WCS 21 My phone got nicked in Oakland

And the feelings and thoughts that I’m having about crime are, er… complicated

It was probably in the pre-Trump Oregon years that the realization hit me: Demonstrating freedom—including the freedom to fail—is part of my gig, exemplifying so that the mean Negro might know what to do with theirs when it finally shakes loose.

That means, among other things, that I dance my pedestrian self around The West’s cities, a strutting, preening sidewalk testament. Just recently have I stopped starting crosswalk signal buttons with the tip of my outstretched foot—no more Bruce Lee with Black skin. But I still do rap whole verses, spin and dance, play drums and air guitar and sing country ballads, all with an air of normalcy; without that patina I’d be just another Bay Area crazy lacking a car.

And at the gym I get as free as can be, lifted off of multiple gummies and lost in my workout. No content management systems to learn, or forms to misplace or appointments to forget in here. Just weights and the elliptical machine, and stretching and… wait, where’s my phone?

Where is my fucking phone!?

Gone. Lost forever to the Oakland underside of it all.

My people. Sometimes, I swear.

Let’s switch it up, counting down from a white criminal on the southside of the state.

10 Teenage SoCal SWAT monster faces 40-year sentence 

Seventeen-year-old Alan Filion was extradited to Florida last week for phoning in more than 300 “swatting” incidents, in which he targeted mosques, the Pentagon, and historically-Black colleges.

To swat is to make a false police report with the intention of rushing them to a location by lying that a violent crime has taken place or is in progress.
Yahoo/Ars Technica

• The Lancaster student made a teenage business of swatting, charging $35 to $75 to call in phony reports of mass shootings, bomb threats and gas leaks among other emergencies.

• I blame Filion’s phone provider for the kid putting up such big numbers. Any 17 year old who’s making even 100 calls to anyone outside their family is a red flag. Kids don’t phone.

Lil Hit

• I wish Dwight Clark was alive to see Joe Montana selling weed.

  SF Gate

• Over 150 people were detained and nearly 90 cars seized at a San Joaquin County sideshow event. Hyphy!
  CBS Sacramento

“We understand that wars are going to happen in the world, but there are still laws and rules and when you start to carpet bomb children and women, I don’t care who Hamas is, I don’t care where they are, what’s wrong is wrong.”

9 Netflix signs $5B WCW deal despite epic Vince McMahon grossness

Some of what’s in the breathtaking workplace lawsuit against Vince McMahon is too disgusting to publish. The revelations aren’t so vile that Netflix didn’t give the wrestling company that McMahon built a whopper monetary commitment.

But I am comfortable telling you that he took a shit on an underling. Think about that next time you want to kill your horrible boss.
The Young Turks/The Hollywood Reporter