The climate here at Sunset is not unlike that of England; rainy and on the chilly side, and rarely extremely hot or extremely cold. Because the utility room containing the well and the water tank are inside the atrium, I don’t need to take any precautions if the overnight low is going to be warmer than -3o C, which is usually the case for >80 days of the winter. And if it isn’t going to be lower than about -5o C, all I need to do is turn on a heater in the utility room and let one faucet run at a trickle. But once in a while it gets colder than that for a night or two, so I need to take a few extra precautions, like running the hot water tap for a few minutes whenever I get up to use the bathroom (since the propane heater is outside). It was like that Friday and Saturday nights; if the daytime temperatures are reasonable I don’t need to make any special arrangements for the big animals, because they just huddle together in the stable and emerge to sun themselves after dawn. But our cats are not used to these kind of temperatures, so I bring the outside cats inside on nights like that. Rocky got the atrium bathroom and Lilith the old one; I need to keep the door closed so she and Speck won’t fight (and Axel adds another complication). But Sunday night was back to normal, with a low of only -2o C, so I was able to suspend the freeze protocols. And unless we get some stray cold front later in February, that’s probably it for this winter.
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Not to love Der Führer is a great disgrace.
When I pointed out (during the first Trump regime) that the mad emperor is in many ways like the brutal Ugandan dictator Idi Amin, I referenced this song, but for some reason have never featured it. So when I recently reprinted more mockery of dictators, I decided to correct that. The links above the video were all provided by IncarcerNation except the first two, which were provided by Nun Ya.
- It’s good to have a hobby.
- Last week in artificial stupidity.
- Never call the cops for any reason whatsoever.
- Crime: petty theft. Penalty: summary execution.
- What part of “never” is so difficult to understand?
- It’s weird how often people die mysteriously when cops are nearby.
From the Archives
- Any journalist “shocked” by typical cop behavior needs to find another job.
- Someone tell Florida that “sex trafficking” is no longer a brain-pause spell.
- They’ll let public outrage die down, then quietly restart the same offenses.
- Clearview’s so proud of its homeless identification ability, they patented it.
- I’m sure they occasionally yelled “Stop faking!” at him as he wasted away.
- I was fated to be threatened with state violence regardless of career path.
- Another internet-wrecking censorship attempt from self-important clowns.
- Prohibitionists believe blatant lying is acceptable to advance their agenda.
- How long will airlines accept liability for government-brand racial profiling?
- Religious communities very often punish the victims of rapist “authorities”.
- How nice of him to “volunteer” for a position that gave access to children.
- Politicians don’t even try to make their new laws Constitutional any more.
- Why does society accept its medical system being used for state violence?
- It’s probably unwise to state in writing that you plan to rip employees off.
- Intentionally creating a black market to start a new front in the drug war.
- Maybe we’re about to witness the beginning of the end of these evil laws.
- Is there anything narrower and meaner than the mind of a prison official?
- Laws enabling nuisance lawsuits will multiply until ruled unconstitutional.
- Currently-fashionable “monkey see, monkey do” parade reaches the UK.
- Cops sell vile sex worker intimidation tactics with long-debunked tropes.
- Hey, female cops; how’s that collaboration with the police state working?
- Politicians want to punish people for failing to do the literally impossible.
- Government computers were already among the top hosts of child porn.
- Useful idiots keep giving government excuses for Orwellian surveillance.
- I guess they figure calling rape “sex trafficking” will net a larger payout.
- Cops, artificial stupidity, David Lynch, Melba Montgomery & much more.
- Why do building supply stores carry products unsuited to the local area?
- Forced-birth fanatics are actively attempting to empower abusive men.
- Alabama labels all escort ads “sex trafficking” & arrests all the women.
- If there’s a camera, cops will conscript it for use as a surveillance tool.
- Even the use of the distancing “former” is the same as for rapist cops.
- Alabama is still violently spewing early-teens “sex trafficking” idiocy.
- Amateur women really never stop being naive about male sexuality.
- In which “sex with minors” is used to mean “raping young children”.
- Cops, Lisa Marie Presley, Adam Rich, Carole Cook, and much more.
- It would be amusing to see this crammed down Tom Dart’s throat.
- “Conversion therapy” has never been banned anywhere in the US.
- I wonder how the judge would’ve ruled had the wife lost her job?
- Cops, robots, Peter Schickele, Norman Jewison, and much more.
- Calling politicians on their hypocrisy is an interesting strategy.
- Government at every level crusades against Christian charity.
- Utah has the latest “monkey see, monkey do” bathroom bill.
- Some rapist cops are indiscriminate in their choice of victim.
- Building a dystopian panopticon, one useful idiot at a time.
- SCOTUS refuses to slay this monster of its own creation.
- My new propane water heater is connected and running.
- A microcosm of the whole “sex trafficking” moral panic.
- This guy needs to be put away before he murders her.
- This will continue for as long as the voters allow it to.
- A curated selection of tweets from January 2024.
- Another step toward total financial surveillance.
- Another cop demonstrating exactly what he is.
- The last week of Grace’s life was a hard one.
- Prohibitionism is a dangerous mental illness.
- Throwback Thursday Must Be Destroyed.
- On the re-coronation of a mad emperor.
- Burble burble BLUE STATE burble drool.
- The enshittification of hardware stores.
- Rapist-cop enablers of the decade.
- More curated selections of tweets.
- Lisa Throwback Thursday.
- Rapist cop of the week.
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One year ago today, at about 2 AM, I lost my best friend to what appears to have been an acute ischemic stroke, brought on by cancer, chemotherapy, and long-standing circulatory issues. We had known for years that her end was approaching, and had I not refused to see them, there were clear signs that it would be sooner rather than later. But human beings are very good at failing to see what we do not want to see, and I’m certainly no exception; I’m sure part of the reason was that I wanted to maintain a positive outlook to help her do the same, but most of it was just that I’ve already had so much pain and loss in my life I did not want to consciously face what even our idioms recognize as among the worst misfortunes that can befall a person.
Whenever a friend suffers a loss, we are moved to try to say something, anything, to assuage their pain; some of those things are helpful and some are not. But of the things my friends said to me, two stand out, and I still think of them often. One of them is philosophical: Grief is the price we pay for love. Indeed, people who have suffered emotionally sometimes become afraid of love because they fear the pain that must come when we must part from the loved one, and the greater the love, the greater the pain. The other helpful thing was more practical: The waves of grief never stop coming, but they do grow further apart. For the first few weeks after her passing I thought of little else, then for most of last year the waves came at least daily; in more recent months they’ve come two or three times a week. They have not yet become less intense, though I’m sure that, too, will happen in the fullness of time.
As I knew I would through long experience, I have tried to cope with the grief by retreating a bit from the world and burying myself in my work; the most important product of that work is a new series of pulp-style adventure stories featuring characters based upon Grace and myself, in which the narratives are suffused with my thoughts on friendship in general and our friendship in particular. They’re the longest and most complex individual works I’ve ever written, and the next project in the series will be my first novel. And the many hours it takes to create them not only feel like a way for me to share Grace with the world, but also a means by which I can squeeze just a little more time with her out of a world which took her from me much too soon.
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The willful use of such an error-prone technology suggests that the appearance of a process is more important than accuracy. – Chris Gilliard
…a Roman Catholic priest…[named] Korey LaVergne was jailed…on [January 16th for child molestation]…the…arrest comes at a relatively fragile time for the Lafayette diocese, which…[has] disclosed its “total range of potential loss on [pending child molestation] claims…is $88,187,500 to $162,450,000”…A Lafayette diocese priest named Gilbert Gauthe effectively brought the decades-old, worldwide Catholic clergy abuse crisis to the US by pleading guilty in 1985 to molesting several boys…
Because obviously prohibition doesn’t ruin enough lives yet:
…Arizona [politicians want to make]…amyl nitrates — commonly known as “poppers” — illegal in the state, [criminalizing mere possession of] a substance long sold in a legal gray area and closely associated with LGBT…nightlife and sexual culture. House Bill 2191…would also ban the sale of nitrous oxide, often called “laughing gas”…The proposal [appears to be a spinoff of increased] federal scrutiny of poppers…[including raids on] several manufacturers…[by] the FDA…[because the psychopathic] Robert F. Kennedy Jr…has repeatedly promoted the scientifically disproven claim that poppers — rather than HIV — caused AIDS…
Cop and preacher is like the molester equivalent of a full house:
A [typical and representative cop paid to lurk in schools in order to spy on, persecute, and intimidate students in] Colorado was [also a preacher]…Rubel “Tim” Martinez…was arrested [for repeatedly molesting a student]…from 2014 to 2016…and [has now been convicted]…Martinez [also]…ran an after-school clown club…
Government thugs don’t care how many false positives these systems shit out:
When…ICE…[goons subjected one of their victims to their] facial recognition app [without her consent], it returned two different and incorrect names, [demonstrating that]…the[ir] app…called Mobile Fortify, [is just as error-prone as all facial recognition software]…de[spite utterly ridiculous claims that it]…should be trusted over a birth certificate…“ICE has treated Mobile Fortify like it’s a 100% accurate record retrieval system of everybody’s immigration status for the entire population of the U.S. when this is obviously not true, and could never be true from a technical perspective,” [said] Cooper Quintin…[of] the Electronic Frontier Foundation…The [victim,] a 45-year-old woman who court records call MJMA…is now suing ICE and being represented by attorneys from the Innovation Law Lab…
Zuckerberg flushed $77 billion down a “virtual” toilet:
After years of failing to produce a profitable [virtual] reality platform, [Facebook] is pounding one of the final nails into the coffin of its metaverse efforts — the ones that were once so central to its vision that it renamed the entire company after them…[it is] laying off some 1,500 employees from its Reality Labs division…[and] three VR game studios were shuttered, though [its]…online VR game platform…is still running…in a diminished capacity…
A convenient way to cover up wanton murder:
Under the law, ICE is required to provide necessary medical care for [its victims]…While [it] employs some of its own medical staff, it often uses third-party providers…ICE, however, has not paid any third-party providers for medical care for detainees since October 3, 2025…[and has] announc[ed] it will not begin processing such claims until at least April 30, 2026…[this] has [understandably] caused…medical providers to deny services to ICE [victims]…ICE [told inquiring reporters to fuck off]…
Government violence claims another victim:
A Nicaraguan immigrant [captur]ed by ICE [goons] in Minneapolis has become the third [victim] to die at [Concentration] Camp East Montana in El Paso…Victor Manuel Diaz…was…[supposedly found] dead on Wednesday, Jan. 14…ICE…[is calling it a] suicide…[but the same thing was claimed about] Geraldo Lunas Campos…[when goons murdered him] on Jan. 3…At least six migrants have died…in [US concentration camps]…since Jan. 1…
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It’s always nice to discover that there is already a name for a phenomenon I’ve observed, in this case the fact that in any poll, roughly 4% of respondents will claim to agree with any statement, regardless of how outlandish it is. Until last week, I didn’t know there was a name for that, then I saw this article in Reason:
A Reuters/Ipsos poll released [January 14th] found a staggering 4 percent of Americans favor the idea of seizing Greenland with military force…the Lizardman’s Constant…[is] a term coined by Scott Alexander in 2013 to describe the surprisingly consistent finding that 4 percent of people will say they believe utterly outlandish things when polled—things like “human-sized lizards wearing skin suits control the world.” Note that I didn’t write 4 percent of people believe that. They just say that they do. Some of them might truly believe such a thing, but mostly the Lizardman’s Constant is a reminder that any poll will contain some responses from people who are trolling or giving answers at random (or who are deeply disconnected from reality). All of which means we can’t be certain that Trump’s threat to seize Greenland by force is actually supported by 4 percent of Americans. It’s just as likely, given Lizardman’s Constant, that there may not be hardly any Americans who genuinely support this idea…
Expressed more simply: when reading a poll, a result of 4% is essentially a de facto “nobody”.
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The Establishment…includes politicians, cops, bureaucrats, banks, well-connected corporations, institutions, academia, NGOs, the mainstream press…all the interconnected parts of the fascist regimes which act collectively to corral people into easily-managed herds.
– “The Establishment”
Trust is not something that can merely be given; it must be earned.
– “The Real Red Flag”
The entire reason people care so much about how the rulers get chosen is that they are far too powerful.
– “Minarchy, Monarchy”
A democracy in which there are functionally only two parties is not sustainable. – “Chicken Soup with Tweets“
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No puedo respirar. – Geraldo Lunas Campos
There are many ways for cops to enrich themselves at others’ expense:
…[a typical and representative Jacksonville, Florida cop named Nicholas Hicks has been] arrested…for felony grand theft…[because he was paid] thousands of dollars for working a [detail] at a local hospital, but…re[peatedly left] hospital property…[to the tune of] more than 52 hours…[out of 40 shifts, amounting to theft] of…more than $2600 for the “work”…Upon arrest, Hicks immediately resigned…
This actually appeared in the same article as “To Molest and Rape” below, but they are two separate incidents except for both being products of the same cop shop. Since the sheriff is hiding the identity of BOTH criminal pigs, I’ll feature his picture here instead until he changes his mind.
It’s almost sad to see cops still making the occasional pathetic bid for attention based in nonsense even useful idiots stopped believing in over a decade ago. The only things noteworthy about this one, from Atlanta, are 1) it attempts to hang the “gypsy whore magnet” albatross around the neck of the FIFA World Cup; and 2) Officer Chicken Licken claims that “[sex trafficking] has now gone into a trillion-dollar business worldwide.”
It’s really too bad they don’t inflict all of their violence on each other:
A Cleveland [Ohio cop] is facing federal child porn charges after being arrested at Miami International Airport…[when] Rafael Rodriguez arrived at the airport on a flight from Bogota, Colombia…[he was racially profiled by] CBP [goons who rooted in] his iPhone and [found the] files…
Hey, female cops; how’s that collaboration with the police state working out?
A…[typical and representative] Jacksonville [Florida screw named] Taaron Clayton…was arrested…for [taking out his dick and rubbing it against a female screw’s butt] on Dec. 30…Because he…[had not yet been granted his invulnerability to consequences he was] fired…
Another privacy-invading gadget from the usual antisocial assholes:
[Sociopathic tech companies are still trying] to make [wear]able [chatbot “]assistants[“] a “thing”…At least a dozen tech brands, most notably Lenovo, [are] push[ing]…small wearable gadgets that [surreptitiously] record and transcribe everything around you, [without the consent of anyone being spied on. Sociopaths and useful idiots]…have [embraced computerized] wearables like [surveillance] glasses…[though normal, decent people have not]. But tech brands still think they can sell people [who are not moral imbeciles] on an indispensable, specialized [surveillance chatbot] that [gullible nitwits] wear everywhere…the endgame is to record and analyze everything in [public society], and that’s not hyperbole…
They never stop demonstrating exactly what they are:
A court filing…reveal[ed] the identity of the [typical and representative ICE goon] who [wantonly murdered a neighbor] on New Year’s Eve and [reveals] that…he…h[as a long history of domestic violence] and [overt public] racis[m]…Brian Palacios [murdered] Keith Porter Jr….[and was caught out] in a custody dispute between [his] girlfriend and her ex-husband…Palacios [at first absurdly claimed he could fly so murdering a man shooting into the air was “self-defense”, but later] ICE [slandered the victim as] “an active shooter”…Jamal Tooson, an attorney for Porter Jr.’s family, said…“It is unimaginable that any human being with a conscience on this earth could regard [Palacios] as a hero”…
A few government doctors are now refusing to provide excuses for murder:
When [ICE] announced the Jan. 3 death of [one of their victims,] Geraldo Lunas Campos[,] at a Texas [concentra]tion camp, the[y pretended he had mysteriously dropped dead of]…no [apparent] cause…[but the] El Paso County…Medical Examiner…[will] classify the death as a homicide…due to [strangulation by screws. In response]…the Department of [Father]land Security [absurdly claimed] that Lunas Campos [had strangled himself despite witnesses reported that] guards [choked him to death while he was] heard…repeatedly saying, “No puedo respirar”…
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Axel is definitely settling into life at Sunset. As I’ve written before, I’ve been reducing his medication by 50mg/day every week, and now we’re down to 100mg/day. Last week I tried to give that to him in one bedtime dose rather than splitting it into two 50 mg doses at bedtime & midday, but that left him a bit too exuberant in the afternoon and evening, and he tried to chase Speck a couple of times. He immediately stops when I say “Leave it!” but I want to get him to the point where he doesn’t chase her at all, so for right now I’m going to hold him at 50mg twice daily until the end of January, then I’ll try to nudge it down by 25 daily mg a month until we can get him off of it completely. On at least 5 or 6 occasions in the past week Speck has trotted through the living room right in front of him with no reaction beyond his perking up a bit, even without my saying anything, so I think we’re on the right track. I think it helps that Trip, whom he seems to look to for guidance, does not have any issue with cats, but we’ll see; unfortunately, Trip has this weird habit of occasionally running up to Jonathan and barking at him for no apparent reason, and as of Sunday Axel seems to have picked up that habit from him. I’m not too worried because Jonathan just stands there and looks at him like, “What the hell are you on about, dog?” and he’s much too big for the dogs to hurt. So one thing at a time: “Don’t chase things smaller than you” is much more important than “Don’t irritate things big enough to stomp on you”, because the latter tends to be self-reinforcing.
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The happy ending here is that despite all their ridiculous mumbo-jumbo and frantic posturing, Death will win as it always does.Ave Mortis, Imperator Mundi.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-12-13T18:51:08.690Z
Lost Generation: 1890-1910 (roughly)"Greatest" Generation: 1911-1928Beat generation: 1929-1945Baby Boom: 1946-1963Generation X: 1964-1981Millennials: 1982-2000Generation Z: 2001-2018Generation Alpha: 2019-2036 (end subject to change, depending)
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-12-13T21:00:54.989Z
Given the corrupting effect of power, the most powerful person on the planet will INEVITABLY become the worst person on the planet, even if he wasn't to start with.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-12-15T18:12:36.252Z
"What if flapping your arms very hard will enable you to fly?"
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-12-16T18:08:56.505Z
A *big* step up from letting politicians decide.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-12-18T18:06:59.349Z
A one predisposed to disobedience since childhood, who has suffered social censure for that inclination since the early 1970s, I've always viewed the American self-image as "rebellious" as a crock of self-aggrandizing bullshit.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-12-19T19:42:19.764Z
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-12-20T02:48:07.776Z
My paternal line did not emigrate to America; America bought our home from Napoleon. IOW America chose *us* rather than vice-versa.My late friend Grace's ancestors were here long before the 1st Europeans.And both of us would tell you that people sworn in this morning are just as American as us.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-12-20T18:19:01.037Z
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-12-22T03:55:50.740Z
My X's anniversary is also MY anniversary, though I would nor more expect a computer to grasp that than I would trust it to compose a post on the topic, presuming I was such a narcissist that I would request such a childish thing.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-12-23T18:10:08.836Z
On the First Day of Christmas my true love gave to me:
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-12-25T17:28:38.681Z
The process of obtaining a literature degree taught me that "literary" fiction is rarely better than genre fiction, and frequently worse.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-12-26T18:03:49.571Z
I have often said that modern US "conservatives" long for an imaginary past, while modern US "progressives" long for an imaginary future.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-12-27T18:28:49.015Z
The very fact that there is no murderer registry tells you everything you need to know about the "sex offender" registry.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-12-29T18:15:33.474Z
So basically, the entire movie is a Rickroll.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-12-30T08:08:05.987Z
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-12-31T17:50:42.716Z
What book is sacred enough to you to get sworn in on?
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-01-02T18:45:41.673Z
Slopmaker who makes money from slop wants you to move beyond wanting quality and embrace his slop.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-01-03T08:33:17.438Z
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-01-04T02:41:43.416Z
Axolotls always make me smile. I mean, look at this cute little booger! See its happy little face? How could you not smile?
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-01-04T08:10:14.387Z
How many branches of the Vichy government did General de Gaulle control?
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-01-05T18:17:30.100Z
Psychosis is a reason, just not a sane one.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-01-06T07:57:18.251Z
Collectivism is a mental illness.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-01-08T18:07:26.157Z
Mammon. The Biblical name for this deity is Mammon. As in, "Ye cannot serve God and Mammon."
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-01-09T17:59:08.165Z
Mrs. Boudreaux, please get off the line; we really need to make a call. I promise we'll be off in five minutes.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-01-10T18:01:58.758Z
My turn! It just dawned on me that if the ICE agent were a circus clown, and the woman the ghost of Anne Boleyn, and the roles were reversed, but the ghost threw her head at the clown instead of shooting him, he could juggle it and The Coulrophobia Lobby would be fully on the side of the ghost.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-01-11T03:59:55.538Z
That is such a cute little piggy though, definitely MUCH cuter than any cop deserves.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-01-12T19:58:14.596Z
Good grief, my Barbie was a scientist despite having come in an ordinary Barbie box rather than a "scientist" box with a lab coat.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-01-13T18:48:52.787Z
"Sorry, neither."
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-01-14T08:56:39.781Z
Perhaps if you'd stop calling politicians "leaders", they'd stop treating y'all like followers.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-01-15T08:27:31.066Z
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-01-16T19:00:03.300Z
A national treasure.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-01-17T18:58:44.504Z
Mu.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-01-18T18:25:47.300Z
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We’re now employing people who are not equipped to tie their own shoelaces.
I can’t think of a more appropriate sendoff for Bob Weir than this one. The links above it were provided by Popehat; Brooke Magnanti and Jesse Walker; The Onion; Phoenix Calida; IncarcerNation; and Walter Olson, in that order.
- Last week in artificial stupidity.
- R.I.P. Bob Weir and Erich von Däniken.
- The best satire cleaves close to the truth.
- “A complete disaster from beginning to end.“
- Another success for the police suicide assistance service.
- “An educated fool is more foolish than an uneducated one.“
From the Archives
- Beijing’s campaign to police Chinese people in the US must be shut down.
- When will the mainstream media admit that pigs in schools are a menace?
- Prohibition turns bodies into “crime scenes” which cops can violate at will.
- Government should have too little power for the rulers’ identity to matter.
- Here come automakers’ excuses for nonconsensual surveillance of marks.
- It’s never called “trafficking” when government or corporate cronies do it.
- Driving a modern car feels like being a passenger in an amusement ride.
- It’s time courts stopped letting cops get away with literal armed robbery.
- Hey, female cops; how’s that collaboration with the police state working?
- Ballard’s partners are trying to salvage as much of the scam as possible.
- Keep plunging that ice pick in; the bad thoughts will go away eventually.
- Cops should spend all of their time fantasy role-playing with each other.
- Why bother with license plate readers when fools will pay to be tracked?
- Politicians are terrified of losing ways to destroy peaceful citizens’ lives.
- Cops really don’t care how many false positives these systems shit out.
- SCOTUS says it’s OK for prohibitionist laws to specifically target Blacks.
- “Progressives” want everyone forced to work for bosses and managers.
- Some believe they can live forever by eliminating all pleasure from life.
- How many women died due to inaction by this murderer’s cop buddies?
- Beijing ramps up its campaign to silence Chinese people outside China.
- Cops & “church leaders” differ in that the latter aren’t typically armed.
- The UK’s long internet censorship campaign turns mindlessly carceral.
- SCOTUS says it’s OK for prohibitionists to intentionally let women die.
- The real humanitarians fight against racist “anti-trafficking” schemes.
- Cops, artificial stupidity, Peter Yarrow, Anita Bryant, and much more.
- This will continue while fools teach children obedience to “authority”.
- Trust is not something that can merely be given; it must be earned.
- If these fanatics focused on cops & preachers, they’d actually help.
- Cops, Jeff Beck, Walter Cunningham, Fay Weldon, and much more.
- Your irregular reminder that this blog depends on reader support.
- The sick American mind at work again, seeing sex where it isn’t.
- The legacy of To Catch a Predator just keeps on hurting people.
- Universal criminality provides many avenues for State violence.
- The war on trans people has expanded to include drag queens.
- A sadly typical outcome when a high-ranking cop is the rapist.
- Mississippi demonstrates exactly what it thinks of its subjects.
- Maybe politicians shouldn’t put words in bureaucrats’ mouths.
- Cops, magnets, short videos, Cindy Morgan, and much more.
- How dare adult men want consensual sex with adult women!
- “Children’s minister” blames porn and Satan for his crimes.
- Privacy as we once knew it will soon be a thing of the past.
- I’m surprised Florida took so long to join the nitwit parade.
- Cops should not be allowed anywhere near legal minors.
- Why every company wants you to download its “app”.
- “Criminality” is a status defined entirely by the State.
- Behold the fruit of the “human trafficking” narrative.
- Perhaps Alabama’s state bird should be the ostrich.
- Apparently, magic insta-fentanyl only affects cops.
- Probably not the outcome prosecutors expected.
- The word “ghoulish” leaps immediately to mind.
- Tim Ballard’s downfall is increasingly satisfying.
- Even roses need a little time off to recharge.
- Sleeping with cops isn’t safe for men, either.
- Just another rapist cop following his bliss.
- Anti-sexworker bigotry harms all women.
- A new tag specifically for rapist screws.
- I’m sure Mr. Rodriguez feels safer now.
- Throwback Thursday Created Woman.
- Another curated selection of tweets.
- Burble burble RED AND BLUE drool.
- Much, much more of this, please.
- The ceiling of my new bathroom.
- Zuckerberg is out of his mind.
- It was just a big “whoopsie”.
- Hotel Throwback Thursday.
- This was a water filter.
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