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“”He said this a lot: If anybody ever broke in here, I would rape them,” she recalled, saying that he added that it would not be in “a sexual way, not in a gay way.”

“He was like, I would rape them to show them that I’m dominant,” she said.

Asked about those remarks, a Platner campaign official did not dispute them.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/04/us/politics/platner-maine-senate-girlfriends-relationships.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share

As the world mourns the passing of Marjane Satrapi, I cannot help but reflect on her declining of the French Legion of Honor last year, calling out the hypocrisy of accepting such an award from a government that systematically fails the very Iranian refugees they claim to honor.

Her action stands out even more today, just weeks after France announced a nearly billion euro surge to further militarize Channel border security, a harsh crackdown on the exact routes desperately used by migrants fleeing the Khamenei regime.

Satrapi stood as a beacon of solidarity to those fleeing oppression, and the world is duller today without her in it.

https://www.lemonde.fr/en/france/article/2025/01/14/persepolis-author-refuses-french-award-over-iran-hypocrisy_6737034_7.html
https://www.lemonde.fr/en/international/article/2026/04/23/uk-and-france-strike-new-channel-migration-deal-with-boosted-enforcement-and-funding_6752732_4.html

#FemmeVieLiberté #WomanLifeFreedom #MarjaneSatrapi #Iran #FRPol #Politics #UKPol #UKPolitics

The Smithsonian Just Uploaded 1,000 Archival Images To Unsplash for Public Use

By Emma Taggart

https://mymodernmet.com/smithsonian-unsplash/

#Art #Culture