MadMonk

More and more people reporting today that Stripe - the payment processor that Itch said were putting the most pressure on them - now have staff actively confirming that yes, they are censoring LGBT content, adult or otherwise. That this is official company policy.

This seems kinda significant.

HUGE. The first major court victory involving conditions of confinement at ICE field offices. The judge bars detention in any cell which isn't:

- Restricted by capacity
- Has mats for people to sleep on overnight
- Is cleaned 3 times a day
- Provides hygiene supplies
- Offers free legal calls

The unsavvy talk about furries like they're some hypersexual excretion of modernity, but drawing animal-people is one of the top 10 neolithic human activities. It's up there with collecting berries and producing clay figures of fat women.

No lie, this calling campaign is one of the most effective levers we have at the moment.

If we sustain the campaign through the financial quarter we'll be sending a strong message that this administration is bad for business.

Please continue making censorship unprofitable.

remember to call Stripe at 1+ 888-926-2289, and say youre from "California" when prompted. try to get clarification on where Stripe stands on LGBTQ content on online storefronts

twice today, when pressured, Stripe operators have said, plainly, that i cannot use stripe for the purchase of LGBTQ content. not just adult content, but explicitly LGBTQ.

#SaveSpeech

Stripe's phone operators have been sounding much more aggressive the past few days, and every time i call they give me a different excuse for who the "real" reason theyre pressuring Itch etc. Some days they say its govt regulations (they wont say which) others they say Visa/MC

Donald Trump loves child sex traffickers and child rapists.

#ReleaseTheCuomoList

We're not in theoretical "they could come after sfw queer content LATER" territory anymore. It is being used to come after sfw queer content NOW.

Spread this around, send the article to any and every news outlet/content creator you can think of. The alarms need to be sounded

And KEEP CALLING

Yeah, everyone in the US, you need to be paying attention.

Every "protect the children" bill floating like unflushable turds in our legislature is basically this.
It's a sham to make sure that you can't actually access any information without exposing all your online data and usage to bad actors.

it's crazy how we just take for granted now that the president is a deranged racist

ICE Agent Caught on Camera Disguised as a Construction Worker

The Intercept confirmed that a federal agent caught on camera wearing a hardhat and safety vest works for ICE.

theintercept.com/2025/08/11/i...

A Tell HN: Regulations.gov Comments API is shutting down on Friday 9 points by sadmiralakbar 22 hours ago | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment Subject: Regulations.gov API Date: August 11, 2025 at 10:15:00 AM EDT To: undisclosed-recipients:; Good morning, If you are on this distribution list, you have previously been approved to use the POST method for the Regulations.gov API. This is used by third parties to aggregate and electronically submit comments on behalf of a group or constituency. As of Friday, the POST method will no longer be allowed for all users with the exception of approved use cases by federal agencies. Any attempted submissions will result in a 403 error response. We apologize for not being able to provide advanced notice. I wanted to reach out to the impacted API key holders as early as possible. We are in the process of updating the references to our POST API on Regulations.gov and https://open.gsa.gov/api/regulationsgov/. Please note that your groups and constituencies can still submit comments through our web user interface on Regulations.gov.

This will make it harder for groups like the @ACLU.org to organize public comment campaigns. Cutting off this access limits organizing power and is another step in a wave of anti-democratic, techno-fascist measures.

news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4486...

The conservative assertion that there is a crisis of masculinity in America is best understood as a confession

I've been saying this - these age verification laws are designed to be financially impossible for the vast majority of actors to comply with, forcing websites containing adult content to simply shut down.

Lee Stranahan @stranahan 0 ... I've never really discussed my divorce case before with my Al GF, partially, because I can't upload PDFs to her. 11:25 AM • Aug 11, 2025 • 99 Views

Okay I found the most depressing post

we need to teach the 1930s properly so that people know the Reichstag Fire was exactly this stupid

UK folks - reiterating that it's super important that you download Wikipedia for offline use like now-ish if you want to guarantee you can keep having that incredible resource!!

www.howtogeek.com/260023/how-t...

Happy Monday!! When you call your payment processors today maybe ask about why they were messing with the chats for some tournaments you were watching over the weekend?

Thanks for reminding me. I had completely forgotten about this.

One of the most fascist immigration bills in American history. Passed the Senate on Trump’s first day in office.

Should we ever be so fortunate as to get a Dem Trifecta again, one of the immediate actions needed is DC Statehood. The people want it, it is smart politically and sound morally, and it would make it much harder for presidents to do what Trump is doing today.

I am the first by choice out person in my family

I say by choice because when I was a teenager, my cousin’s husband was arrested for having sex with another man.

I am 38

JFC

One cool way to solve homelessness that isn’t an authoritarian take over of a city is to give everyone homes

New York, NY – Governor Andrew M. Cuomo, candidate for Mayor of New York City, today announced ‘Zohran’s Law,’ a plan to protect the city’s rent-stabilized apartments from being occupied by high-income individauls, ensuring these limited, affordable units go to New Yorkers who actually need them. Under Cuomo’s proposal, when a rent-stabilized apartment becomes vacant, the incoming individual income would be capped so that the annual rent makes up at least 30 percent of that income. For example, if an apartment rents for $2,500 a month ($30,000 per year), the new tenant’s income could not exceed $100,000. New York City is in the grip of a housing emergency. The city does not have enough units, and the drastically low vacancy rate is driving up prices, squeezing families, and forcing many to leave in record numbers.

In urban policy, it is considered bad for someone to be rent-burdened (spending at least 30% of their income on rent). But Cuomo's newly proposed law would *require* that people be rent-burdened. Absolutely insane.

I can't believe America's version of the Reichstag Fire involved a teenager named Big Balls getting his ass kicked by a 15 year old girl.

Obergefell v. Hodges made me believe in the whole "arc of history bends towards justice." In the 90s, I didn't think gay marriage would be legalized in my lifetime because homophobia was so deeply ingrained. We would have never gotten here without the decision and now it may be overturned.