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Here is my latest piece.
In George Orwell’s 1984, the "telescreen" was a tool of state-mandated terror. In 2026, it’s a consumer convenience we bought, installed, and powered ourselves.
Why it matters: Three high-profile events in early 2026 have shattered the illusion that home security and smart devices are passive. They are, in reality, sophisticated targeting systems.
1. The "Search Party" problem
During Super Bowl LX, Amazon’s Ring debuted "Search Party," an AI feature designed to find lost pets by scanning neighborhood-wide footage.
The catch: The feature was enabled by default, effectively turning private homes into a warrantless surveillance grid without explicit owner consent.
The law enforcement link: Ring’s previous integrations with companies like Flock Safety and Axon already allowed police to access footage for ICE and CBP operations.
The risk: "It starts with searching for a brown dog," says Matthew Guariglia of the EFF, "but means the tech is there for face recognition and searching for suspects".
2. The "Vacuum" vulnerability
A software engineer recently discovered a massive security flaw in DJI robot vacuums while trying to use a PlayStation controller to steer his own device.
The breach: He gained access to live feeds, microphones, and floor maps for 7,000 vacuums across 24 countries.
The geopolitical angle: DJI is already banned from U.S. government use. This incident highlights the risk of intimate data sitting on servers controlled by foreign adversaries.
3. Cameras as weapons of war
On February 28, 2026, a joint U.S.-Israeli strike against Iran proved that surveillance is the ultimate reconnaissance tool.
The hack: Mossad reportedly compromised Tehran’s traffic cameras years ago.
The hit: AI algorithms analyzed footage of Supreme Leader Khamenei’s guards—their routes, parking spots, and schedules—to pinpoint his location for the strike.
The lesson: The cameras Iran built to control its people became the instruments of its leader’s death.
By the numbers
The American public is reaching a breaking point, according to a March 2026 Rainey Center poll:
72% of voters are concerned that data from U.S. cameras is used by China to develop AI.
63% fear Chinese-made software in security cameras allows foreign access to footage.
68% support legislation banning the storage of personal data in Chinese data centers.
The bottom line
Congress is facing overwhelming public pressure to act. Proposed solutions include:
Banning Chinese-origin software in U.S. hardware.
Mandating warrants for law enforcement access to civilian footage.
Requiring "affirmative opt-in" for all AI-powered surveillance features.
Go deeper: Orwell’s protagonist, Winston Smith, lamented that "Big Brother is watching you." He never imagined we’d pay $299 for the privilege.
Read the my entire memo here. @SilverBulletLLC @SamThePol @SolomonYue @KerryMcQ4Oregon @GordonGChang @samosaur @ShawnRyan762 @joerogan @sarahadams
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🚨 JUST IN: AG Todd Blanche catches Dana Bash RED-HANDED misleading viewers on Alaska cheating and he FORCES her to correct on-air
"CONVENIENTLY, you put the Constitution on your screen, but you highlighted only the first clause! Why don't you show the NEXT CLAUSE to your viewers which says that Congress is allowed to pass laws to make sure that that happens? PUT THAT BACK UP THERE."
BASH: We have it up, go ahead 🤣
BLANCHE: "The second clause says, but the Congress made at any time by law — and we have a law and that's the law that we're relying on when we filed suit earlier this week."
Doing anything to make it seem like Trump is violating the Constitution.
He then expertly dismantles any attempt to justify Alaska letting the fake Dan Sullivan on the ballot — FEDERAL LAW is supreme to protect voters
President Trump says he directed the DOJ lawsuit and it only will have an impact if the fraud Sullivan SIPHONS ENOUGH VOTES to unseat incumbent Sen. Dan Sullivan.
MASTERCLASS BY BLANCHE
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This is seditious behavior
Thanks to @Petermarocco and @DataRepublican for bringing it to light
🚨Radical USAID actors spent decades on the color revolution playbook overseas. Thanks to the patriotic work of @DataRepublican, we have receipts on their plot to recruit and train federal employees to block the elected mandate. There’s a word for that.
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In 2013 Jason Eck was changing the oil on lawnmowers and golf carts.
He was a Division I offensive line coach. Western Illinois had fired the head coach, and rather than pay out what it owed the assistants, the school kept them on payroll and sent them to work other jobs on campus.
Eck got the golf course. Then they moved him to a cubicle at the public transit center in Macomb, Illinois.
Here is how he describes it.
"I got transferred to the guy who ran the bookstore and the campus bus system."
Saturday night his New Mexico team is 5 and 1 with the best scoring defense in the country.
He has five kids. Here is what he says about those years.
"We've been in bad debt, bad financial shape. I've got five kids so it was nuts."
The man who ran that bookstore and bus system, Jude Kiah, is the one who talked him out of quitting. Kiah asked him whether he really wanted to walk away from everything he had put in. Eck started hunting jobs instead.
By that July he was the offensive coordinator at Minnesota State.
He walked on at Wisconsin as an offensive lineman. He thought about law school and never took the test. After the Rose Bowl he asked to coach instead.
His own dad coached college basketball. Toledo fired Jay Eck in 1991, less than a week after a one point loss with an NCAA tournament bid on it.
Jason took job after job after that. His wife Kimberly found out he had lost the Ball State job while she was going into labor with their third son.
Then South Dakota State, where John Stiegelmeier told him he would make a really good head coach. Idaho hired him in December of 2021 and he went 26 and 13 there. New Mexico hired him two years ago.
Last season the Lobos won nine games, beat UCLA, made their first bowl since 2016 and sold out a home game for the first time since 2007. He was Mountain West coach of the year.
And one of his linebackers is his son.
Jaxton Eck came out of Brookings, South Dakota with offers from Sioux Falls and Northern State. Division II. He played for his dad at Idaho, and when his dad took the New Mexico job he had North Carolina State, Michigan State and Stanford asking for him.
He went to New Mexico. Last season he had 115 tackles and shared Mountain West defensive player of the year.
Father and son won conference awards in the same season.
Now the part that complicates it. One good year is not a program. New Mexico has been bad for most of the last fifty years, and the hard truth about coaches who win there is that somebody bigger calls.
But here is what Jason Eck says now.
He does not know whether he would ever have become a head coach if his son had not played football.
Thirteen years ago he was changing oil on a lawnmower.
What were you doing right before the job that changed everything for you?
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AI agents did the hacking.
A new report from @CrowdStrike says attackers used AI agents to target at least 15 healthcare organizations in Argentina, stealing login credentials and medical records.
Human operators set up the attack. The AI agents carried out the steps, work that used to take a team of skilled hackers.
This isn't a hypothetical anymore. AI is already being used in real crimes against the places that hold our most private information.
Who's making sure it doesn't happen here? #HumansFirst
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Texas AG Ken Paxton is standing up for kids.
His office is suing OpenAI and CEO Sam Altman, alleging the company misled Texans about ChatGPT's safety while the product harmed users, including children (via @thehill).
The lawsuit asks a court to:
- Block minors from using ChatGPT
- Require an outside evaluator to approve any new OpenAI models
For years, Big Tech has sold its products to families as safe and asked everyone to take their word for it. Texas is making them answer for it.
When AI reaches our kids, parents and the leaders they elect should set the rules, not the companies profiting from it.
Big Tech or our kids? #HumansFirst
Barbarians inside the gates. The west just isn’t serious anymore.
🇮🇹 Rome's famous COLOSSEUM has become the latest flashpoint in Europe's protest unrest
Masked protesters forced their way past entrance barriers as chaos broke out around one of Italy's most iconic landmarks.
A demonstration at a nearly 2,000-year-old monument, with masked protesters storming the entrance.
Not exactly the peaceful protest organizers had in mind.
Writer: Oliver
How ironic, the surveillance company doesn’t like being surveilled.
Instead of removing the violent offenders, they trample the civil rights of innocent people and shield the thugs.
Just got forcibly kicked out of a Portland Thorns game because people were hitting my group with trans flags over our feminist shirts. Living in the upside down
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@BrandiKruse
This feels like a civil rights violation. @HarmeetKDhillon
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What this week's big numbers actually mean:
Millions = attack attempts
400+ = financial targets
1,200 = sites probed, 100+ reportedly hacked
The real story is scale: one person with AI can do a team's work. #HumansFirst
Originally posted on @humansfirstusa_
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SITUATION DETECTED: CloudFlare CEO Matthew Prince says he is aware of additional severe vulnerabilities in other pieces of critical software, and said “I think we’re going to have a couple years where every single week it’s going to feel like the sky is falling,” per Reuters.
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🚨JUST IN🚨
TX AG Ken Paxton is suing OpenAI and CEO Sam Altman, alleging the company imposed harmful side effects on consumers.
Although OpenAI markets itself as a safe and reliable AI tool, the suit claims it has failed to protect Texans—including children—from the various harms of using its chatbot, ChatGPT.
Paxton is the 10th Attorney General to file a lawsuit against OpenAI over safety issues.
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Should AI companies spend their computing power building AI that improves itself, or curing cancer?
@A1Policy's "Reorienting the Frontier" would point AI toward benefits Americans can feel. Executive Director @RWalkerFW explains why it's America First AI. Link below 👇
ALT Graphic with an American flag at dusk: "Reorienting the Frontier" Is an America First Approach to AI, by R. Russell Walker, Executive Director of Humans First.
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WATCH: @bstein80 joined Fox News to discuss the growing AI arms race, warnings of self-replicating AI, and emerging cybersecurity threats that could put our personal devices and data at risk.
From smart devices to national security, the stakes are rising.
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Um...because they are misaligned. These a rogue agents.
OpenAI’s autonomous AI systems have tried to prevent employees from monitoring their actions, and the company is not sure why. nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/o…
