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When you trust your television What you get is what you got 'Cause when they own the information They can bend it all they want. --John Mayer, "Waiting on The World to Change"
Variety - Bill Moyers, who was a White House press secretary under LBJ and then became a PBS and CBS journalist, has died at the age of 91. variety.com/2025/tv/news/bill-…
The way these foreign-born Democrats lie to make America and her institutions look bad just makes me more resolute than ever that no foreign-born person should be allowed to run for elected office. thegatewaypundit.com/2025/06/d…
The Barbarity of Solitary Confinement in South Carolina: Kevin Rashid Johnson
Both the United Nations and Courts all over have recognized that continuous confinement inside a cell for even brief periods is torture and has proven in extensive psychological studies to cause mental illness and organic brain damage.
There has been a broad outside and inside movement to reform and end solitary confinement in my home state of Virginia for over a decade. This struggle has led to laws being passed that require daily out-of-cell time for Va prisoners in solitary (1), and a pending federal class action lawsuit in which the presiding judge and the appeals court have found Va’s conditions in solitary to be unconstitutional and harmful to prisoners’ mental health. (2) Not so in South Carolina, where the conditions in solitary are far worse than anything in Va, and where I was recently interstate transferred.
Not only are the conditions in SC’s solitary confinement units (euphemistically called “Restrictive Housing Units”) downright medieval, but there are no efforts to reform nor end them. Worse still, the corruption and retribution of SC administrative officials operate to stomp out any efforts by prisoners to bring attention to SC’s prison conditions.
I’ve been in SC since May 1, 2025 and have been thrown in solitary twice already, and have gotten to see and experience the barbarity of these units.
Although I was in general population when I left Va, I was thrown in solitary as soon as I arrived in SC. I was initially taken to SC’s Reception and Orientation institution called Kirkland. There I was thrown into a cold solitary cell with nothing but a filthy mattress and no clothes except a nylon smock. Not even underwear. When I protested that I would not accept meals and requested to call attorneys. I was transferred the next day to Perry Correctional (sic!) Institution, where I was again thrown in solitary. Approximately half of the buildings at Perry are solitary confinement units and prisoners are sent to Perry from all over the state to be held in solitary long term.
Here one is confined in a cold cell with a concrete slab raised about 6 inches from the floor. At night when the cells are left completely dark, bugs, spiders and mice crawl on and around one’s body. Prisoners have been held in solitary at Perry for years. My neighbor, Jimmy Causey, has been here for eight years.
There is no view outside the cells. We receive no outside exercise or fresh air. WHen I arrived at Perry on May 2d, the prisoners in solitary had been to outside exercise only five times this entire year. The denial of regular outside exercise in solitary standing alone, has been found unconstitutional by federal courts. While in other states solitary is characterized as 23/1 hours of in-cell confinement, in SC it is literally 24/7. The only times prisoners come out of their cells here is to shower for 15 minutes three times per week, which is often denied as well.
We can have no personal property, no personal books to read, no periodicals. We can’t make canteen purchases. Not even personal hygiene items. The only hygiene items we may use are state-issued toothpaste, toothbrush and soap. No deodorant, shampoo, or hair grease is allowed. One can’t groom or shave, and even could we there are no mirrors to see oneself. Yet the rules say our hair must be kept closely cropped.
We cannot purchase stationary to write loved ones. Only two outgoing letters are permitted per month. We are not allowed to communicate directly with the media. We cannot write to but one lawyer, and only if they are confirmed to be actively representing us in pending legal proceedings. These obstacles to communication obviously work to sever community and family ties in outright contradiction of any claims to rehabilitation and enabling anyone to reenter society as a healthy and productive member. And they prevent public exposure and accountability for the inhumane conditions in these prisons and units, and any prisoner from obtaining attorneys to assist them, whether to challenge discrepancies in their original criminal cases or to contest the conditions of their confinement (the latter being the obvious purpose of these illegal obstructions to communicate with lawyers).
The meals are disgusting and bland, non-nutritious (composed primarily of breads and pasta), repetitious and the portions insufficient. EVERYONE complains of constant hunger pangs and substantial weight loss. Not only are the general portions tiny, but as opposed to the three meals given on weekdays, only two meals are served on weekends. The two weekend meals are basically the same portions given on two of the weekday trays. Worse still, the time between the last meal and the meal the next day on the weekends is approximately 20 hours. This is illegal and literal torture. In fact courts have held that the dull continuous pain of prolonged hunger constitutes corporal punishment.
So prisoners in SC’s solitary sit idle, stripped of all fresh air, sensory stimulation, and diversionary activities day after day, for months to years on end, under the most blatant conditions of mental torture. I’ve not seen this extreme level of total denial of environmental stimulation and solitary confinement anywhere else in my 35 years of confinement. In fact, this sort of solitary was outlawed by federal courts in Va over 50 years in the landmark case of Landman v. Royster. (3)
Not only are the solitary conditions inhumane per se, but they’re coupled with physical abuses sanctioned by administrators. Prisoners are routinely gassed and beaten by guards. They’re hogtied and left naked in empty cells for hours on end. Of course hogtying has often proved fatal and has been banned in prisons for decades. (4)
I’ve observed others left in empty cells to sleep on bare concrete with no clothes except boxers for three days, for nothing but making noise by striking a cell door with their hands. In one case the prisoner only wanted to be taken outside so he could perform his wiccan prayers after months of prisoners in solitary illegally receiving no outside exercise.
To add greater insult to the mistreatment, food, medications, and showers are illegally used as punishment and to compel submission. One is denied meals, meds, and showers if they are not fully dressed and standing in the rear of their cell when guards arrive at their cells to provide these things. Prisoners are not required to be dressed and standing in this manner at any other times when guards come to their cells. The measure is calculated to use needed essentials as weapons and tools of forced compliance with arbitrary orders to instill docility and submission. Like training animals.. Or breaking slaves.
Suffering under these conditions for just days is literally torture. As it’s meant to be. SC’s prisoners need a support movement to end this abuse.
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Endnotes: 1. See, for example, Va. Code, section 53.1-39.2 (limitations on Restorative housing units). 2. Thorpe v. Clarke, 37 F. 4th 926 (4th Cir. 2022) 3. Landman v. Royster, 333 F. Supp. 621 (E.D.va <e.d.va>. 1971) 4. Weigel v. Broad, 544 F. 3d 1143 (coth cim. 2008)
Uh-Oh! Political Antisemitism Smears Have Stopped Working!
Zohran Mamdani has won the Democratic Party primary in the New York City mayoral race after a frenetic smear campaign to portray him as an antisemite for his pro-Palestinian views, and now all the world’s worst people are freaking out about it.
The obvious is the hardest to accept. Obvious makes you question. Doubt. No. It cannot be. Oh. But it is. That’s EXACTLY where they find great humor. That. Is dry wit. Funny eh?
Head of a diocese of the Armenian Apostolic Church, Archbishop Mikael Ajapakhyan, was detained on Friday on suspicion of coup attempt. He denies the charges as fabricated.
Jeff Daniels does a good job playing Chamberlain in the movie "Gettysburg." And, I admit I don't know much about Chamberlain, he does seem to be a good man who fought one hell of a fight during that battle.
But the speech he gives at the beginning of the movie is such horse shit. Perhaps he sincerely believed it, but it's absolute nonsense. And the brutality and raping and pillaging of Yankee troops against Southern civilians time after time after time is evidence against these lies.
@GummyNerds there were so many decisions by the southern commanders that could have changed the outcome of that battle. The North was fortunate they made the wrong ones time after time.
That being said, Rufus Dawes was a badass, and the Iron Brigade basically saved the Union’s bacon. The South didn’t want to fight those Black Hats.
@GummyNerds well that’s really the story of battles, isn’t it? Having a superior position and better supplies.
The South could have ended that battle on day 1, but the failed to press their advantage, and that allowed the North time to retreat and set up their position on Semetary Ridge, the famous fishhook line. Once they had their position set, it was nearly impossible to drive the North out of it.
A Houston family is taking the state's largest school district to court, claiming their daughter was socially transitioned by school staff in direct defiance of their explicit instructions.
It never made sense to me to put password managers in the cloud. Regards to what you intend it to do, you’re making it accessible to a wider audience than necessary. And yet, I’m using iCloud. It’s time for a change.
I’m thinking of just running a locally hosted password manager on my home server and letting my devices sync with it somehow when I’m at home. I have a VPN into my home network when I’m away that automatically triggers when I leave the house, so even that’s not that big an issue, but I’m really not familiar with what’s gonna cleanly integrate with all my stuff and be easy to use. All I know is I wanna kill the cloud functionality of my setup.
I already have a jellyfish server so I figured I would just throw this onto that. Any suggestions?
If you’re happy with how Apple Password works for you, I can recommend StrongBox. It keeps all data in a KeePass2 database and integrates into Apple’s AutoFill API. That means it feels almost native when using it. No browser plugin needed. (At least not for Safari.) And you can decide how you sync the database file.
The YAF have described the site hit in Beer al-Sabe' as "sensitive", further exposing gaps in "Israel's" air defenses and marking a major escalation in its military support for Gaza.
More than 56 percent of violent deaths during the Israeli genocide of Palestinians have been women, children, or the elderly—more than double the proportions seen in previous wars
Salvadoran human rights activist César Bennedetto denounced that his son Óscar was detained on Thursday, June 26, and demanded his release, while lamenting...
as I said earlier, he could just go make a new acct on a different instance and be the same fag he is being now, and no one would know save for the fact he can’t help himself by using the identical name, sirrogueknight, which is a faggedy name to begin with. Like Nuke LaLoosh announcing his presence with authority.
BEIJING — A delegation of international journalists will visit northeast China’s Liaoning Province from July 1 to 5 as part of efforts to enhance media exchanges and cooperation under the framework of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO).
The work of the anarchist is above all a work of critique. The anarchist goes, sowing revolt against that which oppresses, obstructs, opposes itself to the free expansion of the individual being. -- Emile Armand
On June 22, American warplanes crossed into Iranian airspace and dropped 14 massive bombs. The attack was not in response to a provocation; it came on the
Not saying this is the case here, but it's common practice for news outlets to license and re-publish articles from one publication to another especially if both publications serve entirely different demographics.
Could someone please just TERMINATE Netflix and everyone working there!
I am so sick of them ruining every great show there is
It is hard enough to find a show that is not gay and retarded and full of feminism and black power and soy boys with man boobs and ugly fat women
In the off chance I stumble upon a genuinely great show and watch the first season and then wait a whole fckng year for the next season and then netflix has fckng bought it and made it into gay and retarded feminist slop!!!!
No it will get cancelled after the second season since the first season wasn't made by netflix. But they have already bought the show and made a second season. This is how they do it.
They buy great shows because they are unable to create greatness.
But since they are unable to create anything good every show they buy, they destroy.
They can band make ten seasons of they want to. They will all be garbage. They don't care.
Of course he's a prominent Jew. Of course he belongs to the Chabad~Lubavitch. Of course his opinions matter to our Zionist political leaders. Of course he wants to fuck little kids
It's not an "Age of consent" issue that they seek to solve, They're looking for a legal loophole to have sex with underage children and I'm not talking about teenagers.
@matty it's "adult material", and that's enough for the US government to demand that you identify/dox all your users to them, that's what the other thread is about
We often forget that we are nature. Nature is not something separate from us. So when we say that we have lost our connection to nature, we have lost our connection to ourselves.
Muslims are victims of stringent, intellectually suffocating islamic indoctrination and compromised genetics through generation s of islamically encouraged inbreeding but it has made them what they are. What’s your excuse? ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/…
Cognitive ability tests are widely assumed to measure maximal intellectual performance and predictive associations between intelligence quotient (IQ) scores and later mental health problems. Very few epidemiologic studies have been done to ...
@xenophon@nicecrew.digital I would make you beg to be out out of your misery if you talked to me like that in the real world, you fucking disgustingly stupid piece of shit.
This 45 minute discussion with Professor Glenn Diesen provided an excellent opportunity to expand on various conclusions about Trump and political theater that I have first put out in brief in the past couple of weeks.
Our federated search engine, yacy.eskimo.com, is presently down because it corrupted it's database. I am in the process of restoring from a previous backup, but because this involves about 1.5TB of compressed data, it's not happening fast.
In Behesht-e-Zahra cemetery in southern Tehran, a new row of small graves has been dug into the earth. Photographs of children, some smiling in school uniforms, others wearing their favorite football jerseys, rest atop the fresh soil.
Israeli military aggression against Iran has claimed a number of innocent lives since June 13, including those of children, killed in homes and playgrounds.
SANAA, June 28 (YPA) -The Yemeni Armed Forces carried out a qualitative military operation targeting a sensitive Israeli enemy target in the occupied area of Beersheba using a Dhu al-Fiqar ballistic missile. The operation successfully achieved its go
@ikonha this reminds me of another corporate disaster, beaconhealthsystem - supposedly, they are recovering from a data breach that compromised many patients data: but it's not over: they have many IP addresses, in different netblocks, and they are being used for attacks against other sites.
They have been appearing in my server logs for at least 2 months.
So whatever is going on there is not as described at their dot org
"Until July 4th the 1776 World Patriot donation remains in place. It’s a great way to support the show. This is an affordable contribution to the show."
you know… I’m not against giving the show a few bucks, like I would if I were subscribing. I think I’m actually about $150 away from getting my ring, all with small donations. How do people regularly give them hundreds and hundreds of dollars for all their promotions? I must be doing something wrong.
@zephyrotv it is beyond me, apparently they can't just ask for donations, which is fine. They have to do the cringiest promotions and fake credits and diplomas, etc... makes it seem sketchey as hell.
and it’s taken me 5 years now to get the $850 mark.
Adam always says give what you can, $5 may be a lot of money for someone that doesn’t have a lot of disposable income. And then John gets all grouchy because the exec level donations are “down”. It’s two totally contradicting messages.
@zephyrotv I crossed the line during the double credit thing a year or so ago. But haven’t listened for a few weeks until today. And that is going to require another post. Never sent for the ring though. Perhaps eventually.
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