Links #554

By Maggiemcneill @Maggie_McNeill

I can’t breathe.  –  Rilee Peet

Mary Wilson of the Supremes died last week; I’ve selected this TV video from 1969 because it begins with a solo by her.  The links above it were provided by Radley Balko, The H.P. Lovecraft Historical Society, Elizabeth N. Brown, Nun Ya, Mike Siegel, and Jesse Walker, in that order.

From the Archives

  • They actually admit part of the point is to normalize constant surveillance.
  • One day, reporters will get that “People Work To Make Money” isn’t news.
  • How many kids need to be sacrificed to this obscenity before it’s enough?
  • More European government humanitarianism to “fight human trafficking”.
  • Busloads of yokels gawk at street workers and the outsides of strip clubs.
  • “Cuckoo Clock” McCain’s creepy, racist BDSM fantasies are out of control.
  • Summer Stephan touts her personal animus against whores as “concern”.
  • Utah politician thinks he’s discovered a way around the First Amendment.
  • To flush civil rights, just apply a label like “prostitute” or “gang member”.
  • The Miami Herald‘s Chicken Licken act is at the center of this debunking.
  • Some companies want to destroy the internet to gain a temporary edge.
  • “The increase…is so small…it is unlikely to be relevant for the individual“.
  • Redbridge has a history of harassing sex workers with “crime” rhetoric.
  • Some states want to stop cops from raping; Florida pays them to rape.
  • As the myth implodes, you’ll see more rats deserting this sinking ship.
  • Nobody will be safe until this odious practice is ruled unconstitutional.
  • The hotel industry is really going to regret collaborating with fanatics.
  • If a non-cop had done this, he’d be facing “sex offender” registration.
  • Everett, WA still claims that “women who dress like sluts cause rape”.
  • Lawsuits are for the present our best weapon against prohibitionists.
  • Indian sex workers chip away at agency-negating prohibitionist lies.
  • Liz Brown takes a deep dive into hotel “sex trafficking” surveillance.
  • They didn’t refuse on principle, but rather on a warrant technicality.
  • This does a good job of synopsizing my discomfort with The Deuce.
  • The ongoing racist government campaign against massage parlors.
  • “Please, masters, don’t use our tool as it was designed to be used”.
  • Men who seek consensual sex are “criminals with a sick mentality”.
  • Seattle’s vocal harm magnification community is still going strong.
  • The more sex workers come out like this, the better for everyone.
  • That word appears only in a tag hidden way down at the bottom.
  • The villains here are politicians, not imaginary “trafficking rings”.
  • One day, reporters will get that “people sublet flats” isn’t news.
  • Not a bad article about “signs of sex trafficking” indocrination.
  • Any new technology which can be used to spy on you, will be.
  • Sounds like somebody needs therapy, but it ain’t the clients.
  • People’s lives are just stakes in a game to these sociopaths.
  • Cops watch racist “virtual reality” porn and call it “training”.
  • Moral panics become increasingly extreme until implosion.
  • Cops, covers, Kirk Douglas, Orson Bean, and much more.
  • Dominique “Body Fluids” Sepowitz’s latest bogus “study”.
  • Another Australian state moves toward decriminalization.
  • Hey, “sex trafficking” fetishists, can we talk for a minute?
  • “Community concerns” is a euphemism for “busybodies”.
  • More on the new organization “Decriminalize Sex Work”.
  • Fascism in action, badly covered by a yellow journalist.
  • Another of those nonexistent false rape accusations.
  • Cops, Florida, nightmares, Klaatu, and much more.
  • I love seeing tyrants hoist with their own petard.
  • What’s the penalty for cops who break this law?
  • My two previous columns for Valentine’s Day.
  • Eros Guide, Erotic Monkey, and David Azzato.
  • Another week that’s chock full of rapist cops.
  • When it snows in Seattle, everything stops.
  • Kaytlin Bailey responds to invented drama.
  • Yet another crappy “Uber for escorts” app.
  • Analyzing the damage inflicted by FOSTA.
  • Every debunking of anti-whore BS helps.
  • The winner’s of Slixa’s essay contest.
  • I now have so many things to sell!