Donna Ladd said what she said. 😘
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Pinned
"I understand why women are afraid to come forward. I didn’t call the cops on my rapist & I’ve never named him publicly. It’s sure not because I’m protecting him. I’m protecting myself. Nobody would've believed this trailer-park girl vs that Big Man On Campus," @donnerkay.bsky.social writes.
The Epstein Saga Is Not a Game. It’s About Protecting Women.
Donna Ladd reflects on her own story amid the still-unfolding Jeffrey Epstein saga of rape, retribution and the protection of sexual predators.
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Re-upping my Epstein essay from August as new information emerges today.
Caution: disturbing descriptions of my and others’ sexual assaults.
Release all the damn files. This is the ultimate test of this nation’s useless partisanship.
Caution: disturbing descriptions of my and others’ sexual assaults.
Release all the damn files. This is the ultimate test of this nation’s useless partisanship.
Because it wasn’t white enough as Loomer said outright. At least that crowd isn’t hiding it during ape-meme week.
It’s odd that the religious right is so upset about a halftime show that celebrated marriage, love, community, small business, hard work, and family. 🤔
February 9, 2026 at 1:03 PM
Because it wasn’t white enough as Loomer said outright. At least that crowd isn’t hiding it during ape-meme week.
This message is everything.
February 9, 2026 at 12:59 PM
This message is everything.
Why the trees were people
February 9, 2026 at 12:54 PM
Why the trees were people
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Columbus introduced sugar cane to the Caribbean and his son opened the first plantation. They were the originators of this brutality.
So many Caribbean people died on these plantations that they eventually had to start bringing in slaves from Africa.
Average lifespan once there was only 7 years.
So many Caribbean people died on these plantations that they eventually had to start bringing in slaves from Africa.
Average lifespan once there was only 7 years.
Mortality rates were so high on sugar plantations during slavery that slaveholders used to coerce enslaved people working other crops like cotton with threats to sell them or their loved ones to sugar plantations.
That’s where the term “sold down the river” came from.
That’s where the term “sold down the river” came from.
February 9, 2026 at 5:11 AM
Columbus introduced sugar cane to the Caribbean and his son opened the first plantation. They were the originators of this brutality.
So many Caribbean people died on these plantations that they eventually had to start bringing in slaves from Africa.
Average lifespan once there was only 7 years.
So many Caribbean people died on these plantations that they eventually had to start bringing in slaves from Africa.
Average lifespan once there was only 7 years.
Fantastic
Bad Bunny has a consulting historian. news.wisc.edu/pop-star-bad...
Pop star Bad Bunny needed a Puerto Rican history scholar. UW–Madison had just the one.
Bad Bunny collaborated with UW–Madison history professor Jorell Meléndez-Badillo on Puerto Rican narratives that accompany the new album “DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS.”
news.wisc.edu
February 9, 2026 at 12:43 PM
Fantastic
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1/ ProPublica collected handwritten letters in mid-January from children held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the same facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was taken.
Hundreds of kids are still detained.
We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵
Hundreds of kids are still detained.
We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵
February 9, 2026 at 12:25 PM
1/ ProPublica collected handwritten letters in mid-January from children held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the same facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was taken.
Hundreds of kids are still detained.
We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵
Hundreds of kids are still detained.
We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵
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Just in case y’all are wondering about the sugar cane fields during the halftime show…
ca.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/sla...
ca.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/sla...
Slavery and Sugar Cane Plantations in Puerto Rico | Finding Your Roots | PBS LearningMedia
Actor Justina Machado knew of her deep roots in Puerto Rico and discovered her ancestors on almost every line of her family tree worked on sugar plantations. Cutting sugar cane is, by any measure, bru...
ca.pbslearningmedia.org
February 9, 2026 at 3:50 AM
Just in case y’all are wondering about the sugar cane fields during the halftime show…
ca.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/sla...
ca.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/sla...
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This is a instant clapback classic
February 9, 2026 at 3:41 AM
This is a instant clapback classic
Reposted by Donna Ladd said what she said. 😘
Epstein survivors released an incredible ad during the Super Bowl.
February 9, 2026 at 1:49 AM
Epstein survivors released an incredible ad during the Super Bowl.
Reposted by Donna Ladd said what she said. 😘
Solid blow-by-blow recap of Bad Bunny's halftime show. Including some English translation and explanations of cultural references.
Bad Bunny made it clear at the Super Bowl that his global popularity translates seamlessly to the biggest U.S. stage, AP's Maria Sherman writes in her review of the halftime show.
#APPhotos by Matt Slocum and Charlie Riedel
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#APPhotos by Matt Slocum and Charlie Riedel
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February 9, 2026 at 3:05 AM
Solid blow-by-blow recap of Bad Bunny's halftime show. Including some English translation and explanations of cultural references.
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Benito is a threat b/c he makes art so alluring and enjoyable you want to understand everything about it and then you end up learning about sugar and slavery and colonialism and the Taínos and Hawaii and then you probably have some thoughts of your own, and that's why art is powerful and dangerous
February 9, 2026 at 1:38 AM
Benito is a threat b/c he makes art so alluring and enjoyable you want to understand everything about it and then you end up learning about sugar and slavery and colonialism and the Taínos and Hawaii and then you probably have some thoughts of your own, and that's why art is powerful and dangerous
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Bad Bunny “together we are America”
February 9, 2026 at 1:35 AM
Bad Bunny “together we are America”
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Striking from Marquette poll:
Majorities of non-college grads and even 50% of rural Americans disapprove of ICE handling of enforcement. Majorities of both oppose deporting longtime residents with jobs/no criminal records.
That's data given to me. 2/
newrepublic.com/article/2062...
Majorities of non-college grads and even 50% of rural Americans disapprove of ICE handling of enforcement. Majorities of both oppose deporting longtime residents with jobs/no criminal records.
That's data given to me. 2/
newrepublic.com/article/2062...
February 8, 2026 at 1:15 PM
Striking from Marquette poll:
Majorities of non-college grads and even 50% of rural Americans disapprove of ICE handling of enforcement. Majorities of both oppose deporting longtime residents with jobs/no criminal records.
That's data given to me. 2/
newrepublic.com/article/2062...
Majorities of non-college grads and even 50% of rural Americans disapprove of ICE handling of enforcement. Majorities of both oppose deporting longtime residents with jobs/no criminal records.
That's data given to me. 2/
newrepublic.com/article/2062...
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February 8, 2026 at 11:01 PM
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“Lorin Stein, the disgraced former editor of The Paris Review who resigned after accusations of sexual impropriety, forwarded to Wolff an email from the writer Stephen Elliott, who intended to sue the list’s creator… Epstein promises to ‘help anyway i can.’”
How the men in the Epstein files defeated #MeToo
The emails show the “anti-woke” crusaders are afraid of accountability.
www.theverge.com
February 8, 2026 at 6:23 PM
“Lorin Stein, the disgraced former editor of The Paris Review who resigned after accusations of sexual impropriety, forwarded to Wolff an email from the writer Stephen Elliott, who intended to sue the list’s creator… Epstein promises to ‘help anyway i can.’”
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Woke up today thinking about the not insignificant number of people I interact with who believe that’s it’s fine to imprison a 5 yr old who isn’t a US citizen but are less concerned that 5 yr olds have spent more time in US concentration camps than the sex pests in the Epstein files.
February 8, 2026 at 6:53 PM
Woke up today thinking about the not insignificant number of people I interact with who believe that’s it’s fine to imprison a 5 yr old who isn’t a US citizen but are less concerned that 5 yr olds have spent more time in US concentration camps than the sex pests in the Epstein files.
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Blech
February 8, 2026 at 2:57 PM
Blech
Amen, sister
I'm going to win.
February 8, 2026 at 2:36 PM
Amen, sister
Yikes. This is censorship.
Why did the American audience apparently hear different audio of JD Vance's appearance at the Olympics than the audio heard by the rest of the world?
NBC denies muting. But it's part of overall disturbing developments in the US corporate media world.
NBC denies muting. But it's part of overall disturbing developments in the US corporate media world.
The world heard JD Vance being booed at the Olympics. Except for viewers in the US | Bryan Armen Graham
The real risk for American broadcasters is not that dissent will be visible. It is that audiences will start assuming anything they do not show is being hidden
www.theguardian.com
February 8, 2026 at 2:32 PM
Yikes. This is censorship.
“Unbridled compassion” is such a lovely phrase
The mood in Minneapolis blended open defiance with unbridled compassion — the same sentiments I’ve encountered throughout Ukraine during four years of war. And as Putin learned about Ukrainians, Trump has discovered that Minnesotans will oppose the invaders and love their own with equal ferocity.
Welcome to Minneapolis, Ukraine
Under siege from invading forces, Minnesotans have shown a resolve best described as Ukrainian
martinkuz.substack.com
February 8, 2026 at 1:57 PM
“Unbridled compassion” is such a lovely phrase
$22 billion in taxpayer money.
Leading American companies — including Palantir, Deloitte, and private prison giant GEO Group — raked in over $22B from ICE and CBP contracts last year.
Do not forget who is profiting from cruelty and human suffering.
https://www.ft.com/content/c74170d3-237d-459c-8642-bfd71530897d
Do not forget who is profiting from cruelty and human suffering.
https://www.ft.com/content/c74170d3-237d-459c-8642-bfd71530897d
Companies reap $22bn from Trump’s immigration crackdown
Palantir and Deloitte among beneficiaries of spending by government agencies
www.ft.com
February 8, 2026 at 1:54 PM
$22 billion in taxpayer money.
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NYT confirming MS NOW reporting:
Prosecutors began investigating Renee Good's killing, then Washington told them to stop.
Federal prosecutors had a warrant to collect evidence from Good's vehicle, but Trump leaders said to drop it. About a dozen prosecutors have since departed.
Prosecutors began investigating Renee Good's killing, then Washington told them to stop.
Federal prosecutors had a warrant to collect evidence from Good's vehicle, but Trump leaders said to drop it. About a dozen prosecutors have since departed.
Prosecutors Began Investigating Renee Good’s Killing. Washington Told Them to Stop.
www.nytimes.com
February 7, 2026 at 8:10 PM
NYT confirming MS NOW reporting:
Prosecutors began investigating Renee Good's killing, then Washington told them to stop.
Federal prosecutors had a warrant to collect evidence from Good's vehicle, but Trump leaders said to drop it. About a dozen prosecutors have since departed.
Prosecutors began investigating Renee Good's killing, then Washington told them to stop.
Federal prosecutors had a warrant to collect evidence from Good's vehicle, but Trump leaders said to drop it. About a dozen prosecutors have since departed.