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Thank you for this empathetic and informed evaluation of this work @jessradio I hope we can continue to work together to develop and further refine the assumptions and delve into the data needed to explore them. Next (I hope): DFV and employment.
I wanted to sit for a while with this epic report by @SummersAnne, to give it the consideration it deserves. This data (though incomplete in fundamental ways) should prompt a radical shift in the way we respond to family violence *and* gender inequality. primer.com.au/single-mothers…
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The Cornell University r@pist. These men drugged a young woman and took turns r@ping her. In a group chat, they took a picture of her and invited others to rape her. Only two of them were expelled the others had to write an essay. You should be outraged by the outcome. This young woman will forever be changed by what happened to her and these young men get a slap on the hand.
The last 24 hours of news as a woman:
- A man jacks off to the woman next to him on a plane. United makes her return to her seat.
- 7 frat boys drug and gang rape a student for hours, and advertise “free p*ssy” to their frat. Cornell makes them write essays.
- A football player rapes a student. LSU reduces his suspension.
- A teen boy stalks and stabs a girl 10 times. Courts grant only a restraining order.
- Brendan Carr spent 9 years in a cult raping teen girls. Trump made him FCC Chair.
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Lee Krasner. At last.
A Superb American Artist Is Finally Getting Her Due nytimes.com/2026/09/25/opini…
A must read by @latingle on the escalating threats to Europe from Russia
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🔥 🇺🇸 Tammy Duckworth just became our pick for president. And I’m not moving off of that until somebody one-ups her and that’s not gonna be easy because she’s the first. Mark this moment down. That was a very important sentence. 🤯
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BREAKING: GET HIM! Fifty major media organizations join together to submit an amicus brief in support of the CNN, Politico, and MS NOW lawsuit to lift Trump's "Constitutionally repugnant" White House ban.
He really woke a sleeping giant with this one...
"The President has indicated that evictions of other news organizations will follow. The current ban – and any future bans – are intended to impair the critical work of news organizations covering the presidency if this Court does not immediately intervene," the coalition, which includes the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, the White House Correspondents’ Association, NPR, CBS, ABC, and scores of other media organizations argued.
An amicus curiae brief, which translates to "friend of the court," is a legal filing submitted by an entity or entities that are not party to the lawsuit in order to offer arguments, expertise, or relevant insight to the case. In this case, the organizations are offering their emphatic support for CNN, Politico, and MS NOW which were banned from the White House by Trump for supposedly spreading "fake news."
Clearly, the organizations recognize that Trump's power grab represents a dire threat to the Constitution. If a corrupt President like this can unilaterally label an outlet as "fake news" simply because he dislikes their coverage of his administration, we cease to live in a country with genuine free speech.
"Barring these three news organizations from access to the White House because they exercised their ‘editorial control and judgment’ to cover issues in a way that the President views as negative ‘exacts a penalty on the basis of the content of a newspaper’ much like any law that forbids publication or imposes a monetary sanction on its use," the filing reads.
This is what it looks like when the united free press stands up to a would-be tyrant. Trump is doomed to fail in this fight, just like he has failed every time before when he sought to shred the Constitution.
Please ❤️ and share if you support the lawsuit!
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BREAKING: LOVE IT! The New York Times digs in hard against Trump and announces that they'll continue withholding ALL White House press pool images until the media ban case has been heard in court.
This is how you call a fascist's bluff...
“The New York Times will continue to withhold publication or distribution of images captured as part of the White House still photography pool, in support of the media organizations that President Trump has targeted with a ban," stated Times spokesperson Charlie Stadtlander.
"We’ll maintain this policy until a court has the chance to hear arguments on the legal claims filed by those media organizations. We remain committed to covering the president and his administration with thorough, unflinching news reporting," he continued.
"Alongside the broadcast outlets that have suspended their video pool coverage of the president, The Times’s decision recognizes that barring these media outlets is unequal treatment and punitive retaliation for simply reporting the news," the statement concluded.
Last Friday, Trump banned CNN, Politico, and MS NOW from the White House, citing their supposed penchant for publishing "fake news." In reality, he just hates that they accurately report on his administration's endless string of failed policies and blunders.
The other mainstream outlets banded together in solidarity to defend the First Amendment. CBS News, ABC News, CNN, Fox News, and NBC News announced that they were suspending TV press pool coverage of Trump.
The lack of proper pool coverage resulted in an embarrassing incident yesterday, where Trump held a big ribbon-cutting event for his White House helipad but the audio was awful because there were no professional media microphones present.
The Times announced yesterday that they wouldn't be releasing any images from the pool, but it was unclear how long this restriction would last. This new announcement makes it clear and the timing is perfect. Trump is in New York for the United Nations meeting this week and is desperate for attention. Denying him the media coverage he wants is the surest path to making him cave.
Please ❤️ and share if you stand with The New York Times!
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Trump explodes at CNN's Kaitlan Collins as he arrives at the UN with Melania: "I’m surprised that CNN is here covering me. You shouldn’t be here. You should not be here covering me."
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The decision by the television outlets not to participate in the White House pool today in response to Trump's self-declared "ban on the free press" will leave the most TV-addicted president in our history without major network cameras recording his every utterance and movement.
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With 3 more women killed by men in the last 24 hours, it’s a good time to remind everyone that more women have been killed by male violence since 2020 than all Australians killed by shark attacks, terrorism and one punch attacks combined in the last 25 years.
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If I said we have a broken political system, it'd be the least memorable thing I said all day. We all know it. We all say it. The question is: Why do we act like it isn't? It can't go on like this.
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The Kennedy Memorial is made of irreplaceable marble that was gifted by Italy.
Matisse tapestries found throughout were gifted from France.
The massive starburst chandelier in the Opera Hall, and lights along walkways, were a gift from Sweden.
The record-breaking stage curtains were a gift from Japan. They had to build special looms to weave them because of how big they are.
The grounds are beautiful with displays of art.
This is what Trump is destroying.
Mamdani’s impressive starts Mayor of New York. I also like that he’s installing 17 free public toilets across the city. My father, then in his 70s with a prostate complaint, had a very hard time finding toilets when he visited me there. Freud made a similar complaint.
It's pretty impressive how much ground Mayor Mamdani has been able to cover after only nine months in office on a wide range of basic quality-of-life issues in NYC:
-- 229,000 pothole repairs (up 27% from last year)
-- speedbump installations up 25%
-- tree planting up 61% (55,000 total)
-- bus lanes installation more than doubled (5.5 miles to 12 miles)
-- residential curbside collection met its annual target for the first time in 21 years (with three months to spare)
-- affordable housing completions up 20%
-- financed 2,546 supportive housing units and 4,742 affordable homes for formerly homeless New Yorkers, the most in a fiscal year in NYC history
-- job placements through the city's human resources agency are up 33%
-- youth job placements through city admin up 26%
-- wait times for primary care appointments down 31% for adults and 24% for children
-- families receiving child welfare services up 16%
-- rec center membership up 13% (total membership highest in 15 years)
-- young adult attendance at rec centers up 50%
-- murder rate is down 20%
-- burglaries down 9%, robberies down 9%, auto thefts down 7%
All in fewer than nine months. Extraordinary.
Read the full stats here: nyc.gov/mayors-office/news/2…
No one has ever ‘stopped’ abortion. They have just made it more dangerous.
When you ban abortion women die.
One Nation Nutter will ‘stop abortion’ in NSW. They get madder by the minute.
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Trump has eliminated the LGBQT suicide hotline, so Canada has made theirs availabale to Americans. 1-877-565-8860
Thank you, Canada 🇨🇦
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The number 1-877-565-8860 is the existing US Trans Lifeline trans peer support service, not a new Canadian government hotline for Americans. Canada's 9-8-8 serves only callers in Canada; the US 988 general lifeline remains available.
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Italian journalist Oriana Fallaci removing her chador during her tense 1979 interview with Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini in Qom, Iran...
In October 1979, Italian journalist Oriana Fallaci traveled to Qom, Iran, to interview the Islamic Revolution's supreme leader. To get inside the room, Fallaci was forced to cover herself from head to toe in a heavy black chador, leaving only her face visible.
The conversation inside the room was tense from the very start. Fallaci did not hold back her questions.
She pushed the Ayatollah on political executions, the sudden shutdown of independent newspapers, and the sharp loss of rights for Iranian women under the new regime.
When she asked about the forced wearing of the veil, Khomeini dismissed her concerns and claimed the garment was meant to protect young and respectable women. He then added,
"If you do not like the Islamic dress, you are not obliged to wear it."
Fallaci took his words literally and replied, "Thank you, Mr. Imam. Since you tell me so, I am taking it off right now."
With a quick move, she pulled the chador off her head, leaving her hair completely exposed right in front of the Supreme Leader.
Khomeini was furious.
He stood up without saying another word and walked out of the room. The room fell silent, and the interview was abruptly stopped. However, Fallaci refused to leave Iran until he returned a day later to finish the conversation.
This confrontation became legendary in the history of journalism.
It showed a reporter refusing to bow down to authority, even in one of the most dangerous settings imaginable.
Fallaci proved that real journalism requires standing up to power, asking hard questions, and refusing to be silenced by fear or tradition.
When journalists trade raw courage for easy access and comfortable silence, we lose one of our strongest shields against tyranny.
In an era where true courage in reporting feels rare, her brave stand reminds us that honest journalism still has the power to light up the dark, giving a voice to the voiceless and inspiring future generations to speak truth without fear.
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