Amber Batts @amberbatts.bsky.social · 26/02/2026The Lost Women Alaska focuses on Kathleen Jo Henry, Veronica Abouchuk and Cassandra Lee Boskofsky. I consulted on it and I have so many mixed feelings on it. It brings the truth out about heroes Alicia Youngblood and Valerie! 241
Amber Batts @amberbatts.bsky.social · 05/02/2026Two years apart, two women were found dead in the same stretch of South Anchorage, near Golden View Drive and Bulgaria Drive, a secluded Hillside neighborhood set back on land with long driveways, big sky views, and a deliberate distance from the hubbub of town. amberbatts.com/2026/01/31/g...amberbatts.comGolden View Drive and Bulgaria DriveTwo years apart, two women were found dead in the same stretch of South Anchorage, near Golden View Drive and Bulgaria Drive, a secluded Hillside neighborhood set back on land with long driveways, … 111
Amber Batts @amberbatts.bsky.social · 29/01/2026Is anyone else seglitches. A preschool in Minneosta was teargassed the other day. I had posted on tiktok and got zero views. I'm seeing comments from posters about same thing happening... also that posts about the many atrocities of ICE are glitching. 010
Amber Batts @amberbatts.bsky.social · 29/10/2025Cue 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! 011
Amber Batts @amberbatts.bsky.social · 28/10/2025Well 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/...substack.comThe Harm Done in a nutshellWelcome... 010
Amber Batts @amberbatts.bsky.social · 03/09/2025Get 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 091
Reposted by Amber BattsThe Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 31/07/2025One 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.washingtonpost.com‘Welcome to hell’: Inside the megaprison where the U.S. deported migrantsInterviews with 16 former detainees of El Salvador’s Terrorism Confinement Center offer the most complete view yet of conditions inside the notorious prison. 634104065541
Amber Batts @amberbatts.bsky.social · 28/07/2025I'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...amberbatts.com5 Life Truths I Rediscovered Walking the Camino Solo as a Single WomanSolo female traveler walks the Camino de Santiago and rediscovers 5 life truths. A journey of healing, courage, and inner strength on the trail. 242
Amber Batts @amberbatts.bsky.social · 27/05/2025Listened 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...shows.acast.comCase 320: Veronica Abouchuk & Kathleen Henry | Casefile True Crime 120
Reposted by Amber BattsCarol F @cfpdx.bsky.social · 18/05/2025Looks 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/...portland.govHuman Trafficking Unit Continues Efforts to Address Crime in Northeast PortlandDuring the last three months, the Portland Police Bureau continued directed patrol efforts along Northeast 82nd Avenue and Northeast Sandy Boulevard in response to ongoing community complaints and obs... 021
Reposted by Amber BattsCarol F @cfpdx.bsky.social · 25/09/2024Migrant 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...wweek.comIllicit Massage Parlors That Profit From Sex Trafficking Are Multiplying Around the City. No One Stops Them. 131
Reposted by Amber BattsCarol F @cfpdx.bsky.social · 13/08/2024Portland 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/...portlandoregon.govHuman Trafficking Mission Results in Arrests, Citations (Photo)During the first week of August, Portland Police Bureau’s Human Trafficking Unit (HTU) conducted directed patrol missions along NE 82nd Avenue with the assistance from Central, East, and North P... 162
Amber Batts @amberbatts.bsky.social · 10/05/2025Did 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. 010
Amber Batts @amberbatts.bsky.social · 17/04/202510 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. 150
Amber Batts @amberbatts.bsky.social · 13/04/2025How 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... 120
Reposted by Amber BattsSasha aka Sauchi @akchick.bsky.social · 09/04/2025This is a violation of the first amendment. 043
Amber Batts @amberbatts.bsky.social · 07/04/2025Kathleen’s Law has sponsorship!! Alaska's current law lacks accountability and obligations for witnesses to report violent crimes. 272
Amber Batts @amberbatts.bsky.social · 06/04/2025This 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. 1455
Reposted by Amber BattsAlaska Beacon @alaskabeacon.com · 28/03/2025Alaska 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... #aklegalaskabeacon.comAlaska House bill raises concerns about transparency, necessity of the trafficking council • Alaska BeaconAmber Batts writes in a commentary that a trafficking council is not the solution Alaska needs and should not be granted permanent status. 2104
Amber Batts @amberbatts.bsky.social · 13/02/2025Hey everyone, let's talk about an important issue in Alaska and a proposed law change called Kathleen's Law. 🧵 250
Amber Batts @amberbatts.bsky.social · 05/02/2025The 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... 061
Amber Batts @amberbatts.bsky.social · 04/01/2025Still perpetrating more harm and conflating sex work with actual sex trafficking. youtu.be/PW7lhVfs1Qo?...youtu.beSex workers, now victims, who had ads on Backpage to get compensationYouTube video by Arizona’s Family (3TV / CBS 5) 020
Amber Batts @amberbatts.bsky.social · 03/01/2025Alaskans, did you think you were getting a Begich? Because you are getting a Floridian... 130
Amber Batts @amberbatts.bsky.social · 28/12/2024I 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. 060
Amber Batts @amberbatts.bsky.social · 10/12/2024Disappointed 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? 020
Amber Batts @amberbatts.bsky.social · 07/12/2024Winnie the Pooh and Piglet, too, says...Fuck this shit... 061
Amber Batts @amberbatts.bsky.social · 06/12/2024Please 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 093
Amber Batts @amberbatts.bsky.social · 27/11/2024The 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… 100
Amber Batts @amberbatts.bsky.social · 26/11/2024#december17 #idevas #idevas24 #D17 #COYOTERI #SEXWORKERS #INTERNATIONALDAYTOENDVIOLENCEAGAINSTSEXWORKERS 010
Amber Batts @amberbatts.bsky.social · 26/11/2024I 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... 0157
Amber Batts @amberbatts.bsky.social · 23/11/2024I 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. 021
Amber Batts @amberbatts.bsky.social · 20/11/2024I 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. 120
Amber Batts @amberbatts.bsky.social · 17/11/2024You 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? 351
Amber Batts @amberbatts.bsky.social · 17/11/2024When 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. 020
Reposted by Amber BattsWeRateDogs @weratedogs.com · 15/11/2024This 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 1104455782923
Amber Batts @amberbatts.bsky.social · 16/11/2024Long 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. 1/6 120
Amber Batts @amberbatts.bsky.social · 15/11/2024I 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...amberbatts.comConfronting my child molesterWarning: This post discusses childhood sexual trauma and may result in triggering other survivors of childhood sexual trauma. Please consult a local organization such as STAR (Anchorage Crisis Line… 010
Amber Batts @amberbatts.bsky.social · 15/11/2024Criminalizing 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...amberbatts.comChallenging the Criminalization of Sex Work ClientsTelling individual stories of people like P is crucial. This isn’t the only story like this, there are more.It is my goal to foster empathy, create understanding, and talk about stigmatization. By … 021
Amber Batts @amberbatts.bsky.social · 15/11/2024Sex workers are HEROS! amberbatts.com/2024/08/07/i...amberbatts.comImmunity and the MonsterBy now you have heard about Brian Steven Smith and about the hero who turned him in. Valerie Casler. But, did you know that she was afraid of being arrested, yet she still did the hard thing? She h… 000
Reposted by Amber BattsLex 💋 @lexyafavorite.bsky.social · 14/11/2024My 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 ❤️ 425499
Reposted by Amber BattsElizabeth Nolan Brown @enbrown.bsky.social · 13/11/2024Another reason to stop undercover vice stings: cops won't stop coercing and assaulting sex workers reason.com/2024/11/13/t...reason.comTexas cops fired for 'inappropriate' sexual contact with massage workersEleven Texas police officers have been disciplined for misconduct related to prostitution stings at massage parlors. Some of the officers are accused of 531979