Showing posts with label TSA. Show all posts
Showing posts with label TSA. Show all posts
Saturday, March 28, 2026

Your reminder that today's so-called conservatives look at US institutions and traditions as impediments, same as liberals do

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I am sick of TSA's illegal searches and seizures, and of DHS' deadly incompetence in Minneapolis and at Barksdale AFB. The author be...
Friday, March 27, 2026

GOP-controlled US House says Nay Nay to GOP-controlled Senate bill funding DHS, meaning more DHS shutdown, et cetera et cetera et cetera!

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    TSA funding update: House GOP spikes DHS funding proposal, extending shutdown that’s caused delays ... The stopgap measures advanced out...

Senate Democrats get partial win, bill funding DHS passes without further funding for ICE and parts of Customs and Border Protection, which were massively funded last year by the Big Ugly Bill

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Senate advances DHS funding bill, tees up House vote to end shutdown as TSA airport lines stretch   ... After weeks of Republicans fightin...
Sunday, March 22, 2026

Because they have nothing better to do

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 ICE agents might as well try security theatre after deportation theatre flopped at the box office earlier.     ICE agents will be deployed ...
Sunday, February 22, 2026

ICE Barbie makes travelers suffer for DHS shutdown

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  'HOMELAND' suspends TSA PreCheck, Global Entry airport security programs...   Update : DHS reverses course on TSA PreCheck suspens...
Thursday, December 18, 2025

About damn time someone did

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  Sean Duffy daughter calls out TSA as 'unconstitutional' after pat-down...
Thursday, January 23, 2025

USA fascist police state to expand facial recognition to over 400 US airports

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  TSA has deployed identity verification tools at more than 80 airports thus far, with the ultimate goal of expanding the technologies to ov...
Tuesday, January 30, 2024

The slide into the surveillance state picks up the pace as TSA to expand facial recognition scanners from 30 to over 400 US airports

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  TSA Expands Facial Recognition Scanners to 400+ Airports...   “The CAT-2 units are currently deployed at nearly 30 airports nationwide, an...
Thursday, September 14, 2023

TSA: Taking Stuff Actually

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  Miami TSA officers seen stealing from passengers in released footage...
Wednesday, March 16, 2022

The stock market didn't give a flying fig about the Fed's quarter-point interest rate increase today: Powell was way too timid, should have just gone with one full point

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 The insanity of easy money is liked most by the stock market, which is why Powell is going slow on his way to two percent after he complete...
Sunday, July 4, 2021

Americans are just fine with fascism, line up like cattle for TSA

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The TSA screened 2.15 million people on Thursday, up nearly 3% from July 1, 2019.  
Wednesday, February 5, 2020

Trump signed paid family medical leave for federal workers, continues to fund TSA, and stopped publishing deployments to Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria in 2017

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Monday, April 29, 2019

Freedom means no TSA and no CNN in US airports and David Bentley Hart permanently relocated to socialist Europe

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"a fat Don Quixote"
Thursday, January 10, 2019

Two kinds of security theatre, not actual security: $8 billion a year for TSA to feel up grandma at the airport, $5 billion for part of a wall around which sex offenders will still get in

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Maybe it would just be cheaper to bring them straight in and let them loose in the airports.
Friday, August 3, 2018

I wonder how many illegals get the full-frisk TSA treatment while flying free on United

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Sunday, July 29, 2018

Federal Air Marshalls go from armed on-board cops to spying on US citizens under new Trump TSA "Quiet Skies" program

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From The Boston Globe story here : Quiet Skies represents a major departure for TSA. Since the Sept. 11 attacks, the agency has tradit...
Thursday, November 9, 2017

Security Theatre: TSA failure rate to detect weapons and explosives improves from 95% to 80%!

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Way to go, Brownie! Or somebody. From the story here : When ABC News asked the source familiar with the report if the failure ra...
Thursday, December 24, 2015

Like TSA security "theatre", ICE plans deportation theatre: "Hundreds of families" or maybe just "hundreds" to be deported

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WaPo reports here : "The Department of Homeland Security has begun preparing for a series of raids that would target for deportat...
Monday, June 1, 2015

Security Theatre still the rule at airports: DHS punks the TSA 95% of the time

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Sneaking through explosives and weapons. And forget about baggage screening. From the story here : "In addition, the revi...
Wednesday, August 7, 2013

Mark Levin Only Just Discovers TSA VIPR Program Tonight

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Mark Levin's recent discovery of TSA VIPR operations reinforces his interpretation of the developing police state, but it's just old...