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Gwen Pearson @bug-gwen.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The now defunct 2024 Title IX ruling provided significant protections against sexual harassment and assault, as well as protecting LGBTQ+ students in schools. edsource.org/updates/u-s-...
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UPDATE: U.S. Department of Education ends Title IX protections for LGBTQ+ students
The latest education news updates from EdSource.
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SWOP Behind Bars @swopbehindbars.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Financial insecurity and lack of resources puts people at risk of being trafficked. if you are serious about combatting trafficking then you need to be serious about providing people with housing, medical care, and living wages.
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SWOP Behind Bars @swopbehindbars.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This would essentially make it a felony to use the internet. Considering how of our lives are online- email, banking, schooling, support groups, social media, etc. This would be an absolute nightmare.
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Mike Stabile @mikestabile.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Trust me when I tell you that few lawmakers have thought through any of the implications. Frighteningly few understand the technology. Others don't understand why we need privacy on the internet — or think only criminals do. That's why calling / writing / fighting is so important.
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Wisconsin Reverses Decision to Ban VPNs in Age-Verification Bill - CNET
The law would have required websites to block VPN users from accessing "harmful material."
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Mike Stabile @mikestabile.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
VPN bans are a direct response to age-verification. Legislators are frustrated that people are getting around their surveillance, but rather than rethink their strategy, they're doubling down and banning VPNs. Fight the Flock-ing of the internet.
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SWOP Behind Bars @swopbehindbars.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Every new detail about SlutCon somehow becomes worse than the last.
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Nearly 40% of survivors who report to their schools are pushed out in one way or another—usually, at the urging of school staff who want them to leave. (In comparison, less than 1% of perpetrators are suspended or expelled.)
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SWOP Behind Bars @swopbehindbars.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
We try to post threads because we know not everyone will click links. This is one of those threads, please read it, but please also click the link and read the entire piece. We have been watching this story unfold but haven't seen much media traction. There is a serial killer in Philadelphia.
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SWOP Behind Bars @swopbehindbars.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Love to see workers fighting back. "Last month, 70 bikini baristas in Washington who joined together to enforce their rights won $1.85 million in unpaid wages and damages. workingwa.org/2026/09/brew...
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Brewing Up Justice: Bikini Baristas Win Wage Theft Fight | Working Washington
The organizing that led to this victory in court started when workers began to speak out about the abuses they were experiencing.
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SWOP Behind Bars @swopbehindbars.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This was from February, but it might as well have been written yesterday: Over the past week, a whirlwind of political recklessness has unfolded. This has severely affected marginalized communities—especially sex workers, trafficking survivors, and many others—who were already struggling.
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Free Speech Coalition @fsc.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Debanked? Don’t stop at opening a new account. FSC’s free Debanking Checklist + Complaint Tool can help you file an official complaint so that regulators understand how often lawful adult workers and businesses are losing access to financial services. www.freespeechcoalition.com/blog/did-you...
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Interrupting Criminalization @interruptcrim.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
You can also attend this community teach-in about abortion rights, if you're in NYC. Register today! bit.ly/ICabortionteachin
Abortion: A Community Teach-In October 3 LES, NYC 11AM - 4PM 10:30 AM registration & continental breakfast Register at: bit.ly/ICabortionteachin
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Fight for the Future @fightforthefuture.org · 22/09/2026
Net neutrality rules are crucial to protect us from censorship, price gouging, and arbitrary throttling. Newsom needs to stand up to Trump and internet service providers. Act now to preserve the internet: CALL TODAY and tell Governor Newsom DON'T CAVE. www.fightforthefuture.org/actions/save...
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Save Net Neutrality from Condition 50
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SWOP Behind Bars @swopbehindbars.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Violence and incarceration are everyday realities for people who trade sex. Fear of police encounters. Fear of arrest. Fear of being assaulted, exploited, or ignored. These aren’t side notes. They’re central to our lives—and yet they’re often brushed aside in public policy debates.
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SWOP Behind Bars @swopbehindbars.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
A quick primer on how DMCA take down requests work: #KnowYourRights www.swopbehindbars.org/stealthpornl...
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SWOP Behind Bars @swopbehindbars.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Dem candidate Chris Gallant whose fetish modeling drew media attention has responded, saying he will not be shamed out of his race. He is running to unseat Republican U.S. Rep. Nick LaLota, and called the coverage of his past modeling a political attack. www.advocate.com/politics/nat...?
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Gay congressional candidate Chris Gallant won’t be shamed out of midterm race over BDSM photos
"I wasn't scared flying Black Hawk helicopters in the Middle East. And I sure as hell won't let some pictures from my past scare me," the former Army pilot, air traffic controller and firefighter said...
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SWOP Behind Bars @swopbehindbars.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
There is something deeply wrong with the state of women’s health in America. We see the failures most clearly when something terrible happens. A pregnant woman arrives at a hospital, and doctors must decide whether she is sick enough to qualify for an abortion.
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Bremain in Spain @bremaininspain.com · 20/09/2026
Well done again 🇪🇸 Spain’s new weapon against drink spiking: an ice cube that traps the drug as evidence euroweeklynews.com/2026/09/19/s...
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Spain’s new weapon against drink spiking: an ice cube that traps the drug as evidence
A Madrid startup has built an ice cube that turns blue, bitter and solid the instant a drink is spiked, trapping the drug as evidence for police.
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SWOP Behind Bars @swopbehindbars.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
A Calgary man who targeted and sexually assaulted women who worked in Calgary’s sex trade has been sentenced to 12 years in prison. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Richard Mantha handed 12-year prison sentence for sexually assaulting 3 vulnerable women | CBC News
A Calgary man who targeted and sexually assaulted several vulnerable women who worked in Calgary’s sex trade has been sentenced to 12 years in prison.
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CORAS @corasfoundation.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
poor women, racialized women, sex workers, survival workers, trans women, women you disagree with, women whose choices you would never make yourself.”
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CORAS @corasfoundation.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
“But we will walk alongside you tonight, because CORAS is not interested in dividing women. Liberation is the entire point. And liberation has to include the women you find inconvenient:
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CORAS @corasfoundation.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
At Take Back The Night 2026 in Ottawa; We were told we could not speak. Sex workers were not welcome. We spoke anyways. We were applauded. Next time, we will be welcomed.
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SWOP Behind Bars @swopbehindbars.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
This case was so appalling and why we talk about stigma so often. He raped and robbed sex workers and his lawyer argued in court the victims couldn't be trusted because "They are prostitutes. They are liars." This is why we combat dehumanizing language.
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Evan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
With all the doom and gloom headlines about AI apocalypse, I wrote for the NYT about something hopeful: the successful and growing rebellion against Flock cameras. People do care about their privacy, it turns out. You just have to show them a viable path to reclaim it. (Gift link)
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Opinion | How Flock Cameras Became the Enemy (Gift Article)
The campaign against Flock shows that fighting to protect personal privacy isn’t a lost cause.
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Mike Stabile @mikestabile.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
"Hot2Vote is launching a $100K campaign in Atlanta to ensure people are registered to vote — with the help of adult film stars. The multimedia effort includes more than 100 performers telling people 'always check their status' after the state’s mass cancellation of inactive voter registrations."
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Shapiro stakes a ’28 position on AI
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SWOP Behind Bars @swopbehindbars.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Stigma kills. Stigma harms. Stigma prevents people from being able to access services. Stigma gets people arrested. Stigma pushes vulnerable people to the margins. Why are people still advocating for stigmatizing sex workers, despite knowing the harms it causes?
handcuffs are not rescue
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Lexii💚 @toxicdestiny666.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
❤️🧡💛💚💙💜 Happy Sex Worker Pride Day! Here’s to every SW building something for themselves, setting their own boundaries, supporting one another & refusing to be ashamed of the work we do. 🖤 Be safe. Be loud. Be proud. 💋👑 #SexWorkerPride
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Jessica Van Meir @jessicavanmeir.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
I love being able to say the word sex work here without the algorithm punishing me. Sex work sex work sex work
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SWOP Behind Bars @swopbehindbars.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Update on the story about a woman who was harassing a man and accusing him of trafficking his daughter because she had a lighter complexion than he did- She has been arrested and charged with stalking and a hate crime www.yahoo.com/news/us/arti...
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Woman Who Accused San Jose Father of Trafficking His 6 Year Old Over Their Skin Tones Is Behind Bars
The San Jose Police Department arrested a 47-year-old woman accused of stalking and committing hate crimes against a family after a viral video captured her accusing a father of being… The post Woman ...
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SWOP Behind Bars @swopbehindbars.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
You'd think people would be more upset about the Epstein files, but here we are.
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Mike Stabile @mikestabile.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
"You’d be surprised how much content gets pumpkin-spiced. We’ve seen pumpkin-spice pits, pantyhose and pedicures. We’ve seen it incorporated into fetishes from wrestling and burping to breast expansion and paypigs."
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The Pumpkin Spice Craze Has Somehow Reached Fetish Porn. Seriously.
Fetish creators are folding PSLs into everything from burping and wrestling to breast expansion, turning fall’s favorite flavor fully NSFW.
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SWOP Behind Bars @swopbehindbars.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
"Sex workers can save themselves, and everyone else out there sure has a lot of learn from their example" Say it again, please
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Kim Kelly @kimkelly.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Happy Sex Worker Pride Day, send some money to @swopbehindbars.bsky.social www.swopbehindbars.org/donate
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Lorelei Lee (they/them) @loreleilee.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
A thing I don't see enough in convos abt LLMs is how they egregiously misunderstand what writing is FOR. LLMs assume writing is primarily meant to be consumed by other people. But the actual act of producing language on the page is a process of DISCOVERY. It's a process of finding out what you think
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EPA United @epaunited.bskyverified.social · 11/09/2026
Did you know that The Free Speech Coalition has been around since 1992!? In this clip, Lotus Lain gives us a little background of FSC, why they were founded, and what they do. Thank you FSC, for all that you do to protect our communities. www.stopbadinternetbills.com @itslotuslain.bsky.social
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SWOP Behind Bars @swopbehindbars.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Just a heads up. You should know who runs VoteSafe. Elon Musk's America PAC is facing fresh scrutiny after a report alleged that its Vote Safe website collects extensive voter data while promoting itself as a tool to help people 'vote with confidence'. www.ibtimes.co.uk/elon-musk-am...
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'Vote With Confidence': Elon Musk Is Allegedly Stealing Your Personal Data for Advertising Firms
Elon Musk's America PAC is under scrutiny over its Vote Safe website, which allegedly collects extensive voter data for targeted marketing, raising privacy concerns ahead of the 2026 midterm elections...
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Windypundit @windypundit.com · 10/09/2026
“We want to help you” said the cop who chased down the suspected juvenile girl running away barefoot, as he jumped out of his car to cuff her. I’m not making that up.
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dmnsqrl.bsky.social @dmnsqrl.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
respectability politics is a lie and a trap - always
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Myrtle "Modern-Day Monroe" Faust 🌿🧿 @myrtlemystic.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
If you care about your porn— Start caring about the workers who made it #decrimsexwork
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Julia Métraux @juliametraux.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
The findings, the researchers write, “reinforce the continued importance of public health efforts to prevent infection." www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/rep...
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Repeat COVID infections tied to higher odds of new health conditions
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SWOP Behind Bars @swopbehindbars.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Again, I gently encourage more women to stand with sex workers. Many SWs are women who have been targeted, surveilled, stalked, abused by the criminal justice system. All things that are rapidly happening to more and more women as AI abuse increases, flock cameras are abused, ICE budgets increase.
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Mike Stabile @mikestabile.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
And porn. DVD sales are up as much as 20% in states with online age-verification.
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Texas is delaying the release of the state’s maternal mortality statistics until after the midterms. www.houstonchronicle.com/politics/tex...
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Texas' first post-Roe look at maternal deaths won't be ready by midterms
Democrats say the timing is suspicious, given the Dec. 1 deadline is after Gov. Greg Abbott and other Republicans who supported the state’s abortion ban are up for reelection.
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404 Media @404media.co · 09/09/2026
‘We must work to crush any dissent to Doom’s vision of public safety,’ the Marvel supervillain told the city as it considered multiple surveillance proposals.
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Doctor Doom Thanked Seattle for All the Surveillance Cameras
‘We must work to crush any dissent to Doom’s vision of public safety,’ the Marvel supervillain told the city as it considered multiple surveillance proposals.
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alec karakatsanis @equalityalec.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
If you are in D.C., come join us at the MLK Library on Monday at 630pm in room 401-A for this fantastic event. We'll be talking about propaganda, repression, and what we can do about it together.
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SWOP Behind Bars @swopbehindbars.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
The Nordic Model is often introduced to feminist audiences as a political relief valve. Not full criminalization, they say. Not decriminalization either - but a principled compromise. A way to oppose exploitation without “punishing women.” A policy rooted in gender equality. It sounds "reasonable"
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SWOP Behind Bars @swopbehindbars.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Keep things like this in mind when the media and lawmakers tell you that banning pornography from the internet is what will actually protect children from harm. Eliminating pornography wouldn't have protected these children. So why is the focus on consenting adults instead of victims of AI CSAM?
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SWOP Behind Bars @swopbehindbars.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
This great news! Vaccines are amazing.
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Elizabeth Nolan Brown @enbrown.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Oral arguments in Backpage appeals coming up in November 👀
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