"French parliamentarians have voted to ban the wearing of the hijab in public for those under 18, to ban burkinis in public pools, and to ban the wearing of the hijab for those accompanying children on school trips."
France has one of the highest rates of femicide in Europe. In 2019, 146 women were killed in France by a partner or ex-partner. But the French government's gender law enforcement priority is - sending police to beaches to forcibly strip Muslim women.

amp.theguardian.com/world/2016/aug…
French taxes at work.
France has no legal age of consent. No statutory rape law.

"...a person having sex with a child can only be convicted of rape if prosecutors can prove violence, coercion, threat or surprise –"

The French government's priority for girls is - a hijab ban.

thelocal.fr/20210210/is-it…
Forcing minority girl children *out* of modest dress, without offering them any legal protection against predatory adult men, is state-enforced rape culture. Shame on you, France.
"the odds are so stacked against a woman who files a rape complaint in France – [victims] are presumed to be consenting and forced to prove otherwise, submitting to such taxing rituals as a face-to-face “confrontation” with their alleged attackers"

france24.com/en/20190201-fr…

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1 Apr
"A French appeals court has overturned the defamation conviction of the woman behind France’s answer to the #MeToo movement, who was sued by the man she accused of sexual harassment."
theguardian.com/world/2021/mar…
"In September 2019, Sandra Muller, a French journalist, was ordered to pay €15,000 (£12,775) in damages to TV executive Éric Brion, whom she accused on Twitter of making sexually lewd remarks at a party."
"But the Paris court of appeal overturned the verdict on Wednesday, ruling that “even if Éric Brion suffered by being the first man denounced under #BalanceTonPorc, Sandra Muller should be recognised as having acted in good faith”."
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An African woman is becoming the head of the World Trade Organization. The WTO exists to "drive down women’s wages, displace women from their land, privatise public goods to enrich multinational corporations."

apwld.org/press-release-…
"We are sick of gender equality being used as a cynical ploy to justify neoliberalism.”

Please think about this before you hail the appointment of Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala as head of the WTO.
"The removal of tariffs and import limits alone have been detrimental to women’s rights. Tariff reductions reduce government revenue essential for public investments in health, education, energy, water, transport and social protection."

world-psi.org/en/womens-righ…
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3 Feb
This is unconscionable, @poetrymagazine. Fix it.

theguardian.com/books/2021/feb…
"In the February 2021 issue of @poetrymagazine, "The Practice of Freedom," editors published the work of convicted pedophile Kirk Nesset...When arrested, Nesset was in possession of over half a million images of child rape and had circulated these images."
change.org/p/poetry-magaz…
"We call on @poetrymagazine to remove Nesset's work from their pages and their website. That such an established publication would use their widely-read and highly selective platform to further the work and career of a predator cannot be labeled an oversight, nor defended."
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7 Jan
"Dressed in fur pelts and a bullet proof vest, Aaron Mostofsky joined an early wave of rioters who swarmed the halls of Congress, forcing lawmakers to evacuate before certifying Joe Biden's election victory."
gothamist.com/news/trump-fur…
"Brooklyn resident Aaron Mostofsky can be seen in several photos outside the Senate chambers, holding a wooden stick and a police riot shield, alongside a man carrying a Confederate flag."
"Aaron Mostofsky's father is Shlomo Mostofsky, a prominent modern Orthodox figure in Brooklyn and former president of the National Council of Young Israel. He was elected to the Kings County Supreme Court last January with the backing of the Brooklyn Democratic Party."
Read 5 tweets
7 Jan
It wasn't just the federal Capitol in Washington DC that Nazis attacked yesterday. They attacked state Capitols in Georgia, Kansas, Minnesota, Texas, Oregon, and Colorado. They attacked federal buildings in LA.

thedailybeast.com/local-maga-mob…
Imagine how many new members Nazi movements recruited yesterday. Both in the U.S. and across the world.
Is this your ragtag mob?
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7 Jan
We're still in a pandemic. Today's coup was a mega-super-spreader event. How many Capitol workers did the Nazi militias infect?
These are the workers who had to clean up after the Nazis trashed the Capitol.
How many D.C. workers and residents were exposed to infection today by unmasked, undistanced, chanting, yelling Nazis?
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