Kriss_deK
@krissdek.bsky.social
Franco-Belgo-American, with Italian roots. Political junkie. Avid philosophy reader. Journalism aficionada. Eternal social sciences student. Finance professional. Dedicated endurance runner & certified coach. 🇺🇸🇪🇺🇫🇷🇧🇪🇮🇹
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In 2016, I got death threats when I posted about Katie Johnson on Twitter.
Johnson is the woman who says she was raped by Trump when she was only 13 years old.
I watched the entirety of her video testimony and found it credible, which I say as someone who has worked with CSA survivors for decades.
Johnson is the woman who says she was raped by Trump when she was only 13 years old.
I watched the entirety of her video testimony and found it credible, which I say as someone who has worked with CSA survivors for decades.
The National Enquirer tried to catch and kill the Katie Johnson story. Then they got ahead of it in an attempt to discredit her. And many of us bought it—hook, line, and sinker katemanne.substack.com/p/they-tried...
They Tried to Bury the Katie Johnson Story
And we, the public, let them convince us it was bogus.
katemanne.substack.com
November 21, 2025 at 5:33 PM
In 2016, I got death threats when I posted about Katie Johnson on Twitter.
Johnson is the woman who says she was raped by Trump when she was only 13 years old.
I watched the entirety of her video testimony and found it credible, which I say as someone who has worked with CSA survivors for decades.
Johnson is the woman who says she was raped by Trump when she was only 13 years old.
I watched the entirety of her video testimony and found it credible, which I say as someone who has worked with CSA survivors for decades.
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The National Enquirer tried to catch and kill the Katie Johnson story. Then they got ahead of it in an attempt to discredit her. And many of us bought it—hook, line, and sinker katemanne.substack.com/p/they-tried...
They Tried to Bury the Katie Johnson Story
And we, the public, let them convince us it was bogus.
katemanne.substack.com
November 21, 2025 at 3:32 PM
The National Enquirer tried to catch and kill the Katie Johnson story. Then they got ahead of it in an attempt to discredit her. And many of us bought it—hook, line, and sinker katemanne.substack.com/p/they-tried...
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@ronanfarrow.bsky.social included this story in Catch and Kill. @katemanne.bsky.social and @borowitzreport.bsky.social discuss Katie Johnson's (a pseudonym) credible allegation that Trump raped her when she was 13. Content warning for child rape.
We don’t need to wait for the Epstein files—we just need to listen to the survivors and believe them. #BelieveWomen
She Says Trump Raped Her When She Was a Child
The Andy Borowitz Show
open.substack.com
November 23, 2025 at 8:50 PM
@ronanfarrow.bsky.social included this story in Catch and Kill. @katemanne.bsky.social and @borowitzreport.bsky.social discuss Katie Johnson's (a pseudonym) credible allegation that Trump raped her when she was 13. Content warning for child rape.
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Tariffs are taxes. When Trump levies new taxes on Americans without any approval by Congress and then talks about giving some of it back, that's not a "reward" – it's a scam.
Tom Emmer on tariff checks to Americans: "You gotta love this president. He looks at this like a business, and when the business is doing well, the shareholders, which are the American people, should be rewarded."
November 24, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Tariffs are taxes. When Trump levies new taxes on Americans without any approval by Congress and then talks about giving some of it back, that's not a "reward" – it's a scam.
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US senators want answers on 'anti-drug' strategy as Venezuela tensions rise reut.rs/3LfbWyh
US senators want answers on 'anti-drug' strategy as Venezuela tensions rise
The Republican and Democratic leaders of the U.S. Senate Armed Services Committee said on Friday they had asked President Donald Trump's administration for the legal rationale and other information about operations against drug cartels but had not yet received the information.
reut.rs
October 31, 2025 at 7:01 PM
US senators want answers on 'anti-drug' strategy as Venezuela tensions rise reut.rs/3LfbWyh
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Comme je suis les associations qui promeuvent le christofascisme, je reçois leurs newsletters.
Ici l'asso "We are lovers" (WAL) qui mène une campagne de dons. Elle lutte contre "l'addiction au porno" (n'existe pas dans le DSM-V).
J'apprends qu'elle intervient en milieu scolaire?!
Ici l'asso "We are lovers" (WAL) qui mène une campagne de dons. Elle lutte contre "l'addiction au porno" (n'existe pas dans le DSM-V).
J'apprends qu'elle intervient en milieu scolaire?!
October 31, 2025 at 10:55 AM
Comme je suis les associations qui promeuvent le christofascisme, je reçois leurs newsletters.
Ici l'asso "We are lovers" (WAL) qui mène une campagne de dons. Elle lutte contre "l'addiction au porno" (n'existe pas dans le DSM-V).
J'apprends qu'elle intervient en milieu scolaire?!
Ici l'asso "We are lovers" (WAL) qui mène une campagne de dons. Elle lutte contre "l'addiction au porno" (n'existe pas dans le DSM-V).
J'apprends qu'elle intervient en milieu scolaire?!
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Ignorer leur influence bien réelle c'est une grossière erreur.
Même dans leur rang, la moitié des militant'es anti-trans n'ont pas conscience d'où viennent les discours qu'iels recrachent et pourquoi ils sont revenus sur le devant de la scène ces dernières années.
Même dans leur rang, la moitié des militant'es anti-trans n'ont pas conscience d'où viennent les discours qu'iels recrachent et pourquoi ils sont revenus sur le devant de la scène ces dernières années.
October 31, 2025 at 9:35 AM
Ignorer leur influence bien réelle c'est une grossière erreur.
Même dans leur rang, la moitié des militant'es anti-trans n'ont pas conscience d'où viennent les discours qu'iels recrachent et pourquoi ils sont revenus sur le devant de la scène ces dernières années.
Même dans leur rang, la moitié des militant'es anti-trans n'ont pas conscience d'où viennent les discours qu'iels recrachent et pourquoi ils sont revenus sur le devant de la scène ces dernières années.
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Tu as littéralement des promoteurs de normes christofascistes qui organisent des séances de transfert de competences depuis les US à ici, et des christofascistes US qui viennent ici pour faire monter en capacité des acteurs de la société INcivile... mais les FR sont en mode "nuage de Tchernobyl"
Ce qui m’énerve : ce snobisme du vieux continent à toujours percevoir ce qu’il se passe aux US comme un truc « excessif » qui ne nous touchera jamais. Alors que toute l’histoire montre que ce qui impacte la 1ère démocratie occidentale augure immanquablement ce qui nous touchera qqes années + tard.
October 31, 2025 at 9:38 AM
Tu as littéralement des promoteurs de normes christofascistes qui organisent des séances de transfert de competences depuis les US à ici, et des christofascistes US qui viennent ici pour faire monter en capacité des acteurs de la société INcivile... mais les FR sont en mode "nuage de Tchernobyl"
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Fustiger la « polarisation » c’est discréditer la lutte politique. Or comment pourrions-nous enrayer la propagande antidémocratique si nous ne la combattons pas de toutes nos forces et sur tous les fronts?
October 31, 2025 at 9:57 AM
Fustiger la « polarisation » c’est discréditer la lutte politique. Or comment pourrions-nous enrayer la propagande antidémocratique si nous ne la combattons pas de toutes nos forces et sur tous les fronts?
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Juste une remarque à ce sujet (je précise que j’aime beaucoup Asma) : parler de « propagande » ET EN MEME TEMPS de « polarisation » n’a aucun sens politique. La propagande ça se combat politiquement.
« Les réseaux sociaux sont aujourd'hui des technologies de masse, de propagande, d'embrigadement, de recrutement, de polarisation et d'organisation de milices numériques. »
@asmamhalla.bsky.social Politologue
La suite :
⏰ 22h40 sur france·tv
➡️https://bit.ly/ReseauxSociauxMenace
🎧en podcast
@asmamhalla.bsky.social Politologue
La suite :
⏰ 22h40 sur france·tv
➡️https://bit.ly/ReseauxSociauxMenace
🎧en podcast
October 31, 2025 at 9:54 AM
Juste une remarque à ce sujet (je précise que j’aime beaucoup Asma) : parler de « propagande » ET EN MEME TEMPS de « polarisation » n’a aucun sens politique. La propagande ça se combat politiquement.
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Welch: "This has nothing to do with the shutdown. The law requires and the funds are available to continue SNAP right now without any interruption. So that is a decision the president is making on his own to allow people to go hungry."
October 29, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Welch: "This has nothing to do with the shutdown. The law requires and the funds are available to continue SNAP right now without any interruption. So that is a decision the president is making on his own to allow people to go hungry."
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Donald Trump Jr. in 2021: “Those Hunter no-show no-experience board seats didn’t come without an expected return!”
Donald Trump Jr. in 2024: Gets $2.8M in stock for joining an advisory board that didn't exist until he joined it.
New: me, for @forbes.com
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Donald Trump Jr. in 2024: Gets $2.8M in stock for joining an advisory board that didn't exist until he joined it.
New: me, for @forbes.com
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After Unusual Machines Names Donald Trump Jr. To New Advisory Board, Defense Contracts Follow
Donald Trump Jr. once mocked Hunter Biden's "no-show no-experience board seats." Now he's on his second newly activated advisory board—and that company just announced $15 million in contracts.
www.forbes.com
October 29, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Donald Trump Jr. in 2021: “Those Hunter no-show no-experience board seats didn’t come without an expected return!”
Donald Trump Jr. in 2024: Gets $2.8M in stock for joining an advisory board that didn't exist until he joined it.
New: me, for @forbes.com
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Donald Trump Jr. in 2024: Gets $2.8M in stock for joining an advisory board that didn't exist until he joined it.
New: me, for @forbes.com
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This is how our government has been corrupted:
1) Donors give huge sums to elect politicians to office
2) Elected officials rewrite rules in the donors' favor
3) Donors make huge profit
4) Repeat
We must get big money out of politics.
It is the root of our dysfunction.
1) Donors give huge sums to elect politicians to office
2) Elected officials rewrite rules in the donors' favor
3) Donors make huge profit
4) Repeat
We must get big money out of politics.
It is the root of our dysfunction.
October 29, 2025 at 7:01 PM
This is how our government has been corrupted:
1) Donors give huge sums to elect politicians to office
2) Elected officials rewrite rules in the donors' favor
3) Donors make huge profit
4) Repeat
We must get big money out of politics.
It is the root of our dysfunction.
1) Donors give huge sums to elect politicians to office
2) Elected officials rewrite rules in the donors' favor
3) Donors make huge profit
4) Repeat
We must get big money out of politics.
It is the root of our dysfunction.
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"What is the name of the particular country?" Warren pressed. "If you can't answer that question, I don't see how you can represent American soybean farmers."
The answer is Argentina, a country about to receive a $20 billion bailout from Trump.
The answer is Argentina, a country about to receive a $20 billion bailout from Trump.
October 29, 2025 at 6:09 PM
"What is the name of the particular country?" Warren pressed. "If you can't answer that question, I don't see how you can represent American soybean farmers."
The answer is Argentina, a country about to receive a $20 billion bailout from Trump.
The answer is Argentina, a country about to receive a $20 billion bailout from Trump.
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Elizabeth Warren: U.S. soybean farmers are in trouble because China quit buying from them. Who is China buying from now?
Julie Callahan, Trump's pick for AG negotiator at USTR: "..."
Warren: What is the country?
Callahan: "China is purchasing Latin American soybeans."
Warren: "Latin American??"
Julie Callahan, Trump's pick for AG negotiator at USTR: "..."
Warren: What is the country?
Callahan: "China is purchasing Latin American soybeans."
Warren: "Latin American??"
October 29, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Elizabeth Warren: U.S. soybean farmers are in trouble because China quit buying from them. Who is China buying from now?
Julie Callahan, Trump's pick for AG negotiator at USTR: "..."
Warren: What is the country?
Callahan: "China is purchasing Latin American soybeans."
Warren: "Latin American??"
Julie Callahan, Trump's pick for AG negotiator at USTR: "..."
Warren: What is the country?
Callahan: "China is purchasing Latin American soybeans."
Warren: "Latin American??"
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I’ve been thinking a lot about a new kind of polling I’d like to see. We have polling that measures public opinion, which is obviously important, but I’d love to see a little more empirical work on public knowledge: what do voters know about politics and policy?
October 29, 2025 at 5:45 PM
I’ve been thinking a lot about a new kind of polling I’d like to see. We have polling that measures public opinion, which is obviously important, but I’d love to see a little more empirical work on public knowledge: what do voters know about politics and policy?
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The federal government keeps labeling everyone they go after as cartel members — and it keeps being proven false. These are the same people we’re supposed to trust when they execute people at sea under that very justification?
October 29, 2025 at 5:51 PM
The federal government keeps labeling everyone they go after as cartel members — and it keeps being proven false. These are the same people we’re supposed to trust when they execute people at sea under that very justification?
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This infuriates me. While breast cancer is much more rare among men, they DO get it. I have a friend who's a male breast cancer survivor. Making people starve/die bc political ideology is what fascists do. #BreastCancerAwareness
Citing a Trump executive order banning "gender ideology," the VA is withholding coverage and treatment for male veterans with breast cancer, an increasing condition among veterans exposed to toxic chemicals during service. 100 male veterans a year are diagnosed with breast cancer.
Citing Trump Order on “Biological Truth,” VA Makes It Harder for Male Veterans With Breast Cancer to Get Coverage
A Department of Veterans Affairs memo obtained by ProPublica erects new roadblocks to care for veterans with the rare but deadly cancer. The agency cites no new science but relies on an executive orde...
www.propublica.org
October 30, 2025 at 12:51 AM
This infuriates me. While breast cancer is much more rare among men, they DO get it. I have a friend who's a male breast cancer survivor. Making people starve/die bc political ideology is what fascists do. #BreastCancerAwareness
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Let me be very clear. It is not enough that RFK Jr. was forced to admit today that no causal relationship between Tylenol and autism has been shown.
We know that while disinformation spreads like wildfire on social media, corrections most often die on the vine.
We know that while disinformation spreads like wildfire on social media, corrections most often die on the vine.
October 29, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Let me be very clear. It is not enough that RFK Jr. was forced to admit today that no causal relationship between Tylenol and autism has been shown.
We know that while disinformation spreads like wildfire on social media, corrections most often die on the vine.
We know that while disinformation spreads like wildfire on social media, corrections most often die on the vine.
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A president who at least pretends to feel the pain, occasionally, of only the people who voted for him. What could possibly go wrong?
www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-isnt...
www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-isnt...
Trump Isn’t Easing the Shutdown Pain—He’s Inflicting It
Mike Johnson says the president is protecting Americans from the shutdown. That’s completely wrong.
www.thebulwark.com
October 30, 2025 at 2:00 AM
A president who at least pretends to feel the pain, occasionally, of only the people who voted for him. What could possibly go wrong?
www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-isnt...
www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-isnt...
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Congress has provided a contingency plan for SNAP to keep the program going for years in case of a shut down. The USDA sneakily took the plan down. Now blue states are suing to continue benefits for their constituents.
Where is the money going?
#ProudBlue#Voices4Victory
#OneV1
apple.news
Where is the money going?
#ProudBlue#Voices4Victory
#OneV1
apple.news
USDA Quietly Deletes Its Contingency Plan for Funding SNAP — NOTUS
The 55-page “lapse of funding” document for USDA is no longer available online.
apple.news
October 30, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Congress has provided a contingency plan for SNAP to keep the program going for years in case of a shut down. The USDA sneakily took the plan down. Now blue states are suing to continue benefits for their constituents.
Where is the money going?
#ProudBlue#Voices4Victory
#OneV1
apple.news
Where is the money going?
#ProudBlue#Voices4Victory
#OneV1
apple.news
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Thank you so much to @francesca-b.bsky.social and colleagues for this excellent paper on masculinist terrorism in Europe.
My key point : "Masculinist terrorism should challenge us to rethink our collective representations of what terrorism is”.
My key point : "Masculinist terrorism should challenge us to rethink our collective representations of what terrorism is”.
#PulseEurope #masculinism
Violent attacks against women by radicalised men are multiplying on European soil. With the phenomenon only partially understood, an adequate response remains to be found. via @voxeurop.bsky.social
thanks to @stephlamy.bsky.social
voxeurop.eu/en/incel-eur...
Violent attacks against women by radicalised men are multiplying on European soil. With the phenomenon only partially understood, an adequate response remains to be found. via @voxeurop.bsky.social
thanks to @stephlamy.bsky.social
voxeurop.eu/en/incel-eur...
Beyond the incel: Europe in the face of masculinist terrorism
Violent attacks against women by radicalised men are multiplying on European soil. With the phenomenon only partially understood, an adequate response remains to be found.
voxeurop.eu
October 28, 2025 at 9:40 AM
Thank you so much to @francesca-b.bsky.social and colleagues for this excellent paper on masculinist terrorism in Europe.
My key point : "Masculinist terrorism should challenge us to rethink our collective representations of what terrorism is”.
My key point : "Masculinist terrorism should challenge us to rethink our collective representations of what terrorism is”.
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“He was using the modeling company as a cover in part for the sex trafficking… They would send the youngest girls down to Epstein’s place in Palm Beach… When Epstein formed that company, he said to her, I want it to be set up just like Donald Trump’s modeling agency.”
Julie K Brown
@meidastouch.com
Julie K Brown
@meidastouch.com
Brown: Brad Edwards deposed Epstein’s accountant—she worked for Epstein’s modeling company
She gave more detail than we had heard before, including the fact that when Epstein formed that company, he told her he wanted it to be set up just like Trump’s modeling agency.
She gave more detail than we had heard before, including the fact that when Epstein formed that company, he told her he wanted it to be set up just like Trump’s modeling agency.
August 4, 2025 at 6:11 PM
“He was using the modeling company as a cover in part for the sex trafficking… They would send the youngest girls down to Epstein’s place in Palm Beach… When Epstein formed that company, he said to her, I want it to be set up just like Donald Trump’s modeling agency.”
Julie K Brown
@meidastouch.com
Julie K Brown
@meidastouch.com
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This thread makes a point I find myself coming to often these days.
It's hard to make this point in a way that doesn't sound like a threat, but it's just a fact that for centuries the wealthy in America worried that the mob would come get them and did all they could to avoid that fate.
It's hard to make this point in a way that doesn't sound like a threat, but it's just a fact that for centuries the wealthy in America worried that the mob would come get them and did all they could to avoid that fate.
lol what the wealthy today don't seem to understand is part of staying wealthy in society is not pissing off the masses.
There's a reason why Carnegie and the Rockefellers poured money into institutions. Gutting institutions and making it harder for the masses to survive is a...choice.
There's a reason why Carnegie and the Rockefellers poured money into institutions. Gutting institutions and making it harder for the masses to survive is a...choice.
October 27, 2025 at 6:36 PM
This thread makes a point I find myself coming to often these days.
It's hard to make this point in a way that doesn't sound like a threat, but it's just a fact that for centuries the wealthy in America worried that the mob would come get them and did all they could to avoid that fate.
It's hard to make this point in a way that doesn't sound like a threat, but it's just a fact that for centuries the wealthy in America worried that the mob would come get them and did all they could to avoid that fate.