This week’s newsletters have covered everything the Comstock Act of 1873 could outlaw in addition to the two abortion medications the DOJ threatened in a leaked discussion. Links are below for those who need to catch up.
The History of the Comstock Act and an Overview
Everything is Pornography to White Christian Nationalists
All Contraception is Under Threat
Modern Healthcare is also Under Threat
Because the announcement that the Department of Defense plans to livestream an execution-by-firing-squad put me in a very bad place (I predicted something like it earlier this week), today’s newsletter on Comstock’s suppression of information and advertising related to obscenity, contraception, and abortion is abbreviated. I am so tired of being right, of being throttled, of being told I can’t have a seat at most tables, DESPITE HOW MUCH I AM RIGHT.
An abbreviated newsletter equals a mini-mental health break.
Florida, Missouri, South Dakota, Louisiana, Alabama, and Arkansas have signed onto this Comstock-inspired lawfare so far.
Read more about these attacks on abortion provision, speech, and expression at the State Court Reporter HERE and at US News HERE.
Four states have attempted to pass “abortion trafficking” laws that would prosecute people for any-and-all aid provided toward an abortion. Including giving someone an informational pamphlet, showing them an ad, or directing them to counseling that could terminate a pregnancy. More HERE, HERE, HERE, and HERE.
Meta and Google are heavily censoring information about abortion, removing posts, and deactivating and/or terminating accounts. More HERE. They have also provided abortion-related user information to law enforcement without warrants or user notification. (I don’t know how many times I have told people to stop using these services, because refusing to give them attention and money is the only message these greedy psychopaths understand.)
NSPM-7 is another Comstock-inspired censorship and prosecution tool. The regime could argue that support for abortion indicates a bent toward domestic terror with the following line items: anti-(White Christian Nationalist) Christianity; hostility toward traditional (White Christian Nationalist) views on the family, religion, and morality.
I cried for a while last night over the live-streaming of an execution-by-firing-squad. Because I predicted it, yes. But also because it makes me sick that I am programmed to have a brain that can work like their brains do. I’m not a seer; I was indoctrinated to think the way they do from a young age, and no matter how much therapy one has or how much work she does on herself, that never goes away.
I stay in this chair despite the toll this work takes on me because enough of you pay for it. You make it possible for me to do this work my way, without reporting to sponsors, changing my reporting to please advertisers, selling your information for an added income stream, and more.
Since March 2025, Substack has throttled my reach. No matter what I do, my free subscribers remain flat, which means my paid subscribers dwindle every month. A successful subscription model means onboarding enough new free subscribers to find a few more paid subscribers. Substack’s algorithmic censorship of my work means I never reach those free subscribers, and that impacts my paid subscriber base as people decide to support other independent media or realize they can’t afford anything at all.
Many of you share and recommend my work, and I appreciate you. Welcome to the world of algorithmic censorship: No matter how much you share this work, it takes an obscene amount of shares and chatter to overcome algorithmic censorship. As I said to someone yesterday, you are better off creating email lists, text groups, and Fast Alert channels to give information a better chance of being seen. Don’t count on many people anywhere seeing social media shares, including on Substack. I’m not saying don’t share to social media; I’m saying not to rely solely on that as a means of reaching people.
I never decided to do this work for me. This isn’t what I wanted to be known for. I’d vastly prefer to have been able to make a living from having a NYT bestselling memoir that has a positive message about making memories. But I couldn’t be silent in the face of all the younger people who might wind up just like me or worse. I had to do something for them. I have, and I will continue for as long as it makes sense.
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I said I was writing an abbreviated newsletter. Silly me. I should know better than to think I can abbreviate on a day like this.
