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@MichaelEllsberg
Michael Ellsberg
2 months
My girlfriend asked me to roast her for her birthday in front of all her friends. I accepted the challenge... (Stand-Up Comedy)
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@MichaelEllsberg
Michael Ellsberg
3 months
My father would have cried tears of joy today--I wish he'd lived an extra year to see this and to give Julian a hug. Blessings to the Assange family. Here is Daniel's final interview on Assange, with @kgosztola , 3/7/23:
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Stella Assange
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Julian is free!!!! Words cannot express our immense gratitude to YOU- yes YOU, who have all mobilised for years and years to make this come true. THANK YOU. tHANK YOU. THANK YOU. Follow @WikiLeaks for more info soon…
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Michael Ellsberg
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I'm proud of my father- he kicked butt today!
@DanielEllsberg
Daniel Ellsberg (Memorial)
4 years
Recap from @Consortiumnews of my testimony today in the Assange extradition hearing:
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@MichaelEllsberg
Michael Ellsberg
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@BillieRaeBrandt You went out of your way to poke the bear, and now you’re lying, pretending that you didn’t intend the post to be judgmental. Next, you say that the people who judge you back after you judge them are “hypocrites.” Then, after you fucked around and found out, you play the victim
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@MichaelEllsberg
Michael Ellsberg
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Sir, he's advocating a... *multinational agreement* which is enforced by... *force* (the last five letters of the word "enforce"). Not saying I agree or disagree with @ESYudkowsky 's proposal- but you're hysterically calling him out for advocating... *law*.
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mattparlmer 🪐 🌷
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In the past I have given credit where it was due to Eliezer Yudkowsky for not explicitly advocating violent solutions to the problems with AI development that by his own admission only he and a few other (mostly nontechnical) people see on the horizon He crossed that line today
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@MichaelEllsberg
Michael Ellsberg
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@kgosztola (2011, source: )
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@MichaelEllsberg
Michael Ellsberg
6 years
This is a safe space for SW decrim allies. This is an unsafe space for SW prohibitionists/abolitionists.
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@MichaelEllsberg
Michael Ellsberg
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@TylerAlterman I’m at about 90%. I was a sesitive moody/writer/philosopher type boy growing up and never a “guy’s guy.” I found that girls/women accepted me for the things guys judged me for and that I could have deeper conversations with them than I could with most guys. I had to get used to
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@MichaelEllsberg
Michael Ellsberg
3 years
@nytimes @nytopinion - MacKinnon says "Most women enter the sex industry underage." This has been widely debunked, including by @GlennKesslerWP , WaPo Fact Checker, who gave a related claim "4 Pinocchios," his highest rating of falsity. Will you issue a correction?
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@MichaelEllsberg
Michael Ellsberg
5 years
1/ There will always be a demand for food, and for sex. Thus, there will always be demand for food service and agricultural labor, and for sexual labor. Yes, trafficking exists in ALL these industries. The way to stop it is not to try to "end demand" for food or sex (good luck!)
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@MichaelEllsberg
Michael Ellsberg
6 years
@AshleyJudd @RedheadLizzy4 @veritas0731 @KateDAdamo Dear @AshleyJudd - you are telling a number of grown women what their own sexual/consent boundaries are, and then telling them, "No, those aren't actually your own sexual/consent boundaries" when they tell you otherwise. There's a precise term for this: gaslighting.
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@MichaelEllsberg
Michael Ellsberg
6 years
@AshleyJudd @Ruchiragupta @SPACEintl @Embrace_Dignity @GloriaSteinem @apneaap @Polaris_Project @DemandAbolition @CATWIntl @CAPintl @the_wing You don't get to say "There's no such thing as you, your work, your experience, your boundaries, and your voices"... but also "I deeply value dialogue with you." To top it off, you have the gall to say you "love" these women whose chosen careers you are calling to abolish...
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@MichaelEllsberg
Michael Ellsberg
6 years
@NOW_NYC If you actually listened to the sex workers you're claiming to protect, you'd know that decrim is exactly what would allow them more freedom of self-employment, and thus less vulnerable to pimping. You're making SWers less safe. Shame on you. Talk to sex workers and sit down.
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@MichaelEllsberg
Michael Ellsberg
4 months
@victorckumar By your argument, the following intellectuals and creatives would have had more meaningful lives (and the world would have more meaning in it) had they been non-influential parents, rather than influential non-parents: Hans Christian Andersen Susan B. Anthony Louis Armstrong
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@MichaelEllsberg
Michael Ellsberg
6 years
@AshleyJudd @Ruchiragupta @SPACEintl @Embrace_Dignity @GloriaSteinem @apneaap @Polaris_Project @DemandAbolition @CATWIntl @CAPintl @the_wing When you say, in effect, "I deny you have any agency and I want to completely destroy your chosen career and life and erase your own stated sexual boundaries," and also "I love you and respect you," you are strongly gaslighting- in the way abusers do to their victims. STOP IT.
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@MichaelEllsberg
Michael Ellsberg
6 years
Hi @Marriott - should your affirmative response to @amargadaxo 's tweet be taken as a confirmation that you are officially surveilling your solo female guests, and not allowing them to drink alone at bars?
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@MichaelEllsberg
Michael Ellsberg
6 years
@AshleyJudd @Ruchiragupta @SPACEintl @Embrace_Dignity @GloriaSteinem @apneaap @Polaris_Project @DemandAbolition @CATWIntl @CAPintl Now you've gone from being on the wrong side of a policy issue, to being an open liar. No you don't "deeply value" anything regarding the sex worker community. On the contrary, at @the_wing you repeated your SWERF refrain that "There’s no such thing as sex work."
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@MichaelEllsberg
Michael Ellsberg
27 days
@BillieRaeBrandt You thought insulting a bunch of dominatrixes was going to go well for you?
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@MichaelEllsberg
Michael Ellsberg
5 years
@BenjaminNolot Both the sex buyer quoted here and you @BenjaminNolot are assholes. The buyer is, for the obvious reasons in his quote. You are, for pushing prohibitionist policies that make it harder for sex workers to screen and avoid clients like this. All while thinking you're helping.
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@MichaelEllsberg
Michael Ellsberg
2 months
@MeachamDr Yep! Also, let them try to explain Exodus 21! This is the chapter DIRECTLY AFTER the 10 Commandments (Exodus 20), and contains God's moral instructions on selling a daughter into sex slavery.
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@MichaelEllsberg
Michael Ellsberg
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@SummerHartxxx Yikes! Just read the bill. It's so fucked on so many levels.... One crazy aspect of it (among many) is that, in addition to grinding all porn production to a halt (bad enough), it would also grind any PG-13/R-rated movie/TV productions with any nudity to a halt. Specifically,
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@MichaelEllsberg
Michael Ellsberg
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Age 6, at the Lawrence Livermore nuclear weapons lab, as my parents were in Santa Rita jail after participating in the 1983 Hands Around Livermore action to protest the MX Missile.
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@MichaelEllsberg
Michael Ellsberg
5 years
@KarinDianeRyan . @CarterCenter 's @KarinDianeRyan says FOSTA doesn't harm sex workers. Sex workers loudly disagree. She says any woman who disagrees with her views of their own experience is being funded by men. This is what a woman who hates sex workers looks likes. Shame on you Carter Center.
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@MichaelEllsberg
Michael Ellsberg
1 year
A Letter to My Father:
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@MichaelEllsberg
Michael Ellsberg
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UW regent Karen (lol) Walsh said she was "disgusted" by UW chancellor Joe Gow making porn with his wife Carmen Wilson under the moniker @SexyHappyCouple . What's so disgusting? I checked out their videos (they posted them on PH- links in the thread below). This is a couple in
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@MichaelEllsberg
Michael Ellsberg
6 years
@AshleyJudd @RedheadLizzy4 @veritas0731 @KateDAdamo If you don't believe these women when they tell you loudly they are saying YES to certain things, then you are disbelieving them when they tell you they do in fact have NOs that are different than the ones you're gaslighting and slut-shaming them into thinking they should have.
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@MichaelEllsberg
Michael Ellsberg
6 years
Why is @AshleyJudd silent about International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers? Because she's against anything with SW in the title. She believes "SW doesn't exist" and "SW is neither." In other words, Judd PERPETUATES violence against SWers via her silencing. #IDEVASW
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@MichaelEllsberg
Michael Ellsberg
6 years
Furthermore, @marriott , is your policy now to proactively report adult guests suspected of consensual escorting to authorities? If so, why are you wrapping that policy up in the language of "trafficking," given that slavery and consensual sex are two very different things?
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@MichaelEllsberg
Michael Ellsberg
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My father Daniel died one year ago today, on what is (today) Father's Day. I miss you Dad. You taught me so many things. You loved me in ways that were perfect for the man I became. Below is the eulogy I gave to my father, during the online memorial/celebration of his life, on
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@MichaelEllsberg
Michael Ellsberg
6 years
We just gained an anti-FOSTA voice in US Congress! Congratulations @Ocasio2018 ! "'It is important that we make a clear distinction between sex work and human trafficking,' said Daniel Bonthius, a spokesman for Ocasio-Cortez."
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@MichaelEllsberg
Michael Ellsberg
3 years
@nytimes @nytopinion @GlennKesslerWP The claim doesn't remotely pass the sniff test. The sex industry includes stripping, porn and camming, all legal and highly regulated in US, requiring IDs (and for porn) 2257 forms. Zero chance "most" women in these fields enter underage. Total BS.
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@MichaelEllsberg
Michael Ellsberg
6 years
Why do most women on this thread disagree with you? Do they all have "false consciousness"? Maybe what's really incompatible with equality is people like you telling grown women what they can and can't do with their own bodies and sexuality.
@meggiewalk
Megan Walker 🐝
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@NOW_NYC Prostitution is incompatible with women’s equality and human rights. @endwomanabuse from London, Ontario Canada 🇨🇦 is proud to join you in opposing the decriminalization of pimps, brothel owners and sexually purchasers. #EndDemand #listentosurvivors
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@MichaelEllsberg
Michael Ellsberg
3 years
@DrJessTaylor Data showing that porn performers have a higher mortality rate? Sample size? Methodology? Peer review?
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@MichaelEllsberg
Michael Ellsberg
5 years
4/ And if you're a prohibitionist who believes exchanging money for labor "coerces" consent, stop moralistically singling out sex workers as the only laborers subject to this dynamic; put your effort instead towards UBI, which will make ALL labor less coerced by financial need.
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@MichaelEllsberg
Michael Ellsberg
6 years
@AshleyJudd Hundreds of sex workers just spent hundreds of hours of emotional labor educating you about their ACTUAL experiences (rather than your gross "orifice" slur of their work)- and your response is that they shouldn't even be able to work at all? How dare you. #AshleyJuddIsCancelled
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@MichaelEllsberg
Michael Ellsberg
6 years
@OnPointRadio @ohitchcock Sort of like- “I think the term ‘marital sex’ is a euphemism. When you introduce an influencer as powerful as an engagement ring and a home, consent is no longer there.” People consent to sex for all sorts of reasons. Money is one of them. Let people be.
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@MichaelEllsberg
Michael Ellsberg
6 years
And if so, are you aware that you are threatening guests suspected of a consensual sex between adults, with being accused of facilitating slavery? Is that your official policy?
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@MichaelEllsberg
Michael Ellsberg
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@themayamorena @AlexiAshe . @alexiashe you do realize that what you're doing here is attempting to define another woman's sexual boundaries for her? If you truly believe "No means no," then you also have to believe her when a woman says "Yes means yes." 2/
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@MichaelEllsberg
Michael Ellsberg
5 years
Responding to SW activist @themayamorena 's critique of @AlexiAshe 's misguided support for the Nordic model, Ashe watched a porn clip of Morena performing receptive anal sex, and referred to it as Maya getting "anally raped." 1/
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@MichaelEllsberg
Michael Ellsberg
6 years
CA Senate committee votes tomorrow on #SB1204 - this criminalizes speech that "encourages" sex work. This is a First Amendment travesty- if you are in CA call your senators today/tonight. Details here:
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@MichaelEllsberg
Michael Ellsberg
6 years
Californians! Today is your last day to call state senators and tell them to vote NO on SB 1204- which criminalizes speech that "encourages" sex work- a free speech disaster. Here are the reasons, and calling info:
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@MichaelEllsberg
Michael Ellsberg
5 years
3/ ACTUAL trafficking (labor resulting from "force, fraud or coercion"), which is ALREADY illegal. Nordic model and criminalization are massive, wasteful, and unjust distractions and diversions from the actual problem and actual solutions.
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@MichaelEllsberg
Michael Ellsberg
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@sethmeyers @InStyle @AlexiAshe @NoBuyerNoPimpNY Headline: rich famous white couple try to cut off the source of income of thousands of poorer and darker-skinned women, call it "feminism."
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@MichaelEllsberg
Michael Ellsberg
5 years
@themayamorena @AlexiAshe There's a term for claiming that a woman's own stated sex boundaries are not in fact her boundaries: gaslighting. Worse, as a white woman you are yet again gaslighting a woman of color's experience, attempting to define it for her- while falsely claiming to advocate for her. 3/
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@MichaelEllsberg
Michael Ellsberg
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@LailaMickelwait And if you give SWers 3 choices: “(1) no money, no sex, (2) money, sex, or (3) less money for 10X hours at Walmart” usually they choose (2). Why? Because this is how they choose to make their living. Why is this so hard for Christians and SWERFs to get?
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@MichaelEllsberg
Michael Ellsberg
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@BillieRaeBrandt You thought insulting a bunch of dominatrixes on Twitter was going to go well for you?
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@MichaelEllsberg
Michael Ellsberg
6 years
Hey @AshleyJudd - you said all sex work is “paid rape.” If you’re serious about that position, why don’t you say it to @TheMercedesXXX ’s face?
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Mercedes Carrera
6 years
Dear @AshleyJudd , I would like to invite you to debate me on the merits & nature of sex work both historically & currently. It can be live streamed & professionally broadcast, & any proceeds can be donated to a reputable #veterans shelter or charity. Have your people contact me.
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@MichaelEllsberg
Michael Ellsberg
5 years
2/ Nor to surveil and jail willing restaurateurs, waiters, busboys, farmers, farmhands, or sex workers. The way to stop trafficking in these industries is to stop putting massive resources into "end demand" (arresting customers) or arresting workers, and instead focus on stopping
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@MichaelEllsberg
Michael Ellsberg
6 years
@AshleyJudd @raptonesf I have no judgment of you doing soft-core porn in Hollywood films. But I do have a judgment of you doing that, and then telling other grown women that they're not capable of monetizing their own sexuality however they see fit without being victims.
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@MichaelEllsberg
Michael Ellsberg
3 years
@nytimes @nytopinion @GlennKesslerWP Hey MacKinnon- OnlyFans has given out $5B to creators, mostly women, much during the pandemic. What do you think women sex workers would rather have during the pandemic- billions of $ or your patronizing, condescending, wildly insulting moralizing?
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@MichaelEllsberg
Michael Ellsberg
4 years
Thank you for giving me the interview @elizaorlins .
@elizaorlins
Eliza Orlins
4 years
Sex work is work. Full stop. Today, I announced the bold steps I will take as Manhattan DA to decriminalize sex work and make our criminal legal system more equitable for all. Read my interview with @MichaelEllsberg here:
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Michael Ellsberg
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We in/around the adult industry need to follow the @girlsdoporn case, call out this evil company for its horrendous abuse, and support the victims. (Thank you @eyecantina for this informative and eye-popping article in @XBIZ )
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@MichaelEllsberg
Michael Ellsberg
6 years
If more well-meaning but unskilled men could get some basic sex-ed (and basic-social-skills-ed) like this, from compassionate providers they pay (and treat with respect), I think the world would be a better place.
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@MichaelEllsberg
Michael Ellsberg
5 years
@themayamorena @AlexiAshe @sethmeyers Maybe your position that porn is rape is untenable, and an insult to both rape victims and porn performers. You should know better. Shame on you, gaslighter.
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@MichaelEllsberg
Michael Ellsberg
6 years
@meggiewalk @NOW_NYC @endwomanabuse Why do most women on this thread disagree with you? Do they all have "false consciousness"? Maybe what's really incompatible with equality is people like you telling grown women what they can and can't do with their own bodies and sexuality.
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@MichaelEllsberg
Michael Ellsberg
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@clhubes I am an adult and I actively dislike how parents often try to fill meaning voids in their own lives by creating babies and children, thereby burdening the children with huge existential expectations and condemning the children to later end up needing years of the therapy you
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@MichaelEllsberg
Michael Ellsberg
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@nytimes @nytopinion @GlennKesslerWP No, it's not the "media's insistence" on using the term sex work, it's sex workers who DEMAND the media uses it. The term was coined by @carol_leigh in 1978 precisely to avoid the wildly insulting term SWERFs like you use, "prostituted people," to restore agency. Carol's story:
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@MichaelEllsberg
Michael Ellsberg
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@AshleyJudd @RedheadLizzy4 @veritas0731 @KateDAdamo Hey @AshleyJudd - I hope you read and learn from the SWers replying here- and then send them money, for the emotional labor you're forcing them to do to educate you about their experiences you claim to speak for.
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@MichaelEllsberg
Michael Ellsberg
3 years
I’m happy to be alive at a time when a president of a nation fucked over by the IMF is trolling the IMF on Twitter.
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Nayib Bukele
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@MichaelEllsberg
Michael Ellsberg
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@themayamorena @AlexiAshe Presumably your husband @SethMeyers has watched and masturbated to porn before, as nearly all men have. Per your stated belief that porn is rape, would you like to go on the record stating that your husband has masturbated to videographic evidence of a rape in progress?... Or 4/
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@MichaelEllsberg
Michael Ellsberg
6 years
@Marriott @amargadaxo Furthermore, @marriott , is your policy now to proactively report adult guests suspected of consensual escorting to authorities? If so, why are you wrapping that policy up in the language of "trafficking," given that slavery and consensual sex are two very different things?
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@MichaelEllsberg
Michael Ellsberg
6 years
@Lauren_Steiner @theriotghoul @jennyjenli @DrJillStein This is the essence of SWERFism right here. I've never seen it expressed so clearly: "I'm not judging you- unless you don't REPENT and ADMIT YOUR COMPLICITY IN RAPE CULTURE - in which case I judge the shit out of you." Indistinguishable from Christians demanding SWer repent.
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@MichaelEllsberg
Michael Ellsberg
3 years
This is what all Nordic Model proponents believe. This is the only jackass dumb enough to admit it publicly because it’s such a bad look. But all NM advocates believe it deep down: SWers who don’t wish to exit can go to hell.
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@MichaelEllsberg
Michael Ellsberg
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@AshleyJudd @Ruchiragupta @SPACEintl @Embrace_Dignity @GloriaSteinem @apneaap @Polaris_Project @DemandAbolition @CATWIntl @CAPintl @the_wing You state, falsely, that "I support all women's bodily integrity and sexual autonomy." Unless, with their sexual autonomy, they decide to monetize it the way THEY see fit, rather than the way YOU see fit FOR them- all the while you slut-shame them for doing so.
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@MichaelEllsberg
Michael Ellsberg
4 years
@elizaorlins Thank you for giving me the interview @elizaorlins .
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Michael Ellsberg
4 years
Let us not forget that Karen Bindel here wrote a book "The Pimping of Prostitution" whose thesis is that "sex work doesn't exist." I think a lot of WoC sex workers would be surprised to find out they don't exist. But not surprised to find out another Karen is erasing them.
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Julie Bindel
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Does anyone else think the ‘Karen’ slur is woman hating and based on class prejudice?
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@MichaelEllsberg
Michael Ellsberg
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@bindelj @spectator But I'm sure the grocery workers who have to go outside instead, risking their lives, find their minimum-wage service to you totes empowering.
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Michael Ellsberg
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@thecaptain_nemo GHB is the exact drug you're describing. If you get your dose right, and don't mix it with alcohol or other downers, it's very safe- like a fun cross between alcohol and pot, with a clear head and no hangover. You feel great after. Very aphrodisiac, the ultimate f*ck drug. If
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@MichaelEllsberg
Michael Ellsberg
4 years
Progress in how a mainstream outlet ( @CNN ) covers sex work: - No "fishnets-and-heels" photo - Employs the term "full-service sex work" - Quotes multiple currently-working SWers - Quotes multiple SW activist orgs - Does not conflate SW with trafficking 1/
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@MichaelEllsberg
Michael Ellsberg
5 years
@juniperfitz Thank you. Exactly. SWERFs always say "we need to provide education to SWers so they have alternatives"-- well, there's no more educated than a professor-- and they usually make a pittance compared to SW.
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@MichaelEllsberg
Michael Ellsberg
5 years
@AndrewYang Dear @AndrewYang - you were in the test prep biz. Would you consider it to be "decriminalizing" test prep if the state arrested buyers of test prep? Would you consider it "decriminalizing" test prep workers if they could be arrested for working together under the same roof? 1/
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@MichaelEllsberg
Michael Ellsberg
5 years
@equalitynow @IngeReed 1/ Hey @equalitynow - you don't seem to get that, with arguments like these, you are DIRECTLY promoting the myth that "sex workers can't be raped." If they have no boundaries once money has changed hands (as you state)...
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@MichaelEllsberg
Michael Ellsberg
1 year
@ylecun OK, by that standard, AI optimism is indistinguishable from a utopian religion, complete with prophecies of imminent heaven. Let's just debate each other on the topic itself- calling one side a "religion" is disingenuous as the same can be said right back.
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@MichaelEllsberg
Michael Ellsberg
6 years
Hey @AshleyJudd - now you've gone from being on the wrong side of a policy issue, to being an open liar. No you don't "deeply value" anything regarding the sex worker community. On the contrary, at @the_wing you repeated your SWERF refrain that "There’s no such thing as sex work."
@AshleyJudd
ashley judd
6 years
"I deeply value and am totally open to dialogue and open communication with the sex worker community, and eagerly await hearing back from the activists to whom I have reached out. My full response is below." - Ashley (Thread 1/4)
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@MichaelEllsberg
Michael Ellsberg
6 years
@Marriott @amargadaxo What mechanisms will you have in place to address grievances when your solo female guests have their stays shockingly intruded upon, or reported to police, when falsely suspected of being traffickers, or trafficking victims?
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@MichaelEllsberg
Michael Ellsberg
4 years
Here's the full version of my Daily Beast interview with @MistressSnowPhD . For space, they had to cut large parts of my intro. In the full version below, I go into the horrors of adjunctification in detail, and there are Mistress Snow’s longer answers:
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@MichaelEllsberg
Michael Ellsberg
6 years
@Marriott @amargadaxo If not, what safeguards do you have in place to train employees to spot the difference between adults engaging in consensual sex (which includes exchange of money), and slavery?
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@MichaelEllsberg
Michael Ellsberg
4 years
I’m against facial recognition, so I don’t actually want this, but... part of me wishes there were facial recognition scans of these people, so when they show to the ER in two weeks, overburdened doctos could just say, “L8r!”
@arlenparsa
Arlen Parsa
4 years
Every person in this video is effectively giving the middle finger to doctors and nurses who are sacrificing everything to try and get this virus under control
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@MichaelEllsberg
Michael Ellsberg
6 years
@Marriott @amargadaxo And if so, are you aware that you are threatening guests suspected of consensual sex between adults, with being accused of facilitating slavery? Is that your official policy?
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@MichaelEllsberg
Michael Ellsberg
5 years
Well, you have that in common with the right-wing anti-abortion-rights fundamentalist Christians you ally with in criminalizing sex workers: “Fuck women’s choices about their own bodies; the government should choose for them.”
@DrJessTaylor
Dr. Jessica Taylor
5 years
Fuck ‘choice feminism.’ Real feminism is about the liberation of women and girls from global oppression and control. You will get nowhere playing the ‘if you were a real feminist you would support prostitution, surrogacy & exploitation of women Cos they want it really’ card.
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@MichaelEllsberg
Michael Ellsberg
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@primalpoly I agree with you on most things, friend, but here I must respectfully diverge. Do abusive parents have important social and civilizational knowledge to share that non-abusive non-parents don’t have? Related point: many child-free people, such as myself (bipolar) had the social
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@MichaelEllsberg
Michael Ellsberg
3 months
Louisiana just passed a law requiring all public school classrooms to display the Ten Commandments. But have you seen what depravity the Bible says DIRECTLY AFTER the Ten Commandments?
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Michael Ellsberg
6 years
And if SWers have 3 choices: “(1) no money, no sex, (2) money, sex, or (3) less money for 10X hours at Starbucks” usually they choose (2). Why? Because this is how they choose to make their living. Why is this so hard for Christians and SWERFs to get?
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@MichaelEllsberg
Michael Ellsberg
6 years
@AshleyJudd @SexWorkHive @Ruchiragupta @SPACEintl @Embrace_Dignity @GloriaSteinem @apneaap @Polaris_Project @DemandAbolition @CATWIntl @CAPintl The weaponization of "love and kindness," by @AshleyJudd : "I'm going to do everything I can to take away the income you depend on to support you and your family, offering nothing in return--but I expect you to be kind and loving to me while I do it." #FAIL
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@MichaelEllsberg
Michael Ellsberg
5 years
@SusanSarandon Hey @KarinDianeRyan -I challenge you to cite one single example of actual "sale of children online" being stopped by FOSTA. (If you cite Backpage, you know nothing, as it wasn't shut down by FOSTA.) Go ahead. One single, verified real-world example. We're waiting.
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@MichaelEllsberg
Michael Ellsberg
6 years
@NOW_NYC @ObjectUK Unfortunately @NOW_NYC you can't distance so easily. Your main ally in your anti-sex-worker movement is right-wing fundamentalist pro-life anti-LGBT Christians- movement depends on them. If you find yourself allied with pro-life, anti-LGBT on an issue, maybe time to re-think?
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@MichaelEllsberg
Michael Ellsberg
3 years
If you know or have been inspired by my father @DanielEllsberg 's work, please leave a short video greeting via the link below for his 90th birthday, Wednesday, April 7th. We'll unveil these to him on his birthday. Thank you! :)
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@MichaelEllsberg
Michael Ellsberg
6 years
@RepMaloney Unfortunately @RepMaloney you can't distance so easily. Your main ally in your anti-sex-worker movement is right-wing fundamentalist pro-life anti-LGBT Christians- movement depends on them. If you find yourself allied with pro-life, anti-LGBT on an issue, maybe time to re-think?
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@MichaelEllsberg
Michael Ellsberg
8 years
Today is my dad @DanielEllsberg 's 85th bday. If you've been moved by his work, please wish him a Happy Bday here:
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Michael Ellsberg
6 years
@MichaelEllsberg
Michael Ellsberg
6 years
Hi @Marriott - should your affirmative response to @amargadaxo 's tweet be taken as a confirmation that you are officially surveilling your solo female guests, and not allowing them to drink alone at bars?
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@MichaelEllsberg
Michael Ellsberg
2 years
Guys who have sex with women… if you know you don’t want children, or any more than you have- get that bad boy vasectomied! It nearly painless, 15 mins. It makes your partner(s) (and you) worry about less shit… so you can focus on each other and not on Christian fascism.
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@MichaelEllsberg
Michael Ellsberg
5 years
Hi @CarterCenter - your Senior Policy Advisor @KarinDianeRyan supports FOSTA- which is challenged federally by @WoodhullSFA as violation of 1st amend rights of sex workers . I know indiv. views aren't org views. But now is a good time to ask: what is your official stance on FOSTA?
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@MichaelEllsberg
Michael Ellsberg
5 years
@SusanSarandon @KarinDianeRyan Meanwhile, the only survey of the impact on actual sex workers' lives (262 SWers across US) from FOSTA found catastrophic harms. 29% drop in screening clients. Huge increase in street-based work (more dangerous) and violence against SWers.
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