This family…didn’t choose…to [allow] Jefferson Parish to look into their home and judge what happens there. – Chelsea Cusimano
The big news this week was the death of Eddie Van Halen; I wasn’t really a fan, but this song was recent enough when I was teaching that some of my students used to “innocently” sing it within earshot. The links above it were provided by Nun Ya, Stephen Lemons, Tim Cushing, Popehat, Scott Greenfield, Cop Crisis, and Thaddeus Russell, in that order.
- Recycling!
- I hate it when this happens.
- Maybe Siri really is intelligent.
- Paging the late Senator McCarthy.
- What “no sense of humor” looks like.
- Still think you don’t live in a police state?
- Never let any “authority” aim a camera into your home.
From the Archives
- Every internet company profits from sex workers without giving us credit.
- Trumpists & anti-Trumpists fight to control the “sex trafficking” narrative.
- I can tell you why these cases aren’t being pushed, but you won’t like it.
- California mandates indoctrinating hotel workers as anti-whore snitches.
- Burying government in lawsuits is the only way to slow its depredations.
- Christian religious nuts are now being accused of being “sex traffickers”.
- 4% of all humans per decade magically vanish without anyone noticing.
- I’ve never seen anything galvanize support for sex workers like FOSTA.
- The result of non-binding “policies” that leave oppressive laws in place.
- Cops are increasingly being forced to deny “sex trafficking” scary tales.
- Nutritionists aren’t “scientists”, because nutritionism is pseudoscience.
- Nigerian sex trafficking juju mafia terrorists. I am not making this up.
- Alabama “licensed massage therapists” emulate California pomposity.
- Where “public safety” means “accessibility to government snooping”.
- Those who gain power from opioid hysteria aren’t going to like this.
- Whores are not only the new drugs; we’re also the new “terrorism”.
- At least politicians correctly classified the dolls as “arcade games”.
- Please tell us more about how legalization “protects” sex workers.
- The “Nigerian sex slaves” wanking fantasy has crossed the Alps.
- Puritans argue that a federal court ruling doesn’t apply to them.
- UK judge says only “good” women should be protected by laws.
- Interesting buried detail: she’s a cop herself. Birds of a feather…
- A game to teach pigs racist fantasies about Asian sex workers.
- Yes, this really is as stupid and evil as it seems at first glance.
- Another of those nonexistent false sexual assault accusations.
- 19th-century whore stigma is still hurting Indian sex workers.
- As I keep saying, it’s already far too late to stop this tyranny.
- Cops, racism, Venezuela, Barbara Stanwyck and much more.
- It’s good to see so many challenges to these medieval laws.
- Cops, power-madness, toys, Ginger Baker, and much more.
- Costumes and fancy titles do not negate individual consent.
- No, it’s almost wholly to blame. As we warned it would be.
- Real pimp decides to ape prohibitionist wanking fantasies.
- How can I help my partner see that my work is just work?
- The deeply-unpleasant end of my residency in Oklahoma.
- Anything that helps demystify sex work is a good thing.
- Still believe that Nevada politicians are pro-sex work?
- Surveillance beyond the wildest dreams of the Stasi.
- Another slap on the wrist for a sexually-entitled cop.
- I wonder if they realize what they’re admitting here?
- China’s campaign to exterminate the Uighur people.
- Jailers pretend “concerns” and shed crocodile tears.
- Texas especially loves the “Facebook pimps” myth.
- What really goes on in Seattle’s “john school”?
- Why it’s a bad idea to quit sex work for “love”.
- Improving the accuracy of facial recognition.
- Making friends with Liz Brown’s cat, Esme.
- Isn’t faking orgasms counterproductive?
- Good news about the FOSTA challenge.
- Cops being humiliated is always funny.
- More yellow journalism from the BBC.
- We’re way past the watershed now.
- News from Snake Mama.
- Rapist cop of the week.