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“I can’t breathe.”
The last words of George Floyd.
“I can’t breathe.”
The last words of Henry Nowak.
Henry Nowak was an 18-year-old Englishman, a student of Polish descent, and was studying for a degree in Accounting and Finance at Southampton University, England. (more…)
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Originally published on Substack.
Piecing together the details of what happened on the night of Wednesday the 3rd of December 2025 on Belmont Road in Southampton might be pointless – we know the gist – but still, it is interesting to do. (more…)
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I’m a cop killer, better you than me
Cop killer, fuck police brutality!
Cop killer, I know your family’s grieving, fuck ’em!
Cop killer, but tonight, we get even, ha ha!
—Body Count & Ice-T, “Cop Killer” (more…)
Ross Perot (photo courtesy of Wikipedia Commons)
Ross Perot (photo courtesy of Wikipedia Commons)
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The Chernobyl nuclear reactor in the Soviet Union suffered a catastrophic meltdown in April 1986. The disaster was too big to ignore, and it shattered the prestige upon which the Evil Empire was built. Thereafter the entirety of the Communist bloc in Europe started to collapse. (more…)
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Part 3 of 3 (Part 1 here, Part 2 here)
Is police brutality really about race?
I’ll give the chapter’s title a short answer. Of course police brutality is about race. After all, remember the Prime Directive! “It is about race if a person of color thinks it is about race.” Multitudes of them believe that police brutality is about race, and that makes it true; modus ponens, QED. (more…)
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There’s no shortage of doom and gloom lately. With America’s nuclear launch codes in the hands of an incompetent crook suffering from dementia, there’s plenty of reason for concern. Many other world leaders are sucking up to some geezer in Davos who seems like a wannabe Bond villain, and there’s not much to love about that, either. (more…)
Lisa Edwards, shortly before her unnecessary death.
Lisa Edwards, shortly before her unnecessary death.
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In response to 2014’s absurdly overblown and preposterously misguided public outrage over Michael Brown’s shooting death in Ferguson, Missouri , President Barack Obama asked the federal government to allocate $263 million to provide police departments nationwide with body cameras so they could finally film all these white-supremacist cops wantonly and sadistically brutalizing black bodies in the streets. (more…)