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Mike Stabile @mikestabile.bsky.social · 15h

"The activism being done in the underground and its various levels of online / offline community is not meant to be glamorous. It’s not “content” to be shared by influencers as a slickly edited TikTok, or an edgy tweet, or an Instagram slide deck. It’s the un-monetizeable and deeply unsexy work"

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Mike Stabile @mikestabile.bsky.social · 15h

Activism and community building online may be critical, but it's also increasingly subject to surveillance. Trans and queer activists are looking toward new models, with degrees of visibility that balance safety with surveillance, just as sex workers have learned to do.

The return of the trans underground

The internet once helped trans people connect and organize. Now it’s a dangerous liability. What comes next?

www.theverge.com

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Mike Stabile @mikestabile.bsky.social · 1d

“Please send us a statement showing your gross revenue so that we can estimate your fine”

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Christopher Wiggins @cwnewser.bsky.social · 1d

Breaking: Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, the legendary transgender activist and veteran of the Stonewall uprising who dedicated her life to the liberation of trans people, especially Black trans women, has died at 78.

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Matthew Sheffield @matthew.flux.community · 1d

Like so many right-wing thinkers, Girard's radicalization is rooted in that his mediocre ideas found little support in academia.

Authoritarians think they're the smartest people ever to live and so they think that rejection of their ideas must be a giant conspiracy. See also Yarvin, Curtis.

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Mike Stabile @mikestabile.bsky.social · 1d

4chan has ghosted Ofcom, and is ignoring the UK regulators' pleas to comply with the Online Safety Act. Ofcom says it will fine them £100 a day until they answer their email.

🙄

Ofcom fines 4chan £20K for Online Safety Act failings

: Regulator warns penalties will pile up until internet toilet does its paperwork

www.theregister.com

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Mike Stabile @mikestabile.bsky.social · 1d

"It's really unfair to call us censors just because we're trying to ban books"

county17.com/2021/09/30/l...

Senator Troy McKeown (R-Gillette) spoke midway through the public comments regarding his concern about how challenges are being handled.
"We hide behind the First Amendment when it's convenient. When we have a group of people who want to do something else, it's censorship," McKeown said. "At the end of the day you say it's only the parent's responsibility. You can't ensure responsibility. Parents can sign every library card you want. You can't sign another individual's rights away, no matter how old they are."

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Mike Stabile @mikestabile.bsky.social · 1d

Librarian Terri Lesley tried to stop right-wing censors from removing LGBTQ+ books from a Wyoming public library. She was fired.

She sued and won $700,000.

Censors say it won't be a deterrent from going after other librarians, and some say they'd rather close libraries altogether.

Fired Wyoming librarian hopes $700,000 settlement deters conservative lawmakers. They say it won’t.

By Andrew Graham The Gillette librarian who this week settled a lawsuit against Campbell County over her July 2023 firing for a $700,000 payment says she hopes Wyoming lawmakers take note of the hefty...

county17.com

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Mike Stabile @mikestabile.bsky.social · 3d

There are few more chilling phrases than “Children’s Detention Center.”

LongTime🤓FirstTime👨‍💻 @longtimehistory.bsky.social · 3d

ICE secretly kidnap autistic boy during bathroom break—never notify parents.

Mother reported him missing a week ago—turns out ICE had him detained the whole time.

He was helping sell fruit and asked to go to the restroom—by the time she was done helping a customer he was gone.

Houston, Texas

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Mike Stabile @mikestabile.bsky.social · 3d

"Arkansas is trying to save one of the most extreme book censorship laws in recent memory, one that would allow jailing librarians and booksellers for keeping materials on their shelves that fall under the statute’s broad definition of “harmful to minors.”

Arkansas wants to jail librarians. The First Amendment won’t allow it.

Arkansas’s Act 372 would let the state jail librarians for “harmful” books. The First Amendment won’t let censorship win.

www.thefire.org

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Mike Stabile @mikestabile.bsky.social · 3d

If you're blaming some external force rather than engaging honestly around sex, sexuality and consent, it's easy to dupe yourself that everything is covered.

These systems are easy to get around and about as much protection as the rhythm method.

www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Headline from Rolling Stone:

MIKE JOHNSON ADMITS HE AND HIS SON MONITOR EACH OTHER'S PORN INTAKE
IN RESURFACED VIDEO
"I'm proud to tell ya, my son has got a clean slate," the House speaker says of his "accountability partner"

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Mike Stabile @mikestabile.bsky.social · 3d

If you’re actually Nancy Mace where all the slurs

Text from “Nancy Mace” on Signal

“Patriot, how is your day going? President Trump is 5 steps ahead of the corrupt cabals. So basically, the people who claimed Trump would crash the economy and start World War III have crashed the economy and started World War III. Since NESARA GESARA is already here, have you switched to the QFS system and gotten your QFS gold platinum credit card in preparation for the upcoming global currency reset?”

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Mike Stabile @mikestabile.bsky.social · 4d

I don't want to lambast a guy for the crimes of his son, but how many times do we have to hear about another church pedophile.

It's not porn's fault you're a sexual abuser. Maybe if people spent time dealing with actual ISSUES rather than blaming everything on a imaginary demon...

Screen shot of Ron DeHaas essay (The Perfect Sin) recovered from the Covenant Eyes website:

As my personal burden for the issue of internet pornography has grown, I have seen in the testimonials of our members how pornography has broken relationships.
It breaks down relationships between husbands and wives, parents and children, on the job, even lost jobs, relationship to church family, relationship to the "inner man," and a person's relationship to God.
Related: The Effects of Porn on Wives and Marriages
When there is a secret life going on, that secret life affects every one of those relationships. A secret life pervades every aspect of life, and diminishes effectiveness in all areas of life-home, job, church, everything. For those who are active in a church of any faith, a secret life destroys ministry, and the cumulative effect of millions of secret lives is an ineffective church. Basically, Internet pornography has been perhaps the greatest push toward an era of ineffective ministry.
Related: Porn-A Gateway Drug
All the more for the pastor, minister, or counselor whose job and ministry are tied together. The damage that Internet pornography has done is truly immeasurable.
So, from Satan's perspective, internet pornography is the perfect sin. It breaks families and jobs and communities, it tears down a person's relationship to God, it diminishes the work of ministry, and it is devastating in every way. And it is freely available to everyone of all ages, it is only two clicks (maybe one if it's bookmarked) away from you reading this, it is addictive, and (without a monitoring program) it is totally secret. I firmly believe that internet pornography is the sin of this decade. What more could
Satan ask for?

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Mike Stabile @mikestabile.bsky.social · 4d

DeHaas served as the Chair of NCOSE's Board, funneling money from his Christian porn surveillance app into the fight to ban adult content and sex work.

He called internet porn "the perfect sin" and the work of Satan.

Screen shot of NCOSE Board of Director showing DeHaas

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Mike Stabile @mikestabile.bsky.social · 4d

DeHaas said he founded Covenant Eyes to keep his kids from accessing porn on the internet. The app blocks porn sites as well as screenshots images from your device and sends them to your "accountability partner"

His son used the app Hush to lure a 14 year old for sex, asking for her to send pics.

08/10/2025
T: If only tou had a fake id lol. Lots more options then
B: Like what?
T: Like motels, adult theaters, etc. And then even if we were caught by security or something it's way easier to get out of it (monkey emoji x2)
08/10/2025
B: Haha ok! So what do we get to do IF we find a good place? (heart eye emoji)
T: We'll have to see when the time comes. (kiss emoji) I'm trying to start slow, see how we feel about the vibe
B: Oh I hope u like my vibe!
T: And I hope you like mine (heart face emoji)
08/11/2025
T: Off to bed yet?
B: No lol its early lol
B: Rur kids my age? Lol do they go to bed this early????
T: Yeah I guess lol
T: What are you up to?
T: Way younger lol
B: Oh lol
B: Im just chilling lol I like thinking about u

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Mike Stabile @mikestabile.bsky.social · 4d

JFC. Ron DeHaas, founder of the Christian antiporn app Covenant Eyes, has stepped down from NCOSE after his 38-year old son was charged with sexual abuse of a child.

Covenant Eyes is the app used by House Speaker Mike Johnson and his son to monitor each other's internet behavior.

Covenant Eyes Cofounder Helps Post Bond for Adult Stepson, Who Is Charged With Felony Child Sex Abuse

In August, Thomas Wideman, an adult stepson of Covenant Eyes cofounder Ron DeHaas, was arrested during a CSAM sting operation.

churchleaders.com

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Mike Stabile @mikestabile.bsky.social · 4d

It's all so incredibly stupit. Every three months, some bigot goes on Google and counts up all of the random, non-official and sometimes entirely made up holidays and is like "can you believe there are 176 days related to sex freaks and only three related to unborn children???"

Anything goes?
But there are plenty of days devoted to an ever-widening spectrum. Here is just a short list of some of the observances:
• Aromantic Spectrum Awareness Week (Feb 21).
• International Transgender Day of Visibility (March 31).
• International Asexuality Day (April 6).
• Nonbinary Parents Day (April 18).
• International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia, and Biphobia (May 17).
• Pansexual and Panromantic Awareness and Visibility Day (May 24).
• Queer Youth of Faith Day (June 30).
One of the days that strikes me as a bit funny is Gay Uncles Day. There's no Lesbian Aunts Day! Somehow, within 137 days of a 365-day calendar, there's not enough room to be inclusive of lesbian aunts? Oh, and there's International Pronouns Day, you know, because

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Mike Stabile @mikestabile.bsky.social · 4d

"'No one’s ever seen a candidate like me in Virginia and quite frankly most places across the country,' Reid boasted not long ago. He’d be right—except that, for those keeping count at home, Reid is the second Republican to be engulfed in a Nazi porn scandal in just over a year."

The Candidate Caught in a Nazi Porn Scandal Is Today’s GOP Personified

Meet John Reid, the Republican candidate for lieutenant governor in Virginia. There’s a lot to learn.

newrepublic.com

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Mike Stabile @mikestabile.bsky.social · 4d

Campaigns of symbolic erasure precede campaigns of actual erasure.

The Barbed Wire @thebarbedwire.com · 5d

Chaya Raichik, better known as Libs of TikTok, was dutifully bemoaning the fact that the city of Houston repainted a Montrose neighborhood crosswalk decked on in LGBTQ+ rainbow colors. Raichik wrote that the crosswalk “must be removed immediately.”

And our governor dutifully complied.

Cool! It Really Looks Like Greg Abbott is Taking Orders From Libs of TikTok

Acting on the orders of notorious cesspool Libs Of TikTok, the governor bravely stands up to the menace of decorative asphalt.

thebarbedwire.com

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Not Your Negress @notyournegro.blacksky.app · 5d

Black people have been asking this question for a very long time.

Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 5d

Do you really have any rights if they are openly saying they will just make up reasons to detain you?

thematthill.bsky.social @thematthill.bsky.social · 7d

Wow. Greg Bovino admits on camera that his agents can detain people if you look scared, change your demeanor, or grip a steering wheel too tight.

As his unmasked agents walk around with large guns to scare you, they may arrest you just for that — even if you're a U.S. citizen.

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Mike Stabile @mikestabile.bsky.social · 4d

And @microsoft.com's MSN bows to religious fascism, whitewashing content from outlets like Christian Post that portray LGBTQ+ people as violent, controlling and focused on converting children.

www.msn.com/en-us/news/u...

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Mike Stabile @mikestabile.bsky.social · 4d

SWOP had its bank accounts closed by Chase — sound familiar? — and now the people who do the work can’t be paid.

We can’t get their bank account back, but we can get Phoenix, who spends so much of their life organizing mutual aid for others, able to meet bills this month.

$phoenixcalida

Phoenix Calida @phoenixcalida.bsky.social · 5d

So.

Im mostly okay

I will be asking for somewhere between 200-300 in the next few days because I habe bills to pay

$phoenixcalida

And omg I buried the lede

Our org had all funding suspended so I can't access my money until we get a new bank
(We have a new. Just waiting on paperwork)

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Mike Stabile @mikestabile.bsky.social · 5d

It's a cursed timeline when the third-worst thing in the bill, the thing media only can report on after they've gotten through the really stupid stuff, is that Michigan intends to build a Great Firewall to keep its citizens unsullied by knowledge of trans boobs in WI.

legiscan.com/MI/text/HB49...

Michigan HB4938 | 2025-2026 | 103rd Legislature

Bill Text (2025-09-16) State: other; distribution of certain material; prohibit. Creates new act. [Bill Electronically Reproduced 09/11/2025]

legiscan.com

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Mike Stabile @mikestabile.bsky.social · 5d

Michigan's HB4938 "antiporn" bill has been lambasted for a number of reasons. You can go to jail for even talking about sex online. Any reference to trans people needs to be erased from the internet.

But it also bans the sale of VPNs and requires ISPs to surveil block VPNs.

(3) An internet service provider providing internet service in this state shall implement mandatory filtering technology to prevent residents of this state from accessing prohibited material. An internet service provider providing internet service in this state shall actively monitor and block known circumvention tools.
(4) In addition to the criminal penalties provided under subsections
(1) and (2), a commercial entity of internet service provider that knowingly facilitates access to prohibited material in violation of this section is subject to a civil fine of not more than $500,000.00 for each violation.
(5) The promotion or sale of circumvention tools to access prohibited
material is prohibited.

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Mike Stabile @mikestabile.bsky.social · 5d

Buried in Michigan's antiporn bill is a provision to effectively outlaw "circumvention tools," such as VPNs.

Mark my words: legislators will increasingly leverage porn panic to restrict or ban VPNs, and to limit internet privacy far beyond adult sites.

Experts raise privacy concerns over Michigan bill targeting pornography and VPNs

Rep. Josh Schriver, the bill’s sponsor, says the law is designed to target only producers and distributors of pornography, not everyday internet users.

www.wilx.com

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