Panama Red

N.C., USA. Management consultant, but not the crappy kind. Old & sweary; stabby when provoked. #Antiracist; #Antifa; #Resist; trying to be a good LGBTQ and BLM ally. Interests: #journalism #media #maps #dataviz #astronomy #astrodon #management #leadership #LearningAndDevelopment #learning #uspol #ncpol #cats #mastocats #kittens, #CatsOfMastodon.

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Last Notes

2024-09-11 02:41:35

Harris's closing statement: I'm focused on future; he's focused on past. And we're not going back.

2024-09-11 02:02:25

Harris: These dictators support you because they know you can be manipulated ... and you're weak and wrong. #Debate

2024-09-07 15:48:09

There hasn't been as much talk lately about Project 2025, but it's still out there and still dangerous. For my fellow North Carolinians, here's a 2-page fact sheet on just how dangerous for NC Project 2025 would be. https://www.americanprogress.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/Project-2025s-Plan-To-Gut-Checks-and-Balances-Harms-North-Carolina.pdf

2024-09-05 13:31:06

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2024-08-20 03:56:12

"If we care about public safety, we need to care about gun violence. ... More (children) die from a bullet than from cancer, accidents, anything else. My. God." #Biden #DNC

2024-08-07 21:28:51

I just got a LinkedIn alert saying that companies are "ending the era of hefty pay increases." WHAT era of hefty pay increases? They ended for me in 2000. Retirement match ended in 2008. Raises, period, ended in 2009. Jesus. *spits*

2024-07-14 00:33:12

A woman who was at the rally is being interviewed on NBC: "This shows you how much hate and hostility is in our world today." She's wearing a t-shirt reading, "KNOW YOUR PARASITES"

2024-07-01 15:18:59

"It is about an imperial court constructing an imperial presidency." -- MSNBC analyst and law prof Melissa Murray on the SCOTUS immunity decision.

2024-06-28 04:34:13

My one final takeaway from the debate that I think bears repeating before I go to bed:
Trump was asked three times whether he would accept the outcome of the election even if he lost. And three times he changed the subject.
Night, y'all.

2024-06-28 04:05:21

Harris: Only one candidate has been endorsed by his vice president.

2024-06-28 03:45:54

Reid: Kamala Harris, with her vigor, becomes even more important.

2024-06-28 03:45:29

O'Donnell: Look at how much Biden has achieved with this voice, in his 80s. Maybe there's a case here for stressing that he surrounds himself with an excellent staff.

2024-06-13 17:52:29

Phoenix Police Department routinely uses excessive force and discriminates based on race, Justice Department probe finds. -- WaPo
Quelle surprise. https://breaking.iavian.net/article/366593

2024-06-12 21:53:14

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@npub1mnt…c3f7 Tacgnol v. Longcat. Will the world survive?
https://media.mstdn.social/media_attachments/files/112/605/866/164/335/902/original/7f3ef31246086648.jpg

2024-05-30 21:22:00

Trump's sentencing is July 11. Four days before the Republican National Convention.

2024-05-30 20:57:59

If you've got bad news you need to bury, hit send on that news release NOW.

2024-05-20 17:35:20

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@npub1typ…c8hh I'm having that feeling now as I read "Ultra Processed People: The Science Behind Food That Isn't Food," by Chris van Tulleken.

2024-05-14 23:08:28

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@npub132h…f594 #LockHerUp

2024-04-29 13:09:41

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2024-04-22 23:37:56

"Waiter tried to take my plate when I CLEARLY was not finished eating. 0/10 would not recommend."
https://media.mstdn.social/media_attachments/files/112/317/495/825/641/574/original/0683b47fe0938177.jpg

2024-04-16 17:10:38

I wasn't, dude.
https://media.mstdn.social/media_attachments/files/112/282/001/539/042/336/original/79b08e5102b9267b.jpg

2024-04-16 01:20:37

Rachel Maddow is digginig up all the background of the charges against Michael Cohen, and long story short, Merrick Garland should have prosecuted Bill Barr for obstruction of justice, conspiracy, and conspiracy to deny civil rights of Obama's former White House counsel. "We can see the legacy of that successful corruption of that case ... in the way that the Manhattan District Attorney is now handling this case." #TrumpTrial

2024-04-03 02:54:33

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@npub1p0w…22r5 What they mean is, they hope that Trump judges will ignore the Constitution and all precedents holding that immigration is a federal matter, not a state one.

2024-03-29 17:35:08

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@npub1hgr…2e7r Damn, I miss Molly.

2024-03-25 17:55:28

UN expert accuses Israel of committing genocide in Gaza. -- Agence France-Presse https://breaking.iavian.net/article/360699

2024-03-21 23:50:56

The largest police union in Florida endorses Donald Trump, thereby proving that it neither upholds the Constitution as it swore to do nor stands with its law enforcement brothers and sisters in the Capitol Police and Metro PD. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/state-s-largest-police-union-makes-major-endorsement-in-2024-presidential-race/ar-BB1khQWC?ocid=winp2fptaskbarhover&cvid=0d99f4d913af4aa5877f8733ab3d3f33&ei=26

2024-03-13 23:26:55

"This has become a Trump Venmo account." -- Former GOP strategist Matthew Dowd on the Republican National Committee. #TheReidOut

2024-03-08 03:25:17

"Israel must allow aid into Gaza and ensure that humanitarian workers are not caught in the crossfire. ... The only real solution is a two-state solution over time." #SOTU2024

2024-03-08 03:03:32

"There are 1,000 billionaires in America. ... No billionaire should pay less than a teacher or a sanitation worker." Calls for a minimum 25% tax rate for billionaires. #SOTU2024

2024-03-08 03:00:49

As Biden calls for higher taxes on large corporations to reduce the deficit, House Speaker Mike Johnson rolls his eyes. #SOTU2024

2024-03-07 18:24:54

Fire-breathing cat.
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2024-02-29 17:58:05

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@npub1nxu…4hun Better than I could do.

2024-02-28 22:46:29

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@npub10pr…qn7d *blink*

2024-02-25 17:26:33

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@npub132h…f594 What?? Unpossible!

2024-02-25 17:23:56

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@npub132h…f594 There's a lot Jim Jordan doesn't know.

2024-02-20 04:04:54

Great. Jon Stewart's dismissing calls to avoid bothsiderism as "propaganda." Fuck you, Jon.

2024-02-09 03:40:00

"There isn't a Democrat anywhere in the United States who can be kept off the ballot as was done with Donald Trump under Section 3 of the 14th Amendment to the Constitution." -- Lawrence O''Donnell, dismissing Chief Justice John Roberts's expressed concern earlier today that if Trump is disqualified, Republicans will attempt to disqualify Democratic candidates in a tit-for-tat

2024-02-09 03:10:07

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@npub1jpp…u59l @npub13rw…nfd8 Well, the definition of insurrection included in Section 3 of the 14th Amendment, for starters.

2024-02-09 02:57:50

MSNBC's Alex Wagner on the Supreme Court after today's oral arguments on whether Trump can be on the ballot: "They're not textualists. They're not literalists. ... This court takes into account politics when it makes its decisions."

2024-02-09 02:30:58

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@npub1gmx…atcq As I posted below, I get the Nazi wing behaving like hacks, but I do not understand why Sotomayor, Kagan, and Jackson appear to be going along with them.

2024-02-09 02:13:49

Joy Reid is pointing out that SCOTUS has said that abortion has to be decided by the states, when the Constitution is silent on the issue, but elections can't be decided in the states, where the Constitution calls for them to be.

2024-02-09 01:50:10

"President Trump tried to disenfranchise the 80 million Americans who voted against him, and the Constitution does not require that we give him another chance." -- CO's lawyer during today's oral arguments at SCOTUS

2024-02-08 23:20:42

Putin says 'out of question' to invade NATO countries, in Carlson interview. -- Agence France Presse
And Hitler was never going to invade the Sudetenland. https://breaking.iavian.net/article/356954

2024-01-27 02:37:07

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@npub1lzz…jhl3 There is: The Presidential Medal of Freedom. She has earned it. She deserves it. Joe Biden should give it to her. He won't, because he won't want to be seen as playing politics. But Republicans will accuse him of playing politics ANYWAY, so he should go ahead and do it.

2024-01-16 15:33:44

LIKE SHE THINKS SHE GETS A CHOICE.
Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley has announced that she will only debate former Pres. Trump or Pres. Biden following a third place finish at the Iowa caucuses. -- ABC https://breaking.iavian.net/article/354853

2024-01-13 16:12:12

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@npub1sfl…gczt I quite agree.

2024-01-06 22:50:49

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@npub1sfl…gczt I think that for cops to automatically expect a greater degree of danger from BLM, which by early 2021 had a well-established record of nonviolence, than from right-wing protesters, when right-wingers were responsible for greater than 90% of all domestic terrorism at that point, was a racist conspiracy, but I can see how other folks might define "conspiracy" differently. @npub1j63…52qn

2023-12-29 01:25:54

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@npub1u3t…c6ug Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. 200 times is policy -- and a war crime.

2023-12-28 21:33:30

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@npub1tps…9rmt I don't think it's intelligence so much as knowledge.

2023-12-27 18:15:30

Arizona''s Kari Lake, the GOP's likely 2024 U.S. Senate nominee, may be following the same fast track to bankruptcy that Giuliani followed. Oops. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/kari-lake-is-in-deep-deep-trouble-with-judge-s-refusal-to-dismiss-defamation-lawsuit/ar-AA1m3FvI?cvid=eed17362754d4789d1034b54f94aafb6&ocid=winp2fptaskbarhover&ei=19

2023-12-24 21:53:39

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@npub1ccn…czwu There is no bottom with these people.

2023-12-24 21:30:58

Meowy Catmas Eve to all who celebrate, from Kirby and the rest of us. #CatsOfMastodon
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2023-12-23 15:43:46

File under "No shit, Sherlock": GOP voter-fraud crackdown overwhelmingly targets minorities, Democrats
https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2023/12/20/voter-fraud-prosecutions-2020/

2023-12-20 01:45:49

"Everything on here is so obviously unethical, even if it was presented on your HR training module." -- MSNBC's Chris Hayes on Supreme Court justices' outside income. #Inners

2023-12-20 01:27:51

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@npub13h2…fr8q I've been very pessimistic since 1994 about what conservatives will do, and lemme tell ya, as a result I have not been wrong often. That, of course, sucks for the country. I would like to be wrong more often.

2023-12-20 01:25:48

"They will overturn the Colorado Supreme Court's decision because the conservatives on the U.S. Supreme Court are hypocrites. They are comfortable being hypocrites. ... (They are) partisan sugar daddies." -- Voting-rights litigator Elie Mystal on MSNBC's #AllIn

2023-12-20 00:10:11

"They're not given to grand gestures in any direction other than in a right-wing direction. ... They're willing to do incredibly radical things in service of a conservative party." -- Rachel Maddow on the Supreme Court's conservative majority on MSNBC's #TheReidOut

2023-12-20 00:06:56

"I don't think that this is how Donald Trump's political career ends, because of what we know about this iteration of the Supreme Court." -- Rachel Maddow on MSNBC's #TheReidOut

2023-12-19 22:00:38

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@npub1p8q…8r6x And what should we be planning to do if Trump wins? Because, like the Nazis before them, if the Trumpists take power, they will move damn fast.

2023-12-12 19:34:18

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@npub1lzz…jhl3 News media are starting to wake up, but they need to do a lot more. This is a six-alarm fire.

2023-12-06 20:13:04

[The Washington Post] Pro-Trump electors indicted in Nevada, the third state to issue charges
Pro-Trump electors indicted in Nevada, the third state to issue charges.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/12/06/nevada-fake-electors-indictment-trump/

2023-12-05 14:50:43

If Biden had retaken the lead in several major polls in the last week, what do you think the news coverage of that would look like, based on the coverage of some polls showing Trump leads? Well, Biden DID retake the lead in several polls, and the coverage ain't what it should be if the candidates are being treated fairly. Larger point: Poll-driven journalism about the 2024 presidential race sucks ass.. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/12/05/poll-commentary-pundits/

2023-11-29 20:21:37

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@npub1zeq…qpj8 Obama never had a filibuster-proof majority in the Senate. The dying Ted Kennedy cast his last vote in March, months before the 60th Dem, Franken, took office.

2023-11-19 17:53:09

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@npub1sfl…gczt We're pullin' for ya!

2023-10-29 21:10:39

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@npub1r6x…nu0x I'm not assuming, anything, son. It is a simple mathematical fact that if enough centrists and progressives choose to do what you say you are choosing to do, Trump will be re-elected. @npub1ccn…czwu @npub1j7t…ls96 @npub1t07…nm3q

2023-10-29 21:02:18

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@npub1r6x…nu0x And that's how Trump gets re-elected. You're either a remarkably low-information voter or a GOP tool. @CosmicTrigger@kolektiva.social @npub1ccn…czwu @npub1j7t…ls96 @npub1t07…nm3q

2023-10-26 02:58:47

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@npub1d4h…2ta7 Trump only pretended to be a Christofascist. This guy is the real deal.

2023-10-06 12:12:04

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@npub1gmx…atcq Be that as it may, Bunch's point stands: If any Republican is elected president in 2024, our democracy is finished. Voters and journalists need to be talking about that and nothing else.

2023-10-05 15:29:10

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@npub1k24…26zw Ah. I'm still uncomfortable with it, although if it's set in 1937 I'm not AS uncomfortable with it. And ultimately, the character's going to do what she's going to do. As Flannery O'Connor famously observed, "Sometimes characters just up and DO things."

2023-10-05 13:57:22

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@npub1k24…26zw Former longtime journalist here. A female journalist sleeping with sources to get information she needs for a story is a dangerous stereotype.

2023-10-02 18:47:09

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@npub1k4q…3lsq Arrrgh. Seems like Alberta is bent on repeating all of our worst mistakes.

2023-10-02 18:17:54

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@npub1k4q…3lsq Don't do it, Canadians! We did it, and we are heartily sorry!

2023-09-26 23:52:17

"The last guy in New Jersey to be found with that much money in his house was Tony Soprano." -- U.S. Sen. John Fetterman on the indictment of fellow Democratic senator Robert Menendez of New Jersey.

2023-09-20 03:37:33

I see that the long tradition of Birmingham cops being dickheads continues. And if the two schools had agreed ahead of time on the performance, why the FUCK aren't school officials putting the cops on blast? https://www.npr.org/2023/09/19/1200145239/alabama-band-director-tased-by-police-for-not-stopping-his-students-performance?utm_medium=JSONFeed&utm_campaign=news&utm_source=press.coop

2023-09-17 23:29:35

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@npub1c8l…sldj @npub1jga…hx76
I'm a #Panthers fan, but I like the Cowboys for one and only one reason: As long as websites keep serving me ads for Cowboys merch, I know Skynet will never become sentient.

2023-09-15 11:36:28

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@npub1a25…l27u What. A . Cutie! And I love the name Darby. Our cat is Kirby.

2023-09-15 09:09:54

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@npub1l3t…cal9 Between shutting down the government and impeaching Biden, I think the House GOP is plotting to GIVE the House back to the Dems. And I am totally here for that.

2023-09-15 08:15:12

The House GOP's plan is to blow up all the plans. Seriously. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/09/14/house-republicans-government-shutdown-mccarthy/

2023-09-13 16:09:55

Press critic Dan Froomkin on one way that CNN under new CEO Mark Thompson could move forward productively and profitably. #journalism #press #CNN https://presswatchers.org/2023/09/cnn-should-become-the-anti-fox-pro-truth-network/

2023-09-10 16:14:30

It's hopeless, but Jeff Tiedrich is not wrong: "we need a national media that reports the facts, not one that pushes false narratives in hopes of generating clicks. come on, reporters, do your fucking job." #journalism #press #ethics #POTUS2024
https://www.jefftiedrich.com/p/what-in-actual-fuck-does-the-media

2023-09-02 15:11:34

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@npub1lzz…jhl3 It certainly should, at least.

2023-09-02 14:39:46

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@npub1lzz…jhl3 Well, McConnell hasn't quite amassed the reputation for revenge that TFG has, but that's mainly because he hasn't needed to. I think Senate Republicans are well aware that he still has enough brain cells left to make their lives VERY unpleasant if they cross him.

2023-09-02 01:12:55

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@npub1lzz…jhl3 There is zero chance that Republicans will throw McConnell under the bus before he retires or is ruled incompetent in a court of law.

2023-08-31 22:13:39

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@npub19de…ynwy And they all think the leopards won't eat THEIR face. @npub189n…satx

2023-08-31 13:10:53

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@npub1lzz…jhl3 Yeah if he has to go to actual Sing-Sing for the rest of his life for tax fraud, I'd be almost OK with his not being imprisoned with anything else. As the saying goes, that's what they got Capone for.

2023-08-31 05:17:17

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@npub1lzz…jhl3 Trump is fucked. If he overreported his net worth to the banks, he's guilty of bank fraud. If he underreported it to the state, he's guilty of tax fraud. With any luck, he's guilty of both, and frankly, Madam AG, rock on with yo' bad self, but I want to know why Trump hasn't been indicted for tax/bank fraud yet.

2023-08-28 21:52:54

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@npub15va…wesc What? A GOP candidate lied? UNPOSSIBLE!

2023-08-21 18:42:23

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@npub19kr…8m4r Maybe I'm missing something, but I think it's a real reach to argue that using legally obtained info to log in is "falsely claiming that she was Newell" or identity theft. As for lying about why she was downloading the record, neither article makes clear what lie, if any, Zorn told.

2023-08-21 16:51:00

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@npub19kr…8m4r With respect, Dan, I don't see anything close to proof beyond a reasonable doubt here that Phyllis Zorn or the Record broke the law. Neither, apparently, does the local prosecutor (the county attorney), who tossed the search warrant. What am I missing?

2023-08-21 16:19:46

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@npub19kr…8m4r It looks to me like the reporter legally obtained the info needed to access the online record. If anyone committed a crime, it was the source, I think. But I could be wrong.

2023-08-20 22:02:24

Howzabout that. The #Marion, Kan., #police raid of the Marion County Record, ostensibly in response to a crime allegedly committed by a Record reporter, wasn't based on a crime at all. I know you're as shocked as I am. #press #journalism https://www.theguardian.com/media/2023/aug/20/police-newspaper-raid-kansas

2023-08-16 17:04:34

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@npub153s…cvd9 Americans have always been fascist and hateful. After a relatively brief respite, Trump just made it OK again to be so in public.

2023-08-13 15:48:45

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Huh. I don't know what's going on. Link works for me on both laptop and phone.

2023-08-13 05:58:24

Fuck me. Looks to me like this ugly story about the police illegally raiding the newspaper in Marion, Kansas, and the home of its owner just graduated from conspiracy to violate civil rights to at least manslaughter if not second-degree murder. Marion police chief Gideon Cody had better get himself a lawyer. http://marionrecord.com/direct/updated_illegal_raids_contribute_to_death_of_newspaper_co_owner+5447raid+555044415445443a20496c6c6567616c20726169647320636f6e7472696275746520746f20646?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email #press #journalism #Marion

2023-06-11 15:05:58

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@npub1px9…v9r5 @npub1m5y…cqpg I think that their point is that EVEN the experts -- the people who know more about this stuff than the average person on the street -- are worried. But what an awkward and dismissive way to express that.

2023-05-16 23:08:03

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@npub1eeu…u43z @npub1uxz…5ma4 My mom has that superpower, and approaching her 89th birthday, she uses it frequently.

2023-03-17 21:25:23

Netflix just notified me that it has added a new Mel Gibson movie about two cops, suspended from duty for using excessive force, who hire out to the criminal underworld. I have no intention of watching this cop porn. You know what I would watch? Something like the old Charles Bronson movies where he kills all the muggers, except about someone who tracks down and punishes racist, violent cops. I'd watch that shit all day.