Sara McDougall

It’s so good

I still hate pedicabs, but I love this

@rebeccasolnit.bsky.social “violence against women is global and enduring, a constant rather than an event.”

Marital rape wasn’t even outlawed in every state until 1993.

The People Being Arrested By ICE That No One’s Talking About The Trump administration’s deportation machine is detaining immigrant women at record numbers — and they've become invisible targets.

Brutal treatment of women detained by ICE. www.huffpost.com/entry/ice-de...

EXCLUSIVE: Someone Waived Ghislaine Maxwell's Sex Offender Status to Move Her to a Minimum Security Camp in Texas According to sources, you can't move someone with a Public Safety Factor (PSF) designation - which Maxwell had - without waiving it. That's what happened here.

BREAKING: EXCLUSIVE: A higher up at the Bureau of Prisons WAIVED Ghislaine Maxwell's sex offender status in order to transfer her to a minimum security camp in Texas, per source. My latest: www.muellershewrote.com/p/exclusive-...

American Abortion Policy Will End Up in the Hands of This 34-Year-Old Trump Appointee Last week, the Republican-controlled Senate handed Trump nominee Josh Divine a lifetime seat on the federal bench.

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Virginia Giuffre wanted Epstein documents made public, siblings say Accuser who died in April wanted justice for victims and urged Trump not to pardon Ghislaine Maxwell, family says

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

This too should be Torah

They were at camp with us

Yeah.

Ghislaine Maxwell trained underage girls as sex slaves, documents allege Unsealed testimony from 2015 case reveals series of claims about Briton’s role in Epstein sex-trafficking ring

Joan Walsh cites this must read

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020...

Keep Digging, Donald. You’re Keeping the Epstein Scandal Alive. Trump’s bizarre claim that he fell out with the indicted child sex trafficker because Epstein “stole” workers from Mar-a-Lago only raises more lurid questions.

www.thenation.com/article/poli...

This this this is a happening thing!

Also no wonder President Trump is trying to vociferously deny he sent Epstein the "wonderful secret" birthday message in 2003.

Teaching Sex to Empower, Not to Control: Sex Ed in Sweden vs. South Carolina South Carolina students travel to Sweden to explore a different model of sex education rooted in trust, LGBTQ inclusivity and science.

A group of South Carolina students travels to Sweden to explore a radically different model of sex education—one rooted in trust, inclusivity and scientific facts … rather than fear, control and censorship.

Not so fun fact: in the Middle Ages people hated procuresses. I knew this, and wrote about it with @lollardfish.bsky.social for @slate.com slate.com/news-and-pol... Another not so fun fact I learned this summer. While there was a lot of hatred of procuresses they sometimes pardoned them.

Ghislaine Maxwell is not a victim.

"Ghislaine has no soul."

Child marriage is still prevalent across the U.S. Here’s why. Child marriage was legal in all 50 states until 2018. Now, 10 have banned it.

“We’re not arguing that you wake up on your 18th birthday with a newfound wisdom and maturity and the ability to choose a life partner,” Reiss said. “It’s about legal capacity: you wake up on your 18th birthday with legal rights of adulthood.”

@19thnews.org just updated this story from 2023.

The Crime Lady: Remembering Tom Lehrer Dear TCL Readers: Tom Lehrer, 1959, cutting a cake in the shape of a severed hand Hello from the South of France, where I’ve been working on some new...

Long-overdue newsletter remembering Tom Lehrer: buttondown.com/thecrimelady...

This is so important and long overdue.

If you’re a former cop or prosecutor & your allegiance to Trump has you buying into this recasting of Maxwell, a prolific trafficker & rapist, into a victim, you have some soul searching to do about your political choices.

“…there is nothing more transformative for a person’s discernment than the exercise of inhabiting the language of another…if we renounce the gesture of placing ourselves in the other’s words, we renounce much more than a mode of text production.” @dsparis.bsky.social

Assistant/Associate Professor of Medieval History (1100-1500) - University of Tenn, Knoxville job with University of Tennessee Department of History | 37862790 The Department of History at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville invites applications for a tenure-track professor of medieval history (1100-1500).

Medieval History Job Alert! University of Tennessee, where I used to work. Unbelievably strong medieval studies. Unbelievable that they are hiring in this climate! Please share this post. jobs.chronicle.com/job/37862790...

“Pedophilia — or what’s technically called ephebophilia, a sexual attraction to people in their mid to late teens — isn’t something they really care about in itself. They’re obsessed about it as a legitimator of a certain level of hatred and mass violence.”

Understanding MAGA’s Obsession With Pedophilia and No Other Sex Crimes A friend asked me recently: how is it that MAGA is so...

Understanding MAGA’s Obsession With Pedophilia and No Other Sex Crimes talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/under...

I have long thought I’ll die being hit by a bike in Paris luckily the guy who hit me last week just left me with a scratch to remember him by.

Even in the Middle Ages times infinity

The Pelicot Trial Returns, This Time to the Stage

Catherine Porter back in Avignon www.nytimes.com/2025/07/19/p...