If you read the articles and listen to the testimony of the victims and the witnesses and people they told, you’ll typically get the answers to all of these questions—and they’re usually favorable to the victim, too! But the societal script around allegations is to question IF we believe the victim.

It’s easier to attack the victim than the violence. So it becomes—Why come forward now? How do we know we can trust them? What if they are like previous people we disbelieved before? Instead of—Did this event happen? Were they in the same place at the same time? Who else knows? What did they say?

Something I’ve picked up on in many years of reading statements of denial from people accused of sexual violence is that they often focus more on whether the victim is believable than whether the events occurred. Because those details tend to corroborate the allegations. So they attack credibility.

I'm here because my Jewish grandparents escaped the Holocaust. Many of our family were not so fortunate. NEVER AGAIN is supposed to include Iranians. And Palestinians. And Ukrainians. And on and on. There are no exceptions based on religion or country of origin.

The Bangladesh Association of Southwest Florida has organized a GoFundMe for the children of the woman whose murder Trump is exploiting www.gofundme.com/f/support-fo...

The woman being murdered in the video Trump posted was an immigrant. Her name was Nilufar Yasmin. She was from Bangladesh. Trump is weaponizing her death against communities like hers. Outstanding reporting from @pabloreports.bsky.social for Migrant Insider. migrantinsider.com/p/her-name-w...

teenagers and young adults are some of the most committed activists to change. bc they were told the world could be better than this and they still believe it.

“Why aren’t college students protesting” stories are almost always wrong (they are protesting), omit crucial context (they were brutally punished for protesting before), and somehow suggest that 19 yr olds have more moral responsibility than elected officials three times their age

white Mad people are viewed as merely sympathetic victims of their bodyminds whereas Black and brown Mad people are turned monsters and enemies to sane white society.

god forbid teens stop getting pregnant

dad: so whats the deal with the war me: *speaks for 5 min* dad: wow that is an impressive analysis me: thanks I took it from a person I follow online who is a subject matter expert dad: oh whats their name me: They are a cartoon dog wearing underwear as a face mask called Piss Prevail On Earth

I hate war. I hate murder. I hate when my government murders other people in my name. I hate when my government prepares to round up young men in my country to go murder people in another country. Again, it’s wrong. It’s immoral. It shouldn’t be happening. No excuses.

When you drop a bomb on civilians, I think that’s murder. I don’t really care for any justifications. They’re people. The enormity of the loss is devastating and it’s easier for some people to look away. But for other people, that’s their family. Their children. It’s just sickening and so wrong.

Please please PLEASE show support to all of the Iranians in your life right now. Here’s a starter pack of all of the amazing Iranian artists and creatives I know!! bsky.app/starter-pack...

a lot of liberals seem to easily agree with republicans when they say something about easter and peace. you actually don’t have to hand it to christian nationalists? You guys do realize that right?

Contrary to popular belief mad people are not responsible for everything wrong in the world. the so called ‘sane’ have upheld and tolerated systems of mass violence and destruction for centuries. Whenever they realize it’s gone too far they blame mad people. we are just another scapegoat.

You're ok if you're mentally ill, you're ok if you're mad. Do you know that? The world will constantly beat into you with false messaging that you're not an ok type of person. As mad people, we are an ok type of person. We're a different type of person than sane people.

Only a master deal maker could achieve the status quo of 5 weeks ago in exchange for accomplishing nothing of value and turning his country into a global pariah. Thank you sir

Guess what's not cool? Kanye West's existence! Guess what is? The fact that @kattenbarge.bsky.social wanted to talk to me for her incisive piece on the problem of him. Check it out folks!

"Schumer takes no action" will be on his tombstone

Trump announces he is "agreeing to suspend bombing and attack of Iran" in a ceasefire. No nuclear war tonight at least.

Thinking about this quote from Persepolis creator Marjane Satrapi again.

i was too sick to participate in my family’s sedar this year. really sad because passover has always been my favourite holiday. oh well, there’s always next year (hopefully)

yeah, somehow i don’t think Israel actually cares about jewish safety & community.

A client just told me they're not worried because Trump can't use nuclear weapons because that's illegal so I feel better now, the crisis is over, everyone go home

"it's giving war crime" in a southern accent is just going to play on loop in my head the rest of the day

It’s okay to be outraged and scared and tired and admit we don’t know what to politically do... and to still try to do something.

Mad people need collectivity, sorry. You are not the only person the world's brutalized for being crazy. It happens to us all because it's part of the package. You don't need to be out there thinking you're god's special punching bag. By gathering we see we're not alone & move the world to change.

it's already true

You can't separate anti-immigrant and anti-trans politics from what is happening with Iran. When MAGA picked transphobia and nativism as its organizing principle, it selected for the capacity to treat entire categories of people as civilizational threats whose elimination is an act of self-defense.

NYC Jews are risking arrest right now in the building where Palantir makes the products it uses to help ICE surveil, terrorize, kidnap, and deport immigrants. Jewish New Yorkers are holding a sit-in inside the lobby and refusing to leave until Palantir ends its contracts with ICE.

Segregationists did memory hole slavery for about 100 years and then integration meant that white students would learn about it honestly in school and they've been trying to memory hole it again ever since.

Here are the stories of some of the human beings who died horrific deaths from preventable disease because Trump and Musk and their flunkies decided to murder them by gleefully destroying USAID and the entire global aid system:

not loving the astronauts quoting jesus 😐

the 'electability' question is increasingly clear www.sosavstate.com/p/gavin-news...

instead of calling out trump & republican’s hateful ideology and violent actions, liberals will continue to throw ableist language at them, like they care, and in doing so put the most marginalized and vulnerable population at further risk.

Just to be clear, Donald Trump does not care if a bunch of journalists wear pocket squares with the First Amendment written on them as a “protest.” First of all, the man is functionally illiterate

The journalist plays one of the most important roles in a free society. They give the public information we need to be aware & make decisions. They are witnesses to the times bearing testimony. This is no small matter to be a journalist, it is a high calling, & these people in the press abdicate it.

A great way for y’all to support Jews, by the way, is to call these people the fuck out when you see this happening because there’s almost zero pushback against any of these comments and Jews are left to try and counter it alone.

It’s amazing that tons of people, including celebrities who have public reputations to uphold, will openly support a man who released a song called “Heil Hitler” AND is credibly accused of sexual violence and abuse but will NOT openly support celebrity women who have come forward about being abused

If anyone says antisemitism isn't a massive problem right now, I KNOW they don't even follow a single Jewish person.

I wanna play Skyrim again and by that I mean I wanna be playing Skyrim and have that moment where the ambient music swells while you're walking around at night time and you look up at the skybox and everything is sublime for just an instant but sadly to get that you do have to play Skyrim a bit

Happy #fridayreads! Y'all, with the loss of income I could especially use your support of my books. Here's my novel: bookshop.org/p/books/none... And my novella: bookshop.org/p/books/fes-... I think y'all need to take a journey with these in your minds. Free your minds & the rest will follow.

it probably would be bad for it to happen over the easter weekend since that gives them their religious context to compare him to jesus but also i don’t care and their probably gonna do it anyway so.

I don't think Trump should get access to standard medical care, he should have to let RFK Jr treat him

As Ursula K. Le Guin taught us: "We live in capitalism, its power seems inescapable — but then, so did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art. Very often in our art, the art of words."

it’s honestly kinda hilarious that any american is still willing to claim they live in the greatest country in the world.

You need to believe I'm sane like you because this is the condition under which you can consider me a person & treat me like a person. Change that. Understand you can consider me a person & treat me as one while I am mad, not sane, because mad people are ok.

GET HIM! He tried to shove this under the rug but his sister didn't start stop fighting. Let's take this billionaire rapist destroying the world out!

nonbinary people are expected to be androgynous at all times lest we get misgendered, yet when nonbinary actors and performers do dress androgynous they still get misgendered. there’s no winning.