Pat Ward

When keeping it real goes wrong. I talk shit to the TV.

[Wall Street Apes @WallStreetApes]

These are the brand new disguised Automated License Plate Reader cameras in Arizona

The large yellow plastic barrels are camouflaged housings designed to look like construction equipment

They are being deployed in remote desert areas along highways

These new camouflaged cameras are a partnership between Flock and law enforcement and the plan is to use them extensively to track vehicle movement and broader surveillance

We are witnessing the surveillance state being established in America… this only ends in mass surveillance

[Ron Wyden @RonWyden]

Called this in October

[Pat Ward @TheRealPatWard]

SCENE: Mens Rest Room

A man is eating potato chips in the stall next to me. Opened a new bag and is chomping away #poopdiaries 💩

[Joe Brooks @bfdradio]

BK with his Father and Grandfather

[Avi Roy @agingroy]

Eli Lilly released retatrutide Phase 3 data yesterday. 28% weight loss in 80 weeks. The most powerful obesity drug that’s ever been tested.

And today the cancer signal drops.

12,112 patients. Seven tumor types. GLP-1 users had half the lung cancer metastasis rate (10% vs 22%). Breast cancer: 43% cut. Colon cancer five-year mortality in a separate study: 15.5% vs 37.1%.

Cancer joins a list that already includes heart disease (SELECT, 20% MACE reduction), kidney failure (FLOW, 24% slower decline), sleep apnea (SURMOUNT-OSA, FDA-approved), addiction (BMJ, 600K veterans, 18-25% reduction across substances), and liver disease (86% fat clearance).

Tumors express GLP-1 receptors. Activate them and NF-kB drops, apoptosis rises. The drug isn’t just shrinking fat. It’s talking directly to the cancer.

One drug class. Designed for blood sugar. The biology keeps finding uses the designers didn’t predict.

[🏴‍☠️ @calvinfroedge]

So what we're supposed to believe is that a guy who only had 75 donations from Kentucky, an empty victory party, and nobody at his rallies, managed to double turnout from 2024 plus get all 10k mail in ballots

KY-4 may have been outright fraud

These numbers don't make sense

[regular guy @regularguyguns]

Maybe you wonder why I, a mere gun blog, makes a big deal about Flock and similar tech?

OK here’s a real world situation that can easily happen and has likely happened.

Unfortunately to drive on public roads without getting hassled by the cops, your car needs a license plate. That’s tied to you, the owner of the vehicle.

Flock isn’t just a traffic camera, it’s an AI/ML enabled (wait for it) flock of cameras that transmit all their video and audio to the mothership. Not a government server somewhere but, to keep it simple, a big giant cloud computer instance owned and run by Flock, the company.

Government users, as well as Flock employees here in the US and overseas, can log in and query the system based on license plate number or even vehicle description and get a full history of that vehicle’s movements throughout the Flock network over multiple jurisdictions. Someone in New York can track a car from Armonk all the way to Homestead FL if they feel like it from the comfort of their desk.

On a daily level, someone can get a pretty accurate picture of someone’s life just by monitoring their movements via Flock. And I’m using this example to rattle the cage of the “back the blue unconditionally” crowd in 2A.

OK - your car has license plate ABC 123 - and Flock knows this. Someone can enter your tag in Flock and see what you are doing on a daily basis. You leave your home where the neighborhood is under the Flock panopticon. Flock sees you drive to Dunkin’ on Main Street, then you drop your kid off at XYZ Daycare. Then you go to work at the local IT consulting firm in ZZZ industrial park. You go pick up a quick deli sandwich for lunch at Food Lion. You go back to work. On the way home you stop off at Bob’s Guns, and stay for 20 minutes while buying some ammo. Then you go home. Everywhere there’s a Flock camera.

Now Flock knows the following about you:

- You live at 123 Wisteria Lane
- Your kid is in daycare (means he’s likely under 5)
- You work at ZZZ
- You go cheap on lunch
- You own at least one gun

Your license plate is tied to you so they now have your name and assumed-to-be-private details of your life, like that you are armed.

On the reverse of that, the Flock camera outside of Bob’s Guns has been recording the plates of everyone going into the parking lot. No need for a firearms registry when Flock is doing the work.

All of this is done without a warrant and the data is available to anyone with a certain level of access to the system, whether it’s a cop, or a Flock technician in the Philippines. FYI Flock uses overseas contractors for support and AI annotation.

The 2018 Carpenter decision at SCOTUS ruled that pervasive surveillance where one can divine private details of someone’s life is a 4th Amendment violation in absence of a specific warrant.

Flock is illegal, unconstitutional and immoral.

And a danger to everyone, not just gun owners.

[Ian Carroll @IanCarrollShow]

If the Israeli casino lady can just buy the seats in your government- you don’t have a government- you belong to the Israeli casino lady.

[ADAM @adamemedia1]

The Israeli government now has the ability to switch off your phone, locate you, hack you, incriminate you, all at the easy press of a button.

This is a kill switch.

[𝐆𝐫𝐢𝐦𝐚𝐥𝐝𝐮𝐬 @ImperiumFirst]

A guy who nobody has ever heard of is projected to beat Thomas Massie because AIPAC, Miriam Adelson and the Republican Jewish Coalition poured $32 million into his campaign

The most ever spent on a congressional race

[Silicon Valley Fodder @Playerinthgame]

If you're unsure where the people with the most money in this country are taking us - Thiel, Musk, Andreessen, and JD Vance all consult and discuss political ideas with Curtis Yarvin, who wrote the following. (Reminder - Yarvin was at the 2025 inaugural ball)

[Pat Ward @TheRealPatWard]

Amen, Asante. Amen

[Asante Samuel @pick_six22]

Vrabel is a faithful man. Whatever happened in the past is the past, as of today he is a faithful man. Move on

[Pat Ward @TheRealPatWard]

@Kevboy316 Francis Ellis and Bobby Kelly

[tyler oakley @tyleroakley]

americans are being observed beyond their wildest comprehension

[Pat Ward @TheRealPatWard]

Fire Sweeney @NHLBruins

[James Tate @JamesTate121]

Get rid of this whole corrupt administration! This is not the America that you were raised in this modern day Russia North Korea!

[FIRE SWEENEY CLUB.est 2020. first member @Sweeneysucks]

@MikeDowns4 The ONLY common denominator last 10 years is Dip Shit Donnie. Nothing will change until he’s gone. Builds a team just good enough to win enough meaningless games to make playoffs. Bruins hockey: Kings of mediocrity

[Mike @MikeDowns4]

5-6 years ago with a collapse like that I’d be rip shit, holes in walls the whole shabang. Now, it’s not even a surprise, this what they built, they got what they deserved

[JEFF @jeffisrael25]

When you’ve already seen your team lose Game 7 of the Stanley Cup Final to Jordan fucking Binnington nothing can hurt you anymore

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

The real story here is who made these nuggets.

Dorada Foods is a joint venture between Lopez Foods and Tyson, originally built in Ponca City, Oklahoma to be McDonald's third chicken nugget supplier. They make McNuggets, McChicken, and Spicy McChicken patties for the golden arches. Same production lines, same facilities, same company.

The lead levels found were 5x the FDA's reference level for children. And a food safety specialist told the New York Post the contamination likely came from the breading or spices, not the chicken itself. Which means the supply chain for added ingredients failed, and that supply chain doesn't just serve Walmart's Great Value brand.

The USDA said additional products could be added to the public health alert as the investigation continues.

Dorada won "Protein Processing Company of the Year" in 2025 for its food safety program. X-ray machines, metal detection, foreign object prevention systems. None of that catches lead in spice powder.

The scariest part: this was only caught because New York State happened to run routine surveillance testing on this particular batch. There is no mandatory heavy metal testing requirement for processed chicken products in the US. If New York hadn't tested it, families would still be feeding these to their kids right now.