Overheard

I've got a brand new Benjamin that says there's a dumbass ICE agent out there who's going to fry his own ball sack with one of those gloves.

Not A Suggestion

Y'all don't be thinkin' about no Flock Cameras now, y'hear?

Flock Fuckup

I generally don't mind cameras that can help increase a law-n-order kinda thing, but as with most things, some jagoff is going to exploit it for nefarious purposes, and it's going to end badly.

It's not enough that cops are fucking around with it, using Flock as a dating tool, and &/or simply to harass random women - somebody's going to get killed because of this shit.

An Innocent Driver Was Held at Gunpoint Over a Flock Camera Mix-Up: “Wrong Person But Also Wrong Car”

For most drivers, an automated license plate reader (ALPR) is just a piece of metal sitting quietly on the side of the highway. But when the technology powering those cameras makes a catastrophic mistake, the consequences for everyday citizens can be absolutely terrifying.

A high-risk traffic stop in Wisconsin is currently putting Flock Safety cameras under intense scrutiny. A digital mix-up in the system recently resulted in an innocent driver and their passenger being pulled over by multiple police cruisers and held at gunpoint on Interstate 94.

The incident occurred in Waukesha County, Wisconsin, when Brookfield Police Department officers received a severe alert from their Flock camera network. The ALPR system flagged a passing vehicle, indicating it was directly connected to an active homicide investigation out of Milwaukee.

Acting on the severity of the digital alert, officers initiated a high-risk felony traffic stop. In footage obtained by FOX6 News Milwaukee, the terrifying reality of the situation is clear. The broadcast highlighted the dashcam video, noting there were "multiple squads on I-94… officers with guns drawn and a passenger sticking their hands out the window".

The occupants of the vehicle were undoubtedly fearing for their lives, staring down the barrels of police firearms. But as officers moved in to investigate, they quickly realized something was terribly wrong.

According to the FOX6 report, the Flock alert was a complete failure. It was the "wrong person but also wrong car".

When officers on the scene contacted the Milwaukee Police Department to verify the homicide flag, the situation de-escalated just as quickly as it had begun. "Milwaukee said they no longer needed the car or the people inside, so officers let them go," the reporter confirmed.

The Danger of Flock's Ghost Hits and Lagging Hotlists

While the Brookfield Police Department was acting on the information provided to them, the terrifying incident exposes a massive, systemic flaw in ALPR technology.

Flock cameras and other ALPR systems don't operate in a vacuum. They rely on Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software to read a license plate, which is then bounced against regional "hotlists" or the FBI's National Crime Information Center (NCIC) database.

However, these systems are notoriously prone to two major errors. First, the OCR software frequently misreads letters and numbers—confusing a 'G' for a 'C', or an 'O' for a 'Q'. Second, police departments often fail to update their hotlists. If a stolen car is recovered or a suspect is cleared, but the department forgets to manually remove the license plate from the database, the vehicle remains "hot" in the system.

This exact phenomenon has led to several high-profile lawsuits across the country. In 2020, Aurora, Colorado police notoriously held a Black family (including small children) face-down at gunpoint after an ALPR misidentified their SUV as a stolen motorcycle from another state. When officers trust the camera's algorithm over their own eyes, innocent citizens are placed in immediate, life-threatening danger.

The Growing Political Backlash

The I-94 incident is adding fuel to a growing anti-surveillance movement pushing back against Flock cameras. Lawmakers and citizens are increasingly uncomfortable with the lack of regulation surrounding the data collection and the very real dangers of system glitches.

During the FOX6 broadcast, the Dane County chair explained why his region recently decided to terminate its relationship with the surveillance company. Noting that the technology was "violating people's trust," the chairman stated, "we pulled the funding from the sheriff's office… to not continue that contract".

For their part, Flock issued a standard PR statement regarding the controversial I-94 stop. "We understand that people have legitimate questions about any technology used by law enforcement and we welcome that conversation," the company stated to FOX6.

While a conversation is a start, it likely offers little comfort to the innocent Wisconsin residents who found themselves looking down the barrel of a gun because a camera made a mistake.

The Chill Factor

Trump's silly Reflecting Pool story masks something serious

Donald Trump's renovations for the Reflecting Pool haven't worked out.

Trump could blame himself — he's the one who ordered it. Instead, he offered stories about vandals.

We're used to Trump falsehoods. When they are turned into federal charges — like this one did — it should freak us out.

On July 2, federal prosecutors charged David Hearn, a 67-year-old former Olympian, with vandalizing the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool in Washington, DC.

Hearn had made a "a violent effort" to damage the pool, US Attorney Jeanine Pirro said.

A month later, Pirro's office told the court she wanted to drop the case.

It turns out, Pirro said in a court filing late Friday, that the pool's well-documented problems probably weren't a result of vandalism. Instead, they were likely because of "hasty and botched work" performed by a contractor.

A standard news management rule of thumb is that you put out embarrassing news right before the weekend, when it's least likely to get noticed. And most of the coverage of the Hearn case has indeed focused on the embarrassment it is generating for the Trump White House. Primarily because up until now, Pirro has been a loyal Trump supporter.

But if we treat this story like a standard-issue optics narrative for the Trump White House, we're doing it wrong. Because this is something much more important: It's the Trump White House using federal prosecutors as a tool to punish perceived enemies.

In a normal administration, this would be a giant story. The fact that we're treating this like business-as-usual should be a giant story, too.

The story of the Reflecting Pool, and Trump's obsession with it, has been well told. The shortest version is that last spring, the Trump administration ordered a poorly conceived renovation using contractors without experience doing that kind of work. So instead of a clear pool with an "American flag blue" bottom, the pool became an algae-infested bog.

But Trump wouldn't acknowledge that his plan hadn't worked. Instead, he insisted that rogues had attacked the pool with a box-cutter and somehow gouged a "300-foot slit" in the pool's lining.

That made the pool a "Trump says thing that's obviously not true" story — the kind that initially seemed unique back in 2017, when he insisted that his lightly attended inauguration was actually the world's biggest. Now that kind of tall and easily disprovable tale just elicits shrugs.

Last month, Pirro turned Trump's fibs into something much more serious by using them as the basis for a felony charge (her office later charged three other Americans with misdemeanors for similar theoretical offenses).

In Pirro's motion to dismiss the charge against Hearn, she argues that she was misled by Trump's Department of the Interior, which oversees the pool. The DOI initially provided "less than fulsome information" about the case, Pirro said. So her office didn't really understand what had happened until late July — weeks after a grand jury had indicted Hearn.

That's silly. Throughout the spring, story after story from mainstream news outlets reported that Trump's attempt to transform the pool was misguided, poorly executed, and had made things worse. Just as important: Trump's claims about vandalism weren't remotely plausible.

So, again: It's one thing not to correct Donald Trump when he says things that aren't true (Trump continues to insist that VANDALS are the cause of the pool's problems, as he argued on Truth Social this weekend; when I asked his press office for comment Monday, they referred me back to his post. He told reporters Monday that Pirro "made a mistake.")

It's another thing to tell stories about the president that don't seem to be true. But turning a Trump falsehood into a federal criminal charge is something very different.

It's also not the first time we've seen federal prosecutors turn themselves into Trump-branded prosecutors. The New York Times, for example, has documented hundreds of flimsy charges the administration has filed against immigrants and protesters during its ICE crackdowns in the last year. Almost half of those have fizzled, the Times reports: "Juries acquitted defendants, judges threw out charges, or prosecutors withdrew them."

The Times itself has been the subject of a Trump legal campaign — last month Trump's Department of Justice filed subpoenas against Times reporters who'd written about security issues with Trump's new Air Force One, then dropped them after getting scolded by a federal judge.

In the Hearn case, it's tempting to brush this aside: After all, Pirro dropped the charges. The system worked, right?

But Hearn, whose case attracted support from prominent allies, should never have had to face a felony charge — and to take on the legal, reputational, and financial obligations fighting that charge entails — in the first place.

So the fact that the federal government has seemingly conceded that it brought a bogus case shouldn't give anyone comfort. It should make you wonder how many dubious charges Donald Trump's prosecutors have filed so far — and how many more we'll see while he's in office.

Daddy State

We told you. We fuckin' told you.

Nicolle Brings It

• In 2016, Obama ran a clean and fair election, and Trump won
• In 2024, Biden ran a clean and fair election, and Trump won
• But in 2020, Trump fucked it up so bad, Trump lost
• Now it's like we should not think he's going to fuck it all up again

There's no rhyme or reason to anything - just like The Daddy State needs it.

Remember this:

Daddy State Awareness

• The Daddy State lies as a means of demonstrating power.
• The lies have practically nothing to do with the subject of the lies.
• Lying about everything creates chaos, which helps condition us to stop thinking, and look to them for "guidance".
• Once we're totally dependent on them, we'll accept the premise that they can do anything they want.

The goal is to destroy our ability

to experience reality directly,

so they can dictate reality to us

Worth A Repeat

Two roid rangers showed up at this guy's place to chill free speech.

They weren't there because they needed to check out some he posted on social media. They were there to intimidate - to send us all a message that armed, unidentified assholes are being sent to our homes to fuck with us.

By the way, I've been visited by FBI agents. They never come to your house dressed like fuckin' cowboys with shootin' irons strapped to the hips.

They show up in cheap suits and comfortable shoes. They lead with their ID, and make damned sure nobody gets nervous about anything they're doing.

This is Blue Ribbon Grade A fascist bullshit.

Wow this guy owns the FBI who turn up at his house because of a Social Media Post

Look at the shame on their faces.

This dude wins the internet today hands down. pic.twitter.com/stqmm7Jqjq

— The White Rabbit (@TheWyteRabbit1) July 15, 2026

Update On Our Concentration Camps

These assholes actually tried to turn the American Auschwitz into a tourist attraction.

You are nine kinds of fucked up, America.

Alligator Alcatraz is no more. Tents, cars, signs disappear from airport site 

The bright blue sign reading ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ outside the silver chain-link gate at Dade-Collier Training and Transition Airport has been removed. The airstrip, formerly used to hold immigrants in industrial tents, is now cleared with only a few structures and cars remaining. And after Gov. Ron DeSantis invested over a billion dollars to transform the Everglades runway into an immigration detention center, it now looks as if that never occurred.

Aerial photos shared with the Miami Herald show that the airstrip, seized from Miami-Dade by the DeSantis administration through an emergency order, is mostly vacated. The now-closed first-of-its-kind state-run immigration detention center had been established to support the Trump administration’s mass deportation campaign.

As of Sunday, people who have monitored the facility’s entrance since last summer told the Herald that the black-and-gold Florida Highway Patrol vehicles, which had been parked at the one-way entrance with their blue sirens flashing, had left. Only one unidentified vehicle remained, sometimes assisting with opening and closing the gate as cars entered; someone from the vehicle had keys to unlock the fence.

Overhead photos of the airstrip, shared with the Herald, also show that all the tents had been removed, leaving the airstrip bare.

“Not much left but a couple of trucks and a few contractors standing around,” pilot Ra Schooley, who took the aerial photos Sunday morning, remarked to the Herald.

The Florida Department of Emergency Management did not respond to the Herald’s request for comment.

Miami-Dade mayor’s office told the Herald on Monday that the state had not returned control of the property to the county.

n June, DeSantis announced that the detention center, a brainchild of his attorney general, James Uthmeier, was shutting down and had served its purpose. DeSantis credited the site with detaining almost 21,000 immigrants and touted it as a model for how states could partner with the federal government on immigration enforcement.

DeSantis said that the airstrip facilitated the deportation of immigrants, whom he described as ‘dangerous people.’ During the announcement of the facility’s closure, with Trump’s border czar, Tom Homan, standing under a white tent on the airport’s runway, DeSantis said that the detention center was never meant to be permanent.

“I said from the beginning that this was an emergency solution that would be temporary,” he told reporters in the June press conference.

Environmental conservationists, immigration lawyers and advocates, who welcomed the closure of the detention center — where immigrants reported poor living conditions and faced pepper spray and beatings — also raised concerns that the facility may have harmed the nearby Everglades wetlands ecosystem. 

The environmental groups were the first to file a lawsuit against the state and federal governments when the detention facility was hastily erected within days last summer. The groups have maintained that in the rush to support Trump’s crackdown on illegal immigration by building the facility, the government failed to comply with federal environmental regulations that require an impact assessment before such projects are undertaken.

The case involved a Florida federal judge temporarily shutting the site in August, but the order could not take full effect; an appeals court paused it and later found that the judge might have overstepped their authority by ordering the site to close. The case is still working its way through the courts.

The groups also accused the DeSantis administration of pollution, citing that the detention center’s diesel-powered generators and bright lights had exceeded federal standards and required a special permit that they say the state never obtained.

As the facility’s closure became imminent, Miami-Dade’s mayor, Danielle Levine Cava, announced in June that the federal parks system would assume control of the airstrip and the 17,000 acres surrounding the Big Cypress Preserve. Previously, Levine had rejected purchase proposals from DeSantis, who later took ownership of the land through state powers.

Environmental groups followed the mayor’s recommendation by calling for the airstrip to become an environmental preserve. A letter from the Friends of the Everglades, the environmental group whose founder fought in the 1960s for the airport to be shuttered, laid out a five-point plan that called for the airport runway to be removed completely and for the land to be returned to “a purpose that reflects their environmental significance.”

Other environmentalists, like Betty Osceola, have called for the land to be returned to the Miccosukee Tribe, whose lands surround the airport.

“This has been doing training missions and training flights, and will continue to do that,” DeSantis said when asked about the future of the airstrip in June.

A notice from the Federal Aviation Administration currently says the airstrip is closed to planes until September.

DeSantis, who has pushed for the Everglades restoration project, still found that the more than a billion dollars spent operating the detention center for less than a year was worth it.

Erika Jordan

The Daddy State

And Away We Go

We all saw it coming. We knew he'd pull some really bad shit eventually.

But 120 million of us chose to ignore it, and either stayed home, or secretly wanted it, and turned out to vote for it.

We are a nation of shitty stupid people.

Daddy State Awareness Guide, Rule 3

Every prediction of some dire consequence is a veiled threat.

Whatever terrible thing they're "warning" us about is something they intend to make happen (often in an attempt to coerce us into doing something they want), or to signal and motivate their mob.

Chip Franklin

It's one thing to be a sex predator and a pedophile. In a very important way, it's worse to know about the shitty things these fuckin' assholes are doing, and then ignore it in order to profit from it.

We're in the process of watching Rule 6 of the Daddy State Awareness Guide play itself out.

Total Criminalization

If we're all guilty, you can't hold me accountable without the risk of exposing your own culpability.

Tread On Me, Daddy

If we try to hold government power to account, we're considered "domestics terrorists".

🚨 HOLY SMOKES: ICE agents in Maine just photographed a civilian’s face and name and said they’re putting it in a database.

When the woman asked why, the agent’s response was basically: “Now you’re considered a domestic terrorist.”

This is intimidation. Not law enforcement. pic.twitter.com/68dEiVd2wa

— Brian Allen (@allenanalysis) January 23, 2026

It's Always A Threat

A Thought

Names and places and uniforms change,

but the story of cruelty and abuse doesn't.

Today's Keith

The spinning of yarn has gotten so crazy, we'll be lucky not to get smothered to death under an Afghan that an infinite number of grandmas couldn't hook in an infinite number of coffee klatches.

I'm not sure if that makes any sense, but go ahead and point to anything that makes any fuckin' sense right now.

It doesn't square because it's not supposed to square.

Daddy State Awareness

• The Daddy State lies as a means of demonstrating power.
• The lies have practically nothing to do with the subject of the lies.
• Lying about everything creates chaos, which helps condition us to stop thinking, and look to them for "guidance".
• Once we're totally dependent on them, we'll accept the premise that they can do anything they want.

The goal is to destroy reality

so they can dictate reality to us

The Daddy State on Social Media

The basic MAGA formula gets pretty simple.

• Deny deny deny
• Project project project

Daddy State Awareness Guide, Rule 1

Every accusation is a confession

Today's WTF

What fuckin' idiot thinks dangerous criminals are congregating at the local day-surgery clinic?

He's Crazy

Trump bounces from Bad Comic to Absolute Shitheel to I Need To Get Down To The Day Room And Take My Thorazine.

He says whatever floats into his "consciousness". And you can count on it being some really weird translation of his even weirder perception of history, or whatever's going on now, or what he fantasizes he wants to happen tomorrow.

I guess 'fantasy' is the operative word here. And I'll say it again:

Trump is a Reality TV Game Show Host, and he thinks every day is just another episode. Whatever he wants reality to be, he just "conceptualizes" it and seems to believe the writers have given him a new script that changes whatever actually happened into something he wanted to have happened - or they just write it out of existence altogether.

Tim Walz had it right - "These guys are weird". But he needed to take one step beyond that and reinforce for us the Daddy State ugliness of what Trump and his merry band of thugs are really up to.

Trump Claims Nazis Treated Jewish Prisoners With “Love”

Donald Trump made the unbelievable claim during a press conference with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

In his latest rewrite of European history, Donald Trump made a ridiculous and sympathetic declaration about the Nazis.

Amid the tariff chaos he spurred, Trump met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the Oval Office Monday, where he was asked by reporters about his plan to bring about the release of the 59 Israeli hostages being held captive in Gaza by Hamas.

In typical Trump fashion, the president dodged the question and went on a bizarre rant that seemingly remembered Nazis for … their sympathy.

“I said to them, was there any sign of love?” Trump said, recounting his conversation with released hostages.

“Did the, Hamas, show any signs of like, help? Or liking you? Did they wink? Did they give you a piece of bread extra? Did they give you a meal on the side? … Like, you know, what happened in Germany?” Trump said, absurdly comparing the hostages’ situation to the Holocaust, which murdered six million Jews.

“People would try and help people that were in unbelievable distress,” the president went on, suggesting that the Nazis were known for their generosity.

“No, they didn’t do that, they’d slap us,” Trump said the hostages told him about Hamas, while sitting next to the man who is currently leading Israel’s genocide in Gaza. “Their hatred is unbelievable.”

Trump’s claim about Nazi kindness sent people reeling on social media.

“This isn’t just delusional. It’s Holocaust cosplay. He’s romanticizing genocide like it’s a fucking history podcast,” one user wrote on X.

“Equating hostages held by Hamas to victims in Nazi Germany isn’t just offensive, it’s also a grotesque distortion of history,” wrote another. “He’s always saying the first thing that pops into his head without understanding the weight of those words. And he’s sitting next to Israeli Prime Minister. Crazy stuff!”

Overheard

If Jeffrey Goldberg is a "deceitful and highly-discredited so-called journalist" they wouldn't have added him into the group chat.

The Daddy State Rules:

1. Every accusation is a confession.

2. Every boast is an admission of inadequacy, or an attempt to claim credit for something they had practically nothing to do with.

2a. What sounds like boasting ("I could shoot someone on 5th Avenue and not lose any votes") is intended to soft-peddle some horrific thing they've done - or intend to do, in which case, the "boast" is instructive as to what the devotees will be expected to embrace.

3. Every prediction of some dire consequence is a veiled threat.

Whatever terrible thing they're "warning" us about is something they intend to make happen (often in an attempt to coerce us into doing something they want), or to signal and motivate their mob.

4. They change the meaning of words to suit their needs.

a) if it's false but it works in my favor, then it's true

b) if it's true but it works against me, then it's false

5. They change the historical record.

“you didn’t see me do what you saw me doing"

“you didn't hear me say what you heard me saying”

6. Total criminalization.

If we're all guilty, then you can't hold me responsible without the risk of exposing your own culpability.

7. The law is my sword, but not your shield.

7a. The law is my shield, but not your sword.

8. Divide and Conquer is the order of the day, every day.

Every issue is a wedge issue to be used as a means of putting each of us in our own little silo - keeping us all isolated - separated from each other.

Happening

I haven't vetted this, but there's nothing obvious that makes me think it's not real.

We know this kind of shit is happening, so it's not unreasonable to believe this story.

I just wanna shoot some of these assholes.

His neighbor got detained by ICE and if you don’t think thats „insane“, just listen to what he gotta say:
byu/Morgentau7 inThatsInsane