Sex workers have been the canaries in the coal mines for years about the harms of censorship, and specifically attempts to revive the Comstock Act. If you care about repro rights, online speech, etc., sex worker rights should be your issue

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The VA Supreme Court refuses to apply Employment Division v. Smith, the federal free exercise standard, and imposes a stricter test more favorable to 'religious liberty' cases.

The dissent calls this 'a super scrutiny for religious rights but no others.' vacourts.gov/opinions/opnsc…

Sandra Day O'Conner was no moderate. Beyond Bush v Gore, she signed on to a horrifically homophobic decision, green lit states executing kids & people with intellectual disabilities, weakened abortion rights, affirmative action & Miranda, & then retired to give us Alito

Most Americans have no conception of how many civilians died as a result of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. This same indifference to human life is repeating itself.

The attack on Israel was a tragedy. It doesn't justify the massacre of civilians in Palestine.

Don't get it twisted, this robo-cop will not replace cops. It will subject New Yorkers to constant surveillance and be used to justify hiring more cops. All while NYC is defunding supportive programming that actually stabilizes communities and reduces crime

Happy Labor Day! Sex work is work and cops will never be part of the house of labor

The NYDN Ed Board previously opposed reducing the Rockefeller Drug Laws & even efforts to decrim weed. Their support of overdose prevention centers is evidence-based & a welcome improvement. I hope this means they will support compassion & harm reduction for ALL substances

A guard at Rikers bragged about beating someone living with mental illness, and claimed he would do it again. He even said he WANTED to be suspended so he could go on vacation.

The humanitarian crisis at Rikers is a policy choice by Mayor Eric Adams & the DOC Commissioner

Racial disparities in the family regulation & foster care system are even worse than the penal system. It has decimated Black and Native families. To fire someone for calling a spade a spade demonstrates that the NY Courts are fine with the status quo

Mandatory minimums were rare in most states until the drug war began 50 years ago. Ending mandatory minimums will enhance community safety, and help individuals & families escape cycles of poverty & incarceration. Link to blog ⬇️

⚠️ SEX WORK IS WORK ⚠️

Jared Trujillo joined us for the final episode of the season to discuss sex work decrim and the how's and why's sex workers should be entitled to the same legal protections and workplace rights as any other worker.

Listen now: no-body-criminalized.simplecast.com/episodes/treat…

Following the end of Reconstruction, newspapers justified lynchings & the mass murder of Black people by calling Black folks 'brutes' and suggesting the terror they faced was justified to bring them to heel. Media coverage of #JordanHeely 's murder follows this tradition

This headline is disgusting. People living with mental illness are much more likely to be the victims of violence than the perpetrators of it. New York Post & other outlets have been peddling a deadly narrative with racist & classist undertones

So much of the criminal legal system was designed to perpetuate vestiges of slavery & racial subjugation. Bail & discovery reform are two of the most important civil rights reforms in decades. Governor Kathy Hochul AndreaStewartCousins Carl E. Heastie don't be on the wrong side of history

If you don't like that a judge does porn, then don't watch it. It's shameful that he was fired for doing sex work on his own time.

SN: Interpersonal skills I gained from sex work helped me as a lawyer, & I definitely wouldn't have been able to afford law school without sex work

47% of Black trans femmes are incarcerated in their lives. Criminal legal system issues are emphatically TGNC issues. Governor Kathy Hochul you cannot be an ally while peddling a plan that would increase pretrial incarceration of low-income legally innocent people #TransDayOfVisibilty