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@historynerd19.bsky.social
Studying 20th century German history. Bibliophile.🐱mom. Just a midwest gal screaming into the void. She/her. Insufferable STL sports fan. 🇵🇸🇺🇦🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🟧✊🏻
As a sexual abuse survivor, I just want to say to everyone struggling through all the Epstein, and now gaetz, news dumps:
I am also struggling, I see you, your feelings are valid, whatever you are doing to distract yourself from the triggers is valid, you are loved and you are not alone.
I am also struggling, I see you, your feelings are valid, whatever you are doing to distract yourself from the triggers is valid, you are loved and you are not alone.
November 16, 2025 at 4:36 PM
As a sexual abuse survivor, I just want to say to everyone struggling through all the Epstein, and now gaetz, news dumps:
I am also struggling, I see you, your feelings are valid, whatever you are doing to distract yourself from the triggers is valid, you are loved and you are not alone.
I am also struggling, I see you, your feelings are valid, whatever you are doing to distract yourself from the triggers is valid, you are loved and you are not alone.
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The sense I am getting through all of this is that Larry Summers used his position to get a substantially junior colleague to listen to him whine about his marriage, then tried to get her to “have a drink with him” and stormed off when she was like no thanks I have a presentation tomorrow.
The emails have Summers reporting to Epstein about his attempts to date a Harvard economics student & to hit on her during a seminar she was giving.
November 16, 2025 at 4:00 PM
The sense I am getting through all of this is that Larry Summers used his position to get a substantially junior colleague to listen to him whine about his marriage, then tried to get her to “have a drink with him” and stormed off when she was like no thanks I have a presentation tomorrow.
If democrats don’t run on accountability next year, what are we really doing here
November 16, 2025 at 4:31 PM
If democrats don’t run on accountability next year, what are we really doing here
Women continually stepping forward to hold despicable white men who have sexually abused them accountable is a debt we can never repay. They risk upending their entire lives to speak out and yet they choose to do the right thing, every. single. time.
'Beyond horrific': Observers aghast as teen at center of Gaetz sex scandal comes forward
www.rawstory.com/matt-gaetz-t...
www.rawstory.com/matt-gaetz-t...
'Beyond horrific': Observers aghast as teen at center of Gaetz sex scandal comes forward
Reactions mounted Thursday after a woman sharing her story for the first time said that then-Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) sexually abused her when she was just 17, while she was living in a homeless shelter...
www.rawstory.com
November 16, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Women continually stepping forward to hold despicable white men who have sexually abused them accountable is a debt we can never repay. They risk upending their entire lives to speak out and yet they choose to do the right thing, every. single. time.
Calling years of pedophilic rape and trafficking of underaged girls and young women a “tactic to distract” is truly fucking disgusting @cbsnews.com
Margaret Brennan to Tom Suozzi: "Can you explain the focus this past week in the House by Democrats on the Jeffrey Epstein files? Is this a tactic to distract from the failure to extract healthcare changes?"
November 16, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Calling years of pedophilic rape and trafficking of underaged girls and young women a “tactic to distract” is truly fucking disgusting @cbsnews.com
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Maybe, and I'm spitballing here, women don't like waiting in hospital parking lots until they are near death to have life-saving abortions. Maybe they enjoy having a bank account and jobs and voting rights. Maybe they don't want a court judge to decide if they deserve a divorce. Wow, what a mystery.
November 16, 2025 at 3:30 AM
Maybe, and I'm spitballing here, women don't like waiting in hospital parking lots until they are near death to have life-saving abortions. Maybe they enjoy having a bank account and jobs and voting rights. Maybe they don't want a court judge to decide if they deserve a divorce. Wow, what a mystery.
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I've been working with Demos to turn the Verification, Deliberation, and Accountability (VDA) Framework into a report that lays out how it can be used to diagnose the state of democracy and build solutions around building the capacity for those functions in institutional and public spaces.
🧵 Across the world, democracy isn’t just under pressure, it’s facing epistemic collapse: a breakdown in the shared ability to know what’s true, to reason together and to hold power to account.
A new guest paper by @eliothiggins.bsky.social and @drnataliemartin.bsky.social explores how to fix it.
A new guest paper by @eliothiggins.bsky.social and @drnataliemartin.bsky.social explores how to fix it.
Verification, Deliberation, Accountability: A new framework for tackling epistemic collapse and renewing democracy
Demos is Britain’s leading cross-party think-tank. We produce original research, publish innovative thinkers and host thought-provoking events.
demos.co.uk
October 22, 2025 at 12:53 PM
I've been working with Demos to turn the Verification, Deliberation, and Accountability (VDA) Framework into a report that lays out how it can be used to diagnose the state of democracy and build solutions around building the capacity for those functions in institutional and public spaces.
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I'm sorry, I'm still having a hard time getting over that the owner of the NY Times is in the Epstein files thing and they haven't even acknowledged this in any reporting.
November 16, 2025 at 3:10 AM
I'm sorry, I'm still having a hard time getting over that the owner of the NY Times is in the Epstein files thing and they haven't even acknowledged this in any reporting.
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As Bovino and masked DHS officers sweep another Home Depot looking to round up day laborers, a reminder of the meeting in May when Stephen Miller screamed at ICE to stop doing targeted enforcement, start hitting Home Depots and 7/11s and “just go out there and arrest illegal aliens.”
November 16, 2025 at 4:19 AM
As Bovino and masked DHS officers sweep another Home Depot looking to round up day laborers, a reminder of the meeting in May when Stephen Miller screamed at ICE to stop doing targeted enforcement, start hitting Home Depots and 7/11s and “just go out there and arrest illegal aliens.”
Tonight must be the night that smart white women post and repost some of the dumbest shit I’ve read in weeks. First barb and now HRC? What are we doing here @hcrichardson.bsky.social ??? You’re a respected historian and you’re reposting the guy who told us to stop using “woke academic words”?
My mistake has been trying to explain what "fascism" is to people who don't care what it is.
So I'm going to try something else. Let's do this as a practical thought exercise.
If America *were* fascist *today* - what would you have to do differently in your daily life? /1
So I'm going to try something else. Let's do this as a practical thought exercise.
If America *were* fascist *today* - what would you have to do differently in your daily life? /1
November 16, 2025 at 4:21 AM
Tonight must be the night that smart white women post and repost some of the dumbest shit I’ve read in weeks. First barb and now HRC? What are we doing here @hcrichardson.bsky.social ??? You’re a respected historian and you’re reposting the guy who told us to stop using “woke academic words”?
Barb …. What the fuck is this
Trump’s order that DOJ investigate ties between Epstein and Democrats is deviously brilliant—an ongoing investigation can be used as a reason, even if pretextual, to block public disclosure of the file.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/14/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/14/u...
Justice Department to Investigate Epstein Ties, but Not to Trump
President Trump ordered the Justice Department to investigate the dealings of Democrats with Jeffrey Epstein, after a week in which his own relationship with the convicted sex offender was in the…
www.nytimes.com
November 16, 2025 at 4:15 AM
Barb …. What the fuck is this
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New: Google has chosen a side in Trump's mass deportation campaign. Google is hosting a CBP facial recognition app to hunt immigrants; no indication Google will remove. At same time Google takes down apps for reporting ICE sightings
“Big tech has made their choice”
www.404media.co/google-has-c...
“Big tech has made their choice”
www.404media.co/google-has-c...
Google Has Chosen a Side in Trump's Mass Deportation Effort
Google is hosting a CBP app that uses facial recognition to identify immigrants, while simultaneously removing apps that report the location of ICE officials because Google sees ICE as a vulnerable gr...
www.404media.co
November 13, 2025 at 2:11 PM
New: Google has chosen a side in Trump's mass deportation campaign. Google is hosting a CBP facial recognition app to hunt immigrants; no indication Google will remove. At same time Google takes down apps for reporting ICE sightings
“Big tech has made their choice”
www.404media.co/google-has-c...
“Big tech has made their choice”
www.404media.co/google-has-c...
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Repost….we killing them
November 16, 2025 at 4:00 AM
Repost….we killing them
The GOP has like 5 schisms going on right now and I cannot wait to see how this ends
November 16, 2025 at 2:53 AM
The GOP has like 5 schisms going on right now and I cannot wait to see how this ends
They’re concentration camps @reuters.com at least get that part right
November 16, 2025 at 2:21 AM
They’re concentration camps @reuters.com at least get that part right
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Here is the Democratic Senate Campaign Committee fundraising from SpaceX and Palantir's top lobbying firm AFTER DOGE was in progress. The DCCC had already done the same.
Dems Double Down on Fundraising From SpaceX and Palantir Lobbyists
Senate Democrats have joined their House counterparts in fundraising from the top lobbying firm for the Trump and Musk-tied companies.
readsludge.com
November 16, 2025 at 2:17 AM
Here is the Democratic Senate Campaign Committee fundraising from SpaceX and Palantir's top lobbying firm AFTER DOGE was in progress. The DCCC had already done the same.
Yeah sure, let’s let in the racists, Nazis and bigots. It’s not like they’ve been calling to have us all rounded up and hung for the last decade.
Dunk on them all you want, stop listening to the guy who voted to give ICE billions of dollars to kidnap ppl bc he thought “it would keep us safe”
Dunk on them all you want, stop listening to the guy who voted to give ICE billions of dollars to kidnap ppl bc he thought “it would keep us safe”
November 16, 2025 at 2:05 AM
Yeah sure, let’s let in the racists, Nazis and bigots. It’s not like they’ve been calling to have us all rounded up and hung for the last decade.
Dunk on them all you want, stop listening to the guy who voted to give ICE billions of dollars to kidnap ppl bc he thought “it would keep us safe”
Dunk on them all you want, stop listening to the guy who voted to give ICE billions of dollars to kidnap ppl bc he thought “it would keep us safe”
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please don't do this. MAGA hats are made from an acrylic blend, which will release toxic chemicals when set on fire, potentially harming you and downwind woodland creatures
November 16, 2025 at 1:37 AM
please don't do this. MAGA hats are made from an acrylic blend, which will release toxic chemicals when set on fire, potentially harming you and downwind woodland creatures
I wanna know how much money Mississippi gave these refs before this game
It might be a new “SEC” but it’s the same old bullshit
It might be a new “SEC” but it’s the same old bullshit
November 16, 2025 at 1:51 AM
I wanna know how much money Mississippi gave these refs before this game
It might be a new “SEC” but it’s the same old bullshit
It might be a new “SEC” but it’s the same old bullshit
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This is Jólakötturinn, the Icelandic Christmas cat, who eats children who do not get new clothes. Christmas is here, children!
November 15, 2025 at 10:39 PM
This is Jólakötturinn, the Icelandic Christmas cat, who eats children who do not get new clothes. Christmas is here, children!
Three Paraguains tried to fight Freeman and he shoved one of them and the other two backed off lmaoooooo
November 16, 2025 at 12:04 AM
Three Paraguains tried to fight Freeman and he shoved one of them and the other two backed off lmaoooooo
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Are we still arresting youth pastors for fucking 15 year olds? Huh. Looks like we are.
www.joemygod.com/2025/11/miss...
www.joemygod.com/2025/11/miss...
Missouri Youth Pastor Arrested On Child Sex Charges - Joe.My.God.
Kansas City’s ABC affiliate reports: An associate youth pastor in Clay County, Missouri, is facing several charges for sex crimes involving a teenager. Donald Aaron Axtell has been charged with felony...
www.joemygod.com
November 15, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Are we still arresting youth pastors for fucking 15 year olds? Huh. Looks like we are.
www.joemygod.com/2025/11/miss...
www.joemygod.com/2025/11/miss...
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Watch this.
I wanted to share probably the most important sermon I’ve given and it’s while I’m being arrested. It’s torture pure and simple what happens at #Broadview. I’m ok, though I was thrown to the ground and choked with my pectoral cross. A review of the video shows I was peaceful - did I deserve this?
November 15, 2025 at 11:19 PM
Watch this.
How did I miss this??? 😭😭😭
November 15, 2025 at 11:36 PM
How did I miss this??? 😭😭😭
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📽️ WATCH: Oklahoma has spent years reshaping public schools to integrate lessons about Jesus and encourage pride in America’s history.
Listen to parent and education advocate Erika Wright talk about the crisis she believes is happening in her state’s public school system: https://propub.li/4qXq3Zv
Listen to parent and education advocate Erika Wright talk about the crisis she believes is happening in her state’s public school system: https://propub.li/4qXq3Zv
November 15, 2025 at 10:02 PM
📽️ WATCH: Oklahoma has spent years reshaping public schools to integrate lessons about Jesus and encourage pride in America’s history.
Listen to parent and education advocate Erika Wright talk about the crisis she believes is happening in her state’s public school system: https://propub.li/4qXq3Zv
Listen to parent and education advocate Erika Wright talk about the crisis she believes is happening in her state’s public school system: https://propub.li/4qXq3Zv