How is this a real story, and who is turning it into a musical ASAP? www.bbc.com/news/article...

The Department of Education, led by the wife of a former head of the WWE, has declared nursing to no longer be a professional degree. It’s a war on so called women dominated professions It’s also devastating for the disability community We need nurses They’re an invaluable part of the care team

If you are watching NC’s incredible resistance against ICE with awe (possibly with surprise because you think we’re all right wing hillbillies) donate to Siembra NC. They’re the ones providing specific ICE resistance trainings to community members. secure.actblue.com/donate/siemb...

Delighted to co-author this piece urging the de-silo-ing of anti-trafficking work, & genuine solidarity with grassroots movements.

Despite huge sums spent on anti-trafficking, there are staggeringly few evaluations of interventions & growing evidence of harms caused. This new edited book with @uclpress.bsky.social is our attempt to help change that. 1/ Open access with free digital downloads: uclpress.co.uk/book/evaluat...

Excited to see this published: peer reviewed publication on trafficking survivors’ experiences with journalists. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

It’s almost like they knew this would happen. The cruelty is the point.

Canada’s Supreme Court ruled to uphold laws criminalizing sex work, ignoring voices of 23 sex worker-led and migrant advocacy groups. The ruling perpetuates unsafe conditions, isolates workers, and reinforces vulnerability to abuse and exploitation. www.freedomunited.org/news/canadas...

Searched on Google for @drewkadel.bsky.social’s new book to snag the link, & Google AI was very helpful in reassuring me that I should not literally try to baptize a whale.

If you aren’t fond of authoritarianism, a great place to start thwarting it is your local police force. You will likely discover it is the top publicly funded vehicle for fascism in your city.

This is not the behavior of a civilized democracy.

7. Our demands are moral, just & reasonable. The Times could enact them TODAY! There’s no reason not publish in @theintercept.com @mondoweiss.net @literaryhub.bsky.social @thenation.com & other places which are not prone to genocide peddling nor to publishing shoddy investigations (ie “Screams”)

Meanwhile my friends in government don’t have their paychecks and there’s moms in the local Buy Nothing group asking for formula and diapers because their WIC stopped

Nothing quite like having a court-ordered name change and Cashapp replying to every attempt I make to update my name with a request for a divorce decree. It doesn't matter how many times I tell them it was a court-ordered name change and not via divorce decree. Fucking wild.

Holy shit go off John Oliver youtu.be/gieTx_P6INQ?...

“Western theorists and researchers consistently conflated indigenous peoples with past peoples; to journey to Africa or to the Americas or to the Pacific Islands was to go backwards in time, sailing towards the origin of humanity.” Great piece worth a read.

The EU has a secret weapon to counter Trump’s economic bullying. It’s time to use it | Johnny Ryan

Free and fair elections are really not something I would be betting on for 26 and the republicans are saying out loud why. Because they are already doing the open planning for election interference and sham election result

"the imperial need for control is so desperate because it's so unnatural. It breaks, it leaks. Tyranny demands constant effort."

Anyway, learning another language is good for you because you die a thousand deaths of embarrassment and then you come out more humble and even more aware of your various human failings

The biggest obstacle to learning a foreign language as an adult is accepting how stupid you will feel, in public, with other people. If you can move through that you can do anything

Am I more interested in hearing Trump tell other countries how to do their governance, address human rights, or navigate peace?

My main observation from the last few hours of monitoring US social media is that Democrats are universally denouncing political violence and calling for calm while MAGA are escalating language and openly lusting for retribution against broad categories of people they identity as their enemies.

📢 NEW EVENT: On Weds, July 23, join us for an honest & shocking conversation, exposing one of the most uncomfortable truths of our time: state trafficking. It’s time to challenge the myth that trafficking is only the domain of criminals and rogue states. Register: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

I also resent that air is given to the idea that accepting a $30 article rate is stabbing other writers in the back. One cannot make that claim without stressing the unique reason why ie a trans woman might be pressured to take such low-paying work. I just think this is an uncharitable read on us

Yikes.

Again, think about what would need to be in those files for this to be Republicans' least bad option.

I was recently at a conference where people were promoting the idea of establishing NRMs everywhere. Clean your own house first, friends.

When immigration policy ignores labour realities, it doesn’t end exploitation; it enables it. Read our analysis of the implementation of the Immigration White paper, planned for 22 July, and what this means for labour exploitation, here 👇

This interview’s so sharp on precarious funding, systemic injustice in anti-trafficking & disconnects with community realities. Real privilege to speak with @christianashnc.bsky.social @kiconco.bsky.social & Sophie Otiende & hear their critiques & alternative visions. @beyondslavery.bsky.social

The federal attack on trans people continues, and it has real life consequences. I am heartbroken. #ncpol amp.newsobserver.com/news/politic...

This is very bad. cc @dreanyc123.bsky.social share.inquirer.com/TlioRI [gift link]

Me at UN security pulling devices out of my bag like Mary Poppins.

We are hiring a research coordinator position! Lived experience preferred but not required. jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/gerassi...

One of my 18-year-olds, watching my toddler jam out to the music: “yep, Kendrick Lamar is one of the greats.” Toddler: “Elmo.” Teen: “Elmo is one of the greats too?” Toddler: *signs yes*

Allegations in the P. Diddy trial reveal how trafficking can involve emotional control and manipulation, helping victims recognize signs of exploitation that don’t fit the usual Hollywood stereotypes. www.freedomunited.or...

What it’s like dealing with me…

And now the ABSOLUTELY SHAMELESS Safe House Project have created an app to “compete” with the hotline but that reports to cops with or without survivor consent, setting themselves up for a bid for the hotline grant. www.theblaze.com/news/exclusi... One big long con.

I'm an NC resident, a survivor of HT, former Chair of the U.S. Advisory Council on Human Trafficking, & a globally-known expert on HT, and my heart was CRUSHED today when someone shared with me that the otherwise solid @jeffjacksonnc.bsky.social joined a push to turn the HT hotline into a tipline.

Expelling the press in order to arrest peaceful protesters isn't a good sign.

BREAKING: Police just surrounded Rev. William Barber, prominent activist and pastor, as he and others prayed in the U.S. Capitol Rontunda. Police then expelled everyone (including press!) from the Rotunda to (presumably) arrest them. I've covered protests here a lot. Never seen anything like it.

When Bondi says funding national listening sessions for people with lived experience is “wasteful,” what she’s saying is that she doesn’t care what survivors need. She thinks DOGE knows better than survivors what services and prevention are important. christianash.com/human-traffi...

"The National Museum of African American History and Culture is not a place that traffics in improper ideology," Clint Smith writes. "It is a museum that recognizes that America has been suffused in improper ideologies for most of its history." https://theatln.tc/81hXXEqK

If someone is arguing against due process, just ask them if they believe someone is innocent until proven guilty. It's the same thing.

A Border Patrol official arrested a 19 yo citizen from Albuquerque in Arizona who didn’t have ID on him, claimed he ‘admitted’ to illegally crossing the border, abducted + ICE imprisoned him for 10 days, and would have deported him to Mexico if his family hadn’t tracked him down and provided his ID.

“Nearly 6,000 people choosing not to be referred for statutory support is very concerning and shows a system that has long been stretched and under pressure." @guardian on modern slavery survivors refusing referral for support and identification www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

Every senator and member of Congress should immediately and voluntarily disclose any stock, bond, or similar trades they have made in the last ten days.