Below are significant videos and podcasts concerning Backpage, Lacey and Larkin, FOSTA/SESTA, sex work and other related subjects. 1) “The War on Backpage Is a War on Sex Workers”: Reason documentary by Paul Detrick. This 38-minute documentary is required viewing…
Federal agents investigating several Mohave County, Arizona massage parlors in 2018 received handjobs from victims they were looking to free from lives of sexual slavery, according to unredacted public records recently published in Lake Havasu’sToday’s News-Herald. Seven people were arrested…
On the same day members of Congress proposed legislation to study the effects of FOSTA/SESTA, the 2018 law that outlawed adult ads online and placed sex workers in harm’s way, around 30 sex workers, activists and allies assembled at a…
Skepticism should be the default position of all journalists, and yet, far too many members of the media regurgitate society’s dominant narratives with an obtuse, mind-numbing regularity. Hosts Michael Hobbes and Sarah Marshall of the contrarian podcast, “You’re Wrong About…” cop…
They are mothers, daughters, sons, sisters, brothers and lovers. They were strangled, shot, raped and beaten to death. Some overdosed or took their own lives. Others survived with trauma and lasting scars. They all will be remembered Tuesday, December 17…
At an hour and a half-long evidentiary hearing in Phoenix’s federal court on December 2, computer forensics expert Tami Loehrs testified that the FBI had shattered vital defense evidence in the criminal case against veteran journalists Michael Lacey and Jim…
California Senator Kamala Harris, one of the most inauthentic, Janus-faced Democratic politicians of recent memory, exited the presidential race on Tuesday, pointing the finger at others and failing to grasp the most important rule of leadership, or lack thereof: the…
