thorofare 🌻

LGBTQ, CivilRights, Anglophile, travel enthusiast, foodie

[theleahfiles @leahfiles]

They tell you Flock cameras are there to fight crime.

So I pulled the actual police logs from my new favorite website (haveibeenflocked . com). 233 million searches that they have been able to get via FOIA requests and here's what "fighting crime" actually looks like:

> 84% had no case number at all
> The most common reason a cop typed in the box? Blank, nothing
> Only about 9% were even tagged as a real crime.
> "Test" and "training" show up as reasons, run on real people's cars
> The FBI and Homeland Security were wired into local camera networks your town never signed off on.

So what is Flock?

FLOCK: 100,000+ plate cameras bolted to poles across America. They read your plate everywhere you drive and never forget.

NOVA: Flock's AI that turns your plate into you. Your name, address, family, everyone you know, in seconds, no warrant.

SIGNALTRACE: a competitor's tool that tracks the Bluetooth off your phone, your AirPods, your watch. Doesn't even need your plate.

Then I followed the money and the lead investor behind Flock also funds an Israeli company that can hack cameras and change the footage. Another lead investor backs a 911 app that flips on your phone's camera and mic. Trace it all the way back and you hit a former Israeli prime minister and Jeffrey Epstein's money.

Full article with photos and receipts is on my Substack now (link in bio). Enjoy!

[thorofare 🌻 @thorofare]

@_fat_ugly_rat_ The Bushes did what the Heritage Foundation told them to do.

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@Tom_Suozzi You’re a tool. There’s nothing extreme about ensuring a fair system where government works in the interest of the majority of its citizens rather than the super rich.

[thorofare 🌻 @thorofare]

@washingtonpost Boafo is not the type of Democrat Maryland voters should be sending to Washington. Enough of the crypto worshipping AIPAC-owned traitors.

[Danny Boy @Care2much18]

This is the dumbest tweet ever written by an American, an astonishing achievement given the depth of competition for that accolade.

It's hard to know where to even start.

I'll go from the top and try wade through it, to arrive at where the focus should already be. /1

[thorofare 🌻 @thorofare]

@Project_Bmore Nothing more substantive to report? Most unions have a PAC completely separate from the non-profit union itself in both membership and finances. Details matter.

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@CBSNews @nancycordes https://t.co/AetuksRPqO

[Moe Davis (U.S. Air Force, Retired) @ColMoeDavis]

I’m not saying Graham Platner should or shouldn’t be a candidate for a Senate seat, but I am saying that the media’s treatment of Platner as compared to its treatment of Ken Paxton is the same as the media’s treatment of Joe Biden as compared to its treatment of Donald Trump. The media bolsters the MAGA narrative that there’s never a decent Democrat nor an indecent MAGA Republican.

[thorofare 🌻 @thorofare]

@TheDemocrats @MuellerSheWrote The Constitution (Article IV Section 4) requires that the Federal government guarantee a republican form of government to each state. Clearly that is no longer the case in Tennessee.

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@OneMileataTime He’s got nothing better to do?

[Elizabeth Williamson @NYTLiz]

DOT Secretary Sean Duffy filmed a road trip reality show over 7 months, sponsored by companies his agency regulates https://t.co/sjgVTxV7bX

[thorofare 🌻 @thorofare]

@keithedwards @AdamParkhomenko He went golfing.

[Trita Parsi @tparsi]

First, the Omani FM came out and revealed that there was a deal on the table that met Trump's demands, but that he instead chose war.

And now, it is revealed that the British National Security Advisor was also part of the talks, and he too attests to the fact that A) there was no imminent threat from Iran, B) Trump could have gotten a surprisingly good deal if he stuck to diplomacy.

But the perhaps most damning quote in the story comes at the end, attributed to an unnamed diplomat:

“We regarded Witkoff and Kushner as Israeli assets that dragged a president into a war he wants to get out of.”

https://t.co/7NWeHUvVDA

[thorofare 🌻 @thorofare]

@Project_Bmore But that’s not the narrative you’re going for. Just like the recently published SAT scores for City Schools. No context provided for those either. Sinclair’s Fox45 and Project Baltimore can barely disguise their anti-public school bias.

[thorofare 🌻 @thorofare]

@Project_Bmore Rather than just sharing a table with numbers, why not provide some context? For example, adjusted for inflation or the fact that these are averages? In addition, students with special needs who require specialized services incur more costs that skew the averages.

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@doggintrump @ecp408 They didn’t forget. It was a conscious choice not to replenish it. Drill, baby, drill something something. Total incompetence!

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@doggintrump OK governor Stitt will replace him with someone equally odious.

[thorofare 🌻 @thorofare]

@CBSNews You forgot to mention this is purely performative. There’s no “massive fraud scandal.” Minnesota’s Medicaid error rate is less than Kentucky’s, Comer’s home state.

[Ricardo @Ric_RTP]

The biggest power grab since Standard Oil is happening today and almost nobody is paying attention.

Tech companies are building their own power grid.

They're about to produce more electricity than entire COUNTRIES.

Right now at the White House, CEOs from Amazon, Google, Meta, Microsoft, OpenAI, Oracle, and xAI are signing a pledge that most people will scroll past.

But it might be the most important business deal of the decade.

They're committing to build, bring, or buy 100% of their own electricity for every new AI data center.

Their own power plants. Their own transmission lines. Their own energy infrastructure.

These are SOFTWARE companies agreeing to become power utilities.

Here's why this matters for everyone reading this:

By the end of this year, at least 5 US data centers will each consume over 1 gigawatt of continuous power.

1 gigawatt powers 850,000 homes. 5 of these facilities will use more electricity than some entire countries.

The US grid physically cannot handle it.

Capacity prices in the PJM grid, which covers 13 states, exploded from $28.92 per megawatt-day to $329.17 in just two years. That's literally a 1,000% increase.

So what do you do when the grid can't support you?

You stop using the grid.

Amazon is buying nuclear reactors. Microsoft restarted Three Mile Island.
Meta signed 20-year nuclear deals.
Chevron is building a 2.5 gigawatt natural gas plant in West Texas specifically to power data centers.

These companies aren't supplementing the grid. They're replacing it. For themselves.

Think about what's actually happening here:

7 companies now control more computing power than most governments. And today they're signing paperwork to control their own energy supply too.

Computing. Data. Energy. Infrastructure.

That's not a "tech" company anymore.

A Harvard energy law professor already called the pledge "meaningless" because utilities in PJM are spending tens of billions on power projects for data centers and those costs are STILL being spread across ratepayers anyway.

The pledge has zero legal teeth. No enforcement mechanism. No compliance monitoring. No penalty for breaking it.

It's a political move designed to get tech companies through the midterms without becoming the villain of every campaign ad about electricity bills.

But the underlying shift is real and irreversible:

Tech companies are becoming energy companies.

Energy companies are becoming AI infrastructure.

And the line between Big Tech and Big Energy is about to disappear completely.

The big question here:

When seven companies control both the world's intelligence AND the power that runs it, who exactly is governing who?

[Crypto Rug Muncher @CryptoRugMunch]

If you still think prediction markets are just a harmless way for the public to forecast the future, you have been sold a lie and you are missing the most dangerous part of the story. These platforms have quietly morphed into a legalized way for government insiders and the ultra-wealthy to monetize state secrets long before they hit the news cycle.

When a random account clears $600k + on an airstrike hours before the first explosion, you aren’t witnessing a lucky guess or a smart algorithm. You are watching a system designed to let the powerful front-run us all.

If you're using these platforms, this isn't just "news", it is a direct threat to your capital. These unregulated markets are warping the very reality you trade in, allowing the people who actually make the news to cash in on it before you even see the headline.

While retail is busy analyzing charts, the people behind the curtain are using these platforms to turn classified information into massive financial gain. Our breakdown explains exactly how the game is rigged and why you need to understand this shadow economy before you become the exit liquidity for the most powerful insiders in the world.

[thorofare 🌻 @thorofare]

@ChrisMurphyCT @joncoopertweets Please reinstate the Fairness Doctrine for broadcasters, cable, streaming, and social media platforms. Beef up DOJ’s antitrust division, too.

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@RubenGallego @bradbatt DOJ used to have a robust anti-trust division (even under GOP administrations). Time to bring it back!