as i have said before, my expertise is “reading” the cultural production of peoples living in dictatorships or theocratic monarchic rule.
i do watch legacy tv for sports and one of the things that i noticed immediately in 2025, was how the Trump regime has NOT changed anything about #RealID. on the contrary, Noem has been pushing hard for it. and by that, i mean by cynically using a Black woman to normalize the surveillance that comes with it:
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as i have said before, my expertise is “reading” the cultural production of peoples living in dictatorships or theocratic monarchic rule.
i do watch legacy tv for sports and one of the things that i noticed immediately in 2025, was how the Trump regime has NOT changed anything about #RealID. on the contrary, Noem has been pushing hard for it. and by that, i mean by cynically using a Black woman to normalize the surveillance that comes with it:
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here’s an article from the African American Intellectual History Society on #RealID as a vector for racist surveillance:
❝ The Racist Origins of the Real ID Act https://www.aaihs.org/the-racist-origins-of-the-real-id-act/
remember: since slaves were not considered people, plantation owners made it a point to make privacy a luxury; not a right.
for abusers & human traffickers, privacy is only for the authority, the oligarchs, the capitalists, not the e̶n̶s̶l̶a̶v̶e̶d̶ workers.
we need to know how #RealID is used for #ICE #terrorism.
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