3: The Panopticon
Monitoring, Surveillance, and DOGE's Real Purpose in "Eliminating Information Silos"
The sound of rain falling outside the window at midnight. Silence, other than moving water and a distant car gliding toward some unknown destination.
Life feels so fragile right now, everything's so tenuous. I am simply waiting for something official on one of my destination countries.
Even if there's no real movement. Just the hope of a final destination far from DHS and Elon Musk's project toward controlling the Republican Party, and with that, the whole enchilada.
The ugliest part of this process is knowing that everything is on the line: my safety, my worth, my ability to survive.
I can’t explain how I know what’s coming without sounding hyperbolic in the least, frothing at the mouth mad at the worst.
But I know.
I know what happens when data is gathered, when it's linked and—
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Cross-referenced, and when that data falls into the hands of people who see certain populations as expendable...
Once the right system has been built, it can use your employment records from the IRS, your health history from Medicaid or the VA, insurance claims from FEMA, housing status from HUD, financial records from the SBA and FAFSAs from loan applications via the DoE—even your past online activity—against you.
It only takes a few odd points to freeze your access to resources, flag your identity, or revoke your right to move freely.
They’ll claim it’s about “waste, fraud, and abuse”
(notice how they always use that phrase. It’s a psychological trick to drill it into every discussion via repetitive talking points.)
But it’s about targeting the people that they already view as a threat.
I see what’s being planned.
I’ve been in a few data extract-transform-load programs before.
I know how these things are built.
I know what happens when they are abused.
We have seen this pattern before:
data weaponized against marginalized people, used to deny them access to care, housing, mobility, or freedom.
It doesn’t start with mass violence.
It starts with a form.
A primary key in a database.
Then comes the shrink.
The locked doors.
And then one day, you wake up,
your bank accounts have been frozen because of “suspected links to terrorism.”
Your email accounts can’t be accessed because the provider has been subpoenaed.
Your phone takes a suspiciously long time to make calls, and it sounds delayed, jittery.
Your passport’s been flagged.
Your ID badge doesn’t work at the office and no one will explain why you were laid off.
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The institutions are beginning to collapse in slow motion as DOGE rips their heart out, sucks up more data, then moves on to the next target.
Those of us who are watching are already grieving.
Not just for ourselves, but for everyone who won’t see it in time.
For everyone who thinks there’s going to be a fair and free election in 2026 or 2028.
I wanted to help.
I wanted to build something.
I wanted to be a part of something that would make future generations proud.
But I am lost the energy to keep asking politely while the floor falls out from under me.
So if I disappear, if I vanish quietly on a plane or into some system where no one ever hears from me again,
know this:
I tried. I told everyone.