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Leigh Gilmore

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Feminist literary critic. Author of Tainted Witness: (Columbia 2017), The Limits of Autobiography: Trauma and Testimony (Cornell 2023), and The #MeToo Effect (Columbia 2023).

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Andrew O’Hagan · Stay Classy: Mummy’s Favourite The late queen can be held responsible for much, but nobody could accuse her of seeming to enjoy her role. For the...

This is thorough and merciless and more applicable to American domestic affairs than you might expect. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

10.03.2026 14:16 👍 273 🔁 68 💬 10 📌 10
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A DOGE staffer assigned to the National Endowment for the Humanities to flag grants for "DEI" tries to explain what "DEI" is. This deposition is part of a lawsuit by the @acls1919.bsky.social, @historians.org and @modernlanguage.bsky.social.

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Sally Rooney: "I would like to ask my fellow writers & artists.. not to dwell too exclusively on what we stand to lose. There is another more important side to the story. To join in something greater than ourselves, to participate in.. a struggle for human liberation"

08.03.2026 06:52 👍 318 🔁 114 💬 0 📌 9

Patriarchy enables men to connect with each other through the shared experience of abuse. That’s not mere subtext in the emails and texts. It’s the men’s story. It’s not that they didn’t know. They were having a ball and are mad it’s over.

07.03.2026 15:47 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

The Epstein files show that patriarchy is a political, economic, and social form. Male bonding has always been the base of patriarchy. Men are guaranteed and ENJOY power through their primary connection to each other. One form of this connection occurs through sexually abusing girls.

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From the Department of War Crimes

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Epstein-Botstein Legal Review Will Take At Least Two Months, Bard Board Announces, as New Calls for Botstein Resignation Surface - The Daily Catch The Bard Board of Trustees announced that the investigation into the ties between Jeffrey Epstein and Leon Botstein will take two to three months.

In lawyer-ese this translates to “We’re pretty sure that if we delay this until after graduation everyone will forget about it.” www.thedailycatch.org/articles/eps...

28.02.2026 01:24 👍 181 🔁 28 💬 6 📌 0

Superbly clear case for why Bard should demand Botstein’s resignation by the indispensable @katemanne.bsky.social

02.03.2026 10:25 👍 63 🔁 12 💬 0 📌 0

Thank you, Kate.

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I don't love that the Labor Secretary's sex pest husband is an anesthesiologist.

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How is it possible that Kristi Noem still has this job. Imagine if you’re a family member or a shipmate of this guardsman.

www.nbcnews.com/politics/imm...

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#VisibilityBrigade #america #usa #ICE #CivilLiberties #DueProcess #GovernmentAccountability #PeacefulProtest #icecampskill
@visibilitybrigade.bsky.social @rosaliewong.bsky.social @karenb4good.bsky.social @emmatk.bsky.social @hcrichardson.bsky.social @roberthubbell.skystack.xyz
#epstein

12.02.2026 13:37 👍 276 🔁 80 💬 2 📌 0

They literally dragged a minor employee out of a Target as he was wailing that he was a US citizen, roughed him up in their car, and then dropped him off bloodied and bruised in the freezing cold a couple of miles away, so miss us with this.

12.02.2026 14:48 👍 3630 🔁 953 💬 30 📌 9

Dear lord

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12.02.2026 12:18 👍 40 🔁 10 💬 1 📌 0

Fuentes then fantasizes about “breeding gulags”: “So just like Hitler imprisoned Gypsies, Jews, communists, you know, all of his political rivals, we have to do the same thing with women… They go to the breeding gulags. The good ones will be liberated. The bad ones will toil in the mines forever.”

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Nick Fuentes: “The number one political enemy in America is women. … They have to be imprisoned.”

Fuentes, yesterday: “Our #1 political enemy is women because women constrain everything, every conversation, every man, everything. They have to be imprisoned. They are the ones that are hurting the fertility rate. They're the ones making us sympathetic to poor people, which are also brown people.”

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A 14-year-old girl described being zip-tied during Idaho raid, sparking fresh questions about ICE tactics A 14-year-old girl said she was "crying" and "struggling to breathe" when law enforcement officers herded her onto a racetrack with other detainees and zip-tied her hands.

www.cbsnews.com/news/feds-zi...

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Howard Lutnick faces bipartisan calls to resign over latest Epstein revelations Recently disclosed records suggest a closer relationship than the Commerce secretary previously indicated.

Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick needs to RESIGN; he LIED about his contacts with Epstein; had continued relationship with him.
Lutnick faces bipartisan calls to resign over latest Epstein revelations
www.politico.com/live-updates...

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STL Post Dispatch front page

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Epstein survivor Anouska De Georgiou: The fact that the very people who are meant to lead this country have completely retraumatized us… it’s—I mean—it’s like being raped by the Department of Justice.

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Text of statement by Bishop Daniel Gutierrez of the diocese of Pennsylvania (the whole text is here): As you know, I am not one who issues statements based on every news item that crosses the wire. However, as a Bishop and more importantly a follower of Jesus Christ, I was repulsed and sickened by the meme that was on the President’s feed depicting two children of God who served this nation as apes.
 
It is a sin against the Lord. This is not just politics or someone being themselves. It is an affront to Christ. Either you apologize, Mr. President, or you resign.
 
If that doesn’t happen, Congress and Mr. Speaker, who claims to be Christian, need to do something.
 
Death, the separation of families, and hate are not Christian. It is time for some courage on all issues. People are more important than your power or position.
 
In the event you need some scripture to justify courage, here is a start: Genesis 1:27, Acts 10:34-35, Galatians 3:28, Deuteronomy 10:17-19, James 2:8, Revelation 7:9-10, 1 John 4:19-21, Ephesians 2:1

Text of statement by Bishop Daniel Gutierrez of the diocese of Pennsylvania (the whole text is here): As you know, I am not one who issues statements based on every news item that crosses the wire. However, as a Bishop and more importantly a follower of Jesus Christ, I was repulsed and sickened by the meme that was on the President’s feed depicting two children of God who served this nation as apes. It is a sin against the Lord. This is not just politics or someone being themselves. It is an affront to Christ. Either you apologize, Mr. President, or you resign. If that doesn’t happen, Congress and Mr. Speaker, who claims to be Christian, need to do something. Death, the separation of families, and hate are not Christian. It is time for some courage on all issues. People are more important than your power or position. In the event you need some scripture to justify courage, here is a start: Genesis 1:27, Acts 10:34-35, Galatians 3:28, Deuteronomy 10:17-19, James 2:8, Revelation 7:9-10, 1 John 4:19-21, Ephesians 2:1

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The (Episcopal) Bishop of the Diocese of Pennsylvania

06.02.2026 20:31 👍 25 🔁 12 💬 1 📌 2
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#Epstein

#EpsteinFiles

05.02.2026 16:07 👍 3150 🔁 1132 💬 97 📌 48

Really nuts how many men were like "Me Too went too far, and I need to email Jeffrey Epstein about it."

05.02.2026 00:26 👍 15250 🔁 2919 💬 127 📌 0

According to Gilmore, “this isn’t merely an administrative failure, but a ‘paradigmatic instance of institutional silencing.’ Institutional silencing takes the form of “managed visibility,’ in which the public sees only parts of the Epstein files but far too much about the women he preyed upon.”

04.02.2026 20:20 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Like I said, I’m just glad Chomsky found someone he loved as much as Pol Pot. I worried he might never love again.

31.01.2026 14:00 👍 43 🔁 13 💬 1 📌 0

So what I’m gathering is a pedophilic billionaire successfully worked to destigmatize race science among the academic, political, and business elite partly by sex trafficking girls. Is that the shape of it so far?

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Wild: (Microsoft) Xbox Live banned Epstein for being a sex offender in 2013, but Microsoft founder Bill Gates kept making appointments with him

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new CBS contributor Peter Attia

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