Melissa Ditmore

NYPL Researcher Spotlight: Melissa Hope Ditmore | The New York Public Library Alcohol consumption to sexual morality: Melissa Ditmore investigates The Committee of 14's expanding purview in early 20th-century New York.

I'll speak at the New York Public Library at 42nd & 5th on October 14, 2 PM, at the Vartan Gregorian Center about my new project on "incorrigible girls" and NYC's Committee of Fourteen, anti-promiscuity moralists from a century ago. I'll post again when I get the flyer. www.nypl.org/blog/2024/08...

Grady Judd: ‘Operation Fool Around and Find Out Again’ human trafficking investigation nets 246 arrests Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd says nearly 250 suspects face serious charges after a weeklong multi-agency undercover investigation targeting human trafficking and illegal immigration.

Florida sheriff's department used ICE to round up sex workers under pretense of fighting human trafficking and child exploitation.

Instead, they arrested 111 sex workers, none of whom was underage and none of which led to a human trafficking arrest.

Unbroken Chains: The Hidden Role of Human Trafficking with Author Melissa Ditmore In partnership with Everfree, an organization dedicated to fighting human trafficking, join us for an author talk and discussion with Dr. Melissa Ditmore, author of Unbroken Chains: The Hidden Role of...

I'll speak at the Westport (CT) Public Library this evening about human trafficking. Please come if you are in the neighborhood! I will bring some light to a dark topic in dark times. westportlibrary.org/event/unbrok...

My neighbors campaigning for Mamdani for mayor: www.instagram.com/reel/DOeEhjQ...

Screen shot from social media, where a random geek named Brent posted "Shakespeare walks into a gay bar [Exit, pursued by a bear]"

@emilydwarfield.bsky.social

Wow, MO democrats are sitting in session this wee3kend to block gerrymandering, and it's not in the news www.kfvs12.com/2025/09/05/m...

Risk Factors for Autism Spectrum Disorder: What We Already Know From Scientific Evidence | Defend Public Health With Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. promising to announce what he believes are the causes of autism this month, Defend Public Health is preemptively warning the public not t...

Defend Public Health has released a report here about the science:

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Write members of Congress - Will COVID-19 vaccines be available this fall? It is clear that HHS Secretary RFK Jr. is on a dangerous and fast-moving path to make COVID-19 vaccines totally unavailable here in the U.S. With COVID-19 cases on the rise in many parts of the US an...

US people: If you are want to get a covid vaccine this fall, consider writing to your representatives to ask if they will be available to us. It's not guaranteed, and is most urgent for older people and those with conditions that make illnesses particularly risky. actionnetwork.org/letters/writ...

Thank you, Eric!

Unbroken Chains: The Hidden Role of Human Trafficking with Author Melissa Ditmore In partnership with Everfree, an organization fighting human trafficking, join us for an author talk and discussion with Dr. Melissa Ditmore, author of Unbroken Chains: The Hidden Role of Human Traffi...

I'll speak at the public library in Westport, CT, on September 17th - please come if you are in the area!

westportlibrary.org/event/unbrok...

The Bitter Taste of Labor Violations A Trump-aligned company wins a pardon for labor violations in sugar production.

You are right on all this, and there is more. The current republican administration has allowed cane sugar imports from a company with well-documented labor violations, violations that look like human trafficking www.thenation.com/article/poli...

I wish we could have been more effective on education, public broadcasting, and general health in the US and around the world.

I spoke about PEPFAR funding's roller coaster on South Africa's Power FM radio this morning, highlighting the US grassroots movement of thousands of public health workers targeted advocacy focused on key republican senators.

The Young Lords Brought the Revolution to Public Health The group achieved victories for health care access in New York and beyond.

today in 1970 the Young Lords staged a 12-hr takeover of the Bronx's Lincoln Hospital—overcrowded, overrun by rats, called the "butcher shop" b/c medical residents trained on poor people of color

the takeover led to one of the first patients' bill of rights in history, and other wins @teenvogue.com

Is Your Health Care About to Get Better or Worse? #CareTalk YouTube video by Laura Packard

If you can't afford to take a helicopter to your private doctor, here is a video about how your healthcare may be affected by the Republican administration's big brutal bill: www.youtube.com/live/l8zSFiu...

JUST RELEASED: In collaboration with @rightscon.org @getdweb.net @strangehorizons.bsky.social @dragoncon.org & @compost.bsky.social: a new resource has emerged for storytellers to clap back at encroaching fascism: stopcopaganda.compost.digital

How many people will lose health care in your state? Followed by numbers for all 50 states in alphabetical order. Footer says "That's 17 million lives republicans are putting at risk."

Murkowski voted for the ugly move workers' money to billionaires bill, and so it passed. How many people will lose health care in your state? 40k in AK, 1M in NY where I live

@bradlander.bsky.social Kingmaker! You have been a great comptroller and ran your mayoral race graciously. I hope you will consider running for a higher office!

Incredibly important read. This is exactly what LAPD did to me and two other legal observers standing on a quiet street corner this past weekend—except with rubber bullets, not pepperballs, and aimed at our heads, not our feet.

…oh, and the officer waved tauntingly right before shooting at us.

He's out and Foley Square is quiet.

NYC update: ICE has detained NYC Comptroller and mayoral candidate Brad Lander, so people are protesting at Foley Square.

‘I’m an American, Bro!’: Latinos Report Raids in Which U.S. Citizenship Is Questioned

US citizens caught up in anti-trafficking raids have been deported, and now we are seeing a much larger scale round up of citizens, people with legal status, and people without status. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/15/u...

NYC people, if you are not registered to vote in the primary, you have all day! The deadline is tomorrow: e-register.vote.nyc

This is real. This person knows what she is talking about.

Tell local NJ reporters who can get to the facility and
NJ-based advocates and
Sympathetic politicians

Take Action Your Voice Matters, It's Time to Take Action! Below you’ll find the campaigns that the Copyright Alliance is facilitating. We encourage all creators and friends of the creative...

The creative industries contribute $2 trillion to our economy and employ 11+ million people. Let's protect this vital sector from unlicensed AI training. #copyright #AI

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Take Action Your Voice Matters, It's Time to Take Action! Below you’ll find the campaigns that the Copyright Alliance is facilitating. We encourage all creators and friends of the creative...

As an author, I believe AI companies should license creative works for training, not take them without permission. Join me in urging Congress and the president to protect creators' rights! #copyright #AI

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Preserving the Federal Data Trump Is Trying to Purge For months, the research community has been racing to download and store thousands of demographic data sets the government wants to delete because they don’t align with the Trump administration’s ideo...

This article describes some of the data that the republican administration is trying to wipe, how it affects science and invidivual researchers, and efforts to preserve data taxpayers have paid for over the past half century and longer. www.insidehighered.com/news/governm...

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