Sarah Osterberg

[Joe Kent @joekent16jan19]

This week the Senate will vote to merge our military’s most sensitive & secretive capabilities with Israel. This merger is buried within the massive NDAA and they’re hoping you won’t notice.

Merging our military with a foreign country is a treasonous betrayal of our sovereignty.

Call your senators & tell them to vote no on the NDAA until the merger w/ Israel (section 219) is taken out.

Tell them that we will never support merging our military with a foreign nation.

The senate switchboard number is: [phone].

[Hedgie @HedgieMarkets]

🦔The Treasury Department has a completed internal report that compares the AI boom to the dotcom crash and warns it poses systemic risk to the US financial system. The report has sat for weeks without approval. The Treasury spokesperson dismissed it and said the official position is that AI will drive "America's new Golden Age."

My Take
Treasury Secretary Bessent praised the $750 billion AI buildout on June 25. His own department's analysts compared it to the dotcom crash in a report on his desk. His own department wrote the report.

The analysts found what the BIS said last week and what anyone following the numbers already sees. The AI industry is concentrated in a few firms, financed through opaque private credit, and dependent on infrastructure that communities blocked $130 billion of this year. Fewer retail investors back AI than backed dotcom stocks, which means a correction hits institutional money harder, and institutional money is pensions, insurance funds, and retirement accounts. Treasury's public position is that this is a golden age. Treasury's internal position is that the bubble could take the financial system with it. The report is done and nobody will approve it for release.

Hedgie🤗

[Mel @Villgecrazylady]

This is treason. If the Congress wants to create an information co-opt with Israel then they need to write a stand alone bill and conduct a recorded vote.

Who the hell wrote this into the NDAA?

[Thomas Massie @RepThomasMassie]

Section 219 (was 224) of the NDAA contains a dangerous provision to integrate our military tech with Israel’s.

@RepRoKhanna & I submitted an amendment to strike 219. I included the Rules Committee roster here; 7 of 13 members must agree in order for our amendment to get a vote.

[Ana Escobar @AnaEscobarShow]

At what point does it become treason

[ThePatrioticBlonde™🇺🇸 @ImBreckWorsham]

Sooooo....The Pentagon just declared Israel an enemy to the US the same week Congress voted to merge our military with theirs.

Am I getting that right?

[Former Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene🇺🇸 @FmrRepMTG]

So under full Republican control, the Republican controlled Senate can’t pass the Save America Act for election integrity, the House just passed a bill giving another $9 billion to Ukraine, Republicans are planning to merge our military with Israel’s military while Trump has us in another foreign war that’s costing $2 billion a day and has driven gas over $4.50, and not a single person has been held accountable for the pedo Epstein files.

[Meriwether Farms @MeriwetherFarms]

We have been warning the public on New World Screwworm for over a year now (some much longer than us)

We even had our account on X suspended for a month when we showed a picture of what an infection looks like in a human, shortly before there was a human case confirmed in the US last August

The Secretary of Agriculture continued to assure the public that the Screwworm situation was “under control” and continued to ignore concerns and requests from producers and elected officials from her home state of Texas

This is not something to no longer downplay or brush off

The Agricultural industry is already entering into hellish conditions this summer because of drought and rising fuel and input prices, compounded now with an outbreak of flesh eating maggots

We need serious and dedicated leadership on this

We need a whole of government approach

We need states next to Texas and Mexico to be able access the resources and funding to combat this pest as they will be caught completely off guard when it reaches their states

We have asked before months ago but are asking again for President Trump to declare a National Emergency Declaration TODAY!

Thank you for your attention to this matter

[Dr. Simone Gold @drsimonegold]

Google is planning to release 64 MILLION Wolbachia-infected mosquitoes into neighborhoods in Florida and California.

This is reckless, irreversible biological experimentation on American communities and our ecosystems — with no off-switch.

Florida recorded just 6 West Nile cases last year. The risk is negligible, yet they’re proceeding anyway. These altered mosquitoes could disrupt birds, bats, and entire food chains with consequences we cannot undo.

Enough of Big Tech playing God with our environment and our health.

Tell the EPA to REJECT this dangerous experiment. (Link in comments.)

Public comments close tomorrow, June 5th.

[Hedgie @HedgieMarkets]

🦔Amazon is being sued over Ring's "Familiar Faces" feature, which uses AI facial recognition to identify and remember people who walk past Ring doorbell cameras. A Virginia resident filed a class action alleging the feature collects and stores biometric data on passersby without their consent. Ring is optional for the homeowner. Nobody who walks past their front door opted into anything. This is the same company that settled with the FTC in 2023 for $5.8 million after a former employee used Ring cameras to spy on female customers in their bedrooms. Amazon denied wrongdoing.

My Take
This feels like the car data story all over again. You don't own a Ring, you've never agreed to any terms, but the camera labels you by name every time you show up at a friend's house or drop off a package. A facial recognition database built one doorbell at a time, and the people in it never had a say.

Amazon has been here before. An employee used Ring cameras to watch customers in their homes. Law enforcement got access to footage without proper consent. The Super Bowl lost dog feature activated entire neighborhood camera networks. Every time, there's backlash, a small fine, a quiet rollback, and the cameras stay right where they are. Ring has millions of units on American homes, all pointed at the sidewalk. The homeowner chose to install it. You just chose to walk your dog. And now Amazon's AI knows your name and your route. I don't know how many times the same company has to get caught doing the same thing before the penalty matches the behavior.

Hedgie🤗

[Hedgie @HedgieMarkets]

🦔Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon told Computex this week that AI agents will replace your phone as the center of your digital life. The agent follows you across every device, earbuds, glasses, phone, laptop, and never turns off. 6G networks will "make all of us into walking cameras," and by tracking millions of radio connections, network operators will build a digital twin of every road, car, bicycle, and pedestrian in your city. "Resistance is futile," Amon said.

My Take
A CEO just stood on stage and told investors his company's vision is an AI agent that follows you everywhere, sees what you see, hears what you hear, and feeds it all into a digital replica of your city where every person and vehicle is tracked. He said "resistance is futile" like that was a selling point and not a threat.

This week Ring got sued for labeling people's faces without consent. Microsoft put "make people addicted" in a strategy doc. MicroAGI sent cameras into apartments. And now Qualcomm is pitching the hardware layer that ties all of it together into one continuous feed from your earbuds to a datacenter, running around the clock. Each company sells its piece as a standalone product, but they all benefit from the same outcome: you generate data constantly and it flows through their compute. Amon says economics will drive adoption and he's probably right. But I haven't heard a single person on any of these stages this week ask whether the people generating all that data actually want this future. The pitch is always to investors, never to the public. I feel like that should bother more people than it does.

Hedgie🤗

[Former Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene🇺🇸 @FmrRepMTG]

The United States of America is a sovereign nation.

Section 224 of the 2027 National Defense Authorization Act must be removed.

Our military should not be integrated in any capacity with a foreign country’s military.

Nor should we be funding it.

[Hedgie @HedgieMarkets]

🦔Microsoft's internal strategy document for its new AI assistant Scout says the explicit goal of phase one is to "make people addicted." The doc, obtained by 404 Media, outlines a three-phase plan from "addictive app to agentic platform."
The tool sits on your desktop, manages your calendar, triages your inbox, files expenses, and acts on your behalf. It requires access to your accounts and files. Security and compliance are things to "figure out" later. Nadella already uses it.

My Take
After everything this week, I think this document accidentally explains the entire AI business model. Not just Microsoft's, everyone's. The product can't sustain itself on current pricing. We know that because Copilot just proved it on Monday. The unit economics don't work at flat rate. So the play is to get people locked in before the real bill arrives. Make the tool essential to how you work, let your company cut the people who used to do those tasks, and by the time consumption pricing kicks in, walking away costs more than paying up.

IBM's CEO just told us the industry needs $6 to $8 trillion in capex to chase revenue he says doesn't exist. Google diluted shareholders to fund a buildout it can't cover from cash flow. Oracle fired 30,000 people during a record quarter to redirect salaries into data centers. And Microsoft's answer to all of that is an internal doc where step one is addiction. They're not selling the product on value. They're selling dependency. Get people hooked before anyone calculates what it costs to run, and make sure they can't leave once they find out. A product that needs addiction to survive is a product that can't survive on its own.

Hedgie🤗
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[Mel @Villgecrazylady]

Israel hasn’t spent a damn dime of their own money buying our military equipment since the 1960s. Huckabee knows this, he’s just a liar.

Most of this comes in the form of equipment transfers that appear as line items in the Pentagon’s yearly budget.

For instance:

[Hedgie @HedgieMarkets]

🦔Robot dogs are patrolling FIFA World Cup venues in the US. Hyundai's Boston Dynamics deployed Spot robots at AT&T Stadium in Arlington with 360-degree cameras, thermal sensors, acoustic pickups, and AI anomaly detection. All of it feeds live video back to security teams.
A viral TikTok claimed they scan faces. Boston Dynamics says no facial recognition. The robots handle perimeter patrols and suspicious packages. Hyundai owns Boston Dynamics and is also a major FIFA sponsor, so this is as much a product showcase as a security operation.

My Take
No facial recognition, fine. But 360-degree cameras with AI anomaly detection pumping live feeds to a security command center is still a serious surveillance footprint at a civilian sporting event. India has workers earning $0.12 an hour to collect robot training data. MicroAGI films the inside of New York apartments. The infrastructure for robotic surveillance is coming together from both ends, and a World Cup with billions of viewers is the perfect place to normalize it because nobody argues against stadium safety.

These robots cost around $75,000 each. Boston Dynamics built them for the military before going commercial in 2019. Hyundai bought the company in 2021. Police departments and corporate campuses around the world are watching this deployment. Two years from now the cameras will have better software, the price will be lower, and nobody will remember a time these things weren't around. That's how surveillance technology scales. It starts somewhere safe and friendly, and by the time anyone pushes back, it's already furniture.

Hedgie🤗

[Valerie Anne Smith @ValerieAnne1970]

WEF's Klaus Schwab admits it proudly...

"The world will no longer be run by superpowers like America…it will be run by the World Economic Forum and its stakeholders; BlackRock, Bill Gates & the rest of the global elite."

They're not even pretending anymore...

[Marjorie Taylor Greene 🇺🇸 @mtgreenee]

I don’t want any more safe and effective vaccines.

I want them to stop engineering ticks and viruses as bio weapons.

[Robby Starbuck @robbystarbuck]

I want everyone to stop and ask what interest Google has in releasing mosquitoes. They’re a tech company. Not an environmental group. Not a non-profit. Not a government. A tech company. Just like Bill Gates, I don’t want them anywhere near our wildlife or nature. CC: @LeeMZeldin

[Thomas Massie @RepThomasMassie]

If the provision in the NDAA to integrate/synchronize the U.S. and Israeli militaries (section 224) makes it out of committee, I’ll offer an amendment to strip it from the bill on the floor.

We are a sovereign country.
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[Tony Seruga @TonySeruga]

🇺🇸💥🇮🇱 Congress Just Voted to Fuse the U.S. Military With Israel’s — and Buried It on Page 847 So You Wouldn’t Notice ☠️

Section 224 of the $1.15 Trillion NDAA Doesn’t Fund Israel. It Makes Israel Part of the Pentagon. Forever. No Exit. No Debate. No Vote. 👇