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Devious Licks and Manufactured Danger
Curious Case of Nazi Catboys
Japanese Anarchism:
Abbott’s Border Folly
The Atlanta Shooting
- How the Atlanta Spa Shootings—the Victims, the Survivors—Tell a Story of America | Vanity Fair
- https://archive.ph/U3zrY
- White supremacy and the wellness industry, or, why it matters that this happened at a “spa”
- In China, Atlanta Shooting Victim’s Kin Struggle To Understand Her — And Her Death : NPR
- Witness describes how masseuse who died also saved his life
- Atlanta spa shooting survivor Marcus Lyon describes how masseuse saved his life
- Business owner, Army veteran, woman on a date: The victims of the deadly rampage through 3 spas in Georgia
- Xiaojie Tan dreamed of traveling the world and celebrating her 50th birthday with her daughter. Then the Atlanta shooter ended her life.
- Sex addiction fact check: Why so many young Christian men like the Atlanta shooter believe they’re addicted to sex.
- Atlanta Shooting Witness Says Victim Xiaojie Tan Saved His Life
- Did Georgia Capt. Jay Baker Promote ‘Imported Virus From Chy-na’ Shirts? | Snopes.com
- How ‘sex addiction’ has historically been used to absolve white men
- Yes, Blame Christian Fundamentalism for the Atlanta Murders
- My So-Called Ex-Gay Life – The American Prospect
- Former ‘Ex-Gay’ Leaders Denounce ‘Conversion Therapy’ In A New Documentary : NPR
- Conversion Therapy – My Exodus – Roy A. Blankenship
- Asian spa workers reflect on the Atlanta shootings, one year later
- https://archive.ph/oMfuO
- https://archive.ph/7mx6m
- https://archive.ph/vvitu
- “Of Bans, Sin, and Reconciliation” by M. Christian Green – Canopy Forum
- The Alleged Atlanta Shooter’s Church Tried to Disappear From the Internet
- Christian mass shooter Robert Long was tired of ‘temptation’ posed by massage parlors: police
- Details emerge about man arrested in Georgia shootings | Reuters
- Southern Baptist church where mass shooting suspect Robert Aaron Long was baptized grieves for dead
- The purity culture of Robert Aaron Long’s church
- Robert Aaron Long struggled with sins he committed at massage parlors, former roommate says
- https://archive.ph/2Ltp1#selection-584.0-590.0
- Atlanta spa shootings: suspect pleads guilty to four counts of murder
- One year after the Atlanta spa shootings, we can’t forget the victims’ names
- ‘She could have been your mother’: anti-Asian racism a year after Atlanta spa shootings
- The Atlanta Spa-Shooting Suspect Pleads Not Guilty In 4 Killings : NPR
- Assaulted. Harassed. This is the reality for Asian Americans a year after the Atlanta spa shootings
- Asian Sex Workers Want To Decriminalize Unlicensed Massage Work One Year After Atlanta Shootings
- Part 4 – Iron to Rust | Chuang
The Escherian Stairwell
Paywall, Libraries, and Free Media
The War on Trans People Part 1, Evangelicals & Gay Marriage
The War on Trans People Part 4, The Legislative Onslaught
Canada Convoy
- United We Roll convoy ‘100%’ successful, says organizer, despite concerns over funds raised | CBC News
- Military response to Ottawa protest ‘not in the cards,’ Trudeau says – CityNews Calgary
- RCMP to deploy additional resources to deal with Ottawa convoy protesters – CityNews Calgary
- The ‘Freedom Convoy’ Is Forcing Shutdowns at Auto Plants in Canada and the US
- The ‘Freedom Convoy’ Is Nothing But A Vehicle For The Far Right – Canadian Anti-Hate Network
- “Freedom Convoy” Descends On Ottawa, Throwing City Streets Into Chaos – Canadian Anti-Hate Network
- Ram Ranch Resistance: Gay Cowboy Song Disrupts Anti-Vax Trucker Convoy – Rolling Stone
- Coutts blockade costing Southern Alberta $3M/day: Economic Development Lethbridge
- Coutts mayor meets with truckers as protest at US-Alberta border continues
- COVID-19: Alberta’s vaccine passport program to end midnight Tuesday | Edmonton Journal
- Calgary health centre takes safety precautions after workers ‘harassed’ by protesters
- Coutts border protesters will be fined or charged, say province, RCMP | Calgary Herald
- Anti-vaccine mandate convoy: Health-care workers told to hide credentials | CTV News
- Protesters at Coutts, Milk River blockades say they are ‘ready to go to jail for what’s right’ | CTV News
- Protecting critical infrastructure | Alberta.ca
- 5G and QAnon: how conspiracy theorists steered Canada’s anti-vaccine trucker protest | Canada | The Guardian
- Ottawa protests: how did the rallies against vaccine mandates begin and what’s next? | Canada | The Guardian
- Convoy protest received hundreds of donations that appeared to be from abroad | CBC News
- https://twitter.com/DrBarbKing/status/1489384912322977794?s=20&t=Wk895OLWm37N7elXvlSFKw
- Truck protests: There may not be ‘police solution’ to ending Ottawa demonstration, chief says | Watch News Videos Online
- Analysis: Truckers in perfect spot to threaten cross-border trade | Reuters
- Trucker convoy fundraiser removed from GoFundMe
- The Canadian ‘Freedom Convoy’ is backed by a Bangladeshi marketing firm and right-wing fringe groups – Grid News
- Ottawa hits back after Ron DeSantis, Ken Paxton support ‘Freedom Convoy’ truckers – The Washington Post
- https://apnews.com/article/coronavirus-pandemic-business-health-detroit-canada-20f273b32bfa8ef695fdabcc7e11321e
- Ottawa protesters turn to Christian crowdfunding site after GoFundMe snub | Canada | The Guardian
- Anti-vaccine mandate protests spread across the country, crippling Canada-US trade | CBC News
- The whole world should be worried by the ‘siege of Ottawa’. This is about much more than a few anti-vaxx truckers | Arwa Mahdawi | The Guardian
- Ending Protest Requires More Police, Ottawa Chief Says – The New York Times
- The whole world should be worried by the ‘siege of Ottawa’. This is about much more than a few anti-vaxx truckers | Arwa Mahdawi | The Guardian
- How organizers with police and military expertise may be helping Ottawa convoy protest dig in | CBC News
- Ottawa Occupation Shows Why We Need Anti-Hate Legislation
- Canada’s Ambassador Bridge reopens after blockade by ‘Freedom Convoy’ protesters – The Washington Post
- Ottawa mayor and ‘Freedom Convoy’ agree to move trucks from residential areas | Fox News
- Federal government invokes Emergencies Act for first time ever in response to protests, blockades | CBC News
- Canada’s anti-government protests have spread across the world
By invoking the Emergencies Act, Trudeau tries to seize a new crisis | CBC News
EARN IT Act
Four Stories of Toture, Rape, and Murder from the Chicago Police Deparment
- In the Chicago Police Department, If the Bosses Say It Didn’t Happen, It Didn’t Happen, The Intercept
- Operation Brass Tax, The Intercept
- Chicago Police Covered Up Gang of Criminal Cops – Intercept
- Chicago Police Bosses Targeted Cops Who Exposed Corruption
- THE CHICAGO POLICE TORTURE SCANDAL: A LEGAL AND POLITICAL HISTORY, People’s Law Office
- Freedom Square Activists Imagine Public Safety Without Police Near Homan Square ‘Black Site’, Block Club Chicago
- Behind ‘the Disappeared’ of Chicago’s Homan Square – The Atlantic
- Protesters Demand Closure Of CPD Homan Square Facility – CBS Chicago
- ‘They looked like Isis’: masked raid led to ‘kidnapping’ at Chicago police site, The Guardian
- Homan Square detainee: I was sexually abused by police at Chicago ‘black site’, The Guardian
- The hidden: how Chicago police kept thousands isolated at Homan Square | Homan Square | The Guardian
- Jury convicts Chicago officer of 2nd-degree murder in shooting of Laquan McDonald | PBS NewsHour
- ‘Today we got justice’: What an officer’s guilty verdict for teen shooting means to Chicago | PBS NewsHour
- Laquan McDonald timeline: The shooting, the video, the verdict and the sentencing, Chicago Tribune
- New emails show Emanuel City Hall scramble on Laquan McDonald shooting – Chicago Tribune
- 4 cops suspended for week over dashcam failures at Laquan McDonald shooting – Chicago Tribune
- ‘I was struck with multiple blows’: inside the secret violence of Homan Square | Homan Square | The Guardian
- Chicago ‘black site’: former US justice officials call for Homan Square inquiry | Chicago | The Guardian
- A death in police custody: what really happened at Chicago’s Homan Square? | Homan Square | The Guardian
- Homan Square revealed: how Chicago police ‘disappeared’ 7,000 people, The Guardian
- The disappeared: Chicago police detain Americans at abuse-laden ‘black site’ | Chicago | The Guardian
- How Chicago police condemned the innocent: a trail of coerced confessions | Chicago | The Guardian
- Bad lieutenant: American police brutality, exported from Chicago to Guantánamo | Guantánamo Bay | The Guardian
- FBI releases records from its decades-old probe of torture allegations against Chicago police Cmdr. Jon Burge – Chicago Tribune
- What Chicago’s Ultimate Bad Cop Taught Me About Police Reform- POLITICO
- Writing the world of policing: the difference ethnography makes. Fassin, Didier
- City should settle cases of wrongful convictions based on police torture, Chicago Sun Times
- Lightfoot administration defending Burge torture henchmen, Injustice Watch
Guerillas, Cartels, and Dirt Wars in Mexico Parts 1 and 2
Hyperobjects & Our Liminal Reality
Cop26:
Cascadia Forest Defense:
Washington State Patrol:
Neoliberalism Part 1: The Avengers of Taking Food From Babies
Neoliberalism Part 2: The Trade World War: G7 vs G77
Neoliberalism Part 3: Where is Paul Volker
Neoliberalism Part 4: This is What Democracy Looks Like
The Efficiency Paradox:
- GLOBAL ENERGY GROWTH IS OUTPACING DECARBONIZATION, Global Carbon Project
- The climate mitigation gap: education and government recommendations miss the most effective individual actions, IOP Science
- Global inequalities in CO₂ emissions, Our World in Data
- World Population Prospects 2019 Highlights, United Nations
- CO₂ and Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Our World in Data
- CO₂ emissions per capita vs GDP per capita, 2018, Our World in Data
- Per capita CO₂ emissions, Our World in Data
- The Limits to Growth, the Club of Rome
- Understanding energy efficiency, European Parliament Briefing
- Share of Electricity Production, Our World in Data
- Nuclear Power is the Most Reliable Energy Source and It’s Not Even Close, energy.gov
- Mitigating CO2 emissions of concrete manufacturing through CO2-enabled binder reduction, IOP Science
- Technologies and policies to decarbonize global industry: Review and assessment of mitigation drivers through 2070, Science Direct
- Projected CO 2 emissions from international aviation | Download Scientific Diagram, Research Gate
- Who rebounds most? Estimating direct and indirect rebound effects for different UK socioeconomic groups, Science Direct
- CLIMATE CHANGE 2014, Intergovernmental Panel On climate change
- What does degrowth mean? A few points of clarification, Taylor & Francis Online
- What would happen to the climate if we stopped emitting greenhouse gases today? | STAO
- U.S. energy use rises to highest level ever, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
- Energy Efficiency gains must reduce our consumption, not just our bills, Energy Post
- Overcoming Jevons Paradox: Improving The Sustainability of Israel’s Transportation Policies, Open Access Journals
- Unraveling the Complexity of the Jevons Paradox: The Link Between Innovation, Efficiency, and Sustainability, Frontiers in Energy Research
- CSEI Policy Brief #002 – draft Rebound Effect in Energy Consumption, Copenhagen School of Energy Infrastructure
- Jevons’ Paradox revisited: The evidence for backfire from improved energy efficiency ARTICLE IN PRESS Energy Policy
- Full article: What is wrong with energy efficiency?, Taylor & Francis Online
Antiwork:
Antiwork Part 2:
- How One Obscure Word Captures Urban China’s Unhappiness, Sixthone
- Scaling the Firewall, 1: #LiftTheBucket | Chuang
- ‘Lying flat’: The millennials quitting China’s ‘996’ work culture to live ‘free of anxiety’, ABC Aus
- China’s Gen Z workers are gaining more leverage, and they’re demanding changes, South China Morning Post
- What Happened to Li Ziqi, China’s Most Famous YouTuber?, Vice
- China’s “Involuted” Generation, New Yorker
- China’s Exit to Year Zero – Palladium
- The ‘lying flat’ movement standing in the way of China’s innovation drive, Brookings
- “Lying flat” is not in Xi Jinping’s vision for China — Quartz
- How Lying Flat Took China’s Overworked Millennials by Storm, The Daily Beast
- Seeing through Muddied Waters, Part 1: Jasic, Strikes & Unions, Chuang
Corporate Sabotage:
Canadian Fascism:
- Why it’s difficult to put a number on how many children died at residential schools, CBC
- The National Social Christian Party, Juno Beach Center
- Canada: Fascist Meet, Time
- House of Commons passes anti-Islamophobia motion M-103 – National | Globalnews.ca
- Canada passes M-103 motion against Islamophobia |Aljazeera
- Quebec Mosque Shooter Was Consumed by Refugees, Trump and Far Right (Published 2018), NYT
- How Syrian refugees to Canada have fared since 2015, Maclean’s
- Syrian refugees reflect on a decade of war and their new lives in the Toronto area
#WelcomeRefugees: Key figures – Canada.ca - What It’s Like Monitoring Canada’s Yellow Vest Movement Every Day, Vice
- Don’t dismiss them as ‘crackpots’: Who are Canada’s yellow vest protesters?, CBC
- Read the full text of Maxime Bernier’s speech: ‘Scheer keeps talking about his positive Conservative vision. But nobody knows what that is’, National Post
- Maxime Bernier’s People’s Party of Canada and the Far-Right, It’s Going Down
- Liberals take losses but win enough in Quebec and Ontario to form minority government, CBC
- After campus events cancelled, Andrew Scheer says universities have right to decide who gets space, National Post
- New Tory leader Andrew Scheer campaign linked with controversial Rebel Media – National | Globalnews.ca
- Rebel Media meltdown: Faith Goldy fired as politicians, contributors distance themselves, National Post
- Erin O’Toole makes Derek Sloan a convenient scapegoat, NOW Magazine
- How the pandemic has rewired our brains, Maclean’s
- Conservative Party on Twitter: “Canada’s Recovery Plan will secure the future for you, your children, and your grandchildren.… “
- Ruminating over Conservative Leader Erin O’Toole’s campaign tag line, The Georgia Straight
- Canada election: ‘Mad Max’ and why his party is on the rise, BBC
- What the rise of the PPC says about Canada in 2021, CTV News
- Opinion | Maxime Bernier wanted to ‘play dirty’ with journalists; attacking the media is common among dictators, The Spec
- People’s Party Candidate Designed ‘Shootout’ Video Game Using ‘Cultural Stereotypes’ and ‘Gay Pride Parades’ as Targets, Press Progress
- Election posters in Canada: ForwardsFromKlandma, Reddit
Pont Saint Esprit
- French bread spiked with LSD in CIA experiment, Telegraph
- Did the CIA Really Dose a French Village With LSD?, The Atlantic
- France’s unsolved mystery of the poisoned bread, NYT
- Pont-Saint-Esprit poisoning: Did the CIA spread LSD?, BBC
- Did CIA Experiment LSD on French Town?, ABC News
- When the French Village of Pont-Saint-Esprit Went Temporarily Mad, MentalFloss
- CIA: What Really Happened in the quiet French village of Pont-Saint-Esprit, by Hank P. Albarelli Jr., VoltaireNet
- Destruction of LSD Data Laid to C.I.A. Aide in ’73 (Published 1975), NYT
- Ergot Poisoning at Pt. St Esprit, National Center for Biotechnology Information
Dual Power Part 1
Dual Power Part 2
- India’s RSS Has Played A Powerful Role In The Rise Of Hindu Nationalism, NPR
- How did RSS become Hindu messiah in India? Disaster relief since 1947, The Print
- How RSS Gains When Disaster Strikes, Newsclick
- Hezbollah: Social Services as a Source of Power, Defense Technical Information Center
- The Return of Moqtada al-Sadr and the Revival of the Mahdi Army – Combating Terrorism Center at West Point
- The Democracy Project by David Graeber: 9780679646006 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
- Basra, Iraq, protests: protesters have torched nearly every government building, Vox
- Muqtada al-Sadr’s supporters accused of ‘massacres’ in Iraq’s south, Middle East Eye
- Attack on protest camp leaves six dead, dozens wounded in Iraq’s south, Middle East Eye
- NEW BOOK: Jackson Rising: The Struggle for Economic Democracy and Black Self-Determination in Jackson, Mississippi — Cooperation Jackson
Supply Chains
Area 51
- The Pentagon Lies About UFOs – But Not Always For The Reasons You’d Expect (Updated), Forbes
- Area 51: An Uncensored History of America’s Top Secret Military Base, Library Genesis
- In 1947, A High-Altitude Balloon Crash Landed in Roswell. The Aliens Never Left, Smithsonian Mag
- The real Men in Black, Hollywood and the great UFO cover-up, The Guardian
- Area 51 ‘Uncensored’: Was It UFOs Or The USSR?, NPR
- Mirage Men: Film Review – The Hollywood Reporter
- Parmanu, the true story of Pokhran: How India ‘fooled’ CIA with historic nuclear test, Daily O
- Nuclear Guinea Pigs: Radiation Experiments on US Citizens, Interesting Engineering