Today is a good day to remember, and to say, that the #MeToo movement was right, and was righteous, and has been vindicated over and over again. There was no overreach. There was no excess. There was no they-went-too-far. So much work remains to be done.

These child traffickers and rapists took away the right to modern healthcare & bodily autonomy for all US women, girls, trans people.

At this point I think Dems & GOP need to hear that failure to support impeachment = complicity in the Epstein scandal. "Impeach" just means "Fire POTUS," and any other stance is debased. "It's not feasible" should be seen as an excuse, an effort to shield this monster. bsky.app/profile/matt...

Veterans have lined up outside the ICE detention center in Portland, standing in solidarity and calling for accountability and lawful conduct by federal officers. Their message: Those who once defended the Constitution are now standing to ensure it's upheld at home. #VeteransDay #Portland #NoICE

We're in the "raping young teenage girls isn't pedophilia" part of the cope from MAGA. These people are evil.

Epstein was just as evil and demented, but now Trump had more power than he did. These are evil men. Epstein's involvement in getting Kavanaugh onto the Supreme Court=a trafficker & rapist of girls dismantling protection of the human right to bodily autonomy for all US women, girls, trans men. 💔

This pedophilic regime has got to go. Elected officials, media, corporations, judges, universities … need to see this administration for what it is—a sinking ship full of rats. We have the power to pressure the people in power. Refusefascism.org

just opening up the new Epstein docs at random:

“A new drug, called GanLum, was more than 97% effective at treating malaria in clinical trials carried out across 12 African countries, researchers reported Wednesday at the American Society for Tropical Medicine and Hygiene in Toronto.”

I am shooting my shot. I love writing op-eds. @teenvogue.com was my main outlet, but if there are any others (especially independently ran) that are looking for a contributing writer on race, gender, and the economy, I'd love to work with you. Signed, A Black woman who writes for the public

Who would have imagined that a pro-Nazi newspaper would also be implicated in a pedophile coverup.

The American political class hasn't yet grasped how radicalized the parents of young children have become since COVID. We voted in Mayors Mamdani and Wilson. Ms. Rachel is our patron saint. We take our kids to protests. We're done.

Wilson was mocked for acknowledging that the cost of childcare is outrageous and her parents help her with that expense. But it turns out a majority of voters feel the same squeeze, liked her universal childcare plan, and voted accordingly.

Congrats to Congresswoman Adelita Grijalva on your long-overdue swearing-in! With you in Congress, the people of Arizona's 7th now have a voice in the halls of power. And we now have the 218th signature we need to force a vote on releasing the Epstein files.

I don't often talk about having been a victim of sexual assault in my childhood and adolescence, but I will say now that everything I've been through in trying to rebuild my sense of self and become a functioning adult is burning in my chest with raw fury at seeing the stupid cruelty of these people

It’s going to be an interesting moment to figure out who among Americans value partisanship of whichever brand (or jobs or funding or power) over stopping and revealing pedophiles. Way too many live among us.

Friends don’t want friends engaged in extrajudicial killings. Of course the UK doesn’t want to be complicit in Trump and Hegseth illegally blowing up boats and people in the Caribbean.
 Trump is shredding our Constitution and international law while alienating our allies. It has to end.

2017 he donated almost $5 million to Princeton's President's Discretionary Fund, as well as smaller donations to Turning Point USA, Chamber of Congress, & a foundation founded by last President of Afghanistan. (2017, he & Erik Prince had wanted to provide mercenaries to replace US troops there.)

Photographer Dan Zafra has given us something we’ve never seen before—red sprites, the Milky Way, the Aurora Australis, and a comet all in the same image. trib.al/VI6Neoy

Epstein shared the secret to Trump with a Russian diplomat: Trump "must be seen to get something. It's that simple." [See Qatari jet, ballroom, etc] Who (which governments) did Epstein work for? Or like Manafort was he for sale to any dictator/corrupt leader/oligarch who paid him?

Important to understand the Epstein stuff and the fascism and the corruption are, in a lot of ways, really all the same story from different angles: powerful men who can and do abuse vulnerable people around them because they can, and because systems of elite accountability catastrophically failed

If guaranteeing essentials sounds radical, it speaks to how far we have drifted from democracy‘s core promises. Markets will not beat back the far right. An antifascist economics might. Mamdani provides a playbook for democrats around the world. My latest

From @sarahkendzior on Substack: substack.com/@sarahkendzi... Bluesky says she was suspended for quoting or riffing off of Johnny Cash's Folsom Prison Blues...

“This is called “normalcy bias”: the idea that if a situation is truly dangerous, if massive crimes are being committed in plain sight, someone will intervene and stop them.” — Sarah Kendzior

Epsteingate is the tip of the iceberg — and the beginning of the end for Trump.

My takeaway from every new Epstein revelation is that some powerful people victimized many powerless young women, many more knew, some actively enabled it--and we're still being told that MeToo and accountability for sexual violence have gone too far

These emails are damning. It's clear Trump knew about Epstein's abuse. It's time to release the full Epstein files NOW, hold a hearing with survivors, and end this White House cover-up once and for all.

Flower of the Day - #SundaySunflower #BloomScrolling

Lest we forget

Just finding out that @sarahkendzior has been banned from Bluesky without an explanation. Hoping that it's a mistake and @support.bsky.team will reinstate her account. She's a journalist & anti-authoritarian expert so it seems strange that Bluesky would ban her for something that Twitter hasn't.

Look outside people, them lights be northern

Pardon my suddenly watery eyes, but a long-time regular just stopped in with this. He'd been reading, found this line, and thought of me, so he wrote it out and brought it in. "I am a handmaiden of civilization. I am a bookseller." 📚❤️

Reminder that today marks 3 months since Trump’s deployment of the National Guard in DC for no good reason, which has been extended until *February 28* apnews.com/article/nati...

The FCC voted to roll back limits on how much companies can charge incarcerated people and their families for phone and video calls. Critics say the rates are kept high by limited competition among major providers such as Securus Technologies and ViaPath. @stateline.org

'The new documentary "Free Joan Little" chronicles the landmark case of the first woman in U.S. history to be acquitted on the grounds of self-defense against sexual violence...Director Yoruba Richen calls the movement to free Little a “cry for justice”...' www.youtube.com/watch?v=uPxr...

Wow, a Long Island jury awarded $112 Million to 674 immigrants who were unlawfully held by county police so they could be handed over to ICE

Our government, Republicans and most top Democrats. Our tax dollars, all of us. US must dig deep to become a humane nation, stand for human rights. We are failing at present.

🇧🇷Andarilho 🌎Geositta poeciloptera Conservação: Vulnerável O andarilho (Geositta poeciloptera) é uma ave passeriforme da família Scleruridae. 📷 Roberval Costa

Bannon gave a Nazi salute at CPAC in February, prompting a far-right French politician to cancel his own appearance there. Bannon, Miller, Musk, Theil, Trump are pro-Hitler traditional Nazis.

Sarah Kendzior, November 11, 2017 - "It's important to remember that Trump has been obsessed with nuclear weapons for over 40 years. He believes the world will end in nuclear annihilation. I wrote an article about Trump's nuke history in 2016, before he took office: x.com/sarahkendzio...

"Trump isn’t a typical GOP candidate, and his backers aren’t typical backers. This is kleptocracy and authoritarianism." -Sarah Kendzior, December 5, 2016

Also this from @sarahkendzior.bsky.social in 2016: How to be your own light: Write down what you stand for, what you believe, what you remember, what is true. Don't surrender your kindness. Who you are-your individuality, creativity, spirit-is valuable & vital: thecorrespondent.com/5696/were-he...

¹https://books.google.com/books/about/The_View_from_Flyover_Country.html?id=ucBODwAAQBAJ&source=kp_book_description ²https://thecorrespondent.com/5696/were-heading-into-dark-times-this-is-how-to-be-your-own-light-in-the-age-of-trump/1611114266432-e23ea1a6 6/

...Each war & private prison policy takes $$$ from ALL taxpayers, and gives it to weapons, oil, AI, prison contractors. The ceos & investors of those companies, the top 1-10% of US, profit. The constant drive for war, genocide in Gaza, expansion of prison industry is largely driven by endless greed.

"Children first. Always, Everywhere." ❤️ Save the Children is non-denominational & fights childhood hunger, responds to war & natural disasters, provides resources & learning to children around the globe & in US. www.savethechildren.org

"In the first six months of 2025, there were 57% more farm bankruptcies than during the same period last year, according to United States Courts." www.cbsnews.com/news/us-farm...

"Children first. Always, Everywhere." ❤️ Save the Children is non-denominational & fights childhood hunger, responds to war & natural disasters, provides resources & learning to children around the globe & in US. www.savethechildren.org

Trump's refusal to fully fund SNAP will have devastating impacts on our local economies, urban farmers, & food sellers. Including Davey's in Roxbury, a staple since 1983. Trump's violent policy choice to let people go hungry is harming their business and the families they feed.

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