#VisibilityBrigade #america #usa #ICE #CivilLiberties #DueProcess #GovernmentAccountability #PeacefulProtest #icecampskill @visibilitybrigade.bsky.social @rosaliewong.bsky.social @karenb4good.bsky.social @emmatk.bsky.social @hcrichardson.bsky.social @roberthubbell.skystack.xyz #epstein

They literally dragged a minor employee out of a Target as he was wailing that he was a US citizen, roughed him up in their car, and then dropped him off bloodied and bruised in the freezing cold a couple of miles away, so miss us with this.

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Fuentes then fantasizes about “breeding gulags”: “So just like Hitler imprisoned Gypsies, Jews, communists, you know, all of his political rivals, we have to do the same thing with women… They go to the breeding gulags. The good ones will be liberated. The bad ones will toil in the mines forever.”

Fuentes, yesterday: “Our #1 political enemy is women because women constrain everything, every conversation, every man, everything. They have to be imprisoned. They are the ones that are hurting the fertility rate. They're the ones making us sympathetic to poor people, which are also brown people.”

Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick needs to RESIGN; he LIED about his contacts with Epstein; had continued relationship with him. Lutnick faces bipartisan calls to resign over latest Epstein revelations www.politico.com/live-updates...

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Epstein survivor Anouska De Georgiou: The fact that the very people who are meant to lead this country have completely retraumatized us… it’s—I mean—it’s like being raped by the Department of Justice.

The (Episcopal) Bishop of the Diocese of Pennsylvania

#Epstein #EpsteinFiles

Really nuts how many men were like "Me Too went too far, and I need to email Jeffrey Epstein about it."

According to Gilmore, “this isn’t merely an administrative failure, but a ‘paradigmatic instance of institutional silencing.’ Institutional silencing takes the form of “managed visibility,’ in which the public sees only parts of the Epstein files but far too much about the women he preyed upon.”

Like I said, I’m just glad Chomsky found someone he loved as much as Pol Pot. I worried he might never love again.

So what I’m gathering is a pedophilic billionaire successfully worked to destigmatize race science among the academic, political, and business elite partly by sex trafficking girls. Is that the shape of it so far?

Wild: (Microsoft) Xbox Live banned Epstein for being a sex offender in 2013, but Microsoft founder Bill Gates kept making appointments with him

new CBS contributor Peter Attia

I talked with @mariaramirez.bsky.social about MeToo as context for her important reporting on Julio Iglesias.

This superb essay by @benwurgaft.bsky.social makes me want to talk to everyone about the problems with utilitarianism.

Something worthy has emerged from social media. @duchessgoldblatt.bsky.social has given us a beautiful memoir.

@ronanfarrow.bsky.social included this story in Catch and Kill. @katemanne.bsky.social and @borowitzreport.bsky.social discuss Katie Johnson's (a pseudonym) credible allegation that Trump raped her when she was 13. Content warning for child rape.

“The emails offer a window on that ugly world and the people in it who prefer to consider themselves untouchable," Leigh Gilmore, the author of “The #MeToo Effect: What Happens When We Believe Women," told me.

NEW: The White House intervened on behalf of accused sex trafficker Andrew Tate during a federal investigation. “It was so offensive to what we’re all here to do, to uphold the law and protect the American people,” one official involved said. www.propublica.org/article/andr...

Can we please never hear from Larry Summers again.

In April 2009, the Washington Post asked 10 writers to make the case for something that deserves to be tossed out as part of "spring cleaning." I chose Larry Summers. Better late than never. Unlocked version of my 16-year-old article below. naomiklein.org/why-we-shoul...

We should listen to survivors because it’s the decent thing to do. And few things are as revealing about how power works in elite institutions as sexual abuse.

The guy behind the campaign to torpedo Claudine Gay sought advice from Epstein on how to pressure a woman he mentored for sex is … checks notes … scheduled to teach at Harvard.

Alan Dershowitz is one of those claiming Epstein was not a pedophile because he pleaded guilty to one count of having sex for money with a 17-year-and-10-month-old person. "That’s not a pedophile." See this important response from Julia Brown, the brave reporter who broke the news on this

I trust @jkbjournalist.bsky.social

What would Jesus do? See the photo below.

Like I dunno, maybe the reason it took a lady to break open the story of all the men protecting the dude trafficking underage girls is because the male journos were all emailing him making jokes about it?

A sea of people in Boston!

The landscape in higher ed is bleak right now, but here's a bright light at my institution: there's a new tenure track position at @davidsoncollege.bsky.social in Gender & Sexuality Studies. Please share widely!

This kind of misogyny and sense of entitlement starts early and the fact that no one involved did anything about the clear red flags is disturbing www.nytimes.com/2025/10/03/n...

Please join me in congratulating Woman on her appointment

October is National Domestic Violence Awareness Month. Eleanor Johnson, whose horror substack is terrific, has been writing about dv and I highly recommend her eloquence, pragmatism, wit, and courage.

a LARGE number of University of California unions and related organizations are rallying at the Board of Regents meeting on Tuesday. It's united opposition to capituation to Trump. Do join if you can! and please spread the word.

Trump sympathizes with the man accused of domestic violence.

JUST IN from @ashleymurray.bsky.social A federal appeals court on Monday upheld that President Donald Trump must pay an $83 million penalty for defaming writer E. Jean Carroll in 2019. www.newsfromthestates.com/article/trum...

Hi Bluesky, The English translation of my book on the Pelicot trial is coming out in a month! You know (or maybe you don't) how it is: preorders are crucial for the life of a book, so don't hesitate to preorder right now. a.co/d/a0qeZeh I hope the fantastic blurbs will convince you if you're not:

“American Academy of Arts&Sciences reports 96.3% of humanities grads age 23-32 fully employed. Earnings in humanitiess comparable to social/life sciences, job satisfaction levels too. A serious mismatch bw actual employment for hum grads +general perception." www.mellon.org/voices/human...

Where are the voices of the girls Epstein and Trump abused? Kate Manne transcribed Katie Johnson’s (a pseudonym) account of how Trump allegedly raped her at Epstein’s home in 1994. She was 13 and wore a blonde wig that Trump allegedly said made her look like Ivana, who was 13yo at the time.

Monstrous. Noem failed to renew contracts and let hundreds of FEMA contractors be fired DURING the TX flood response, leaving thousands of victims unable to reach help. The acting head of FEMA has no disaster management experience and has been MIA since his appointment—all per NYT report

It is a crisis.

If you want to read deeply researched accounts of what happened to novels in the last fifty or so years, may I recommend Novel Competition: American Fiction and the Cultural Economy, 1965–1999 by Evan Brier uipress.uiowa.edu/books/novel-...

#MeToo cases like Diddy, Lively-Baldoni, and Depp-Heard are important because of what they say about money. Juries still see procuring (paying for), and settlements (paying off) about sexual violence as sex.

See you soon!