Let’s be clear. When the President defies the Supreme Court, it is the role of Congress to remove him from office. Full stop.

MIT following Harvard's lead here

This event might be of interest: on creative works about child sexual abuse and the cultural ramifications of creative works (& we would appreciate a repost) @survivorsrise.bsky.social

I would not have predicted that large universities would show more courage than either Big Law or corporate media. Good for them.

Harvard has set an example for other higher-ed institutions - rejecting an unlawful and ham-handed attempt to stifle academic freedom, while taking steps to make sure students can benefit from an environment of intellectual inquiry, rigorous debate and mutual respect. Let’s hope others follow suit.

Join us for the CSAReps project online launch event Apr 29th & 30th With esteemed speakers @drcisme.bsky.social @theflyingchild.bsky.social @hazelklarkin.bsky.social @brenrooney.bsky.social Chris Godwin David Hanauer & Emilie Pine Register: www.eventbrite.ie/e/csareps-pr... Contact: [email protected]

If you need help, you create structures to help. If more people need to be part of the process, you find the people. You figure it out. You think outside the default. Not investigate sexual abuse because it was ‘overwhelming’? This smells of fear. #CSA #welby www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

For anyone who hasn’t seen this group yet. 💪

First they came for gender identity…. I wonder if the gender critical brigade will EVER admit that their agenda is a profoundly right wing one? But the reality is here: erasure of trans and queer people. Because wow that 1% of the population is such a threat. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Make your calls. Go to your town halls. Ask your state and local officials what they are doing under state and local law. Rest. Hydrate. Make soup for the hungry. Don’t let people tell you that you’re doing it wrong. Not a sprint. Not a marathon. A relay. Find your team. Thank you.

These children are no longer protected. They are being systematically raped. Shame on you Trump and Musk. And unfortunately - shame on the US for allowing this to happen. I’m an American living abroad. And it’s so heartbreaking to watch all of this.

So. I do get that the US ‘administration’ is committing crimes at the rate of knots. However. I feel like my brain is melting: how is firing thousands from their federal jobs ‘helping’ the economy? This seems such an obvious weakening of it. Thousands unable to support themselves/others. Really?!

And what the hell planet is he on? Are they on? I mean: they treat the world like their playground. We are being bludgeoned over and over.

Excellent. 💪

Take note. More and more and more protests must happen. We have HAD IT with this crap.

“Once you decide that a single vulnerable minority can be sacrificed, you’re operating within a fascist logic,” they said. “That means there might be a second one you’re willing to sacrifice and a third, a fourth. Then what happens?”

🏆 Governor Pritzker- Illinois - has signed an order prohibiting all J6 rioters from state employment.

This. As well as outraged about the state of the world, I am also this x 2: a zebra #CSA survivor, and a zebra #EDS person.

My dear friend. So many congratulations 🎉 and so much love, knowing something about its toll. ♥️♥️♥️ #memoir

I don’t even know how to make this land where it needs to land. Help.

This.

Donold is blaming a plane crash that killed 67 people on “DEI” with zero evidence. He is attempting to use racism to deflect from the fact it is HIS fault. He had just removed 100 FAA senior officials. It’s been 11 days and there are 67 bodies in the Potomac in Washington DC because of him.

Yes Walz! Some comments here call for rallies around the country - yes yes! We are in desperate need of visible consolidation now. We mustn’t drift away in despair. We need to know that work and thinking and action are on the way. 💪 #resistance #Walz

Thanks to George Conway for posting Caroline Kennedy's letter so everyone is informed about RFK Jr. Please repost far and wide.

Jim Acosta, in his live resignation speech on CNN: ‘I will not give in to the lies. I will not give into the fear. Put it on your social media.’ This is where we are folks. Do not stop questioning. Do not stop resisting. #resistance #togetherwestand #peacefulprotest

It’s up to all of us to speak up now. We cannot let fear stop us. This is how it’s done. 💪🔥♥️ #bishopbudde www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Clearly this is now the only place where we can post in freedom. What are our #nextsteps? Does anyone know if #democrats and #theleft are now amassing and developing a plan for #resistance? How do we help please?

Releasing convicted criminals from prison. Corrupt, blatant expansion of wealth through bitcoins. Erasing trans people and their rights. Taking a government women’s reproductive rights website down. Declaring a state of emergency at the border. I know we all know what this means. #resistance

THIS. A survivor-centred approach to putting safeguards, permissions, supports in place in Telford UK. Done locally. Producing RESULTS. #CSA #CSE www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

“The hard right has seized upon high-profile cases involving men of mainly Pakistani heritage, although a Home Office report found most child sex abuse gangs were made up of white men under 30.” And most abusers are family members. THIS is the heart of it. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Victim survivors of #CSA must be heard. They are the CENTRE of the conversation, not a by-product of a horrible situation. We need safeguarding, prevention, and justice. Every day that passes without implementing the #IICSA recommendations allows abuse to carry on unhindered. #ShameMustChangeSides

What’s going on in the UK around Child Sexual Abuse and ‘oh dear what do we do? We demand ANOTHER inquiry’ - is playing politics at the expense of past and present victim survivors. We want CHANGE. Musk has NO idea what CSA looks like or come from. Sensationalising rather than solving. Disgusting.

There really is no topic that the far right and more shockingly, the Tory party who have literally no centre position now, won't exploit for their own agendas. To further exploit children who have been groomed and abused to peddle islamophobia is reprehensible.

You will read countless times today that the LA mayor cut the LA Fire Department's budget by $23 million. That is a lie. The budget was actually *increased* by $50 million.

Very much this.

Two years after IICSA, and until now not a single recommendation from it implemented. Thousands more children sexually abused in that time - and no mandate to report suspicions or claims. It is NOT up to children to disclose. About bloody time. #ShameMustChangeSides #CSA

Hope folks are having a peaceful holiday break. Here is #flatcoatedretriever #Tolstoy with his Disney eyes, having randomly picked up his present to show us. 😭♥️

NEW BLOG POST: "The sheer irony of opening presents, having to 'be a child' amongst other children haunted me from the moment my father started abusing me. I wasn't like other children -- and I knew it."

This is so screwed up. Councils lose 98.8% of SEN tribunals at a cost of £100m p.a. But it is still more cost effective to do this and put these families under intense strain, because only a fraction of families go to appeal, and councils don't have to fund the ones that don't. Merry Christmas.

Online launch for this anthology 25 JANUARY, 5-7 Eastern Daylight Time. I’m reading! Here’s the form to register to attend, or be sent a recording. Look forward to seeing some of you! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

20 years feels like nothing honestly, after what he perpetrated, and the disgusting proliferation of rape and abuse he encouraged. Doesn’t begin to feel like justice. This is a reflection of French law when it comes to rape. The misogyny needs addressing. #GiselePelicot #ShameMustChangeSides

Wonderful to see 'Nightshade Mother' by Gwyneth Lewis included in @theguardian.com's best biographies and memoirs of 2024! Follow the link below to discover more: www.theguardian.com/books/2024/d... One to add to your Christmas list! 📚

This is, unfortunately, very much the reality. Nothing less than a paradigm shift must happen. #CSA #VAWG

Further to my thread about complicity around Child Sexual Abuse, here's a blog post from a while ago which looks at this alongside the idea of 'forgiveness' (followed by an excerpt from my memoir). My experience of #CSA was intrafamilial, perpetrated by my father. patriciadebney.com/2022/02/27/f...

Via Heather Cox Richardson: "When House Republicans released a list of their committee leaders for the next Congress last Thursday, there were no women on it. For the first time in 20 years, no House committees will be chaired by women." Let's just put that in our pipes and smoke it folks.

With the news this morning of Archbishop Stephen Cottrell's 'inability' to hold a known child sexual abuser David Tudor accountable -- despite knowledge of historical accusations, and one conviction which was overturned on a 'technicality' -- I am once again grappling with the word 'complicity'. 1/

Devastating. The ban is aimed SOLELY at gender-questioning and/or trans young people. Is there a human rights aspect to this worth pursuing? It is discriminatory.