open.substack.com/pub/musaalgh... Important read on media literacy and its critiques

Two ICE-Gestapo killers have been placed on leave after lying under oath about a violent encounter they supposedly faced during their seige in Minneapolis. They face termination and criminal charges. Good, they aren’t agents, they are terrorists. They should all be sent to jail.

Six boyfriends and their dastardly deeds. Trigger warning - SA Full text in alt. #Emoetry #overit #poetry #writing #poetrycommunity #writingcommunity

I guess getting high at a drag show did cure my anxiety for now

No, you can’t verbally reason your way out of morality. No no no you can’t. I’m out. I am not for social media. I give up.

My toxic trait is - dedicating love songs to my dogs ~ Hot summer nights, mid-July where you and I are forever wild The way you’d play with me like a child ~

Would you rather 1. Have the option to get as many degrees and study without the financial stress OR 2. Be the most good looking

“The abolition of gender studies is a way of further guaranteeing impunity to the elite men whose contempt for and exploitation of women and girls apparently knew no bounds, whether they actually slept with the women on offer or simply shared Epstein’s fantasies in order to gain influence.”

MUST resist the urge to get sucked into the discourse MUST resist the urge to defend

The process of trying this case itself is abusive, in part because of the media coverage and the public reaction, but we’ve also seen how an environment this toxic around the woman making the allegations can poison the well and influence the outcome of the case

Even if Lively wins, and based on the evidence she should, what a televised trial like this entails is a weeks-long bombardment of inescapable misogynistic rhetoric trained at a woman who has been deemed an acceptable target

YEP. If the way you "show love" is mean, you're just abusive. I'm not saying there's no such thing as loving teasing, but it needs to be an in-joke that is well-cushioned by affection. Likewise someone who is an asshole when they're "joking around" is just an asshole who enjoys being an asshole.

Sooooooo much to do!!! Such little energy

“Gave ammo to an aBuSer for personal slight” Every accusation is surely a confession

And one of the first survivors to step forward to try to stop Epstein? A trans woman, who was promptly mocked and villified by the New York Post, New York Magazine, the courts and law enforcement.

Huffed your own farts for so long you have just completely lost the plot. “Her criticism of me was unfair” okay? Even if true that’s an everyday occurrence, you do not need to ride into fucking battle to take her down, holy shit.

It's such a red flag for misogyny in some form, when colleagues or managers describe a woman as "difficult", without any kind of evidence of any serious misconduct. Code for; she won't tolerate our misconduct, exclude her.

I went on Something Was Wrong to talk about institutional betrayal and why our schools refuse to intervene when they know violence has occurred. The entire season is about campus sexual violence and the line up of experts is incredible.

look, victims are innocent and pure and we must protect them. this crazy fucking BITCH says my friend raped her but i know him, hed never touch that psycho. protect our children from the trans jenners and illegals.

What goes too long unchanged destroys itself. The forest is forever because it dies and dies and so lives. - Ursula K LeGuin

i think people fundamentally hate victims.

Riot linguist / narcissus actively participated in this which is very in line with their tendency to call enemy women cunts

BREAKING: The Epstein survivors are releasing this ad on this Super Bowl Sunday to send the message that they will not “move on” from the largest sex trafficking scandal in the world. #standwithsurvivors

Reminder that ICE was invented after 9/11 to terrorize people on US soil. W’s “war on terror” incl mass surveillance, even more racial profiling & aggressive policing & treating immigration as a security issue. Muslims & Brown folk perceived as such can tell you how that went. Abolish.

‘I don't wanna hear about "lazy immigrants " from a race of people who enslaved a whole other race of people to do all the work they didn't want to do’

A reminder that the best predictor of a man’s likelihood of perpetrating sexual violence is having friends who hold misogynistic beliefs. In part, because sexual violence is so commonly used as a way for ordinary men to bond with each other.

This is the core ideology of organizing in Minnesota right now: “‘Seeing there was a need for someone to help out, help clear the streets and get the people back their vehicles. So we stepped up and started doing it,’ Leon said.”

aint nothing little about the revenge i crave

"Snow White Queen," a lineless art project I undertook in 2021.

It’s not my fault if what you read isn’t what I actually wrote

A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved - Kurt Vonnegut Pic of the day #photography

English is weird. People guess meaning of words based on the context they’re used in. ‘terrible’, ‘terrifying’ and ‘terrific’ are words that sound alike, but have the completely opposite meanings. Tripped me up for a long time

The part of growing in life you can never be prepared enough for is - that you outgrow certain ideologies as you learn more and as a result you outgrow people and groups. Some of what I look back at was red flag city. “I could never be a part of a cult or homogenous groups, I’m educated”

Math significantly improves one’s problem-solving, logical reasoning, working memory and attention, so you can think strategically, recognize patterns and analyze critically which we do really use amongst all of the AI slop

man I’m sorry to be all corny here but when I see a “the city is beautiful! There’s more to it than homeless people!” I gotta say you know who’s also beautiful? People who have no place to live & are trying to get by in a system that has turned its back on them & if you don’t see that that’s on you

I will mute your posts/account if you put Epstein files on my FYP As a trafficking survivor, I don’t need to see the gory details of how children were brutalized in order to empathize with them. I know it all too well. I am angry it took this much and this long for you all to believe the victims.

It’s a pro-pedophile take actually. Someone said that there will be a rise in- black and white/if not this, then definitely that- lack of nuance thinking with the rise of fascism and yeah it’s happening

The lack of media literacy and just plain loss of useful, transferable and reliable information is ruining all social media for me. Scrolling is just noise to my brain now. I used to learn so much from it. Now, it’s all word slop. Even the long form video essay content is poor quality.

CHILDREN

Abuse illiterates be like “you admitted to being an abuser” Ummm yes, that’s what gaslighting does to you, make you lose the sense of self and think you’re the problem. It means the gaslighting is successful.

"To insist otherwise is to treat politics as therapy and the oppressed as props in your emotional drama." - Freddie deBoer

"Women need to speak out more, so that we can find the ones who object to rape and punish them."

Anyway fuck all those sad excuses for anarchafeminists who spew apologia the moment facing reality would affect their status. I will continue to be a survivor in public as much as I fucking want.

"We would have lost so much if we'd driven him away" is the justification. But we lost all those girls. We lost the women they would have become. We lost the work they would have done. Why was his future work so much more valuable than theirs?

And yes, groping someone you just fucked (and intend to fuck again, with your partner, shortly) bare inner thigh up her skirt, sitting up on a couch while everyone looks at you is sexual. It is not "holding hands"

Survivors who speak up against sexual violence are almost always met with: • Mockery • Threats • “Not all men” • Character assassination • Silence from bystanders

We cannot ask survivors to speak out about sexual violence while simultaneously punishing them for it. We cannot hold survivors responsible for their own justice while refusing to give it to them. We cannot expect survivors to come forward while making it impossible for them to do so.

This level of apologia (from Megan McArdle in a podcast with Josh Barro and Ross Douthat) is fucking appalling. Idk what else there is to say.