Facts.

Well, this is taking off! Sorry, I'm gonna have to mute this thread and just check back in periodically.

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@MaryAustinBooks The look on the guy's face is perfect

@hosford42 @MaryAustinBooks sometimes the 'balls' are metaphorical, but she has bigger ones than anyone. A cis man would get punched, so this is also good deployment of privilege.

Use that privilege when you have it, to champion the truth.

BOLD

@MaryAustinBooks given that they're one of the people there and they're exactly as likely as themselves to be a sex pest, they're not more likely to be a sex pest than all people there, just most people there
@anselmschueler @MaryAustinBooks oh no, its a multi modal distribution
@WhisperingHek @MaryAustinBooks I don't understand how a multimodal distribution changes things. To me, "more likely than anyone else" means their likelihood is higher than literally everyone else present, and "more likely than anyone here" makes that include themselves, which is impossible. I wasn't talking about any average

@MaryAustinBooks

So clever!
Great outfit too. 🙂

@MaryAustinBooks

Funny story I have a picture of myself with that face. That’s the face of an “egg” being told the first “cracking fact” 

@MaryAustinBooks 😂😂😂😂 true!!
@MaryAustinBooks aww the poor boy looks confused. Maybe he cannot read or is just confused about how a random stranger knew his secret
@viralobscurity @MaryAustinBooks Who knows, maybe he can be reached.
@kentenmakto @MaryAustinBooks lol maybe at the next pride event he'll be there in a skirt, knee socks and cat ears
Republican Sexual Predators, Abusers, and Enablers Pt. 56

This is the 56th installment in the list of Republican sexual predators, abusers, and enablers who contribute to rape culture. These are people who abused their power or defended the abuse of power. These are not folks caught in consensual scandals...

Daily Kos
The epidemic of denial about sexual abuse in the evangelical church.

In too many communities, the first instinct is to suppress victims’ claims.

The Washington Post
@clintruin Yeah, I'm not big on religion in general but US evangelism is an absolute garbage pile.

@tripleman @MaryAustinBooks
“1391 Francis Piccolo, a former spokesperson for Ron DeSantis who later became Comms Director for New College of Florida has been charged with exposing himself. His attorney blamed it on his recent diagnosis of Parkinson’s Diseases.”

“ Court records show that Piccolo was arrested in 2024 for the same offense three other times in Sarasota County.”

Somebody’s lawyer should learn the definition of recent.

@MaryAustinBooks At first I thought this was some sort of kink thing, because I misread ‘haughty’ as ‘naughty’. 😈😂

@MaryAustinBooks Anyone ELSE here. This is a common grammatical error. "You're more likely than anyone here to X" is logically impossible.

But once corrected for grammar, the statement is provably true.

@MaryAustinBooks think destruction is more likely to be preceded by authoritarianism and insecurity (frequently a christian one) than by pride.
GeofCox (@GeofCox@climatejustice.social)

In America, out of nearly 11,000 child sex offenders, 5 were trans. 89 were politicians. 301 were police officers. 578 were ordained priests. 807 were family members. https://www.whoismakingnews.com/#who-are-the-real-predators

Climate Justice Social
@MaryAustinBooks was the boot from kicking a nutter evangelical
@MaryAustinBooks 1 in every 8 based on what has been reportable.
@MaryAustinBooks their ankle boot appreciation post 

@MaryAustinBooks

By a thousand to one, in review of arrests and convictions.

A paedophile? Probably a Pastor/Priest, Coach or Republican official. Men in positions of authority.
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https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-36155261

Dennis Hastert, ex-US House speaker, sentenced to 15 months in jail

A federal judge has sentenced Dennis Hastert to 15 months in prison, calling the former House Speaker "a serial child molester".

BBC News
@MaryAustinBooks He may not know it, but his sign applies to him.
@MaryAustinBooks we really appreciate how that gorgeous rainbow-covered entity looks kinda bored, like, yep, here's the religious protestor so I'm gonna counterprotest, same shit every year