At CECOT, the detainees said, Venezuelans were held in cells of nine to 15 people with metal benches for beds — thin mattresses were brought in for photographs and then taken away — and water buckets for drinking and bathing. “It looked like a cage,” González said. On the first day, Blanco vomited and had no way to clean his shirt for several days, he said. Eventually the detainees said they were given soap and toothpaste, but not regularly. It was uncomfortably hot during the day, González said, and frigid at night. The cells reeked of urine and sewage, Blanco said. The detainees were awakened at 4 a.m. and given time to wash themselves, González said. If they were seen cleaning themselves with the bucket outside of showering hours, he said, they were taken to a dark cell for punishments, where they would be shackled to a chair and hit with a stick. Blanco recalled hearing the screams from down the hallway.

Those held at CECOT were forced to sleep on cold metal benches (mattresses were brought in for photo ops) and given a single water bucket for washing and drinking.

If anyone was seen washing themselves not at 4:00 AM, they were taken into a cell, tied to a chair, and beaten.

Somebody mentioned in a reply on here that NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch looks like Bib Fortuna and I can’t remember who, but know that your statement has wormed its way into my head and taken up residence.

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All Our Heroes Are Cartoons my big beautiful boy in underwear

I liked the Superman movie but I’m still going to complain loloverruled.substack.com/p/all-our-he...

I need to figure out a way to advertise my substack but I don’t really enjoy doing promotion so… not sure how to do that. Hey please read my substack I think it’s actually pretty good

A 1940 newspaper clip from the Springfield Leader and Press, declaring: Superman Poisoning American Children, Irate Nazis cClaim."

"Superman Arouses Teutonic Anger" reads the headline in the Amarillo Daily News"

The right-wing backlash against #Superman this week got me thinking: Has this happened before?

That led to the discovery of these headline — from April 1940, when the official newspaper of the SS took umbrage at the comic book hero and ridiculed its creators.

My how times change ...

lol

America when they refuse to release the Epstein files

It’s a wrap

This one is pretty good

Many many people are saying Vanishing Points by Lolo on Substack is a very fine weekly newsletter

On a much smaller scale, there are people critical of writers on Substack because the platform is soft on its white supremacist elements. It’s sort of a similar question. How far does the artist’s responsibility extend? What about the need to make a living from the work? Or for people to see it?

hinder the art of more radical, less successful artists? We’ve seen more of this with Palestinian advocacy specifically, but it’s not secret that politics have gotten in the way of artistic success in the past. What is the obligation of the artist?

I knew little (if anything) about this or whether it was even true, but it was an interesting and complex subject to consider: what is required of artists? Is the bar higher for successful ones? Certainly Johnson’s work is sincere… does that mean he should not work with institutions that

Rashid Johnson is an artist whose work is on display at Guggenheim. When I shared some photos on Instagram, someone replied that they disliked him because of his success as a Black artist focusing his work on race, identity, and racism who made “palatable” work for white donors and audiences

Love Island in the Fourth Reich kill, distract, forget, repeat

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Do you have objects that haunt you? Things an ex bought you, or stuff you hold onto that brings back painful or complicated memories? What are they? Why? I’m writing about this this week and could use your help

Did That Lady Just Get Hit By a Car? she's probably fine

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“i’m so sorry mr hitler” lmao

this episode marks the debut of our new mini-series “hitler in LA”

Now I can run on passing executive orders that will allow JSOC to arrest and detain every American billionaire and seize their assets for redistribution

It’s so crazy for your own parents to be your ops

The Zohran post was a joke and that dude is a fucking prick who harassed me and my friends for months

Famously pro cuomo here

That pervert blocked me? Lol

I can’t see this I’m blocked what does it say

I am not mad, I just hope your tall boyfriend dies in a plane crash

Ngl I keep thinking I am at rock bottom in my life and the floor keeping opening up

I encourage you to go watch interviews of AOC before she won her congressional race