They really do want to turn America into Gilead…they must be stopped NOW

Lutnick: "The worst thing is the sucking sound of how many people try to suck off of the US government." (Is he serious with this? He's projecting, right?! Who actually IS doing the sucking...? 🙄)

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We've come to expect union busting from Amazon. But from a “co-op” like REI? That’s a betrayal of their workers and members.

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This 🧵, every word… 👇👇👇

The richest 10% of Americans own roughly 87% of stocks. The richest 1% alone own roughly half of all stocks. It's worth pointing out once again that the stock market is not the economy.

In the dark of night, House Republicans tried to extend intelligence surveillance authority for five years.

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Jezusss Sexual harassment, sexual assault, and rape are not "participating in sex work."

It’s a horrible reminder that the most dangerous time in an abusive relationship is when you try to leave it. I don’t know what their home life was like, but I have my suspicions. My heart aches for their kids, who were home at the time

For fuck's sake, ChatGPT is not a therapist. Not only is your whole chat history subpoenable, but a tool that sounds like a therapist but is actually designed to tell you what you want to hear is very bad for your mental health and possibly the well-being of the people around you.

“But why would you drink with him if you thought he was a creep?” Because creepy men are still powerful people in their fields. Because they are still the professional & social contacts we are forced to maintain. Because the same people tell us we’re crazy for thinking a man is creepy to begin with.

But of course the consequences are only leveled at women, who must protect themselves from rape by abstaining from any activities that could establish them as equals to men.

This logic suggests that men are incapable of controlling themselves and women must suffer the consequences. Women must decline professional networking and social relationships with men because they will be at fault if he rapes her.

It’s infuriating when a woman comes forward about a man raping her in his hotel room after drinking and the response is “Why would she go to his room?” “Why would she drink with him?” This is Mike Pence logic. Women should be allowed to hang out with men without expecting they will be raped.

the catholic church is so massive and opaque that the pope can appear as this benevolent, progressive figure while the rest of the church is destroying people’s lives

And I’m sure both men and women are going to be like “but if it’s wrong to try to convince someone to have sex with you, how will people ever get together?” Well, kids, if we didn’t have a society that valorizes men for coercing and punishes women for consenting…

And it is incredibly, incredibly disingenuous to pretend that any of those tactics aren’t pressure tactics. If you’re like “well, how else are you supposed to convince a woman to have sex with you?” congrats, you’re illustrating the point.

We have a society that has positioned men using a variety of tactics to convince women to have sex with them as normal and acceptable. It’s not. It should not be normal to use tactics that, say, a person on a corner trying to get you to sign a petition wouldn’t use because they’d be creepy.

Yes, actually, taking a woman to a private place to try to *convince her to have sex with you* is coercive. Why are you trying to get her away from her friends and/or witnesses?

Sex is not something you should have to be convinced to engage in, and no one should be trying to convince you to engage in it. “No” should be the end of the discussion about it. The idea that a man can and should try to get to a yes is EXACTLY THE PROBLEM.

And the fact that people are like “these are just normal tactics to convince someone” are pretty much illustrating the point. When your waiter asks you if you’d like to order drinks or an appetizer, and you say no, they don’t keep trying to convince you.

All of this misses one important detail, which is that these are all tactics being used with *women who did not want to have sex.* I RTed this in response to a post about how we don’t realize how thoroughly rape and sexual coercion have been normalized. Why wasn’t the initial “no” enough?

Researching these stories, ex-Catholics and others who faced these systems repeatedly said the same thing: ignore the more progressive rhetoric (from the pope or elsewhere) and focus on the church hierarchy's actions. What they do with their power, money and resources tells a very different story.

Cases Collapse Under Scrutiny: Over and over, cases against protesters fell apart, often because statements made by the arresting officers were debunked by video footage. www.propublica.org/article/caug...?

26 years old from South Sudan. He has been in the US since age 13, when he was recruited to the country for basketball. Now being discarded as if he was human refuse. Shame on Syracuse for not intervening. www.syracuse.com/news/2026/04...

“I was fine with the lying, the cheating, the raping, the racism, and the countless deaths he’s caused, but depicting himself as Jesus is where I draw the line” is such a bad, and extremely telling, take.

Not only has Trump decimated anti-trafficking services, but as his administration indiscriminately detains immigrants to comply with his mass-deportations agenda, trafficking survivors have been caught in the dragnet — even when they have legal status. My latest: www.thecut.com/article/sex-...

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This.

Meanwhile in America, many birthing folks have to worry about still maintaining employment immediately after laying a whole human. 😒

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For all of the good men out there who are trying to make sense of how other men can still be abusing their power after 2019, and you are reacting out of anger instead of disappointment, I get you. Now imagine being a woman and get to work.

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No politician, no academic, no movement organizer, no comedian-there is no role that the person is so irreplaceable that we must overlook sexual assault. Every one of them is replaceable. Good fucking riddance.

Exactly what Kate said. Whenever someone asks me where the Mayor should get the $150 million more funds for NYC public libraries, the answer is the cops. Period.

there is no politician so irreplaceable that we must overlook sexual misconduct because nobody else could possibly fill their shoes

Same goes for every "genius" academic or scholar.

Now, you might say, "What about all the knowledge we'd lose if we push all the abusive geniuses out of academia?!" But I'd counter and say, "Well, what about the knowledge we've already lost from the budding scholars whose careers they've derailed with their abuse?"

Also: the people who know and try to do something about it are frequently punished in extreme and disproportionate ways.

Convincing women to go on the record by name when they’ve seen that it results in no change — and a lot of people won’t believe them — can take years. One of the named sources in a 2024 story of mine declined to participate in 2017. Eventually, her life and job enabled it. And he’s still in office.

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I am horrified!!!

We need to figure this out fast, California dems. Very fast.

I'd like to impress upon Americans that the Hungarian people removed Orban and his fascist party from power... By VOTING. That's the real "they don't want you to know this...". They don't want you to figure out that voting is powerful, and that we the people hold that power - unless we give it up

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If I were to go to San Diego for a weekend (staying after a work thing) where should I stay and what should I do

If people are smart they’ll vote for Lindsey Boylan for NY City Council District 3