Catherine Schmidt
Norwegian with a love of basketball, halloween and free software. Rather left leaning nature lover.
I don't like seeing people get bullied, discriminated against or harassed, so I will be boosting a good deal of queer and trans supportive stuff.
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If the SAVE ACT passes, can the Vice President vote? His current name isn't his birth name...
AnarchoNinaWritesEveryone, literally EVERYONE who voted for Trump, did it to fucking put the boots to SOMEBODY. So if you wanna know why a person who Trump promised to directly target, woulda decided to vote for him - the easy way to figure it out is figure out who THEY wanted Trump to stomp.
In the vast majority of cases for conservative Latino, Arab, and even like the wingers in the Hatian-American community, it's queer people and other migrants. Not them. They did it "the right way" - other, newer migrants.
AnarchoNinaAnalyzesSo, what exactly did I mean when I said Trump's name has been *heavily* and illegally redacted from the Department of Justice's Epstein files? Well, let's start with "heavily" and work our way towards "illegally."
First of all, how many times do you think Trump's name appears in the redacted version of the so-called "Epstein Files" the Department of Justice compiled on this case? You can be forgiven for answering "I don't know" because both the Republican Party, and a complicit corporate media have treated this figure like a state secret, but the reality is that even in the redacted version of the files, Trump's name appears something like 38,000 times. A number which partisan fascist hacks and propagandists have simultaneously both blamed on Trump's own first term DoJ investigation into Epstein, and held up as evidence that Trump's name couldn't possibly be one of the names being redacted to protect rich child rapists because his name already appeared so many times. You following all that nonsense?
Good, now just take a guess how many times Trump's name actually appeared when Representative Jamie Raskin typed in the president's name while viewing the (partially) "unredacted" Epstein Files. If you guessed literally over a *million* times, you win a gold star.
https://newrepublic.com/post/206435/raskin-trump-unredacted-epstein-files
Raskin: Trump Is in Unredacted Epstein Files More Than a Million Times
"Representative Jamie Raskin has claimed that President Trump is named over a million times in the unredacted Epstein files.
“The idea that we could get through a meaningful fraction of them is just ridiculous,” he told Axios Tuesday, after viewing the unredacted files a day earlier. “I mean, there’s tons of redacted stuff.… And [Trump’s] name, I think I put his name, and it appears more than a million times. So it’s all over the place.
“To me, this whole rollout of saying that members can come from nine to five to sit at those four computers, is just part of the coverup,” Raskin continued.
“If this is true, it would mean the Department of Justice redacted more than 96% of the mentions of Trump,” MS NOW’s Matt Fuller wrote."
Folks, you could write an entire five hundred page nonfiction book about Donald Trump, and not type Trump's name over a million times. For comparison, I found it deeply incriminating that Vladimir Putin's name reportedly appears in the redacted version of the Epstein Files on 1,056 documents; similarly there have been widespread calls for Bari Weiss's pro-Trump CBS to shitcan longevity quack Peter Attia after he appeared in the "Epstein Files" over 1,700 times. At over a million appearances, it's no longer fair to say Trump appears in the Epstein Files - a more accurate analysis would be that Donald Trump is indeed one of the main characters in the Epstein Files instead. The files are about Trump, as much as they are about anyone besides perhaps Epstein himself.
Okay, with that established, let's turn back to the Common Dreams article by Stephen Prager I posted above, to see what kind of redactions the Department of Justice is legally allowed to make according to the Epstein Act Trump himself signed into law.
"The law passed in November requiring the files’ release mandates that victims of Epstein’s abuse have their privacy protected, but forbids the DOJ from redacting information to protect prominent individuals, including government officials, from embarrassment."
Look folks, I'm not a rocket scientist but I don't think the Epstein Act leaves a lot of ambiguity for Pam Bondi to work with here; she's legally required to redact identifying information of *victims* of the Epstein ring, and legally forbidden from redacting the identities of Epstein associates, co-conspirators, or government officials. Which of course brings us back to a pretty simple question - is the Department of Justice claiming Trump was an abuse victim of the Epstein Ring? Because if they're not, they just broke the law somewhere in the range of a million times to protect their child rapist Führer.
#Epstein #Trump #InTheFiles #EpsteinList #DepartmentOfJustice #Coverup #PamBondi #PeterAttia #Putin
Donald Trump, the man who locks children up while letting pedophiles out.
Takes a special kind of asshat to be his fan.
timberwraithCis/straight society has long projected their fears of sexual violence upon queer people. Trans people are their latest favorite targets.
But the bulk of the abusers and rapists in the world have always been from cishet society's own members.
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Gaza Notifications🚨Hind Rajab’s mother, Wesam, delivered a powerful and heartbreaking speech on Saturday about her daughter, who was killed by the Israeli army:
Ladies & gentlemen,
I'll begin with no introductions.
On January 29, 2024, my daughter Hind Rajab was trapped inside a car, under direct fire.
Hind was a five-year-old child.
At that age, children don't think about politics, & don't know the meaning of war.
All they know is fear… & the hope that someone will come to save them.
Hind didn't die suddenly.
Hind waited.
She waited for help,
For her cries to have meaning.
She said:
"I'm scared…come get me."
This isn't a literary phrase.
This is the last thing a child said,
who knew she might not survive.
She said a sentence that tore my heart apart:
"Mom, they're lying. Stay with me!"
At that moment, I realized the betrayal.
An ambulance was sent to her. It didn't arrive. It was bombed.
This means one thing:
Saving a life wasn't allowed.
Today, 2 years later,
I'm not standing here to tell you a sad story.
I am here to speak about responsibility.
I will pose a weighty question:
What is the value of a human life when it is Palestinian?
Because what happened to my daughter Hind,
Had it happened anywhere else, would have shaken the world.
But it was in Gaza.
And that is why time was allowed to pass,
& the crime to be forgotten.
I ask you to imagine, even for a few seconds,
The magnitude of pain that mothers in Gaza carry when they lose their children.
Imagine the bitterness of the pain,
When you cannot save your child,
Or even reach them,
Or know what their final moments were like.
This pain lives with mothers
every day,
& with every breath.
What happened to Hind is not just a personal story.
It reveals how a child can be left to die, before the eyes of the world, without accountability.
You live in countries that believe in the rule of law,
that teach human rights,
& sign agreements to protect children.
But Hind was not protected.
Nor were the paramedics.
Nor was the truth protected.
I don't blame the people of the world,
but I do hold silence responsible.
The silence that makes the crime possible,
& makes its repetition easy.
Your presence here today
means that you have chosen not to be silent.
And that is important.
But what is more important, is what happens after this event.
Will Hind remain just a name at an event?
Or will she become a turning point?
I am not asking for the impossible.
I am asking for something very simple:
That the life of a Palestinian child be protected… as if it were your own child's life.
If the law cannot save a child, then it is a law that needs to be held accountable.
And if the world only acts when the victim resembles its own children, then the world needs a new conscience.
Hind is no longer here.
But her story is a trust.
And a trust is not preserved with words,
But with actions!
BørgeHvis du har så mye penger at det er umulig å bruke dem opp i løpet av en livstid, men fremdeles jobber som gal for å gjøre formuen enda større. Da er du ikke et geni.
Da er du avhengig.
Da lider du av en sykdom.
Line goes up er din high.
Når folk er avhengige av andre rusmidler og ødelegger for familie og venner, stjeler, risikerer livet til folk i trafikken, så jager og straffer vi dem.
De pengeavhengige raserer verden. Dreper utallige. For en high.
Vi må behandle dem deretter.