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kryton3298.bsky.social
August 29, 2025 at 12:52 PM
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bindiatthebeach.bsky.social
Bye Bye Big Bird 😢

No more #npr
August 16, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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Eliza Dushku's testimony against forced arbitration was powerful. I don't know if I have confidence it will pass this Congress it in that it will help victims of sexual harassment.
CULTURE > FEATURES Eliza Dushku: "I can't go back to a system that requires me to sign away my rights" In 2017, the actor discovered that a 'forced arbitration clause' in her contract prevented her from taking a sexual harassment case against CBS to court. Now, after testifying to Congress, she's ready to break the 'culture of silence' in an exclusive interview. BY NOJAN AMINOSHAREI PUBLISHED: NOV 22, 2021 ☑ SAVE ARTICLE ast Tuesday, actor Eliza Dushku L testified in front of the House Judiciary Committee during ga hearing entitled "Silenced: How Forced Arbitration Keeps Victims of Sexual Violence and Sexual Harassment in the Shadows." It marked the first time Dushku has been able to speak freely about her experience on the set of the CBS show Bull in 2017. She detailed unrelenting harassment at the hands of series star Michael Weatherly, and enabled by showrunner Glenn Gordon Caron, after being cast as a series regular during filming of the show's first season. On Wednesday, the day after Dushku's testimony, the House Judiciary Committee voted in favor of the Ending Forced Arbitration of Sexual Assault and Harassment Act. The bill is next slated for the House of Representatives. Dushku spoke exclusively to Harper's BAZAAR about her testimony, the professional repercussions and personal mental health toll of being bound by forced arbitration clauses, and why she can't imagine returning to Hollywood i "Off script, in front of about 100 crew members and cast members, he once said that he would take me to his 'rape' van and use lube and long phallic things on me and take me over his knee and spank me like a little girl," Dushku testified. In another incident, she recalled, Weatherly "shouted out that he and his buddy wanted to have a threesome with me and began mock penis jousting while the camera was still rolling. Then, as I walked off to my coffee break between scenes, a random male crew member sidled up to me at the food service table and whispered, 'I'm with Bull. I want to have a threesome with you too, Eliza." She said that only a day after privately approaching Weatherly to tone down the sexual comments, she was unceremoniously fired despite only receiving positive feedback from the network up until that point. Dushku's contract had the potential option for six seasons, but she ultimately appeared in only three episodes of the series. The show is now in its sixth season. When Dushku decided to take legal action against CBS, she found that her employment contract included an arbitration clause- known variably as a "mandatory arbitration clause" or "forced arbitration clause"-a little-discussed provision that commonly appears in employment contracts across many industries. In effect, it preemptively strips employees, as a condition of employment, of the right to sue their employer in open court in the event that they suffer harassment, assault, or discrimination in the workplace. Instead, their complaints must be arbitrated in confidential, closed-door proceedings in which the employer chooses the arbitrator, often one it's used regularly. The process is thus stacked largely in favor of employers and corporations. A report by the American Association for Justice found that only 1.6 percent of arbitration cases in 2020 were decided in favor of the employee. Unlike cases tried in court, decisions are final and can't be appealed. The records are then seale
May 8, 2025 at 3:20 AM
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bluewavesurfer.bsky.social
April 9, 2025 at 9:51 PM
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aoc.bsky.social
We expected 2,000 people out in GOP-held Greeley, Colorado.

11,000 people showed up.

Something special is happening, folks. Now is the time to organize in every dimension possible and get to work.
daveweigel.bsky.social Dave Weigel @daveweigel.bsky.social · Mar 21
Overflow crowd for Bernie/AOC rally in Greeley, CO — the small one today, big one is in Denver later
March 21, 2025 at 9:23 PM
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aoc.bsky.social
And that’s on that 😌
acyn.bsky.social Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · Mar 21
AOC: One thing I love about Arizonans is that you all have shown that if a US Senator isn’t fighting hard enough for you, you’re not afraid to replace her with one who will.
March 21, 2025 at 4:14 AM
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juice2024.bsky.social
🇺🇲
March 20, 2025 at 12:13 AM
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stephenking.bsky.social
Is it at all surprising that a convicted felon would ignore a judge's order?
March 20, 2025 at 10:24 AM
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lunaluvgood2020.bsky.social
March 10, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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gmf1369.bsky.social
February 27, 2025 at 1:31 AM
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rbreich.bsky.social
This is what oligarchy looks like.
February 16, 2025 at 9:57 PM
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georgetakei.bsky.social
This is what the government did with 120K+ Japanese Americans in 1942.

I know. I was there in those camps.
January 31, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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andersonvilleej.bsky.social
I’m proud to call the amazing cartoonist Ed Wexler a friend.
January 27, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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thetnholler.bsky.social
CARTOON OF THE DAY
January 27, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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swissinusa.bsky.social
I wonder what the rest of the world is saying about us now. Berlin newspaper.
January 27, 2025 at 10:02 PM
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katiewhittemore22.bsky.social
Sell your Tesla. ❌

Sell your Cybertruck. ❌

Get off Twitter. ❌

Don’t sign up for Starlink. ❌

Bankrupt him. It will take while but it’s possible. ✊🏻

#resist
January 26, 2025 at 8:58 AM
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askaubry.com
Look at the smarmy headline from @washingtonpost.com, making it seem like Trump inherited massive debt from the former administration.

Who raised it in the first place WAPo?
Trump inherited a federal debt of about $36.2 trillion on Inauguration Day-more than $16 trillion higher than when he last entered the White House. Federal debt Debt held by the public as a percentage of gross domestic product, Q3 before inauguration 69% 75 The graphs specifically shows the debt incurred through trump' first term
January 24, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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realsrd2020.bsky.social
January 19, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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neilpollyticks.bsky.social
Hey America. Just saying.
Superman poster from 1950s. He is talking to school kids saying ...AND REMEMBER, BOYS AND GIRLS, YOUR SCHOOL - LIKE OUR COUNTRY-IS MADE UP OF AMERICANS OF MANY DIFFERENT RACES. RELIGIONS AND NATIONAL ORIGINS. 50... ..if YOU hear anybody talk against a schoolmate or anyone else because of his religion, race or national origin-don't wait: tell him THAT KIND OF TALK IS UN-AMERICAN.
January 19, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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kristinekenyon.bsky.social
Everyone’s directing their hate at Garland today, but I’ve got enough rage go around. John Roberts and the corrupt Seditious Six can GFT. 🖕🤬
November 25, 2024 at 11:33 PM
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gratefuldeadpool.bsky.social
This needs to be said, loud, and often.
November 25, 2024 at 5:20 PM