💥Stop Funding Surveillance. Invest in the People.
People are demanding affordable healthcare, housing, education, and climate action—not AI data centers on public lands and expanding surveillance networks.
People Need Healthcare and Housing—Not More Surveillance
Friends,
Americans and people who call America home are fed up.
Fed up with corruption. Fed up with cruelty. Fed up with watching powerful corporations and politicians find endless resources for surveillance, billionaires, and massive technology projects. At the same time, families are told there isn’t enough money to make life affordable.
Enough.
People want leaders focused on rising grocery bills, crushing healthcare costs, unaffordable housing, underfunded schools, stagnant wages, and a planet getting hotter by the minute.
Yet instead of meeting those challenges with the urgency they deserve, public resources are increasingly being pulled toward enormous technology projects and expanding surveillance systems.
That is not the future we should be building.
Federal lands belong to the people. They should not become corporate giveaways for massive AI data centers that can demand extraordinary amounts of electricity, water, and infrastructure while private companies reap the benefits.
And our neighborhoods should not become one enormous automated surveillance network.
License-plate camera systems like Flock’s raise serious questions about privacy, government surveillance, data collection, and who gets access to information tracking where ordinary people travel.
Americans should not have to surrender their privacy because they drive to work, take their children to school, visit a doctor, attend a protest, worship, volunteer, organize, or move through their own communities.
Meanwhile, families are asking a much simpler question:
When will our government invest this much urgency in us?
Imagine what we could accomplish if our leaders brought the same determination to lowering healthcare costs, building affordable housing, strengthening public education, expanding clean energy, protecting our climate, raising wages, and making everyday life affordable again.
Public dollars should be used to build a fairer, healthier society for everyone.
Public lands should serve the public.
Technology should serve humanity—not turn humanity into a product to be tracked, analyzed, and monetized.
We get to decide what kind of country we build.
One where corporate power and surveillance continue expanding unchecked—or one where dignity, privacy, accountability, opportunity, and people power come first. We need to get loud:
📢 TAKE ACTION» Tell decision-makers: No AI data centers on federal lands.
📢 TAKE ACTION» Tell Congress to defund Flock’s expanding camera surveillance network.
The future belongs to the people. It is time our government started investing like it.
Thanks for taking action!
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I’m reaching a breaking point watching what’s happening in this country. The future is starting to look dark, and it feels like humanity is moving backwards instead of evolving. We’re pouring billions into surveillance systems and totalitarian camera networks while cutting the basic supports that disabled people and families in poverty rely on just to survive.
SNAP keeps shrinking. SSI is still below poverty level. Housing vouchers don’t cover rent. Medicaid waivers take years. Food access programs are constantly threatened. It’s always the people who need help the most who get hit first.
And now we’re throwing massive amounts of money and resources into AI data centers — giant facilities that devour water, eat up federal land, and push an already fragile electrical grid to the edge. We barely have water as it is. We barely have land that isn’t being swallowed up. Our grid is already stressed and we’re paying outrageous prices for electricity. And somehow the solution is… more data centers?
It’s becoming painfully clear:
If you have enough money, you can do whatever you want.
And more and more people in power are choosing profit over compassion, profit over sustainability, profit over civil rights, profit over human lives.
I recently read a resignation letter from a pediatric oncologist — someone who dedicated their life to saving children. He said he couldn’t do it one more day. He knew about treatments that could save kids’ lives, but he was forced to use poison instead or face criminal charges. Imagine being a doctor, knowing you could save a child, and being legally forced to harm them because someone with money decided profit mattered more than human life.
That’s not just a policy failure.
That’s moral collapse.
We’re told there’s “no money” for disabled people to eat, but there’s money for surveillance networks.
We’re told budgets are tight, but billions magically appear for AI facilities that drain the resources we barely have left.
We’re told to trust systems that clearly prioritize profit over people.
This isn’t evolution.
This is regression.
This is what it looks like when a society chooses control over compassion, extraction over sustainability, and surveillance over humanity.
I refuse to accept that this is the direction we’re heading.
If you’re tired of watching essential programs get gutted while surveillance expands and AI data centers drain our water, land, and electricity, speak up.
Share posts. Sign petitions. Call your representatives. Support disability justice groups. Push back against policies that treat vulnerable people as expendable and our environment as infinite.
We deserve a future where people are fed, housed, cared for — and where our natural resources aren’t sacrificed for systems that don’t actually help us.
If we don’t fight for our future, the darkness wins.
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Thank you for your powerful and inspiring message. I stand with you!