Takeover of Our Digital Lives — Privacy, Surveillance, State & Individual Sovereignty. The digital cage is being closed ON US. How to avoid the cage and push back (posted 11/25/25)

The articles and videos covered in this note should concern everyone. Please take action at local, state, and federal levels to push back against government overreach. Also, take the following individual actions — whether you are rich, poor, young, old, blue collar, white collar, student, or retired:

• Contact your representatives and tell them you don’t like what’s going on!

• Use cash whenever possible and insist that local businesses and government accept it for payment.

• Ditch smart phones, which are surveillance devices. Use dumb flip phones instead.

Substack doesn’t allow super long posts, so please let our short Grok summaries (edited) and related images and links guide you to do read/listen, research and take action.

Articles & Videos (summarized below, URLs shortened to conserve character count):

1. Lucas Cayler: A.I. — The Feds are trying to remove state control, again. Representative Lucas Cayler (11/04/25): tinyurl.com/4fwm83ze

2. Financial Rebellion: Rejecting the Cage — Citizens Object To Financing More Local Control. Hosts: Catherine Austin Fitts and Carolyn Betts, Esq. Guest: Reinette Seinum (11/20/25, video 01:08:21 includes transcript): tinyurl.com/3eabten2

3. American Thought Leaders: How Your Private Data Is Packaged, Sold, and Deployed to Target You. Host: Jan Jekielek. Guest: Joe Weil (podcast + video 01:00:53 includes transcript)

   Podcast: tinyurl.com/ybdh8k78

   Video (may require Epoch Times subscription): tinyurl.com/mpsuebtc

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1️⃣ Lucas Cayler: A.I. - The Feds are trying to remove state control, again.

Summary paragraph

Representative Lucas Cayler discusses federal efforts to preempt state AI regulations. The "Big Beautiful Bill" proposed a 10-year moratorium on state AI laws, potentially nullifying existing ones and preventing new regulations, allowing companies like META and Open AI to operate without state oversight. Provision rejected 99-1 by bipartisan vote.

House Majority Leader Steve Scalise now seeks to add similar preemption to the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), without details on scope or duration.

Cayler joined 280 state lawmakers in a petition by Americans for Responsible Innovation urging Congress to reject the NDAA provision, emphasizing states' need to regulate AI despite its potential benefits.

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2️⃣ Financial Rebellion: Rejecting the Cage: Citizens Object To Financing More Local Control

Get off the couch and start pushing back! — Catherine Austin Fitts

ED NOTE 
Idaho Legislature passed H0180 "Broadband infrastructure (tinyurl.com/38kdvmju) in 2025. This bill "streamlines and expedites the permitting process for broadband infrastructure deployment by establishing timelines and approval mechanisms for telecommunications and broadband facility applications." It grants ***automatic approval*** for sites that do not require a special use permit or variance. It also added highway districts. We opposed this bill, but it passed anyway. See Substack Note: tinyurl.com/hvhpbj4v

Transcript summary (detailed, but much shortened due to space limits):

Carolyn Betts and Catherine Austin Fitts discuss local pushback against surveillance and telecommunications infrastructure with guest Reinette Senum. Senum urges opposition to federal bills and FCC rules overriding local control on cell towers and EMF emissions. Additional news topics include vaccines, autism and protecting cash.

Telecommunications Discussion

• Senum’s Foghorn Express Substack and videos cover telecom issues.

• Clip: Broadband lines create digital prison backbone, installed during COVID lockdowns at night.

• FCC and House telecom committees pushing to override local control.

• Clip from Scott McCullough: H.R. 3557 is deceptive, insidious, evil; strips state/local powers, allows cell towers on front lawns without payment or stops.

🔥 See FCC Moves to Silence Communities and Flood the Country with Cell Towers (includes action item): tinyurl.com/kw3stxky

Term of the Day: Telecommunications Act of 1996

• First update since 1934.

• Allows small carriers to connect to larger ones like Verizon, AT&T.

• Broad act; not updated since 1996.

• Subcommittee on Communications and Technology marked up 28 bills to update. [ED: We urged citizen opposition to no avail. Bills have moved ahead.]

• Some bills by Democrats want to cut back larger bill's effects.

• Section 704: Preserves state/local authority over wireless facilities, but with limits. Learn more: 704nomore.org

• Must act on requests within reasonable time; written response required.

• Cannot regulate based on environmental effects of RF emissions if compliant with FCC regulations.

• FCC standards low, not updated per medical findings on EMF/ radioactivity.

• Localities cannot reject based on health effects; e.g., cell towers on school property.

• Courts interpret: localities can consider aesthetics, property values, but not health if FCC-compliant.

• FCC can deem approvals if no timely action.

• FCC sets shot clocks: 90 days for collocations, 150 for new towers.

• Localities can negotiate extensions.

• Pending bills: H.R. 3557 overrides local control; others like H.R. 1123, 4510, 6492 expand telecom access, limit local fees/regulations.

Reinette Senum Background

• Former mayor, city council member in Nevada City, CA.

• Involved in local politics 15 years; pushed back against telecom installations.

• Founded "The Hill to Die On" on Substack and Telegram.

• Part of Children’s Health Defense (CHD) Nevada County chapter.

• Educates on RF meters, telecom ordinances.

Detailed Discussion

• At night during pandemic utility trucks installed telecom infrastructure.

• Installations done secretly while people slept.

• H.R. 3557: Preempts local/state control; deems approvals if no action in time.

• Allows telecoms to install anywhere, including rights-of-way, without local input.

• No fees to localities; overrides zoning, aesthetics, health concerns.

• Companion Senate bill: S.2018.

• Other bills: Facilitate broadband on federal lands, limit environmental reviews.

• Opposition: Contact representatives; see model letters on Foghorn Express Substack.

• CHD provides action items, letters.

• 2021 court case: FCC must update 1996 guidelines; ignored, no deadline.

• US guidelines allow “hotter” emissions than EU.

• Push for citizen-led RF testing, paid by telecoms, unannounced to avoid tampering.

• Meetings in forests, phones in Faraday bags to avoid surveillance.

Audience Questions

• Fiber optics: Paid for by ratepayers; supposed to go to homes but stops short, switches to wireless for control/surveillance.

• EMF reader recommendation: Acoustic meter; others with millimeter wave now affordable; links on Senum’s Substack/Telegram.

• Phone cables in rural areas: Old cables; telecoms want to replace with fiber optics pole-to-pole or underground.

• Blue flashing lights on poles in Memphis: Possibly 5G in lights; need citizen testing.

• If bills pass: State/local officials lose all power; coup.

• Educate officials on loss of rights-of-way, fees, costs, fire/emergency risks.

🔥 Action Items, Closing & Links

• Foghorn Express Substack: tinyurl.com/348ac78j

• Hill to Die On Substack: tinyurl.com/yeyazrwj

• The Hill to Die On Telegram: t.me/+zWf_HbW9g55lMGEx.

• ACTION: Spend time weekly to pushback.

• Use cash.

Resources (linked in show notes)

• RED ALERT! This Is the Hill to Die On (Volume 1)

• Help Stop “The most evil piece of legislation I’ve ever seen”

• H. R. 1541

• H.R.3557 - American Broadband Deployment Act of 2023

• 2023-08-16 Federal Bills Town Hall

• Take Action - FCC Moves to Silence Communities and Flood the Country with Cell Towers

• FCC Notice of Proposed Rulemaking

• ENGLAND: Councils face 'total collapse' due to cost of SPECIAL EDUCATION

• Ireland to Mandate Cash Acceptance—Before the “Cashless Creep” Takes Hold

• How Consciousness Became Programmable Cognitive Liberty Series

• Pushback against Local—and Locally Funded—Surveillance

• Take Inspiration from Cash Success Stories

• House Committee on Energy and Commerce

• 11 Best EMF Meters and Detectors [2024 Update]

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3️⃣ American Thought Leaders: How Your Private Data Is Packaged, Sold, and Deployed to Target You.

ED NOTE
We have not used Unplugged smart phones (or any smart phones) and are not plugging this or any other product.

Transcript Summary paragraph:

Joe Weil, co-founder of Unplugged (unplugged.com), discusses vulnerabilities of smartphone data, explaining how advertising databases reveal users' locations, associations, and patterns of life without warrants. This data is accessible to governments, spies, or adversaries like the CCP.

In advertising and at Apple, Weil witnessed increasing politicization, censorship, and data leaks, prompting him to create Unplugged—a privacy-centric smartphone platform that:

• Blocks third-party tracking.

• Features a hardware kill switch.

• Has encrypted storage without company access

• Runs Android apps without Google services.

Alternatives to the Apple and Google duopoly can help protect civil liberties, national security, reduce wealth transfer to China, and encourage less screen time for better family focus.

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Related:

• Boise Mega Projects Coming. Can you spell S E A T T L E? + Exposing The Dark Side of America’s AI Data Center Explosion: tinyurl.com/yxxws53n

• Big E's Action Items & Information: tinyurl.com/89cdmehv

• ACTION ITEMS: Reignite Freedom - Global Walkout: tinyurl.com/23ndmcny

• Financial Rebellion with Catherine Austin Fitts on chd.tv (link below):