The feds are building a police state tool kit...
-Robot dogs
-Shock gloves
-AI watchlists
-Kill‑switch cars
-Autonomous drones
-Biometric databases
-License plate tracking
-Stablecoin framework
-Predictive policing technology
And people still can't see where this is going?
#OTD Sept 5, 1970: Huey P. Newton, national defense minister of the Black Panther Party, raises his clenched fist behind the lectern as he speaks at a convention sponsored
by the Black Panthers in Philly, PA. He is surrounded by Black Panther Party security.
Photo: Associated Press
#History
⛔️FBI document (EFTA01246228)
interviewee met Leon Black in 2008 while modeling.
⛔️Black promised her drugs and sexually abused her.
⛔️Black threatened her and she was afraid of him.
⛔️Black flew her to Jeffrey Epstein's Florida home.
⛔️Epstein was also present and wanted sex with her.‼️
A police officer in Florida killed a 92-year-old woman with his patrol car and his consequence for it was an 80-hour suspension.
Andrew McKuhen was attempting to initiate a traffic stop for a minor traffic violation when he struck a car carrying Milagros Ortiz.
She sustained severe injuries and died.
An internal affairs investigation said McKuhen violated agency policy by failing to operate his patrol vehicle with due care.
The State Attorney's Office declined to file criminal charges.
The victim's family filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the city of Orlando.
RIP Milagros Ortiz 💔
ICE just got a federal judge’s permission to surgically cut open a Cuban detainee’s abdomen and insert a permanent feeding tube against his will.
No consent. No lawyer.
He’s the 19th hunger striker ICE has gotten court approval to force-feed since January 2025 — but this is the first time the Guardian has documented this surgical procedure being used. He’s been in custody since July 22, declared a hunger striker three days later.
People don’t stop eating for no reason — usually it’s the conditions inside these facilities driving it. Instead of fixing that, ICE cut into his body. His records are sealed. He never got to say a word before a judge signed off.
A JUDGE SIGNED OFF.
That’s the horror.
“Why, yes! We would be much happier here in the US without any bananas, coffee, avocados, sorgum, potash, advanced semiconductors, imported autos, imported aircraft, all kinds of commercial ships, all machine tools, advanced robotics, essentially all clothing, television cameras, tower cranes, tunnel boring machines, advanced rail cars, plastic injection molding machines, all kinds of industrial production automation machinery, heavy industrial presses, big screen TVs, smartphones, dockside container cranes, high-speed elevators or any of the thousands of other things that make our civilization possible that are not made in the US!”
— This senile ignorant idiot, who if he was sitting at the bar in the stool next to you you would get up and move except he’s ruining what was the best economy in the world in 2024 and has aggravated every single trading partner we have built relationships with over the past 300 years.
If Putin was actually in office in the White House, what could he do differently to ruin our country? VIA Mike Sullivan.
NEW: DC prosecutors say Students for Trump leader Ryan Fournier told his girlfriend 'you're going to die tonight' with a switchblade at his side and threatened to have another woman killed if she wouldn't lie for him.
They've also filed a photo of him pointing a gun at an ex.
He's currently in jail but his X account is still posting.
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Today, I read an article in The Daily Beast—written by Michael Daly—that some military brass within the Pentagon have privately begun referring to Pete Hegseth with the nickname "No Tab Pete" and I nearly spat my drink out.
While Mr. Daly offers some good context in the article, it doesn’t quite capture the ruthlessness and humiliation of this nickname, which I believe cuts into the hollowness of Hegseth’s ongoing and cringey search for masculine validation more than anything else I’ve heard or read.
In the U.S. Army, there are skill tabs for elite military courses — little, canopy-shaped patches that go on your uniform shoulder and indicate you’ve graduated from that course.
There are four such tabs: Special Forces, Ranger, Sapper, and—the newest tab—Jungle.
The only context y’all need here is about the Special Forces and Ranger tabs.
Just qualifying for acceptance into these courses is difficult, and actually graduating from them is, of course, very difficult. Ranger School is just under nine weeks, assuming you don’t get rolled back. The Special Forces Qualification Course (“Q course”) is at least a year, assuming you don’t get rolled back.
They are not for the faint of heart. They suck. They’re brutal. We’re talking very little sleep, little food, constant and ridiculous physical exertion, and being graded the whole time on top of it. Total and complete suckage.
And the shitty thing is: even if you manage to make it to the end of the course, there’s a chance you may not graduate and earn the coveted tab.
In the culture of the U.S. Army infantry, the Ranger tab takes on enormous importance. If an infantry officer wants to make a career in the Army, she or he needs to earn a Ranger tab. It's basically a requirement to advance up the ladder.
You’ll notice I wrote “she” there because many women have graduated from Ranger School since the course was opened up to all genders in 2015; in fact, the most recent confirmed total is at least 154 women. All under the same exact standards as the men.
Additionally, there are two women who have earned the Special Forces tab.
In 1980, Captain Kathleen Wilder completed the Special Forces Officer Course but was denied graduation over a failed final exercise. She filed a sex discrimination complaint, there was an investigation, and the general overseeing her case found in her favor. She was never an operational Green Beret, but she did earn the tab and was authorized to wear it for the remainder of her career.
In 2020, a National Guard soldier completed the entire modern Q course and earned her Special Forces tab and was assigned to an operational unit as an engineer sergeant. Obviously, we don’t know her identity because she serves in a highly classified setting. Because she’s a Green Beret. Badass.
These tabs are serious business in the U.S. Army. The old cliché goes something like this: when a new lieutenant arrives at their unit, the commander will shake their hand and immediately look at their shoulder for the tab.
Does this really happen? No, but the fact that it's a cliché indicates the importance. If you want to be a true infantry officer, you gotta at least earn either the Ranger tab.
Anyway, Pete Hegseth, a former infantry officer, never earned a Ranger tab. He never attended Ranger School. He never attended the Q course. Nor did he attend Sapper School. He hasn’t even attended Airborne School.
That’s a very strange thing. Here's this supposedly gung-ho dude who swears to anyone who will listen that he’s a "man's man" and our military isn’t “manly” enough and that women don’t belong in combat arms.
This guy has made the very curious and bizarre decision to assess the testosterone levels of our soldiers. He has lectured generals and admirals on “lethality” and military readiness despite the fact that they have far more experience than he ever will with these things.
He seems to relish posting videos to Department of Defense social media accounts that show him (poorly) attempting pull-ups and all sorts of other physical things.
And yet, when these Army generals and their staffs refer to him as "No Tab Pete," they're calling out his performative masculinity.
They're saying he's a little bitch. He didn't have the guts to attend these courses.
He's weak. He's not a warrior.
No Tab Pete. Delicious.
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Who else agrees that Michael Cohen is nothing,but a freaking rat & hopefully he will end up back in prison where he belongs since Trump is saying that he recanted his testimony about the hush money case because he was pressured into it. He must need that pardon really bad.
AXONs IS NOT A CAMERA COMPANY THEY’RE A FED & NATIONAL SECURITY MILITARY CONTRACTORS 🚨👀
The federal government has access to the same cloud platform that stores local police data
FEDERAL AGENCIES are tethered to their pipelines and bypassing WARRANTS because they’re using the POLICE DEPARTMENTs as FEDERAL NODES. 👀🚨
The local police chiefs think they own the data. But the federal government are querying it without the police chief ever knowing.
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That means all local police evidence storage platform is a federally accessible data repository.
The wall between local policing and federal intelligence, which has existed in American law since the 1970s, is structurally bypassed by the cloud architecture. The feds do not need to ask. The data is already in their cloud environment.👀🚨
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They even have NATO CONTRACTS 👀🚨
That means Axon is not selling a consumer product , They are providing defense capability to a military.
All while they’re processing 911 calls from American citizens, storing body camera footage from local police, running ALPR networks, and protecting NATO airspace is operating across civilian, law enforcement, and military domains at the same time. 👀🚨
And If that platform is unified under Axon Gravity, as the CEO stated, then the same system that processes your 911 call is the same system that detects drones for NATO.👀🚨
When a company operates across civilian and military domains simultaneously, they fall under multiple federal jurisdictions that do not normally overlap. The DOJ has jurisdiction over civilian privacy violations. The FBI has jurisdiction over federal data access. DHS has jurisdiction over homeland security infrastructure. The Department of Defense has jurisdiction over NATO defense contracts. The Senate Armed Services Committee has jurisdiction over military contractors. The Senate Intelligence Committee has jurisdiction over companies with access to both civilian data and defense infrastructure. That is seven separate federal power centers that now have jurisdiction over Axon's operations.👀🚨🚨🚨
The CEO said it himself. His vision is to make Axon the world's largest repository of AI-enhanced public safety data. That sentence is the entire case. He is telling you the business model is data aggregation. The cameras are the collection mechanism. The police departments are the legal authorization layer. The cloud is the storage. The ACEIP program is the AI training pipeline. The federal contracts are the funding and authorization layer. The NATO contracts are the military integration layer. Everything connects to one platform.
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The "Axon Gravity" statement is the most damning - they explicitly state their goal is to build the world's largest repository of AI-enhanced public safety data. This is a DATA harvesting company
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The endgame is no longer just about shutting down cameras. The endgame is about preventing a private corporation from operating a unified civilian surveillance and defense data platform that no government agency is allowed to operate itself. The federal government is legally prohibited from building a domestic surveillance database of the kind Axon is building. The Privacy Act of 1974, the ECPA, and multiple executive orders restrict the federal government's ability to aggregate civilian data. But a private contractor is not bound by those restrictions. Axon can build what the federal government cannot. And through FedRAMP authorization and federal contracts, the federal government can access what Axon built without legally creating the database themselves.👀🚨
The federal government has outsourced the construction of a civilian surveillance database to a private contractor that is also a NATO defense partner. 👀🚨
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@RepThomasMassie
If Trump can’t get USPS to disenfranchise voters through mail voting the way he wants, the story won’t end there.
“He’ll escalate,” Marc Elias says. “He’ll do something even more extreme … because that’s what Donald Trump does.”
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