Elizabeth Nolan Brown

Remember that the predominant form of age verification for porn sites — the new mandates passed in nearly every red state in the past few years — is a facial scan coupled with government ID.

👋🏼 friends. Brownish, imported-tattooed 🇺🇸 here. 3 x combat veteran. Who can I send my naturalization cert to to vouch for me when bio match determines I should be disappeared to Sudan? @mattburgess1.bsky.social @noupside.bsky.social @mmasnick.bsky.social witness for me? What the AF is happening rn?

Essentially, DOJ said it has the power to police anything that involves money or a street

The 8th Circuit rejected this, calling this "a constitutionally important inquiry" because it gets at how far the feds can extend policing power using the Commerce Clause as justification

Man accused of soliciting teen girl walks because of federal overreach A sex-trafficking case fell apart after the DOJ’s claim that driving on a road put the alleged crime in 'interstate commerce.'

An alleged sexual predator may escape conviction because the feds couldn't just leave local crime to local authorities.

Arkansas had a case against the guy for trying to pay a 15-year-old for sex. Then DOJ tried to make it a federal case.... because he drove on a road
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It’s outrageous they’re killing innocent people, but we also need to stress, every time, that it would not really matter even it were absolutely certain that they were drug traffickers. Murdering criminals is still, you know, murder.

I made an image of all the art posted by US DOL on X since approximately Labor Day

Law enforcement does this regularly, with high-profile round-ups of sex workers under the guise of stopping trafficking. They're rewarded with grant money and federal funds and PR. Meanwhile, the sex workers are jailed or forced through rehabilitation programs or assaulted.

That's exploitation.

For adult creators, it's even more disastrous. The more people are dissuaded from going to legal sites, the more they seek out pirated content, which doesn't require facial scans to access.

The UK government is starving creators to score a political point.

Between this and @nickmiroff.bsky.social’s Atlantic article on the fitness requirements, seems fair to say the recruiting effort is hitting systemic issues. Q is do they a) find a way to further loosen requirements; b) improve recruit targeting; c) accept smaller ICE than they hoped for.

I wanted to write about the penis lady arrest, but then I saw Joe already had, so I had to pivot to titty taxes!

Hat tip, as is so often the case, to @mikestabile.bsky.social, who is just absolutely the best person to follow for all news concerning sex policy

Pennsylvania lawmakers propose titty tax The tax would apply to 'subscriptions to and one-time purchases from online adult content platforms,' according to a memo.

Singling out porn for special, extra taxes is both an unconstitutional singling out of speech the government doesn’t like + completely at odds with typical social concerns re: porn, like preventing sex worker exploitation and underage performers reason.com/2025/10/22/p...

Omg

Tech companies have a First Amendment right not to be pressured by the government to remove content, and the apps that have a right to not be removed due to government censorship.

But even if they don't fight back, we all have a #1A right to access this information free from government censorship.

Fate of flight attendant who accused Army vet of trafficking his daughter is now with Virginia's Supreme Court The teen began to cry when the plane hit turbulence. He comforted his daughter—and aroused the suspicions of flight attendant Cheryl Thomas.

This is crazy. No one 'thought to first check passenger records before calling the cops. If they had, they would have seen that Cupp, his daughter, and several other family members—including his wife... had checked into the flight together.' New, from @enbrown.bsky.social reason.com/2025/10/20/f...

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My husband, ladies and gentlemen

"Anna, Lindsey Halligan Here." Anna Bower Monday, October 20, 2025, 5:40 PM Share On: f X inK My Signal exchange with the interim U.S. attorney about the Letitia James grand jury.

EXCLUSIVE: One Saturday afternoon in October, my phone lit up with a notification.

I glanced down at the message.

“Anna, Lindsey Halligan here,” it began.

So began my text exchange with the woman who is prosecuting the president's perceived political enemies.

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Pa. senators' bipartisan plan for online porn tax would generate revenue for state Matthew Rink USA TODAY NETWORK Oct. 20, 2025, 1:38 p.m. ET Pennsylvanians who buy content from or subscribe to online adult websites should pay more than just the state's 6% sales tax, a bipartisan pair of lawmakers contend.

Just so we're clear, they're proposing a tax on speech.

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@DHSGov account says "Ratio." They are QTing a post that I wrote (next picture reproduces in full) asking, with a fair amount of snark, why DHS was blaming Governor Pritzker for the Hanover Park PD having hiring someone who allegedly was a visa overstay. They post two headlines about an Illinois law which authorized noncitizens with valid work authorization to become cops.

The post that set this off, in which I too was QTing the DHS account. The DHS post about the Hanover Park PD incident reads as follows: ". @GovPritzker doesn’t just allow illegal aliens to terrorize Illinois’s communities, he allows them to work as sworn police officers. Radule Bojovic overstayed a B2 tourist visa that required him to depart the U.S. on March 31, 2015. Over a decade later, he was still illegally in the U.S. working as a police officer for the Hanover Park Police Department earning a salary of $78,955. Criminal illegal aliens have NO PLACE in our communities, especially on our police forces." My QT response to this was: "What the heck does Governor Pritzker have to do with a local police department hiring decision? Do the people running @DHSgov not even know the basics about how state governments work?"

Excited to inform you all that the Department of Homeland Security is currently attempting to ratio me (and failing, as of more than two hours later).

With a heavy sigh, I repeat: bring back professionalism. For the love of god. You're running comms for the government of the USA. Act like it.

If anyone ever asks, "why don't people immigrate to the US the right way?", it's worth noting I was just quoted $14,460 for an O-1 visa application with premium processing. My first O-1 application, without premium processing, was $6,160 in 2018.

Case 1:25-cr-00244-SLS Document 69 Filed 10/16/25 Page 1 of 2 CO 109A - Rev. 3/2010 UNITED STATES DISTRICT AND BANKRUPTCY COURTS FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA UNITED STATES OF AMERICA VS. Civil/Criminal No.: 25CR244-SLS SYDNEY LORI REID NOTE FROM JURY Judge, We have reached a verdiet. Date: 10-16-2025 Time: Q1: 35 pm

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA : : : Case No. 25-CR-244 (SLS) .... VERDICT FORM As to the charge of Assaulting, Resisting, or Impeding Certain Officers, we, the jury in the above-captioned case, unanimously find the defendant, Sydney Reid: X _Not Guilty Guilty Foreperson Signature 10-16-2025 Date

lol.

LMAO, even.

Wow. Sidney Reid, the DC woman just found not guilty of assaulting an FBI agent, issues a withering and gutsy statement on Trump through her attorneys.

"I feel sorry for the prosecutors really, who must be burdened by Trump's irrational and unfounded hatred for his fellow man."

It's a must-read:

tl;dr: DOJ spent nearly three months to go 0-4 on the scraped knuckles case.

"Olvera's 'clandestine video voyeurism,' as his lawyer would later describe it, took place while Olvera was on duty, working as a deportation officer transporting a detainee on a flight."

A man on a plane who I thought looked leering

Same!

ICE agent who took upskirt photos of flight attendant says it wasn’t a crime because he was sneaky Billy Olvera's "clandestine video voyeurism," as his lawyer would later describe it, took place while he was on duty as a deportation officer.

"This case boils down to an armed, on-duty law enforcement officer who was actively transporting a detainee on a commercial flight using his cell phone to film underneath a flight attendant's skirt and take other compromising pictures of that flight attendant without her awareness or consent."

“This case boils down to an armed, on-duty law enforcement officer who was actively transporting a detainee on a commercial flight using his cell phone to film underneath a flight attendant's skirt and take other compromising pictures of that flight attendant without her awareness or consent."

ICE agent who took upskirt photos of flight attendant says it wasn’t a crime because he was sneaky Billy Olvera's "clandestine video voyeurism," as his lawyer would later describe it, took place while he was on duty as a deportation officer.

An ICE agent argued that taking upskirt photos of a flight attendant wasn’t a crime because he was sneaky. Um, no, says the 11th Circuit, which upheld his conviction reason.com/2025/10/16/i...