THE MORNING RANT: We Should Cheer for Bari Weiss to Fail in Her Effort to Rehabilitate CBS’ Reputation

There is a civil war being fought at CBS News. The battle is being played out between Bari Weiss, its new left-of-center editor-in-chief, and the left-of-Trotsky journalists she inherited at the laughingstock news operation.

There are many conservatives cheering Ms. Weiss on in her battle against her hyper-partisan corps of journalists. I’m not one of them. In fact, I’m cheering for the insurgent “journalists” to prevail, and to maintain CBS News’ well-earned reputation for being unethical, dishonest, and openly hostile to impartial political coverage.

In fact, my worst fear is that Ms. Weiss might succeed in restoring CBS News to a level of respectability such that it might able to reassert its liberal influence on politics as it once did.

The recent imbroglio is due to Ms. Weiss yanking a typical 60 Minutes hit job just hours before it was to air. If you are reading this, you are almost certainly acquainted with the story. A 60 Minutes journalist, Sharyn Alfonsi, who has a history of dishonest hit jobs against Republicans*, produced a sob story about Venezuelan illegal immigrants being deported to “CECOT,” a maximum-security prison in El Salvador. (*In 2021, Ms. Alfonsi famously ran a hit piece against Ron DeSantis accusing him of prioritizing Publix as a provider of Covid shots in exchange for campaign contributions. The story was subsequently debunked and widely criticized by Florida politicians of both parties.)

Ms. Alfonsi’s story alleged that these Venezuelan deportees were being tortured at CECOT at the behest of the Trump administration, but she did not bother to provide any rebuttals from the Trump administration, which had been provided to CBS News, as acknowledged by left-wing outlet Axios:

• One of the main reasons Weiss cited for pulling the segment was that the "60 Minutes" team didn't include any of the three on-the-record statements from the White House, State Department and Department of Homeland Security that were provided to CBS News journalists.

• According to a source familiar with the "60 Minutes" team's correspondence with the administration, journalists reached out to press officials at the White House, State Department and DHS, all of which provided comment to CBS News ahead of the piece's anticipated run date.

• None of those comments, which varied in length and substance, were included in the piece.

We all know 60 Minutes as the show on which Dan Rather self-immolated his career by using forged military documents in an effort to harm George W. Bush’s 2004 presidential campaign. It’s also the show that spliced together various ramblings of Kamala Harris in 2024 to try to make it sound like she was making coherent answers to questions. And 60 Minutes is also the show that falsely claimed Hunter Biden’s laptop was not really his in the last weeks of the 2020 election, in an effort to push Joe Biden over the finish line.

CBS News has a well-earned reputation for being a place where journalistic malpractice is not considered a problem, it’s policy. I don’t want that to change. As Margot Cleveland joked about 60 Minutes ”At this point I wouldn't even trust CBS News division to tell me how many minutes were in an hour...”

How bad is the media’s disrepute?

“Trust in Media at New Low of 28% in US: Republicans' confidence in mass media to report news ‘fully, accurately and fairly’ now at 8%” [Gallup – 10/02/2025]

Americans’ confidence in the mass media has edged down to a new low, with just 28% expressing a “great deal” or “fair amount” of trust in newspapers, television and radio to report the news fully, accurately and fairly. This is down from 31% last year and 40% five years ago.

Meanwhile, seven in 10 U.S. adults now say they have “not very much” confidence (36%) or “none at all” (34%).

The legacy media is fully discredited, and that is a good thing. There is no “scandal” that network news divisions can promote at this point that will be taken as fact.

It’s important to remember that Bari Weiss does not dispute the general thesis of the 60 Minutes piece that was pulled, specifically that deportees are being subject to Trump-approved torture. She simply wants the story to come across as impartial journalism, not as another clumsy “we finally got him” hit job.

Therefore, I hope Ms. Weiss fails. The last thing we need is for the legacy media to have its reputation restored to a point that it can once again promote left-wing propaganda with a veneer of respectability. Instead, let CBS and the rest of the legacy news media proceed down the path to permanent irrelevance.

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Mid-Morning Art Thread

Canon de 27 cm, modèle 1870
Gustave Bourgain

This was sent to me a few years ago by a commenter, but damned if I can't find the email. So...dear anonymous commenter...thank you!

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The Morning Report — 12/26/25

Good morning kids. Hope you all had a very merry and blessed Christmas. With that in mind, as well as an early doctor's appointment for the wife, I really am going to try and keep things brief and posting a little earlier than usual, so away we go.

The big story this morning is that President Trump launched some strikes against Muslim terrorists, but I repeat myself, in Africa who have been slaughtering Christians, not just of late but going on years already.

President Trump announced Thursday that the US military hit ISIS terrorists in Nigeria targeting Christians with “numerous” deadly airstrikes.

“Tonight, at my direction as Commander in Chief, the United States launched a powerful and deadly strike against ISIS Terrorist Scum in Northwest Nigeria, who have been targeting and viciously killing, primarily, innocent Christians, at levels not seen for many years, and even Centuries!” Trump wrote on Truth Social.

“I have previously warned these Terrorists that if they did not stop the slaughtering of Christians, there would be hell to pay, and tonight, there was,” the president continued.

“Under my leadership, our Country will not allow Radical Islamic Terrorism to prosper. May God Bless our Military, and MERRY CHRISTMAS to all, including the dead Terrorists, of which there will be many more if their slaughter of Christians continues.”

US Africa Command said the Christmas Day strike was carried out in Sokoto state and initial assessments indicate “multiple ISIS terrorists were killed in the ISIS camps.”

The Department of War shared unclassified footage of a missile being launched from the deck of a military vessel after Trump announced the operation. 

The Pentagon coordinated with the Nigerian government ahead of the strikes.

“The Department of War worked with the government of Nigeria to carry out these strikes,” a War Department official told The Post.

“These strikes were approved by the government of Nigeria.” 

. . . The airstrikes come one day after a bomb ripped through a mosque in Nigeria’s northeastern city of Maiduguri, killing five people and injuring dozens, in a suspected suicide attack. 

The African nation has been plagued by violence carried out by multiple armed militant groups, including Boko Haram and Islamic State of West Africa Province. 

I have some mixed feelings about this. First of all, the government of Nigeria hasn't done a damn thing to protect its own citizens and has allowed the cancer of Islam, in this case the strain known as Boko Haram, to fester within its borders for years. That said, Islam is spilling a river of blood all across the Western World as we witnessed in abject horror just last week in Bondi Beach, while western leaders are burying their heads, prior to being lopped off by Khalid's rusty hacksaw, in the sand and worse, blaming the victims and celebrating the butchers as the real victims.

While there is no such thing as "Radical" Islam because that is a redundancy. Islam itself is an evil, "radical" retrograde genocidal political movement that for 1500 years has sought the domination and/or destruction of the world. Whom they can neither convince nor dupe nor force into conversion they will annihilate.

On the one hand it is a good thing that President Trump and therefore America is picking up the mantle of defender of civilization as no other nation nor leader is capable or willing to do the same, On the other hand my fear is American boots on the ground in Africa. It should be noted that Nigeria and much of the African continent is rich in natural resources including petroleum as well as the much coveted and discussed rare earth elements. So much so that the Red Chinese are desperate to set up shop and in essence put the dark continent into its sphere of influence, like everywhere else on planet earth, so denying yet another retrograde tyranny the means and bases with which to challenge America's vital foreign interests and security would be a positive in supporting the Nigerian government. On these pages and on the latest episode of the podcast linked here, and in the sidebar as well as on the usual popular outlets listed below, CBD and I discussed President Trump's recent announcement of his desire to construct a fleet of 25 modern battleships.

This of course is sheer folly, but at least it sends a message that he and we mean business when it comes to defending our interests at home and abroad.

But what are our interests? While it's certainly a good thing that the literal cutting edge of Islam is met and beaten back with blunt force. I fear that by not shedding this ridiculous and self-defeating notion of legitimizing the idiocy of the twin myths of both "radical" and "moderate" or mainstream Islam, we are ultimately doomed to fail. President Trump is usually very good at boxing his enemies into rhetorical corners and confronting them with their hipocrisies and shoving them down their throat. Here is the golden (pun intended) opportunity for Trump to call on these alleged Moderate Muslims to publicly renounce and reject any and alll Koranic/Isamic teachings calling for the death of infidels. When this is of course summarily rejected and or denied, those who have eyes to see will see it plain as day.

Meanwhile, as per the podcast, I for one look forward to the day when the USS Covfefe sails up the Mississippi or down the St. Lawrence Seaway into the Great Lakes and trains its 18-inch guns on Dearborn and Minneapolis:

The cutting edge of ISlam is right under our nose and creeping down towards our jugular vein.

Rep. Brandon Gill (R-TX) said there was a possibility that the potential $9 billion in welfare fraud allegedly committed in Minnesota may have been sent to terrorists in Somalia. “Do you sense, Congressman Gill, that any of your Democrat colleagues in Congress, in the House, are so outraged that they’ll actually join in the investigation or maybe try to give a little bit of credence to this bill?” guest host Kellyanne Conway asked. “I mean, they they’ve got to feel outraged that billions of dollars meant to go and feed hungry people could have gone to Somalia — certainly went to fraud and waste and abuse and not to those truly in need. . “You know, I hope that Democrats recognize how unbelievably corrupt this is, how it undermines our entire social system, our entire economic system, and gets on board,” he continued. “But, you know, they’ve been pretty hesitant to do that so far. The Democrat playbook has been import as many unassimilable foreigners as they possibly can, get them on the dole, and ensure that these people vote Democrat for life. That’s what we’re up against here.”

Hope over experience. Feh. A quick spin of your Replogle globe will show that Somalia is just a couple of not very long Tarzan vine swings from Nigeria. No doubt that Boko Haram, ISIS or whatever in Somalia, the Houthis just across the Red Sea and every other clit-clipper and head chopper are all interconnected. And far too many of them are right here already in the US of A.

But I better erase all of this as I wouldn't want to be labeled Islamphobic. Let's not lose our heads. Literally!

On all these cheery notes, have a great weekend!

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ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY LINKS
• “Under my leadership, our Country will not allow Radical Islamic Terrorism to prosper. May God Bless our Military, and MERRY CHRISTMAS to all, including the dead Terrorists, of which there will be many more if their slaughter of Christians continues.”
  Trump launches ‘powerful and deadly’ Christmas Day strikes on ISIS targeting Christians in Nigeria: ‘Terrorist Scum’ (Now launch on Dearborn and Minneapolis - jjs)

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Daily Tech News 26 December 2025

Top Story

• AI has reached the Uncanny Valley. (The Verge) (archive site)

  I gave Buddy the same dialogue as in the commercial, using my son's name rather than Emma. Hearing that same manufactured voice say my kid's name out loud set alarm bells off in my head. An AI generated Buddy in front of the Eiffel Tower? Sorta weird, sorta cute. AI Buddy addressing my son by name? Nope, absolutely not, no thank you.

  Even the idiots at The Verge are, when it comes down to it, human.
  
  
  
• 2025 marked the year when Hollywood embraced AI, and the results were, frankly, awful. (The Verge) (archive site)

  Amazon's gen-AI dubs became a shining example of how poorly this technology can perform. They also highlighted how some studios aren't putting all that much effort into making sure that their gen AI-derived projects are polished enough to be released to the public. That was also true of Amazon's machine-generated TV recaps, which frequently got details about different shows very wrong. Both of these fiascos made it seem as if Amazon somehow thought that people wouldn't notice or care about AI's inability to consistently generate high-quality outputs. The studio quickly pulled its AI-dubbed series and the recap feature down, but it didn't say that it wouldn't try this kind of nonsense again.

  Lots of juicy AI hate from The Verge today.

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Christmas Overnight Open Thread - December 25, 2025 [Doof]

Santa has done his job. He's earned a drink!

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Christmas Cafe

Rescue fox is happy to see his rescuer come home.

This cat is in heaven -- a rock-climbing gym.

Christmas is more fun than a bucket of baby otters.

Baby rabbit. (?)

Hitchin' a ride.

Bears and a bison enjoying the snow.

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Christmas is For the Dogs Open Thread

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Christmas Cookies Open Thread

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Safe Travels Open Thread

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Ghosts of Christmas Past Open Thread

Lost traditions of the Christmas buying and decorating season -- Christmas savers' clubs, Christmas stamps, layaway plans, bubble lights, Humbold statues,

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Christmas Market Open Thread

Thanks to Michael the Texan for that (@Michael_Texan).

It's a shame these will all be closed within five years.

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Hep Jazzy Christmas Yule Log Open Thread

M E R R Y

C H R I S T M A S ! ! !

Dean Martin and Frank Sinatra sing Christmas songs.

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The Morning Rant

What a wonderful time of year!

Christmas is both a religious and a secular holiday, and for that I am thankful. Little burgs and big cities decorate their streets, people put up lovely or garish (but still fun) displays, the tone of the country is mostly more gentle than at any other time of the year, and America seems happier!

And of course there is the music! I am happily Jewish, but you Christians got the lion's share of great composers and magnificent religious music.

Below the fold is one of the glories of Christmas music, performed by one of the greats.

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Mid-Morning Art Thread

The Adoration of the Shepherds
Domenikos Theotokopoulos

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The Morning Report — 12/25/25

Good morning kids. Merry Christmas! Going to try and keep it light this morning. Among the usual madness and mayhem there are some positive headlines, including the election of yet another conservative/right or at least non-Communist/Socialist, this time in Honduras. So along with Milei in Argentina, Bukele in Nicaragua, Kast in Chile we now have Asfura in Honduras.

Perhaps 2026 will be the year that the long suffering Venezuelan people will be liberated from the kleptocratic, narco-terrorist Commie/Socialist Chavista/Maduro junta and taste freedom, hopefully forever. Trump's reinvigoration of the long moribund Monroe doctrine is reshaping foreign policy in this hemisphere for sure and no doubt making our enemies and rivals further afield sit up and take notice as well.

As for our enemies right here at home, President Trump had a very special Christmas message:

President Donald Trump sent Christmas wishes to all Americans on Christmas Eve, singling out the “Radical Left Scum” as recipients.

Far be it for me to criticize the President for his language insofar as anyone who has read this column or listened to the podcast know (latest episode linked here and in the sidebar as well as at the usual outlets listed at the end of this post)... that I certainly don't mince words about my feelings for those on the Left end of the spectrum. And considering this is Christmas, though I'm not Christian, I will go so far as to reiterate my wishes for Democrat/Leftists: May the Good Lord in Heaven open their hearts and minds so that they may at long last recognize the evil that has infected them, so they can repent, seek forgiveness and preserve their souls from eternal damnation. Amen.

But that said, I give you this radioactive madness to underscore my utter detestation of them:

“How the far right stole Christmas,” authored by Rome correspondent Hannah Roberts. 
Politico Frames European Christmas Celebrations as ‘Far-Right Spectacle’

Translation: We have orgasms when Muslims slaughter Christians anytime anywhere and especially at Christmas markets! These are the same bastards who claim Jesus Christ to have been a some sort of negroid Palestinian mulatto and that every wetback who crosses the Rio Grande is akin to Mary and Joseph fleeing persecution, etc. ad nauseam. And that putting up nativity scenes in schools is a crime against humanity while transsexualism and other perversions in he schools are healthy and wholesome.

Meh, I could go on for days but as I said, it's Christmas and better to keep it light. Oh well, I failed. Apologies for micturating in your Christmas morning corn flakes. Mr. President, you are so right, the Left are SCUM.

Other than that, quite a good essay from John Stossel that somehow needs to be drummed into the hollow heads of our youth who are all hot and horny for socialism.

If you're hitting the road, safe travels, especially in the norhteast. Again, Merry Christmas and God bless you all.

And lastly, a quick shout-out and a huge thank you for your continued support in hitting our tip jar. It truly is appreciated more than you can know.

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• The areas likely to see most snow are southeastern New York and northeastern Pennsylvania.
  Snow, Ice, And Flooding Threaten Christmas Travel Across U.S.

• John Stossel: People criticize capitalism. As a recent Axios-Generation poll found, “College students prefer socialism to capitalism.” Why? Because they believe absurd myths: Like the claim that the Soviet Union “wasn’t real socialism.” Socialism guru Noam Chomsky tells students that.
  Bless our billionaires — the wealth they create makes us ALL richer

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Christmas Day Tech News 2025

Top Story

• Merry Christmas everyone!
  
  
  
• Samsung and SK Hynix wish you a Merry Christmas too and announce they have cancelled plans to stop making DDR4 memory. (Notebook Check)
  
  DDR4 is mostly produced on older equipment than DDR5 and was not profitable - particularly with CXMT dumping DDR4 at below cost - so the plan was to refit the factories and switch them to DDR5.
  
  But that's time-consuming and expensive and suddenly DDR4 is profitable again - very much so - so both companies plan to keep producing it at least through 2026.
  
  That won't end the drought, but it helps.
  
  
  
• In other rare positive news, Microsoft says it has no plans to rewrite its codebase in Rust, not Windows or anything else. (Windows Latest)
  
  The article that kicked off this typhoon in a tea cosy was actually talking about a research project investigating the use of AI in such tasks, not any intent to do so for anything in any fixed time frame. But it made none of that clear.

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Christmas Eve Open Thread - December 24, 2025 [Nativity Adjacent Rex]

Good evening Horde. Fa la la la la.

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Christmas Eve Cafe

Spain calls their Nativity-scene buildters Belenistas,
though this one is by an American in Santa Clara

At the conference, Benito learned that in Europe, whole cities have Nativity scene clubs that spend an entire year constructing life-sized dioramas, "For example, Madrid, Sevilla, and Barcelona: their clubs start building detailed buildings, with little exterior little lights, little pots and pans, trees and some of the dioramas have real water running as a little creek or fountain."

One of the few Americans to participate in the international conference, he laughed when he recalled how the European artisans reacted when they discovered his nationality, “A gentleman said to us, "Americans, pay close attention to this diorama because St. Joseph looks like the Hollywood actor, Charlton Heston, Mary is the likeness Ava Gardner, and the Egyptian figurine looks like Yul Brynner." But apart from this playful reference to the Hollywood film The Ten Commandments, Benito was one of equals amongst a handful of 550 international nativity makers in attendance. All were treated to the various creative ways that the nativity clubs and Spanish and Italian artists craft their dioramas to be truly sensory experiences.

Merry Christmas, friends! And garrett, too!

And of course a special thanks to the cobloggers! Give them a hand.

Tomorrow and Friday will be open threads from me, but I've got some good ones in the mix.

Cucking a chicken.

If you need a last-minute gift recommendation for your cat...

This dog wants you to know there's no shame in wearing a garish Christmas sweater.

Never challenge a cat in a pouncing contest.

On the internet, no one can tell if you're a cat.

Scuba Santa delivers toys to all the good underwater boys and girls.

Sweet drinks cabinet.

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The Christmas Week In Woke

The Bee:

Fairfax County, Virginia spends hundreds of millions of dollars to fight for its trans-in-every-bathroom-and-changing room policy.

Stephanie Lundquist-Arora, the Fairfax chapter leader for Independent Women, found that Fairfax County spent $44 million on legal fees between fiscal 2019 and fiscal 2025.

She revealed to the Washington Examiner that the school district paid the law firm King & Spalding $980,515.14 between August and September alone. In a FOIA request, she found Fairfax County had a contract paying $1,850 an hour for services rendered in August and November.

"Ironically, November is the same month that the district filed Rule 68 in Jane Doe's case to 'save money,'" Lundquist-Arora said.

Fairfax County Public School's newest innovation: Claiming that not only do trans boys have the right to use the girls rooms, but non-trans boys who are just gay have that right too, Bigot.

FCPS will pay Jane Doe, represented by America First Legal, nominal damages of $50 and her attorney fees. The case centered on a complaint from Jane Doe that a biological boy was allowed to use the female locker room in West Springfield High School, even though he identified as gay, not as transgender. When Jane Doe complained, she was told to use a single-use restroom.

When other female students began to complain on social media, court documents showed the boy wrote an Instagram post, saying, "My counselor and principal both said I'm allowed to go in there, I don't even look at any of you, I go in a stall. You go to a public school, not everything is catered to you."

In her latest piece for iWFeatures, Lundquist-Arora wrote, "Cultish trans fervor aside, it doesn't take a legal eagle to know that boys presenting as boys and not even claiming to be transgender are not legally permitted in girls' bathrooms and locker rooms. The male student Jane Doe encountered in the locker room identified as gay, not transgender, according to the lawsuit."

Zorhan Mamdani appointed the new chief of the NY Fire Department.

Can you guess which boxes she fills?

Probably as many as she can.

If you guessed the new fire chief would be yet another fat lesbian linebacker like the incompetents that couldn't control the Palisades fires," congratulations -- homophobes.

Yes, that Uncle Buck looking motherfucker is a woman named Lilian.

Ron DeSantis corrects a propagandist who asks about "undocumented immigrants."

Guys did you know Jesus was an illegal alien? Apparently his parents traveled from one town to another in the same country and this made the family illegal aliens. Like whenever you leave your home town, you're an illegal alien too.

This is the real Reason for the Season.

The Patriot Oasis
@ThePatriotOasis

BREAKING: FedEx wins multibillion-dollar federal delivery contract, uses funds to HIRE foreign workers through the H-1B visa program.

CEO Rajesh "Raj" Subramaniam, who was born in India, is facing backlash for firing Americans to hire foreigners.

Publicly available immigration data shows a SUBSTANTIAL increase in FedEx’s hiring of foreign workers through the H-1B visa program.

Some of the listed salaries for these positions being filled by non-Americans range from about $100,000 to $115,000.

Democrat candidate for mayor and alcoholic Karen gives cop grief as the cop attempts to get her to take a field sobriety test. Unfortunately, she was not afforded the opportunity to Ride the Lightning. She did not receive a dose of Zeus Juice.

The real lesson of Bondi Beach...? The Australian government hasn't done enough to combat "Islamophobia."

I agree with the first two thirds of "combat Islamophobia, to be honest. That's the compromise I'm offering.

Lefties react to Judge Dugan's conviction: The Nazis purged and arrested judges, too, you know. No, that's not a joke. That's what this guy, a "political theorist," said.

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Charlottesville, VA Disables Citywide Crime Cameras to Help Illegal Alien Criminals Evade the Law

David Frum, quoting CBS19:

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (CBS19 NEWS) -- The City of Charlottesville will not move forward with the Flock Safety license plate reader system following the conclusion of a yearlong pilot program, despite reported success in helping police solve crimes.

City Council decided during its meeting on Monday, citing concerns largely outside the city's control.

"I just think that the concerns are much bigger than us," Charlottesville Police Chief Michael Kochis said.

Over the 12-month pilot period, the Charlottesville Police Department gathered feedback from community members on the use of the Flock camera system.

"Most of the feedback we got was very positive from folks in the community. That being said, there were some concerns," Kochis said.

Among the primary concerns were how data collected by Flock could potentially be accessed or used beyond the city's control, including fears it could be obtained by federal agencies for unintended purposes, such as tracking undocumented immigrants.

"The big concerns continue to come up from mostly policymakers that, you know, are they the federal government or the administration in D.C. could get access to it," Kochis said.

Despite those concerns, Kochis said the system proved effective during the pilot program.

"It's helped us solve our homicide in the city. It has helped us recover a missing child. It has helped us recover missing people. It does help us recover stolen cars in time frames that actually have meaning," he said.

But fuck American citizens, the only ones who matter are foreign criminals.

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