GOP Epstein Defense Prediction: Whataboutism
It’s already started, as a matter of fact. A relative of mine that I’m FB Friends with (the kind of relative that you see once or twice a year at reunions, say hi to, exchange a few pleasantries and...
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This Week in the War on Women
The long-overdue arrest of Jeffrey Epstein was a step in the right direction, but some of the media coverage is painful to watch, as they straw-grasp for euphemisms like “sex with underage women” to...
View ArticleThis Week in the War on Women, 9/29-10/5/2019: More Climate Edition
This was the week that Greta Thunberg was in the news all over, so I wanted to know other women who have been fighting for solutions to climate change. As Besame noted, there are many reasons for women...
View ArticleRepugnant "religious" Republican Refuses To Resign
This is Paul Peterson; a registered Republican, former missionary with The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, elected official in Maricopa County, Arizona, and human trafficker and...
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👩🏽🔧ThisWeek InThe War On Women 1Aug2020, with...
Our Saturday evening diaries offer a weekly summary of news on women's issues, and information on current political actions. We welcome all who are interested, to comment in the discussion, bring...
View ArticleRep. Matt Gaetz endorsed Florida Republican indicted on sex trafficking with...
Joel Greenberg was the Republican tax collector of Seminole County, Florida. He was because he had to resign from his position in order to face charges of sex trafficking involving a minor. Greenberg...
View ArticleMonday OT: 01/11/21 is National Human Trafficking Awareness Day (US)
Today is day 11 of the Gregorian Calendar year, Sweetmorn, Chaos 11, 3187 YOLD And let us not forget 13.0.8.3.3 mlc (the Mayan Long Count)
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📌ThisWeekInTheWarOnWomen: the year that was, how we march now, food...
from livescience.com—<big>6 times that 2020 showed us women in antiquity were totally badass</big>📌 Throughout history, women have been fighters, strategists and charismatic leaders,...
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📌This Week in the War on Women: 'outrageous acts & otherdays'...
📌based on The 19th report on The Woman Who Saved The Electoral Votes While Riot Ran the CapitolA Senate aide The 19th is not naming for safety reasons, was who organized staffers to secure the 18” by...
View ArticleRepublican facing multiple convictions for human trafficking and fraud begins...
In October of 2019, former elected county assessor for Maricopa County Paul Petersen was charged by Utah’s attorney general with 11 felonies. Those felonies included “human smuggling, sale of a child...
View ArticleAtlanta Spa Employees Victimized Every Day
The senseless murder of 8 people in three “massage parlors” in Georgia has revealed a gross dereliction of duty and shameful neglect of responsibility of numerous city government departments including...
View ArticleKevin McCarthy would like to discuss anything and anyone but Matt Gaetz
By now you have probably read something about Republican Rep. Matt Gaetz of Florida and the investigation into his connections to the alleged sex trafficking of a minor. The allegations stem from...
View ArticleBiden cancels Trump's Mexico Wall funding: the parts paid by the Pentagon
www.rawstory.com/…Donald Trump spent the 2016 election repeatedly promising that he would build a majestic border wall -- and Mexico would pay for it. Like so many things Trump has said, it was a lie.
View ArticleExplosive new report has witnesses putting Matt Gaetz, an escort, and cocaine...
Florida man Rep. Matt Gaetz is in deep doo doo, as the scientists say. He is facing allegations that he paid for sexual liaisons with a variety of women, some of whom were potentially underage. He may...
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🌏 FP&IE Open Thread -26 May 2021- Exploring at Reuters...
Welcome to the daily fresh adventure of the Foreign Policy and International Events group, aka FP&IE. Join us on today’s journey, share links and comments of your discoveries and thoughts....
View ArticleAnother reason to unfriend Facebook: its key role in US sex trafficking.
Tim De Chant at ars technica provides the appalling details Facebook’s use as a platform to facilitate sex trafficking:“The Internet has become the dominant tool that traffickers use to recruit...
View ArticleFreeTHEM Walkers Retrace Underground Railroad
On May 1, fourteen FreeTHEM Walkers began a nine hundred-mile journey from Lynchburg, Virginia to Buffalo, New York retracing Underground Railroad escape routes from slavery. They walked about thirty...
View ArticleNine charged in elaborate multi-agency sting targeting online predators at...
Content warning: This story discusses the sex trafficking of minors.In the last two years, when we’ve thought of the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally, we’ve thought about it as a superspreader waiting to...
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♀️ This Week in the War on Women: Oct 2
No introductory essay tonight, just straight to the newses after the usual boilerplate. But the footing down there remains treacherous, so please watch your step andThis Week In The War On Women...
View ArticleThis Week in the War on Women
Lots of us are at Netroots Nation this week, so this is a bit of an abbreviated diary. As always, this is a group effort. thanks to mettle fatigue, ramara, Getting1, SandraLLAP, and the WOW crew for...
View ArticleWhite mom hires attorney after Southwest Airlines crew said she was...
When will people learn that families come in all different colors? Well, someone needs to start by teaching Southwest Airlines employees before a major misstep evolves into a major lawsuit. The most...
View ArticleFeds bust dozens in 'modern-day slavery' operation, migrants held at gunpoint...
After three years and the efforts of a multi-agency investigation, dozens of victims of human trafficking are free from the fetters of “modern-day slavery” on South Georgia farms. The over 100 victims...
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This Week in the War on Women: 2021 in the rear view mirror
2021 has been pretty overwhelming. Anti-choice laws have been cropping up all over the country, including the notorious “bounty” law in Texas. And nothing has been done about the fact that we don’t...
View ArticleGaetz sex probe gaining more steam
Another person has agreed to cooperate in the sex crimes probe involving U.S. Rep. Matt Gaetz of Florida. Cutting a deal this time is Joseph Ellicott, best friend to Joel Greenberg, the disgraced tax...
View ArticleMore trouble for Matt Gaetz
There are so many lascivious details piling up in the reporting of the Justice Department’s ongoing sex trafficking investigation of Florida Republican Matt Gaetz, one could be forgiven for being...
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This Week in the War on Women, 1/23-29/2022: Instrumental Activities of Daily...
As a caregiver who is no spring chicken myself, I’ve wondered if men or women have a more difficult time caring for themselves when they become the elderly elderly. It turns out, it’s men who have more...
View ArticleScandals and more scandals: Rep. Matt Gaetz’s campaign lost about $100,000...
If you haven’t heard, Florida Man Rep. Matt Gaetz continues to be the focus of speculation that he has done some real dirtbag criminal stuff. Since one of his best buds, Joel Greenberg, has cut a plea...
View ArticleChild survivors of sex trafficking rescued from abusive 'faith-based'...
A Texas “faith-based organization” meant to take care of child survivors of sex trafficking, was found to be trafficking the girls instead of caring for them. Seven girls, ages 11 to 17, were...
View ArticleHouse passes a new anti-human-trafficking bill—no thanks to these 20...
On Tuesday, the Frederick Douglass Trafficking Victims Prevention and Protection Reauthorization Act of 2022 was approved in the House for reauthorization with a majority of 401 votes to 20. First...
View ArticleCartoon: Human trafficker
Texas Governor Greg Abbott might actually be a human trafficker, as he forces migrants to board buses and planes to Democratic led cities just for political stuntery. The great @DeanObeidallahinspired...
View ArticleHouston CPS employee advised teenage girl in foster care to be a prostitute
Keisha Bazley, a mother of nine, has a 14-year-old daughter that has trouble in school and keeps running away. One day, the 14-year-old girl, who was living in a hotel under foster care, told a Child...
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DeSantis & Abbott's stupid human tricks: Planes, Boxcars, and Buses help...
There once were two governors from Nantucket… Because election campaign stunts. With a rail strike averted, the GOP can now use boxcars just like their fascist forebears used in WWII.Ron DeSantis and...
View ArticleMartha's Vineyard migrant flight may have been illegal as well as inhumane
For some time, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has been touted as promoting Trumpism without the baggage of Donald Trump. But his decision to herd 50 migrants onto a plane and dump them in Martha’s Vineyard,...
View ArticleRecent poll shows that 52% of Texas voters support busing migrants to...
The practice of Texas governor Greg Abbott (R) busing migrants to more liberal locales has generated controversy. Illinois governor JB Pritzker (D) has suspected that Abbott is playing politics, noting...
View ArticleCartoon: Coyote Greg
Republican MAGA governors like Greg Abbott of Texas and Ron Desantis of Florida are actual Human Traffickers, aka coyotes. They mislead legal migrants applying for asylum in the US, many times fleeing...
View ArticleThis Year in the War on Women
Looking back over the year, obviously the big news was the Supreme Court’s destruction of Roe v. Wade in June, and the subsequent laws restricting women’s reproductive choices in red states (and some...
View ArticleNew bill says helping a minor in or outside of Idaho get an abortion is...
Although Idaho has a near-total abortion ban—with exceptions only for rape, incest, and saving a pregnant person’s life—some legislators don’t think that's enough. Outside of banning abortion in their...
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Idaho, which already has a near-total ban on abortion, is now trying to restrict interstate travel for abortion (giving it the scary-sounding name “abortion trafficking”). They’re getting their foot in...
View ArticleActual groomer: Republican donor convicted of sex trafficking teenagers
On Friday, March 31, Anton “Tony” Lazzaro was found guilty by a federal jury of “orchestrating a sex trafficking conspiracy in which he trafficked multiple minor girls.” Assistant United States...
View ArticleThe feds need to look into possible human rights abuses and trafficking by...
Right now, human beings are being used as political stunts. In an effort to embolden their base, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis have proudly boasted that they have put thousands...
View ArticleOvernight News Digest June 20, 2023
Welcome to the Overnight News Digest with a crew consisting of founder Magnifico, regular editors side pocket, maggiejean, Chitown Kev, eeff, Magnifico, annetteboardman, Besame, jck, and JeremyBloom....
View ArticleMarjorie Taylor Greene says states should start seceding from the union...
When we last checked in with Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, she was having MAGA loyalty fights with like-minded maniacs. Greene’s attempt to maintain her QAnon roots along with her desire to try and...
View ArticleSex trafficking victim used as prop in Katie Britt's SOTU response speaks up
Trigger warning: discussion of sex traffickingBy now, most of us know that Alabama’s junior Senator, Katie Britt, stepped on a rake during her debut on the national stage. Three months into her term,...
View ArticleThis Week in the War on Women
I’m old enough to remember when Geraldine Ferraro was the VP nominee, and being told that she was “too tough,” because when a man asked if she could bake an apple pie, she responded, “No, can you?”...
View Article🌍This Week In the War on Women: Mia Mottley, Barbados PM, brings...
“Barbados PM Mia Mottley Takes No Prisoners at the UN”Brought to DK by gmoke atthis post:xYouTube VideoTranscript in top right corner at this utube video page. Sep 27, 2024UNITED NATIONS...
View ArticleFree Cambodian journalist Mech Dara now
“Every newsroom I work in gets silenced.” Mech Dara 1The award-winning Cambodian journalist who exposed cyber slavery and corruption in Cambodia, was arrested by local police last week. Dara...
View ArticleElon Musk Fires All of His U-Haul Canvassers in Michigan
xBREAKING - Elon Musk PAC has FIRED all the door-knockers it tricked and trapped into working for them in Michigan in back of U-Haul cargo vansWired magazine first broke story - and now everyone’s been...
View ArticleStop child labor rollbacks in the U.S.
Tragedy strikes“Two times he began to scream, ‘Help! Help!’ I knew he had died.”In July of 2023, Duvan Tomas, a sixteen-year-old boy from Guatemala, was tragically killed when he was sucked into a...
View ArticleEnd Orphanage Child Trafficking
Criminals are profiting from the trafficking and abuse of children in orphanages around the world. Traffickers, attracted by the funding orphanages receive from donations and organizations offering...
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🌍This Week in the War on Women: "Voices and Visions Against Violence"
Yakima, WashingtonYakama woman creates a 'call to action' video on crisis of missing and murdered Indigenous womenA small forest near Toppenish was created to heal and nourish the land and those who...
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