacked is a cancerous rot.

We cannot lead our country out this moment if we're willing to accept the abuse or dehumanization of any marginalized group.

[Brian Cardone 🏴‍☠️🇺🇦 @cardon_brian]

Marc Elias is forecasting exactly what is likely to go down in the midterms and he isn’t sugarcoating it. We have to get every one we know in the game y’all. Complacency has no place in a Democracy, LFG!!

[Wall Street Apes @WallStreetApes]

This is horrifying and every American needs to hear this

California resident exposes what’s really going on with Flock Cameras in America

“I want to be clear what these cameras actually are, and I say that with somebody with 20 years of experience in IT. I've served as the chief network architect for Fortune 500 companies, I've designed data centers, and today I work on cloud infrastructure for one of the largest loan origination companies in the country. I'm not speculating on how this technology works. I've read their patents and I know how it works.

Flock advertises these cameras as simple license plate readers. But their own patents tell a different story.

They're AI-powered surveillance machines that capture every passing vehicle and person and transmit that data to a private corporate cloud, making it queryable by a multitude of state and federal agencies. The city of Corona does not control that database, and Corona residents have no public record rights against a private company's servers. Our daily movements are being harvested by a $7.5 billion corporation, that only answers to venture capital investors, not to us. Flock did not reach that valuation on their per-camera subscription fees. That math doesn't add up

The city council should also understand who they're doing business with. Flock CEO was asked whether the company had any federal contracts. He said no. That was a lie.

Public records revealed that Flock had been secretly running a pilot program giving the US Border Patrol access to local police camera data without the knowledge of the cities that paid for the cameras.

Now consider who's behind the company and where your data flows. Flock integrates directly with Palantir, a data fusion platform, with a $30 million contract with ICE. Peter Thiel, the founder of Palantir, is also one of Flock's primary investors. These are not separate companies with separate agendas. They are connected actors that are building a connected infrastructure.

Palantir's own CEO stated publicly just this month that his technology is being used as a political instrument, designed to reduce the political power of certain voters. And that's the ecosystem that our Corona cameras are feeding into.

We're not anti-police at all. We're against mass surveillance of innocent residents by a company with a documented record of deception, built by investors with a stated political agenda. We're asking the City Council to start auditing the queries made against Flock's database, to disclose any data sharing agreements, and to take a vote to cancel the Flock safety contract”

I looked more into this and he is 100% right

Patents describe broader object detection, including tracking people and pedestrians, patents like US11416545B1. The system uses a centralized cloud database for nationwide queries

Data goes to Flock’s private cloud, AWS-based, encrypted. Nationwide lookup is common, 75%+ of customers are enrolled enabling cross-jurisdictional searches. Residents have no direct public records access to the corporate servers.

This creates a mass surveillance network feeding a private company’s infrastructure

If you ask me this is laying the infrastructure for a mass surveillance network in America. We are being lied to. Cancel all contracts nationwide

[Luther Luke Campbell @unclelukereal1]

Klay Thompson.
Megan Thee Stallion.
Kevin Hart special.

And not one person stopped to talk about what just happened to Black people last week.

That’s how distractions work.
Keep the people entertained while real issues affecting our communities get buried under celebrity gossip and trending topics.

Meanwhile laws changing. Districts changing. Opportunities disappearing. Communities fighting for resources. Families struggling. And nobody with a major platform wants to address it.

We can laugh, joke, gossip, and still stay focused on what matters at the same time.

Don’t get distracted.
Pay attention to the bigger play.

I talk about these things and more on the Uncle Luke Show Podcast.

Subscribe now: Uncle Luke TV YouTube

Make sure you’re on the right side of history.

[Gary Chambers @GaryChambersJr]

Respectability politics has never worked for Black people — and it never will with people who don’t respect you to begin with.

For years I’ve been told to change my approach. Today I challenge those in leadership to consider that the approach they’ve been using got our s*** stolen.

The strategy now has to be to take something back from them — power.

I’ve been doing this work for over a decade. Folks didn’t partner with me or support me when I ran because I was considered “radical” — as if demanding equity is radical.

It’s time for a different approach. A different posture. One with some fight in it. I’m leaning in regardless — I’m just wondering how many of us are ready now.

Share if you care 🦾

[Rep. Joe Neguse @RepJoeNeguse]

My resolution proposing a constitutional amendment to overturn the Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision now has 79 co-sponsors. You can view the full list at: https://t.co/OLL64MXLMG.

I’ll keep fighting to get it across the finish line!

[OJ 1914 @juiceman008]

@rolandsmartin At present they might as well have won bc their legacy lives on, that flag flies proudly all over the country, and the entire administration is in their hands🤷🏾‍♂️

[OJ 1914 @juiceman008]

@unclelukereal1 The real question should be are the Ppl and Courts in Florida going to allow DeSatan to do what ppl voted against and the Fl Constitution explicitly prohibits??

[໊໊ @juniorkingpp]

the fact the US used the full force of the federal government to eliminate the Black Panthers while the KKK is still running around tells you a lot about this country

[OJ 1914 @juiceman008]

@Shaggy1914 I know s couple ppl who are going to love this passport 🤦🏾‍♂️

[OJ 1914 @juiceman008]

@BBSoFL @RichardLamondin He can temporarily suspend the gas tax... Governor Kemp has in Georgia

[!Nspirenaire〽️ @Inspirenaire]

Grateful that some in the medical industry are understanding that fear based consent is unhealthy.