Bud, it’s okay, you’re not in trouble. – murderer to his victim
The big news this week was of course the passing of Queen Elizabeth II; this selection seems the appropriate one for such an occasion. The links above it were contributed by Cop Crisis (x2), Amy Alkon, Tim Cushing, Clarissa, Radley Balko, and Elizabeth N. Brown, in that order.
- Stop faking!
- No, your reason isn’t an exception.
- Not one thing about this is accurate.
- Fairies wear boots and you gotta believe me.
- What “safety first” actually looks like in practice.
- In the US, arrest warrants are becoming execution warrants.
- Government is just a word for the things we choose to do together.
From the Archives
- The rescue industry provides opportunities for the wealthy to play cowboy.
- Once a government takes more power, it never really relinquishes it again.
- This time Rolling Stone wasn’t alone in gulping down a load of codswallop.
- Opportunists will continue to harass businesses until FOSTA is overturned.
- Prohibition turns bodies into “crime scenes” which cops can violate at will.
- Crypto-moralists always claim the lust to ban is about “health” or “safety”.
- The reek from the dying rescue industry is now wafting over from Europe.
- “Courts let prosecutors punish teens for things others have done to them.“
- When hiding migration control behind “trafficking” is especially apparent.
- By this standard, Johnny Cash is lucky he was never accused of murder.
- Is it just me, or does this sound like an attempt at reverse psychology?
- Vultures will continue to harass businesses until FOSTA is overturned.
- Swedish model regimes would’ve targeted the victim for surveillance.
- The State has changed the excuse from “morality” to “animal abuse”.
- A good argument for refusing to roll over and let yourself be robbed.
- Maltese prohibitionists are strikingly loony, even for prohibitionists.
- The 1st amendment isn’t subject to veto by slacktivist busybodies.
- Expect the equation of human sexuality with pollution to increase.
- The dawn of a nightmarishly-dystopian surveil-and-snitch state.
- People like this are the norm in policing sex, and always will be.
- Cops, goats, the Moon, time mismanagement, and much more.
- Cops, whales, words, waffles, Terrance Dicks, and much more.
- I’ve never seen such an absurdly specific nutritionist claim.
- Preparing the house roof to support the bathhouse roof.
- Unsurprising for entities in the disinformation business.
- It’s nearly always cooler at Sunset than it is in Seattle.
- A typical and representative “law enforcement hero”.
- Gee, I wonder why this happens so often in Ireland?
- Cops, headlines, psychopathy, and much more.
- The last special edition Ladies of the Night.
- The FOSTA challenge is proceeding again.
- Is professional BDSM legal in New York?
- Another cop demonstrating what he is.
- Amber DiPietra on the DASANetwork.
- I only hope this turns out to be true.
- “Youth pastors” are as bad as cops.
- A trial run of my semi-retirement.
- My new books in my own store.
- My first batch of jam in years.
- Skirting around the cottages.
- Sex workers need your help.
- Rapist cop of the week.
- Undermining consent.
- A week full of parties.
