The law enforcement arm of the U.S. Postal Service has been quietly running a program that tracks and collects Americans’ social media posts, including those about planned protests, according to a document obtained by Yahoo News.
The Postal Service is running a ‘covert operations program’ that monitors Americans’ social media posts
H/T: Steve Lehto on YouTube.
They can’t deliver the mail, on time, but they can watch my cat videos!? /s
Censored – North Korea Accused U.S. of Working with Unit 731 War Criminals on BW Attacks (Archive) (Snapshot)
Notes: Original may be behind a paywall. Archived is missing a photo, so I posted the Snapshot.
Related:
Revealed – The long-suppressed official report on US biowarfare in North Korea (Full Report)
“Under the specter of preventing ‘fraud,’ defendants engaged in a conspiracy, executed through a coordinated effort, to disenfranchise voters by disrupting vote counting efforts, lodging groundless challenges during recounts, and attempting to block certification of election results through intimidation and coercion of election officials and volunteers,” their new complaint filed late on Monday states. “These systematic efforts – violations of the [Voting Rights Act] and the Ku Klux Klan Act – have largely been directed at major metropolitan areas with large Black voter populations. These include Detroit, Milwaukee, Atlanta, Philadelphia, and others. Defendants have not directed these efforts at predominantly white areas.”
From dead voters to mail-in ballots: A brief history of Donald Trump’s bogus claims of voter fraud
For his entire political life, Mr Trump has used bogus claims of vote rigging and election fraud to explain defeats or anticipated defeats. He has consistently undermined the integrity of American democracy in the service of protecting his ego.
Trump’s TikTok Farce Ignores the Lessons of the Red Scare
PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP would probably be surprised to learn that he is vindicating Marx’s claim that when history repeats itself, the second time is a farce. The administration’s odd war on TikTok echoes the period more than half a century ago when the US government was so worried about content from Communist countries that Congress directed the Post Office to detain perceived “Communist political propaganda.”
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We should all be a bit more hesitant to accept claims of imminent national security threats that justify radical action, especially when they happen to coincide with authorities’ interests. National security has been the basis for the rise of perhaps every despot in history. We should remember the example of the Supreme Court, which did not roll over to erode free press in the face of the Communist threat a half-century ago.
Related:
The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte. Karl Marx 1852
TikTok Deal Will Fund Patriotic Education Program
Trump Wants $5 Billion From TikTok Deal for New History Project
Ms. Cat’s Chronicles 
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