📚Adam Morgan’s excellent "A Danger to the Minds of Young Girls" on trailblazing publisher Margaret C. Anderson revisits the 1921 Ulysses obscenity trial—sadly, newly relevant.
#BookBans #ComstockAct #BookSky
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#BookBans #ComstockAct #BookSky
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Adam Morgan’s “A Danger to the Minds of Young Girls” traces the 1921 Ulysses trial and its echoes in today’s censorship war
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December 9, 2025 at 7:41 PM
📚Adam Morgan’s excellent "A Danger to the Minds of Young Girls" on trailblazing publisher Margaret C. Anderson revisits the 1921 Ulysses obscenity trial—sadly, newly relevant.
#BookBans #ComstockAct #BookSky
Thx for the galley @atriabooks.bsky.social
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#BookBans #ComstockAct #BookSky
Thx for the galley @atriabooks.bsky.social
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The Legal Justice League Taking on MAGA's Abortion Witch Hunts💥 👊Reproductive Futures, led by superhero @juliefkay.bsky.social, is defending doctors & nurses hunted for helping women get abortion pills.
#abortionrights #reproductivefreedom #womensrights #maga #comstockact #shieldlaws #abortionpills
#abortionrights #reproductivefreedom #womensrights #maga #comstockact #shieldlaws #abortionpills
October 23, 2025 at 10:09 PM
The Legal Justice League Taking on MAGA's Abortion Witch Hunts💥 👊Reproductive Futures, led by superhero @juliefkay.bsky.social, is defending doctors & nurses hunted for helping women get abortion pills.
#abortionrights #reproductivefreedom #womensrights #maga #comstockact #shieldlaws #abortionpills
#abortionrights #reproductivefreedom #womensrights #maga #comstockact #shieldlaws #abortionpills
DYK the 1895 SCOTUS found it was legal to use decoy tactics to entrap people into violating the #ComstockAct? The case was “U.S. v. Grimm”. William Grimm had responded to a letter of entrapment. He asked for “fancy” photos.
HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #censorship #pornography
HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #censorship #pornography
July 29, 2025 at 4:49 PM
DYK the 1895 SCOTUS found it was legal to use decoy tactics to entrap people into violating the #ComstockAct? The case was “U.S. v. Grimm”. William Grimm had responded to a letter of entrapment. He asked for “fancy” photos.
HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #censorship #pornography
HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #censorship #pornography
#Ovid’s “Art of Love”, Queen Margaret of Navarre’s “The Heptameron”, #Rabelais’s “Gargantua & Pantagruel”, & #Rousseau’s “Confessions”.
HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #censorshiip #ComstockAct #DirtyBooks
Judge Morgan J. O’Brien (d.1937) found that
HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #censorshiip #ComstockAct #DirtyBooks
Judge Morgan J. O’Brien (d.1937) found that
July 28, 2025 at 3:29 PM
#Ovid’s “Art of Love”, Queen Margaret of Navarre’s “The Heptameron”, #Rabelais’s “Gargantua & Pantagruel”, & #Rousseau’s “Confessions”.
HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #censorshiip #ComstockAct #DirtyBooks
Judge Morgan J. O’Brien (d.1937) found that
HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #censorshiip #ComstockAct #DirtyBooks
Judge Morgan J. O’Brien (d.1937) found that
“… [The books] rank with the higher literature, and would not be bought nor appreciated by the class of people from whom unclean publications ought to be withheld.” The #GOP invokes the #ComstockAct today! HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #censorship
#TrumpKKKristians
#TrumpKKKristians
July 27, 2025 at 3:59 PM
“… [The books] rank with the higher literature, and would not be bought nor appreciated by the class of people from whom unclean publications ought to be withheld.” The #GOP invokes the #ComstockAct today! HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #censorship
#TrumpKKKristians
#TrumpKKKristians
DYK In 1887, #AnthonyComstock triggered a public relations disaster for himself by arresting the owner of the Knoedler Gallery in NYC? He charged him with selling photos of Parisian Salon paintings. The court found that 35 out of 37 of them were not obscene. #ComstockAct
July 27, 2025 at 3:59 PM
DYK In 1887, #AnthonyComstock triggered a public relations disaster for himself by arresting the owner of the Knoedler Gallery in NYC? He charged him with selling photos of Parisian Salon paintings. The court found that 35 out of 37 of them were not obscene. #ComstockAct
DYK in 1876, Edward Bliss Foote had to publish a revision of his book about, “Plain Home Talk—Embracing Medical Common Sense” because of the #ComstockAct, which #TrumpKKKristians want to bring back!
July 26, 2025 at 3:04 PM
DYK in 1876, Edward Bliss Foote had to publish a revision of his book about, “Plain Home Talk—Embracing Medical Common Sense” because of the #ComstockAct, which #TrumpKKKristians want to bring back!
DYK the punishments #AnthonyComstock meted out under the #ComstockAct were often severe? #FreeLove publisher Ezra Heywood agreed the proliferation of #porn was “alarming”, nevertheless #Comstock had him arrested in 1876 for writing “Cupid’s Yokes”.
July 26, 2025 at 3:01 PM
DYK the punishments #AnthonyComstock meted out under the #ComstockAct were often severe? #FreeLove publisher Ezra Heywood agreed the proliferation of #porn was “alarming”, nevertheless #Comstock had him arrested in 1876 for writing “Cupid’s Yokes”.
DYK, very much like #Trump, #AnthonyComstock did not apply his 1873 #ComstockAct to people he knew? Samuel #Colgate, a powerful member of the Society for the Suppression of Vice marketed #Vaseline w/a 12-pg mailer promoting it for #BirthControl:
July 25, 2025 at 2:56 PM
DYK, very much like #Trump, #AnthonyComstock did not apply his 1873 #ComstockAct to people he knew? Samuel #Colgate, a powerful member of the Society for the Suppression of Vice marketed #Vaseline w/a 12-pg mailer promoting it for #BirthControl:
DYK #AnthonyComstock’s Postal #ComstockAct (1873) drove the delivery of #porn to private carriers? It wasn’t until 1897 that all interstate trade in #pornography became illegal & private express companies had to give up the business. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #TrumpKKKristians
July 25, 2025 at 2:49 PM
DYK #AnthonyComstock’s Postal #ComstockAct (1873) drove the delivery of #porn to private carriers? It wasn’t until 1897 that all interstate trade in #pornography became illegal & private express companies had to give up the business. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #TrumpKKKristians
Efforts to undermine and make #abortion illegal continuing. New suit by individual challenges abortion by #telehealth w/ state law and #ComstockAct claims. Will not wind its way through #courts. 19thnews.org/2025/07/tele...
Telehealth abortion access could be challenged nationwide in new lawsuit
A Texas man is suing a California doctor over his girlfriend’s alleged abortion across state lines — the latest in a string of cases meant to test the laws that have helped people get care.
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July 25, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Efforts to undermine and make #abortion illegal continuing. New suit by individual challenges abortion by #telehealth w/ state law and #ComstockAct claims. Will not wind its way through #courts. 19thnews.org/2025/07/tele...
The Society competed w/police in NYC. It found police efforts inadequate & began to raid dens of ill repute. Comstock charged, “You must hunt these men as you hunt rats, without mercy.” #TrumpKKKristians & the #GOP are trying to revive #ComstockAct. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com
July 24, 2025 at 2:31 PM
The Society competed w/police in NYC. It found police efforts inadequate & began to raid dens of ill repute. Comstock charged, “You must hunt these men as you hunt rats, without mercy.” #TrumpKKKristians & the #GOP are trying to revive #ComstockAct. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com
DYK #AnthonyComstock established the NY Society for the Suppression of Vice in 1873 w/backing from the #YMCA? Its members assisted police in the suppression of materials that NY & the #ComstockAct forbade, including #BirthControl info.
Ghosts of #HistSex still haunt. #censorship
Ghosts of #HistSex still haunt. #censorship
July 24, 2025 at 2:31 PM
DYK #AnthonyComstock established the NY Society for the Suppression of Vice in 1873 w/backing from the #YMCA? Its members assisted police in the suppression of materials that NY & the #ComstockAct forbade, including #BirthControl info.
Ghosts of #HistSex still haunt. #censorship
Ghosts of #HistSex still haunt. #censorship
DYK #AnthonyComstock (#ComstockAct) claimed that schoolgirls & young women were among the most avid readers of #porn? He published “Frauds Exposed” in 1871. He developed his dogma about obscenity in it, defining it as anything that could instill impure thoughts among the young:
July 23, 2025 at 2:52 PM
DYK #AnthonyComstock (#ComstockAct) claimed that schoolgirls & young women were among the most avid readers of #porn? He published “Frauds Exposed” in 1871. He developed his dogma about obscenity in it, defining it as anything that could instill impure thoughts among the young:
In 1872, the #YMCA gave #AnthonyComstock $30,000 to buy & destroy all the printing equipment & plates owned by porn publisher William Haines. Ghosts of #HistSex still haunt. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #censorship #ComstockAct
July 21, 2025 at 2:52 PM
In 1872, the #YMCA gave #AnthonyComstock $30,000 to buy & destroy all the printing equipment & plates owned by porn publisher William Haines. Ghosts of #HistSex still haunt. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #censorship #ComstockAct
#tradwife #Masculinity #Heirarchy #Women #ToxicMasculinity #alt #culture #JDVance #Middleclass#Misscarriage #Republicans #Texas #ComstockAct #FetalPersonhood##dominance
Thom Hartmann
From: The Manhood Trap: From Epstein’s Island to Musk’s Baby Farm — How the Right Redefined Masculinity as Control
Thom Hartmann
From: The Manhood Trap: From Epstein’s Island to Musk’s Baby Farm — How the Right Redefined Masculinity as Control
July 17, 2025 at 2:46 PM
#tradwife #Masculinity #Heirarchy #Women #ToxicMasculinity #alt #culture #JDVance #Middleclass#Misscarriage #Republicans #Texas #ComstockAct #FetalPersonhood##dominance
Thom Hartmann
From: The Manhood Trap: From Epstein’s Island to Musk’s Baby Farm — How the Right Redefined Masculinity as Control
Thom Hartmann
From: The Manhood Trap: From Epstein’s Island to Musk’s Baby Farm — How the Right Redefined Masculinity as Control
#TAKEACTION now for HUMAN RIGHTS
FEMALE HUMANS ARE HUMAN.
#ABORTION #COMSTOCKACT
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FEMALE HUMANS ARE HUMAN.
#ABORTION #COMSTOCKACT
actionnetwork.org/letters/keep...
Keep Abortion Bans Out of Our Mailbox
Anti-abortion extremists are back, trying to go where they don’t belong: into our healthcare, our mail, and our medicine cabinets.
They’re using junk‑science “reports” to fear‑monger and strip away n...
actionnetwork.org
July 1, 2025 at 6:27 PM
#TAKEACTION now for HUMAN RIGHTS
FEMALE HUMANS ARE HUMAN.
#ABORTION #COMSTOCKACT
actionnetwork.org/letters/keep...
FEMALE HUMANS ARE HUMAN.
#ABORTION #COMSTOCKACT
actionnetwork.org/letters/keep...
Keep Abortion Bans Out of Our Mailbox
Anti-abortion extremists are back, trying to go where they don’t belong: into our healthcare, our mail, and our medicine cabinets.
They’re using junk‑science “reports” to fear‑monger and strip away n...
actionnetwork.org
June 26, 2025 at 6:06 AM
#TAKEACTION now for HUMAN RIGHTS
FEMALE HUMANS ARE HUMAN.
#ABORTION #COMSTOCKACT
actionnetwork.org/letters/keep...
FEMALE HUMANS ARE HUMAN.
#ABORTION #COMSTOCKACT
actionnetwork.org/letters/keep...
#WomensHealthcareRights #ReproductiveRights #ComstockAct #RoeVsWade #Physicians #CriminalPenalties
#ResistFascism
#NoKingsDay #June14
Status of #AbortionBans in the United States as of June 2, 2025
@kff.org
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#ResistFascism
#NoKingsDay #June14
Status of #AbortionBans in the United States as of June 2, 2025
@kff.org
www.kff.org/womens-healt...
June 10, 2025 at 9:21 AM
#WomensHealthcareRights #ReproductiveRights #ComstockAct #RoeVsWade #Physicians #CriminalPenalties
#ResistFascism
#NoKingsDay #June14
Status of #AbortionBans in the United States as of June 2, 2025
@kff.org
www.kff.org/womens-healt...
#ResistFascism
#NoKingsDay #June14
Status of #AbortionBans in the United States as of June 2, 2025
@kff.org
www.kff.org/womens-healt...
"It's really important that we don't pass laws just in case we need them and not enforce them because nothing is stopping someone else from coming along and deciding to enforce them." #ComstockAct #Project2025 c4osl.org/beyond-the-f...
May 7, 2025 at 6:05 PM
"It's really important that we don't pass laws just in case we need them and not enforce them because nothing is stopping someone else from coming along and deciding to enforce them." #ComstockAct #Project2025 c4osl.org/beyond-the-f...
#OTD #May6, 1917 private showing #MargaretSanger’s film #Birth Control. Sanger had scheduled it to open publicly the next night, but #NYC officials banned it as obscene and it was never shown publicly. #ComstockAct woodstockwhisperer.info/2016/05/06/m...
Margaret Sanger Birth Control | The Woodstock Whisperer/Jim Shelley
Margaret Sanger Birth Control Edwin Black wrote a history of the eugenics movement, War Against the Weak "Sanger was no racist. Nor was she anti-Semitic"
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May 6, 2025 at 11:48 AM
#OTD #May6, 1917 private showing #MargaretSanger’s film #Birth Control. Sanger had scheduled it to open publicly the next night, but #NYC officials banned it as obscene and it was never shown publicly. #ComstockAct woodstockwhisperer.info/2016/05/06/m...
5 a day are dying in femicide -Any reports?
5 years ago both parties derailed the HUMAN RIGHT of equal protection of law for 170 million women
-Any reports?
Relegated to 2nd class status the question is how does the country treat its 2nd class citizens who have history of coverture?
#ComstockAct
5 years ago both parties derailed the HUMAN RIGHT of equal protection of law for 170 million women
-Any reports?
Relegated to 2nd class status the question is how does the country treat its 2nd class citizens who have history of coverture?
#ComstockAct
April 10, 2025 at 2:01 PM
5 a day are dying in femicide -Any reports?
5 years ago both parties derailed the HUMAN RIGHT of equal protection of law for 170 million women
-Any reports?
Relegated to 2nd class status the question is how does the country treat its 2nd class citizens who have history of coverture?
#ComstockAct
5 years ago both parties derailed the HUMAN RIGHT of equal protection of law for 170 million women
-Any reports?
Relegated to 2nd class status the question is how does the country treat its 2nd class citizens who have history of coverture?
#ComstockAct
This cause is close to my heart - please sign: sign.moveon.org/petitions/re... #ComstockAct #RepealComstock #HandsOff #Petition #AbortionRights
Repeal the Comstock Act!
The Comstock Act—if enforced—is a law that prohibits the mailing of abortion medication, equipment used for abortion care, and contraceptives through the mail. Donald Trump and his anti-abortion...
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March 29, 2025 at 2:39 AM
This cause is close to my heart - please sign: sign.moveon.org/petitions/re... #ComstockAct #RepealComstock #HandsOff #Petition #AbortionRights
Following the overturning of Roe v. Wade, anti-abortion groups cite the 1873 Comstock Act to restrict access to abortion medication. With MAGA using it, then they should enforce the entire act which also criminalizes mailing any material w/ nudity & can be prosecuted as well.
#ComstockAct
#ComstockAct
March 27, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Following the overturning of Roe v. Wade, anti-abortion groups cite the 1873 Comstock Act to restrict access to abortion medication. With MAGA using it, then they should enforce the entire act which also criminalizes mailing any material w/ nudity & can be prosecuted as well.
#ComstockAct
#ComstockAct