“Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer indicated on Sunday that Democrats will ‘not supply the quorum’ needed for the vote in the committee and the full Senate, hoping to delay the proceedings and force Republicans to delay a vote until after the election. 1/2
Why can’t they boycott the hearings? As a deliberate act of war on this dangerous zealot #AmyConeyBarrett.
She is a danger to so many. There are so many alarm bells and they will be ignored because people are being put on the defensive by “don’t attack her faith” arguments.
I know quorum is needed not for hearings but committee and vote, but I’m interested in knowing if the Dems can make a point by refusing to show up for hearings too. #AmyConeyBarrett
I moved to the US in 2000. I’ve learned that many white Americans have a delusional amount of confidence in their govt & its institutions.They’re childishly naive in believing institutions will save them from state power which they think will work for them feministgiant.substack.com/p/if-amy-coney…
That stubborn belief in U.S. exceptionalism undergirds the refusal to see the fascism that Trump brought. Black, Indigenuous, and people of colour have no such delusions. They do not expect institutions to protect them because they are so often hurt by those institutions.
No matter how often those of us from authoritarian countries who know to be suspicious of state power & those of us who’ve fought fascism--be it via military rule/rule of religious fundamentalists--warned, white Americans arrogantly shook their head it couldn’t happen here
She is the logical conclusion to the theocracy that conservatives have worked for since the 1970s. A theocracy that too many were happy to ignore because it was white and Christian and not Saudi Arabia or Iran.
I was going to write my period a letter, all loving and stuff. All about how besides my family, my period and I have had the longest relationship etc etc.
When I became a journalist in #Egypt 30yrs ago, I learned that victims of rape didn’t go to the police because the police would shoo them away or rape them because the women were considered “damaged goods anyway.” I wrote this about women speaking out now feministgiant.substack.com/p/why-do-they-…
Back in 1990, I was told that rape victims, if they were affluent, went to a psychiatrist in search of ways to not fall apart, to keep stitched tightly those seams of silence which are now bursting open in #Egypt.
At a feminist gathering in #Cairo in 2013 organized by a women’s group I worked with,a lawyer told us that a rape victim who did decide to go to the police could be locked up in a room at precinct for 24hrs to protect her from her family in case they tried to kill her from shame.
#Egypt on Saturday began the trial of a former student of an elite university on charges of sexual assault of three minors, in a case that has launched a new wave of the #MeToo movement in the Arab world’s most populous country. google.com/amp/s/abcnews.…
The former student at the American University in Cairo was arrested in July after the allegations against him went viral, resulting in a firestorm on social media.
The trial opened amid tight security at a criminal court. The suspect could face up to life in prison if convicted.
The former student faces charges of blackmailing & sexually harassing the women, who were minors at the time of the crimes.According to accusations posted on social media, he would mine the pool of mutual friends on Facebook,online groups/school clubs,to target for sexual assault