Links #539

By Maggiemcneill @Maggie_McNeill

James Randi, AKA, “The Amazing Randi”, died last week at the age of 92.  If you don’t know who he was, watch this short video for an introduction; there’s also a full-length documentary on his life’s work, An Honest Liar.  The links above the video were provided by Mistress Matisse, Nun Ya, Franklin Harris, Radley Balko, Cop Crisis, Walter Olson, and Mike Siegel, in that order.

From the Archives

  • UK cops, desperately trying to draw others into their “sex slave” fantasies.
  • We were warned Israeli whore-censorship was only “part of a wider plan”.
  • Redbridge has a history of harassing whores with stupid “crime” rhetoric.
  • European Court of Human Rights kissed France’s arse, but the UN didn’t.
  • Any elected official who acts in this way should be removed from office.
  • The government keeps openly hiding information in the Backpage case.
  • The New York Times has discarded whatever credibility it once enjoyed.
  • Facebook wants to become one of the cornerstones of modern fascism.
  • Tech geeks create a “consent app” that is both useless and dangerous.
  • “When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time“.
  • Nobody will be safe until this odious practice is ruled unconstitutional.
  • If you weren’t horrified by China’s “re-education” camps for Uighurs.
  • There has never been a case of a kid getting drugged trick-or-treat.
  • Nigerian scholar demolishes racist European masturbatory fantasy.
  • They actually admit the point is to normalize constant surveillance.
  • Pimps are not common, but many of those who do exist are cops.
  • UK cops shoehorn migrants into their “pop-up” wanking fantasy.
  • How the government created a bogeyman to justify censorship.
  • All too often, evil arrives cloaked in the mantle of expediency.
  • I hope this doesn’t harm increased awareness of rapist cops.
  • Palantir helps cops spy on sex workers and minority groups.
  • Bezos wants to provide the engine to power racist pogroms.
  • It’s good to see so many challenges to these medieval laws.
  • Facebook claims this picture will sexually arouse its users.
  • Any internet-connected device can be used to spy on you.
  • Another Australian state moves toward decriminalization.
  • Your government wants this to happen more often.
  • A retrospective of my blogging from October 2016.
  • Sex and death are but two sides of the same coin.
  • Cops, politicians, a horror story, and much more.
  • Sex workers have been saying this for decades.
  • Your government refers to this as “correction”.
  • In the US, his victims would have no recourse.
  • The US is trying to rewrite Backpage’s history.
  • A tale of beauty, love, obsession and horror.
  • Cops, Pokemon, Halloween and much more.
  • My two previous columns for Halloween.
  • In which I downshift into Autumn mode.
  • A tale of the death of an immortal.
  • Welcome to our world, amateurs.
  • Population 13,255.  Seriously.
  • Kaytlin Bailey’s wedding.
  • Rapist cops of the week.