I traced $2 billion in nonprofit grants and 45 states of lobbying records to figure out who's behind the age verification bills. The answer involves a company that profits from your data writing laws that collect more of it.

What started as curiosity about who was pushing these bills turned into documenting a coordinated influence operation that, from a privacy standpoint, is building surveillance infrastructure at the operating system level while the company behind it [Meta/Facebook] faces zero new requirements for its own platforms.

Every app on your device gets to query a system-level API that returns your age bracket in real time. This isn't age verification at the point of accessing restricted content. This is a persistent age-broadcasting service baked into the operating system itself, queryable by every installed application.

This is where it gets interesting. Rep. Kim Carver (R-Bossier City), the sponsor of Louisiana's HB-570, publicly confirmed that a Meta lobbyist brought the legislative language directly to her.

By registering every PAC at the state level rather than federally, Meta scatters filings across dozens of state ethics commission databases with different formats, different disclosure timelines, and no centralized search. Each filing is technically public. Aggregating them into a coherent picture requires manually querying each state. This is structural opacity by fragmentation.

The original version of this investigation was posted to r/linux, where it was mass reported and pulled down pending moderator review (150 upvotes, roughly 15k views before being pulled down some 40 minutes after being posted)

Lots more interesting details in the full article:
https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/1rshc1f/i_traced_2_billion_in_nonprofit_grants_and_45/

We told you the next move would be using the war as a reason to "decrease dependency on fossil fuels" - well here it is.

And of course we are asked to believe mean old Fiona Bruce and the mean old BBC don't want people talking about that - even though the BBC has been pushing the climate scam and "renewables" for years like the obedient little shill it is

Question -

1 - are people really stupid enough to fall for this crass idiot propaganda?

2 - are they stupid enough to believe their cozy little lives won't be reamed out once the "no reliance on fossil fuels" agenda really gets going?

National oil stockpiles ⬆️

Down the bottom of the graph — the world's most far flung countries, that are dependent on imported oil, are gearing up for (another) major upheaval on business and industry....

New Zealand may invoke EMERGENCY powers dating back to the 1970s — to ration & limit how often you can fill up your car.

Read: https://pnqk.me/yxkw6l
Graph: https://pnqk.me/vzkdlt

Our reality.
Unfortunately, that is the case.
Precisely what the decline of democracy leads to. It is even more terrifying than the totalitarianism of Stalin and Hitler. Unelected zealots control the lives of hundreds of millions of people.

Russian media reports IDF spokeswoman Anna Ukolova threatens Russian authorities to be killed if they take anti-Israel position in the war. She said that Israel controls all web-cameras in Russia and could hit easily whoever it wants including Putin.

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Israeli military spokeswoman Anna Ukolova has drawn outrage in Moscow after threatening that Russian authorities who “wish Israel ill” could be subject to “elimination,” while suggesting Israel could hack into Russian closed-circuit television cameras to identify and track targets.

Asked by a journalist with Russian radio broadcaster RBC whether Israel had access to Russian traffic cameras, Ukolova declined to answer directly but warned that “Khamenei’s elimination shows our capabilities are serious” and that “no one who wishes us harm will be left aside.”

She added, ominously, “I hope Moscow does not wish Israel ill right now – I’d like to believe that.”

https://thegrayzone.com/2026/03/18/idf-threatens-elimination-for-russian-leaders-who-wish-israel-ill/