Year: 2026

Modern Surveillance State Grows Into Dystopian Band-Aid For Much Deeper Wound

‘The price of individualism has proved to be the loss of privacy’

FBI’s Latest Report Leaves ‘More Guns, More Crime’ Hypothesis in Tatters

https://bearingarms.com/camedwards/2026/08/17/fbis-latest-report-leaves-more-guns-more-crime-hypothesis-in-tatters-n1233539

Was Your Plate Searched on Flock? How to Check and Request Records

How to search Flock Safety audit logs, read a hit, and file a public records request for your license plate.

WPATH Just Made an Earth-Shattering Admission in Court…

Democrats, activist groups, and medical associations have long cited the World Professional Association for Transgender Health’s Standards of Care as the ultimate authority on a scientific “consensus” for sex-rejecting procedures, but WPATH just made an admission in court that threatens to undermine that exalted authority.
The group also cited a Supreme Court ruling that upheld state laws forbidding “ gender-affirming care “—a decision WPATH itself has loudly condemned in the past.

FBI had evidence Swalwell got illegal donations from suspected Chinese spy, bombshell memos show…

The FBI developed evidence that a Chinese woman with direct ties to that country’s intelligence service had potentially compromised a Democratic congressman from California with sex, foreign interns and illicit donations while she was being recruited to become a bureau informant a decade ago, according to bombshell memos that expose another threat to America’s political system from Beijing.
“Investigation has revealed Fang ‘Christine’ Fang, a Chinese foreign national residing in the United States, is the facilitator of a scheme to trade access to Swalwell and internships in his congressional office in return for campaign contributions […]” the memo reads.

Whoops: New Data Shows Flock Cameras Aren’t Solving Crimes…

But new FBI data suggests the massive expansion of Flock Safety cameras has done little to improve the Atlanta Police Department’s ability to solve crimes.
The findings, first reported by the Atlanta Community Press Collective (ACPC), undercut one of the central arguments made by supporters of automatic license plate reader systems: that sacrificing some privacy is justified because the technology helps police catch criminals.

Mamdani Is Making NYC Unaffordable

Chief operating officer of the Corcoran Group, Gary Malin observes, “Misguided New York City and State legislation, like ‘good cause’ eviction, the FARE Act, and the 2019 rent laws, have in large part created this perfect storm for sky-high rents.”
The prices are high because the housing supply is limited, not because landlords in the city are ripping people off.

New York Lawmaker Calls for Legalizing Shoplifting of Soap and Toothpaste

Emily Gallagher said people shoplifting items such as toothpaste and soap should not be punished because they have a “biological need” for those products. …

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