Fuck. We just lost a saint.

"the electroshock gloves which are named like an exotic weapon you might pick up somewhere in the middle of the 1998 video game Half Life & come with a 25-page manual which among other things *specifically instruct the user not to torture people with them* look increasingly like torture"

Guardian US@us.theguardian.com · yesterday

"ICE tactics, already sadistic, are looking increasingly like torture," writes @judith-levine.bsky.social. "The slim avenues to legal recourse and the refusal of transparency or accountability by the perpetrators of de jure and de facto torture are driving detainees to desperate measures..."

I don’t know why we should take the media or any elected officials seriously when it’s been over 2 months and they can’t even tell us if a sitting senator is dead or not.

This is what the growth of surveillance is going to bring. Not safety from crime, but new, non-criminal acts redefined as criminal so as to give the police an excuse to exercise power. local12.com/news/offbeat...

Police request public's help to find suspect who picked up $30 off ground in Walmart

A police department took to social media and asked the public to help them identify a suspect who found $30 on the ground in Walmart.

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New Orleans! @showoffjonah.com and I are performing our show, DOUBLE INDUMBNITY at the Allways Lounge on Wednesday, Sep 7 at 7 pm! Get your tickets here: redeyetickets.com/events/doubl...

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Sparkling chanteuse John Coons and Broadway-musician-turned-adult-performer Jonah Wheeler arrive in New Orleans with an evening of queer frivolity, original…

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I do not want Democrats to figure out how they can work together to help Donald Trump enact his agenda. I want Democrats to win power and then act as a wrench in the gears of government for the rest of Trump's term. www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...

Holy shit. No wonder Carney told the US to pound sand.

Just caught a screening of Hot Spot. “The only way to fight the dystopic AI superintelligence is to let a cyber witch give you a fursona while your goth rocker wife masturbates!” [the final countdown plays] Cinema.

I figure with all the flock cameras, I may as well start an OnlyFans. May as well get paid while being surveilled.

I wanna be a full time pup with a scruffy stoner bf and in a polycule that goes around ruining the lives of rich people and oh fuck that’s just scooby doo

Was thinking about Lars von Trier and how violence against women sometimes seems to be the only tool in his toolbox in his attempts to get the audience to a particularly intense place and my brain went, "it's beating a dead one-trick pony."

Don't worry- they'll keep enough alive to use in beer commercials that talk about freedom.

Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social · 5d ago

The Trump administration is reportedly selling off thousands of wild horses, including to buyers suspected of sending them to slaughter

The Brooklyn Democratic Party chair has called a meeting for Tuesday so she can change the rules and overrule the results of a primary she and her allies didn’t win.

New Kings Democrats@newkingsdems.bsky.social · 6d ago

Democrats shouldn't be the party of anti-democratic power grabs and denying elections. Enough is enough. Our full statement:

This is extraordinarily dark: government agents surveilling peaceful protestors and trying to entrap them into breaking the law. It’s a classic measure of an authoritarian state.

Greg Sargent@gregsargent.bsky.social · 6d ago

Trump's covert surveillance of anti-ICE protesters is much worse than we thought. I dug into this and found that DHS agents secretly spied on over a dozen meetings of left-leaning groups, all protected by First Amendment. The details are unnerving. 1/ (new piece) newrepublic.com/article/2144...

Our DC show was glorious and Honcho was a queer, manic mess in the woods (I'm oh so very sore). Love to everyone who was at either!

A real treat seeing @johncoons.bsky.social and @showoffjonah.com tonight. And on the street corner I used to live on!

Good morning people born in 1985! Did you know that the day of your birth is closer to the end of WW2 than today? Happy Tuesday!

Ok, time to do a show in DC and then disappear into the woods for the rest of the week. Byeeeee.

You'd best believe that for our DC show I'm doing wordplay on "lobbyist/lubey-ist"

I hate the future. You should already know this, but don’t let your family & friends get their news from Facebook

“The combination of drier ground, longer fire seasons and changing land use is turning Europe’s decades-old contamination problem into a live operational hazard.” theconversation.com/europes-wild...

Europe’s wildfires have raised the danger posed by unexploded WWII bombs

Europe is full of buried explosives left over from 20th century wars, and wildfires are now reaching them more regularly.

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A Senate candidate talking about the Powell memo???? Pinch me, am I dreaming????

Team Talarico@teamtalaricohq.bsky.social · 3w ago

James Talarico: 50 years ago, a corporate lawyer named Lewis Powell circulated a memo around DC — a blueprint for how corporations could amass political power, reverse the gains of the Great Society and the New Deal, and rig the system for themselves. And it worked.

Still a few slots left at our DC show this Tuesday at a private venue! DM if you want to come!

I truly can’t get over how fucking expensive groceries have gotten in the past few years. I truly don’t know how this is sustainable. I’m ready to start burning some shit down and I know I’m not alone. I can’t take this shit much longer.

UPDATE: Erin Lee, Exec Director of Protect Kids Colorado, the org behind 3 Anti-Trans measures on the November Colorado ballot, has joined the call to pardon a woman who had her child abducted in violation of a protective order to be sent to an out of state torture facility known for abusing kids.

Julie Rei Goldstein@julierei.bsky.social · 3w ago

Anti-Trans attorney Erin Friday is attempting to petition Trump for a pardon for Shana Gaviola, a woman sentenced to 3 years for having her Trans child kidnapped in handcuffs from California to Missouri when the child had an active petition for emancipation as well as a protective order in place.

I would like to see more companies admit this - being a public company no longer means running a successful, thriving business. It strictly means delivering growth to investors, every single quarter, who do not care at all about the product the company sells or the people who produce it.

Hannah 'Pichy' Stockmann@hpichystockmann.bsky.social · 3w ago

Savage.

My Boston Nightmare

Me: Can I have a little kiss? (BF gives me a little kiss. Then another. Then another.) BF (whispering): I’ll never financially recover from this

A sizzle reel from our sold out Toronto show this week! Come see DOUBLE INDUMBNITY in DC, Boston, Seattle, SF, NOLA, or Atlanta!