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There, Babitz found the ideal milieu for her free-form libertinism, sharing pitchers of Schlitz at Barney’s Beanery with the emergent artists of the decade — Ed Ruscha, Billy Al Bengston, Larry Bell — and famously posed nude while playing chess with Marcel Duchamp at a local art museum in 1963.

It would ultimately become apparent that Jezebel’s gleeful “Start Snitchin’ ” ethos could be harnessed to create a media landscape as toxic and deranged as the nihilistic libertinism that had enabled so many bad actors to operate with impunity during the Bush years, because the same clique of wealthy and powerful gatekeepers ultimately and inherently decides who will and won’t be canceled.

Her conservative opponent, Daniel Kelly, has written that abortion rights are “deadly to children” and that Democrats and women’s groups are pro-choice because they want “to preserve sexual libertinism.”

Protasiewicz was not shy about proclaiming her support for abortion rights, while Kelly did legal work for Wisconsin Right to Life and wrote, in a now-deleted 2012 blog post, that abortion “involves taking the life of a human being” and that abortion rights supporters seek to “preserve sexual libertinism.”

Years before he became a justice, Kelly made his own opinions clear in blog posts that said abortions take away lives and argued that Democrats support access to the procedure to “preserve sexual libertinism.”