Every man with a daughter who defends misogynistic "jokes" & demeans feminine-coded things, understand when a man grooms her, which she will never tell you about, it is your fault. You failed as a father & human being.

Likely-historic photo by NBC News of all the Epstein victims asked to raise their hands if they've not yet been asked to meet with the DOJ as Bondi testifies in foreground

Sorry, but rape is something working class men also do. I know people have spent about a decade trying to delegitimize any analysis of women as an oppressed class, but reality can't be mooted for the sake of trends.

I think every woman knows at least one sexual abuser or rapist who lives free and easy.

“Ordinary, salt of the earth people would never tolerate a sexual abuser in their midst. Now time to take a big sip of coffee and respond to this group text with my old fraternity brothers.”

This indifference or enthusiasm for sexual violence is a cultural pathology born of misogyny, not a peculiar or unique degeneracy of the rich. You know people who have responded to rape like that.

I understand the reasons why it’s more jarring and consequential to see it happen among billionaires, but the kind of shrugging disinterest or impishly approving encouragement of sexual abuse among Epstein’s circle is the same dynamic that happens in less powerful milieus.

There’s literally a straight line between Trump, Epstein, and the retaliatory lawsuits against women who came forward with allegations against celebrity men like Amber Heard and Blake Lively. They all even have the same PR folks. And yet people still refuse to see it

Forget the allegations I abuse women while I sit here and verbally abuse a woman.

“You’d be prettier if you’d smile” says every abusive man ever. 🤢🤢🤢

“I’m not going to smile while asking about victims of child rape. Now will you answer the question, Mr President?”

Trump openly admitting FBI raid in Fulton County was a prelude to interfering with the midterms and attempting to seize control of state and local voting process

There are thousands of Americans still in prison for weed in states where it’s legal but billionaires can rape and murder children and everyone knows it but they never see prison. The USA is not a country of laws. It’s a pedophilic oligarchy.

"ICE will leave Minnesota if you hand over your voter rolls" tells you everything you need to know. This was never about immigration or fraud. It was always about rigging elections.

Another friend put it to me like this: "ICE has made the classic Nazi mistake. They've invaded a winter people in the winter."

Rep. Summer Lee is spot on. “The DOJ has been required to turn over the full Epstein files since August. They handed over one percent. Heavily redacted. Now that same subpoena is being used to hold the Clintons in contempt for what the DOJ itself is violating.” #SheShed

I always thought MLK’s ‘Mountaintop’ speech was his best, which was given the day before he was killed. It is especially relevant given what is happening now in MN and elsewhere. He was getting many serious threats, which he references in his line “I may not get there with you.”

FOX: Where’s the protest against the regime that's killing people in the street right now? Trent: They are doing those today. It’s called the ICE protests FOX: Are they talking about Iran at the ICE protests? Trent: No, I think they are talking about the regime that is shooting people in the face

This is what women face from men in private life too. If they fawn, they're blamed & he'll kill her anyway. If they show no fear, he'll be offended & kill her anyway. If she matched his aggression, he'd be more outraged & kill her anyway.

He circled her vehicle like a shark, got told off by her wife, came up to her again, executed her, and called her a “fucking bitch” as she died. This was a homophobic and misogynistic murder in service of the State’s project of ethnic cleansing.

I'm not sure how many more times we need to see/hear about violent men calling women "bitch" as they assault & even murder them before we accept that misogynistic slurs aren't neutral.

Jacob Frey: "To ICE -- get the fuck out of Minneapolis"

If you're a man that thinks being a friend to a woman is degrading if sex is not involved, you are clearly not her friend and deserve to be alone.

Trump's in the Epstein files over 600 times.

If I could accomplish one small thing for feminism it would be to expose men's humor as the weapon that it is, both a shield to cowardly hide behind & a mace to bludgeon women's humanity so we're designated subhuman. A man telling me something is just a joke provokes my rage. Do not indulge them.

WATCH: After six Democratic lawmakers posted a video urging members of the military not to follow illegal orders, Trump erupted online, accusing them of “SEDITIOUS BEHAVIOR, punishable by DEATH!” Sen. Elissa Slotkin, one of the senators in that video, joins Chris Hayes to respond.

Getting to know a new male coworker, find out we're both into D&D. Ask what he's RPing as atm. A cleric who worships Tate 🤮🤦🏼‍♀️ I have to sit next to that for the next month, more if he stays past the holidays. Fucking hell. He hid it well for weeks, too. Goes to show, it's all men until it's no men. 😮‍💨

Being wanted as just an object to deposit sperm into isn't flattering or fulfilling. It's very isolating and lonely if no one finds value in you outside of sex. Why so many men think we shouldn't be lonely as long as there are men willing to use us for their own gratification, I don't know.

Nobody 'gives' women rights. We have the same rights as any other human being. Men just have to drop the fantasy that our rights are theirs to give or take away.

This.

"Fuck ICE" is a patriotic sentiment. Perhaps the most patriotic in this moment.

When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty.

The House has chosen not to work and is withholding the swearing-in of newly elected Democrat Adelita Grijalva. She still hasn’t been seated, and it definitely feels intentional since her signature would provide the last vote needed to force the release of the Epstein files.

This says all you need to know.

birthrate handwringing is intrinsically fascist. not just "ordinary" conservatism, it's an explicitly nazi hyperfixation. but if you really want to pretend to care about it for non-patriarchal non-reactionary reasons, i'd blame the loss of roe before blaming women for using dating apps.

There is no way you can make being raped and forced to give birth not traumatizing (for anyone but especially a ten year old) no matter how many "resources" you provide.

To answer his question, men wait for many reasons, including: They are lazy and expect women to do all the unpaid labour, including the work of breaking up or divorcing They are the abusive/ exploitative one in the relationship, so they don’t want to break up

The crazy wife/girlfriend trope was made up by men, so they never have to be responsible for the ways they traumatize women.

Nasty when dudes pretend the "crime" we're mad about is ~he likes beautiful women~. They always try to pretend we're about "shaming the male sex drive" or whatever. Nah dude. What we're shaming is how comfortable you are with violating us and how much MORE it turns you on to not have permission.

Ooh, so close. Virility, not fertility, that men are obsessed with. For male approval. They just claim to value fertility to justify preying on younger, more vulnerable women but if they cared so much about kids there wouldn't be so many deadbeat & tourist fathers.

We should all know the name Ann Burgess. Much of the techniques and methodology of modern day criminology stemmed from her: FBI Mind hunter profiling, how to interview victims, co-founding r*pe crisis centers & much more. Today, she is working on a study about missing & murdered indigenous women.

Cheating is not a 'mistake' it is an active series of choices. Also every dude who claims someone is 'destroying the family' by not forgiving can go straight into the dumpster. No fuckface, YOU destroyed it with your lies and infidelity. Stand your ground, love. You don't owe him ANYTHING.

Walz says Harris "would have been a fantastic president... we wouldn't wake up every day to a bunch of shit on TV. We would wake up to an adult w/ compassion & dignity doing the work, not a manchild crying about whatever is wrong with him. May his fat ankles find something today. Petty as hell."

Here it is! I just cited it for someone else. It's damn good. www.youtube.com/watch?v=qliV...

"You are neither wanted here, nor needed here. Your remarks about this effort over the last several weeks have betrayed a continuing slip in your mental faculties and are not fit for the auspicious office that you occupy."

Pritzker: To the members of the press who are assembled here today and listening across the country, I am asking for your courage to tell it like it is. This is not a time to pretend here that there are two sides to this story.

This is the same reason men make dating profiles dripping with misogyny, same reason men send DMs to random women to abuse them. A lot of men hate women & want access to hurt women but they're too undesirable to obtain a partner to abuse so they turn to the internet for victims.

Sex 👏🏻 is 👏🏻 not 👏🏻 a 👏🏻 need! 👏🏻 Run from people who refer to sex as a "need" or "withholding" sex. That is rape culture.