People really reaching to make the Epstein story about anything other than gender.

What Epstein reveals is the ubiquitous sexual abuse of women & girls as a way for men to cement their friendships and demonstrate their status. It happens among billionaires, it happens among frat boys, it happens among preachers and tech workers and union contractors, because it happens among men.

I don’t think men are biologically or inevitably destined to hate women. But overwhelmingly they do hate us, and women’s efforts to persuade them not to—in romance, in politics, in the family, in policy—have failed.

If you are wondering what words the all-male Congress found so "blasphemous" that they felt compelled to literally scrape them off the monument, they were: ''Woman, first denied a soul, then called mindless, now arisen, declared herself an entity to be reckoned.''

Hegseth endorses one of the most prominent Christian nationalists who has suggested women shouldn't be allowed to vote. Once upon a time this would be a controversy. Nowadays, it's just Tuesday.

👇 Tiesitkö että lähes jokainen maksusi menee jenkkien kautta?

Jos et maksa tuotteesta, olet se tuote

Toisin sanoen silloin tuote on sun data

Ja sillä datalla se yritys voi sitten tehdä vaikka mitä, kuten antaa sen pahantahtoisen viranomaisen käsiin

#yksityisyydensuoja

Taliban birth control ban: women ‘broken’ by lethal pregnancies and untreated miscarriages Women across Afghanistan describe the traumatic impact of disappearing clinics and contraception

Doctors across Afghanistan report that contraceptives have disappeared due to Taliban pressure. Clinics have been shut down or threatened, and women are denied basic medical care. Discussions on reproductive health are silenced.
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🔹️Afghanistan: "services for women and girls are collapsing," & meals are being prioritized for males.

🔹️South Sudan: "deaths from cholera are at a record high after the closure of health and sanitation programs."

"The brutality" of ending USAID & "the disregard for the human toll [betray] a vision

In Afghanistan, a Trail of Hunger and Death Behind U.S. Aid Cuts

Apparently, we hadn’t screwed Afghanistan enough already.

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Epstein was not ostracised for his crimes. To some powerful men, he became even more appealing | Moira Donegan The latest tranche of files expose how he was viewed as a sexual svengali – and an expert on dodging the #MeToo movement, says Guardian US columnist Moira Donegan

Epstein was not ostracised for his crimes. To some powerful men, he became even more appealing | Moira Donegan

Viranomainen salli suojellun lajin hävittämisen, sanoo biologi: ”Tässä on tapettu liito-orava” Poliisi tutkii Jyväskylässä liito-oravan elinalueelle tehtyä avohakkuuta. Luonnonsuojelulakia valvova viranomainen antoi ohjeet ja hyväksyi hakkuun.

Tällaista on suomalainen luonnonsuojelu. Onneksi on näitä rohkeita ihmisiä. Kohta meillä ei ole enää näitä lajeja, jos suunta ei muutu.

UK and US sink to new lows in global index of corruption Countries’ drop in scores in annual table comes amid ‘worrying trend’ of backsliding in established democracies The UK and US have sunk to new lows in a global index of corruption, amid a “worrying trend” of democratic institutions being eroded by political donations, cash for access and state targeting of campaigners and journalists. Experts and businesspeople rated 182 countries based on their perception of corruption levels in the public sector to compile a league table that was bookended by Denmark at the top with the lowest levels of corruption and South Sudan at the bottom. Continue reading...

UK and US sink to new lows in global index of corruption

The EU has a plan to challenge the dollar. It’ll be hard. The European Commission has said the EU needs to act against the potential weaponization of the international financial system.

Europe’s push to free itself from dependence on Trump’s America is extending to money.

Here’s how the European Commission plans to challenge the dollar’s dominance as the world’s top currency 👇

Oikeistopulismi on suosittua enimmäkseen miesten keskuudessa, myös koska se vastustaa monia naisten oikeuksia ja kannattaa ns. perinteisiä sukupuolirooleja eli tietynlaista naisen riippuvuutta aviomiehestä. Väsynyttä väittää, etteivät oikeistolaismiehet kaipaa ilmaista piikaa.

On niin suosittua oikeistopopulistien keskuudessa sanoa, että on vain kuule luokkasota, sovinismi on vain sivujuonne. Patriarkaatti suosii vain rikkaita miehiä. Se vaan ei ole uskottavaa, kun oikeistopopulismi vetoaa niihin miehiin, joiden mielestä naisen äänioikeus oli virhe.

Eduskunta | Halla-aho Ylellä: Kansanedustajan ensisijainen tehtävä ei ole käyttäytyä moitteettomasti Halla-aho kritisoi sitä, että pikkujouluissa tapahtuneita asioita on ”riepoteltu” julkisuudessa.

Eli Jussi sanoo että seksuaalinen häirintä pikkujouluissa on ihan ok kunhan se ei tule julki. Ei yllätä tämä misogynia persulta tietenkään.
"Jussi Halla-aho kritisoi sitä, että pikkujouluissa tapahtuneita asioita riepotellaan julkisuudessa, vaikka aiemmin oli sanaton sopimus asiasta vaikenemisesta"

Mihin unohtui työväenluokan nainen tässä olkinukessa, proletariaatin proletariaatti.

Kun rahaa edustaa enimmäkseen miehet, niin silloin miehillä on enemmän valtaa, ks. Epstein. Sitä on turhaa väittää muuksi mutta moni yrittää.

HS-analyysi | Petteri Orpon projekti on kesken – kertooko hän lauantaina jatkostaan? Pääministerin asemasta on yllättävän vaikeaa nousta vaalivoittoon.

”Hänellä ei myöskään ole ollut vakavia kahnauksia median kanssa.” Miksiköhän?
Olisiko medialla itsereflektion paikka? Media voisi vaikka verrata toimintaansa Orpon kausi vs Marinin kausi? Tuli vain mieleen🤔

IMF:n nettovelkaennuste useammalle euromaalle vuodelle 2030.

Katselin IMF:n Fiscal Monitorista valuuttarahaston nettovelkasuhde-ennusteita euromaille [(bruttovelka - likvidit varat) / BKT]. Suomihan 🇫🇮 onkin valuutta-alueen nokkimisjärjestyksessä toisena Alankomaiden jälkeen. Kaikkiin muihin maihin IMF:n rakennesopeutus ennen meitä!

#talous #velka

A bus stop near Tesla's flagship store in London. Imagine a Super Bowl ad that showed only this.

We cannot ask survivors to speak out about sexual violence while simultaneously punishing them for it. We cannot hold survivors responsible for their own justice while refusing to give it to them. We cannot expect survivors to come forward while making it impossible for them to do so.

Too often I hear that the answer to sexual violence is for more victims to report it and speak up, but when they do so, they are denied justice and punished. That is not the answer, it is the problem.

I think often of the women in the Louis CK story—how they all left comedy and never went back, but he’s still going. It’s everywhere and it’s such a loss for them and for us—for things they’ll never make that we’ll never see.

Even the most famous victims are silenced From the Epstein files to Amber Heard, we obsess over victims while denying their own right to speak.

I wrote about how the women Epstein and co victimized have been minimized and ignored as individuals even in popular discourse about the very abuse they endured—and how the legal system has punished them and other women, not helped them, for daring to come forward.
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It is really infuriating to see how misogyny really does unite men across the sociopolitical spectrum. And, in so far as the Epstein files go, they sort women into two categories: fuckable or irrelevant. When they near a hint of accountability they complain about not being able to make women prey.

Dating myself but I'm old enough to remember that even before 2017 raping underage girls was considered "illegal" and "uncool."

Epstein said he was ‘asked everyday’ for advice on #MeToo: ‘So many guys reaching out to me’ Files released by DoJ reveal the financier engaging in efforts to blunt the impact of the movement as it was gaining ground

Epstein said he was ‘asked everyday’ for advice on #MeToo: ‘So many guys reaching out to me’

‘I miss you’: Emails detail close ties between Jeffrey Epstein and Bard President Leon Botstein Leon Botstein’s name appears in the Epstein files more than 2,500 times, including arranging travel to Epstein’s island and a visit with “girls” to the college.

Bard College President Leon Botstein appears in the Epstein files more than 2,500 times, including arranging travel to Epstein’s island, hosting a visit with “girls” to campus and telling the child sex predator, “I miss you.”

Sarah Trafton reports:

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