Colin Dean

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It’s absurd that American authorities can purchase personal data – that they’re not allowed to gather themselves without a warrant – directly from data brokers. This violates the Fourth Amendment, and it’s time to close the data broker loophole. Today, @RepThomasMassie, @RepBoebert and @naomibrockwell at the @LudlowInstitute introduced the Surveillance Accountability Act. It requires warrants based on probable cause for all government surveillance and data access. You can read more about it at surveillanceaccountability.com

Hey, maybe we don’t need husky anymore!

I've introduced HR 8470, the Surveillance Accountability Act, with @RepBoebert. It requires a probable cause warrant before the federal government can search your private data — even if that data is held by a third party. Warrantless searches are unconstitutional.

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Thomas Massie just went nuclear on Trump’s war in Iran. “Have we learned nothing from the wars … we sparked in the Middle East that racked up $8 trillion of debt in Iraq, Libya, Syria, Afghanistan?” “The Secretary of State said that Israel forced … us into this war.” “And for what?” “The Constitution is clear.” “Article I, Section 8, Clause 11 … provides Congress initiatory powers of war.” “The 1973 War Powers Resolution states plainly that the President may only introduce US armed forces into hostilities pursuant to three conditions.” “One, declaration of war.” “Two, specific statutory authorization.” “Or three, a national emergency created by an attack.” “None of those conditions exist today.” “American families in my district wanna know how this is gonna help them pay for groceries.” “How does this make them any safer in their schools or in their neighborhoods?” “How does this help them pay for housing?” “A sustained war with Iran will not stabilize the region.” “It’s already ignited the region.” “It will radicalize new generations of terrorists.” “And it will send more swarms of refugees into Europe and the United States.” “We’ve already expended billions of dollars and, more solemnly, six American families must now lay to rest their sons and daughters.” “To the men and women who are engaged in combat, I sincerely thank you and I pray for your safety.” “It is for you that I wrote this resolution.” “It is for you that all of us are here on this floor working so hard to force this vote so that you will have a clear mission .. so that you will know when you achieve it, you can come home.” @RepThomasMassie @MassieforKY

The Linux community of 20 years ago would've taken one look at AB 1043 and pushed an update that limited the network speed of every machine in California to 1 kbps until it was repealed.

I love that the GOP’s new favorite authority on war powers is Nancy Pelosi. And their role model for how a president should undertake military campaigns is Barack Obama. Not sure why they think it’s good policy to emulate Pelosi and Obama instead of following the Constitution.

The Constitution isn’t optional. The point of the Fourth Amendment’s warrant requirement is to hassle the government. It’s supposed to be difficult to search or arrest people. That’s not a bug; that’s a feature of our American republic.

I think one of the hardest things to deal with as you get older is discovering that so many of the people you met along the way never really believed the things they claimed to believe.

I don’t know why some people can’t understand this: The fact that the government has broken the law in the past does not justify or excuse its breaking the law now. If you commit a crime, you are not exonerated by showing that someone else got away with the same crime.

The reason we adopt principles is to counter the human impulse to place short-term benefits ahead of long-term prosperity. Principles are the triumph of pragmatism over extremism.

A president who can suspend the First Amendment rights of immigrants can just as easily suspend the Second Amendment rights of citizens. If you cheer the loss of inalienable rights for those you dislike, you’re only laying the groundwork for your own demise.

Follow the Constitution. Read the bills. Stop governing by emergency. End the forever war. Cut taxes & spending. Stop borrowing trillions. No CBDC. Protect free speech. Repeal the Patriot Act & FISA 702. No qualified immunity for government officials. End civil asset forfeiture.

We have 217 signatures on the discharge petition to force a vote on legislation to release the Epstein files. We need 218. Will the 218th (final) signature be a Republican or a Democrat? It’s time for every Congressmen to support transparency and justice for the victims.

Texas is a 42 (D) / 56 (R) state. This is what competitive authoritarianism looks like.

…When any other modern wisdom would say if 1 person could do this, it's the processes & protections that were wrong and one person shouldn't get fired for it unless they circumvented those protections. In this case, well, I guess you can fire the AI coder that you're paying.

This sucks a lot for the user, but it's a decent example in writing a great apology note for whenever you've completely fucked everything, and you're resigning…

The Supreme Court on Thursday issued a unanimous decision in favor of a Georgia family whose home was wrongly raided by the FBI and was unable to sue for damages because of law enforcement immunity. abcnews.link/So5r63j

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@colindean And when the enemies of the state are funding revolts and insurrections in our cities, you call the military.