• Pat Flood (@rebarcock) passed away 9/21/25. Pat played a huge role in encouraging the devolopmemt of this site and donated the very first dollar to get it started. Check the thread at the top of the board for the obituary and please feel free to pay your respects there. I am going to get all the content from that thread over to his family so they can see how many people really cared for Pat outside of what they ever knew. Pat loved to tell stories and always wanted everyone else to tell stories. I think a great way we can honor Pat is to tell a story in his thread (also pinned at the top of the board).

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"Something UGLY Is About To Hit America..." | Whitney Webb​

Peter Thiel is no ordinary tech billionaire—he's the bridge between Silicon Valley's elite and the national security state. From co-founding PayPal and seeding the so-called "PayPal mafia" to building Palantir into what many call a privatized surveillance empire, Thiel’s ventures have always operated in lockstep with intelligence agencies. This video traces how Thiel, alongside figures like JD Vance and Elon Musk, has blurred the lines between private enterprise and state power—reshaping not only the economy but the very definition of freedom in the digital age.

Palantir, which began as a CIA-funded response to the defunded Total Information Awareness program, is now a central player in mass surveillance, domestic profiling, and military AI applications worldwide—from Ukraine to Gaza. Thiel’s companies have consistently undermined civil liberties while expanding their reach into public policy and financial regulation. And now, with Thiel protégé JD Vance on the GOP ticket and poised to influence crypto legislation from the Senate Banking Committee, the stage is set for a new kind of digital authoritarianism—one that wears the mask of innovation but operates through surveillance, censorship, and monopoly power.

 



In Jan 2024 the Biden admin wanted to stop Texas from putting up razor wire along the border. It argued before the Supreme Court - successfully - that the Feds are responsible for enforcing immig law & that any other finding “would leave the US at the mercy of the States” which should not be able to dictate *how* the feds go about it.

NOW the feds, under Trump, are enforcing immigration laws in Portland and LA and Chicago. As their agents come under attack, Trump is sending Nat Guard troops to protect them, making sure they can safely enforce the law.

Democrat politicians in these states now not only refuse to help but are suing to STOP Trump from “interfering” in their localities by sending the Nat Guard.(!)

And some insane judges are going along with it. They’re going to lose this argument and the smack-down from SCOTUS should be brutal. Let’s just hope we don’t see more ICE agents endangered or killed before it happens.
 
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