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Any other Texas LTC instructors: RSD Connect (~11 days): “~11 days to DPS RSD Connect (Oct 1). Instructors: bookmark the DPS RSD page now and list what you’ll need day-one — course create/manage access, student roster habits, and how you’ll answer ‘when can I apply/renew again?’ Here is the timeline. The new system is actually pretty good, better than expected. Modern and no paper, finally.
Stop the Bleed Saturday: When did you last practice a tourniquet on a timer, not just own a kit? This weekend, pull the kit, practice direct pressure → pack → TQ on a training limb, then restock what you used. If training on a friend - maybe don't tighten all the way!
Seems we need to use Feinstein and now McConnell as motivation to actually do something to prevent this in the future. We are not sending "our best" to represent us and our country really needs better politicritters.
I have to go check my cases for this lot. I respect that Magtech did this voluntarily - that counts for something. Our for a few months but I just saw it yesterday. And have stacked cases of Magtech so good info to have.
Alright... this made me laugh... and a bit sad that the state of our government allows this to happen, repeatedly. Ancient people in office over the years: Boxer, Biden, Waters, McConnell, Thurmand (100 years freaking old), John Carter - most of these people were alive when Japan bombed Pearl Harbor. C'mon...
The practical issue with these elderly people is not their age - well, it is but... more importantly, it is their lack of relevancy and awareness of our world today. Technology, culture, values, concerns and desires of the People for whom they govern. We are asking these people that literally grew up with steam trains, to make important decision about advanced technology, advanced weaponry, science, medicine - I mean, come on. It makes no sense.
When we add water to a healthy plant, in controlled quantities, the plant will flourish. If we open the spigot wide open, the uncontrolled rush of water washes away the soil and the plant dies. Now think of immigration.
This is a solid list, only of what is actually known outside of the SCIF. Now layer that of which we don't have direct knowledge.
2001:
- NSA's Stellar Wind, a.k.a. The Presidential Surveillance Program
- USA PATRIOT Act
- TSA created under the Aviation and Transportation Security Act
2002:
- DARPA's Total Information Awareness (TIA) program
- Homeland Security Act creates Department of Homeland Security
2003:
- Fusion centers begin forming
- Law enforcement agencies began using cell-site simulators, such as the Stingray
- U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) created
- U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) created
- U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) created
2004:
- Palantir begins working with U.S. intelligence agencies, including the CIA's venture arm In-Q-Tel
- National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC) created
- Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) created
- Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act
2005:
- NYT reports warrantless NSA wiretapping program
- Police start using drones
2006:
- PATRIOT Act reauthorization
2007:
- Protect America Act
2008:
- Section 702, PRISM, and Upstream were codified under the FISA Amendments Act of 2008 (FAA), which also granted retroactive immunity to telecommunications companies that assisted with Post-9/11 warrantless wiretapping
- Palantir's first major government contract was awarded by the U.S. Department of Defense
2015:
- Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act (CISA): Facilitated corporate sharing of internet traffic data and cyber threat indicators directly with the federal government and intelligence agencies under legal immunity.
2016:
- Ring begins working with police departments
- Police first used geofence warrants
2017:
- Flock cameras begin installations in HOAs
- Clearview AI and other facial-recognition systems begin scraping billions of images from the public web and social media. Police and federal agencies (including ICE) have used it.
2018:
- Section 702 reauthorized
- Government agencies increasingly purchase commercially available data (location, utilities, etc.) from brokers, a practice critics call a warrant workaround
- Amazon acquires Ring and significantly increases Police Department partnerships
2019:
-Flock cameras begin contracting with Police Departments
2020:
- Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Drone Operations: CBP flying MQ-9 Reaper drones over domestic Black Lives Matter protests, highlighting federal aerial surveillance over American cities.
- Secret Executive Order 12333 Data Sweeps: Reports surface detailing bulk data ingestion (including financial and transaction data) under EO 12333, which operates outside FISA judicial review.
2021:
- CDC Location Data Purchase: Federal agencies (including the CDC) confirm purchasing anonymized mobility tracking data from commercial data brokers to monitor movement during pandemic lockdowns, highlighting the normalization of private broker data acquisitions.
2024:
- Section 702 reauthorized
- Federal agencies use commercial location data brokers to bypass warrant requirements
2025/2026:
- Flock grows to 100,000–130,000+ cameras in 49 states, contracts with about 5,000–7,000 law-enforcement agencies (a large fraction of U.S. departments), and on the order of 20 billion vehicle scans per month
- Flock's mass surveillance network creates a persistent, warrantless record of movements for millions of vehicles whose owners are not suspected of crimes.
- Flock is accessed by Federal agencies and stores data in a cloud with no oversight. Data could be used for any number of unknown purposes.
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Note: This list does not include some modifications to programs, Supreme Court decisions, etc. In this list, I am trying to document what the government has done to surveil the American people, rather than the outcome of every program.
What with this being Texas and all, and Williamson Country to boot, one should probably carry a gun. Either for yourself or, in this case, to stop the obvious and immediate threat to another. Texas Penal Code 9.32 is the rulebook. This would be a clear "no-bill" from a grand jury if it went that far.
🚨 attempted beheading 🚨
Let’s check in on Round Rock, Texas (near Austin), where 26-year-old sub-Saharan African Benedict Ogbodiegwu Jr. just allegedly murdered a White man, 62-year-old Andrew James Wimsatt.
Andrew liked to sit at the park and take photos that he shared on his IG. Around 11am, Wimsatt was sitting on a park bench when Ogbodiegwu began attacking him with a knife. Ogbodiegwu wrapped his left arm around Wimsatt and started viciously stabbing him. Wimsatt tried to push him off but failed.
Ogbodiegwu continued stabbing Wimsatt several times before Wimsatt fell to the ground. Ogbodiegwu then got on top of the victim and started visibly sawing Wimsatt’s neck with the knife before running away toward the park’s pool area.
The attack happened at Chandler Creek Park and was captured on a nearby security camera.
That video will never be released to the public and will stay hidden forever so as not to alarm White people.
We do try to teach people to be responsible when discharging their weapons. Then there is the "street". This one was sent "to whom it may concern" and the Frito-Lay guy received that round. Sucks. Through the wall and into a dude just doing his job. Man... We never know...
From a CBS article complaining that Sec Hegseth has not briefed Congress on "leaks coming out of the pentagon". Perplexing how everybody from the mail lady and the Realtor dude up the street feel entitled to know all that is going on behind the walls of the HQ of our Department of War. Don't they even watch TV? It's classified, idiots.
Hey X folks - Have a freaking EPIC long weekend. Be safe and remember; Do not add to the population, do not subtract from the population without solid legal justification and immediate need and... Call a homie you have not spoken to in a while. Not a text... Talk to homies. Enjoy living in one of the greatest places on earth.
Lots of Orwell references lately. Was curious about how many of his concepts from his writings have come to be in real life.
Put the question to the Grok:
People often point to these genuine lines from 1984 (and a few from Orwell’s essays) as having aged uncomfortably well. Interpretations vary by politics; the book was a warning about totalitarian methods, not a partisan prediction.“ Big Brother is watching you.” Constant surveillance via cameras, smartphones, social-media tracking, and facial-recognition systems is now routine in many countries. Orwell’s telescreens combined propaganda with monitoring; today’s devices do both at once."
“Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.” History is routinely rewritten, statues removed, books edited, and official records adjusted to fit current ideology. The Ministry of Truth’s daily “rectification” of newspapers looks familiar whenever yesterday’s facts become today’s heresy.
“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.” Official narratives frequently demand that people ignore what they can see for themselves—whether on crime statistics, biological sex, election integrity, or public-health outcomes.
“War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.” Political language now routinely inverts meanings: “equity” can mean unequal treatment, “inclusion” can mean exclusion of dissenters, and “misinformation” can mean inconvenient data.
“It was always the women, and above all the young ones, who were the most bigoted adherents of the Party, the swallowers of slogans, the amateur spies and nosers-out of unorthodoxy.” This observation (Winston’s view early in the novel) is frequently cited when discussing patterns of ideological enforcement on campuses, HR departments, and social media.
“Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.” The most basic claim of objective reality has become contested in several public debates.
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Lose the midterms and they don’t just“check Trump.”
They come for Elon.
They come for X.
They kill the 6%.
They bury the Louisiana pads and Texas jobs in lawsuits.
Europe already ran that movie.
“My vote doesn’t matter” is how you lose the country on a Tuesday.
Get up. Vote. nitter.cf/realMAG1775/status/209…
Just so everybody understands what happens if we lose the midterms.
Not because “your vote doesn’t matter.” Because you stayed home. Because you posted defeatist crap. Because you told yourself nothing changes.
If the Democrats win, the same crowd that talks like Islamist Marxists when the cameras are off they do not just“check Trump.” They lock the machine.
They come after Elon. They come after X. The freedom to post what you want on this app is not a law of nature. It is a window. Europe already slammed that window. Speech laws. Bank deplatforming. “Hate” defined by the people you just voted in. Don’t believe it? Watch Brussels. Watch London. Watch what they did to farmers, to energy, to anyone who said the wrong sentence.
X Money? That 6% is not guaranteed by kindness. New York already told X it cannot pay interest to New Yorkers starting October 1. Zero. That’s one blue state regulator. Now picture a House committee, a CFPB, and a DOJ that treat Musk like the enemy. Your wallet on this app becomes a permission slip.
Louisiana and Texas jobs. SpaceX just announced a $100 billion Starbase on the Louisiana coast, thousands of real jobs, pads, plants, welders, not PowerPoints. Texas already runs the first Starbase. Those projects live or die on permits, lawsuits, and who runs Congress. Lose the midterms and the same people who hate Musk, hate oil, and hate launch pads will bury them in process until the concrete never pours.
“It doesn’t matter if I vote.” That’s how you lose the Republic
Get your lazy ass to the polls. Drag your people. Midterms are not a vibe.