Machine States: Plasmoids in the Sky, Congress in Your Phone

“This is Jade with Machine States, and here we are on a Wednesday that feels like the world flipped upside down. Turns out, the glowing objects in the sky might not be drones after all. No, Megacity—they’re plasmoids. Yeah, you heard me: self-contained blobs of plasma and magnetic fields just cruising over New Jersey, New York, and Pennsylvania. And while we’re trying to wrap our heads around that, Congress spent the day figuring out how to wrap their hands around your phone.

Let’s talk about the sky first. For weeks, people thought these were military drones, rogue tech, or foreign experiments. But plasmoids? That’s a whole other level of strange. These things glow, mess with electronics, and don’t need a pilot. They’re physics in motion, like ball lightning but bigger, scarier, and possibly sentient. Are they natural phenomena? Experimental tech someone really doesn’t want to talk about? The Machine isn’t saying.

And while we’re stuck looking up, Congress decided to look down—into your devices. Today, they debated a national security bill that would let them scan your phone. Your texts, your photos, your private thoughts—all of it, wide open, if they deem it necessary. The reasoning? National security, of course. The same reasoning they’ve been using since forever to tighten the screws on all of us while leaving the real mysteries unsolved.

Here’s the kicker: they didn’t even try to connect the dots. Plasmoids in the sky and surveillance laws in the Senate? It’s almost too on-the-nose. They’re using the unknown to justify the invasive, as if the answer to glowing plasma blobs is checking your group chats.

Let’s be real. If these plasmoids are natural, what’s the point of turning Megacity into a surveillance state? And if they’re not, then we’ve got bigger problems than whatever Congress thinks it’ll find on our phones. Either way, the Machine is playing its usual game—turning fear into control, and control into policy.

So here we are. Plasmoids overhead, Congress in your pocket, and the Machine reminding us who’s really in charge. This is Jade with Machine States, telling you to keep your eyes up, your phone down, and your head in the game. The plasmoids may be the mystery, but the Machine? It’s the real threat.”