The propagandists want me to feel sorry for unpaid TSA agents.
Ell oh frickin' ell.
The propagandists want me to feel sorry for unpaid TSA agents.
Ell oh frickin' ell.
@theintercept we will long for the days of the #patriotact We’ve gleefully given away everything to the tech #oligarchs which is now obvious, to those not previously paying attention, part of the #militaryindustrialcomplex
We gave away our freedom for likes #amerikkka #endai #ai
@RealJournalism decades of #blowback increased #domesticsurveillance and more and harder #patriotact Freedom is a cruel fucking joke in America. The richest #shitholecountry
#palantir and the #epsteinclass will become trillionaires
Senator, who has repeatedly warned about secret US #GovernmentSurveillance, sounds new alarm over ‘#CIA activities’
by Zack Whittaker, February 6, 2026
Excerpt: "In 2011, #RonWyden said that the U.S. government was relying on a secret interpretation of the #PatriotAct, which he said — without disclosing the nature of his concerns — created a 'gap between what the public thinks the law says and what the American government secretly thinks the law says.'
"Two years later, then-#NSA contractor #EdwardSnowden revealed that the National Security Agency was relying on its secret interpretation of the Patriot Act to force U.S. phone companies, including Verizon, to turn over the call records of hundreds of millions of Americans on an ongoing basis.
"Since then, Wyden has sounded the alarm on how the U.S. government collects the contents of people’s communications; revealed that the Justice Department barred Apple and Google from disclosing that federal authorities had been secretly demanding the contents of their customers’ push notifications; and said that an unclassified report that #CISA has refused to release contains 'shocking details' about national security threats facing U.S. phone companies.
"As noted by Techdirt’s Mike Masnick, we may not know yet why Wyden sounded the siren about the CIA’s activities, but every time Wyden has warned, he has also been vindicated."
#USPol #Fascism #Authoritarianism #SilencingDissent #Spying #USCitizens #WarrantlessSurveillance

The two-line letter to the CIA's director is the latest warning in recent years from a long-serving Democratic senator with knowledge of secret government programs and intelligence operations.
We don't need to 'abolish' ICE —
Just repeal and replace the 2001 #PatriotAct:
With that we can end the most egregious parts of our new surveillance state, while restoring actual oversight by re-separating the entities it melds together back apart.

The #patriotact was the start for the United States, chatcontrol or #prebunking is the same for Europe!
I would argue that #chatcontrol is a leading indicator among many others, that #Europe is in a cultural decline!
The fact that there is so much social complacency, tells me Europe is sick, people don't have the bandwith anymore to handle these macro issues.
#rights are payed with blood and tears, a revolution is coming!
People should have pressured our elected politicians to go against mass surveillance of Americans. Man, fucking Americans love mass surveillance. This is what Americans deserve for not fighting against the Patriot Act after 9/11.
@androidul Strictly speaking thats still #US... #CloudAct and #PatriotAct still enable the US to coerce and manipulate #Bitwarden, no matter where the data is stored. The #TADPF thats supposed to guarantee #GDPR compliance is worthless.
#European alternatives include (but are not limited to) @protonprivacy @passbolt @keepassxc #passworddepot #uniqkey #heylogin @yubico