Lorelei Lee (they/them)

Happy Sex Worker Pride Day (September 14th). It’s a great day to support sex workers by donating to sex worker-led organizations. Help me make a list of org’s donation pages below! #sexworkerpride #sexworkiswork #decrimnow

I am old enough to remember when social psychologists were telling us overt racism had disappeared and we needed magical tools to measure our unconscious racism. How quaint

The only reason I can think of for this news not being absolutely everywhere is that large media orgs don’t want to be seen as putting their thumbs on the scales a week before election day. And that’s cowardly as shit.

Kudos to TIME for getting it right time.com/article/2026...

policing is a jobs (and retirement) program for men who abuse women

Not my country but apparently in the United States a Wyoming registered LLC is now sending out physical mailers to Texan households falsely claiming to be sending material from a Texas based transgender support group. Someone is up to something folks. Please be safe. www.kxan.com/news/texas-p...

“Raises questions”?? In this Kavanaugh Stop, ICE agents swerve to hit a US citizen, knock him off his bike breaking his arm, tase him, cuff him as he screams in pain, blame him, lie about everything, threaten to charge him for damage to their SUV. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/20/u...

New: We found cops who kept using Flock to spy on women after they left the force. One used it for five years after retirement, tracking his wife during a custody battle. Another ran searches while he was suspended (and later fired) after killing a 15-year-old boy. Free to read: wapo.st/3UEwWU7

Police in Türkiye carried out a raid on the widely watched, independent news channel Halk TV on October 14. The seizure of the channel is part of a wider effort by the government to restrict Turkish citizens’ access to independent news sources.

a high ranking official (probably miller, blanche, or vance) is openly admitting this is a fishing expedition in national news. they just can't help themselves

Just published the bibliography from my upcoming book, in case you are interested. (Anything of Value is still 20% off here: www.simonandschuster.com/books/Anythi...) llee13.substack.com/p/so-many-bo...

marc andreesen blocked me 11 years ago for this www.vice.com/en/article/t...

cops and Christian anti-trafficking app guys worked this kind of tech out on sex workers a decade ago (remember “big data”?) www.vice.com/en/article/t...

How is everyone else respecting indigenous people's day today? I know many of you will use it to catch up with work & family away from the office, and that's wonderful. As a Guatemalan-American of Mam heritage, here are indigenous projects I admire. Maybe take a minute today to learn & donate?

It feels like this whole midterm elections cycle is a game of Mad Libs. What do you mean Florida Republicans allegedly stole millions of health insurance money from poor children to bankroll a campaign that blocked a marijuana legalization referendum www.cbsnews.com/miami/news/g...

I’m sorry, but we are NOT “all cam girls in the surveillance state.” I’m so sick of hearing it. Stop trying to be cute by centering yourself in conversations about a distinct, stigmatized experience that you have never been through. Stop turning sex workers into symbols. We are real people.

ICE has ordered 6,650 pairs—and says it'll ignore any bans.

There's an org in California that procures bulk N95s and other PPE to send to DRC. You can donate here: www.directrelief.org/2026/06/dire...

*so important*: if you’re voting by mail, assume the USPS will delay because it’s its policy. You can: —put it in drop box —go to counter to watch them postmark in front of you —if you’re dropping it in a mailbox, do it VERY EARLY.

A year ago, @propublica.org told you immigration agents had detained more than 170 U.S. citizens. We’ve updated our count, and we’ve got all the receipts. The tally: At least 506 citizens detained. Sometimes held at gunpoint, handcuffed, or even deported. projects.propublica.org/american-cit...

This is your occasional reminder that generative "AI" in particular could have been developed on public domain materials and/or licensed and compensated works but the major players intentionally, methodically and systemically chose to steal labor from working creative folks instead

TODAY (Monday, Oct. 5) is the deadline for registering to vote for the midterms in: AMERICAN SAMOA ARIZONA ARKANSAS FLORIDA GEORGIA INDIANA KENTUCKY LOUISIANA — in-person, mail (10/13 online) MISSISSIPPI MONTANA — mail (11/3 in-person) OHIO SOUTH CAROLINA — mail TENNESSEE TEXAS npr.org/vote

Republican House members Nancy Mace and Ronny Jackson have called for all transgender people to be rounded up and forcibly institutionalized. trib.al/J4bzitr

There are new and specific numbers in this story, so it’s worth reading. I continue to resent the lack of credit to Nick Schwellenbach at @pogo.org, Dan Friedman at @motherjones.com, and me, who have previously reported every other aspect of this story, including that the sale prices were very high.

I have no illusions that NYT would ever offer me a job, nor do I want one. But they may want to consider that their unwritten policy of not crediting previous reporting (the way everyone else in journalism does!) may be costing them the hiring of great journalists they actually do want.

the Cornell case should make us question prosecutors and police all the time: the same DA offices discounting college students’ sexual assault cases (the lacking investigations, the disbelief) are happy to jail countless women for far less, day in and day out, when most people aren’t watching

If you want to preorder my book right now, S&S is having a 20% off sale w the code SPOOKY @atriabooks.bsky.social www.simonandschuster.com/books/Anythi...

“There were at least two direct hits on a school packed with children … and a couple of hours after those initial hits, as first responders came, as parents came, the U.S. launches more strikes.”

I have turned in my book! Send me flowers and champagne (and books) here: throne.com/missloreleilee

This is a big f’ing deal. Story at the newsletter right now, and full explainer coming soon (so make sure you’re subscribed to AED) Three anti-abortion states are asking the Supreme Court to allow them to extradite abortion providers from pro-choice states.

So, we are putting the equivalent of Flock cameras on Postal Trucks to create “valuable data”? Valuable to whom? Will it be sold?

it’s good to remind people today we aren’t going to trauma-inform our way to “more humane” forms of caging and execution

I cannot wait for this book!!!!!

Mr. McKinsey was a transgender man and accused his wife, Candice Jang, and his in-laws of abusing him because of his identity, according to his filing for a restraining order in December 2025. He said his mother-in-law called him and one of his sons a “pervert.” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/28/u...

This makes me sick to my stomach. Imagine believing the social importance and cultural value of your job is directly tied to its market potential. Social workers and artists are crucial and urgently needed.

the horrific cornell gang rape case has me thinking about emma sulkowicz who alleged she was raped as a student at columbia in 2014 and never got any justice. it has me thinking about the physical and mental weight young women are forced to carry while their safety is subsumed by male potential.

I just spent half an hour reading every post in this thread and every post attached to this thread, and I am so thoroughly horrified. This is worth taking the time to read all of.