The Shocking Far-Right Agenda Behind the Facial Recognition Tech Used by ICE and the FBI

Thousands of newly obtained documents show that Clearview AI’s founders always intended to target immigrants and the political left. Now their digital dragnet is in the hands of the Trump administration.

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/04/clearview-ai-immigration-ice-fbi-surveillance-facial-recognition-hoan-ton-that-hal-lambert-trump/

#MAGA sane-washing. So the genius #Trump managed to appoint idiots to run his administration. Genius move.
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Right-wing talk show host Trish Regan:

“It’s pretty shameful. Trump surrounded himself with self-interested idiots that don’t care about HIS legacy and are illiterate at math. This is not what America voted for. Trump shouldn’t have to check their dumb math — THEY NEED to do their jobs. Unless it was deliberate sabotage? A mole within hopping to take down markets, the economy and thus MAGA? ”

As Evan Hurst notes, Vera Papisova spent a year dating alt-right men to find out what makes them tick (this is so difficult to figure out?) and ended up comculding that on the whole they're “erratic, violent and incapable of managing their emotions." But, get this, "we" are somehow responsible that they're that way, since "we" have pushed them into isolation.

Himpathy much?

#MAGA #Trump #AltRight #masculinity #himpathy #ToxicMasculinity

https://www.wonkette.com/p/overrun-by-feral-cats-tabs-monday

"The attorney general argued that when Americans take their legal concerns about the administration to the courts, it creates a “constitutional crisis.” "

Should we tell trumpsters who yapped about "less government" that now they'll have no way to stop the government to do whatever it wants?

https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/ag-pam-bondi-moves-goalposts-nations-constitutional-crisis-rcna199967

#Trump's stunning level of idiocy is hitting absolutely every corner of the #US #economy.

Passengers arriving in #European airports up +5%, while US airports down -14%.

#MAGA will be told it's ok because it's brown or yellow people, or #liberals.

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/04/clearview-ai-immigration-ice-fbi-surveillance-facial-recognition-hoan-ton-that-hal-lambert-trump/

…no longer a need for Clearview to pretend to be apolitical. Lambert…new co-CEO, is already in business with both #ElonMusk’s #SpaceX and #DoD…and he has made no secret of his desire to deploy #Clearview as an instrument of #MAGA rule.

Clearview’s business model is based on “weaponizing our own images against us without a license, without consent, without permission,” says Albert Fox Cahn, executive director of the Surveillance Technology Oversight Project @STOPSpying

"The point of what is happening right now is to garner more political power by demonising a particular group that is not well-defined and can be arbitrarily named by an executive."

#ScholarsCircle | #AlienEnemiesAct invoked to deport people from US without due process on civil charges

w/ Jennifer Selin, Victor Narro, Andrea Pitzer

https://scholarscircle.org/scholars-circle-alien-enemys-act-invoked-to-deport-people-from-us-without-due-process-on-civil-charges-april-6-2025/
#USpol #MAGA #deportations #massDeportations #stateRepression #detentionCamps #concentrationCamps #civilRights #immigrantRights

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#art #trump #maga #nato #uk

The new tariffs deeply hurt lots of US manufacturing in the here and now. The head of Manley Labs, maker of made in USA pro-audio gear, shares letter where a huge custom order for a Chinese buyer is getting canceled #politics #tariffs #trump #maga #trade #china #hifi #audio #manufacturing

What isn't understood by way too many is how these tariffs deeply hurt lots of American manufacturing in the here and now. Post by the head of Manley Labs, a maker of high end hi-fi and pro audio gear, that assembles all its products in California - detailing how a huge order they had custom made for a Chinese buyer is getting canceled due to the tariffs that were just enacted. And it seems this trade war just started. #politics #tariffs #trump #maga #trade #china #hifi #audio #manufacturing

Does anyone know if all #MAGA #merchandising from #POTUS47 is produced in the #US? Or is it mostly / also Made in #China?

Musk/DOGE is a widely exposed single point of failure for international security. All it takes is for a state to overcome the personal security of inexperienced barely-post-tweens to essentially access all American information. There is no oversight on how the people's data is being handled. This is the worst kind of attack surface possible.