Saturday, June 29, 2019
Monday, June 24, 2019
U.S.A.! U.S.A.! vol. 188 (emphasis on the 88)
At least six children have died while in U.S. custody since September of last year, four of them while being held by CBP. Earlier in June, advocates discovered that CBP was holding a 17-year-old from Guatemala at a Border Patrol facility in McAllen, Texas along with her prematurely born baby, who advocates argued should have been in a neonatal unit at a hospital. And on Thursday, the Associated Press reported on horrific conditions at a Border Patrol facility in Clint, Texas, where a group of lawyers was astonished by the lack of food and poor sanitation.
'I Have Never Seen Conditions as Degrading and Inhumane': Scenes From the Border Camps
Sunday, June 23, 2019
Negation Aspiration vol. 166
Currently, we are facing our own seemingly intractable — but ultimately solvable — problems, much as Shinji faces the Angels. Right-wing authoritarianism is on the rise around the globe; climate change, still unchecked, is beginning to ravage the planet; and economic inequality is more visible than it’s ever been before. There are concentration camps in America, and there is a government agency tasked with conducting raids of unsuspecting immigrant families and capturing the ones without what the government deems correct paperwork. The president has personally approved this. Things are bad, and they are getting almost unstoppably worse. Morally and physically, the world is on the brink of disaster.
It all has to do with courage in the face of the apocalypse
Friday, June 21, 2019
NERRRRRRD! vol. 83
U.S.A.! U.S.A.! vol. 187
The next moment, still wearing correct business attire, shirt, tie, suit jacket, overcoat, he opens the overcoat, unzips his pants, and, forcing his fingers around my private area, thrusts his penis halfway — or completely, I’m not certain — inside me. It turns into a colossal struggle. I am wearing a pair of sturdy black patent-leather four-inch Barneys high heels, which puts my height around six-one, and I try to stomp his foot. I try to push him off with my one free hand — for some reason, I keep holding my purse with the other — and I finally get a knee up high enough to push him out and off and I turn, open the door, and run out of the dressing room.
The whole episode lasts no more than three minutes. I do not believe he ejaculates. I don’t remember if any person or attendant is now in the lingerie department. I don’t remember if I run for the elevator or if I take the slow ride down on the escalator. As soon as I land on the main floor, I run through the store and out the door — I don’t recall which door — and find myself outside on Fifth Avenue.
Columnist E. Jean Carroll Accuses Trump of Violent Sexual Assault In Harrowing NY Mag Article
Thursday, June 20, 2019
Negation Aspiration vol. 165
When officers arrived they found two children with black eyes. Then they found dead rabbits, dogs, a chicken and a pig, all openly decomposing.
Police: Children with black eyes, dead animals found at feces-littered Chester County property
Awwww Yeah vol. 116
previously on Awww Yeah
Mr. Raniere set up a harem
of sexual “slaves”
who were branded
with his initials
and kept in line
by blackmail.
of sexual “slaves”
who were branded
with his initials
and kept in line
by blackmail.
Wednesday, June 19, 2019
Negation Aspiration vol. 163
Police Say A Teen Killed Her Friend After A Catfish Promised Her $9 Million For The Murder Footage
Authorities say a 21-year-old in Indiana posed as a millionaire to convince teens in Alaska to send him footage of the girl being killed.
Monday, June 17, 2019
U.S.A.! U.S.A.! vol. 186
There would be a cartoon, like for kids. Or it might also have been a prime-time cartoon, actually. The situation was fluid, but consider the growth potential. Honestly, the whole notion was exceedingly hazy and changed a lot, but, as it got pitched among the corps of cold-calling salespeople to potential investors in a company named Premiere Publishing Group, the plan was this: There was going to be a cartoon, on television, that would feature Donald Trump jetting around and solving various problems.
This was the idea of a Broadway ticket broker turned Florida “space tourism consultant” named Mitchell Schultz, who dreamed up an animated series called Trump Takeover: The Ultimate Power Trip after a brief but inspirational interaction with Trump at a party. In 2006, Schultz talked up the show to an acquaintance named Michael Jacobson, who was the publisher of the then-extant Trump Magazine and the man behind Premiere Publishing Group, which he had set up in 2005. It all gets much worse from there, in all the cheesy, chiseling ways that every Trump-related business story invariably gets worse.
Friday, June 14, 2019
We Are The Sprocket Holes vol. 340
a woman with eyes in her nipples going to sleep and unleashing a vengeful id, a spider who has grown to massive size and become humanoid after her tears fall onto it
a random woman has a conversation with a man in a darkened alley, and then the camera pulls back to reveals she’s having a casual chat with an eight-armed spider creature, who then snaps her neck. Cut to the news anchor describing the scene, and saying the killer is being called “The Neckbreaker.”
Highlights of this story include too-good-to-be-true moments like the cops, standing over the body of yet another woman with her face cut off, saying, “The killer’s motive is clear: He cuts their faces off.”
It’s that rare fusion of painstakingly expressed love and total lack of ability that deliver the best of bad cinema, and he should be proud
a random woman has a conversation with a man in a darkened alley, and then the camera pulls back to reveals she’s having a casual chat with an eight-armed spider creature, who then snaps her neck. Cut to the news anchor describing the scene, and saying the killer is being called “The Neckbreaker.”
Highlights of this story include too-good-to-be-true moments like the cops, standing over the body of yet another woman with her face cut off, saying, “The killer’s motive is clear: He cuts their faces off.”
It’s that rare fusion of painstakingly expressed love and total lack of ability that deliver the best of bad cinema, and he should be proud
Holy hell, Glenn Danzig might've just made The Room of horror anthologies
Wednesday, June 12, 2019
U.S.A.! U.S.A.! vol. 185
Stories like this keep popping up on Twitter like zits on a prepubescent forehead: The sunshiney announcement about the GoFundMe for the guy with leukemia who can’t pay for his own medical costs. (He is employed by an organization whose owner has a net worth of $5.2 billion.) The dad who works three jobs to support his family saving up to buy his 14-year-old daughter a dress for an eighth grade dance. The college student who ran 20 miles to work after his car broke down and whose boss rewarded him for this effort by giving him his own car.
Do you get a sinking feeling when you read these stories? This feeling like, while of course you are impressed by the tenacity and generosity on display, you still want to vomit?
Behold, the rise of the feel-good feel-bad story.
The ‘feel-good’ horror of late-stage capitalism
Fairy tale or American horror story: Could be either, who can say?
Sunday, June 9, 2019
Awwww Yeah vol. 115
Longtime Linden minister used oral sex in exorcism ritual, men claim
“Put on the full armor of God, so that you can take your stand against the devil’s schemes,” the passage states. “For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms. Therefore put on the full armor of God, so that when the day of evil comes, you may be able to stand your ground, and after you have done everything, to stand.”
Meeker said the counseling sessions were held in a bedroom of the manse, the house owned by the Presbyterian church for its ministers. Before the sessions began, Weaver would open a square suitcase that he kept in his office holding the same items the other men also described in statements and interviews: feathers, assorted stones, buckeyes, a magnetic strip, an angel coin and Ziploc bags.
Every meeting with Weaver began the same way, Meeker said. The minister told him to undress completely and lie on the bed. Then he placed an angel coin — a coin with an angel or saint printed on it used for praying — on Meeker’s forehead and wrapped a magnetic strip around his head to keep it in place.
Weaver then would place a series of stones on both of Meeker’s feet his hands and on the left side and right side of his chest.
“I was told that for him to get everything out me, I needed to lay completely still to not move the stones on my feet,” Meeker said in the impact statement. “He would then take out the feather and scan my body from my neck to my stomach.”
Weaver then opened Meeker’s mouth, placed his own mouth on top of Meeker’s mouth, and moved his tongue around “to see if I had anything in my mouth or throat,” Meeker wrote.
Then the interaction became sexual, with Weaver engaging in oral sex, according to Meeker.
“He would then ingest my ejaculate and then would spit up multiple pieces of plastic or metal into a Ziploc bag,” Meeker stated.
He said he began to ask Weaver about the necessity of the ritual and asked the minister if he was using the same techniques on women. Weaver, according to Meeker’s statement, said “everything would come out of a woman’s navel and every 30 days their cycle would clear them out.”
Weaver said the evil energy manifested itself into what he called “hits.”
He also told Meeker that if the “hits” were left inside of him, they would cause infertility and erectile dysfunction.
Thursday, June 6, 2019
Wednesday, June 5, 2019
Tuesday, June 4, 2019
U.S.A.! U.S.A.! vol. 184
A new book explains why digital activism helps conservatives more than liberals.
Negation Aspiration vol. 161
Down the Rabbit Hole
YouTube has described its recommendation system as artificial intelligence that is constantly learning which suggestions will keep users watching. These recommendations, it says, drive 70 percent of views, but the company does not reveal details of how the system makes its choices.
Some studies have found what researchers call a “rabbit hole effect”: The platform, they say, leads viewers to incrementally more extreme videos or topics, which are thought to hook them in.
Watch a few videos about makeup, for example, and you might get a recommendation for a viral makeover video. Watch clips about bicycling and YouTube might suggest shocking bike race crashes.
When they followed recommendations on sexually themed videos, they noticed something they say disturbed them: In many cases, the videos became more bizarre or extreme, and placed greater emphasis on youth. Videos of women discussing sex, for example, sometimes led to videos of women in underwear or breast-feeding, sometimes mentioning their age: 19, 18, even 16.
Some women solicited donations from “sugar daddies” or hinted at private videos where they posed nude. After a few clicks, some played more overtly at prepubescence, posing in children’s clothing.
From there, YouTube would suddenly begin recommending videos of young and partially clothed children, then a near-endless stream of them drawn primarily from Latin America and Eastern Europe.
Ms. Córdova, who has also studied distribution of online pornography, says she recognized what was happening.
On YouTube’s
Digital Playground,
an Open Gate
for Pedophiles
Monday, June 3, 2019
Saturday, June 1, 2019
U.S.A.! U.S.A.! vol. 183
So do you find any irony to it now that (Godzilla) began as a protest of American imperialist policies and then fast-forward 60 years and now it’s kind of like an American imperial product?
Astute readers may note that Godzilla: King Of Monsters was produced by the Chinese-owned Legendary Pictures, distributed by US-based Warner Bros. Well, it’s not even 60 years later, it’s fast forward two years later when the Hollywood movie comes out in ’56 and you can already see the cultural blob just sucking in more and more. It’s a beautiful example of Hollywood kind of ideologically defanging a threat, a film that was all about the horror of the United States foreign policy.
Chernobyl Before Chernobyl: Remembering The Anti-Nuclear Origins Of ‘Godzilla’
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