17/ This is the end goal here. Eliminate all possibility of dissent by threatening anyone and everyone's ability to live solely for speaking out against the oligarchs and the government. People need to wake up and realize what is happening before it's too late.

16/ Wouldn't this be a massively buggy system riddled with flaws from combining so many datasets with disparate structures, sources, etc.? Yes, absolutely. But it doesn't matter to them. If you're an oligarch, any errors would be resolved. An imperfect hammer is better than none at all to them.

15/ It would be among one of the most dystopian systems ever devised but one that we built up over decades and has now been hijacked by fascists intent on using a surveillance state nightmare to ensure compliance with every demand of the oligarchs. fortune.com/2024/09/17/o...

Larry Ellison predicts rise of the modern surveillance state where ‘citizens will be on their best behavior’

Oracle's Larry Ellison believes citizens and police alike will be under constant surveillance of each other.

fortune.com

14/ Wait, wouldn't that be illegal? Yes, absolutely but good luck getting a lawyer to represent you when any lawyer that does so is subject to similar sanctions along with their firm. We're already seeing that happen. It doesn't matter if it's unconstitutional if no one can challenge it in court.

13/ We're already seeing this with mass cancellations of visas for immigrants who say anything critical of Israel or even the United States on social media. This is just the beginning. This will be expanded to target American citizens. www.axios.com/2025/03/06/s...

Scoop: State Dept. to use AI to revoke visas of foreign students who appear "pro-Hamas"

The effort includes AI-assisted reviews of tens of thousands of student visa holders' social media accounts and marks a dramatic escalation in the U.S. government's policing of foreign nationals' cond...

axios.com

12/ How this could work: Show up to a Tesla protest? Surveillance photos capture your face and identify you to federal officials. Your social security payments get shut off and you'll be audited by the IRS. You may find your Medicaid coverage canceled leaving you without healthcare access.

11/ A single profile for every person in the United States that would contain every vital piece of information from tax information to health records to family makeup. Anyone at DOGE could pull up this profile to target you for speaking out.

10/ Combine all of this and Elon and Co. can create a central data repository with the most sensitive information on every American. Not only that, they would have the ability to weaponize it to eliminate dissent in a way not previously possible.

9/ This executive order will eliminate all paper checks and centralize all federal payments under digital payment processors that can more easily be managed and controlled. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

Modernizing Payments To and From America's Bank Account

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered:Section 1.  Purpose.

whitehouse.gov

8/ The new executive order on unifying all payments and requiring pre-payment certification for all recipients of federal funding, which could include requirements to abide by all executive orders. It'll allow granular level access to shut off individual payments. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

Protecting America's Bank Account Against Fraud, Waste, and Abuse

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1. Purpose.

whitehouse.gov

7/ The EO on databases can extend to drivers licenses and passport information which can pull photos from each to mine for facial recognition. Additionally, they can pull existing fingerprint scans and create a biometric signature for every person in the United States.

4/ With the Center for Medicaid/Medicare Services, they can add in all payer claims data and access health records and payments through Medicaid and ACA exchange managed care providers. They could also require state pharmacy boards to turn over all prescription drug monitoring program data.

3/ The two biggest are the IRS and Social Security. Combined, these will be able to provide anyone with access of where you live, what your income sources are, who you live with, who your family is, what businesses you own, what bank you use, what you owe on student loans etc.

2/ The Trump admin via DOGE is combining several extremely sensitive databases across the federal government. This includes Social Security, the IRS, Medicaid/Medicare, student loans, federal employee payment systems, immigration records, background checks and security clearance forms, etc.

The most recent executive order last week called for the explicit erosion of data privacy safeguards in databases managed by the federal government or overseen by states and federally funded 3rd parties. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

Stopping Waste, Fraud, and Abuse by Eliminating Information Silos

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered:Section 1.  Purpose.

whitehouse.gov

Everyone needs to understand what Elon and DOGE are building, an AI driven panopticon that will know everything about you and will be used to ensure compliance with their fascist agenda. They are creating a unified database of everything the federal government has on every single American. 🧵1/

Donald Trump loses his shit. He is being played like a fiddle, but doesn't know it. He orders retaliation, and punitive sanctions and tariffs are impsed on Colombia. Trump has just put sanctions on our largest supplier of cut flowers and coffee days before Valentine's day. Point to Lula.

Sunday: these photos and videos have made the rounds in Latin America, and Colombia's president Petro is feeling political heat over flights scheduled to arrive today. He orders them stopped likewise until conditions are improved.

Saturday: a Brazilian air force aircraft arrives in Manaus to bring the Brazilians home. (a few stay, wanting to go to nearby locations) Powerful scenes fill the evening news as the grateful Brazilians sing the national anthem in unison as the plane takes off.

Scenes of crying deportees fill the evening news. The grateful Brazilians are given showers and beds in the airport. Lula denounces the conditions, comparing them to SLAVE SHIPS, and says Brazil will accept no more flights until they're improved.

Interior Minister Ricardo Lewandowski has ordered Federal police to board the plane when it stops to refuel in Manaus. Lula has made sure television cameras are on hand. The police pretend to be shocked to find the deportees restrained, and order them released on the spot.

Let's recap the timeline for those of you who haven't been following. Friday: a deportation flight containing 88 Brazilians takes off from American soil. The deportees are handcuffed and bound in leg irons, as is standard practice on such flights. The Americans are flying into a trap.

lorem ipsum 🇧🇷🇺🇸@whiskeynachos.bsky.social · 2y ago

I swear to God, Lula and Lewandowski have got to be laughing their asses off at the Plantalto that the result of their stunt is a Trump temper tantrum against Colombia.

In Les Mis people were revolutionized by being thrown in prison for stealing bread. Brittany Watts was arrested for having a miscarriage and there was no mass action. I can’t stop thinking about this as an organizer. I’m not thinking “why aren’t people in the streets” I’m thinking “why aren’t I?”

An LA organizer I trust shared this General Resource Spreadsheet with me. It includes nonofficial shelters and other resources for people affected by the LA fires.

MALAN Fire & Wind Storm Resources

docs.google.com

Now that Tik Tok is likely to disappear I have to regear to try to be pithy in only 300 characters but cis-hetero-patriarchal-ableist-capitalist-imperialism takes up so may of them!

#addtoblacksky

Wildseed is in the planning process of starting a Shared Service Cooperative to support movement serving orgs that want to operate outside the logic of capitalism. If this sounds like something your org could benefit from could you that this survey to help us plan? form.typeform.com/to/rAscgw57

Baldoni's lawyer has apparently characterized those texts as routine communications between people dealing with crisis management in Hollywood. That I actually believe. I completely believe that destroying people for posing a threat bc they've been harmed is routine.

In this case, we are not only talking about a famous actress but a famous actress with a famous spouse. They were able to fight back and eventually show up with receipts about how manufactured this whole situation was. In most cases, we will never know that. Survivors and others are just destroyed.

The thing I keep thinking about with this Blake Lively situation is how well-resourced this woman is. I want people to think about the bot army and the structured takedown, and how eager people were to participate, and how this is doubtlessly done to activists and thinkers without consequence.