🎯 California’s high-speed rail was a fantasy from its inception. From: Hoover Institution. “In 2008, California voters approved $9.95 billion of state bond funding as seed money to build an 800-mile high-speed rail (HSR) network connecting Los Angeles and San Francisco, and the Central Valley to coastal cities, at speeds of up to 220 miles per hour, with an expected completion date of 2020. But now, 15 years after the bond issue, three years after the expected completion date, not one train has left the station.”
Judge Andrew P. Napolitano: Spying in plain sight. From: Creators. The Biden administration, the DOJ, the NSA and the FBI all claim the lawful authority to spy on all persons in America — American and foreign — without a search warrant, without probable cause, without articulable suspicion.
👉 The right to be let alone: When the government wants to know all your business. From: John Whitehead/Rutherford Institute. “Experience teaches us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government’s purposes are beneficent.”—Supreme Court Justice Louis D. Brandeis.
The privacy loophole in your doorbell. From: Politico. Police were investigating his neighbor. A judge gave officers access to all his security-camera footage, including inside his home.
⭐️ J6 lies are part of a much bigger pattern. From: Laura Hollis/Creators. “J6 has been used as an excuse to smear half the country as "domestic terrorists," weaponize the Justice Department against irate parents at school board meetings, sic the FBI on pro-lifers praying at abortion clinics, and create a new bogeyman — "white Christian nationalism" — as the greatest threat facing the republic.”
Did the “QAnon shaman” get shafted on sentencing? New footage raises questions over the Chansley Case. From: Jonathan Turley. The American government lied and withheld evidence from the defense. That is what a third world country does.
COVID authoritarian tests positive for COVID — again. From: SF Gate. This is the second time testing positive for Gavin Newsom. He was also stricken by the virus in May 2022 shortly after receiving his booster shot.
💉 US to halt use of Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine. From: This Day. Federal health agencies recommended the suspension of the use of the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine, after six recipients of the vaccine – all women – developed a “severe type of blood clot.”