What does Israel have on Trump, one might ask?
— BRITT (@54BRITT54) May 27, 2026
Let’s have a look… shall we. pic.twitter.com/IAbkJ7wpQu
Was Trump lying the whole time?
— Luke Rudkowski (@Lukewearechange) July 24, 2026
or was he just a puppet the whole time? pic.twitter.com/ATCdJUhPIZ
Records show DHS tech incubator spending large sums on partnerships that would expand surveillance capabilities
Hacked data from the Department of Homeland Security’s technology incubator shows it funding a variety of companies that would expand its surveillance capabilities with artificial intelligence, the Guardian can reveal.
The projects at the Office of Industry Partnership (OIP) include automated surveillance in airports; adapters allowing agents to use phones for biometric scanning; and an AI platform that ingests all 911 call data nationally and builds “geospatial heat maps” to “predict incident trends”, which appears to be a form of predictive policing.
The data throws new light on the department’s surveillance ambitions in the wake of the agency’s unprecedented $165bn funding boost in last year’s tax and spending bill, and controversies over agents’ apparent gathering of visual and biometric data on protesters in Minneapolis.
The data was gathered by a pseudonymous “cyber-hacktivist”, and provided to reporters by transparency nonprofit Distributed Denial of Secrets.
Although some of the data was already publicly available, the leak also exposed more than 6,000 companies that bid with the agency – not all of whom were funded for their projects – offering a window on the full scope of the private sector’s appetite for homeland security work, and the technologies the DHS considered but did not pursue.
Those parts of the data that were already public match the data provided in the leak.
The Guardian emailed the department a detailed request for comment. The Guardian also emailed the hacktivist for comment using an email included with the materials.
Jeramie Scott, a senior counsel and director of the Surveillance Oversight Project at the Electronic Privacy Information Center, said: “It very much feels like sometimes these people are watching dystopian science fiction movies and thinking, ‘Oh, that looks good!’”
He added: “That’s not the lesson from dystopian science fiction. They’re taking the wrong lesson from it.”
The data
The OIP sits within DHS’s Science and Technology Directorate, managing programs including the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) initiative, which funnels federal money to small-to-medium enterprises to develop prototypes addressing specific technology needs.
The data as supplied to the Guardian consists of two structured databases: a registry of more than 6,800 companies that have bid with OIP, and a separate database of more than 1,400 funded contracts. Each contract record includes a proposal abstract written by the company, describing the technology it pitched to the DHS.
The SBIR program, mandated by Congress in 1982 and reauthorized in 2022, requires that proposals be evaluated in part on their “potential for commercial application”. The program was designed to ensure that publicly funded R&D produces self-sustaining businesses rather than one-off prototypes.
Contracts typically begin as phase I proof-of-concept awards of around $100,000-$175,000 before graduating to phase II prototype funding of $1m or more. The leaked data spans two decades of this pipeline, from 2004 to late 2025, covering more than 1,400 awarded contracts worth a combined $845m.
Biometrics
Contracts issued since Trump’s inauguration include several focused on enabling agents to harvest biometric data using cellphones.
On 7 May 2025, three contracts were issued for the development of these technologies, and all three promised to make them available beyond DHS.
Idea Mind LLC received $174,464 for a technology it calls Vibe, an adapter that connects fingerprint and iris scanners to phones via USB-C or Lightning, offering “plug-and-play compatibility with Android and iOS devices without requiring custom drivers”.
Intellisense Systems received $174,990 for its similar Flow device designed so that a phone and biometric scanner can be “handheld effectively as a single unit,” supporting “handheld fingerprint (4 slap) and iris peripherals, and face and contactless fingerprint capture using the phone’s camera”. Integrated Biometrics received $167,627 for Bios Link, and wrote that its technology would serve “DHS components, interagency stakeholders, non-federal entities, the intelligence community, and international mission partners”.
Intellisense was spun off from Physical Optics Corporation in 2018. Together the two companies have received 59 DHS research contracts worth more than $17m since 2004, according to the leaked data. Intellisense alone received three contracts on 7 May, including Flow and two other projects involving airport surveillance AI and video deepfake prevention. Like Intellisense, Integrated Biometrics, based in Spartanburg, South Carolina, is an established government contractor that manufactures FBI-certified fingerprint sensors and similar devices for law enforcement, military and government clients around the world.
Idea Mind LLC, based in a suburb of Columbus, Ohio, had no previous DHS contracting history.
ICE and CBP agents’ harvesting of biometric data and use of facial recognition technologies came into focus during DHS’s January “surge” into the city, after rightwing influencers highlighted longstanding allegations of childcare fraud in the city.
The Guardian contacted all three companies for comment.
Airport surveillance
Four further contracts awarded on 7 May, totaling $699,000, funded technologies for surveilling passengers approaching TSA airport security checkpoints.
All four use AI to analyze existing airport CCTV feeds and automatically catalog passengers’ physical characteristics. Intellisense’s Ossca system would “detect and track individuals; identify anthropometric characteristics, clothing articles, shoe types, and visible accessories” and which agencies can use to “automatically alert operators with flags and detailed reports for adjudication”.
The standalone behavior detection officer role was quietly eliminated in 2016-2017. An ACLU investigation found the program had been used for racial profiling at airports including Newark and Chicago.
DHS’s own earlier attempt at technology-assisted behavioral screening, the Fast program was quietly wound down in the wake of EPIC’s disclosures.
On Fast and its apparent successors, Scott, the EPIC counsel, said “not only is it highly unlikely to work, but there are issues in terms of the risk it creates, in its disproportionate impacts, in turning the state apparatus on people who haven’t done anything wrong, in the waste of money, and in the potential for those tools to be used to undermine democracy.”
Predictive Policing
Also on 7 May, three contracts totaling $524,000 were awarded for AI platforms that would ingest 911 call data, with one apparently promising to identify and predict crime patterns.
All three were awarded under the same DHS topic seeking tools to centralise and analyse data from the nation’s 5,000-plus 911 call centres.
The most far-reaching is Cimas, the Consolidated Incident Management Analytics System, built by a newly-registered firm, Cassius LLC.
Its proposal describes “a high-availability data lake integrated with AI-driven analytics” that would collect and anonymise 911 call and incident data from public safety answering points nationwide, generating “geospatial heat maps” and using AI models to “predict incident trends” and “deliver actionable insights to responders.”
Cassius LLC, based in Bangor, Maine has no previous DHS contracting history. Cassius’s website describes it as a utility IT consulting firm; it names no team members, and its “our team” page is non-functional.
The Brennan Center for Justice has described predictive policing as “tech-washing” that “gives racially biased policing methods the appearance of objectivity, simply because a computer or an algorithm seems to replace human judgment.” Leading police departments including Los Angeles and Chicago abandoned their predictive policing programs in 2019-20.
The Guardian emailed Cassius and Zachary Canders, listed as the firm’s partner in DHS documents and Maine company filings for further clarification of the proposed technology.
In an email response, Canders wrote to The Guardian: “Hey, that’s really great” adding: “Could you do me a favor? Let’s write a story about me taking your mom out to dinner. We have an amazing seafood buffet. Lots of laughs lots of hugs probably a few kisses, then I never call her back.”[SOURCE]
FBI agents who say that they were punished after exposing wrongdoing in the department during the administration of former President Joe Biden are asking new FBI Director Kash Patel to review their cases.
In early March the group, Empower Oversight sent letter to Samuel Ramer, who serves as the FBI general counsel, in which is asked for assistance related to the alleged improper treatment of the whistleblowers, which included FBI agents and employees Garret O’Boyle, Marcus Allen, Stephen Friend, Zach Schofftsall, Monica Shillingburg, and Michael Zummer, Just The News reported.
Another four clients mentioned in the letter had their names redacted, including one who wants to share information on his time working under the infamous Peter Strzok.
One of the whistleblowers, staff operations specialist Marcus Allen, had his security clearance suspended “for questioning whether Director (Christopher) Wray had testified truthfully to Congress and other allegations based on SOS Allen’s political beliefs and concerns about the COVID-19 vaccine.”
The agent, who was assigned to the FBI’s Charlotte Division, “was suspended indefinitely without pay.”
The group said that the FBI reached a settlement with Allen but that it did not completely fulfill its obligations under the agreement. It said that the FBI still needs to fix its client’s W2 tax forms and pay him the correct amount of leave he is owed.
“While I feel vindicated now in getting back my security clearance, it is sad that in the country I fought for as a Marine, the FBI was allowed to lie about my loyalty to the U.S. for two years,” the formerly suspended agent said. “Unless there is accountability, it will keep happening to others. Better oversight and changes to security clearance laws are key to stop abuses suffered by whistleblowers like me.”
Empower Oversight wants a “fresh review” of his and other whistleblower cases as well.
“The actions taken against our clients were in reprisal for protected whistleblowing and/or improper targeting because of their political beliefs,” organization founder and chairman Jason Foster said in the letter to the FBI.
“The common theme among most of our clients who had their security clearances suspended and or revoked is the FBI’s ability to indefinitely delay the process and financially pressure FBI employees by suspending their pay and blocking their ability to earn a living any other way. Most facing that dilemma simply resign with no prospect of a fair process to challenge it, which allows the pattern to repeat without remedy,” he said.
The attorneys representing the FBI agents said that “if the review by your office alone does not lead to direct managerial action to remedy the harms and resolve our clients’ pending matters, we would be willing to propose to our clients that they enter into mediation facilitated by a neutral mediator — assuming an acceptable senior official with no animus toward our clients is delegated settlement authority to represent the FBI in the mediation.”
The group said that “while we appreciate your review of these cases to explore ways to amicably resolve and remedy the harms the FBI has inflicted on our clients, we are also willing to engage in other good faith efforts to reach the same goals.”
“A lot of our work has to remain confidential because some clients do not wish to become public figures. Sometimes though, it takes public scrutiny to move the needle,” Foster said when he spoke to Just the News.
“These FBI clients have waited a very long time on a system that, as of today, is still failing to keep its promises to protect whistleblowers from retaliation. It’s past time to make good on those promises and give them real meaning in these cases,” Foster added. [SOURCE]
Former Pfizer Vice President Dr. Mike Yeadon drops a bombshell, claiming that the mRNA COVID "vaccines" were deliberately engineered to harm, disable, and kill, with the ultimate goal of reducing human fertility. pic.twitter.com/zUtQn6BaSI
— Shadow of Ezra (@ShadowofEzra) December 27, 2024
In 2017, Kamala Harris shrieked that Americans can't say "Merry Christmas" as long as illegal immigrants are being deported back to their home countries.
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Kamala has always openly been a shrill, America-last lunatic. pic.twitter.com/gAFoF18Mog
Kansas City Chiefs star Travis Kelce’s mother, Donna, is taking heat for sharing a Facebook post that claims you are a “homophobe” for criticizing the 2024 Olympics ceremony.
The mother of the Super Bowl winner re-posted a Facebook post by user Jeff Rose, who claimed that the opening ceremony was not a depiction of the famed Christian painting, “The Last Supper,” but was instead a depiction of “a Greek Dionysus Feast celebration.” The post goes on to falsely characterize the Greek god Dionysus as one of the gods to whom the Greeks dedicated the Olympics and also says Dionysus is “also known as Bacchus,” even though Bacchus was the Roman version of Dionysus, not the Greek version.
Despite garbling the history, the post accuses opponents of the opening ceremony of being historically illiterate. But it also accuses the critics of hating gays, writing, “However, because of your veiled homophobia, some of you can’t discern factual information,” Fox News reported.
The original poster has since turned off comments on the post.
Kelce seems to have shared the post without making any comments on the matter.
The ceremony, which kicked off with a filmed segment showing a bisexual threesome preparing to engage in sex and numerous gay dancers, went on to feature a transgender fashion show along a catwalk. On one side of the catwalk, though, millions of viewers were shocked when they saw what appeared to be a depiction of “The Last Supper” featuring gay and transgender models in place of Jesus and his disciples.
The Olympics later delivered an official apology of sorts over the opening ceremony and also deleted the video from its YouTube account.
According to some reports, the Paris games are being so ill-received that organizers are offering tourists bargain basement prices on tickets just to get someone in the seats during the events. [SOURCE]
Because we've adopted primary identities based on our sexual and political preferences rather than our identity in Christ. We wake up everyday trying to prove how heterosexual, homosexual, conservative, liberal, black, Dem, Repub we are. We prove our Christianity for 90 minutes… https://t.co/pAfi8fEKyf
— Jason Whitlock (@WhitlockJason) July 27, 2024
NEW: 13-year-old basketball player stomps on an opponent's head during a Bay Area game
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The game happened on Sunday at the College of Alameda against Payton's Place, another Bay Area team
“He was down on the floor and this kid just came and just stomped on him and on his head”… pic.twitter.com/FvDupfSiOx
A White House spokesman said Monday that Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-N.Y.) is a "distraction" from important issues, but he stopped short of calling for Weiner's resignation.
White House press secretary Jay Carney, who refused to comment on the scandal last week, said Monday that "the president feels, we feel at the White House this is a distraction."
"As Congressman Weiner has said himself, his behavior was inappropriate, dishonesty was inappropriate," Carney said, briefing reporters aboard Air Force One. "But the president is focused on his job, which is getting this economy continuing to grow, creating jobs and ensuring the safety and security of the American people."
Several senior Democrats including Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), Democratic National Committee Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.), and Democratic Campaign Congressional Chairman Steve Israel (D-N.Y.), called on Weiner to resign over the weekend.
When pressed on whether Obama would like to see Weiner resign, Carney demurred.
"I answered that question," Carney said. "We think it's a distraction from the important business that this president needs to conduct and Congress need to conduct. Beyond that I don't have any more comment."
Weiner entered a rehab facility over the weekend and has requested a leave of absence from the House while he seeks treatment.
