Apple Wants Me Sanctioned for Saying "Menstruation" on the Internet. Here Are My Responses.2/20/2026 Apple filed an emergency letter with a federal court demanding sanctions, contempt, a restraining order on my speech, and deletion of my blog post and social media posts about my NLRB charges. They wanted an unrecorded phone call within 24 hours to make it happen. No motions, no evidence, no briefing, no court reporter, and no public visibility to what happens. Apple wanted my coworkers to know Apple was getting me called into detention with a Judge, but they didn't want anyone to see what was said or understand what the outcome was, other than it was all happening because Apple called me a "leaker" when I complained about work conditions and demanded that Apple be a better employer. Apple's lawyers even emailed me demanding I delete social media posts and blog posts that they wanted me to self-identify as "leaking" about work conditions. I told Apple's lawyers to eat rocks. Then they escalated to a federal court, accusing me of gross misconduct and saying I'm causing irreparable harm to Apple, and cited and quoted my NLRB charges against Apple alleging that Apple violated the NLRA. Apple also repeatedly claimed that me complaining about Apple's intrusive requests, monitoring, questioning and "studies" of employee genital secretions was also Apple Confidential and suggested I was "breaching" court Orders (that's asking a court to hold me in contempt), and should be forced to delete my posts (that's sanctions/injunctive relief), and be ordered to stop "leaking" (that's a prior restraint gag order). I, once again, told Apple's lawyers to eat rocks. During this period of time Apple accumulated three new NLRB charges like it was collecting Pokémon cards. .... Apple did manage to get a next-day cryptic, non-public, non-recorded, evidence-free "telephonic discovery conference" scheduled for Feb. 20 2026 where I was denied a request to have time to even file an Opposition, and my objections demanding evidence, proper motions and briefing, a Court Reporter and basic Due Process were all implicitly denied. So basically recreating that Sept. 9 2021 email from Apple's Workplace Violence team demanding I get on the phone with their interrogator and then firing me for "non-cooperation" when I said I wanted a record of the conversation because I thought they were going to hurt me, which of course they were and having a record of them doing that makes it more difficult for them to do with the flare they so enjoy. I filed three responses today across two federal courts: an Opposition and a Motion to Quash in the US District Court, and a Motion for Sanctions in the Bankruptcy Court for Apple's violation of the automatic stay. They're linked and attached below. There are copies of all of the new NLRB charges attached to the Opposition filing if you'd like to review this incredible progress we're making on documenting Apple's absolutely ridiculous behavior. To that point, none of Apple's behavior is surprising. This is what old, crotchety Big Tech employers do when they're not used to employees organizing and pushing back. They clearly think they can get away with unfair labor practices and overt retaliation because they've always gotten away with it. Their entire playbook depends on employees being too scared or too broke to fight. I also think Apple is flipping out right now because I managed to escape out of that dank submarine cesspool bunker in Boston I had been trapped in for a couple years. I was back in Santa Clara County for only two weeks catching up on many overdue filings and litigation deliverables. Apple's lawyers apparently had become complacent with me being mostly incapacitated, and so they apparently panicked to see me back in action. So they did... this?! Listen, even if the court or NLRB won't intervene, even if every institution that's supposed to protect workers fails — this is how employees do it. You just keep pushing back. You hold the line. You expose the truth. You call them out. You might get slowed down by personal stuff here and there, but you bounce back. You tell them to eat rocks when they're union busting. You put it all on the record. You make them do their dirt in public. And you don't stop. When they freak out like this, you file more charges. You document the freakout and you push harder. Someday they're going to have to budge and you swoop in and you get bargaining agreement signed immediately - do not release your pressure for one moment or they will squirm away like the little worms they are. Apple's letter complained to the court that I was orchestrating a "campaign" to expose their suppression of worker complaints. Yes. That's what labor organizing is. Welcome to it, Apple. -Ashley 2/20 - Motion to Quash 
2/20 - Opposition/Objections
2/20 - Motion for Sanctions
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