I hate that you put me in this position. – unidentified pig
As many of you can probably guess, I’m not a fan of Platonic thought; I am, however, a fan of weird short films from the ’70s, like this one discovered by Jesse Walker. The links above it were provided by Kevin Wilson, Amy Alkon, Thaddeus Russell, Mike Siegel, Cop Crisis, and Radley Balko, in that order.
- A “typo”.
- Out of the mouths of babes.
- Not for any fucking reason whatsoever.
- Cop claims 8-year-old boy caused his sociopathy.
- Even without the costume, I’d read this thug as a cop.
- “Crime”: broken taillight. Penalty: summary execution.
From the Archives
- The only positive point here is that local politicians condemned the hatred.
- How pundits lie abut the centrality of prohibition in US mass incarceration.
- Prohibition turns bodies into “crime scenes” which cops can violate at will.
- Texas replacing WA & AZ as the worst producer of “sex trafficking” idiocy.
- Magic stickers, secret-squirrel codes…it’s like a bad episode of Get Smart!
- Will porn companies be next to face the music for exploiting sex workers?
- I hope they get every last cent they’re asking for, plus punitive damages.
- The term is “tippelzone”, not “sex booth” or another sophomoric coinage.
- Despite their pious posturing, this is exactly what prohibitionists wanted.
- Liz Brown on the government persecution of Michael Lacey & Jim Larkin.
- If the Democrats cared about human rights, this would be their position.
- When forced, undesired sexual contact with strangers is “team building”.
- I’ve never seen anything galvanize support for sex workers like FOSTA.
- Pro-decrim articles are even common on conservative sites these days.
- UK cops increasingly use the euphemism “team” to mean “vice squad”.
- Ken White on the inhuman abominations that the US calls “correction”.
- The damage from the rebranded “Operation Cross Country” pogroms.
- Sex workers who are also performing artists are ambassadors for us.
- Cops, gulags, “environmentalism”, chalk drawings, and much more.
- A fascinating look at male actor/sex workers in 19th century China.
- More entries in the “sex trafficking” scare story invasion of Twitter.
- Welfare recipients are another guinea pig for invasive surveillance.
- “Sex trafficking” means whatever “authorities” want it to mean.
- “Safe harbor” laws only protect “perfect victims”, not real ones.
- How can I make up to a provider I didn’t treat well in the past?
- In mass surveillance, fascism beats communism hands down.
- The attackers were probably looking for someone to beat up.
- It is far too late to put this evil djinni back into its bottle.
- Slowly but surely, things are coming together at Sunset.
- Finally, some public skepticism about “diversion courts”.
- Brooke Magnanti on the re-opening of Laura Lee’s case.
- Racist anti-migrant bullshit reveals a deeper sickness.
- The heinous crime of “illegally subdividing a building”.
- More on Amazon’s campaign to end privacy forever.
- They’ll simply hand-wave a sex exemption into this.
- The stories of three residents of Casa Xochiquetzal.
- Cops & clergy are the worst sexual abusers of kids.
- Picket-fence queers claim cops aren’t our enemies.
- The Woodhull Sexual Freedom Summit of 2019.
- On the meaningless tech buzzword “disrupt”.
- Thoughts on Machen’s “The White People”.
- I’d really like to be wrong once in a while.
- The death of a rather unusual archivist.
- This is what feminists call “equality”.
- Cops, rage, Florida and much more.
- “Youth pastors” are as bad as cops.
- The sweet smell of schadenfreude.
- A shame-powered blackmail scam.
- Did anyone not know this already?
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