The soft pedaling language being used to describe the men in the Epstein files is enraging. They didn’t “have sex with underage girls”. They raped them. Sex implies consent. The survivors deserve better than this. Use the correct language. Say what these men did.

Having secured sites for numerous dying/dead whales, let me tell you: I threw away multiple boots for how they smelled after. You just could not get the smell out. And I liked those boots. Also they were not cheap. So imagine blowing up a whale -aside from the damage and danger to others.

The bill to end the shutdown kills FDA food safety rules. Just like public health, food safety isn’t flashy or exciting When it’s functioning well, you barely notice it. But it’s necessary for our survival. Food borne illnesses have been on the rise & this cut will endanger lives l

This is far worse than anyone expected. Trump's HUD plan would cut *two-thirds* of permanent housing and push as many as 170,000 formerly homeless people back onto the street—redirecting funds to work mandates, forced treatment, and encampment sweeps. All as mass internment camps are being built.

CLAIM: The government is run by a secret society of pedophiles RATING: FALSE. This society is in no way a secret

Parks officials were directed to keep employees who perform front-facing visitor services, such as maintenance and sanitation, on duty, along with essential law enforcement and emergency functions. By contrast, many of those who work in conservation, research and education were told to stay home.

RAPE. Words do matter. If they were under the age of consent, it's called statutory rape. I fought for years at various news outlets, always with male writers who tried to use phrases such as "had sex with a 5-year-old" or "12-year-old" or the like. It's not "having sex." It's rape.

This is like getting a letter from William Burroughs that says he's concerned about your mutual friend's drug habit

along with the heinous literal crimes i think a lot about how there's a kind of moral, national crime in subjecting all of us to this, to this consuming our politics, committed against us by a number of powerful and connected people up to and including the president

Do I think the Pope looks cool here? I do. Do I think it would be cooler if he stood up for our trans brothers, sisters, and siblings and smacked around the American Bishops who voted to deny trans care in Catholic hospitals today? Yeah. I do. WAY fucking cooler.

Here’s the thing about healthcare premiums about to skyrocket: they will never come back down, short of a complete overhaul of our system for universal healthcare. Which clearly won’t happen bc of all the money tied up between health and politics.

Starbucks union members are striking tomorrow, folks! don't cross picket lines.

I am deliriously laughing at the image of Boebert facing dawning revelation that she's actually found the pedophile elite conspiracy ring and that she's standing right in the middle of it

He was President at the time? Unreal.

Everyone thinks they will be the exception. Serious illness or disability won’t happen to them and IF it does, they will be able to afford it. The reality is it only takes one catastrophic event to change your life, especially in a country that doesn’t guarantee healthcare for all.

“Never put in an email anything you don’t want read out loud to a jury.” -Common advice given by lawyers

Hey so “underage girls” are…children. The word you’re looking for is children. They’re not like, women-in-waiting or women-lite or whatever. They’re children. I think some of you are very uncomfortable with what that means for you but it is still true.

*Government will reopen *ACA subsidies NOT extended, causing premiums to rocket for 24M+ *A bunch of Republican senators could net millions in taxpayer dollars for themselves, with at least one hoping to net more than $1M. *Intoxicating hemp banned *Govt could shut again 1/31

A group of 17 transgender members of the Air Force are suing the U.S. government over what they say is the military's unlawful revocation of their early retirement pensions and benefits.

Wait so ibuprofen is “useless” and not “necessary safe and effective”. Tylenol causes autism (sure they retracted that but they’re still telling pregnant people not to take it) They’re trying to ban hemp products. They really seem to want people to suffer in pain.

we need a department of kerning

All of these men are white.

People are asking: yes, it's real. www.thetimes.com/world/europe...

I was just saying to a friend, sometimes it feels like there is no solidarity on earth stronger than abusive nightmare creep solidarity

The plan to end vaccines is to say that every study requires an inordinate number of patients and resources to carry out before the current FDA will review it. When companies decide it is too expensive to make any new vaccines, they will stop making new vaccines.

Honestly Dems have no fucking excuse for tolerating transphobia, like none at all, “you creepy fuck, why are you obsessed with the genitalia of minors” is RIGHT FUCKING THERE

This week is reminding me of how hard it was to sustain confidence in media during the period when the initial Me Too stories first came out, hearing jokes at work and from fellow journalists that cast unsubstantiated doubt on women. Dark days

The notion abusers need to resort to conspiracies and subterfuge is more comforting than the truth that many people will readily look the other way when confronted with sexual violence if doing otherwise would even slightly inconvenience them

What if instead of Cyber Monday (aka Daddy Bezos Day), we did a Support Indie Media Monday? What are your favorite indie publications? Who are some of your favorite freelance and indie reporters and commentators? Can we make this a thing?

like this is a child rape auction. our president participated and was photographed in a child rape auction

good thing they don’t actually have administrative control over the hospitals but fuck fuck fuck the best hospital in my city for these surgeries is catholic. historically they have provided abortions too

As all this disgusting Epstein shit starts surfacing more and more, I hope we don't lose sight of the fact that apparently every major media outlet knew everything and instead spent their time money and energy attacking the trans community.

“This could take down Democrats, too.” You promise?

So, uh, the Jed Rubenfeld referenced here was disciplined by Yale Law for sexually harassing students. He's married to Amy Chua who among other things took to the pages of the NYT to defend Kavanaugh when he was under fire for sexually harassment. Ken Starr, well we know. This is just incredible.

Well it certain seems like A Situation

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Seems possible that this is about even more than underage women. Perhaps money changing hands— corruptly and internationally, and intertwined with underaged women? Man, oh man.

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So this MFer can fuck all the way off...but I kind of wonder how much of this is because the military hands the stuff out for EVERYTHING and it's a recurring joke that "Vitamin M" is all the troops ever get.

OH MY GOD EVERYONE STOP CITING THAT IT’S NOT AN MIT STUDY IT’S AN INDUSTRY FUNDED WHITEPAPER TO SELL AGENTIC AI

I want to also uplift the men who were boys who were sexually abused in a society in which there's zero willingness to acknowledge that yes of course boys & men can be raped, that in fact jokes about such rape, that gives boys no tools, not even the measly tools given girls, to confront that fact.

The Epstein story gets a something that is tearing at the heart of the electorate: elite impunity. The idea that wealthy and powerful people can do terrible things *at scale* and face no consequences for them. Whatever political party actually stops it could rule the country for a generation.

TV conspiracies: we’ve hacked their computers but they’ve perfectly cleaned up the evidence! Real conspiracies: To: conspirator From: famous person Attachment: evidence.png

Outrage as another wild provision snuck into shutdown bill Not content with adding an anti-abortion provision, senators inserted language into the bill to gut food safety regulations that prevent illness and death, as well as regulations on ultraprocessed foods. www.rawstory.com/gop-bill-shu...

Just cuz I suspect it's gonna be relevant: "underage women" is a contradiction in terms. There are adults and there are minors, who are children. Ditto "nonconsensual sex." That's rape. The only reason to play semantic games is because you benefit from obscuring the simplicity of these terms.

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Congress’s shutdown deal eliminated key food safety rules, blocking agencies from enforcing measures to prevent contamination and trace outbreaks. This rollback has coincided with a surge in hospitalizations and deaths from foodborne illnesses.

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All the Epstein emails are powerful elites saying shit like “Hello my friend the pedophile, i need your advice as a pedophile, what do you think about this other pedophile? Pedophilic Regards, your Friend ;)” and instead of swinging from a gibbet most of them are still writing op-eds against leftism