TRIGGER WARNING, because here is a US Marshal from Trump‘s Gestapo Force in Memphis kicking a puppy today in the Whitehaven neighborhood and breaking its rib. They were serving a warrant and I guess BIG MAN got scared of the schnauzer. (I didn’t take the video, the dog’s person did)

the Spectator accidentally recycled a subhed from a previous day’s article about Tehran

Richard Dawkins. Steven Pinker. Lawrence Krauss. Jonathan Haidt. Robert Trivers. Prominent atheists and scientists who have pushed anti-trans propaganda for years. They all had ties to Jeffrey Epstein. Some received huge research grants and island trips, and all of them benefited from their ties.

cannot possibly convey how actually crazy-making it can feel, after spending 20 years monitoring all these orgs blaming sex workers and the internet for enabling a vast sex trafficking network, to now see Jeffery Epstein’s inbox

Name them shame them

A conservative Utah lawmaker is trying to raise taxes on people who consume porn. HB73 would force Utahns to pay a special 7% tax — on top of sales tax — for every fan site subscription, camming tip, clip download or other purchase of "material harmful to minors."

oh wait so you're telling me we can just defund DHS by not agreeing to anything

HB 2589 passed out of Judiciary committee this morning, on a 6-3 vote. Despite dozens of people testifying about the real threat of arrest, all Republicans on the panel voted in favor.

“Funnily enough, I published this in The Free Press, which specializes in moral panics!”

Utah legislator: "We're not targeting any performers because we're not adding anything, we're separating lewdness from pornography." Translation: "We're now criminalizing 'lewdness' as well as 'pornography'"

TN is considering a new bill that allows parents to sue large platforms that allow "material harmful to minors"— including sculpture, drawings, photos, music or video games— that describe or depict nudity, sex or "excessive violence" The censorship that started with "porn" is coming for everything.

I think the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs just suggested Elon Musk is a pedo.

I wish Elle Fanning playing an adult content creator didn't fill me with dread but the series is called "Margo's Got Money Troubles" so

A new Arizona bill gives cops the power to arrest parents who let their children watch a drag show. A violation of HB2589 could result in a felony charge with up to three years in prison.

Hmmm. ICE might be breaking for the FRC. The right-wing "Family Research Council" has bombarded me with screeds attacking everything from high taxes to IVF to food stamps (all in the name of Jesus, and Trump), but is suddenly very equivocal on Minnesota.

France becomes the latest country to float severe VPN restrictions in order to "fix" a bad age-verification law. VPN bans and other privacy restrictions aren't incidental to authoritarianism, they're a a critical component in their formation.

“When you’re a star, they let you do it. You can do anything.”

As I’ve learned the hard way with the First Amendment, there are a stunning number of constitutional lawyers who absolutely HATE constitutional protections. Their expertise is finding loopholes, vagaries and exceptions to the constitution, not strengthening it.

“French cybercrime authorities searched the offices of Elon Musk's X in Paris on Tuesday as they investigate the company on suspicion of illegal harvesting of data and complicity in the possession or distribution of child pornography.”

telling my doctor I want the gun tits from the Austin Powers movie so I can lead the sexiest revolution of all time

hear that? it's the silence of Republican lawmakers who spent the last bunch of years pretending to be "First Amendment absolutists" when they got mad about specific content moderation decisions made by private platforms

Masturbation is normal. The obsession that 'purity cultures' have with it, are not normal.

Audre Lorde, in a 1989 commencement address, said, "Remember this, despair is a tool of your enemies. That rumor, 'You can’t fight City Hall,' is circulated by City Hall. Facing the realities of our lives gives us the motivation for action, it gives us the power to change. You are not powerless."

The ruling class has never hated sex or sexuality or porn, they just want complete iron-fisted control over it which means no one involved in it gets to have personal or bodily autonomy

Declaring "my pronouns are 'masculine male'' really get this guy soooooclose www.legistorm.com/person/bio/3...

Beginning to think these PETA campaigns are just a psyop from the Beef Council

“Joe Rigney, one of Cities Church’s founders, has recently become a MAGA media darling because he, along with podcaster Allie Beth Stuckey, has been pushing the idea that empathy is a sin.”

Whitney Cummings got hired to an adult industry award show in, I don’t know, maybe 2014 and all I remember is her making shitty demeaning jokes about sex workers … to an audience to sex workers. It was surreal

Me: If I post any NSFW art I might lose job opportunities or even have my payment methods or bank accounts frozen Every third dude in politics and tech: Hello Mister Pedophile may I request passage to Nubile Redhead Beach it seemed ever so interesting. Best Regards Jeffrey Epstein: yea h / .,

OnlyFans is in talks to sell a 60% stake in the company to Architect Capital, a San Francisco private equity firm that reportedly sees value in "underbanked" creators, believing the company could go public as soon as 2028.

"Hitting cinemas as the streets remain filled with the angry and grieving – the country on the verge of an irreparable schism – the vulgar, gilded lifestyle of the Trumps makes them look like Marie Antoinette skulking in her cake-filled chateau, or Hermann Göring’s staring up at his looted Monet."

omg. Musk to Epstein: "The world needs more romance."

Hard to express how dangerous this is, and how intimately linked it is to the "age-verification" law being passed at the state level. Endless opportunities for censors to bring you into court, harass you, drain your resources, and little you can do but spend money to fight it.

“Private companies have been deputized to decide how we can earn and spend our money," says MacDonald, referring to banks, payment processors, and card networks. "Anyone who is ideologically misaligned with any of these companies faces the risk of losing their livelihood”

Sex Workers Against Fascism

Florida is at it again, quickly advancing a bill to make it easier for religious parents to pull books off library shelves if they talk about sex or nudity — even literary classics. Censors say the current law is too vague, by which they mean they aren't getting the results they want.

Heritage Foundation, Focus on the Family, FRC and a host of other groups just launched a broadside campaign against marriage equality, saying that Obergefell is, wait for it ... "harmful to children."

Exodus Cry is hosting a $300 a ticket gala at the Dana Point Ritz. Because nothing says "I care about exploited" than a faith-based anti-sex work group throwing a party at one of the most expensive hotels in the world. In an authoritarian moment, censorship really pays!

Uh, there are PLENTY of free vpns, not to mention those that come pre-installed on your phones or browsers. A 2023 report from Common Sense Media found that 41% of middle-schoolers already use them. Unfortunately, "free" can comes with a cost, including weak privacy and sales of data.

Antiporners like Gail Dines are so invested in age-verification that they refuse to acknowledge how flawed they are. This paragraph is one unsupported fact another, with no citations or evidence. And it concludes with "and you shouldn't worry about privacy because porn sites are bad"

"When an internet policy can be avoided by a relatively common technology that often provides significant privacy and security benefits, maybe the policy is the problem."

“My husband a great unifier, but unfortunately there are a lot of people who are refusing to be unified, so that’s the real problem” (New documentary out on World’s Greatest Logician)

Kansas just passed a monstrous bill enabling criminal penalties and vigilante lawsuits for trans people using the bathroom according to their gender identity and requires them to surrender their current drivers licenses and birth certificates if it does not match their sex assigned at birth.

"The conditions in this facility are absolutely abysmal. They mix baby formula with water that is putrid. The food has bugs in it. One of my clients had appendicitis, collapsed in the hallway, was vomiting from pain, and the officials told him, take a Tylenol"

Smol bean censorship: the state can cut off healthcare, chase you out of school or throw you in jail for going into the wrong bathroom ... but the really scary people are librarians

Most of the remaining independent theaters were, in the 70s and 80s, adult theaters. LA's New Beverly is embracing that history by committing its entire February to showing the classics, from Emmanuelle and Inga to Flesh Gordon. Amazing.

The failure of age-verification laws is now turning into a War on VPNs. The British government and a number of US states are now proposing that VPNs be banned entirely, or only accessible to those who have surrendered to facial scans, ID check and other identity verification.

OFCOM's age-verification protocols have become unworkable for many platforms with adult content, many of whom are now blocking countries entirely. One problem? Brits are not complying with the biometrics and face scans and are instead going to VPNs or non-compliant sites outside the country.

The key phrase here is "... and stop censoring conservatives" As with the cry "Don't Tread on Me," they're not advocating for anti-censorship for everyone. Just them. Don't fall for it.