At about 11:20 at night on June 10, 2022, Christian Glass called 911 because his car was stuck on a dirt road in the mountains of Clear Creek County, Colorado. He was 22, an amateur geologist, and he was frightened. He stayed on the line for nearly 25 minutes. He told the dispatcher he had 2 knives, a hammer and a rubber mallet in the car, and that he would throw them out when officers arrived. He was still in the driver's seat 70 minutes later when a deputy sh*t him. Officers from 5 agencies came. They ordered him out of the car with their hands on their w*apons. He said he was terrified, and that staying inside was the only way he could be safe. He offered to throw the kn*ves out. Deputy Andrew Buen told him not to, and ordered him out again. Glass put his keys on the dashboard and kept his hands where they could be seen. He prayed. He made a heart shape with his fingers and blew kisses through the windshield. Then Buen smashed the driver's window. Officers fired 6 bean bag rounds and a stun g*n. Bodycam footage shows Glass turning a small kn*fe on himself before dropping it. Buen fired his handg*n 5 times. The coroner recorded 6 g*nshot wounds and ruled the d*ath a hom*cide. Glass never left the driver's seat. In May 2023 his family settled with the state, the county and 2 towns for $19 million, the largest settlement for a police k*lling in Colorado history. It required the sheriff's office to add crisis co-responders and de-escalation training. Buen was fired and charged with second-degree m*rder. His first jury convicted him of reckless endangerment and deadlocked on the rest. A second jury convicted him of criminally negligent hom*cide, and on April 14, 2025 a judge sentenced him to 3 years, the maximum for that charge. She called the case "about power." Sergeant Kyle Gould, who authorized breaking the window over the phone without being there, pleaded guilty to 2 misdemeanors and received 2 years of probation. Charges against 6 other officers were later dropped or dismissed

 

 

um no fuckhead the president did it to himself

 

 

Lord Montagu was a 27-year-old British aristocrat when he went to prison in 1954 over a beach-hut weekend with two RAF airmen. Decades later he described it simply: "We had some drinks, we danced, we kissed, that's all." Born on this day in 1926, a century ago, Montagu was tried with his cousin Michael Pitt-Rivers and journalist Peter Wildeblood. The airmen got immunity to testify, and Wildeblood's love letters were read aloud in court. "Reading out the letters was the cruellest thing," Montagu said. He got 12 months. The other two got 18. Then the crowd outside cheered them. "I was amazed," he said. That year the government set up the Wolfenden Committee, whose 1957 report led, a decade later, to sex in private between men over 21 being legalized in England and Wales. Montagu always denied the charges. In 2007, at 80, he put the rest plainly: "I am bisexual. To describe it any other way would be dishonest... I am what I am."

 

 

I was thinking about the seniors getting arrested on Parliament Hill. The seniors travelled to Ottawa to deliver photos and stories from many other Canadians, but they weren't even able to make it into the building. Instead, they were arrested for trespassing. There's an irony in the seniors being arrested for trespassing on an open grass lawn after travelling thousands of kilometres to get there from both sides of the country. Were they trespassing, or were they going the distance? It makes you ask who is really in trouble, and for what. To me, the trespassing arrest shows how the government system isn't built to listen to people. It's designed to protect itself. That security ethos is deeply embedded in the paternal model of government. Even a harmless group of elders couldn't make it into Parliament, the building that's there to represent the fundamentals of democracy and public participation. Instead, they were forcibly removed from its pristine, vacant lawns. I think it shows how lost we really are, in some ways. When elders come to their government, the government should leap to listen. MPs should show appreciation and respect to people who put their bodies on the line for issues affecting all Canadians. They should meet with them, listen, and be able to say: we really heard you on this, and we can accept that some of the positions we're taking may not be in the best interest of everybody. But none of those meetings happened. #SeniorsClimateWitness #ClimateAction #CdnPoli #ClimateJustice #Democracy

 

 

BREAKING🚨🏳️‍🌈 Ted Cruz just blamed tight Senate races on trans people, calling the voters fired up against Trump "left-wing transgender witches." On Saturday in Fairbanks, Alaska, sitting next to Republican Sen. Dan Sullivan, Ted Cruz told Fox News that "there are 8-10 Senate races that are tied or within the margin of error." He said Republicans could lose five to eight seats and leave Democrats with 55, which he called "a disaster." Then he explained who was showing up to vote against them. "Right now, if you're a left-wing transgender witch, you hate Donald Trump, and you're gonna show up," Cruz said. "You're energized." The voters he wants are "common-sense Americans who are not lunatics, who don't think communism and Islamism are a good idea." If those "regular, ordinary Americans" turn out, Cruz said, Sullivan wins and Republicans pick up seats "all over the country." Sullivan nodded along the entire time. Sullivan is trailing Democrat Mary Peltola 48.5% to 46.2% in a recent poll. He has signed Republican letters opposing protections for transgender athletes and attacking gender-affirming care for minors. Cruz and Sullivan spent the rest of the interview distancing themselves from Trump's decision to import diesel fuel from Russia, which both senators oppose. Online, people mocked Cruz relentlessly. "I'm not a transgender witch and I also hate Donald Trump," one reply read. 🚨Before you go… Congress is about to vote to ALLOW animals to be kept in spaces so small they can’t even turn around, even after voters banned it.