The Marked: How the Social Security System Rewrote American Identity

Part 1 We Gave Up Our Names for Numbers: The Quiet Birth of the System That Owns You Looking back from the age of digital surveillance and algorithmic oversight, perhaps the greatest act of control wasn’t when the government began reading our emails—but when it gave each of us a number and took away our …

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Cowardly British press; England’s newspapers tear into Trump but bow to UK’s new police state JUN 19

Instead of speaking out against their own government and holding their public officials accountable, the rags rag on Trump because he won’t throw them in jail. The worst he will do is not let you ride on Air Force One—and the pampered people at the Associated Press sued to try to get aboard. Oh the cruelty.