Republican senator Mitch McConnell returns to Capitol Hill after months-long hiatus while recovering from fall – live

One day after Donald Trump expressed support for AI-powered Flock surveillance cameras, “because of law enforcement”, Seth Bodnar, a former president of the University of Montana who is mounting a strong campaign for the US Senate as an independent candidate, responded to the president on social media with a video of himself saying, “Flock off, man,” before shooting one of the cameras. “Are you tired of security cameras watching your every move?” Bodnar asks at the start of the campaign video that shows him loading a rifle and destroying two cameras. “Yeah, me too.” “Now the whole thing isn’t just creepy as hell, it’s also part of a massive economy designed to buy and sell our personal data. Now, we’ve known for years that Big Tech follows us online, but now these Flock cameras are literally tracking our every move,” Bodnar continues. “And all this data needs a place to live, so that’s why they want to build data centers right in our backyards.” "They are all getting rich, and we’re ge.

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