Cue the spooky music...Halloween is here! This is the time of the year that I reflect on how quick kids grow up. Mine have been out of the house for years. One isn't even in this country. I miss doing all the holiday things with them. Grateful for friends and their kids!

FFS

Well this is happening. I got some distance and I'm ready to unpack Alaska's most recent serial killer, Brian Steven Smith >>although they haven't charged him for the others!<< Let's pull the thread. The Harm Done Substack and companion podcast. substack.com/@amberbatts/...

Get tickets! This will be really interesting! Join Community United for Safety and Protection (CUSP) for an engaging evening of films, history, fundraising, and conversation. cuspoctober2025.eventbrite.com

One was beaten unconscious. Others were covered in bruises, struggling to walk or vomiting blood. Another said he’d been sexually assaulted. These are the stories of 16 former detainees who were deported to El Salvador’s mega prison.

I'm back after walking Camino. Leon to Santiago de Compostela. A much needed time to let this last 18 months shake out and replenish my soul. "Sometimes the hardest trail to take is the one where you let it be easier." amberbatts.com/2025/07/25/5...

Listened to this podcast earlier because of a recommendation. If you're not sick of hearing about the Brian Steven Smith case, BS, take a listen tell me what you think. shows.acast.com/casefile-tru...

Looks like PDX is still a Cease It city, and another sting just happened. The DA is fully on board with this - and gets a lot of support from non-profits like Safety Compass. Check out the names on this list. www.portland.gov/police/news/...

Migrant sex workers are harmed daily by criminalization, racial profiling, surveillance, over policing, stigmatization, and in this case a Portland reporter who's been sitting in parking lots of massage parlors to watch men go in and out. www.wweek.com/news/2024/09...

Portland cops continue to use failed "End Demand" ops to target mostly Hispanic men. 13 sex workers, who are referred to as "providers", were ID'd. NO TRAFFICKING www.portlandoregon.gov/police/news/...

Did Rep. Sarah Vance really just ask if there are any notable Hispanics in Alaska? I heard it loud and clear. This kind of erasure is unacceptable. Let’s show her just how notable our community is. Give her a call: 907-465-2689 Let her know your name, your story, and why you matter.

10 years ago, I was behind bars, serving six and a half years. My cellie Donna and I would watch TV in the evening and one night we watched Rick Steves Europe and he featured the Camino de Santiago.

How do police officers find images like these on a man's phone WHEN THEY ARE ARRESTING HIM FOR MURDER and do nothing? Imagine these images unaltered. Because I don't have to, I found them tucked into a filing before sentencing. amberbatts.com/2024/09/13/5...

This is a violation of the first amendment.

Kathleen’s Law has sponsorship!! Alaska's current law lacks accountability and obligations for witnesses to report violent crimes.

This post is something I've wanted to say but was too afraid or embarrassed. His name is Ilalio “Numi” Funumiai Jr. He was a sergent at the halfway house in Juneau, Alaska who sexually assaulted me. He was never held accountable.

Alaska House bill raises concerns about transparency, necessity of the trafficking council, writes Amber Batts, @amberbatts.bsky.social, in a commentary for @alaskabeacon.com: alaskabeacon.com/2025/03/28/a... #akleg

Hey everyone, let's talk about an important issue in Alaska and a proposed law change called Kathleen's Law. 🧵

The decision to abolish Native American Heritage Month in the military is nothing short of a slap in the face to the thousands of Native soldiers who have fought and died for a country that still refuses to respect them. It sends a clear message. amberbatts.com/2025/02/04/d...

Still perpetrating more harm and conflating sex work with actual sex trafficking. youtu.be/PW7lhVfs1Qo?...

Alaskans, did you think you were getting a Begich? Because you are getting a Floridian...

I often look up Alaska court cases charged. And when I want to be consumed by by frustration, I look up Alaska court cases disposed. As a formally incarcerated woman in Alaska, seeing charges like this dismissed while I sat in jail with women in for non-violent crimes, disgusts me.

All my heroes have FBI files.

Disappointed in McDonalds. Don't their employees feel like they are on the fringes of society, a puppet to capitalism, or is that just every other hourly worker (plus more) in the USA?

Winnie the Pooh and Piglet, too, says...Fuck this shit...

Please join us on ZOOM for the December 17 2024 International Day to End Violence against Sex Workers! Registration is open! Please share with sex workers and sex worker groups! www.eventbrite.com/e/december-1... #IDEVAS #D17 #IDEVAS24

The Anchorage Assembly gave a grant to MASH Property Management, operated by Mark Begich, to operate up to 132 beds. This is big money, in the hands politicians profiting on the unhoused problem. @kylehopkmustreadalaska.com @anchoragedailynews.bsky.social mustreadalaska.com/anchorage-asse…

#december17 #idevas #idevas24 #D17 #COYOTERI #SEXWORKERS #INTERNATIONALDAYTOENDVIOLENCEAGAINSTSEXWORKERS

I am happy to share the COYOTE RI registration flyer for the December 17 2024 International Day to End Violence against Sex Workers! Registration is open! Please share with sex workers and sex worker groups! www.eventbrite.com/e/december-1...

I took a picture of this amazing art piece in the ARTS building at UAA last Wednesday. It is huge, and from someone taking a class there. I wish their name or initials were on here so I could give them credit. It is stunning.

I just got a text from my son who is having a mental health episode with suicide plans. You know what my first thought is? Call 911. But I won't. They shoot people here in Anchorage. The police don't help.

You wouldn't last an hour in the asylum where they raised me... This place was a regular school field trip location when I was growing up. I still remember the smell. Curious, where were your school field trips?

When I'm feeling depressed I just imagine the unhappy, miserable haters picking fights in the schoolyard of X. What happens when only bullies are left? Do they turn on each other. I'm not staying around to watch that show.

This is Meatball. He's going home for the very first time. So excited to have a human of his own. Thinking about what he's going to call you. Maybe Bob. 12/10

Long ass🧵 When I was 15 I was in a drug alcohol treatment center in Bothell Washington >Milam Lakeside< I met some of the most amazing people, and being from a small town in Alaska whenever we would go to meetings I felt like I was in the big city. 1/6

Just blocked me first rando troll. Byeeeee...

Here with me!

Purtiest doggo...

I share this in case anyone else is out there wondering if it’s okay to confront what has us wounded, and my answer to that is, it is if you need it to be. amberbatts.com/2019/03/23/c...

Criminalizing clients obstructs the ability to report potential instances of sex trafficking to law enforcement authorities. That doesn’t make sense, does it? amberbatts.com/2023/06/22/c...

Sex workers are HEROS! amberbatts.com/2024/08/07/i...

My account is a safe space for black women, black men, the lgbtq community, sex workers, people with disabilities, ANYONE! You’re all amazing and I love yall ❤️

Another reason to stop undercover vice stings: cops won't stop coercing and assaulting sex workers reason.com/2024/11/13/t...

First Blue Sky post...