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JI Kang (嵇康, 223–262), a famous figure in literature and music during the era of Three Kingdoms, was born in Qiao County (谯县), present-day Su-zhou of An-hui Province (安徽宿州). He refused all official appointments after SI-MA family replaced CAO family in Wei Kingdom to express his political persistence. Celebrated as one of the “Seven Sages of Bamboo Forest” (竹林七贤), he and his wise friends often haunted a bamboo forest in Shan-yang County (山阳), present Hui County of Henan Province (河南辉县), and together impugned Confucianism and criticized the SI-MA government. Because of his unorthodox free lifestyle and fiery attacks on Confucianism and the new authority, he was eventually beheaded by SI-MA Zhao (司马昭, 211–265), the founder of the West Jin Dynasty (西晋, 265–317).
While WANG Bi advocated “Confucianism Derives from Nature” (名教本于自然), eager to prove the natural origin of Confucianism, JI Kang called for the abandonment of Confucianism, believing that it violated rather than followed the natural law. JI claimed that “It is human nature to enjoy peace over risk, and enjoy leisure over labor” (夫民之性, 好安而恶危, 好逸而恶劳), and that this innate instinct existed in people naturally, just as the mouth may distinguish sweet from bitter and the body may distinguish itch from pinch. At that time, a Confucian scholar named ZHANG Shu-liao (张叔辽) wrote an essay titled Natural Learning Tendency《自然好学论》, and elucidated the importance of Confucianism by stressing the human natural tendency toward learning. JI Kang contradicted him by saying,
[In primordial time, the great Dao was complete. Monarchs ruled not by ordinances, and people fought not for benefits. All things worked their own ways according to their natural attributes; all people led their own lives according to their pleasure principles, sleeping when sleepy, eating when hungry. Having no idea about perfect virtues, they certainly did not need to preach benevolence and righteousness or promote propriety and legality. (洪荒之世, 大朴未亏。君无文于上, 民无竞于下。物全理顺, 莫不自得。饱则安寝, 饥则求食。怡然鼓腹, 不知为至德之世也。若此, 则安知仁义之端, 礼律之文)]
Furthermore, from the perspective of natural humanity and Daoism, JI Kang criticized Confucianism, believing that “True humanity is justified in its Inaction” (人之真性, 无为正当), just as “Birds do not flock to be trained, beasts do not pack to be penned” (鸟不聚以求驯, 兽不群而求畜). He claimed that while humanity refused exterior restraints, Confucianism was created just to restrain true humanity:
When sages were dead, and Great Dao was twisted, people then resorted to language to express themselves. Dividing all things by categorizing them, they disturbed plebeian hearts by preaching benevolence and righteousness, inspected their behaviors by establishing titles and hierarchies, and hallowed educational inculcation by promoting literacy and cultures. Consequently, Six Classics were contrived, Diverse Ideological Schools flourished; honors and offices were established, and people bustled and hustled for them unconsciously. Accordingly, as birds sneaked into hoarded grains, men of aspirations resigned themselves to secular pursuits; people of alcohol rather than people of letters were entitled to make sentences regarding life and death; people who learned the Six Classics were exempt from tilling and reaping. (及至人不存, 大道陵迟, 乃始作文墨, 以传其意; 区别群物, 使有类族; 造立仁义, 以婴其心; 制为名分, 以检其外; 劝学讲文, 以神其教。故六经纷错, 百家繁炽, 开荣利之途, 故奔骛而不觉。是以贪生之禽, 食园池之梁菽; 求安之士, 乃诡志以从俗。操笔执觚, 足容苏息; 积学明经, 以代稼穑。)
However, this superficial tendency of civilization was, in JI’s idea, unnatural, because the Six Classics intended suppression and manipulation and distorted human will for rite and law, and benevolence and righteousness served to promote hierarchical hypocrisy rather than preserve human integrity. Based on this idea, JI Kang advised his contemporaries to “Transcend Confucianism for Nature” (越名教而任自然), that is, to return to natural humanity by getting rid of the suppression and manipulation of Six Classics, the limitation of benevolence and righteousness, and the restraint of rite and law. In response to ZHANG’s statement that “As Six Classics are like the Sun, people ignorant of them remain in the dark” (六经为太阳, 不学为长夜), JI Kang contradicted him,
[If we are wise enough to take Six Classics as wild weeds, regard benevolence and righteousness as smelly socks, we may then sneer at ancient books, sneeze at hypocritical courtesy, twitch in ceremonial panoply, and retch at talking Rite. Naturally, if we abandon them altogether and just follow natural order, there would always be a gap in our knowledge spectrum; however, Six Classics are not necessarily the Sun, people ignorant of them are not necessarily in the dark. As a saying goes, beggars smear not the repute of horse doctors. In the primordial age when written languages were nowhere to be found, people were easy without knowledge, happy without diligence, and then need not the lecture of Six Classics, and desire not benevolence and righteousness? (今若以六经为芜秽, 以仁义为臭腐, 睹文籍则目瞧, 修揖让则变伛, 袭章服则转筋, 谭礼典则齿龋。于是兼而弃之, 与万物为更始, 则吾子虽好学不倦, 犹将阙焉。则向之不学, 未必为长夜, 六经未必为太阳也。俗语曰: 乞儿不辱马医。若遇上古无文之治, 可不学而获安, 不勤而得志, 则何求于六经, 何欲于仁义哉)]
JI Kang’s advice to “Transcend Confucianism for Nature” (越名教而任自然) actually originated from his famous essay Free Thyself《释私论》, where he claimed,
[For the virtuous, their hearts are not confined to traditional rights and wrongs, and their actions are not contrary to the Great Dao. Why do I say so? Those who are calm in vigor and empty in spirit are not arrogant or narcissistic; those who are simple in heart and open in mind are not tied to their desires. With no arrogance or narcissism in the heart, they are able to transcend Confucianism for nature; with their mind untied to their desires, they are able to distinguish good and bad reasonably. Exercising reason, they abide by the Great Dao; concurring with nature, they are unconfined to traditional values. Thus, the virtuous are mostly untraditional yet reasonable, and the unvirtuous are untruthful and against Dao. Why? Being untruthful and arrogant and stingy, is most evil of the unvirtuous; being simple and modest and untraditional, is most honest of the virtuous. Hence a Daoist would say, “If I care not my body, what is there to worry me?” Those that despise death will outdo those that dread death. In this light, the hearts of the sage are not confined by rules. Therefore, YI Yin staked his talents to assist Shang Dynasty, thus serving the people and earning personal fame; ZHOU Gong handled state affairs in Emperor’s behalf regardless of suspicion of usurpation, thus promoting civility by regent order; GUAN Zhong hid no truth from HUAN Gong of Qi and gained his respect by helping Qi lead the alliance. Are they doing these for selfish interests? GUAN Zhong said: “The virtuous act out Dao and forget themselves.” That’s the answer. The virtuous take benevolent actions without observing olden customs, make honest judgments without following traditional merits, and express reasonable opinions without conforming to orthodox ideas. Therefore, they care not virtues in pride, yet their virtues coincide with olden customs; they restrain not their hearts, yet their hearts meet traditional merits; they cared not rigid rules, yet their deeds achieve right ends. (夫称君子者, 心无措乎是非, 而行不违乎道者也。何以言之?夫气静神虚者, 心不存于矜尚; 体亮心达者, 情不系于所欲。矜尚不存乎心, 故能越名教而任自然; 情不系于所欲, 故能审贵贱而通物情。物情顺通, 故大无违; 越名任心, 故是非无措也。是故, 言君子则以无措为主, 以通物为美; 言小人则以匿情为非, 以违道为阙。何者?匿情矜吝, 小人之至恶; 虚心无措, 君子之笃行也。是以大道言: “及吾无身, 吾又何患?”无以生为贵者, 是贤于贵生也。由斯而言, 夫至人之用心, 固不存有措矣。是故伊尹不惜贤于殷汤, 故世济而名显; 周旦不顾嫌而隐行, 故假摄而化隆; 夷吾不匿情于齐桓, 故国霸而主尊。其用心岂为身而系乎私哉!故《管子》曰: “君子行道, 忘其为身。”斯言是矣!君子之行贤也, 不察于有度而后行也; 任心无邪, 不议于善而后正也; 显情无措, 不论于是而后为也。是故傲然忘贤, 而贤与度会; 忽然任心, 而心与善遇; 傥然无措, 而事与是俱也)]
In 261, SHAN Tao (山涛, 205–283), another of the “Seven Sages of Bamboo Forest”, recommended JI Kang to serve as personnel minister for SI-MA power; however, disgusted with SHAN’s political compromise and opportunism, JI Kang refused this office and even wrote a famous letter to discontinue his friendship with SHAN Tao, in which he listed seven “intolerable things” (不堪者) and two “improper things” (不可者) as his excuses:
[People have to abide by ethical requirements, and states have to run by legal stipulations; however, if I were to accept this appointment, there would be seven things intolerable and two things improper. Regarding things intolerable: firstly, I always wake up late, but would then be repetitively urged to wake up early; secondly, I enjoy playing the zither, singing a melody, fishing and hunting in the wild, but would then lose this freedom in the company of officials and runners; thirdly, I enjoy lying down in ease and dressing up at will, but would then have to be rigidly seated in the court until my legs get numb, and formally attired in front of superiors without daring to scratch an itch; fourthly, I hate to write socializing letters, but would then be swamped in many mundane affairs and official documents, not answering which would make me appear unritely and unrighteous, yet trying to answer which would only disgust me; fifthly, my dislike of offering condolence has incurred complaints from some people and slanders from others, and would then not likely keep me immune from blames in the future even though I might carefully compromise my will to popular customs; sixthly, I dislike dull people, but would then have to receive them at work and home, who would annoy me daily with loud noises, foul smells and nasty tricks; seventhly, I am impatient of routine business, but would then be burdened with official affairs and encumbered with mundane matters. Regarding things improper: firstly, my habitual criticism of King TANG of Shang and King WU of Zhou, and contempt of ZHOU Gong and Confucius, would then seem improper and incur public censure; secondly, my obstinacy in loathing evils and speaking frankly, would then seem improper, and my irascible temper might burst right away at the sight of injustice. (人伦有礼, 朝廷有法, 有必不堪者七, 甚不可者二: 卧喜晚起, 而当关呼之不置, 一不堪也。抱琴行吟, 弋钓草野, 而吏卒守之, 不得妄动, 二不堪也。危坐一时, 痹不得摇, 性复多虱, 把搔无已, 而当裹以章服, 揖拜上官, 三不堪也。素不便书, 又不喜作书, 而人间多事, 堆案盈机, 不相酬答, 则犯教伤义, 欲自勉强, 则不能久, 四不堪也。不喜吊丧, 而人道以此为重, 已为未见恕者所怨, 至欲见中伤者; 虽瞿然自责, 然性不可化, 欲降心顺俗, 则诡故不情, 亦终不能获无咎无誉如此, 五不堪也。不喜俗人, 而当与之共事, 或宾客盈坐, 鸣声聒耳, 嚣尘臭处, 千变百伎, 在人目前, 六不堪也。心不耐烦, 而官事鞅掌, 机务缠其心, 世故烦其虑, 七不堪也。又每非汤、武而薄周、孔, 在人间不止, 此事会显, 世教所不容, 此甚不可一也。刚肠疾恶, 轻肆直言, 遇事便发, 此甚不可二也)]
JI Kang thus expressed his dream for a peaceful life: “Now I only wish to live in a plain alley to teach my children, talk with friends, chat about trifles, drink some alcohol, and play some music” (今但愿守陋巷, 教养子孙, 时与亲旧叙离阔, 陈说平生, 浊酒一杯, 弹琴一曲, 志愿毕矣). However, even this simple wish could not be realized, as he was beheaded by the SI-MA government soon after.
From: Chapter 4 Ethical Thought in the Wei & Jin Period
Book: A Panoramic History of Traditional Chinese Ethics by Yi-ting ZHU (朱贻庭)

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In 15 months in. Ppd. Complicated by my CRPS.* I have exstreme anxiety that is making the insomnia even worse. It's morphed I to a type of self harm called dermotalomania. I'm medicated for all of them, but it doesn't do much most times.
I take care of my daughter and my home but that's all I have spoons* for but I push myself anyways because I know my time on county cash aid will run out and my ex refuses to provide even diapers consistently. He flat out refuses to give child support cash. And I'm afraid to go through the courts due to my mental
So I'm working with the department of rehabilitation (for disability) trying to get to the point I can find work and keep a job I can actually physically can do. But it's been months with little results. I feel more a failure now then I did when my daughter used to scream all the time.
The worse my insomnia gets the more my thoughts turn to hurting myself that I deserve it , that I'm already so ugly now what's a few scars on top. That's not even the worst though the worst is driving at night I live in the mountains and it gets harder and harder not to just drive off a cliff.
But I don't want my daught raised by the man who abused me . Call it spite whatever its been keeping me going but lately it's hallow.
I talked to my counselor and she brought up going to grippy sock hell for a little while. The problem with that is my absence will cause more problems and more stress. Not less. Not only that it would take away everything I find soothing , my cats, holding my lil girl at night, heater blanket, weighted blanket. How would it help? Force me into group therapy? Yike... I don't play well with others. That's a recipe for disaster.
What do you all think?

In 2017 I was put in a carotid hold, nearly killed, and seriously injured by a knee to my back in a technique that caused great bodily injury not just to me but to various other people as well, such as Danny Banks, who suffered internal bleeding from a knee to the back, 2 years prior to the incident with me, and David Ward, who died from the carotid hold, 2 and a half years after the incident with me, after I informed everyone, including Mark Essick who was Captain of Internal Affairs, IOLERO, Andrew Cash who was then a sergeant, Eddie Engram who was a captain in 2018, Lynda Hopkins, and various others, that the carotid hold is a LETHAL technique and was being used recklessly and dangerously by the Sheriff's Office. Those were literally my exact words in writing to IOLERO, and Ms. Hopkins, and in the recorded interview with Andrew Cash Internal Affairs, who laughed.
Since then the County has stolen six years of my life, misusing public funds to withhold even a minimum of compensation, lying about conducting an investigation, literally getting caught destroying camera records, per a well established practice and custom, which also occurred in the 2015 torture ring / yard counseling case, where Cecile Focha and others lied about the existence of videos and destroyed the video where they gave Danny Banks internal bleeding, and the 2019 Nino Busco case, where the Court instructed the jury to assume that the evidence had been destroyed with intent. The County has criminally withheld evidence, and openly violated various other laws, as well as rules of civil procedure, and implicated the Court in misconduct.
Nobody responds to my emails, or voicemails, or answers the phone.
Nobody responds to my requests for public records.
IOLERO doesn't seem to have ever done anything, in any of the cases of misconduct, except be a heatsink for the ongoing public dissatisfaction with continued murders and terrorism and does not enact any justice.
There were no records made of any of the misconduct that occurred. No changes are made by the Sheriff's Office until innocent people die on camera after they were warned that the techniques they use recklessly are well known to be lethal, and get repeatedly caught lying and destroying evidence.
The incident occurred under a camera and in front of witnesses, including the commanding officer. The carotid hold was illegal per POST BASIC state-wide police standards - for 2017 - unless the subject exhibits ASSAULTIVE BEHAVIOR.
Even according to the two officers who admit to assaulting me, my behavior did not rise to that level -- meaning the carotid hold was irrefutably illegal.
According to the commanding officer - Lieutenant Melissa Parmenter, I was not resisting.
According to the third party witnesses, including the bystander witness who saw the entire incident, and Officer Robert Sagan of Rohnert Park police, I was POLITE AND COOPERATIVE.
I have been diagnosed with organic brain injury from the carotid hold, and the injury to my kidney due to the knee to my back was also worse than any injury before or since.
I want my case resolved.
It's been 6 years. Nobody else involved in this is being nearly as patient or courteous as I have been.

Protests, drought, fatalism, recession, and the spread of infectious diseases. Just another week on our dying planet.
Last Week in Collapse: March 26-April 1, 2023
This is Last Week in Collapse, a weekly newsletter bringing together some of the most important, timely, helpful, depressing, ironic, stunning, or otherwise must-see moments in Collapse.
This is the 66th newsletter. You can find the March 19-25 edition here if you missed it last week. These newsletters are also on Substack if you want them sent to your email inbox.
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The U.S. government is auctioning off a colossal section in the Gulf of Mexico for oil drilling. The parcel totals 73.3M acres—just under the size of Italy’s landmass, or the Philippines. Explore the full map here or here.
Southeastern Europe is facing a dry, dry summer. A year of constant record-breaking will not slow down soon. (Can you believe we are already 25%+ through 2023?) Drought is getting so bad in Spain that group prayers for rain have begun. Spain is also seeing wildfires.
North Africa is suffering from drought too, and it’s affecting their crops. El Niño is heating up the Pacific Ocean already, and forecast to become more severe as the year drags on. Phnom Penh, Cambodia’s capital, is feeling the strain of drought.
Once a sustainable producer of grains, Pakistan (due to drought and debt and overpopulation, etc.) is now unable to produce enough grain to sustain its own people. Government distributions of flour have caused deadly stampedes and injuries to the desperate & hungry people.
2,000 elderly Swiss women are taking Switzerland to court, the European Court of Human Rights, to be precise. They are seeking a binding judgment that climate change is putting their health and lives at risk.
After 8,000 gallons of chemicals (190 barrels) spilt in a tributary of the Delaware River, Philadelphia officials say the water is safe to drink.
Berlin voters narrowly voted to obligate their city to achieve carbon neutrality by 2030—but the vote lacked the overall votes necessary to become law. So the climate effort failed. Germany’s economy is contracting and hundreds of thousands of workers went on a one-day strike on Monday.
Private jet use has hit record highs, far surpassing the pre-pandemic figures. Meanwhile, South Korean researchers may have found a method to transform CO2 from the air into a kind of polyester. The study claims that the electricity-intensive process can be easily scaled up.
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Amnesty International released a 412-page report on the state of human rights in the world today. Spoiler: it’s really bad. You can download it in 46 languages. The document is organized by countries, so you can skip to a particular nation and read about its indicators of Collapse.
68 Central/South American migrants, en route to the U.S., were locked in a holding facility in northern Mexico when several started a mattress fire after they learned that they would be deported. Empathy from the guards was lacking, and nothing was done to prevent the suffocation and fire; 38 of the men died.
78% of Americans believe the next generation will have it worse than they do, according to a WSJ poll. The other 22% are fools. U.S. bond markets are in a tough spot, too. The other questions in the poll reveal a damning picture of the American Dream. 27% believe community involvement is very important, while 43% believe money is very important.
Argentina’s currency—the Argentine Peso (the official rate is 1 USD = 208 ARP, but the black market rate is closer to 1 USD = 380 ARP)—has been downgraded from a C rating to CCC, in advance of an “imminent default” of government bonds. Faith in the government’s ability to stabilize its currency is gone—it’s not just the banks that have lost the people’s trust.
China is encountering concerning levels of debt that are forcing governments to find new sources of money. Yet despite China’s structural economic flaws (poor age demographics, corrupt real estate sector, political influences on markets), some economists think China is a safe investment in a turbulent global economy. Last week, China made its first ever purchase of LNG using Chinese Yuan. And China warned the US against hosting Taiwan’s President for a visit.
The IMF says that the stability in the world economy is shaking while growth slows, trust fallout from SVB lingers, and interest rates rise. Central banks are allegedly being called upon to do more—but the situation may be beyond institutional control. What is a bank if not a collection of other people’s debts?
The UK has hit record levels of household debt: £2 Trillion. Meanwhile the ECB (European Central Bank) is warning that shadow banking may lead to the ~~current~~ next economic crisis. “The nonbank {shadow} sector involves firms which are engaged in bank-like activities, but are neither registered nor regulated as banks. These include the likes of funds, insurance firms, venture capitalists and currency exchanges.”
Protests, which are sometimes becoming riots, are continuing in France. This weekly observation gives an interesting summary of the situation. You can watch some footage here, or here, or here. What begins as a protest for one issue can quickly become co-opted by other forces, or organically grow into something larger than itself. Thousands of police and 10 helicopters were deployed in western France to stop protestors trying to obstruct the construction of several reservoirs for agriculture.
Iranian special forces are training to handle new protests; whether their violence can overcome the political grievances remains to be seen. Teachers, many of whom have reportedly not been paid, are allegedly joining the protests. We seldom hear about the situation in Iran these days—is this because the protest movement is dwindling, or something else?
In another silenced conflict, Myanmar, last week the ruling party dissolved a number of opposing political parties, most notable the NLD, the party of Aung San Suu Kyi, who tried to move Myanmar away from military rule. She was eventually removed in a 2021 coup which precipitated Myanmar’s current phase of Civil War.
The runner-up in Kenya’s 2022 election—the 78-year old, Raila Odinga, ran unsuccessfully for President five times—is calling for twice-a-week protests that began two weeks ago. Two protestors have been shot dead in the escalating protests so far, which have given cover for looters and anti-government vandals.
Israel’s embattled PM is temporarily holding back his judicial reform bill after massive protests flexed their opposition. Israel said they totally weren’t intimidated by the US into holding back from the proposed law, which has become a symbol for the struggle of Israel’s identity.
In Senegal, the trial of opposition leader Ousmane Sonko is set to begin—and the people are protesting. The government allegedly wants to block Sonko from running in 2024, accusing Sonko of stirring up the masses to avoid prosecution.
Donald Trump has not (yet) been arrested—but he has been indicted on a number of charges relating to Stormy Daniels and campaign finance law, fraud, etc. Trump said, “this Witch-Hunt will backfire massively on Joe Biden,” and he could be right; however, pro-Trump protests have not yet materialized. Trump is allegedly talking to his advisors about (if he is elected again) going to War in Mexico, something that happened not long before the first American Civil War.
Bakhmut continues to hold out against the Russians. Tanks are arriving in Ukraine and this phase of the War turned 400 days old a few days ago. Russia is believed to be planning another wave of mobilizations to recruit 400,000 men to be sacrificed for nothing. Russia is also becoming more popular in the developing world from a combination of self-interest, anti-western sentiment, and Russian disinformation. The War drags on, and victory, whatever that is, remains far away.
The War in Yemen turned 8 years old several days ago, and peace hinges on a fragile ceasefire. It is believed that the Houthi rebels (backed by Iran, in opposition to the Saudi-backed government) will restart an offensive if a deal cannot be secured. It is always easier to break something than to build it back up.
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Northern China is expected to see more sandstorms as desertification continues. Thailand is seeing blistering heat waves in some areas above 40 ° C (104 °F); Laos set a new record for March.
Several major cities in Tunisia are cutting off water at night as their drought grows more severe. The water rations are expected to continue through the summer—and perhaps beyond. Nigeria is also suffering from water scarcity.
The ICJ (International Court of Justice) is going to give an advisory opinion on climate change and states’ responsibilities surrounding its damage. Some people believe the opinion (if it is favorable to climate activists) will galvanize action—when it is released sometime within the next two years. Others, who have witnessed the quiet IPCC coverage, catastrophic flooding and wildfires, COP~~out~~ climate conferences pass without fanfare, and the not-so-gradual expansion of extraction companies into delicate ecosystems accelerate…are not so optimistic.
The “full volume” IPCC synthesis report has still not been released yet. But don’t hold your breath; corporate interests supposedly watered down the language and inserted pages of carbon-removal copium, scrubbing the text of many references to fossil fuels and industrial agriculture.
A study from Functional Ecology about plants in the Sonoran Desert indicated that climate-stressed plants are moving to higher elevations—but they are not thriving at the mountaintops.
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A bipartisan supermajority of U.S. Senators, 68-23 voted to end the COVID emergency early—and President Biden has indicated he will sign it, ending the state of emergency about 5 weeks ahead of schedule. With about 1,125,000 confirmed COVID deaths, the United States still leads the world in COVID-19 fatalities. (If you search “COVID India” or COVID {country name}” on Google, you will no longer see the Our World in Data charts appear.) India is currently facing the highest confirmed case numbers in 6 months. Brazil recorded its 700,000th COVID death last week, the country with the second-most COVID deaths.
A small town in Burundi has detected 3 strange deaths from a mystery illness with similar symptoms to Ebola and Marburg. However, both those diseases were ruled out. The disease, whatever it is, killed within 24 hours. Two weeks ago, Burundi saw polio reappear after 30+ years. Polio was also detected again in New York state, after several months of dormancy.
Marburg was detected in Equatorial Guinea’s largest city, while cholera spreads across southern Africa untraceably.
A woman in southern China tested positive for H3N8, a different version of bird flu. She is the third human case in recent history, after two other people in China tested positive last year. A variant of H3N8 killed a million people in the 1889-1890 pandemic.
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Things to watch next week include:
↠ The International Academy of Astronauts is holding its annual Planetary Defense Conference next week to discuss the potential of meteor impacts on earth, and how the human race should respond to unlikely threats from space (impacts, Carrington Events, etc). I, however, believe our Collapse ~~will come~~ is coming from within.
Select comments/threads from the subreddit last week suggest:
-The United States may soon pass the most comprehensive ~~security~~ surveillance legislation since ~~the Patriot Act~~ …ever. This thread on the proposed law, ostensibly intended to regulate TikTok, cites large parts of the bill that are concerning, to say the least. This debacle also reveals how difficult it can be to combat modern hybrid War(s).
-A 2.7 °C temperature increase will devastate India, according to this thread exploring the future of the future-most-populated nation on earth. A few years ago, someone made CollapseIndia to explore Collapse in an explicitly Indian context; the subreddit has never broken 800 subscribers.
-Thawing permafrost is going to be a really big pollution problem, according to this post from BiosphereCollapse. You can read the full study here, from Nature Communications.
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Hello, here to seek advice and also, perhaps, share a warning of something that happened in our community.
It was about 5:25pm on Tuesday 3/28 when I looked down at my phone. My beautiful and amazing wife was calling but my phone was on silent. She was at a hair appointment and I was surprised it was already over. I swiped to answer and simultaneously noticed she had tried to call me 5 previous times within the last minute. What I heard on the other end, I never want hear again... ever. She was crying hysterically, screaming "Come, Help ME! He cut my hair! He cut my hair! Call 911!" Immediately, I was grabbing my keys and running to my truck. "I'm coming honey, I'm on my way!," I exclaimed. I hung up and started dialing 911.
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My wife's hair was 32inches from the top of her head to her butt. It would be what a hair stylist would call "Extra-Long". We have recently moved to Temecula, so she was visiting a new stylist; one she had scoped out. He had good reviews, good prices, and had many photos of hair colored the way she was looking for- dark brown base with blonde streaks. She has had it this way as long as I've known her. She doesn't do much for herself, so when she gets her hair colored every 4 months, it is a big deal.
She met with the stylist for a consultation, and he said he could and would provide the service she was looking for, and that she would be very happy with the outcome. So, on the day of the appointment she sat in his chair for 2 hours as he performed his hair services, chatting about things as most would during a hair appointment. They spoke of family, Faith, and the community. He mentioned that he had been in business for 40 years, and that he has had 5 previous shops. She was undoubtedly excited about how her hair was going to turn out.
When the color treatment was over, he began to wash her out in his sink. He told her that he had never had someone in his chair with hair as long as hers and asked her if she wanted a cut. She quickly said no, as she hardly ever cuts it. So, they moved back to the chair and he pulled out the mirror. She saw the color was absolutely not what she wanted. Her hair was very dark, with blue/gray streaks all throughout. She told him, "this isn't good, this isn't what I wanted." She asked if would re-do it. He was reluctant and responded with hostility. He started grabbing at her and taking a hot straight iron to her hair. "You'll see, you'll see," he expressed. She said "no, please re-do it." Angerly and still grabbing at her, he said "You want me to re-do it, pay me $500, Zelle, now!" Even though the initial visit was going to be $160, and $500 is way more than she would ever pay normally, at this point she would pay anything not to leave the salon in this fashion. She said "fine, do whatever you need to do." Before she could pay him, however, she became scared.
He was standing over her, aggressive and tense, and in her close proximity. "It will be fine, you'll see," he continued. She needed to escape, so she stood up and just like that, he grabbed his scissors, reached and cut at her hair. She looked down and saw a lot of her hair on the ground. "WHY did you do that!?!," she screamed. "I smelled trouble," he said. She gathered her things and ran for the door and fell to the sidewalk outside his shop, crying and screaming hysterically. The man followed her, untied and pulled his apron off of her. At some point, he told her "you don't like it, sue me!" and ran back in and locked his shop doors.
She called me at this moment, and I drove as fast as I could around the corner to the shopping center. I was speaking to 911 dispatchers and explaining that the stylist had just assaulted her and she was in dire need of help. I found her on the ground, absolutely distraught. This beautiful woman did not deserve this. I held her as she cried. I looked up and saw this man in his shop, taking pictures or recording video with his cell phone through the glass walls. My wife asked me where the police were, so I tried to call again. The dispatcher said they were on their way and be patient. I went to the window to yell at the man. We were 2 feet from each other, separated by glass. Since he had locked his doors, I couldn't go in. So, I was telling him "come out, the police are coming and are going to want to talk to you!" But he wouldn't come out. Lucky for him because I would have gladly opened up a can for messing with my wife. I said "why did you do this?" and he said, "because she wouldn't pay!" I pulled out my wallet and said "you want money? you would hurt a woman, for money? you are evil and have evil in your heart." He could obviously care less as I watched him sweep my wife's hair from under his chair, bag it up, and walk out the back door of his shop.
Riverside County Sheriff's Deputies arrived and assisted my wife. They took a statement from her and were kind and professional the whole time. They took photos of the damages. This man had cut over 12 inches of her hair off! They explained that even if he thought she was leaving without paying, he couldn't legally cut her hair like that. They left us with a card and a case number and explained that we could call the DA's office in about a week to see how the charges were going. And then they left.
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And here we are. My beautiful, lovely and amazing wife is so distraught. It's been 4 days. She's waking up crying. She's sad and feels the pain from the trauma all day. She's emotionally devastated. We each missed work the following day as she saw another hair stylist to fix what could be fixed. But she doesn't feel okay. She's reached out for therapy. We've called lawyers for legal consultation and have learned that we can seek criminal action against him, which we've already started by pressing charges. We've learned that we can civilly sue him, but every personal injury lawyer we've talked to has said this is unique and not worth it for them to take on. They all say the same thing, that there is a lawyer out there that will, but that they don't have the bandwidth for something like this. They all tell us that we can, at last resort, take him and his business to small claims court. Which may likely be what we do.
I filed a complaint on the CA State Board of Cosmetology and Barbering explaining everything mentioned here. Hopefully, that at least helps to not renew his license.
But, retribution is necessary here. Someway, somehow. I want to see my wife feel whole again. This woman is an angel. She cares for disabled adults and hardly does anything nice for herself. She is her children's whole world and mine too. She deserves retribution for this pain inflicted by this monster.
Any advice on what we should do? Has anyone ever gone through something similar?

I just want people to know that the Sonoma County government is corrupt. They spent 186 million dollars on a "new courthouse" that is 163k square feet, which works out to $1,100 per square foot, which is over double the second most expensive building I could find was, and over four times the average price per square foot of palaces and museums. And it's just going to look like a giant portable. This is to house some of the most corrupt people in this County, who all make $200-350+k per year (I am including their benefits in that, but not their pension). The entire DA's Office has a vendetta against Civil Rights in general, and will literally knowingly commit criminal violations of laws for the purpose of covering up serious criminal misconduct on the part of Sonoma County employees.
Lynda Hopkins took money from the law enforcement unions, and turns a willfully blind eye to it.
The County Office of Legal Counsel is literally a crime syndicate.
In 2015, the Sheriff's Office had a veritable torture ring in the jail.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izcHIv5Y4z8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qYrGChrW5HM&list=TLPQMzAwMzIwMjMv0QAOPDy1Lw&index=2
This is just the tip of the iceberg. They lied about the existence of these videos, and "lost" the one where they gave one of the inmates internal bleeding, with a knee to their back.
There was a lawsuit about it. It was called the "Yard Counseling Case". There are news articles about it.
There was an official, written policy, called "Yard Counseling", later its name was changed to "Behavior Counseling" which dictated that for arbitrary punitive measures, Sheriff's Office personnel should extract inmates from their cells individually (which meant slamming their heads onto the door frames on the way out and other abuse), and isolate them, and putting them into "pain compliance" techniques (literally, by definition, torture) for extended periods of time while "counseling" them, which meant wearing no name tags, ski masks and riot gear, carrying a shotgun with them, and insulting them in explicit language for over 20 minutes.
This official written policy was acknowledged by Rob Giordano in a video, where he lies that no inmates where injured, uploaded to YouTube in 2018, when they finally addressed this official written policy, and the practice of torturing inmates without reasonable cause (leading exercise routines, for example).
In 2021, they saw one of the victims of this torture ring, who had sued them and had won, at a peaceful protest, and shot him with a grenade launcher while hiding on a rooftop in the face with a crowd control grenade, which exploded on impact and caused horrific injury that I don't care to describe.
In 2017, I was almost killed by application of a "carotid hold" / lateral vascular neck restraint, by a sheriff's deputy, for literally no reason. A knee was placed on my lower back while I was on the ground on my stomach as well, which caused a serious injury to my kidney, which was the worst injury of my life. I have also been diagnosed with an organic brain injury and cognitive impairment. I was tested for the same type of cognitive impairment before the incident and there is a marked difference, and I have about 30 pages describing the differences I've noticed / troubles I've had in my cognitive functioning. There was no probable cause to arrest me, and I was polite and compliant with all the instructions given to me, and this was confirmed by witnesses. I was punished for invoking my right to remain silent, then my arm was grabbed and yanked up behind me, and then a carotid hold was applied because my body pivoted after the deputy grabbed and yanked my arm.
This occurred UNDER A CAMERA and IN FRONT OF WITNESSES. I called the Sheriff's Office the next day said I want to "make an official complaint in writing". I was transferred to Captain of Internal Affairs, Captain Mark Essick. I repeated my request, verbatim. He responded, verbatim: "We don't do that. Why don't you tell me what happened." I did. I told him it happened right under a camera. He said "The camera can't record." I asked for confirmation. He said the cameras "Don't have recording technology installed."
I asked the County for a claim form. They ignored my request, and instructed me to report the incident to IOLERO. IOLERO requested I meet with Internal Affairs, and I said fine.
Sgt. Andy Cash called me and scheduled me for a meeting at the Sheriff's big station. I was made to walk first and guided upstairs to a meeting room, and then patted down for weapons, and the interview was recorded. For 75 minutes I was deposed about happened. He asked me repeatedly about my mental state after the incident. I admitted that I was upset after the incident, and he acted like that justified the whole incident. He explicitly promised to interview the 4 deputies who witnessed the event in addition to the 2 deputies who participated, as well as the arresting officer (who I told him would confirm that I was polite and cooperative), which he agreed "would confirm [my] demeanor", and a bystander witness I told him about.
I complained to IOLERO director Jerry Threet. Mr. Threet agreed that that was inappropriate, then resigned without reviewing the investigation.
For about 4 years review of the investigation was put on hold because IOLERO staff quit, and when more staff was hired, they complained of being understaffed. They had a budget of over a million dollars but only had 2 employees. They only reviewed one case per four months. And they put off "backlogged" cases and focused on new cases. My complaint was finally reviewed by Interim Director Garrick Byers who clearly stated that the investigation was not conducted appropriately. I have the letter from him. That still has never been made public.
After the interview with Internal Affairs, I corresponded with Lynda Hopkins, and she refused to give her opinion on the matter. I specifically complained that the carotid hold was being used recklessly, and it is a dangerous technique. This was in 2018. She forwarded me to Janell Crane, who then had me meet with Kristi Schultz.
I contacted the DA's Office and spoke to Richard Celli (who made $346k in 2017, and has gunned down two unarmed people, and was convicted by a jury in one of the civil cases brought against him by one of the victim's family, but the sentence was overturned by a judge, while working for the SRPD). The first time I spoke to Mr. Celli, he told me that another law enforcement agency should take my case. After that first time, him and the rest of the DA's Office openly refused to comply with the Victims' Rights Laws (CA Con Art. 1 S. 28), and the "policies" (which are legally binding under CA Con Art 5 S. 13) of the Attorney General stating clearly that they are to take complaints from victims if it can't be resolved with the department.
After the first talk with Mr. Celli, I called Rohnert Park Police as I was instructed, and they 3-way called the Sheriff's office and then transferred me. I spent about 30 minutes reporting the incident to a deputy, and he asked me questions in a fair manner. The incident report from the 30 minute phone call was "directed" to Andrew Cash, and was then destroyed, which is literally a state and federal crime. I called RPPD back and talked to the arresting officer and he positively clearly confirmed that I was "polite, calm, compliant, and cooperative" (or something nearly verbatim, I can't remember exactly any more).
Andrew Cash called me the next day, at precisely 7:00 AM. He told me he was driving. He was extremely confrontational with me. He said "There were 6 deputies [referring to the two who used excessive force on me, and 4 witness deputies]. You were combative." This was false. He had only interviewed one of the 4 witness deputies, and the other 3 had provided written statements. They said that they had witnessed force being used, that they had not participated in the use of force to the best of their memory, and that I "did not appear to be resisting". But again, he had promised explicitly to interview the 4 deputy witnesses, and the arresting officer, and the other witnesses (such as the bystander witness who saw the whole incident, the nurse, etc.).
Internal Affairs exonerated the officers. The letter was signed by Eddie Engram, captain of Internal Affairs at that time. I called Mr. Engram, and had an hour long conversation with him, and he told me to contact Sgt. Cash after April 1st.
I filed a federal claim on the last day that it was due.
Mr. Cash referred me to Legal Counselor, Kara Abelson.
Ms. Abelson spent a year and a half refusing to comply with the Public Records Act, the Rules of Procedure, and the Rules of Professional Conduct. She refused to provide me documents that I was entitled to under law, including the incident report written by Deputies Jacquelin Fazzio and Virgil Smith, and the recorded interviews that he promised he would conduct, and stated pretty clearly that he had conducted.
Kara Abelson spent a year and a half trying to claim that my federal complaint was time barred by 1 day when it wasn't. The judge (Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers) entertained this and forced me to respond SEVEN TIMES, before she finally admitted that the "law wouldn't allow [her] to dismiss [my] complaint".
After a year and a half, Kara Abelson finally withdrew from the case after I started citing the Rules of Professional Conduct to her that require her to resign or withdraw from the case rather than defend a civil case where defense isn't warranted. Nobody had disputed any of the allegations I had made. In fact, Eddie Engram had confirmed that what I said happened was not disputed by the evidence.
At some point around this time, either before or after Ms. Abelson withdrew, the 2 incident reports written by the two deputies, the written statements by 3 of the 4 witness deputies, and the recorded interviews with me, the 2 deputies who assaulted me, and 1 of the eye witness deputies, were provided, along with various other records from the facility. In the recorded interview, and the incident report, the deputies admitted that Virgil Smith had applied the carotid hold.
I had also reported the incident to the State Attorney General Public Inquiry Unite (Lupe Zinzin). She had told me, over and over and over, that the local DA's are required to take complaints from civilians in these situations. She refused to call the DA's Office, though. The DA's Office (Richard Celli, Mark Azzouni, David Kahl, and the anonymous receptionists who all refused to provide their names) refused to take a complaint from me. They (including the receptionists) hung up on me every time I called after no more than 2 minutes, for no reason, transferred me to dead lines, never returned any voicemails I managed to leave, told me explicitly that if I send a complaint, they will throw it away, and didn't care, at all, what the laws were. The receptionists also refuse to provide their names. The Attorney General's Office told me to send them a complaint, so I did. The DA's Office acknowledged receiving the complaint. But later said that they did not have a record of it, meaning they threw it away.
The Attorney General's Office finally agreed to take a complaint from me. It sat on their desk for a year. I finally called them, concerned that evidence was being destroyed, and left a voicemail for Casey Hallinan requesting that they request copies of the physical evidence from the Sheriff's Office. Literally 2 days after that voicemail, a letter was sent to me signed by Sharon Loughner with Casey Hallinan CC'ed on the letter, stating that they would "take no action", and blamed the incident on me. I had not received the letter though, and called and spoke to Ms. Hallinan, who was extremely rude. After that, the Attorney General's Office hang up on me as soon as they find out it's me, for no reason. There has since been a bystander witness who saw the whole thing, and it has come to light that the cameras did record, that no upgrades were ever performed like Ms. Abelson alleged, the cameras do continuously record (as of 2019), and they just lied through their teeth about the camera for 4 straight years. The Attorney General's Office does not care. They violate the laws, and do not care what the laws are.
Sonoma County Office of Legal Counsel attorney Michael King took over after Ms. Abelson withdrew. Right off the bat, Mr. King told me that my motions were deficient - a contention he has repeated frequently, since then. I asked him how. He changed the subject, and to this day has NEVER given any explanation as to how any of my motions are deficient.
He continued to claim that my claim was time barred, filing frivolous motions, in blatant violation of the rules of professional conduct, after I cited the rules to him, constituting explicit legal misconduct.
As I said, the judge finally agreed to open Discovery after a year and a half of full time work trying to fight for my right to not be nearly murdered for no reason.
Lawyers do not take these cases unless there is undeniable proof of blatant guilt, along with undeniable proof of catastrophic injury. Multiple law firms have confirmed that it takes over a million dollars worth of legal work to get these cases to trial.
The judge also promised me a pro bono attorney "if you make it past summary judgment".
The judge scheduled us for Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) hearing with a magistrate judge. Mr. King elicited an offer from me, which I spent about 2 weeks working on, trying to make it as agreeable as possible. But then for the hearing, his written offer was to waive charging me his attorneys fees. The ADR magistrate confirmed that there was no legal basis for him to do that - it would be illegal. He had been ordered to participate in this hearing, and there was a legal obligation under the Rules of Procedure to try in good faith to settle the case. He violated the order and the rule of procedure (26 (f)).
All of my motions were completely ignored for no reason.
Mr. King / Defendant Virgil Smith lied about the cameras. They said "Denies the existence of cameras capable of recording in the vicinity", in writing, under oath. They never disputed that he put his knee on top of my back with all his weight on it.
Mr. King refused to comply with his Discovery obligations. I had to file about 4 different motions pertaining to their refusal to comply with the laws regarding disclosure of evidence.
Upon receiving an official Discovery request for records of camera equipment, I received a letter signed under oath by Mr. King (nearly 4 years after the incident) stating that the cameras CAN RECORD. But stating "tasks must be performed" to start the recording function, and stating that all records pertaining to the equipment that was installed at the time HAD BEEN DESTROYED (literally a federal and state crime, a civil tort violation, and a sanctionable act of legal misconduct).
Mr. King refused to schedule any of the witnesses for deposition, demanded MY deposition BEFORE he would even schedule the two deputies who assaulted me, even though I had been requesting depositions with other witnesses for over a month, and refused to schedule anyone else, he refused to answer interrogatories, he refused to provide copies of the policies from the time of the incident. He tried to pass off a weird spreadsheet with the word camera on it as proof that upgrades had been done to the cameras. He refused to provide complete training records for the deputies. He refused to provide details about the training. He refused to provide blueprints of the facility, refused to provide photos of the cameras at the location, refused to provide still images showing which direction the cameras were pointing, was caught lying under oath (and "penalty of perjury") multiple times, refused to provide photos of the deputies so I could schedule depositions efficiently.
The judge erroneously dismissed my Equal Protection claims, construing them as Due Process and Employment Discrimination claims, which are different types of claims than Equal Protection claims against a government actor. The government cannot arbitrarily treat anyone disparately. The Court also dismissed my "Monell" claim against the municipality for their "policies, customs, or practices", but left me leave to amend that claim. And she waited until Discovery opened over 1.5 years into litigation, to do this, forcing me to amend the complaint DURING DISCOVERY which was only open for a limited amount of time, instead of any point in the 1.5 years prior to that.
In the recorded interview with Andrew Cash and one of the witness deputies, she spontaneously states that Mr. Cash instructed her to review the written statements made by the two deputies who assaulted me prior to the interview. Another deputy witness confirmed that Mr. Cash had instructed her to review the written reports by the two deputies who assaulted me prior to her providing Mr. Cash with a written statement as well.
The judge finally retaliated against me, without rational basis, for filing motions, which I had filed because I was being illegally obstructed from preserving evidence, by withdrawing leave to amend regarding the "Monell" claim (I had stated a clear Monell claim to begin with, but the judge literally has an aversion to reading, and relies on guessing, and is biased against pro se litigants; I am summarizing well over 100 pages, if not well over double that, of motions, objections, and replies and the judge's responsive orders).
She did however, finally schedule a hearing with a Discovery referee magistrate. All my motions (and the months of work I was required to do dictated by the various rules) was completely disregarded, and both me and Mr. King were given 2 pages each (double spaced) to go over discovery issues, even though I had filed about 4 different motions about various issues, and he hadn't filed ANY, about Discovery issues, and never did.
During conference I was required to do in accordance with the Rules, Mr. King repeatedly tried to establish that I had committed crimes during the course of conferring which was my legal obligation, without having any rational basis to believe what he was trying to establish. He demanded evidence that would exist, and he kept repeating every lie he could come up with to the judge. The judge would either get annoyed at me if I addressed any of Mr. King's baseless accusations, or take his statements at face value for being 100% true.
Mr. King finally "compromised" and agreed to schedule depositions with me (as long as Mr. King wanted to) and the two deputies who had assaulted me (for 25 minutes each or something) all simultaneously, but refused to schedule anyone else, even though this was grossly advantageous to him, and in blatant violation of Rule 26 of Civil Procedure. One of the eye witness deputies later confirmed that he had "consulted" her over 4 times prior to the trial. During this deposition, Mr. King asked me where a family member of mine works. He had spent about 30-40 minutes trying to convince me that I can tell him anything, that the entire record was designated confidential, that I had nothing to worry about - and at a deposition, you are obligated to answer the questions unless they are harassing. Mr. King also requested contact information for counselors from over 10 years ago, and that was the only question I didn't answer - I told him to provide the request in writing. At some point after that, I told Mr. King to not contact my family member at her workplace, and Mr. King responded "unless you fully and completely cooperate" with his request for contact information for counselors from 10 years+ ago, he would do exactly that - harass my family member with subpoenas sent to her workplace, as I had requested he not do, without EVER REQUESTING A DEPOSITION WITH HER, just using it as leverage.
At the hearing, the Discovery Magistrate (Donna M. Ryu) discussed matters only with Mr. King, without including me. He told her that the 4 eye witness deputies "saw nothing" and "weren't there" (verbatim) trying to get her to deny me my request to take their deposition. She asked him if he would get them to sign fresh "sworn declarations", "under oath" (Judge Ryu's words, verbatim) stating this. Mr. King said yes, absolutely, he would. Judge Ryu asked me "Would that be okay?" I said "No." She started laughing, and asked me why, and I explained that I had explicitly described various interactions with them that had taken place while the carotid hold was still being applied to me, and that they had stated in their written statements that they had witnessed force being used, and that I was "not resisting". She confirmed that this was all true with Mr. King and that he already knew all of this, and ordered him to cooperate with scheduling them for deposition. Mr. King then repeated the same phrases "saw nothing", "weren't there" to Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers prior to the trial.
After that, they went back to discussing matters only with eachother, and I was excluded from discussion. This was an hour long hearing, and at about the 45 minute mark, Mr. King was again lying to the magistrate judge, and when he had finished, I interjected, "That's not true". Judge Ryu shouted "Stop! Stop stop stop stop stop!" And then very assertively explained to me the importance of not interrupting people for the convenience of the court reporter / transcriber. I was excluded from the rest of the hearing.
At some point at either this hearing or the next one, I cited the legal requirement for the parties to disclose contact information for witnesses. I cited the rule of procedure. Judge Ryu responded, "Mr. King is a lawyer!" as if that alone justified his refusal to provide me contact information for EYE witnesses who saw the event. Mr. King and Ms. Abelson had also claimed that they did not have the contact information for the bystander witness (which was a lie), and refused to provide the contact information for the nurse. And when Magistrate Ryu ordered them to provide that, they only gave me the company name he used to work for.
Mr. King refused to provide both fresh written statements from the eye witness deputies as he had promised the magistrate, and to schedule them for deposition, and stated that if he provided written statements, they would be copied and pasted versions of the same statements previously provided, signed under oath (nowhere saying that they "saw nothing" or "weren't there").
Mr. King kept threatening to go to my family member's workplace unless I provided him contact information for counselors from 10+ years ago, DURING a DEPOSITION, without him providing any written request for the information.
He also interfered with scheduling the witnesses for deposition, with the Court reporter that I had hired, disregarded the schedule that I had set, and set them according to his own schedule, which raised the cost of deposition from an estimated about $700 to about $4,000, and said this was my one and only chance.
The Federal Pro Bono Project / the Justice & Diversity Center is an organization that receives seven million dollars a year in public funding and is under contract with the Federal District Court to work with the Court to provide legal consultation to pro se litigants. I had about 19 appointments with them, about 18 with Abby Herzberg, and 1 with Rosemarie Maliekel. Ms. Herzberg was precisely 15 minutes late to every single appointment, repeatedly gave me horrible advice ("just wait", do nothing, "don't file this", despite admitting that the entire motion was valid, directly causing excessive delay and the spoliation of crucial evidence). She also yelled at me aggressively on two occasions because I had brought up state laws, which were being currently violated against me, because the Court had dismissed my "state claims" because Sonoma County refused to supply with a state tort claim form when I first asked, reasoning that was not relevant to the state laws being currently violated against me. After Ms. Herzberg yelled at me the second time, I requested an appointment with Rosemarie Maliekel. Ms. Maliekel spent the entire appointment ranting at me about irrelevant issues, and kept talking over me and interrupting me. I was polite but eventually asked "can I finish what I was saying?" She responded "No!" and kept ranting at me.
I had repeatedly asked about how to properly get medical evidence, and about expert witnesses. Ms. Herzberg ignored my questions and spent nearly the entirety of almost every single appointment reading (or pretending to) through the rules, without letting me speak at all, even to summarize the relevant sections of the rules that I had read.
On a video on their webpage (on the Court's website, because they are a "partner project" with the Court), Abby Herzberg explicitly demonstrates a clear understanding of the fact that the Court provides funding for expert witnesses, despite ignoring my questions about that and spending nearly the entirety of almost every single appointment either reading rules or pretending to.
Discovery was closed.
Mr. King rehashed the legally baseless and frivolous "time barred" claim in a Motion for Summary Judgment. I was required to respond to it twice, and it was obvious Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers wanted to dismiss my claim, and I was required to disprove their baseless legal claims with several tens of pages of case laws. I was required to answer all his "undisputed material facts" under threat of terminating my entire case, but he refused to answer mine. He lied over and over to the judges. As I said, the judge ruled that the laws "wouldn't allow [her] to" dismiss my entire case and rejected his Motion for Summary Judgement.
The Court ordered the Federal Pro Bono Project (FPBP) to put me on a list for attorneys seeking clients. Ms. Herzberg told me that if I filed any motions, that the FPBP would not cooperate with the Court's order, until 1 month before my trial, instead of 6 months before. She also said that a law firm had reached out to them about my case over a month prior to that, and that the staff at the FPBP had not followed up. My filing privileges were then revoked by the Court.
An attorney, David Ratner, reached out to me, and scheduled an initial consultation, over Zoom, at which he stated he "hates cops", and gave a showing of being enthusiastic. I explicitly told him that I wanted to make sure we were on the same page as far as what to "aim for". I told him that I had been working for FIVE YEARS, that I had almost died, that I had suffered two different extremely serious injuries (though I was up front about the injuries being surreptitious and that there had been major delays and flaws with medical evaluation, due to the hospitals not taking my insurance at the time, and ongoing delays because of Covid, and other reasons). I told him that what I asked for was consistent with the most similar case (the Esa Wroth case of 2013) that I knew of (an ask of three million dollars). This was coincidental. I was not aware of the Esa Wroth case when I came up with that number. I agonized over the number to ask for, and had tried SEVERAL times to resolve the case for a tiny fraction of that amount, with Kristi Shultz, with Janell Crane, with Lynda Hopkins, several times with Ms. Abelson who refused to even hear me out, and SEVERAL TIMES with Mr. King, and spent a lot of time trying to come up with a amount that would be MUTUALLY AGREEABLE, EACH TIME and described the methods I used to come up with that number in detail in court documents. Mr. Ratner explicitly agreed to aim for that at the trial. During the Zoom conference, his partner Shelley Mollineaux, showed up about 15 minutes late, stayed for about 3 minutes without saying anything, Mr. Ratner made an awkwardly flirtatious remark to her, and she left without saying anything at all.
Mr. Ratner, and Ms. Mollineaux, who was set to represent me at trial under Mr. Ratner's supervision, then both went dark for over a month. They ignored my emails, voicemails, and messages that I left with their receptionists. There was a hearing, and then Mr. Ratner emailed me demanding "all the documents" that I had. I had over 50 gb of files across thousands of files, and spent about a month working with his paralegals sending them batches of files, and providing all the information they asked me for. Mr. Ratner forwarded me an email from Mr. King where King accused me of violating a court order regarding providing medical providers and the physical addresses of my entire family and my friends, which was false -- the Court had ordered me to provide him CONTACT information, at a second hearing, which wasn't significant, and I had fully and completely complied in good faith with all the Court's orders. Mr. Ratner accused me of not sending him "anything", after I had spent at least several weeks with his paralegals sending them batches of files and information, and he simultaneously threatened to ask the judge for leave to withdraw.
There had been major delays with medical evaluation due in large part to Covid, as well as delayed discovery of brain injury, which is very common, and other factors.
With trial set, Mr. Ratner forwarded me an offer from Defendants for $5,000. Upon discussion (which was 100% in email because he refused to talk over the phone and Ms. Mollineaux completely ignored me), he accused me of not doing Discovery right. I pointed him to the video I referred to earlier, which I had found since Mr. Ratner took my case, but wasn't aware of when I was interacting with the FPBP, where the FPBP (Abby Herzberg), and various District Judges from the Court I was litigating in, state that it is general policy (and it is official policy under the Court's General Order 25) to REOPEN DISCOVERY when a pro bono attorney comes onto the case, and to FUND DEPOSITION AND EXPERT WITNESS FEES.
Mr. Ratner stated he "won't file any motions" and ultimately elected to withdraw from the case over fulfill his legal obligations under the Rules of Professional Conduct. Judge Gonzalez Rogers IGNORED MY REQUEST FOR A HEARING, and in her order granting him leave to withdraw about 2 months before my trial, thanked him. I had spent a ton of time trying to find private attorneys and trying to talk to the FPBP, telling them very clearly that I expected to be put back on the list.After Mr. Ratner withdrew, the FPBP refused to put me back on the list. I was forced into trial BY MYSELF, at 1-2 months prior to trial, after 3 months of my time being completely wasted by Mr. Ratner and his law firm.
I went through the appropriate legal process to submit an expert witness. Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers, as usual, completely ignored my motions, but allowed me to use him after I went through the entire legal process, and paid him thousands of dollars without knowing if I would be granted permission or not, and provided the Court a report stating that the carotid hold was ILLEGAL unless the subject exhibited "assaultive behavior" and that Defendants had never alleged any behavior of mine that constituted "assaultive behavior" (under POST Basic, during 2017). The expert was a Master level instructor at a police academy and former SWAT.
Mr. King provided his pre-trial disclosures, and it contained a document from Rohnert Park police department which had been extensively redacted on the copy that they had provided to me. The new copy contained the contact information for the bystander witness. I called him, and he confirmed that he saw the entire thing, that I had never yelled at the deputies before the first deputy grabbed my arm, and that I was not resisting at any point in time. I told the judge this. She had me call him at a hearing, and both me and Mr. King were allowed a couple of minutes to ask him questions, where he refused to admit that I was even "wiggling" when Mr. King badgered him.
RPPD later sent me the email correspondence between them and Mr. King and Mr. King clearly stated that he had that copy in his records without them sending it, but wanted them to send it to appear official, meaning they had the contact information for the bystander witness the entire time, when they repeatedly lied that they didn't have it.
The judge then refused to allow him to appear at the trial over Zoom (during the height of Covid, even though she let one of the deputies), and refused to summon him to the trial.
Just prior to the trial, the Judge accused me falsely of firing my attorney, and explicitly prohibited me from telling the jury about ANY of the Defendants previous statements about the camera's ability to record (that they had lied about it for 4 years). She explicitly prohibited me from submitting scientific evidence about the carotid hold. She allowed Mr. King to make extremely defamatory false remarks about me and my past which had a huge impact on the jury's perception of things. At a pretrial hearing, we had gone over about 110 documents that I wanted to present at the trial. She vetted about 40 as admissible at the hearing, but at the trial she only let me submit about 4. Defendants were allowed to submit a SECOND expert witness, both of whom worked for the Sonoma County Sheriff's Office. The first was Andrew Cash. The second was James Naugle who had been disclosed literally a week before trial, without a report, and without allowing me to take his deposition. She refused to allow me to ask Mr. Naugle about case laws, or about information pertaining to the carotid hold. The Court refused to summon any of my treating physicians, whom I had provided the names and contact information for in my disclosures at the end of Discovery and some in my initial disclosures, and I had complied with Mr. King's written requests for information or objected within the boundaries of the laws (which I quoted and cited), in good faith, and complied with the Court's orders, in good faith.
I had informed the Court that I was scheduled for medical evaluations for brain injury AFTER THE TRIAL. The Court completely ignored this.
So it was my word against theirs. 5 years, at the time of the mistrial, to get a mockery of a trial, and have the jurors' time completely wasted. The jury wrote me a letter thanking me or something, but awarded me nothing.
I was diagnosed with organic brain injury after the trial. I had a similar test prior to the incident and had absolutely no problems and answered every question with no trouble. I now score in the FOURTH PERCENTILE on those areas.
Despite its length, this has been a short summary of all the events over the past 6 years. Much has been summarized, and much has been left out. I tried my best to balance completeness with leaving out irrelevant details.
There is no record of any misconduct on the part of anyone involved in this that is available to any law enforcement agencies or to the public. Nobody has been disciplined. No investigation was ever conducted. I was almost killed and was seriously injured, under a camera, and in front of witnesses, and spent 6 years working with the government. The government has done precisely NOTHING.
The County now routinely retaliates against me whenever we interact, in blatant violation of various laws.

Welcome my dearest readers,
This Season at Court began with a flurry of activity in Fayetteville as a new trial chose its courtiers (aka jurors). The central player in this session of Court is part of a fascinating family prone to scandals of late, which should make for a titillating season ahead. This Arkansian clan is surprisingly sized with all 19 children having names that begin with the letter J, a feat which would be impressive if the parents had indeed managed to come up with unique names for each child. Alas, they appear to not have exercised the wit to bother. In their county, they are known for their beliefs, if not for their multitude of offspring. The patriarch of the family, Jim Bob has kept up an illusion of prosperity supported by their apparent expanse of land while brokering each of his children's marriages thus far. His wife Michelle has successfully survived birthing a dozen and a half children while only marginally raising the first half dozen. The rest of her time is imagined to be spent with the ton, although no one has an inkling why, yet she is seen less now than ever. The elder young ladies of the family have married to varying degrees of success and escaped the household they ran for their mama, with the exception of eldest daughter, whom it is rumored stays at home to protect her younger siblings. As for the sons, there is only one that needs mentioned in these scandal sheets and that is the eldest child, ****, the reason for this trial. He is not merely a rake, nor anything as excusable as that. He is alleged to be a true Incomparable, consuming the worst material against the laws of civilized society. Indeed one questions the safety of his 7 children being raised near such a corruptive influence. His father, who is at present trying to attain a position in his local government, claimed to not remember anything about past events and was excused from testifying before the Court. This is not widely believed by many, according to my sources, and his credibility has been dismissed by many considering the Incomparable he raised. ****'s wife Anna, recently out of confinement, was also seen at Court but should consider finding a better modiste with better taste. Her frock was certainly at odds with her shoes! Might we perhaps recommend Madame Delacroix? However, dear readers, the biggest tidbit is that a formerly favored daughter is expected to testify in Court! One can only imagine it will be instrumental to the case, unlike the younger brother also called upon.
As always, dear readers,
Lady Whistledown

I hope this lived up to expectations! I also felt like using Pest was out of character for LW so just used asterisks, and tried my best to keep it Regency style.

April 2023 note: This was from last year and I found it while making sure I had all of the recaps copied over.

“A Maid’s Diary,” Chapter 5
by c.w. cobblestone

Dear Diary,
It’s been several days since my last entry. The family is running me ragged and there’s been no time to write. Luckily, I finished before midnight tonight, so I finally have a few minutes to myself before I have to crash.
This schedule is ridiculous, but that’s the least of my problems. Not only does my workload keep increasing, but I’m being treated worse than ever. Since Mike gave the girls permission to hit me, they’ve become drunk with power, often slapping me for no reason. Especially Olivia. Usually, Kelsey is just bitchy and demanding, and will only hit me if I’ve done something wrong, whereas her impish younger sister invents reasons to punish me, like the other night when she gave me one across the chops at dinner because she said the tater tots on her plate weren’t lined up properly. But I don’t have to even do anything wrong; Olivia will sometimes just slap me out of the blue and say “that’s for nothing,” emulating her father.
While I never had any authority over Kelsey and Olivia even before their real dad moved in and became head of our household, I nonetheless can tell the girls are thrilled to be allowed to slap the shit out of their sissy of a stepfather any time they feel like it.
Mike encourages it. So does Jen. Just last night, when Kelsey complained about a smudge on the heel of one of her shoes, my wife told her, “I’d smack the bitch if I was you.” Kelsey obliged. After her stinging backhand, I stood before the family holding back tears as Olivia pointed at me cackling and Jen called me a pathetic little faggot. Meanwhile, Mike sat back proudly surveying the evil he’s fomented in our home.
I constantly fantasize about running as far away as I can from these terrible people and leaving this madness behind. While I never had what you’d call a loving, supportive family, my situation at home has turned into a nightmare since Mike showed up. Jennifer no longer resembles the woman I married, and Kelsey and Olivia have become like spawns of the devil. More and more, I’m beginning to wonder if that isn’t literally true. It’s as if Satan himself is sleeping in my bed, exerting his dark influence on Jen and the girls, encouraging them to abuse me in the most unthinkable of ways.
My treatment has become so bad, Mike told his daughters the other day that they should keep our household dynamic a secret from everyone but their most trusted friends. Although I will be coming out at the wedding as the family maid, Mike said he doesn’t want people knowing everything that happens in the privacy of our home. That’s because folks would probably alert the authorities if they knew the kind of abuse that goes on in our dysfunctional domicile.
But the police wouldn’t be able to do anything because it’s all consensual. I hate myself for it, but it’s true. I just can’t say no to the prick, even when obeying him means destroying myself.
When I went to the County Center on my lunch hour last week to drop off the divorce papers and formally file to have my name changed, I stood outside the building entrance for several minutes, completely paralyzed. I somehow sensed that if I went through with Mike’s demand and changed my name to Buffy Jameson, the loss of my former self would be more than symbolic; it would mark the literal death of Lester Edwin Bradford — not exactly the manliest man in the world, but at least a man.
Of course, I ended up doing it. I had tears in my eyes, and the clerk asked if I was okay, but I filed the paperwork like a good little sissy bitch. Nobody twisted my arm. Sure, Mike has twisted my brain, but legally speaking I’m acting under my own free will. Everything that happens to me is completely my fault because I could walk away anytime but choose to stay. Why, I don’t know. I’ve racked my brain and agonized over the matter, but I can’t understand this hold Mike has over me. It’s not just me, though. He has that effect on everyone. And he’s turned them all against me, just because the evil sonofabitch thinks it’s funny to ruin my life.
Work has become a welcome escape. By now, everyone at the bank has gotten used to me dressing as a woman, and while it’s still highly embarrassing for me, I’m able to tune it out for the most part. I go straight to my desk in the morning, sit in a nice, soft chair, and try to concentrate on stock trends for 8 hours.
No matter how deeply I dive into the NYSE and NADAQ tables, though, it’s always in the back of my mind that when quitting time comes, a veritable house of horrors awaits me.
In a nutshell, my life really sucks right now. All I can do is go to sleep and hope that when I wake up, this will all have been just a dream.

Dear Diary,
Two thugs harassed me after work today while I was walking back to my car. They started following me about a quarter-mile out of downtown. I tried to walk faster but they quickly caught up.
“What’s your hurry, sweet-cheeks?” one of the men asked. “I want to be your boyfriend.”
“I like how your ass looks in that dress,” the other one said.
“Come on, bitch, you know you want it,” the first sleazeball added. “You trannies are all the same.”
“Yeah, you’re all sluts who like guys with big dicks, and we both got huge ones.” The man flashed a crooked-toothed grin. “Wanna see?”
I was scared to death and quickened my pace to a near trot, not an easy task in heels. The two men stayed with me, grabbing my ass and making lewd comments the entire time, until finally, thankfully, I reached my car. The brutes slammed their fists on my hood and screamed obscenities at me as I peeled away.
My hands wouldn’t stop shaking, and gripping the steering wheel proved difficult. During the ride home, I debated whether to tell Mike what had happened. There was no real need for him to know, but he has me so brainwashed I’m scared to keep anything from him.
In the end, I gave in and told my master about my encounter with the two ruffians. Big mistake. He thought the whole thing was hilarious.
“You were probably shaking your ass at them, you sissy whore,” he crowed, and I was glad Jen and the girls weren’t there to witness this latest embarrassment.
Since no one was around to provide an audience, Mike left me alone to tidy up the house. I later found out through his telephone conversation that Jen and the girls were out looking at wedding dresses.
My heart was in the gutter while I cleaned, knowing that Jen and the girls were shopping to find a dress so my wife could look beautiful on her wedding day. I’m trying to put Jen’s happiness first, and she’s made it clear that she’s thrilled to be marrying the only man she’s ever loved, but it’s impossible. The thought of my beautiful, soon-to-be-ex-bride exchanging vows with Mike brings tears to my eyes and makes me want to puke.
As I tidied up a house that is no longer mine, clad in high heels and an outlandishly short slave dress that doesn’t cover my ruffled panties, topped by a faggoty cap and apron, I didn’t think my mood could get any worse.
It got much worse.
I was cleaning the toilet when my master rushed into the bathroom unzipping his pants. “Move, sissy!” he yelled.
As I started to back away, he grabbed my shoulder. “Hang on a sec, don’t go anywhere. Turn around and bend over the toilet with your face up.”
I obeyed, leaning uncomfortably backward so that the rear of my head was inside the bowl. I knew what was coming as he whipped out his dick with a sneer.
“Open wide and say ah,” he said an instant before the yellow stream started burning my eyes. I opened my mouth, instantly tasting his bitter urine, which overflowed my mouth, running down my forehead and soaking my hair.
“Say ah, goddamn it,” Mike growled.
“Aggggggghhh,” I gargled, choking from his stream of pee, which elicited a chuckle from my tormentor.
It was the longest 60 seconds of my life. When Mike finally finished urinating, he shook the last few drops on my face before zipping back up.
“I just gave you a present, bitch What do you say?”
“T-thank you sir.”
“You’re welcome, now clean yourself up,” he said over his shoulder as he strolled out of the bathroom. “I don’t want my maid smelling like piss.”
Crying my poor little eyes out, I ran to my basement shower and washed that piss right out of my hair. After changing to a new frock, I cleaned the upstairs bathroom where Mike had missed the toilet and made a mess, and then got on with the rest of my housework with my spirits about as low as they’d ever been.
Of course, in the Jameson household things can always get shittier. And they did.
Jen and the girls returned at about 8, and I was surprised to see them accompanied by the Henderson family. Leigh Henderson has been Jen’s best friend for years; her daughters Carmen and Peyton are Kelsey and Olivia’s age, and the four girls are like sisters, having known each other since kindergarten.
Jen proudly introduced her new man to the Hendersons.
“You can trust them,” my wife told Mike. “You know … about Buffy.”
Mike grinned at Leigh and her daughters. “Nice to meet you all. So, you guys know about our little maid?”
“Jen told us some stuff,” a starry-eyed Leigh said, clearly under Mike’s influence only seconds after being introduced to him. Her giggling daughters were similarly entranced.
Mike snapped his fingers. “Sissy! Get over here.”
I rushed to the spot in front of him.
“How long have these beautiful ladies been in our home, Buffy?”
“Um, sir … a few minutes, sir.”
“Then, why don’t they all have cold drinks in their hands? Why don’t I have a beer? Are you not the maid around here?”
“Uh, yes, sir.” I glanced around at the five smirking females who were all enraptured by Mike’s display of power.
Mike shook his head at our guests. “I’m sorry, ladies. We still have a lot of training to do with little Buffy here.”
Jen scowled. “And still the sissy stands there without asking everyone what they want to drink!”
“Ooh, that deserves a slap!” Olivia piped in. She turned to her friends. “Which one of you wants to do the honors?”
“Why not let ‘em both smack the stupid sissy?” Jen suggested.
Everyone thought that was a capital idea.
Carmen went first, and she wasn’t shy about rearing back and slapping the taste out of my mouth. Not to be outdone, her little sister pinched my cheeks with one hand while striking me several times on the nose with the other.
I’ve known the Henderson family since the girls were babies, and because Jen, Kelsey and Olivia had always treated me with disdain, their friends had followed suit. But after falling under Mike’s spell, they were becoming outright cruel, and taking great delight in my humiliation. Mike has that effect on people.
I scurried to fill drink orders when my punishment was over. After everyone was set, Mike showed off in front of company by making me get on all fours to serve as his footstool while he held court.
I remained stock-still, eavesdropping on the conversation.
“Carmen says Buffy should be the flower girl instead of the ring-bearer,” Kelsey said. “That’s usually for little boys.”
“I thought about that,” Jen said. “I just don’t know any little boys who could do it, so I figured Buffy could do both.”
“Tommy could do it,” Peyton said, referring to her little brother. “He’d love to. When we told him about your wedding, he kept saying how he wanted to put on a tuxedo and be the ring-bearer because his friend at school was.”
Jen shrugged. “Shit, I don’t care, that solves the problem. What do you think, hon?”
“I think flower girl for Buffy would be more appropriate.” Mike tapped his foot on my back. “Hear that, sissy? Change in plans.”
“Yessir,” I said, trying to remain still.
“You guys can help us find an outfit for Buffy to wear,” Olivia told her friends, who giggled at the prospect.
I knelt there listening to Mike regale everyone with stories about the time he dodged terrorists in Afghanistan, or when he hid from the Russian police by burying himself in a Siberian snowbank. It sounded like bullshit to me, although my master has an air of mystery about him, and nobody knows exactly what he did during the 15 years he was out of Jen and the girls’ lives. Nobody asks. He’s always cagy about his past, and Jennifer doesn’t push him for details. For all I know, he could’ve been some kind of spy. Maybe he still is.
By the time the Hendersons left our house, they’d fallen completely under Mike’s spell, just like everyone else. I didn’t like the way Leigh had openly flirted with my master — or how Jen seemed to be egging her on. The girls picked up on it, too, and Carmen teased her divorced mom about having a crush on Mike. Leigh threw it right back at them, insisting that they, too, were smitten by him. Meanwhile, Mike relaxed with his feet on my back, drinking in the open, cringeworthy adulation.
I want to hate Mike. But if I’m being completely honest, I envy the sonofabitch. How I wish I could be more like him.
Instead, I’m … this. A downtrodden pansy.

Dear Diary,
Well, add another hardship to the growing list. Tonight, Mike came home with a little box and told me it was a present for me. I knew that didn’t portend anything good, and I was correct. Inside the box was a spiked cock cage.
“Jen says you like to play with your little dick,” Mike told me in front of the whole family. “That stops immediately.”
Red-faced, I opened the box and gasped. The girls giggled.
“Put it on,” Mike said.
I cleared my throat. “Um … you mean right here?”
“No, dumbass, do it in Niagara Falls.” He scoffed. “Yeah, do it right here.”
I lifted my dress, dropped my panties and absorbed the taunts from Kelsey and Olivia.
Olivia pointed at my exposed penis. “Ewwwww, it looks like a worm.”
“Ugh, what a disgusting little loser,” Kelsey added.
“Now you see why I needed Mike,” Jen sniffed.
I actually felt relieved when I clamped the cage onto my dick, because it was no longer exposed. With my head bowed, I handed over the key to Mike and pulled up my panties.
“Say good-bye to cumming,” Mike said, making me blush by talking about sex in front of the girls. Despite all that's happened, they're still my stepdaughters, and I feel uncomfortable discussing such topics with them.
Not that Mike gives a shit. The man has no morals whatsoever.
So, now, I can’t even touch my own penis, and I have to ask Mike’s permission to take this fucking contraption off once a week to wash.
It’s damn near impossible to get to sleep wearing this thing, but I need to try. I’ve got a long day ahead of me tomorrow.
Ugh.

Dear Diary,
Mike told me that I have to compose a speech to read out loud during the wedding reception. I’ve just finished writing it, and will run it by my master tomorrow for his approval. It’s going to kill me to have to stand up in front of everyone and read this, but because I have no free will when it comes to the man who’s ruining my life, I know I’ll end up making a fool of myself — and lying my ass off in the process. The speech was written to absolve Mike and the family of any blame for how far I’ve fallen, and it makes my horrifying sissy maid lifestyle seem almost idyllic. That’s exactly how Mike wants it.
I’ll copy the speech here for future reference, although it’ll probably be etched into my brain for as long as I live.
“First of all, I’d like to thank everyone for being here tonight to share in this union of two wonderful people. I’m sure a lot of you were shocked at the ceremony when I came out as a five-year-old flower girl, but I’m pansexual, and earlier today, that’s how I identified. As you can see, I’ve changed clothes and now I identify as a maid. I’ll be your server tonight, because this is my wedding present to Jennifer and Mike — I told them they didn’t have to worry about hiring waitstaff because I’ll take care of it all myself. It’s a small thank-you for everything they’ve done for me. And, believe me, they’ve done a lot. They’ve both been wonderful about supporting my transition to womanhood. After I came out as trans and asked Jen for a divorce, I begged her to let me stay with the family as a woman, so I could be something like a live-in aunt to Kelsey and Olivia, who, by the way, have also been awesome and supportive. I didn’t see the reason why my family should have to break up just so I could live my true self. I’m the one who turned our lives upside down, and surprised them with this lifestyle change, and they didn’t deserve any more instability by having me move out. And frankly, I love my family dearly, and didn’t want to move. Jennifer was kind enough to grant my request and allow me to stay. Then, when Mike came back into the picture, he couldn’t have been more understanding and sympathetic. Not every guy would be so open-minded about this situation, but Mike has been great to Jen, their beautiful daughters and me. So, now, Mike and Jen are married and restarting their family, and I’m proud to announce that I will be staying on as their maid. This is something I not only want, but consider a great honor. I feel this is the best way I can serve my family moving forward, and Mike, Jen and the girls are all happy with the arrangement. So, I hope you’ll all be happy for us, too, while you eat, drink and be merry — and don’t hesitate to call me if you need anything, because it’s my honor to serve. Thank you.”
Every stinking, rotten word of it is a goddamn lie. I come off looking like some pathetic sap who’s begging to hang around, while Mike, Jen and the girls are all the good guys for being so understanding of my transition after I laid my sexual preference on them out of nowhere.
No! It happened the opposite way! Mike foisted this on me! I don’t want this! It’s all Mike’s doing!!
That’s the speech I want to make: “Help! Somebody call the fucking police! An evil man has taken over my home and brainwashed everyone! He made me come out as transgender. He made me change my name! I don’t want to do this! I hate wearing fucking dresses!! I hate being a woman!! I hate doing housework all the time! Help!!!!”
Yeah, right. That’ll never happen. Mike DOES have me brainwashed.
I guess I’m fucked. Oh, well. Good night.

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My father was born in Hennepin County in the 1960s. He does not know who his birth parents were but knows a bit of information about them, including that they were unmarried and the mother was a teen when she gave birth. Moreover, the record that he has was poorly redacted and he can see his first name assigned at birth, though this has not been useful for finding his birth parents (unless anyone has any suggestions??) I've searched the first name on familysearch.org along with his year of birth and had no success - all of the people born with this first name were born on different days and those with dates within a few days of his recorded DOB can all be accounted for. The next time that I visit them, it may be worth investigating the possibility of scanning the document and modifying contrast settings to see if it would reveal any information. I have not seen this document for myself as it is a sensitive topic for him.
The motivation for searching for this information is a desire for a European passport. We have reason to believe that we (or at minimum my father) would be eligible for citizenship in a few EU countries if this information were officially documented. He wishes to not take a ancestry.com or 23andme.com test due to their policies of selling/divulging customer information, though I may be able to convince him otherwise.
Could he obtain a certified copy of his OBC with a court order? As I understand it, that is the only mechanism for non-supportive birth parents in MN. Are there any typical compelling reasons that would cause a court to release these records? I’m not sure if this is relevant, but my mother has a significant, life-altering disability (legally blind), and myself and my brother are at risk of developing the same condition if there is also family history on my father’s side, so this may be able to be utilized in a sympathetic court. If pursuing the court order option, would retaining an attorney be necessary or useful? We live on the other side of the country from Minnesota for reference.
I believe that this would be our ideal route, but if not, the pending bill in Minnesota appears promising from the little information I have been able to discover. Is this assessment accurate for his situation? Would it facilitate the release of certified copies of OBCs?
Thank you so much for your help and time with this difficult and complicated process and my (very) verbose post!

This is becoming a federal case. Thoughts on firms that can handle this in Chicago? My geuss is a Civil Rights Attorney any other idea post it here for consideration and why.
More videos at the link but not al evidence available as WPD has been caught editing the evidence. The FBI has been notified and directs abuse and civil rights concerns to Hamilton Country IA and WPD. There has been no follow up on these allegations by IA or any detective or form of law enforcement.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/mycivilrights/permalink/9310827518958907/

Updates.
03 27 2023The ACLU out of Chicago and LGBT ACLU have been contacted.
03 27 2023Civil Rights Attorney out of Chicago have been contacted.
03 31 2023Case mock up has been posted to Reddit and Facebooks Westfield Chatter.
04 01 2023Established communication with Civil Rights Attorney.
04 01 2023The ACLU Emails and Officially refuses to take the case. Picture attatched.

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^{GRAPHIC TRIGGER WARNING!} ^\This warning has ben ad at moderators request.]This was police fake arest and felony misconduct with WPD Westfield Indiana and the county on 07 18 2020 to 2021 case was dismied without prejudice. Yes I am safeish cat 1 homeless and sueing them.)
^{Why this matters is obvious defamation and that I did not do all of that work on my reputation and nothing on my record and not hitting this wackjob after every bipolar rant he has and threats for 2007 to 2020 just to have the police lie and say I did conveniently on his brhda right before I get to leave.}
^Story.
^{In 2007 I moved in with someone online in different state due to money issues that didnt tell me he had a murderous roomate and was then kept against my will by this man a bipolar psychopath ptsd sociopath 450 lbs morbidly obese 50 yo man with diabetes recent bariatric patient on 2 antipsychotics felon ex con for capitol offence extortion with threat of homicide was thron into mental institute for criminaly insane its on his record police kno that etc... had always been threatening me that if I leave he would make a false charge against me to protect himself from prosecution for kidnaping and atempt murder because roomate going to throw him out if I was to leave. The roomate want me to stay to replace him so roomate said oh your going to leave and fck me then by leaving me alone with him. I said didnt want anything to do with the guy and have nothing and have to get out of there.}
^{Story Continued.}
^{The acuser man threw all my clothes out and in 2010 to 2020 had fake swatting calls to the police telling them I would murder police and had a gun or one cal was that I was dancing naked in public in front of families or another was that I was threatening him with a murder video that if he didnt let me go I was going to send him to jail etc... all trying to get me arest on various false charges with a different story every tim.}
^{04 10 2010} ^{Phoenix police record fake swatting call by acuser about officers in danger that I am armed with weapon and going to kill them so have their guns ready when arrive... That call 04 10 2010 Phoenix. WPD and Phoenix denied FOYA request by attorney for reports and videos from previous calls.}
²⁰¹³ ^{Westfield police record fake insanity call by the man acuser about OCD and threats of prosectution for attemted murder}
²⁰¹⁶ ^{Westfield police record fake 911 call by the man acuser about me dancing naked in public in front of families in westfield in atempt to get me arrest because was in argument with witness about why clothes were stashed that acuser didnt kno about. The call fails and acuser calls police a bunch of fagots}
**²⁰¹⁸**^{Witness kicks out the man acuser and is threatened by him with murder as acuser is insane. Witness gets intoxicate and bashes head in outside on acident. The Man acuser calls police and 911 and sheriff comes into house and evaluates situation and sends witness to hospital then leaves.}

^{04 10 2020}

^{begged the police to get me out of there that he was threatenening fake acusation if was to leave asked for detective and camera or ride out of there etc... officers denied.}
**^{06 10 2020}**^{The Mans sisters makes Human Traffiking call against acuser and roomate saying The Man molest her as a kid and is abusing males in his house and posting legal BDSM videos of teens and selling them on internet WPD refuse the caller to WPD go into the home for welfre so they not only refuse to go into house the report they make says that they list acuser roomate and a victim on the police report one of the officers from this sho up on scene in next call WPD tried to delete and remove this part from aresting officers cam video but forgot to edit it out of the other officers video.}
^{On 07 18 2020}
^{The police fake arrest. The evidence here is from this scene.The Man acuser brhda less than 2 weeks before I can leave The Man gets into argument and fightwith roomate who was a intoxicate witness and during that fight and argument with he man about money the witness tells the man that I am going to leave in 2 weeks and get 100K inheritance and nothing the man can do to stop me and that the witness roomate changed his mind abot me staying there and that he is going to assist me in doing so and wont deal with the mans threats anymore.}
^{The man acuser says I dont get to leave without some kind of police involvement and that we are lying to him that I am not leaving in 2 weeks im leaving that wekend and trying to screw him on his brhda.}
^{The man argues with the witness and the witness says dont plug in a computer cant handel that lethal amount of stres right now as the witness has high blod presure and a lethal stress diag by the VET and as the witness goes to rom the man did it anyway and didnt like me there witnessing it because makes him the bad guy then he attatckd me and tried to take my cloths off and shed them as usual before his fake police cals because didnt like that I was still wearing them and wouldnt take them off because knew that he was going to do it again because he insanly wants me naked in front of the police he bleieves that is going to discredit anything that I say against him like the atempted murder and because he is always caled a mental patient by roomate in arguement so wants me to be one also but the witness was there during the threashing about because I was saying hes assaulting me repeatedly and came out of rom as I was on the flor and the man didnt know the witness was there as he was doing that to me and once found out the man got angry then called 911 says we ruin his brhda and says I picked him up off of the ground and full contact body slamed him to the ground and punched him in the face and threw a peor cord at him 100% BS. The witness is a felon ex con and on parol for DUI scared of the cops and just repeats what the acuser says because he is intoxicate.}
^{The police arive I go out and change my destroyed clothes to the only par of clothes I had stashed let for my get away so that I wasnt completely naked as The Man intend and The Man angry with that informs 911 that I was doing so. I couldnt leave them on or the police would have been like WTF and forced me to go to the hospital and arest the guy and not what I want.}
^{He was cleared of any injuries by medical on scene and no ability to tell if injury with aresting officer.}
The officer desperately attempts to validate ability to arrest with other officers then decides yes and instructs new to WPD officer bowel to transport because stinks to much for her and she should stay behind and with no evidence arrest is made and officer manufactures a false police statement and illegally signs a arrest affidavit and coaches witness to change written statement to add SAW as in witnessed manufactures the witnesses written statement further herself when the change wasn't enough for use in court and the edit the bodycam evidence later to remove human traffiking conversation and medical talking to her in addition is the only silenced cam video.
^Westfield
^{The City of Westfield Indiana and WPD covered up what they believed to be Human Traffiking going on at 319 Park Westfield neighbor to the Sherrifs house who in 2019 list his house for 5 x its value at $1.2 Million because the City has done a lot of work in front of his house in addition the city has built a hospital nearby and grand park and the YMCA was deciding to put a $35 Million facility there and would make everyone's house values go up and westfield has been trying to get the YMCA to build that 2018 to 2022 recently they offered YMCA $5 Million to build it. The police kno that and are also havign issues with not getting arrest due to the pandemic and is evident by the evidence that could be the motive so WPD manufactured false evidence against me on camera pretending to be authentic and valid and coached a Intoxicate witness who was on parole for DUI to change his written statement to say he witness me battery a guy in a domestic dispute and it wasnt enough so she actualy changed the witnesses statement herself and signed her name to it and completely lied about everything that happened on scene including talking to another officer who told her he recently responded to a Human Traffiking call there less than a month prior.}
^{Add Info}
^{WPD may have instead of officer edited the cam videos silenced arresting officers video and removed some completely including when she use their ID's as you can tell from the evidence and found out both were ex cons and they may have instead of her have removed completely the human trafiking video portion of her bodycam but they forgot about this officers video and left it in so you have the evidence.}
^{She denied on reports that the conversation ever happened under felony perjury charges and that both felon ex con's statements acording backgrond on their ID were both and their statements credible and that she had no evidence or say so otherwise and that no other officer told her anything that would lead to believe otherwise. She shood that officer away intentionaly lying to him about fake drugs and aspergers claims 100% lies and silenced her bodycam repeadedly as asked him and other officers to do the same so what she says couldnt be heard by anyone later. Then in evidence her entire bodycam is silenced.}
^{The Lawsuit}
^{If anyone knows a Civil Rights atorney let me know I have contact the ACLU but they are too busy with other cases and I guese and they dont care about me. The county also tried to murder me negligently at the jail and by forcing me to wheeler mission instead of legaly releasing me and the hering judge after getting angry that I didnt asnwer yes or no to him gave me a lawyer who was practically disbarred for trying to have sex with his clients and his wife worked against me for the diversion part of the prosecutor's office who then voice mailed me and extorted me saying that she listened to my voice mails and emails to her husband threatening if he is working agaisnt me with the prosecutor that could be federal jail for him and she said that it didn't sound like I was too interested in pleading guilty to divert my case and if I did not hurry up and pay her $400 to divert my case that I could be convict of a crime.}
^{I kno that some guys in the facebok group queering indi are from wheelers mission in Indianapolis that witnessed me being raped and abused in person in front of them and 250 other guys where the police forcibly drop me of at during a pandemic with no phone or trnsport or ID or job 45 miles from court. The nurses in the jail asked why I wasnt sitting in the medical cell I said because I have OCD and there is fecal everywhere and mold and I have open bleeding wound on my fet that they took pictures of and tel me if I didnt sit down in fecal matter that could contain lethal pandemic residue and rust and mold in the cell that they would inject me with vitamins to pass out and I said thats not legal and they came back with more nurses and chemicles that could kill you and they said because you have ocd then you wouldnt mind cleaning up the cell for us... BECUASE IF HAVE OCD 7th most devistating mental condition I WOULDNT MIND CLEANING THE POTENTIONALY COVID 19 INFECT LETHAL FECES AND MOLD AND RUST.... FOR THEM not because I have a disorde no because I have a disorder I wouldnt mind doing it.. not for me but for them and ridding of the evidence of that medical cell and put that disorder to work... That is attemt murder not endangerment but murder many counts of that.}
^{I am going to be sueing WPD the city of westfield and hamiltn county in federal court as a user said to do. If you kno a civil rights atorny that is LGBT let me kno because ACLU is useless and I have no money and am category 1 homeless but staying someplace saf. The statue of limitation is not over yet this happened in 07 18 2020 was homeless in wheelers until case got dismissed because of witness recanting story and accuser lying. The acuser is insane and not liable for anything and the witness was intoxicate and abused by police and financial punitive is due to be paid to both of them and I will be trying to get that. This was a corrupt police and the county. The judges prosecutor officers and jail and with FBI and county sherrif refusing to do anything and passing the buck that is a royal flush in the law if there is one.}
^{Here is some evidence for you I wouldnt make claims that couldnt be proven in and out of court by my atorneys.}

The officer coaches witness to change statement so say he directly witnesses battery and then thats not enough so she later edits the witnesses written statement herself and signs her name to that.
https://reddit.com/link/1295b73/video/o1aqwpyybdra1/player
I do not have Aspergers the police kno that I have OCD and have caught the acuser lying about it the officer knows that continuesly using Aspergers as excuse to decredit my claims and explained that to police that acuser trying to get me arrest many tims before the guy made aspergers up becuse he watched Osark Seson 2 that gave him the idea to make up aspergers to 911. The shoes I am wearing... The pile of clothes to the right of car are the ones guy was tryingto rip off of me because wante me naked for police as usual. The guy didnt kno that I had a last par of clothes stashed that he couldnt find and throw away like everything else but did tell 911 was changing my clothes as if that would decredit any of my claims more that that.
The officer never mentions the men are both felon ex cons for extortion and witness is on parol for DUI also purposely forgets to mention acuser is bipolar psychopath sociopath with PTSD on 2 antipsychotics and recent bariatric patient also has dentures glasses and diabeties a fall could kill him but yet was injured and punched in the face and body slammed to the ground with no marks of any kind and cleared from medical also already caught by police lying about Aspergers and intoxicate witnesses story changing and suspect claiming kidnaping matching another officer that described human trafficking call by acusers sister.
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This is felony perjury here or is it not.
This is felony perjury here or is it not.
This is Officer bowels report and proves that he knew I did not have Aspergers that I had OCD and that he had evidence that the acuser was lying and did not inform the arresting officer.
This proves it to be a legal arrest the accuser and witness 100% credible got it or is it not you decide. Also a lot more happened at the jail than just an irregularity in the scan wouldnt you say.
You should blow up your car officer.
https://reddit.com/link/1295b73/video/37aore5iedra1/player

Text in case the link at end gets paywalled:
A 9-year-old girl didn’t want her goat slaughtered. California fair officials sent deputies after it
BY LA TIMES STAFF WRITER PUBLISHED MARCH 30, 2023
Every day for three months, Jessica Long’s young daughter walked and fed her goat, bonding with the brown and white floppy-eared animal named Cedar. But when it was time for Cedar to be sold and slaughtered at the Shasta District Fair last year, the 9-year-old just couldn’t go through with it.
“My daughter sobbed in her pen with her goat,” Long wrote to the Shasta County fair’s manager on June 27, 2022. “The barn was mostly empty and at the last minute I decided to break the rules and take the goat that night and deal with the consequences later.”
Long purchased the goat for her daughter to enter into the 4-H program with the Shasta District Fair. Children are taught how to care for farm animals. The animals are then entered in an auction to be sold and then slaughtered for meat in hopes of teaching children about the work and care needed to raise livestock and provide food, as farmers and ranchers do.
In her letter, Long pleaded for the fair to make an exception and let her and her daughter take Cedar back. Aware that Cedar had already been sold in auction, she also offered to “pay you back for the goat and any other expenses I caused,” according to the letter obtained by The Times.
Instead, officials reached out to the Shasta County Sheriff’s Office. Armed with a search warrant, detectives drove more than 500 miles across Northern California in search of the goat.
According to the search warrant, deputies believed Cedar was staying at Bleating Hearts Farm and Sanctuary in Napa County, based on the fact that the sanctuary had posted on Instagram its support for Long and urging people to call the Shasta District Fair to convince them to spare Cedar. But Long had taken Cedar to a farm in Sonoma County because she and her family live in a residential area in Shasta County and are unable to keep farm animals there.
Echoing language used when law enforcement search a home for drugs, the warrant allowed deputies to “utilize breaching equipment to force open doorway(s), entry doors, exit doors, and locked containers” and to search all rooms, garages and “storage rooms, and outbuildings of any kind large enough to accommodate a small goat.”
Cedar was taken and slaughtered.
Long has since filed a federal lawsuit against Shasta District Fair officials and the county, arguing it committed an “egregious waste of police resources” and violated her and her daughter’s 4th Amendment and 14th Amendment rights protecting them from unreasonable searches and seizures, and due process. Long and her attorneys allege the dispute was a civil matter she was willing to resolve.
Letters, text messages, a search warrant and other court documents reviewed by The Times show how a dispute over a 9-year-old girl’s pet goat quickly escalated, and that Shasta District Fair officials resorted to using police resources after noting that their handling of the dispute over Cedar had become “a negative experience for the fairgrounds as this has been all over Facebook and Instagram.”
“It was never about money,” said Vanessa Shakib, an attorney for Advancing Law for Animals who represents Long. “County officials were clear that they wanted to teach this little girl a lesson.”
Shasta District Fair and county officials did not respond to requests for comment.
“This matter is in active litigation, and as such neither the County nor its legal counsel can provide a comment,” Christopher Pisano, an attorney representing Shasta County, said in an email.
Shakib argues that county and fair officials abused their power in what should have been a simple breach of contract.
Attorneys for Long also argue the county’s response to use law enforcement personnel and resources was disproportionate, considering they were dealing with a family who was trying to keep a goat from being slaughtered.
“It’s shocking,” said Ryan Gordon, an attorney with Advancing Law for Animals. “It’s a little girl’s goat, not Pablo Escobar.”
Gordon and Shakib argue that Long tried to resolve the issue from the outset, writing an email to fair officials the day after.
In it, Long pleaded her case, pointing out that the last year had been a particularly difficult one for her young daughter.
“Our daughter lost three grandparents within the last year, and our family has had so much heartbreak and sadness that I couldn’t bear the thought of the following weeks of sadness after the slaughter of her first livestock animal,” she wrote to Shasta District Fair Chief Executive Melanie Silva.
But Shasta District Fair officials threatened to call police the next day and rebuffed Long’s attempt to find another outcome for Cedar other than it being returned, slaughtered and donated for a barbecue.
“Making an exception for you will only teach [our] youth that they do not have to abide by the rules,” Silva wrote back to Long in an email reviewed by The Times dated June 28, 2022. “Also, in this era of social media this has been a negative experience for the fairgrounds as this has been all over Facebook and Instagram.”
That same day, B.J. Macfarlane, livestock manager for the Shasta Fair Assn., sent Long a text message.
“We need to make arrangements to get goat back today,” the text read. “If not law enforcement is going to be brought in on this.”
Long also offered to repay the fair district and the bidder whatever costs had been incurred. That included the winning bid of $902 made by state Sen. Brian Dahle (R-Bieber) and the 7% cut that the fair was entitled to of $63.14.
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https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-03-30/goat-slaughter-shasta-county-fair?fbclid=PAAaa2md-GFGfBlM4msq6gCLMs60V3JE85TgD4G_s8_Q3bfT36wPLzfCxr8IM

Officials with North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission announced a sample containing CWD was collected from a harvested white-tailed deer in Cumberland County. This was the first detected outside the current surveillance area.
CWD was first detected in NC in 2022 in a Yadkin County deer that was reportedly harvested in Dec 2021.
Testing was increased during the 2022-2023 season . Officials stated that continued testing is. Imperative because it is impossible to tell if deer have CWD by simple observation. Signs of illness may not be noticed for 16 months or more after a deer is infected, the disease is always fatal.
For more information about CWD including a chart that shows testing to date visit n wildlife.org/CWD