You’re doing this to yourself. – “officer” Scott LaPierre, to his victim
Here’s another unusual cover of my favorite Beatles song, because I felt like it. The links above it were provided by Radley Balko, Lucy Steigerwald, Tim Cushing, Ally Fogg, Rick Horowitz, and Cop Crisis (x2), in that order.
- But for video.
- R.I.P. Beverly Cleary.
- Punctuation isn’t optional.
- One of Gaea’s pimples has popped.
- Not. For. ANY. Reason. WHATSOEVER.
- No, this is a different cop murder of a baby.
- The only people who can be trusted with guns.
From the Archives
- It’s important for celebrities to be “out” if they did sex work in their youth.
- Spineless “journalists” print prohibitionist pap rather than consult experts.
- Why was the 20th century term used rather than its modern counterpart?
- Do I really have to add, “Not because you saw your neighbors outdoors”?
- Both European & US politicians are invested in demolishing the internet.
- Nobody’s listening to prohibitionist wanking fantasies during the plague.
- All prostitution “stings” are entrapment; that’s the whole point of them.
- “Sponsored content” means an article is actually an ad, not journalism.
- Politicians have been trying to control the internet ever since it started.
- Where there are men making money, there will be sex workers as well.
- Irish prohibitionists celebrated this increase in violence vs sex workers.
- Treatment of sex workers is a good indicator of feelings about women.
- The power to declare something “non-essential” is the power to ban it.
- I hope you amateurs enjoy being hunted like animals by armed thugs.
- We warned dilettantes that this wouldn’t stop with actual sex workers.
- Specimens of homo sapiens are always afraid of things they can’t see.
- It’s great to see Asian sex workers fighting back against racist cops.
- Any non-politician would have given this up as a bad idea by now.
- Fascists scheme to make the UK surveillance network even worse.
- Bigot talks about murdered woman as though she were a disease.
- Literally scaring a normal teen to death is “just doing their jobs”.
- It’s the same everywhere our work is even partially criminalized.
- We’ll see more articles like this as “sex trafficking” hysteria dies.
- The Spanish case of the Swedish rot may be especially virulent.
- Once the state takes a power, it never surrenders it voluntarily.
- Australia’s Northern Territory moves toward decriminalization.
- Consent is neither as simple nor as static as puritans pretend.
- I’ve been saying I distrusted Avenatti since the beginning.
- I am not your attack dog, so don’t try to whistle me up.
- This psychopath is far too close to power for comfort.
- Cops, government, ghosts, Godzilla, and much more.
- Sex workers have often been blamed for epidemics.
- Mathematical illiteracy is no bar to becoming a cop.
- Prohibitionists want Ontario to be more like the US.
- Even “legal” sex workers were harmed by FOSTA.
- Cops, restaurants, the Freakies and much more.
- A rare victory for sex workers against the state.
- As always, sex workers take care of our own.
- Moving my books into my new bookcases.
- The twelfth member of my Hall of Shame.
- This could potentially be very good for us.
- Why my news columns are shorter now.
- Decorating, a fundraiser, and a baby.
- In other news, bear shits in woods.
- Too much “togetherness”, y’all?
- It’s about goddamned time.
- Rapist cop of the week.