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@janetphd.bsky.social

scholar/professor, Portugal/Brasil/USA, media ecologist, linguist, cat lover, a voice on NASA Voyager Golden Record (Português), author of Misbehavior in Cyber Places

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Q Okay. Describe for me any other girl22 other than the ones that you've named who you say you23 saw have sexual contact with Ghislaine Maxwell with24 your own two eyes.25 A There's so many I don't know where youAgren Blando Court Reporting & Video, Inc.VIRGINIA GIUFFRE 5/3/2016 37 (145 - 148)Page 1481 want me to start. I find it impossible to answer2 that question with the amount of girls that I have3 witnessed. And without being able to give you4 specific names, I don't think I'm able to answer that5 question.6 Q Okay. I asked you to describe them, so7 you could give me a height, a hair color, anything8 else that comes to mind?9 A There were blondes, there were brunettes,10 there were redheads. They were all beautiful girls.11 I would say the ages ranged between 15 and 21

Q Okay. Describe for me any other girl22 other than the ones that you've named who you say you23 saw have sexual contact with Ghislaine Maxwell with24 your own two eyes.25 A There's so many I don't know where youAgren Blando Court Reporting & Video, Inc.VIRGINIA GIUFFRE 5/3/2016 37 (145 - 148)Page 1481 want me to start. I find it impossible to answer2 that question with the amount of girls that I have3 witnessed. And without being able to give you4 specific names, I don't think I'm able to answer that5 question.6 Q Okay. I asked you to describe them, so7 you could give me a height, a hair color, anything8 else that comes to mind?9 A There were blondes, there were brunettes,10 there were redheads. They were all beautiful girls.11 I would say the ages ranged between 15 and 21

Additionally, Virginia Giuffre testified that she personally witnessed Maxwell sexually abusing victims as young as 15

06.08.2025 18:57 — 👍 252    🔁 109    💬 2    📌 2

In 2016, Ghislaine Maxwell falsely stated, under oath, that she was not aware that Jeffrey Epstein recruited underage girls for sex (you know, the ones she was actually recruiting on his behalf). She was charged with two counts of perjury for this.

Remind me why we give a shit what she says now?

06.08.2025 18:54 — 👍 19491    🔁 5978    💬 585    📌 237
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Opinion | I gained 20 pounds of muscle. Here’s what I learned. Three years and 20 pounds of muscle later, I’ve learned that everything — and nothing — changes.

My latest: I wrote about my journey to put on 20 pounds of muscle as a woman.

And how my life changed because of strength training/bodybuilding.

06.08.2025 21:01 — 👍 425    🔁 55    💬 19    📌 10

Also, our standard now is that it had to have caused “concern” for Ghislaine Maxwell to be problematic?? Ummmm…obviously sexually abusing minors never caused her “concern” BECAUSE SHE PARTICIPATED IN IT

06.08.2025 21:10 — 👍 1368    🔁 375    💬 47    📌 10

What world are we living in where a pariah convicted sex trafficker is a character reference for the US president?

06.08.2025 21:12 — 👍 25    🔁 7    💬 2    📌 1
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On left:

ABC: Ghislaine Maxwell told "Blanche that Trump had never done anything in her presence that would have caused concern."

On right:

Maxwell said same about Epstein, under oath.

DOJ 2022: "Simply put, the defendant lies when it suits her."

Whatever is the truth, she's no source for it.

06.08.2025 21:05 — 👍 3160    🔁 1107    💬 190    📌 62
Serve your country! Defend your culture!

Serve your country! Defend your culture!

Just in case it’s not already clear that ICE is a white supremacist thug army, Homeland Security is recruiting with a “defend your culture” slogan.

06.08.2025 20:07 — 👍 6580    🔁 2737    💬 405    📌 424
Trump and Cuomo both defend Netanyahu and love rich criminals, more here: https://sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/heat-exhaustion

Trump and Cuomo both defend Netanyahu and love rich criminals, more here: https://sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/heat-exhaustion

When you read about Trump backing Andrew Cuomo, remember this: sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/heat-exhau...

06.08.2025 20:17 — 👍 577    🔁 194    💬 9    📌 11
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Today we learned Andrew Cuomo is directly coordinating with Donald Trump, even as this President sends masked agents to rip our neighbors off the streets and guts the social services so many New Yorkers rely on.

It’s disqualifying and a betrayal of our city.

06.08.2025 22:26 — 👍 9225    🔁 2697    💬 197    📌 150
Email from the "PUBLIC RECORDS OFFICE" to Kate Starbird asking for all emails from Jan 1 2021 through July 30 2025 with any of the following keywords:
"diversity and inclusion"
"DEIA"
"DEI"
"Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging"
"DEIB"
"gender identity"
"racial preference"
"ESG"
"organizational equity"
"intersectionality"
"anti-racism"
"critical race theory"
"LGBTQ+"
"transgender"
"cisgender"
"gender ideology"
"white privilege"
"privilege walk"
"cultural humility"
"equity audit"
"restorative justice"
"racial equity"
"implicit bias"
"microaggressions"
"inclusive pedagogy"
"identity-based oppression"
"systems of oppression"
"queer"
"non-binary"
"sexuality"
“Trump”
“fascist”

Email from the "PUBLIC RECORDS OFFICE" to Kate Starbird asking for all emails from Jan 1 2021 through July 30 2025 with any of the following keywords: "diversity and inclusion" "DEIA" "DEI" "Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging" "DEIB" "gender identity" "racial preference" "ESG" "organizational equity" "intersectionality" "anti-racism" "critical race theory" "LGBTQ+" "transgender" "cisgender" "gender ideology" "white privilege" "privilege walk" "cultural humility" "equity audit" "restorative justice" "racial equity" "implicit bias" "microaggressions" "inclusive pedagogy" "identity-based oppression" "systems of oppression" "queer" "non-binary" "sexuality" “Trump” “fascist”

If anyone is curious about the current list of search terms being used by right wing activist organizations to harass university professors, here's a public records request I received today from Mike Howell of the Heritage Foundation. Not intimidating or meant to curtail by my speech at all, right?

06.08.2025 22:03 — 👍 2107    🔁 1074    💬 112    📌 115

Good to know that if and when a Democrat wins the WH they can just erase the Second Amendment from the government’s website and then act as if it never existed.

Who knew it was so easy?

06.08.2025 17:23 — 👍 1418    🔁 284    💬 31    📌 4
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12. From Ghislaine Maxwell to The Tea Hack Both show that everything is about regulating men's access to women, not keeping women safe

Another thoughtful and worthwhile read "12. From Ghislaine Maxwell to The Tea Hack: Both show that everything is about regulating men's access to women, not keeping women safe" by Soraya Chemaly, author of the book "Rage Becomes Her"
sorayachemaly.substack.com/p/12-from-gh...

06.08.2025 17:45 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Worth also noting the high degree of government censorship in Israeli media. When dissent happens, their mainstream media will not report it. Visited briefly in 1990s for US grad school tour of their communication/media systems. Their top pros were proud of effective government censorship even then.

06.08.2025 17:40 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Behold, A Pale Horse Race On elections without choice and genocide without consequence

Maybe you already know this author for her books, but try "Behold, A Pale Horse Race: On elections without choice and genocide without consequence" by Sarah Kendzior
sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/behold-a-p...

06.08.2025 17:23 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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12. From Ghislaine Maxwell to The Tea Hack Both show that everything is about regulating men's access to women, not keeping women safe

"From Ghislaine Maxwell to The Tea Hack" is a brilliant essay by @sorayachemaly.bsky.social. A chilling account of how "systems we are supposed to rely on, are structured to maintain and legitimize men’s access to women’s bodies, labor, and lives and to penalize them for resisting." Please share!

03.08.2025 14:14 — 👍 3    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 0

It has been brought to our attention that some sections of Article 1 are missing from the Constitution Annotated (constitution.congress.gov) website. We’ve learned that this is due to a coding error. We have been working to correct this and expect it to be resolved soon.

06.08.2025 15:02 — 👍 965    🔁 374    💬 952    📌 578

1/ Article I of the US Constitution involves powers of Congress.

As of a few minutes ago, several sections have been deleted from the Constitution on the gov't's website, suggesting some things don't need congressional approval.

Key things, like:

06.08.2025 16:49 — 👍 330    🔁 175    💬 25    📌 16

Hegseth and trump's vision of american history is more or less one where it's illegal to teach that a non-white person ever did anything good or that a white person ever did anything bad

06.08.2025 15:36 — 👍 1124    🔁 218    💬 15    📌 5
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Home Depot and Lowe's Share Data From Hundreds of AI Cameras With Cops Home improvement stores are finding ways to share data from their Flock license plate reader cameras with law enforcement, according to public records.

New from 404 Media: Home Depot and Lowe's are sharing data from hundreds of AI cameras with cops. Records show a cop in Texas for example is able to search Flock cameras at Lowe's across the country. These stores are "contributing to the massive surveillance dragnet" www.404media.co/home-depot-a...

06.08.2025 15:35 — 👍 290    🔁 203    💬 18    📌 52

"Clearing" Trump was part 1 of what was expected of her; part 2 is naming other people as guilty parties. Trump wants to see others get implicated instead of him.

06.08.2025 16:57 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Confirming @molliebryant.bsky.social. No idea of why—accident? "memory hole?"—but right now (8:55am PDT. Aug 6) sections of the Constitution appear to be missing from the official Congressional site. Including those about habeus corpus.

More from @techcrunch.com techcrunch.com/2025/08/06/k...

06.08.2025 15:55 — 👍 302    🔁 162    💬 25    📌 33

"Surprise, you're working for ICE when you thought you were going to be helping people survive disasters" is such a disgusting bait-and-switch.

06.08.2025 15:28 — 👍 643    🔁 214    💬 17    📌 2

Grizzlaine's gonna end up hosting The View, isn't she?

06.08.2025 16:46 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

There's 2 seasons of The Buccaneers, though.

06.08.2025 15:33 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

The Oversight Committee subpoenaed the DOJ for the Epstein files. They now have 2 weeks to release the files to the committee.

It’s time to find out who’s been protected, who thought they were above the law, and who’s been hiding behind power.

05.08.2025 16:54 — 👍 12050    🔁 3283    💬 892    📌 186
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Merrick Garland Supreme Court nomination - Wikipedia

I'm reminded of a looooooong huuuuuuuuuuuge delay in approving the nomination of a Supreme Court judge under Obama. So looooooooong was the delay that Obama left offie, Trump took over, and the nomination ended. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merrick...

06.08.2025 14:52 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Summer 2025 already a cavalcade of climate extremes Record heat, massive fires, deadly floods... August has barely begun, but the summer of 2025 is already marked by a cascade of destructive and deadly weather in the Northern Hemisphere.

The climate emergency is no longer a tomorrow problem.

phys.org/news/2025-08...

06.08.2025 13:52 — 👍 133    🔁 54    💬 6    📌 4

really hard to overstate the psychic wound losing to obama did to conservatives like hassett. they really thought romney was a lock

06.08.2025 13:18 — 👍 6147    🔁 846    💬 238    📌 74
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Opinion | What weightlifting taught me about womanhood Three years and 20 pounds of muscle later, I’ve learned that everything — and nothing — changes.

Being strong is good for everyone. @karenattiah.bsky.social: 'Along with the rise of “tradwife” content... it feels like the culture is sending us a message: Be weak. Underfed. Unable to defend yourself...against male violence' 💥 cc @kattenbarge.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

06.08.2025 14:05 — 👍 80    🔁 15    💬 0    📌 1

Pritzker is the real deal: I met him more than 40yrs ago & he was just as fiery in his defense of just causes as he is now. I saw first-hand that he knows how to stand up to bullies. He's done it consistently with Trumpworld while putting IL on a solid economic footing for the first time in yrs.

06.08.2025 14:13 — 👍 84    🔁 19    💬 0    📌 2

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