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:
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…
@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
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*.
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
@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
@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?
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!)
@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.
@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.
@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
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?
@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.
@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.
@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,
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.
@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.
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
@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.
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
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?
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
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."
@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.
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.
@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
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.
@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
@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.
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?
@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/
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/
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:
For my
@thedailybeast
interview with
@MistressSnowPhD
, I also interviewed
@ImBrettRossi
- who paid for nursing school doing porn- about her harrowing experience being outed/bullied out of school. Thank you for the powerful & vulnerable interview Brett:
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:
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.
@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/
@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?
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.
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
@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.
@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?
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:
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
)
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.
@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.
@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.
@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
@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:
@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/
@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?
@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.
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.
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.
@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.
@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
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/
@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.
@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/
@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)...
@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.
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."
"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)
@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?
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:
@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?
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!”
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
@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?
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.”
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.
@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
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?
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?
@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.
@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?
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! :)
@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?
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?
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.
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?
@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.