Oscar James

so much to unpack with this framing, but in particularly struck by the way they put the victim's life circumstances as something that also happens to her abuser

Jeffrey’s journalists: Epstein emails reveal cozy relationship with two reporters Emails reveal Jeffrey Epstein’s close interactions with reporters and how Michael Wolff counseled him after the Miami Herald’s South Florida investigation.

NEW: (gift) www.miamiherald.com/news/local/c...

Likelier to happen when you believe having strong, inflexible principles should be avoided in the first place.

Words matter: and Im sure the NYT knows this.
This passive framing here in this headline here and the post is intended to ensure that the powerful men responsible are ascribed as little blame and agency as possible, and instead to place blame on circumstances and the parent.
Words matter.

This is the man trying to take Tylenol away from us.

Look, I'm sure the money was a key reason why so many people were willing to associate with Epstein. But we're not really short of wealthy donors in this country. Clearly, a lot of Epstein's connections genuinely liked him, didn't think he did anything all that bad, and even sympathized with him.

The only interesting thing about the Olivia Nuzzi story is observing the tortured way that Serious Media does tabloid stories when they really want to do tabloid stories but cannot bring themselves to admit they would ever stoop to doing tabloid stories

I don't know. Azealia Banks accused Elon and Ye of the same thing. Unreliable narrators and all that. But for abusers, sex might not be about attraction or desire but power and humiliation.

How Does It Feel? Marjorie Taylor Greene is just one of the marginalized MAGA American activists who are concerned because Trump is doing exactly what they elected him to do.

What's the difference between a "welfare queen" & a food-insecure SNAP recipient?
inner-city clinics & rural hospitals
gov't handouts & "aid to struggling farmers?"
COINTELPRO & weaponizing the DOJ?
overpolicing & military occupation?
A Fascist & Trump?

Nothing...

We told y'all

I would wear a tan suit every day if I were Obama. Upload that mess right to Instagram.

Who in their right mind would invite a Nazi blabbermouth to a sex party? That man will have all your business in the street the minute someone hurts his feelings.

Ok, but what if you don't feel like it and think you can make a lot of money if you don't?

Vice, Crime, and Poverty | Columbia University Press Beggars, outcasts, urchins, waifs, prostitutes, criminals, convicts, madmen, fallen women, lunatics, degenerates—part reality, part fantasy, these are the ... | CUP

Just saw this and looking forward to reading it!

Race car driver Dean Alessi of Alessi Motorsports has been named as a member of the National Socialist Network who attended the neo-Nazi rally at NSW Parliament last weekend. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...

OECD report shows LNP climate irrelevance, while Safeguard Mechanism among least effective emissions reduction schemes in world The report demonstrates that Australia’s safeguard mechanism remains one of the least effective programs for reducing emissions, and relies the most on carbon credits.

While everyone’s having fun laughing at the Coalition’s ‘climate policy’ Labor is munching popcorn and enjoying the complete lack of scrutiny of its failed ‘Safeguard Mechanism’.

If only tackling #climate change just required being better than the Coalition…

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Don’t hobble Victoria with complaints about taxes, debt and deficit Big business never tires of saying taxes are bad, yet those same companies thrive on the very services taxes pay for.

Victoria isn’t broke, its net assets are actually increasing

The reason it’s spending more than it’s collecting at present is it’s in the middle of massive infrastructure upgrades

The BCA is calling for more infrastructure and complaining about its cost..ffs

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Penn State graduate students overwhelmingly vote in favor of unionizing The election took place last month.

go go go!

90%! go! go some more!

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I know this is hard for a lot of politicians and pundits to understand since so many of them are senior citizens, but we have three whole generations of American voters (X, Millennial, Z) who do not give a damn about Bill Clinton. He has no stans out here.

Hi! There's been lots of doomscrolling lately because many things are awful. However, sleep deprivation makes everything worse. You still deserve time to rest and recover. Try not to stay up too late tonight. Max loves you.

I highly doubt Epstein was inviting Thiel to the Caribbean to talk politics.

Sydney Trains employee stood down after attending neo-Nazi rally In a statement, a spokesman for Sydney Trains said it had stood down an employee while it investigated his potential involvement in the rally and was “very concerned with the matter”.

Sydney Trains employee Cooper Stephens has been stood down after attending the National Socialist Network's rally at NSW Parliament last weekend www.smh.com.au/politics/nsw...

Teen Nazi planned to livestream gas attack, police allege Isolated young Australians are being groomed online by Nazis into plotting terror attacks on home soil.

A teenage boy allegedly plotted online with like-minded neo-Nazis to live stream a chemical attack, believing he was preparing Australia for a “nationalist and racial violence extremist” revolution. www.smh.com.au/national/nsw...

The cutest, tiniest little round-eared rabbit you have ever seen.

Timeline cleanse: Yesterday I was introduced to the teporingo (volcano rabbit) — it’s like a rabbit crossed with a pika and is only found on Popocatépetl and three of the other volcanoes near Mexico City: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volcano...

that may be one of the unhappiest sentences ever composed

how can anyone not like haraway?

I find myself increasingly wondering how able bodied people appear to believe that being disabled is"easy."
Getting accommodations in school, uni and/or work: easy, a breeze, even!
Getting a doctor to write you a certificate supporting your needs: EASY!
Working from home: EASY!

Mia Vesely | I use SNAP benefits, and many other college students do too Senior columnist Mia Vesely discusses the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program and dispels the notion that such programs are misused or unessential.

“I am a full-time college student from a low-income family, and I rely on these benefits to buy groceries — as do many of my close friends.​“

My attitude is that I'm not paying for any "art" a human didn't create. Bro, you must be kidding. I will unsubscribe from your streaming service. I will never buy your game. I will snitch on you to your employer. Why should I pay when you didn't?

“… there is a spectrum of ways girls and women are exploited. In some cases, the girls or women are physically trapped and unable to escape men who are taking advantage of them. In other cases, the girls or women find themselves at the whims of more powerful men after turning to sex trafficking”.

Somewhere out there someone who’s the best at what they do is terrified that they have imposter syndrome while a bunch of barely literate pedophiles are very calmly running the world