#JoeMustGo #DropVop

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2/ Another (anon) survivor urgently needs our support.

Will you help us raise $1434 so this young woman can have her basic survival needs met?

IN Dems failed her like they’ve failed so many of us who’ve come forward about abuse of power.

Links below.

1/ If you follow my IG stories, you know it’s not unusual for us to raise funds to help meet survivors’ basic needs like food, housing, and utilities.

Bc while “leaders” and institutions like @indems.bsky.social fail to protect workers and support survivors, community always shows up.

Councilor Graves accused of sexual and emotional abuse, steps down as committee leader A woman accuses Councilor Keith Graves of abuse and harassment. The council leader steps down from his committee position.

Joe Hogsett created a culture of abuse in his campaign and installed it at the City County Building. And then he funded the campaigns of people who pledged their loyalty to him. And here we are. https://bit.ly/4f4Ishz

Indy’s Epstein Island — Jesse for Indy Friends and Constituents, What a week in local politics. Councilor Crista Carlino left the Democratic caucus after being forced to publicly apologize to Council leadership and relinquish her committee leadership positions. After Carlino called for leadership changes over the obviously bungled F

"For powerful people, surrounding themselves with known abusers is insurance. If everyone's guilty, no one can tell." https://bit.ly/4lRGvae

Lifting the District Court’s injunction will unleash untold harm, delaying or denying educational opportunities and leaving students to suffer from discrimination, sexual assault, and other civil rights violations without the federal resources Congress intended. The majority apparently deems it more important to free the Government from paying employees it had no right to fire than to avert these very real harms while the litigation continues. Equity does not support such an inequitable result. * * * The President must take care that the laws are faithfully executed, not set out to dismantle them. That basic rule undergirds our Constitution’s separation of powers. Yet today, the majority rewards clear defiance of that core principle with emergency relief. Because I cannot condone such abuse of our equitable authority, I respectfully dissent.

BREAKING: The Supreme Court allows the Trump administration to move forward with the abolition of the Department of Education. It gives no explanation for its order. All three liberals dissent. www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...

From Sotomayor's dissent:

The explanation is that the MAGA majority on SCOTUS worked hard to make Trump a king and now they're making sure he gets to act like one 🤷‍♂️

John Roberts, smothering the Constitution with a pillow.

A single tear tolls down his cheek because he heard someone mildly object.

Justices Alito, Barrett, Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, Roberts, and Thomas wouldn’t let a President Mamdani do away with DHS by firing everyone in its building. But they’ll let Pres. Trump do it to the Dept of Education, and they don’t feel obliged to articulate a principle that would lead to both outcomes.

Indy Council Democrat accused of domestic abuse will step down as committee leader Keith Graves, a Democratic member of the Indianapolis City-County Council, is facing and denying allegations of domestic violence.

The Council released this at 4:59 p.m. on Friday hoping it would get minimal coverage and be mostly forgotten by this morning. 👋🏻 https://bit.ly/3TDKz1M

Indy’s Epstein Island — Jesse for Indy Friends and Constituents, What a week in local politics. Councilor Crista Carlino left the Democratic caucus after being forced to publicly apologize to Council leadership and relinquish her committee leadership positions. After Carlino called for leadership changes over the obviously bungled F

"As I've previously described, kompramat enables leadership to smear and discredit those that oppose them....On the flip side: abusers very much don't want non-compromised people in positions of power precisely because they cannot be controlled."
https://bit.ly/4lRGvae

My favorite factoid is that distillers pushed for the creation of the FDA because bootleggers were killing their customers and it was ruining bourbon’s reputation.

Regulations are not a burden government imposes on business. They're a burden business imposes on society.

Shout this!

Even without the underlying substance or unknowns; it’s inherently very newsworthy. The highest levels of federal law enforcement under Trump is getting ripped apart in petty melodramatic ways because of this. It’d be big news if it were over, like, a traffic dispute

Indy’s Epstein Island — Jesse for Indy Friends and Constituents, What a week in local politics. Councilor Crista Carlino left the Democratic caucus after being forced to publicly apologize to Council leadership and relinquish her committee leadership positions. After Carlino called for leadership changes over the obviously bungled F

It's important to remember that Joe Hogsett himself has been accused of sexual assault, and the behavior described by his accuser parallels Thomas Cook's behavior years later. Then consider that both Joe and Thomas groomed women in the same way. 🤔 https://bit.ly/4lRGvae

The Hogsett administration is a cult that demands loyalty, rewards abusive behavior, and punishes those who defend their human rights and dignity.

“Superman” is really great and I absolutely get why Trump voters hate it.

The trauma experienced by survivor in Joe Hogsett's culture of abuse is compounded by having to talk about it over and over while they are ignored by city "leaders" and their character is assassinated behind closed doors.

🎦 https://bit.ly/4ktqA0A

The 14th Amendment was ratified today in 1868—guaranteeing equal protection under the law.

157 years later, Trump’s trying to erase it like it was a typo.

No birthright citizenship. No due process. Just Trump doing what he does best—breaking the law.

Yeah, all the other officials who were actually responsible for conditions at the local, state and federal level are white Republicans, so what else can he do?

No one, “thought,” that - it’s the literal origin story of the character. This is like saying that fans have “long thought” that Bruce Wayne was traumatized by his parents’ murders.

Deeply stupid both-siding of the skyrocketing deficit, which has been almost entirely driven by Republican policy for the last 40 years. This is what we get when outlets cover politics and not policy.

Indianapolis City-County Council Democrat accused of physical and sexual abuse Laurin Embry says she faced abuse from City-County Council member Keith Graves, which he denies. He was accused of abuse last year by another woman.

"I'm not asking for his resignation. I'm not even asking for the party to hold him accountable because obviously that is just too much to ask of our elected officials. All I'm doing is telling the truth about what happened to me so I can help other people," Laurin Embry said.

https://bit.ly/46yAFGh

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Let’s see, this week we’ve got *checks notes* councillors telling lies, conflicts of interest, councillors telling lies of omission, um *checks notes again* more conflicts of interests and, let’s see…jokes.

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If Mamdani’s college application was newsworthy, the decision of a major newspaper to print hacked materials provided by a white supremacist seems a *bit* more so.

The only discussion here going forward should be about the NYT’s journalistic failures and political biases

It’s weird how the white conservative guys at the NYT get to say whatever they want but anyone else has to watch what they say because it’s “too political”

We’ve shifted money from helping people to hurting people.