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Doomsday prepping on Juneteenth

A quick word to all followers, subscribers, and patrons!

I don’t normally post selfies, but in this age of AI and deep fakery, sometimes it’s good to let readers and listeners know they are dealing with an actual human being.

I am currently in the process of future-proofing the Before We Were White website and podcast, and preparing to enter the fray of online video production.

What do I mean by “future-proofing”?

At the risk of sounding like some sort of Doomsday Prepper, I am deeply concerned about this autumn’s elections in the USA.

I am even more concerned by the almost total capture of legacy media and social media by a small coterie of billionaires - a gang represented by an unholy Venn Diagram of arms manufacturers, neo-liberal warmongers, the Israel Lobby, Silicon Valley technocrats, social media oligarchs, “white” Christian nationalist theocrats, and a sub-fascist surveillance state which would have shocked the STASI, KGB, and CIA only a few decades ago.

What will good Americans do when NSPM-7 (National Security Presidential Memorandum - 7 of 25 Sep 2025) goes into full force?

What will good Americans do when the internet is locked down under the guise of “protecting national security”, as ICE thugs are deployed to collect “suspect” ballot boxes?

They’ve already defenestrated TikTok - claiming its Chinese ownership posed a danger to Americans, before handing it over to the hyper-Zionist multi-billionaire Ellison family.

This is the very same Trump-enabling Ellison gang which has turned CBS and its hitherto venerated flagship program “60 Minutes” into a propaganda mouthpiece for the technocracy (and Israel) - the very same Ellison gang which is now taking over CNN.

Don’t even get me started with Peter Thiel and Palantir, Flock cameras, Alphabet, Meta, Amazon, and others.

Tell the truth.

Leaving aside legacy media, what will you do when Alphabet (Google/YouTube), Meta (Facebook/Instagram), Amazon, TikTok, and “X” use their own onboard AI to not only throttle and isolate dissenting voices, but also begin to block us altogether, or even pass our profile information to the authorities implementing NSPM-7?

And let us not fool ourselves. Even Substack, a relatively pleasant corner of the online world, has some “interesting” investors.

The future envisioned in the TV series “Black Mirror” is now upon us.

So your humble writer is in the process of future-proofing, by “moving house” online, and hoping that storing everything on hosts and servers outside the USA might offer a tiny modicum of protection against what I hope will never transpire.

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On a happier note, on this Juneteenth I am delighted to see that at least one federal judge (Angel Kelley), has pushed back against this regime’s attempts to whitewash or erase any American history which doesn’t follow “the myth”.

Trump signed an executive order last year ludicrously entitled “Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History”, an order which led to Interior Secretary Doug Burgum directing the removal of “improper partisan ideology” from museums, monuments, and landmarks under federal control.

In other words, any mention of American history from a Black or Indigenous viewpoint is now officially deemed as “divisive” by the idiots in charge.

Under Trump, a multi-panel exhibition near the location of George Washington’s house in Philadelphia (relating the story of the people enslaved by Washington), had been removed as part of an “anti-woke” agenda pursued by the current regime.

Judge Kelley recently ordered the panels reinstated, and an excerpt from her written ruling is worth sharing today, on Juneteenth:

The efforts of the Trump regime intend “...to rewrite the Nation’s history with a white-out pen.”

“Under the guise of promoting American dignity, this Administration seeks to share a limited history by ordering the removal of all signs, displays, and interpretive exhibits at National Parks that do not align with its preferred narrative, thereby telling half-truths.”

“History cannot be faithfully told while excluding the experiences of communities whose contributions, struggles, and achievements form an important part of our Nation’s story.”

Angel Kelley, you are aptly named.

Thank you, every one of you, who have supported the Before We Were White project thus far, and I hope to be sharing many, many more stories of interest in the days and years to come.

Brian