The material support statutes have been very bad for a very long time, waiting over a decade to be used in this way. There are many laws like this - FOSTA, for example - ambiguous enough to be applied with a breadth that's terrifying. Laws just waiting for a bad-faith actor to weaponize them
Jfc when you criticize the way people look while you're criticizing their politics, all you do is undermine any substantive thing you want to say
Today is International Sex Workers’ Rights Day, a time to support and uplift sex workers everywhere—and a particularly good day to throw some money to the United Brothel Workers in Nevada who were illegally terminated after their historic union drive with CWA went public! ☂️
Real safety = housing, h/c, and income support...not cops conducting "welfare checks", aka harassment and intimidation. www.scotland.police.uk/what-s-happe...
Really proud of this piece and so thankful to all the sex workers who talked with me while I was researching! I don’t often see this framed as a speech and artistic expression issue but it is: Visa/MC are effectively crowning themselves art directors as they rip sex workers off.
A crazy time to NOT HAVE FOREIGN CORRESPONDENTS!!!
“The forces we are up against have made peace with mass death. They are treasonous to this world and its human and non-human inhabitants.”
Me too❤️
It's my birthday on Monday. This is what 45 looks like.
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Send presents: throne.com/missloreleilee
What is happening to trans people in Kansas should terrify you. What they can do to a minority group, they can do to anyone. Imagine opening the mail to find out the state has overnight taken your identity. Canceled your government documents. Please think through the implications of this
Jfc don't tell me the only thing between us and imminent (worse) mass domestic surveillance by our own gov is a fucking AI company
No Means No!
If you don’t want Casey Means to be Surgeon General, you can write to your Senators in 2 minutes or less with @defendpublichealth.bsky.social’s handy form.
A fun Friday night activity for the whole family!
If you know more trans mutual aid funds for trans Kansas residents please let me know and I'll do my best to boost as much as possible.
The name of the game today is community care.
The new Ellison-controlled media combine will check the boxes for all three types of capture: capitalistic, oligarchic, and authoritarian.
lpeproject.org/blog/the-ame...
That sounds rough! I'm sorry you're going through it!
"In fact, the articles of impeachment drafted for Nixon stated that he had ‘endeavoured to obtain from the Internal Revenue Service, in violation of the constitutional rights of citizens, confidential information contained in income tax returns for purposed (sic) not authorized by law.’”
(1) Casey Means is a dreadful nominee and should not be confirmed.
(2) I don't have any desire to defend for-profit advertising of any kind.
(3) "Obesity is a national crisis" as a message both relies on and perpetuates bias against fat people.
Why does it feel like only trans people are talking about how Kansas - a state with voter ID laws - just made all trans people's state IDs & drivers licenses invalid overnight
NEW: I spoke to the sex workers organizing a union at Sheri's Ranch, a brothel in Nevada, about a contract that they say could threaten their right to control their images online. The fight is already serious: since the drive began, four workers have been fired. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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Yesterday I wrote about what AI is (math) and isn’t (people) and someone in the comment said it’s the best thing anyone ever wrote about AI. I’m just gonna take that at face value and so should you. www.todayintabs.com/p/a-i-isn-t-...
NEW: The Victims Who Fought Back
An Oklahoma law was supposed to help reduce the sentences of women who killed their abusers.
Why are nearly all of them still in prison?
By @pamelacolloff.bsky.social
The way some of your faves use psychiatric diagnoses as insults and signifiers of bad people is...
Folks, we've got to internalize, collectively, that being a shitty person is not a psychiatric disorder and that sane people are fully capable of doing harm.
Even intentionally.
Support two excellent, comradely publications—at a steep discount!
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It's almost my birthday. Can you guess what I want most? Throne.com/missloreleilee
ICE is still active all across Minnesota, even parking at observers homes this morning. But we’ve been showing up all weekend with massive food drives, placing hearts where were abducted, at singing marches, and there’s another big protest at Jackson Square Park today at noon. Let’s keep showing up!
I would add @gaatw.bsky.social and Freedom Network USA to your list in terms of antitrafficking orgs who actually support sw rights
URGENT FUNDRAISER FOR A SEX WORKER DEFENDING HERSELF IN COURT.
Her former partner is trying to sue her for money he gave to her & pursue coercive control. She managed to win anonymity, but we need to stand up against abusive men who target sex workers.
www.gofundme.com/f/help-ms-xx...
