Elizabeth Nolan Brown Profile picture
Oct 19, 2017 30 tweets 11 min read Read on X
I've been receiving a lot of pushback today from people who think adult sex workers are acceptable collateral if it's necessary to save kids
But it's not necessary at all. (And in fact harms cause) Let's take a look at some of the FBI's individual Operation Cross Country stings...

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Sep 2, 2018
at an Ohio highway-exit hotel tiki bar where Led Zeppelin & Carrie Underwood have been blaring.

Think, lol, I’ll keep myself entertained by making up Salena Zito-style quotes for others at the bar....
Then they did actually, unsolicited, tell me their opinions about Trump & McCain.

But then I made friends, got drunk, & did terrible root beer Jell-O shots w/everyone & definitely do not quote me
I can report that the Cambridge OH guy who spends 4-months a year in Las Vegas thought McCain’s funeral was great & the (sane age, 55) guy who just got a cell phone this month thought it was “over the top” ... then the bartender interrupted & said Trump should be shot
Read 4 tweets
Aug 28, 2018
So it's been a week since @reason published my feature on the founders of Backpage (reason.com/archives/2018/…) & mostly I've just RT'd other people's shares so far, b/c tbh I was a bit burnt out …
... burnt out b/c I did much more research than is apparent here (a few follow-ups already planned!). And b/c it was hard at times to cope w/the immensity of this story, which of encompasses as victims not just Lacey & Larkin—
... but also so so so many known & unknown people hurt & destroyed by this 2-decade+ criminal-justice charade…
Read 36 tweets
Aug 24, 2018
maybe "not a typo" but some caveats...

1) rape & coerced sex are lumped together, w/coercion defined as sex after someone lied, "made false promises, threatened to end the relationship, wore the victim down through repeated requests, or exerted their influence or authority"
2) definition of rape here includes "any completed or attempted sex" after "the giving of drugs or alcohol to the victim" (*not* incapacitation via drugs/alcohol)

3) sexual assault definition includes unwanted comments & flashing

4) survey was small: 148 women
here's a writeup of the study, since neither it nor any data were linked in the Seattle Times story scribd.com/document/38694…
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Jul 12, 2018
Forgot about this. Ohio does indeed have this bullshit law. Dancers can also be arrested for putting thumbs in their own bikini bottom/underwear & temporarily moving fabric too far from skin
As far as I know—-& I haven’t lived in Ohio for a while—arresting strippers over petty nonsense is not uncommon, but usually predicated on some completely unrelated background grudge or politics. So @MichaelAvenatti speculation re: @StormyDaniels arrest is far from insane
Once, back in the dark ages of ‘04 or ‘05, dancers at one Columbus club kept being targeted because the city wanted the club’s land for development
Read 5 tweets
Mar 19, 2018
Discovered something so crazy unreal this afternoon that I’m not sure what to do ... but tweet about it? Is there any appetite left today for outlandish Russian AI & sex news?
Before I start, a refresher on Alex Leslie. He's the self-help author/seduction coach/international harem leader now inprisoned in a Thai jail w/Nastya Rybka (seductress of Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska),who has been getting much more media attention reason.com/blog/2018/03/0…
Leslie & Rybka are scheduled to be deported back to Russia & Belarus, but have been pleading w/U.S. to intervene, claiming to have dirt on Russian meddling in the 2016 election. CNN's reported the FBI had no luck cnn.com/2018/03/13/asi…
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