Sometimes, you just gotta make rent…
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We’re assuming he even controls his own account now. He’s not in a place that provides much freedom or safety.
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OTOH- it’s amazing how many people from that era ended up being assholes. Greenwald, Taibbi, Assange.
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that woman in red, there, is no Democrat!
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She’s probably just there to represent Black Voices against Biden or something like that then.
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Neither is Susan Collins.
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questions included what kind of underwear the then-14-year-old girl wore to Epstein’s mansion and whether she wanted to use him to “get rich.” Amid a string of questions from jurors over whether she felt ashamed of herself, Belohlavek asked if the girl knew she had “committed a crime.”
“I do now,” she said.
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AFAIK Edward Snowden did what he did because he is a right-libertarian activist.
Talking about the underwear of teen girls seems kind of lurid. But I guess that teen girls are a category to titillate, never victims worthy of justice.
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Duggan questioned the girl about her MySpace profile, reading aloud lines that cast her as a wayward teenager. She’d smoked pot and shoplifted, Duggan said. She listed beer as her choice of alcohol. She had four piercings.
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Most teenagers i see in the office would consider that a decent start, but only a start.
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Know Your Media
Once upon a time, Newsweek, which was founded in 1933, was a highly respected magazine. Over the last 15 years, however, it has been devoured by the digital economy and become a shell of itself. Still, that shell – and the fact that many people still think of Newsweek as a vaguely reputable brand – has proved very useful to the far right. In 2022, for example, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), a respected civil rights advocacy organization, published an extensive analysis that found that after Newsweek positioned the political activist Josh Hammer to run its opinion pages (he’s now moved on to be a senior editor-at-large), the magazine took a “radical right turn by buoying extremists and promoting authoritarian leaders”.
In his personal podcast, the SPLC observe, Hammer has frequently spoken about “[shifting] the Overton window” and pushing far-right views into the mainstream; that, arguably, was also his goal at Newsweek. As the New Republic noted back in 2020, it certainly looks a lot like Newsweek’s “former legitimacy is [being] used to launder extreme and conspiratorial ideas”.
In short: if you’re wondering why a brand like Newsweek would, in the year 2024, publish an op-ed that essentially argues women have no worth without a husband and kids? Well, you need to look at the broader context of what Newsweek’s become.
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This is disturbing in so many ways:
Original essay by Andrea Robin Skinner:
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Reminds me a lot of the allegations against Marion Zimmer Bradley which came out after she died…
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