The Department of Agriculture is demanding states hand over personal data of food assistance recipients — including Social Security numbers, addresses and, in at least one state, citizenship status, according to emails shared with NPR by an official who was not allowed to speak publicly.

  • Nougat
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    1268 days ago

    … according to emails shared with NPR by an official who was not allowed to speak publicly.

    This is not the first time in recent days that NPR has reported on information from anonymous sources who are not authorized to speak publicly.

    Kudos to NPR, and kudos to those sources.

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    Hmm, they’ve made lists of autistic people, trans people and poor people. These fascists sure do love lists - can’t imagine why.

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      Not that I’m in favor of disarming citizens, but if you bring up gun control around these people, one of their first arguments against it is that a database of people who own guns is bad because it will be used for nefarious purposes. The unspoken part is “because that’s what we would do.”

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          Doubtful that any lists they have are particularly accurate. There’s a lot of loopholes and decentralization/fragmentation on where that information is.

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            Several states require firearm registration, as does the fed for certain types of firearms.

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              That’s an interesting way of spelling, “no.”

              Most states do not require firearms registration. There’s a handful that explicitly prohibit it. As far as states that have a general firearms registration is concerned, it’s limited to Hawaii and DC, so sure… you’ll get some people on a list there.

              CA, CT, NY - there’s only a registry for certain types, not all.

              There’s also no federal firearms registry whatsoever.

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              What about all those guns I bought privately with cash and then buried? Good fucking luck gubbermint.

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    Oh hey! I narrowly avoided this one. No SNAP here (yet)! Only SSDI, Medicaid/Medicare, and HUD housing 🤨

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    Personal data that won’t be shared with anyone, but coincidentally there will be a spike in ICE investigations on people of color in those areas.

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      Half these states have a list of registered voters with their names, voter affiliation, and address AND IT’S PUBLIC RIGHT HERE ON THE INTERNET LOL you people don’t realize how fucked we are yet.

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    167 days ago

    You don’t have to concentration camp people if they’re dependent on the government to eat. You just have to cut off the money. They’ll starve all on their own.