If there’s one thing the rising surveillance dragnet has exposed throughout North America, it’s that cops really don’t like to taste their own medicine. – Joe Wilkins
The Last Shall Be First (#1565) 
The inevitable result of encouraging ignorance and bigotry:
A woman [named Helen Rowlands] who suffers from alopecia was…accused [by a cleaner] of using the wrong toilet…at Tesco Extra in Gateshead [England]…Her husband Duncan…spoke to the store manager about the comment and they apologised. Helen is now speaking out about the ordeal to raise awareness of alopecia amongst others, including businesses…
May the same and worse happen to every company which does this:
In March…BuzzFeed…was reporting a net loss of $57.3 million for 2025…[because] former CEO Jonah Peretti’s [deranged] decision to double down on [computer-generated slop] had officially blown up in his face. Months later, it’s looking [even worse]…BuzzFeed’s…stock price fell off a cliff, sinking to $0.57 from a high of $2.09 earlier this year[, including] a nausea-inducing 38 percent drop in a single morning…after TV personality Byron Allen’s family…company bought a majority stake in BuzzFeed…[it] continue[d] to hemorrhage money…[and] laid off 33 percent of its remaining staff roughly two months after Allen took over…chasing MySpace, straight into the abyss…
The Last Shall Be First (#1646)
Burble burble BLUE STATE burble drool:
The Seattle Public Schools board has given the district the authority to hire lawyers and pursue legal action over [a new law demanding that girls who want to play sports submit to genital exams, because it]…would…subject girls to scrutiny and privacy [invasion] that boys don’t face…The board also raised concerns about the p[roba]ble legal, financial, and administrative costs for public schools…
If this isn’t stopped on the state level, it seems unlikely a federal court will help.
Fascists will never be satisfied until they control all people see, say, and do:
All smartphones and tablets [sold in the UK] would be [forced]…to install software…to [automatically censor any] images [badly-flawed algorithms identify as “child pornography”, a la Facebook]…Older devices could also be [thus disabled] using a mandatory software update. The c[rusade] is being spearheaded in the House of Lords by…John Nash, [the same politician] who successfully [rammed through the] ban on social media for under-16s [which is making the government look like fools. Another politician claimed devices not built in the UK would nevertheless have the censorship]…“built into the device and switched on by default”. Nash [answered sensible critism of the scheme by claiming tech companies]…can be [forced by law]…to do [anything politicians demand, even if it’s impossible. He also barfed] “illegal”…and…said: “Rather than going through [democratic processes]…I would much rather [accomplish my totalitarian scheme by arbitrary] government di[ktat]”…
Cop shop tries to hide the identity of a cop who murdered his whole family:
[A typical and representative Wisconsin cop named David Slawnikowski murdered his wife, his] two children, and [their] dog [before turning the gun on himself; another girl survived and was taken to the hospital. A spokespig moronically oinked]… “Everybody in the home was connected to one another” [instead of speaking like a normal person, and local yellow journalists obediently hid the murderer’s name]…
Give politicians an inch, and they’ll take several degrees of latitude:
…anti-pornography and anti-sex work p[olitic]ians [in the UK are at it again, demanding] the total prohibition and criminalization of online camming and the [invention of a new, undefined crime moronically labeled] “e-pimping”…members of the [infamous pro-rape] All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG)…[believe] that [all nudity and expression of human sexuality] should be outlawed within the United Kingdom…The 40-page report, published through the group’s secretariat organization, [the misogynist gang]…U.K. Feminista, explicitly [targets] OnlyFans…[with the same kind of puritanical nonsense it employed in attacking “lad’s mags” 13 years ago, including burbling]…”human trafficking” [at other politicians]…
“Cops really don’t like to taste their own medicine“:
…Milner, Georgia…Mayor Craig Timmons c[onducted]…an investigation…[which caught boss hog] Lamar Bunn…[playing hooky dur]ing the hours indicated on his time sheets. In addition to tracking his truck, Timmons…set up a surveillance camera pointed at the [boss’s sty]…To retaliate against the mayor…the entire [pig herd quit] on the spot…the mass-resignation exposes the hypocrisy of Georgia police, who have access to perhaps the largest [unconstitutional] surveillance operation in US history. As the home of [fascist] surveillance company Flock…the state of Georgia has nearly 10,000 automatic license plate readers…which are [unconstitutional]ly used by [cop shops] throughout the country to s[py on people] without [a warrant, for whatever reason they plea]se…
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