Rep. Matt Gaetz was one of 20 Republicans who voted "no" to reauthorizing an anti-human trafficking law on Wednesday. The Frederick Douglass Trafficking Victims Prevention and Protection Reauthorization Act of 2022 was approved in the House for reauthorization with a massive majority of 401 votes to 20. The act combats human trafficking — particularly sex trafficking — through severe penalties
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For the past year, we’ve been subjected to an endless, escalating right-wing fearmongering campaign presenting LGBTQ adults as innate child sexual predators, or “groomers,” and any children in their vicinity as victims. People are literally throwing molotov cocktails into establishments that host drag events, under the guise of protecting children. The now-feuding Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-
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SECRET FBI MISSION HAULS URANIUM FROM MAR-A-LARGO The removal from Mar-a-Largo, of 550 metric tons of "yellowcake" — the seed material for higher-grade nuclear enrichment — was a significant step. It also brought relief to U.S. authorities who had worried the cache would reach the Proud Boys or the Three Percenters or other militia groups that support the former president. While yellowcake alone
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Politico: Former President Donald Trump said the nation would face "problems ... the likes of which perhaps we’ve never seen" if he is indicted over his handling of classified documents after leaving office, an apparent suggestion that such a move by the Justice Department could spark violence from Trump's supporters. The former president said an indictment wouldn’t stop him from running for the
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White privilege is something that is pervasive throughout society and exists in all of the major systems and institutions that operate in society, as well as on an interpersonal level. A study published by Time magazine in June found that 840 people had been charged with storming the Capitol on that day and that about a quarter of them have received criminal sentences, with a median prison sente
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Technology is not the absolute good that it’s been sold to us as. The system itself is irredeemable and must be taken out in toto while it is sick. Electric toasters kill 700 people a year, so who is the real killer? Are electric toasters that much more convenient to justify 700 deaths a year? What is the price we put on technology’s clear human costs? Like other electrical appliances, toasters
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WHAT IS CRITICAL RACE THEORY AND WHY ARE PEOPLE SO UPSET ABOUT IT? USNews: The term critical race theory began gaining traction in the mainstream two years ago – or notoriety depending on people's outlook – after The New York Times published the 1619 Project, a compilation of essays, commentaries and poems that brought the idea of critical race theory out of academia for the first time by asking
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ABCNews: A woman outfitted with a tiny microphone and hidden camera walked up to a dilapidated drug house on a chilly afternoon last year looking to buy meth from a dealer known on the streets as “Mississippi.” But as the informant disappeared inside with a career criminal with a rap sheet spanning three decades, her law enforcement handlers left her undercover on her own — unprotected and unmon
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IF YOU'RE WHITE AND STORMED THE CAPITOL YOUR SENTENCE IS 45 DAYS (WITH CHANCE OF PARDON) BUT IF YOU'RE BLACK OR LATINO AND PROTESTED THE MURDER OF GEORGE FLOYD YOUR SENTENCE IS 27 MONTHS (WITH NO CHANCE IN HELL OF PARDON) In all areas, there is a gap between those with white privilege and those without, when it comes to generational wealth (and particularly property ownership), the experience of
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TRUMP PROMISES TO PARDON JAN. 6 RIOTERS MSNBC: Former President Trump has promised to grant pardons to the rioters who stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. White privilege is not about blaming white people for the advantages they have. Trump is now eyeing more than just pardons for Jan. 6 rioters Donald Trump now wants to give pardons, apologies and money to political radicals who launched an
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White privilege is something that is pervasive throughout society and exists in all of the major systems and institutions that operate in society, as well as on an interpersonal level. For people who have never heard the term before, white privilege can evoke reactions of defensiveness and even outrage. This concept has been termed as White Fragility, coined by Robin Diangelo, and the reactions
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Trump Campaign Adviser Plead Guilty to Child Porn, Sex Trafficking. George Nader (pictured above with Donald Trump) was first charged in June 2019 with transporting and possessing pornographic images of children including some featuring toddler-age boys, baby goats and other farm animals. A month later in July, prosecutors added a sex-trafficking charge, saying Nader had arranged the transport to
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The first victim to testify in Ghislaine Maxwell's trial alleged that Jeffrey Epstein took her to Mar-a-Lago when she was 14 years old to meet Donald Trump. The evidence Donald Trump brutally raped a 14-year-old girl in 1994 when he was 48-years-old easily meets the police standard, "investigatory credibility." The statute of limitations has long since run out, requiring the “Jane Doe” plaintif
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COPS FOUND TED CRUZ'S WIFE ON ROADSIDE, THOUGHT SHE WAS A DANGER TO HERSELF DailyMail: Ted Cruz's wife, Heidi, was once so depressed that a police officer wrote: "I believed that she was a danger to herself." The incident happened in 2005 shortly after Heidi quit her high-powered job at the White House and moved to Austin, Texas, to be with her husband, who was state solicitor general. Police r
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THE PURPOSE OF SELF-HARM HealthLine: When someone harms themselves by cutting, burning, punching, or engaging in other forms of self-injury (without intending for death to be an end goal), they’re engaging in what’s known as non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI). People cut as a coping mechanism, according to Cornell University’s Self-Injury and Recovery Research and Resources (SIRRR). Self-harm can
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Caroline Cruz, 14, took to TikTok to address speculation regarding the self-inflicted stab wounds she reportedly sustained the day prior, which necessitated her being taken to the hospital. Her TikTok account went viral after she began sharing lip-sync videos, discussing her dad's controversial conservative views and came out as being bisexual. “I wanted to address this on my own because the m
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GoodTherapy: Many children who are molested are too young to know what is happening and may not fight back. Sexual abuse is any form of sexual violence, including rape, child molestation, incest, and similar forms of non-consensual sexual contact. People who report their assaults often face retaliation. In 2014, 62% of female reporters said they faced retaliation. Many were shunned by colleague
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In case this slipped under your radar, we all woke up to the news that Texas Senator Ted Cruz, had fav ‘d a porn tweet on 9/11. What kind of porn, you may ask? Incest porn. The Twitter account of Ted Cruz, the former lawyer who ran for US president in 2016, "liked" the two-minute video by @SexuallPosts on Monday. Cruz joked to reporters that “perhaps we should have done something like this duri
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Republicans are a Party of PEDOPHILES: READ MORE: Statewide chairman of Okla. College Republicans arrested on sex charges involving minor (Fox News) Ed Schrock, Representative (Republican-Virginia) — Announced he would terminate his 2004 attempt for a third term in Congress after allegedly being caught on tape soliciting sex with men, despite having aggressively opposed various gay-rights issue
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After having left his job as an ABC News correspondent in the 1980s, Craig Spence found success as a prominent conservative Washington lobbyist. Spence would soon find his fortunes shift dramatically when, in June 1989, it was revealed that he had been pimping out children to the power elite in the nation’s capital throughout the 1980s in apartments that were bugged with video and audio recording
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THEY DON'T WANT YOU TO KNOW THE TRUTH Author John DeCamp a former Nebraska Senator knows the Franklin scandal from the inside. In 1990, his "DeCamp memo" first publicly named the alleged high-ranking abusers. Today, he is attorney for two of the abuse victims. Using documentation never before made public, DeCamp lays bare not only the crimes, but the cover-up—a textbook case of how dangerous t
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The Franklin Cover-Up: Child Abuse, Satanism, and Murder in Nebraska. The shut-down of Omaha, Nebraska's Franklin Community Federal Credit Union, raided by federal agencies in November 1988, sent shock waves all the way to Washington, D.C. $40 million was missing. The credit union's manager: Republican Party activist Lawrence E. "Larry" King, Jr., behind whose rise to fame and riches stood powerf
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Republicans are a Party of PEDOPHILES: READ MORE: Statewide chairman of Okla. College Republicans arrested on sex charges involving minor (Fox News) Ed Schrock, Representative (Republican-Virginia) — Announced he would terminate his 2004 attempt for a third term in Congress after allegedly being caught on tape soliciting sex with men, despite having aggressively opposed various gay-rights issue
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Rep. Matt Gaetz was one of 20 Republicans who voted "no" to reauthorizing an anti-human trafficking law. The Frederick Douglass Trafficking Victims Prevention and Protection Reauthorization Act of 2022 was approved in the House for reauthorization with a massive majority of 401 votes to 20. The act combats human trafficking — particularly sex trafficking — through severe penalties for perpetrat
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There can be a link between self-harm and childhood trauma like physical abuse, sexual abuse, and neglect. Dear America, STOP RAPING CHILDREN!!!!
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Caroline Cruz, 14, took to TikTok to address speculation regarding the self-inflicted stab wounds she reportedly sustained the day prior, which necessitated her being taken to the hospital. “With my father, I’m scared of what he’ll do if I report him.” "After my assault, I started cutting myself. I felt like I had nowhere to turn," she said. "No way to express my emotions, pain and confusion, e
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In case this slipped under your radar, we all woke up to the news that Texas Senator Ted Cruz, had fav ‘d a porn tweet on 9/11. What kind of porn, you may ask? Incest porn. The Twitter account of Ted Cruz, the former lawyer who ran for US president in 2016, "liked" the two-minute video by @SexuallPosts on Monday. Cruz joked to reporters that “perhaps we should have done something like this duri
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“With my father, I’m scared of what he’ll do if I report him.” "After my assault, I started cutting myself. I felt like I had nowhere to turn," she said. "No way to express my emotions, pain and confusion, except by hurting myself." "The most painful moment for me was when I shared my sexual assault with my mother, and was met with complete silence."
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WHY DO SO MANY WOMEN REMAIN SILENT? Most survivors of familial sexual abuse said they didn’t speak out about their trauma – either because they feared uprooting their childhood or were blocked from doing so. 85% of assaults go unreported. PsychCentral: They blame themselves if they were in, in a position… say they were in a place where they feel like they shouldn’t have been or they were dresse
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COMMON VICTIM BEHAVIORS OF SURVIVORS OF SEXUAL ABUSE NSVRC: People who sexually abuse usually target someone they know. Nearly three out of four adolescents (74%) who have been sexually assaulted were victimized by someone they knew well (Kilpatrick, Saunders, & Smith, 2003). One-fifth (21.1%) were committed by a family member (Kilpatrick, Saunders, & Smith, 2003). PCAR: In light of th
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