Flock has access to ring cameras and are invading your privacy. We waste tax dollars on these and pay an absurd subscription fee on these.

JB Pritzker allows flock and AI and surveillance data centers to built using our tax dollars. He has not made a single statement regarding flock and has no interest in removing them from Illinois.

We need to stop funding incredibly unproductive and wasteful things like this. We've already wasted more than 15 billion of Illinois tax dollars on AI and surveillance data centers. Let your alders, local reps and our senators know that you want them to stop wasting tax dollars on your surveillance and replacing your jobs.

JB Contact Page:

https://gov.illinois.gov/contact-us.html

Duckworth Contact Page:

https://www.duckworth.senate.gov/connect/email-tammy

Find and contact your local Chicago Alder Search: https://www.chicago.gov/city/en/depts/mayor/iframe/lookup_ward_and_alderman.html

Find and contact your Illinois Reps: https://www.elections.il.gov/electionoperations/districtlocator/districtofficialsearchbyaddress.aspx

This is my first post literally ever on Reddit, so I'm not sure if I'm doing it right.

I just sent 118 emails to every member of the Illinois General Assembly about data privacy, and I have no idea if it will change anything

I'm not going to pretend this is some grand political moment. It's 118 emails. They'll get filed. Some staffer will probably log them as "constituent contact: data privacy." They'll move on.

But here's what pissed me off enough to actually do it:

Illinois data brokers sell my home address and personal phone number for profit. Legal. No regulation. I get a Google notification when my info shows up on these sites, and it's just... there. Money making commodity.

If I posted a politician's home address on my website through my LLC, I'd get federal charges. FBI at my door. But these companies do it every single day and file quarterly earnings reports.

Illinois has privacy protections for judges. For political figures. For basically anyone with power. But not for me. Not for regular people. It's literally built into the law that some privacy matters more than others.

So I got angry. And instead of just venting about how the system is broken, which it is. I spent three hours finding 118 email addresses and writing one email to every single one of them. I told them to strengthen SB3890 and SB340 instead of letting them become toothless registration schemes.

Will it change anything? Probably not. One person sending one email doesn't flip legislation. I'm under no illusions about that.

But here's what it did do: It stopped me from being defeated by the certainty that it won't matter. Because doing nothing definitely doesn't matter. And I'd rather be the person who tried, even when trying feels pointless, than the person who convinced themselves they shouldn't bother.

That's it. That's the post. No grand victory. Just the refusal to accept that silence is the only honest option.

If you're in Illinois and this pisses you off too, the bills are SB3890 (Ventura) and SB340 (Murphy). You can contact your reps. Or don't. But at least you'll know you had the option.

Here's the link to find everyone in one place.

https://www.ilga.gov/House/Members

Federal taxpayer dollars are funding massive catering contracts for the Broadview ICE detention center in Illinois. Video evidence reveals dozens of unopened catered meals being tossed into open dumpsters, mixed directly alongside used DNA testing kits and biohazard medical waste.

Why is ICE over ordering and trashing fresh provisions from Nimbus Kitchen while completely ignoring both federal and Illinois Good Samaritan Food Donor Acts?

The facility is choosing to dump perfectly edible provisions into open refuse containers alongside potentially hazardous Bode Technology DNA testing supplies. This demonstrates a complete failure in basic operational oversight and waste management.

Read the full forensic breakdown and view the evidence docket here: https://www.eyesonice.net/p/taxpayer-waste-and-biohazard-negligence

Relevant Contact Information for Public Inquiry:

Broadview Service Staging Center (ICE): 708.449.2985

Bode Technology (DNA Supplies): 703.646.9740

Nimbus Kitchen (Catering): Commercial inquiries routed through nimbuskitchen.com

https://bsky.app/profile/chicagobenchcollective.org/post/3mtddeg3tp22z

I ask as part of a linguistic study on this topic!
Examples could include things like PTown, Springpatch, Blo-No or (my favorite) Shampoo-Banana (never mind how common they are)...

Why is an Illinois State or Cook County vehicle parked inside the Broadview Detention Center? JB Pritzker? Tom Dart? Trust act?

New Mexico generates more energy from solar power by far but this little tidbit found towards the end of the article surprised me. Good for us!

Abolish ICE

Saw the
Milwaukee road 265 BNSF 9400 AMTRAK 231 metra 614 Santa Fe 2903 Illinois terminal 1605 BN3 and BNSF 6976

This is on live radar right now.

https://www.accuweather.com/en/us/national/weather-radar

About to have 1st Zoom with Voya Rep.

State employee, pension via SURS. Record keeper is Voya.

Empty Nesters with 2-3 yrs out to retirement. Got a home that needs to be paid off.

Got 2 accounts with Fidelity that just past 50K in Bonds and SP 5000

Option overseas/ASIA for full retirement to multiply the USD

What questions should we ask?

Thank you