Scott Gordon

Having filed my share of open records requests I… was gonna say something smart-assed about “well here’s how it works” but on second thought you are right. There should be accessible public repositories of all this stuff, with requests as a backup mechanism

A reporter asked for body-camera footage. UW-Madison police threatened her with a fine. A hands-on encounter with Wisconsin’s newest and most troublesome open-records law.

Police in general love to play fast and loose with public records laws and make up their own arbitrary nonsense rules about disclosure. UWPD can at times be really shitty, even when one grades on that curve:

Good read for anyone wondering about the spread of Flock cameras in the Madison area.

Side note: Totally bizarre that UWPD’s spokesperson wouldn’t talk to Isthmus about camera locations. That's public info UWPD has previously divulged via records requests, and the cameras aren’t hard to spot

I think shrinking Madison’s Common Council and the Dane County Board and keeping them part-time is a terrible idea and explained why here

I shouldn’t be surprised anymore but watching the whole nonprofit journalism world replicate so much of the culture of corporate legacy media is so bleak

The fact that Knight is part of this is deeply fucked

I’m only a half hour into this but I am very excited at the prospect of a Planescape Torment episode

20 seasons of a show about an “independent consultant” for Chili’s restaurants, every season he has to murder a franchisee who gets “his own ideas” about where to hang the “Lordy yes I read the goat gap gazette” sign

Today of all days we need Nick’s epic Robin Vos thread rendered as a very long cross-stitch or something

This is a great piece (and illustration), rich in context about the role Wisconsin’s utility companies play in this nonsense

Social media post reading: Noel Quintana and his wife Ofelia Garcia-Anchondo, owners of Señor Machetes restaurant on E. Main here in Madison since 2019, live downtown on S. Henry St. and have hosted the downtown neighborhood association holiday party for the last couple of years. Noel, who has been in this country legally for decades, was picked up at O'Hare recently when returning from a trip to Mexico and is being held in Indiana by ICE. His lawyers are working to get him released but as of yet have not made that happen. Ofelia is hoping that friends and neighbors can help her through this rough emotional and financial crisis and will be hosting a fundraiser upstairs at the restaurant this Friday afternoon/evening There will be food and drink, snacks and dinner. Please come and support our downtown neighbors. 2/13 4:309pm Senor Machetes 121 E. Main St. Friday, February 13 4:30 til 9:00 SEÑOR MACHETES MEXICAN GRILL

“Noel, who has been in this country legally for decades, was picked up at O'Hare recently when returning from a trip to Mexico and is being held in Indiana by ICE. His lawyers are working to get him released but as of yet have not made that happen”

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I am putting out an EP tomorrow for Bandcamp Friday. Guitar and synth sampled and arranged into smeary ambient pieces. Mastered by @angelhairaudio.bsky.social, cover art by the wonderful Derrick Buisch

Idk “we demand the cops write down yet more rules that they will then ignore” doesn’t sound like wielding the power of the purse to me

UW faculty, local activists criticize campus Flock Safety cameras, cite privacy concerns There are eight Flock Safety cameras located on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus, raising concerns around transparency and surveillance among community members. 

This story from @dailycardinal.bsky.social connects UW-Madison Police Department’s use of Flock cameras to the bigger surveillance problems that come with Flock. And there’s been very little public attention to the fact that UWPD has them, so good on the Cardinal as usual

An ICE agent covered head-to-toe in body cams, just thousands of tiny cameras, beating the shit out of an old woman. That's the bipartisan dream

Opinion | Families of transgender youth expected better from UW Health UW Health's compliance in advance sends the message that providers should capitulate to authoritarian control rather than support best practice care.

UW Health's compliance in advance sends the message that providers should capitulate to authoritarian control rather than support best practice care.

Having seen the cops beat people up “just because of the tents, wink” on her say-so, I feel OK tbh

Hiring criteria: how much experience do you have calling in the pigs to brutalize students, faculty, and community members on a “content-neutral” technicality

The American people are braver and better than our monstrous leaders, and we will win.

r/madisonwi, the third rail we dare not touch

Thank you, because I am not logging into that horror show myself

The Madison "uniparty" is not oppressing you, because it's not real Local debates aren't what they should be, but they're not being crushed by the far left.

I wrote for @tonemadison.bsky.social about the myth that the “far left” dominates Madison’s local politics and crushes debate, and why this lie is so pernicious in this moment

::maudlin civil war letter music:: dearest Keighleigh, the greycoats prepare another charge and I fear our cause is lost. We are now reduced to doing number ones in empty bottles from the dubious “nuclear nutsack” supplements we bought from podcasts

We are the federal pigs and we are not allowed to even go pee pee at the smelliest of toilet locations 😔

ICE kidnapped a 5-year-old and sent him alone to a facility in Texas. Hell isn't hot enough.

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