I was born and raised in a very wet climate, so I’m used to it; I lived in a drier one for almost a decade, and eventually decided I did not care for it, so here I am living in an extremely damp one again. What that means is, while people in much of the world are concerned with conserving water, our problem is a surfeit of water. And that means I’ve had to spend a great deal of time and effort, and more than a little money, on structures and measures designed to keep water out of places I don’t want it to be. There was a drip in the new bathroom which took me a year to finally stop, and of course I just finished fixing a leak in one of the hot tub seals, but I still can’t figure out what’s causing the persistent leak on the north porch every time it rains. I took off a ceiling panel so I could get in there, installed a new flashing with plenty of rubber sealant, and used several cans of expando-foam to close up the gap between the metal roofing ad the shingles of Chekhov’s cottage roof, and though most of the problem seems to have been solved from above, there’s still a drip below that I just can’t track down. I guess it isn’t really important; it’s on the porch rather than inside the walls, and it’s nothing like it was. But it still makes me crazy that try as I might, I just can’t see where the damned water is coming from. Worse come to worst, I’m just going to slather a lot of Durabak over the area when I’m waterproofing several other things this summer; with any luck that’ll also solve the intermittent problem in the walkway behind the tub.
Posts Tagged ‘Washington (state)’
Annex 100
Posted in Diary, tagged Sunset, Washington (state) on March 17, 2023| Leave a Comment »
In the News (#1320)
Posted in Current Events, Miscellaneous, News, Tyranny, tagged abortion, California, censorship, Choke Point, cops, drugs, Enablers, hysteria, If Men Were Angels, internet, law, politicians, propaganda, rape, scams, streetwalkers, Texas, The Clueless Leading the Hysterical, The Mob Rules, The Widening Gyre, To Molest and Rape, United Kingdom, Washington (state), Washington DC, You Were Warned on March 11, 2023| 1 Comment »
[The SAFE TECH Act] takes nearly every single idea that people who want there to be less speech online have had, and dumped it all into one bill. – Mike Masnick
One would think by now that the title “youth pastor” would be a big red flag:
Gary Buckaloo…[has been] charged with…[repeated] sex[ual] abuse of a child…under 14…Buckaloo is listed as [something called] a Life Skills teacher [in] Buffalo [Texas]…and…is…also…the Youth Pastor and Worship Leader for First Baptist Church Normangee…
…Texas [politician]…Drew Spring [has] proposed a bill…that would make it a felony for credit card companies to “process a transaction” for abortion pills sales…[and] allow any citizen to sue a credit card company for allowing that sale to happen…[meanwhile, politician] Steve Toth introduced a bill that [demands] internet service providers [illegally censor]…”information…intended to assist or facilitate efforts to obtain an elective abortion or an abortion-inducing drug”…
You can’t keep a bad bill down:
…This year’s SAFE TECH Act is a redux of a bill first introduced in 2021. That version—which Techdirt Editor in Chief Mike Masnick called “a dumpster fire of cluelessness” — failed to go anywhere (thank goodness). But now the SAFE TECH Act is back…[for] yet another stab at undermining Section 230…The first change [it]…would make is to…open up a huge range of tech companies to more liability. Blogging platforms like WordPress and newsletter and podcast distributors like Substack would be vulnerable, as would any social media platform that provides a paid tier level…[and] all sorts of web hosting services—creating huge incentives for providers to cut off…access to any person or group even slightly controversial…the bill [also encourages lawsuits against] content likely to cause “irreparable harm”…a vague phrase that could open a floodgate of lawsuits over anything…objectionable on social media…particularly speech that is unflattering to the rich and powerful…this…is a dangerous bill that would have far-reaching consequences for content creators, activists, people exposing police violence, whistleblowers, citizen journalists, and basically anyone who uses the internet…
The Clueless Leading the Hysterical (#1285) 
Three days after the Montgomery County District Attorney stood behind a podium and held up packages of THC gummies that he [claimed] contained heroin and fentanyl, his office [had to admit that] lab tests [proved that to be a flagrant lie]…DA Kevin Steele announced an investigation into THC gummies after two people purportedly overdosed after eating them…Steele [was forced to admit]…that his [publicity stunt]…was based on testing done with a [notoriously unreliable] portable device [of the sort typically used by cops to generate false “probable cause” in order to arrest people]…The gummies in question contain legal byproducts of hemp that are increasingly popular for recreational use…[despite] low…potency…[cops and other prohibitionists keep babbling about overdoses and “children” despite there being no known LD50 for THC]…Around Halloween, officials [tried to drum up panic] about so-called rainbow fentanyl, colorful fentanyl pills purportedly marketed to children, that [were of course proven completely bogus]…
In the UK, “disciplinary action” can mean telling rapists to “think about what they did wrong”:
Nearly 80 [cops] in 22 [cop shops] in England and Wales have faced disciplinary action for [raping, sexually assaulting, molesting] or s[talking]…victims, witnesses and suspects since 2018…the majority of those facing disciplinary action…resigned before they were [sack]ed. However, 10…remained in their jobs, facing lesser sanctions such as [stern words from superiors. Only]…two faced criminal proceedings. Nearly all of the offending officers were men, and all but two of the victims female…
The lengths to which spokespigs and their media lackeys will go to imply that rapist cops aren’t typical and representative specimens of their predatory breed are increasingly absurd. This story from Puyallup, WA (not far south of Seattle) contains almost no actual information, such as the name or picture of the rapist; it does, however, include at least four distancing maneuvers. The rapist “was still in training and had never worked alone as a police officer”; he was “off duty”; the rape was only “third degree”, implying less serious; and roughly half of the sketchy story is taken up with pompous oinking by the boss pig about how the rapists’ actions are “not representative” of cops, when it should be clear by now (to anyone whose mind isn’t completely rotted by copaganda) that such actions are most certainly representative.
It’s nice to see a journalist getting it for once:
[Disguised San Francisco cop] have recently been [fantasy role-play]ing as sex workers and [claim] they’ve busted 30 “johns” in a pointless exercise on Capp Street, in an ongoing effort to crack down on solicitation on that Mission District alley. One sex worker already told a local TV station what would likely happen if SF police continued cracking down on the sex trade on Capp Street, which dates back decades: The sex workers will just shift over to another nearby street…
I find paywalls distasteful, and so many people find this blog valuable as a resource I just can’t bring myself to install one. Furthermore, I find ad delivery services (whose content I have no say over) even more distasteful. But as I’m now semi-retired from sex work, I can’t self-sponsor this blog by myself any longer. So if you value my writing enough that you would pay to see it if it were paywalled, please consider subscribing; there are four different levels to fit all budgets. Or if that doesn’t work for you, please consider showing your generosity with a one-time donation; you can Paypal to maggiemcneill@earthlink.net or else email me at the same address to make other arrangements. Thanks so much!
Links #658
Posted in Current Events, Links, Miscellaneous, Music, Obituary, Tyranny, tagged animals, cops, fantasy, Florida, Georgia, Never Call the Cops, Ohio, pregnancy, Texas, video, Washington (state) on February 12, 2023| Leave a Comment »
We’re rehearsing, we’re rehearsing, we’re rehearsing.
– Domonique Champion
How the hell does one choose a song to honor the death of Burt Bacharach? There’s almost no way to pick his best or most appropriate composition, so instead I chose what may be his silliest (though very catchy), most inappropriate one. The links above it were provided by Mike Siegel, Yasmin Nair, Dan Savage, Phoenix Calida, Cop Crisis (x2), and Mark Bennett, in that order.
- Pleasant dreams.
- R.I.P. Burt Bacharach.
- R.I.P. Lisa Loring and Cindy Williams.
- Cops murder man for cleaning a house.
- Cops kidnap and beat a random homeless man for fun.
- Oinking out the magic word “priority” excuses hit and run.
- Inability to tell fantasy from reality is a job requirement for cops.
From the Archives
- Why do cats dislike having their picture taken while doing something cute?
- They actually admit part of the point is to normalize constant surveillance.
- The dumb “awareness raising” stunt field is now swamped by hack artists.
- Prohibitionists demonstrate the depravity of their lurid fantasies about us.
- Summer Stephan touts her personal animus against whores as “concern”.
- Defrauding & exploiting workers is only “trafficking” when sex is involved.
- Utah politician thinks he’s discovered a way around the First Amendment.
- Everyone harmed by “prostitution stings” needs to keep suing over them.
- Hysterical overreaction to the imaginary behavior of imaginary creatures.
- One of the rare occasions when I’m actually less pessimistic than others.
- To flush civil rights, just apply a label like “prostitute” or “gang member”.
- Canada pretends to care about privacy, but has plenty of snooping tools.
- The Miami Herald‘s Chicken Licken act is at the center of this debunking.
- This will continue as long as screws have absolute power over prisoners.
- Some companies want to destroy the internet to gain a temporary edge.
- “The increase…is so small…it is unlikely to be relevant for the individual“.
- 41% of cops admit to beating their wives; some don’t stop with beating.
- That the woman reported him tells me this wasn’t a coercion-free offer.
- Redbridge has a history of harassing sex workers with “crime” rhetoric.
- Some states want to stop cops from raping; Florida pays them to rape.
- This would at last truly be the beginning of the end for these evil laws.
- The “sex trafficking” moral panic is imploding in a spectacular fashion.
- California’s annual anti-whore pogrom did a lot less damage last year.
- Nobody will be safe until this odious practice is ruled unconstitutional.
- The hotel industry is really going to regret collaborating with fanatics.
- If a non-cop had done this, he’d be facing “sex offender” registration.
- Everett, WA still claims that “women who dress like sluts cause rape”.
- I think we have enough evidence to start calling this “McNeill’s Law”.
- Western articles about the Uighur genocide usually ignore the rapes.
- They didn’t refuse on principle, but rather on a warrant technicality.
- Cops, chicken, Christopher Plummer, Mary Wilson, and much more.
- The ongoing racist government campaign against massage parlors.
- Academics keep “discovering” what we’ve been saying for decades.
- The bipartisan war on the internet continues without even a pause.
- Finally, a politician actually supports sex worker rights with deeds.
- This unconstitutional bill has already failed in over a dozen states.
- There’s no police-statery Texas courts won’t hand-wave through.
- Irish versions of the “gypsy whores” myth always seem quaint.
- Another politician with a minuscule particle of human decency.
- Sounds like somebody needs therapy, but it ain’t the clients.
- People’s lives are just stakes in a game to these sociopaths.
- Once again, vanillas reveal themselves as the true perverts.
- Cops watch racist “virtual reality” porn and call it “training”.
- Cops, Skynet, Debussy, Douglas Trumbull, and much more.
- Moral panics become increasingly extreme until implosion.
- Cops, covers, Kirk Douglas, Orson Bean, and much more.
- Dominique “Body Fluids” Sepowitz’s latest bogus “study”.
- “Community concerns” is a euphemism for “busybodies”.
- The third installment of my six-part review of Blake’s 7.
- All that’s left of the once-popular “gypsy whores” myth.
- Is a “small group leader” the same as a “youth pastor”?
- Fascism in action, badly covered by a yellow journalist.
- Copmala will never let go of her hatred of sex workers.
- People are still terrified of the magical power of words.
- Prohibitionists care only about “messages”, not facts.
- Another of those nonexistent false rape accusations.
- Cops still love their “crackdowns” against gay men.
- Dozens of rapists rewarded with paid vacations.
- There is nothing as contagious as a bad idea.
- Eros Guide, Erotic Monkey, and David Azzato.
- Another week that’s chock full of rapist cops.
- The worst US tyranny is always bipartisan.
- Analyzing the damage inflicted by FOSTA.
- Recent highlights from my Twitter feed.
- Authoritarian is as authoritarian does.
- You just can’t keep a bad law down.
- I now have so many things to sell!
- There are no gaps in this roof.
- Rapist cop of the week.
- Vanishing gumbo.
I find paywalls distasteful, and so many people find this blog valuable as a resource I just can’t bring myself to install one. Furthermore, I find ad delivery services (whose content I have no say over) even more distasteful. But as I’m now semi-retired from sex work, I can’t self-sponsor this blog by myself any longer. So if you value my writing enough that you would pay to see it if it were paywalled, please consider subscribing; there are four different levels to fit all budgets. Or if that doesn’t work for you, please consider showing your generosity with a one-time donation; you can Paypal to maggiemcneill@earthlink.net or else email me at the same address to make other arrangements. Thanks so much!
In the News (#1312)
Posted in Current Events, Miscellaneous, News, Perception, Tyranny, tagged acting, agency denial, Australia, California, consensual crime, cops, Creepy Coppers, drugs, Hollywood, Lack of Evidence, law, Michigan, No Escape, politicians, porn, prisons, propaganda, psychology, rape, sex rays, streetwalkers, Texas, The Notorious Badge, To Molest and Rape, Torture Chamber, Washington (state), Winding Down, yellow journalism on February 11, 2023| 1 Comment »
Pay sex workers to educate you so you’re not reiterating harmful stereotypes out of ignorance. – Mahx Capacity
Hollywood follows rather than leads, so this is a good sign of a cultural shift:
…sex worker character[s] in…movie[s] or TV show[s]…are [typically] nameless, background-less, and function as nothing more than victims to be killed in a violent manner…but…a handful of [recent]…shows have represented sex work as ordinary work, and sex workers as complex characters, not singularly defined by the way they make money…What’s more, sex workers are becoming some of the most beloved characters — no longer the victims, but the heroes of their own stories. In recent releases like the second season of The White Lotus, and movies like The Menu, Good Luck to You, Leo Grande and Pleasure, sex workers are…among the most likeable (or, in the case of The White Lotus and The Menu arguably the only likeable) characters …and their choices are front and centre in the narratives…
The people the government empowers to police your sexuality:
…a [typical and representative Michigan cop named]…Todd Barraco…was arrested on Wednesday for possession of…over 230,000 images and over 9,000 videos…of boys between the ages of 3 and 12 being sexually abused by adults…Barraco was initially arrested on March 17, 2022…when he went to a house…with the intent of having sexual relations with a[nother cop fantasy role-playing as a] minor…
Useful idiots can always be counted on to eagerly lick up whatever toxic sludge cops vomit all over their upturned faces as they kneel in obeisance before the police state. Here’s an example; it’s mostly just the usual wildly-exaggerated demonization of streetwalkers which yellow journalists parrot every time a stroll shifts due to police harassment. But in this case, cops fed the ninnies the lie that the problem is due to the fact that they can no longer point their filthy fingers at any woman they want and oink out the word “prostitute” in order to justify assault, rape, and abduction (revoltingly euphemized as “rescuing women they believe to be human trafficked”). Even by the abysmally-low standards of local news copaganda, this one is repellent in the extreme.
Wash[ington politicians are considering]…legislation that would lead to more prison time for [screw]s who sexually abuse [people locked in cages by the state and put completely under the power of those screws]…the bill…[is a response to the case of typical and representative] Forks jail guard John Gray…who…served [only] 13 months of his 20-month sentence…[after] Kimberly Bender…died by suicide in [the] Forks [cage stack] in 2019 after [her] report…to [bureaucrats] that Gray sexually [abu]sed her [was completely ignored until she was dead]…
Destigmatization of psychedelics is happening much more quickly than I would’ve expected:
Australia…announced that…MDMA and psilocybin…will soon be used in the treatment of depression and post-traumatic stress. Psychiatrists will be able to prescribe the two substances from July…[due to] “sufficient evidence for potential benefits in certain patients”. The two drugs are…“relatively safe”…and provide…an “altered state of consciousness” that could help patients…
The government is beginning to grudgingly admit what everyone already knew:
…the…Bureau of Justice Statistics…released detailed data…on more than 2,500 substantiated incidents of sexual assault in U.S. prisons and jails between 2016 and 2018. The data starkly show how federal, state, and local officials have ignored their constitutional duty to protect incarcerated people from sexual assault, despite federal laws [pre]tended to create zero-tolerance policies for prison rape…the report found that perpetrators of staff sexual misconduct were…convicted, sentenced, fined, or pleaded guilty in [a mere] 20 percent of incidents in jails, and only a minuscule 6 percent…in prisons. And less than half of those staff lost their jobs…The Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA) of 2003 was supposed to create zero-tolerance policies for sexual abuse in U.S. prisons. However, PREA is largely toothless and, in many prisons, it’s a bad joke…
An El Paso [cop] was arrested [for]…aggravated sexual assault of child over a period of at least three years…Eric Bernardino Ramirez…[started] the repeated…molestation…[in 2014] before Ramirez joined the El Paso Police Department six years ago…
I find paywalls distasteful, and so many people find this blog valuable as a resource I just can’t bring myself to install one. Furthermore, I find ad delivery services (whose content I have no say over) even more distasteful. But as I’m now semi-retired from sex work, I can’t self-sponsor this blog by myself any longer. So if you value my writing enough that you would pay to see it if it were paywalled, please consider subscribing; there are four different levels to fit all budgets. Or if that doesn’t work for you, please consider showing your generosity with a one-time donation; you can Paypal to maggiemcneill@earthlink.net or else email me at the same address to make other arrangements. Thanks so much!
Links #657
Posted in Current Events, Links, Miscellaneous, Music, Obituary, Tyranny, tagged acting, Arizona, Canada, child "protective" services, consensual crime, cops, disease, drugs, Never Call the Cops, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, propaganda, restaurants, Things We Choose To Do Together, video, Washington (state) on February 5, 2023| Leave a Comment »
They couldn’t keep him alive for two weeks. – Richard Blodgett
David Crosby was not the strongest songwriter in Crosby, Stills & Nash, but this unusual composition is highly regarded by critics. The links above the video were provided by Radley Balko; Mistress Matisse; Jesse Walker and Mike Siegel; Cop Crisis (x3); and Kevin Wilson, in that order.
- But for video.
- The War on Drugs is a war on people.
- R.I.P. Gina Lollobrigida & David Crosby.
- Cops arrest woman for having a stroke.
- Cops beat and arrest woman for loving cheese.
- Drunk cop runs family off road, threatens to shoot them.
- Government is just a word for the things we choose to do together.
From the Archives
- This histrionic has-been has made a rotting moral panic her whole career.
- Trumpists & anti-Trumpists fight to control the “sex trafficking” narrative.
- I wonder how many more fakeumentaries we’ll see before the implosion?
- Woman paid to cause non-consensual harm thinks sex work is shameful.
- “Sex traffickers” have spread from big stores to gas station mini-marts.
- Don’t be fooled by this “shutdown”; it’ll be back in an even-worse form.
- A man has been convicted of “crimes” against people who do not exist.
- The Dutch scheme to Disnify De Wallen is no longer merely a scheme.
- Oh noes, they contaminated public places with their eeeevul sex rays!
- What kind of sick mind thinks hunting & raping women “builds trust”?
- Another cop scam to shore up the dying “sex trafficking” mythology.
- Just as we said would happen before this terrible law was imposed.
- Virginia screws sexually assault women like this on a regular basis.
- Even I’m impressed with the speed this is happening in New York.
- Pathetic public promotions of misogynistic masturbatory material.
- I’m sure the US Army really cares about “diversity and inclusion”.
- Does this anti-whore bullshit spring from the film or its reviewer?
- “Give me your huddled masses, so I can lock them in dungeons”.
- Take a guess why this woman hates sex workers. Go on, guess.
- They’re trying to cut off sex worker access to travel worldwide.
- Cops, politicians, buttholes, dinosaurs in love, and much more.
- Oh look, a psychopathic rapist-murderer cop has raped before.
- We haven’t seen a case of white van hysteria in almost a year.
- The verbal equivalent of vomiting up gallons of toxic diarrhea.
- Cops, satire, Cloris Leachman, Cicely Tyson, and much more.
- Judge denies prosecutors’ wish to keep nonconsensual porn.
- Tara Burns on the “But she’s a whore!” defense for rape.
- Still doubt that politicians are deranged megalomaniacs?
- Notice how often predatory cops’ victims are underage?
- One of the greatest legal abominations ever conceived.
- “The crime was sexually motivated”. No shit, really?
- A retrospective of my blogging from January 2012.
- Another obituary of Margo St. James from 48 Hills.
- People sometimes ask why I’m not on Facebook.
- Are most cops even capable of telling the truth?
- Michael Bloomberg vs. Melissa Petro’s sex rays.
- Cops, headlines, Don Wilson, and much more.
- White van hysteria appears to be broadening.
- There is nothing as contagious as a bad idea.
- The Miami Herald‘s Super Bowl tragedy porn.
- The US is following in the footsteps of China.
- The US has regularly done this for decades.
- Until SCOTUS acts, this will only get worse.
- Sex workers cannot cure violent misogyny.
- A number of things fall quietly into place.
- Part 2 of my six-part review of Blake’s 7.
- This is why we can’t have nice things.
- My two previous columns for Imbolc.
- The arrival of our standby generator.
- We’re way past the watershed now.
- The second leaf of my atrium roof.
- A circle-jerk of prudish teamsters.
- Job opportunities with Prostasia.
- The “security” system that isn’t.
- How bisexual is Maggie?
- Rapist cop of the week.
- The right kind of snow.
- The Omega Factor.
I find paywalls distasteful, and so many people find this blog valuable as a resource I just can’t bring myself to install one. Furthermore, I find ad delivery services (whose content I have no say over) even more distasteful. But as I’m now semi-retired from sex work, I can’t self-sponsor this blog by myself any longer. So if you value my writing enough that you would pay to see it if it were paywalled, please consider subscribing; there are four different levels to fit all budgets. Or if that doesn’t work for you, please consider showing your generosity with a one-time donation; you can Paypal to maggiemcneill@earthlink.net or else email me at the same address to make other arrangements. Thanks so much!
Diary #656
Posted in Diary, tagged Sunset, Washington (state) on January 24, 2023| Leave a Comment »
Having been raised in Louisiana, I know that a very damp environment comes with its own special problems, but for some reason it did not occur to me that building supply stores in such an area might nonetheless carry products unsuited to that environment. So when I bought two pre-hung doors for the atrium, I never thought the frames would swell so much in damp weather that opening and closing them would require so much effort that it’s practically a workout. Of the two doors I hung myself, the southwest corner door sticks a little and the bathroom door still operates as smoothly as ever, which I guess should teach me a lesson about trusting a corporation over my own abilities. Anyhow, when I asked Grace what could be done about the problem, she said she’d have to plane the frames down a bit so they wouldn’t bind; she picked out this power planer and I added it to my Amazon wishlist, where it was seen the very next day by one of my generous gentlemen and here it is! We plan to use it this week, and then maybe I won’t have to hurt my hands trying to open the doors or my shoulder trying to close them. So hurray for Grace! And hurray for Amazon! And hurray for generous gentlemen! And a big raspberry for Home Depot.
Tweets from the Darkside
Posted in Miscellaneous, Philosophy, Words, tagged activism, animals, blogging, censorship, child "protective" services, comics, consensual crime, cops, drugs, ethics, Google, language, left-right myth, Louisiana, politicians, porn, psychology, surveillance, teachers, Twitter, Washington (state) on January 23, 2023| 2 Comments »
THIS RIGHT HERE. If you want to understand why so many overdoses nowadays involve fetanyl, look up "Iron Law of Prohibition". Here, I'll help: https://t.co/Dh0b0CSmpT
Prohibition CAUSES overdoses. Period. Only cops & badgelickers find this controversial. https://t.co/Xme8s5jcMJ
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) December 25, 2022
Imagine cheerleaders hopping around chanting rhyming nonsense about how THEIR color is GREAT and will BEAT those OTHER COLOR players, RAH RAH RAH! And you'll get a sense of how this childish nonsense sounds to sensible people.
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) December 27, 2022
From MAD Magazine, September 1969: pic.twitter.com/yyXw4wbQId
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) December 29, 2022
This is why every animal and plant falls in "love" and they all have marriages. Every honeybee is a licensed and ordained minister of the Christian religion, even dozens of millions of years before Jesus. https://t.co/CPwPKm4viE
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) December 30, 2022
Why did anyone ever imagine that something called a "cloud" would be safe and permanent? https://t.co/ZhCuxmm3Ud
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) December 31, 2022
I hate when journalists try to make it sound like state violence is something that "just happens".
No, these people don't "lose" their children like one "loses" socks in the wash. Their children are forcibly abducted by the state to serve its own agenda. https://t.co/Kh6mYRgOqC
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) January 1, 2023
Well, be fair; "one who is completely unable to mind his own business" would be a pretty useful working definition of "politician".
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) January 2, 2023
And you can ALSO fully embrace your sexuality without being "dirty", "horny", "little", or a "monster". https://t.co/YlZQ3htFL8
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) January 3, 2023
My bank recently thought it was "suspicious" that I filled up my car at a Wal-mart gas station that I've frequently used in the past, then proceeded to buy about $300 worth of toys at that same Wal-mart, a few weeks before Christmas. https://t.co/A3cJI0oDZg
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) January 4, 2023
WHY IS TWITTER SO OBSESSED WITH ME EVEN THOUGH I DIED 12 YEARS AGO? pic.twitter.com/bUo0JhPB8F
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) January 5, 2023
Another idiot who not only can't read, but thinks tall, big, fat, or rich people should have more votes than short, small, skinny, or poor people. https://t.co/bCgcXrrZVz
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) January 6, 2023
The mob will always agree with those advocating mob rule.
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) January 7, 2023
Long, skinny, and wet? https://t.co/w5Os3wHBtk
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) January 8, 2023
Why don't we send this eccentric burglar to the home of that eccentric billionaire who's always giving away huge sums for childishly-simple tasks? https://t.co/F4riEigI2A
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) January 9, 2023
"Links", indeed. That's like saying our ancestors "linked" disease to sin, astrology, or witchcraft. https://t.co/h90bK2FfCh
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) January 10, 2023
…always been immune to the supposed omnipresence of porn. I cannot recall a single instance in the past 20 years where porn suddenly appeared before my shocked eyes in some venue where I didn't already know it might conceivably appear.
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) January 11, 2023
Addendum: "Excited delirium" is not a real medical condition, but a lie made up by cops to pretend people they murder were actually killed by a medical condition. It's as real as the magic fentanyl that causes cops to OD by merely touching it, with no actual opiate OD symptoms.
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) January 12, 2023
Yes, the Fossil Fuel Industry has a Death Star. https://t.co/8TZU4ZkNmQ
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) January 14, 2023
I think this image is going to haunt me. https://t.co/cbJIdwWWfY
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) January 14, 2023
Today's perfectly ordinary word Google doesn't know: "numerological".
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) January 15, 2023
"Sell their bodies" to mean sex work is a weird take.
"Sell their bodies online" to mean selling nude pictures is a completely deranged take.
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) January 17, 2023
SO MUCH THIS.
If you want people to have the freedom to create content you like, you need to support them so they don't have to spend time in more lucrative pursuits. https://t.co/1JbNHzabW1
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) January 17, 2023
I hope her settlement is more than she'd have made in 20 years of shitty adjunct pay. https://t.co/g0yMqGyXe2
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In the News (#1296)
Posted in Current Events, Miscellaneous, News, Tyranny, tagged Arkansas, Banishment, Blunt Instrument, brothels, California, cops, Having and Eating Cake, If Men Were Angels, Louisiana, Missouri, Ohio, Permanent Record, politicians, porn, propaganda, rape, RIP Carol Leigh, stripping, teachers, To Molest and Rape, United Kingdom, Washington (state) on December 10, 2022| 1 Comment »
I feel like a huge weight is off my mind now that I have told them what to do with their job. – Kirsty Buchan
It’s getting harder to tell the preachers from the cops:
A [typical and representative] youth pastor at a Southern Baptist church in southwest Missouri pleaded guilty…to six child sex abuse-related charges…Jeff Taylor…was sentenced to nine years in state prison…after a 19-year-old told a sheriff’s deputy that the youth pastor at her church had been sexually abusing her since she was 11…Taylor…did not deny the…allegations [but] claimed what he did “was based in love”…He was fired in 2020 [when he]…sex[ually] abuse[d a different girl]…
On the Simultaneous Having and Eating of Cake (#903)
The old strip club business model is a dead duck:
A federal judge has signed off on a $6.5 million settlement in a wage-and-hour dispute between exotic dancers and strip clubs in San Francisco and San Diego. A class of 8,402 exotic dancers sued SFBSC Management in San Francisco and Déjà Vu Services in San Diego in 2014 for allegedly misclassifying them as independent contractors and engaging in unlawful tip sharing…Judge Laurel Beeler found the $6.5 million settlement to be fair and reasonable, as it recovers about 14% of the “claimed best-case damages scenario of $45.8 million” and…since nightclubs were [denied relief under the] CARES Act…and forced to close during the pandemic — one defendant recently declared bankruptcy while five other clubs even closed permanently — the nightclubs’ ability to absorb a larger judgment was questionable…
It usually starts with “vice criminals”, but it never stops with us:
The neighborhood order of protection…is [a form of banishment allowing its victims to]…be arrested if [they] so much as set foot inside a 1.2-square-mile area — more than 100 city blocks — that is home to many of the organizations that provide shelter, meals and care to St. Louis’ homeless people…Other American cities order people to stay away from specific individuals or places, and some have set up defined areas that are off-limits to people convicted of drug or prostitution charges. But few have taken the practice to St. Louis’ extreme, particularly as a response to petty incidents…Seattle and some of its suburbs, including Everett, have blocked off certain areas…as “exclusion zones” where people who have been convicted of drug or prostitution offenses can be arrested. The practice has long been criticized by civil rights advocates, but…[politicians do it anyway and vomit the magic word “]crime[” at critics]. Cincinnati once barred people convicted of drug offenses from its own “exclusion zones.” But a court struck down the practice as…[un]constitutional…in 2003…
Louisiana [politicians want]…new laws [with which to destroy migrants’ businesses using the ever-popular pretext of]…“human trafficking”…[the politicians equated Asian workers to raw sewage, claiming that “]massage parlors often are cesspools for human trafficking…I can tell you right now in the state of Louisiana, there’s three or four thousand, as far as immigrants, that are trafficked from China that are brought here from flights to New York, brought on busses, all the way down to Louisiana. And there’s a minimum of two to three girls in every one of those massage parlors that are being trafficked,” [oinke]d Benjamin White…[of] the Louisiana Sheriff’s Association…[while panting and making furtive movements in his pants. The politicians]…say…they’ll be exploring new ways to have more incentives [other than permission to terrorize, rape, and rob women] for [cop shops] to have more sting operations. The[y]…also [want] ways to [profit from] landlords who lease to massage parlors…
A Scottish teacher [w]as…forced to resign after pupils spotted her OnlyFans account. Kirsty Buchan left her position at Bannerman High School in Glasgow after parents fumed at the images – but says she had no choice but to launch the sideline…as the school refused to pay her wages while she cared for her sick son. Parents complained about the physics teacher…but she resigned before disciplinary procedures began at the school…”I feel like a huge weight is off my mind now that I have told them what to do with their job”…
Tracy Quan remembers Carol Leigh:
Another version of referring to a rapist cop as a “former” cop:
…an Arkansas [cop named Justin Davis was] charged with…sexual[ly] assault[ing]…a 15-year-old…only six days [after joining the Forrest City Police Department]…Davis had previously been a [cop] in [nearby] Marianna, Arkansas…Forrest City Police Chief Ronald Broussard…[thought the most important thing was to distance himself from the crime by saying] “At the time of the incident he WAS NOT an officer of Forrest City”…
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In the News (#1291)
Posted in Current Events, Miscellaneous, News, Obituary, Tyranny, tagged activism, California, cops, Creepy Coppers, disease, Droit du Seigneur, drugs, hysteria, Illinois, Kansas, Massachusetts, New Orleans, No Escape, Oregon, Perquisites, pimps, politicians, porn, prisons, propaganda, psychology, Pyrrhic Victory, rape, RIP Carol Leigh, Stop faking!, surveillance, To Molest and Rape, Torture Chamber, Virginia, Washington (state) on November 23, 2022| 3 Comments »
You can’t win an unwinnable war. – José Irizarry
Carol Leigh, one of the leading figures of the US sex worker movement (she was the person who actually coined the term “sex work”) has died at 71 after a 7-year battle with uterine cancer. Carol became involved in activism just a year after she became a sex worker in 1977, and was involved in nearly every aspect of the movement throughout the ’80s, ’90s, and Oughts; even later she was always happy to give advice and guidance to younger activists like me. She was so well-known that even the mainstream media (including the AP, the NewYork Times and the San Francisco Chronicle) published obituaries, but the title links to one by a sex-work-friendly reporter (albeit in a publication which can’t seem to make up its mind); I’ll also be linking memorial essays from those who knew her as they appear.
José Irizarry accepts that he’s known as the most corrupt agent in U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration history…[for] conspiring with Colombian cartels to build a lavish lifestyle of expensive sportscars, Tiffany jewels and [women] around the world. But…Irizarry says he won’t go down for this alone, accusing some long-trusted DEA colleagues of joining him in skimming millions of dollars from drug money laundering stings to fund a decade’s worth of luxury overseas travel, fine dining, top seats at sporting events and frat house-style debauchery…federal agents, prosecutors, informants and in some cases cartel smugglers themselves were all in on the three-continent joyride known as “Team America” that chose cities for money laundering pick-ups mostly for party purposes or to coincide with Real Madrid soccer or Rafael Nadal tennis matches. That included stops along the way in VIP rooms of Caribbean strip joints, Amsterdam’s red-light district and aboard a Colombian yacht that launched with plenty of booze and more than a dozen prostitutes…All this revelry was rooted, Irizarry said, in a…reali[stic assessment] among DEA agents…that there’s nothing they can do to make a dent in the drug war anyway…“We know we’re not making a difference…The drug war is…a very fun game that we were playing”…
Useful idiots destroying any possibility that the facial recognition djinni can ever be rebottled:
…public anxiety about crime seems to be peaking. Determined to [capitalize on hysteria in order to win]…votes), major cities including San Francisco, Chicago, and New Orleans are turning to…surveillance as a [pretend] solution. This marks a big shift, especially for a city like San Francisco, which in 2019 became the first U.S. city to ban the use of facial recognition technology by…police. Boston, Portland, Oakland, and Jackson, Mississippi, have since followed…But…the [public is fickle and fearful]…“We went from a long-term view to an extremely short-term view,” explained Tracy Rosenberg…[of] Oakland Privacy…“[concerns about] the end of public anonymity…ha[ve] largely been replaced by a narrative that [says]…the short-term implications on your life right now are more important than any sort of future surveillance state”…San Francisco’s…passed a policy that will allow [cops]…to [root through]…footage of private security cameras [without a warrant]…Cities…expanding the use of surveillance technology…risk entrenching a permanent surveillance infrastructure that may be difficult to dismantle down the road. “The history of surveillance suggests that it’s not easy to put the genie back in the bottle,” argues Rosenberg. One of the most high-profile examples of this dynamic comes out of New Orleans, where [politicians] are poised to expand police surveillance less than two years after passing a sweeping facial recognition ban…
It’d be great if US cities could flush their toxic waste before somebody dies:
…Forks, Washington, will pay $1 million to settle a lawsuit…filed by the family of a young…woman who committed suicide in jail after being harassed by a guard with a long history of misconduct…John Gray…would later be convicted of sexually assaulting four other [helpless caged] women. But when Kimberly Bender—a 23-year-old Quileute tribal member struggling with drug addiction and depression—tried to report Gray’s misconduct, the Forks jail [blew her off while Gray]…sexually torment[ed] her…[until] she…hanged herself in her cell…
I’m sure they helpfully yelled “Stop faking!” at him as he died:
…Thousands die while locked [in cages by the State] each year…a third of [them]…are younger than 55, many suffering from untreated or poorly treated illnesses, with the prison healthcare system frequently deciding that treatments for common and debilitating ailments are not “medically necessary”…“If it’s not life-threatening in that moment…they put it off and tell you to…take ibuprofen,” said Tonya Wilson…an advocate with Freedom Project…[Clifford] Farrar, [a type I diabetic] who required four insulin shots a day, was initially given access to needles, test strips and a glucometer…But…prison…[bureaucrats in Washington state soon started refusing to pay] for…insulin supplies…and…on 27 December [of last year], Farrar…was found lying on the ground…with blood coming from his mouth…he…was declared dead 20 minutes later…the prison had repeatedly neglected his health, including by denying him supplies that could have prevented his seizures, failing to check on him when he did not arrive to get his insulin shot, and responding too slowly to his final emergency…
Just another typical and representative cop:
A Chesapeake [Virginia cop named]…Timothy M. Newton…was charged with more than 20 felony child pornography offenses [after an unknown party snitched on him]…
This just keeps getting worse:
[Typical and representative] Kansas City [cop]…Roger Golubski…[faces charges of conspiring with] Cecil Brooks, LeMark Roberson and Richard Robinson…[to run a violent pimping scheme] from 1996 to 1998…Brooks, Roberson and Robinson all…used physical beatings, sexual assault and threats to compel the young women to provide sexual services to men…Golubski…accepted [bribes] from Brooks, provided protection from law enforcement, and forcibly raped a[t least one] young woman…
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In the News (#1284)
Posted in Current Events, Miscellaneous, News, Tyranny, tagged Arizona, Buried Truth, cell phones, censorship, China, drugs, holidays, hysteria, King of the Hill, masturbation, politicians, prohibitionist myths, propaganda, Prudesville, Pyrrhic Victory, rape, restaurants, surveillance, Texas, TikTok, To Molest and Rape, Unsafe for Human Consumption, Washington (state) on October 29, 2022| Leave a Comment »
One obvious hole in the…[“drug treat” legend] is that drugs tend to cost more than candy. – Joel Best
The first “King of the Hill” claim I’ve seen in almost three years:
[A rescue industry group called] Reflection Ministries hosted [a propaganda session it labeled a “]human trafficking summit[“, in which professional “]survivors[” claimed] the Permian Basin is in the top five areas for most trafficked individuals throughout the United States…
The Permian Basin is a largely-rural area of West Texas; its only sizeable population cluster is the Midland-Odessa SMSE, with a total population of 320,513 over an area of 2,720 sq mi (118/sq mi, approximately the state average for Texas). Click on the link for other cities & states claiming to be in the “top five”.
Not a specific McNeill’s Law case, but adjacent:
A GOP candidate running for an Arizona college district’s governing board was arrested on a charge of public sexual indecency after a…[fellow cop] caught him masturbating in his truck near a preschool. Randy Kaufman was…[a screw] for 27 years…[and claimed] he didn’t know there was a preschool just feet away…In a Facebook post from May, Kaufman said he wanted “our children protected [from] the progressive left”…
Not an especially satisfactory resolution:
…Everett, Washington…passed a law prohibiting quick service food and drink peddlers from showing off certain body parts…The city didn’t even pretend to tie the law to food safety, instead c[laiming that “women who dress like sluts cause rape”]…A group of bikini baristas working sued, calling it a matter of women’s rights…the law…[also invent]ed a new crime of facilitating lewd conduct, to target the owners of bikini barista establishments…Now, a judge has finally ruled…that Everett’s dress code is unconstitutional because it violates the Equal Protection Clause of the Constitution. [Judge Ricardo] Martinez rejected the baristas’ argument that the dress code violated their right to free expression. And he let stand the city’s expanded definition of lewd conduct and criminalization [thereof, claiming]…that [stopping women from making money in ways politicians dislike]…is…an important government interest…
A China-based team at TikTok’s parent company, ByteDance, planned to use the TikTok app to monitor the personal location of some specific American citizens…The team primarily conducts investigations into potential misconduct by current and former ByteDance employees. But in at least two cases, the Internal Audit team also planned to collect TikTok data about the location of a U.S. citizen who had never had an employment relationship with the company…it is unclear from the [leaked] materials whether data about these Americans was actually collected; however, the plan was for a Beijing-based ByteDance team to obtain location data…in…[order] to surveil individual American citizens,
not to target ads or any…other purpose…
To Molest and Rape (Rapist Roundup)
“Police explorer” programs are nothing but grooming schemes for predatory cops:
A 17-year-old in Florida was part of a [grooming] program for [predatory cops, yet somehow everyone was shocked when]…a [cop] sexually abused [her]…Matthew Allen Anderson…is charged with sexual battery…
I’m sure if they really “investigate”, they’ll find multiple underage victims:
An investigation is underway [because a typical and representative Houston cop]…sexually assault[ed] a child…Paul Fernandez has not been charged but was terminated from his role…supervising Internal Affairs investigations…
Unsafe for Human Consumption (#1282)
The stupider the belief, the harder it is to debunk:
…TSA agents [recently] discovered around 12,000 fentanyl pills in a passenger’s carry-on bag…smuggled in boxes and packaging of well-known candy brands, like Whoppers, Skittles, and SweeTarts. [Cops and bureaucrats] quickly seized this detail as a reason to warn parents to be on the lookout for fentanyl pills in their children’s Halloween candy…Even though the pills seized during this week’s drug bust at the L.A. airport were all light blue, the fact that they were smuggled in candy boxes has allowed government officials and the media to piggyback on recent “rainbow fentanyl” fearmongering… “Stories about contaminated treats are best understood as contemporary legends,” writes Joel Best, a prominent researcher of “Halloween sadism…My data goes back to 1958, and…I can’t find any evidence that any child has ever been killed or seriously injured by a contaminated treat picked up in the course of trick-or-treating”…
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