Jul 28, 2026 · 58 min · 9 segments
This week: combating and reframing big tech. First up, I sit down with Ed from DeFlock to talk about ALPRs - Automatic License Plate Readers, and their handy way of circumventing the 4th amendment…
This past Tuesday, the oiled bubonic plague boil known as Secretary of War Pete Hegseth demanded that Congress pass Trump's plan for $1.5 trillion in a military budget.
Economist Dean Baker pointed out that that shakes out to roughly $5,000 extra per household in the US.
For what we've already noted on this show is in fact the least popular war in the history of the US, which when you look at the competition, it's really quite saying something.
In related total waste of money news, Electronic Frontier Foundation reports the DHS plans to nearly triple the number of surveillance towers along U.S. borders from the current 830 to 2300 by 2034.
DHS expects to expend a billion dollars in taxpayer money for this dangerous expansion of a surveillance network indiscriminately trained on towns, school playgrounds, backyards, and vehicles.
Drones, aerostats, surveillance vehicles, ground sensors, game cameras, and license plate readers, which we'll talk more about on this week's program, they're also part of the vast taxpayer-funded infrastructure that threatens all those who live, work, or seek refuge in the borderlands.
This past week, the House Ways and Means Committee issued a subpoena demanding internal communications, financial records, and more from the leftist news outlet Breakthrough News.
The outlet announced this attack on their First Amendment rights just after Marco Rubio's State Department released a paper that, as the dissident reports, specifically names virtually every prominent anti-war organization that has protested the blockade on Cuba, including the Democratic Socialists of America, National Lawyers Guild, Code Pink, The People's Forum, and Black Alliance for Peace.
It also names a wide range of figures, from Democracy Now!' 's host Amy Goodman to the co-founder of Ben & Jerry's ice cream, Ben Cohen, to streamer Hasan Piker, to Amazon labor union founder Chris Smalls, as part of a supposed organized communist plot that needs to be cracked down on.
And if you're just coming down off of the high of explosive diarrhea, hold on to your toilet seats, because according to Johns Hopkins and their measles tracker, 2,295 measles cases have been identified across the country in 2026 so far.
In all of 2025, 2,286 cases were counted, meaning that this year's total has exceeded last year's in just 204 days, making this the highest number in decades.
Thanks to anti-science campaigns that we discussed on the show just recently with Professor Dave, the once-virtually-eliminated measles is back.
And as John Hopkins notes, having a high percentage of people fully vaccinated against measles is the best way to prevent outbreaks, and is also the best way to protect people who cannot get measles vaccines, such as babies or people with cancer." But who needs babies and cancer patients, am I right? As the war on Iran has escalated once again, news outlets have found somehow even more negative space to not talk about Palestine.
In a Prism News interview with emergency room and pediatric registered nurse Sandra Adler-Killen, who has been to Gaza, Sandra describes the generational genocide happening there.
There is a severe lack of sanitation, a lack of clean water, displacement, and an unsafe ability to get prenatal care because people feared being killed en route to the hospital.
The extent of malnutrition that we experienced due to the blockade of any food entering Gaza, and certainly healthy food, was dire.
That's potentially going to lead to more issues with premature births, end quote.
The entire interview is a horrific and vital read to fully understand the ramifications of this genocide long after it actually ends, which it hasn't.
Even after Palestine is free, the scars and reverberations of Israel's sadistic terrorism will be apparent.
And meanwhile, Dropsite News reports that Israel's campaign of destruction in Gaza continues unabated, including targeting shootings and bombings.
And in the West Bank this past Friday, Israeli settlers and troops killed four Palestinians during an attack on a village in the occupied West Bank.
This past Tuesday, the oiled bubonic plague boil known as Secretary of War Pete Hegseth demanded that Congress pass Trump's plan for $1.5 trillion in a military budget.
Economist Dean Baker pointed out that that shakes out to roughly $5,000 extra per household in the US.
For what we've already noted on this show is in fact the least popular war in the history of the US, which when you look at the competition, it's really quite saying something.
In related total waste of money news, Electronic Frontier Foundation reports the DHS plans to nearly triple the number of surveillance towers along U.S. borders from the current 830 to 2300 by 2034.
DHS expects to expend a billion dollars in taxpayer money for this dangerous expansion of a surveillance network indiscriminately trained on towns, school playgrounds, backyards, and vehicles.
Drones, aerostats, surveillance vehicles, ground sensors, game cameras, and license plate readers, which we'll talk more about on this week's program, they're also part of the vast taxpayer-funded infrastructure that threatens all those who live, work, or seek refuge in the borderlands.
This past week, the House Ways and Means Committee issued a subpoena demanding internal communications, financial records, and more from the leftist news outlet Breakthrough News.
The outlet announced this attack on their First Amendment rights just after Marco Rubio's State Department released a paper that, as the dissident reports, specifically names virtually every prominent anti-war organization that has protested the blockade on Cuba, including the Democratic Socialists of America, National Lawyers Guild, Code Pink, The People's Forum, and Black Alliance for Peace.
It also names a wide range of figures, from Democracy Now!' 's host Amy Goodman to the co-founder of Ben & Jerry's ice cream, Ben Cohen, to streamer Hasan Piker, to Amazon labor union founder Chris Smalls, as part of a supposed organized communist plot that needs to be cracked down on.
And if you're just coming down off of the high of explosive diarrhea, hold on to your toilet seats, because according to Johns Hopkins and their measles tracker, 2,295 measles cases have been identified across the country in 2026 so far.
In all of 2025, 2,286 cases were counted, meaning that this year's total has exceeded last year's in just 204 days, making this the highest number in decades.
Thanks to anti-science campaigns that we discussed on the show just recently with Professor Dave, the once-virtually-eliminated measles is back.
And as John Hopkins notes, having a high percentage of people fully vaccinated against measles is the best way to prevent outbreaks, and is also the best way to protect people who cannot get measles vaccines, such as babies or people with cancer." But who needs babies and cancer patients, am I right? As the war on Iran has escalated once again, news outlets have found somehow even more negative space to not talk about Palestine.
In a Prism News interview with emergency room and pediatric registered nurse Sandra Adler-Killen, who has been to Gaza, Sandra describes the generational genocide happening there.
There is a severe lack of sanitation, a lack of clean water, displacement, and an unsafe ability to get prenatal care because people feared being killed en route to the hospital.
The extent of malnutrition that we experienced due to the blockade of any food entering Gaza, and certainly healthy food, was dire.
That's potentially going to lead to more issues with premature births, end quote.
The entire interview is a horrific and vital read to fully understand the ramifications of this genocide long after it actually ends, which it hasn't.
Even after Palestine is free, the scars and reverberations of Israel's sadistic terrorism will be apparent.
And meanwhile, Dropsite News reports that Israel's campaign of destruction in Gaza continues unabated, including targeting shootings and bombings.
And in the West Bank this past Friday, Israeli settlers and troops killed four Palestinians during an attack on a village in the occupied West Bank.
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