"There are few bipartisan projects in Congress these days, but Republicans and Democrats have no trouble joining together to feed more money into the Pentagon's gaping maw."
"The face scan expansion is costing the Orlando airport authority $4 million. The program should be rolled out at other airports in other U.S. cities in the next year."
"At some point the wolf cannot say 'I won’t eat you' to sheep any longer with a straight face, because everybody knows for a fact that it eats sheep daily."
"Silicon Valley relies on the SPLC to police 'hate speech'."
"AWS already has a sprawling Pentagon business, and it is the odds-on favorite for a new contract that could be worth $10 billion."
"The agency had collected the data from a system it created under the USA Freedom Act. Congress enacted that law in 2015 to end and replace a once-secret program that had systematically collected Americans’ domestic calling records in bulk."
"Before the surprise visit, Schwab told Yuccas that both the Obama and Trump White Houses asked him to 'spin' information. But he said he felt compelled to resign after the current administration told him to lie about an incident that pitted the government against Oakland's mayor."
"Children are being needlessly ripped from homes at such an alarming rate that hundreds of parents in one state have gone so far as to create a counter-kidnapping organization to stop it."
"The memo recommends numerous safety precautions, including not displaying work badges in public, being careful with public conversations and using caution on all social networks. It also recommends DHS employees 'always keep doors and windows locked' and 'be aware of unexpected changes in and around your home.'"
"Two-thirds of the US lives inside this so-called 100-mile border zone, which includes many major cities and several entire states, including Florida, Michigan, Maine and Hawaii, according to the American Civil Liberties Union."