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There are a lot of people invested in the idea that Epstein and all the other powerful perpetrators got away with it for so long because they’re so powerful.
But I can’t emphasize enough that almost all perpetrators get these protections. As long as they pick a victim with less power than them.
But I can’t emphasize enough that almost all perpetrators get these protections. As long as they pick a victim with less power than them.
July 22, 2025 at 5:48 PM
There are a lot of people invested in the idea that Epstein and all the other powerful perpetrators got away with it for so long because they’re so powerful.
But I can’t emphasize enough that almost all perpetrators get these protections. As long as they pick a victim with less power than them.
But I can’t emphasize enough that almost all perpetrators get these protections. As long as they pick a victim with less power than them.
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It triggers disaster response payments for those affected (including business), as well as help for local governments et al and more access to federal agency assistance. It IS a natural disaster, just not one our definitions allow for, but will become more common as climate change continues
July 22, 2025 at 1:34 AM
It triggers disaster response payments for those affected (including business), as well as help for local governments et al and more access to federal agency assistance. It IS a natural disaster, just not one our definitions allow for, but will become more common as climate change continues
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"Democrats keep “getting caught in this stupid doom loop in which our pollsters say: ‘Well, climate’s not one of the top issues that voters care about, so then we don’t talk about it’”, said Whitehouse. “So it never becomes one of the top issues that voters care about"
Democrats and climate groups ‘too polite’ in fight against ‘malevolent’ fossil fuel giants, says key senator
Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island gives 300th climate speech on the US Senate floor
www.theguardian.com
July 13, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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There is a worldwide 'slump' that's been happening for three years, but Australia is quite unique in that the slump is much, much more severe
Elsewhere, coverage has dipped to early 2020s levels, or late 2010s - never lower than COVID19 (like in Aus)
mecco.colorado.edu/world/index....
Elsewhere, coverage has dipped to early 2020s levels, or late 2010s - never lower than COVID19 (like in Aus)
mecco.colorado.edu/world/index....
July 13, 2025 at 12:01 PM
There is a worldwide 'slump' that's been happening for three years, but Australia is quite unique in that the slump is much, much more severe
Elsewhere, coverage has dipped to early 2020s levels, or late 2010s - never lower than COVID19 (like in Aus)
mecco.colorado.edu/world/index....
Elsewhere, coverage has dipped to early 2020s levels, or late 2010s - never lower than COVID19 (like in Aus)
mecco.colorado.edu/world/index....
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so, it's not enough that a politics exists where "woman" is taken apart and investigated for its existence (as one should), but "female" too. in fact, conservatives have retreated to defending its machinery via the "defense of femaleness". we ask ourselves - what is "being female"? who defines it?
July 9, 2025 at 7:28 PM
so, it's not enough that a politics exists where "woman" is taken apart and investigated for its existence (as one should), but "female" too. in fact, conservatives have retreated to defending its machinery via the "defense of femaleness". we ask ourselves - what is "being female"? who defines it?
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this is why the "male and female subject" as a mere "fact" of bodies is a technique of instrumentalizing people into the reproduction of the family, state, and capital. this is liberalism.
July 9, 2025 at 7:21 PM
this is why the "male and female subject" as a mere "fact" of bodies is a technique of instrumentalizing people into the reproduction of the family, state, and capital. this is liberalism.
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this is why any politics that simply claims to be for "male and female equality" is a liberal feminism, regardless of whether it calls itself radical. the body has the potential to exist in a much more diverse manner of individual existence and relation beyond hetero-repro teleology.
July 9, 2025 at 7:20 PM
this is why any politics that simply claims to be for "male and female equality" is a liberal feminism, regardless of whether it calls itself radical. the body has the potential to exist in a much more diverse manner of individual existence and relation beyond hetero-repro teleology.