The Flock citywide camera surveillance in Providence was crucial to finding the Brown University alleged killer:

"That detail led them to get more video of a Nissan Sentra sedan with Florida plates and enabled Providence police officers to tap into a network of more than 70 street cameras operated around the city by surveillance company Flock Safety."

https://apnews.com/article/brown-shooting-university-witness-tipster-e114eb38248e2023dcdf92a29e6c6b30

Where is The Stranger's criticism of such cameras, used in the public space, where one has no legal expectation of privacy, now?

"for having it [Marijuana] in place where it's still illegal."

Since Federal Laws cover the entire United States, where in the U.S. is MJ legal?

@ Bi-pedo/Knife/Back in Black...
Congratulations... here is your cookie.

Now, how about you just go fuck off and start your own blog.
If you have to keep changing 'nyms to keep commenting, maybe that's a 'you' problem.
(Also, celebrating nobody replying to the last late-night comment from you as a win is pretty weak sauce, even for you. You're slipping, dude...)

That Kansas steakhouse review is the best thing I've read all year. A fine critique of how the other half lives. I like knowing what they're up to, those fancy people.

@5... Obviously not, but if that's what lifts your luggage, you do you, buttercup.
Oh, BTW, the tears are from laughing too hard at your dumb ass.

@9 Constantly being a racist piece of shit isn't challenging any of our world views. None of us are suddenly going to be like, "Oh shit. He's right. I SHOULD totally hate black people."

I mean.. none of us but you. You're always like... RIGHT on the edge of being a little MAGA bitch.

@3 Your entire personality is a tiny butthole that spits out fact checks from Google. You definitely know the answer to this.

About The Alchemy ($22), a cocktail the restaurant created for Taylor Swift, a woman who has never had to use Uber Jet. I ordered one, too, and a dedicated server brought out a martini glass with some steel wool tangled around the stem.

Pro tip - avoid the old fashioned butane lighter and use a 9V battery to ignite the steel wool. You could also use one of the spark lighters. Either the battery or the spark would be a classier presentation.

I forget. Is Portugal on the Shithole Country list?

the Black man
is Back, man!

another day
yet Another derr
Schlogg Hijacking?

yeah. probably. ho-hum?
moving on (thank Gawd):

"Anyway,
anything seen
as 'anti-Americanism,
anti-capitalism and anti-
Republican Jesus "Christianity”'
could warrant an anti-terrorism investigation."

There.
Fixed. aF.

oh & btw?
in Australia,
Israel is Trying to
Ban ANY criticism of
Israel, labeling it "Anti-
Semitism!" wanna speak
out on Israel's assorted atrocities?

fucking, BANNED, bitches.
or Will be if Israel/AIPAC
has Its Fascist Ways.

speaking of 'Having ITS WAY!', and
AIPAC, buying OUR Lawmakers, here's a place
to go to if you might be Wondering how fucking MUCH
Israel -- scuze me! "AIPAC" spends on owning 'our' Government:

[and it's fucking Staggering]

https://www.trackaipac.com/

oh and They're trying to
Ban ANY CRITICISM OF ISRAEL
Right here in the Homeland! labeling
it "anti-semitism!' and labeling YOU as a

"FUCKING TERRORIST!"

think 'oh, it CANNOT happen Here!'?

it fucking IS Happening Here.
& Remember: your Silence
equals your Complicity

sorry -- I don't make the rules.

The only victim to be protected by withholding Epstein files is Trump. So sad, such a victim in all circumstances. Also, bride at every wedding, corpse at every funeral.

@16: Yes, the evidence that Donald Trump had sex with an underage girl is still nowhere to be found. Oh dear!

@12, Neale doesn’t know how to express an opinion without roping someone in to perform the role of straw man so can cast himself as the smartest guy in the room. He probably wants someone to list the legal states so he can say federal law supersedes state law so technically it’s not legal anywhere in the us even though it’s sold legally in like half the country.

@3: Weed is legal in all states except for Twelve states—Arizona, Delaware, Georgia, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Dakota, Utah and Wisconsin—have zero-tolerance laws for certain drugs, including THC.

Some folks get so butt hurt when simple questions are asked on Slog. Just ignore them.

"Australians everywhere
should be made acutely aware
that the Australian Israel lobby is now
explicitly advocating a ban on criticism of the state of Israel.

Not just hate speech against Jews.
Criticism of a foreign state.
They’re coming right out
and saying it.

During a recent public video conference
with the American Jewish Committee on the topic
of the Bondi Beach shooting, the Executive Manager
of the Australia/Israel & Jewish Affairs Council (AIJAC)

explicitly says he wants pro-Palestine protests
to be banned by the Australian government,
and that addressing the problem of anti-
semitic hate speech in Australia neces-
sarily means stopping opposition
to Israel’s actions."

--Caitlin Johnstone; December 18, 2025

https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/the-australian-israel-lobby-is-flat

one comment:

"This is the moment where the issue
stops being Israel or Palestine and
becomes a civil liberties question.

Once criticism of a foreign government
is reframed as inherently dangerous speech, the
line between hate prevention and political censorship disappears.

You don’t have to agree with the protests
to see the precedent being set here,
state power deciding which geo-
political positions are allow-
ed in public space."

--Honey Badger Journal; Christopher Rixman

@24 - oh goody my little trolly is back too.

here's a little History:

@29: Kristofarian
died last month in a
domestic violence incident
in which he was the suspected aggressor.

--@crystalfarian on June 19, 2025 at 4:22 PM

thanks to all those
who spoke up for me!
and called out this poster
here's one from my bud Switfy:

@42 You are a horrible person
and I hope this username is
banned for your
horribleness.

--Swiftress on June 19, 2025 at 5:31 PM

@47: Okay
but that’s what happened.
The families want privacy so
depending how the investigation goes
we may never know the details and that’s okay.

--@crystalfarian on June 19, 2025 at 5:52 PM

C'mon, @tS!
do Better!

@26: Thanks for the corrections! That Google AI response to "What states have no tolerance for weed?" is obviously wrong.

@23, Weed is still illegal in the geographic locations you list. So there is no geographic location in the United States where weed is legal.

Natalie referred to places where its legal. There is no such place in the U.S.

The absence of a state law does not render an act or substance legal in that place if Federal Law applies. Why would an accurate reporter state otherwise?

STOP BASHING NATHALIE GRAHAM & OTHER STAFFERS PEOPLE

Just because you object to how any staffer is handling Slog reporting doesn't give you license to pollute our comment board with your juvenile peanut gallery buffoonery. If you don't see news that you want reported on, comment about it generally instead of nit picking on events that feed your overflowing outrage. Nobody cares about what you care about all of the time. No staffer can please all of us all of the time. Be nice, be gracious, be magnanimous. Don't be a bore. Even I should heed this advice.

Thank you for your cooperation to this matter!

Thanks

@37,

Nathalie (if you're going to be a pedantic ass, please spell her name correctly) didn't refer to places where weed is legal. Here is her synopsis of the story in it's entirety.

"Trump reclassified marijuana from a Schedule I drug to a Schedule III drug. This doesn't really do anything—it doesn't legalize weed or stop people from getting arresting for having it in place where it's still illegal—but it makes it easier to conduct research on the drug."

The only reference to legality is in noting that people can be arrested for having it in places where it's not legal.

You owe Nathalie an apology you stupid, myopic fuck.

@37, Theydies and gentlethems, please give it up for Neale Frothingham reprising his role as The Smartest Man In The Room in “The absence of a state law does not render an act or substance legal in that place if Federal Law applies”, supported by coolidge_dollar as Straw Man. Great work, guys.

It’s a little early for predictions but I’m calling it now, this is going to sweep the Trollies next year.

Barth can’t resist adding his own trolling arrogance to get included in the conversation.

I know Christmas is only 6 days away, but what with all the massive flooding and ground saturation.....EEK!
Wishing for snow right now is not a good idea, no matter how much the ski resorts, snowboarders, and kids want it. Nature is pissed. I-5, I-405, SR 20, USR 2, I-90, et al are basically unsafe nightmares.
Hard pass on Snowmageddon.

Thank you, Governor SuperBob Ferguson, for three new WSF ferries. Can you please send at least one of them up to Anacortes and the San Juans ASAP, along with more crew members, just in time for Christmas? Thanks!

@41, You need to learn how to take a compliment. I thought you would appreciate the recognition because you really leaned into the part right after i put out the casting call @22. Are you offended you were relegated to a supporting role? You should know Neale is the creative force behind this work. You should be proud of yourself!

@39, "it in place where it's still illegal." That statement requires places that it is legal, or there would be no need to differentiate places "where it's still illegal." If it is illegal everywhere, then she doesn't need to the statement does she? If she didn't mean to imply there were places it was legal then she could have stopped with, "it doesn't legalize weed or stop people from getting arresting (sic)." The rest of the sentence is unnecessary if she is correctly reporting it's still illegal everywhere in the U.S. (because federal law applies everywhere in the U.S.). So the only reason to include the rest of the sentence to differentiate places where it illegal from places where its legal.

Now blob is stealing the scene as the unwitting Straw Man #2 in the sequel, “That statement requires places that it is legal, or there would be no need to differentiate places "where it's still illegal.“”

You thought Neale was down for the count but you can’t take him out with facts or common sense. If anything challenging him with commonly understood concepts that no reasonable person would question will only make him stronger and his work more vital.

This is shaping up to be a historic day for troll theater and the night’s not over yet! What other sequels and spin offs do we have in store for us?

@27 kristofarian: Wow. First, he signs in as Valvoline, then Bioopsie, next as Putty Knife. Now he's angrily signing in as Black Barf. This batshit rabid 24/7 MAGA fool just doesn't want to go away, does he? Boredom for a deranged 14 year old must be hell. I feel sorry for his parents.
Black Barf is going to have to stop chugging Felon Mu$k's Mein Trumpf's KKKool-Aid before the floodwaters flush him out with the rest of the sewer rats. Nature's pissed.

@notmypic or @knife or whomever, what doesn’t make sense is that literally no one wants you here. Your discourse is not valuable and no one cares about you r thoughts and/or what else happened that Slog didn’t cover.

What your get out of this is unclear but like maybe do your own thing somewhere else. Your opinions are literally never followed and no one likes you. Read the room.

@43: That I'm not a troll but a straw man, I'm touched.

For the record (and surprised nobody caught it or, I guess, cared):

The Seahawks 2-point conversion didn't "fail," it succeeded; they scored the two points. Just not in the way they drew it up, but that's sports.

@51. Glad you appreciated it! The funny part is every "recommendation" has been explicitly condoned/rationalized/excused by TS, as long as the agent has the proper "back story." Garbage Man time; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5aK9Xq0Mr8c&list=RD5aK9Xq0Mr8c&start_radio=1

@ The Stranger/Slog...
Here is what I don't get...
Every other site I go to, when they ban someone, they do it by I/P address. Here, it is just by 'nym, so that's how we get (Bi-Pedo/Knife/We'reBackBaby/BackInBlack/among countless others, now the TimWalz one.

If y'all are going to nuke a 'nym, please nuke their I/P address at the same time. It may not keep them away, but at least it makes them work a bit harder to troll, instead of just coming up with a new stupid 'nym.

The 1st Amendment wins again thanks to a case out of the University of Washington.

https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/education/uw-violated-professors-free-speech-rights-court-rules/

The other 1st Amendment cases noted in the article are noteworthy and across the spectrum of 1A content and points of view.

@15

the Black man
is Back, man!

another day
yet Another derr
Schlogg Hijacking?

nah.
let us
make it
a Weekend.

and
Apologies
if the above
feels like Stereo-
typing but in This case

there's only
just ONE
Sik pup-
pee.

3 dead, 11 wounded. This guy did better with a knife than the Brown U shooter did with a gun.

https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/taiwans-subway-stabber-planned-his-deadly-spree-police-say/

So much for restricting means of mass murder reducing the toll of a mass murderer.

@Tim Walz for President. Thank you! Now I understand why the Soviets had Gulags.

"'CPSC, does a dry Christmas tree really burn that much faster than a well-watered tree?'

Friend, let's find out together by watching this PSA." *

OMG!
the PRESENTS!

Someone asked what's happening here -
the watered tree is lit on fire a full 30 seconds
before the dry tree, but you can barely tell because
it's burning so slowly. The dry tree goes full inferno in

a matter of seconds.

Water your tree. Make sure
you have working smoke
alarms in your home.

--@U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission‬; @cpsc.gov‬

If you all want to know the
real miracle of this video, it's
gotten us 2k+ likes on threads where
we have to fist fight the algorithm every day.

‪--@U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission‬; @cpsc.gov‬

thank You,
Bluesky!

You Too
@tS!

*look for Cadet Bonespurs
to Soon Defund the Overly-Woke
U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission

much like M4A,
we Cannot AFFORD It!

@53 - Well, IP address are not always static. You'd still have to record email address and provide change of password functionally. That's a lot of IT work and advanced coding for Sleepy Creek.

Not to mention you couldn't chime in on Slog while traveling!

@43,

You falsely say that the statement "it doesn't legalize weed or stop people from getting arresting for having it in place where it's still illegal" necessitates that there are places where weed is legal.

At the absolute worst, the statement perhaps sloppily infers that places where it's legal could conceivably exist, which could be misleading (though even this is subject to debate, as a fellow pedant would likely point out that it was legal throughout the country prior to 1937.) Regardless, whatever ambiguity exists doesn't render the objectively factual aspect of the statement itself, which is that it doesn't legalize weed or stop people from getting arrested in places where it's still illegal, inaccurate.

You also objectively and falsely state that "Natalie referred to places where its legal." She referred to no such places. I look forward to your apology which I'm sure won't be forthcoming because you're an idiot and an asshole.

NYT:
the Top comment on,
and a comment in response, on Ezra Klien's

The Trump Vibe Shift Is Dead; Dec. 21, 2025, 
by Ezra Klien

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/opinion/trump-economy-vibe-shift.html

My life is pretty good. I’m a single mom, we have a roof over our heads, food on the table. I’ve got a job I love. I have a family I love. I don’t need much. When I’ve voted -especially in a presidential election, I vote for the person whom I think will be able to help those who need it more than I do. Even before I had my son,

I was quite naive about the rest of white America. 49% of voters decided to give another chance to the man who incited January6th.

They have enabled the roll back of environmental laws, climate change, food & worker safety protections and the dismantling of the DOE. These acts will have terrible consequences down the line.

They enabled RFK Jr. , who in my opinion is the scariest, worst of them all, to be the head of our entire healthcare apparatus. This man doesn’t believe in science. He’s already begun to shred our vaccine program. What do people expect to happen?

My son is autistic. He is 17 & well aware of Kennedys open hostility towards autistic people and the disability community. With their vote they have put my kid in harms way. With cuts to Medicaid, it will take away programs that help special needs kids thrive.

I could go on & on about their disastrous hateful vote .
I find it hard to exist next to those that voted for Trump. I will never forgive them.

--Jacqui; Brooklyn. · Dec. 21

[in reply to] @Josh Hill [replying to Jacqui]

I will respectively disagree. I'm in a blue collar profession
serving wealthy clients. I also used to belong to a
mainstream denomination Protestant church.

I know many people who are Trump supporters,
even if they aren't overtly MAGA.

There are many different types [of] people who voted for Trump and support him, and I can honestly say that most of them who I regularly come in contact with are genuinely decent people.

The number one thing that almost all of them have in common,
at the exclusivity of everything else, is their dependence
on information coming from right wing news outlets.

For old people, it's Fox News or Newsmax, or some other
mainstream outlet. For younger people, it's social media
or some other siloed content. It's absolutely incredible
how many people don't read anything at all, but just
consume whatever visual/audio content that is
slanted toward whatever position they may be
currently holding. And they will do this for
hours every day, either through keeping
the TV on all day or listening to a podc-
ast. It's a tough nut to crack.

--RJ; New Jersey. · Dec. 21

Oodles:
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/opinion/trump-economy-vibe-shift.html#commentsContainer

'our' Corporate-owned
mainstream mass media
is Not Required to present
to the Citizenry the point of
view of 'the Bottom 90 percent'

in Fact, it's in
Their BEST INTERESTS
ro NOT tell us what the Fuck
is ACTUALLY HAPPENING IN AMERICA

because
if We KNEW
we'd NEVER
ALLOW IT TO
CONTINUE. but
we Don't, so we're fed
alotta bullshit to keep us Silent

about all the shit that MATTERS.

"It's absolutely incredible
how many people don't read anything at all, but just
consume whatever visual/audio content that is
slanted toward whatever position they may be
currently holding."

I suppose, but its super easy, like on YouTube for example, to watch podcasts from both the left (like the Bulwark, Jennifer Welch - I've Had It, Brian Tyler Cohen, David Pakman) and the right (like Pierce Morgan, Ben Shapiro, Jo Rogan, Megyn Kelly).
A lot of people are naturally curious as to what their adversaries are saying. The proliferation of podcasters is very helpful in that regard.

@66 I have read "The Gulag Archipelago." That is why I want to see right wing nut jobs like you in Gulags.

just like Iraq!

lol! Lol! LOL!!!