Holy shit. This guy is going to kill me now. – Tristin Goods
Last weekend a heat wave hit the Pacific Northwest; on Sunday it reached 43o C at Sunset, and hotter than that in Seattle. So naturally this song came to mind. The links above it were provided by Scott Greenfield, Jesse Walker, Radley Balko, Mark Bennett, Elizabeth N. Brown, and Cop Crisis (x2), in that order.
- The thought police.
- R.I.P. John McAfee.
- Headline of the week.
- “Smart” appliances aren’t.
- What could possibly go wrong?
- Cops repeatedly demonstrate exactly what they are.
- Why is “not for any reason whatsoever” so hard to understand?
From the Archives
- To the state, false face scanning positives aren’t a bug; they’re a feature.
- Most porn performers have to supplement film income with outside work.
- Pigs squeal gleefully about their creepy entrapment & surveillance game.
- Liz Brown’s scathing indictment of the government’s horrific child abuse.
- Removing excuses cops use to persecute people is always a good thing.
- FOSTA just keeps splashing egg all over the feds’ stupid, violent faces.
- The hotel industry is going to regret having collaborated with fanatics.
- The result of European “humanitarianism” to “fight human trafficking”.
- It’s good to see Cambodia shutting down these propaganda factories.
- If only there were a concise word for smuggling humans to sell them.
- Some conservatives are starting to see the danger of police violence.
- Oink oink, we HAVE TO destroy his life because of an imaginary line!
- They’ve discovered their moral compasses at least 20 years too late.
- Another study proves what sex workers have been saying all along.
- The US government is now claiming sex workers are actually spies.
- Bird-brains can think of nothing worse than realistic porn cartoons.
- The “sex trafficking” myth is now being used to attack gay people.
- I’m afraid it’s far too late to put this evil djinni back into its bottle.
- Cops, politicians, wasps, Oreos, mystery sodas and much more.
- Prohibitionists just keep trying the same stupid publicity stunts.
- These charges followed the accusations by almost three years.
- A resurgence of the 20th-century “whore as criminal” myth.
- Japan attempts to please gaijin “sex trafficking” profiteers.
- It wasn’t just sex workers who thrived in the “Wild West”.
- A few statistics to further dispel the myth of heroic cops.
- Stupid people believe a dog can smell electronic images.
- An ambulance-chaser recruiting professional “victims”.
- Marijuana prohibition will soon be a thing of the past.
- How copyright has been warped into a fascist scam.
- The ugliest part of a peak moral panic: lynch mobs.
- In a good headspace despite far too much sunlight.
- A wannabe sex worker ally is lost in her own navel.
- A politician claims that spying isn’t actually spying.
- My two previous columns for Independence Day.
- A retrospective of my blogging from June 2017.
- Queer bigots are the most revolting bigots.
- The construction of my first guest cottage.
- Yet another abomination from Alabama.
- It’s always a “gang”, even when it isn’t.
- A tiny visitor to the construction site.
- The rise and fall of Backpage.
- Cops, jazz, and much more.
- Rapist cop of the week.