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18 Nov, 5 tweets, 2 min read
"170 arrested in human trafficking operation!"

<police report shows nothing but prostitution arrests>
miamiherald.com/news/state/flo…
Anatomy of Fake News: Notice that @MiamiHerald doesn't both listing what charges were brought in this "human trafficking" bust, just puts up a big dramatic headline and a lot of fluff about the "signs" of trafficking and then some police reports showing prostitution arrests...
This is not journalism, @MiamiHerald @howardcohen, this is copy-pasting a police press release miamiherald.com/news/state/flo…
Anyway... will try to look into this further later. There have been so many of these lately, and people keep alerting me to new ones (& I appreciate it!), that I cannot keep up!
To be clear, it's not that *no one* is ever helped in these stories or no genuinely bad actors are ever arrested. It's that cops & news insist on conflating the very few cases like this with all the arrests of adults for consensual sex

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Since Cindy McCain is in the news again.... let’s look back at a few of her greatest hits though, yeah?
This is a good overview of Cindy McCain’s life’s work & the “human rights” foundation she & John ran reason.com/2017/06/20/cin…
And here’s a look at what Cindy McCain has been up to more recently reason.com/2019/02/07/mcc…
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Good morning, Twitter 🤗Since a bunch of sex-trafficking conspiracy theorists (and some well-meaning but misinformed folks) are demanding that I explain myself...

Good news: I already have (at length!). This is probably the best place to start reason.com/2015/09/30/the…
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"Enough Stranger Danger! Children Rarely Abducted by Those They Don't Know" reason.com/2017/03/31/kid…

(See... oh, everything @FreeRangeKids writes for more)
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Rented a moving van to take us back to Ohio. Supposed to pick it up at 11 am today. @Budget lets us know at 9:30 a.m. that it's not available, none are available, too bad about your luck 😡😂🤬
"We can get you the van you reserved for today sometime next week," @Budget says

Um, we have to move out of our apartment TODAY. That's why we rented a truck for TODAY.
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Congrats to my @reason colleagues @kmanguward @PaulDetrick @evajoanna @shikhadalmia @JustinANutshell @MightyHeaton Austin Bragg & @TheAbridgedZach on the 2020 @LAPressClub wins!!! Image
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Inspired by @meta_meg ... How many tweets would it take you to list every job you’ve ever had?
Had a lot of temp jobs in my youth and side hustles in my early adulthood. Have never actually counted until now (and not sure how many tweets this would fill to list them) but I think I’m at 40+ jobs in my lifetime 😶
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