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Former pastor Trent Brandon Holbert, Republican, filed false child neglect claims against the parents of a child he was raping to pressure them to sign over parental rights
689 #RepublicanSexualPredators
OH Speaker Larry Householder, R had 6 hearing into the Strauss sex-abuse case putting survivors through painful public testimony under pretense they would pass a bill holding OSU accountable with no intention of passing it. go.tiffinohio.net/2021/10/ohio-g…
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OH Maj Ldr Bill Seitz, R had 6 hearing into the Strauss sex-abuse case putting survivors through painful public testimony under pretense they would pass a bill holding OSU accountable with no intention of passing it. go.tiffinohio.net/2021/10/ohio-g…
692 #RepublicanSexualPredators
Jonathan Uzcategui, Republican candidate for Wilmington, NC, City Council is accused of domestic violence by his ex-wife. Not for nothing, BLM activists have accused him of brandishing a gun at them. whqr.org/local/2021-10-…
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WI GOP Congressional candidate Derrick van Orden sexually harassed two women while in the military. He also accepted $12,000 in campaign contributions from Steve Wynn #122 wispolitics.com/2020/wisdems-d…
William A. Jones, president of the conservative Baptist Georgetown College in Kentucky, was fired after a sexual assault complaint. wdrb.com/news/georgetow…
697 #RepublicanSexualPredators
Dave Portnoy, Trump-voting populist whose belligerence coined the idea of a Barstool Republican is accused by several women of violently abusing them during sex. itsgame7.com/barstools-dave…
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Jack Strain, Republican former sheriff of St. Tammany Parish was convicted of eight sex crimes charges, including aggravated rape, aggravated incest, sexual battery, and indecent behavior with a juvenile. nola.com/news/courts/ar…
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Former conservative Orchard Prairie, WA, school-board candidate Dr. Ronald Ilg: Too much to list. hiring people on dark web to beat and torture women, imprisoning woman in bunker until she signed sex slave contract. More.
GOP Mega-donor T. Denny Sanford was implicated in a child pornography investigation in South Dakota and referred to the federal government since the investigation crossed state lines. The feds have so far not taken action. argusleader.com/story/news/202…
Former Republican staffer and current mayor of Cambridge, MD, has been charged with 50 counts of distributing revenge porn. nbcnews.com/news/us-news/m…
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Anti-tax, conservative city council member Brian Mackenzie in Craig, CO, has been sentenced to 10 years probation for attempted sexual assault of a child apnews.com/article/arrest…
So one of my organizing mentors likes to tell a story about door-knocking in the South back in the early 70s. At the door was a white woman who opened the conversation with a phrase about how glad he wasn't one of the [racist epithet] registering voters. He started to back away
but she added, "but if you're here to talk about that company polluting our drinking water, I have coffee and we can talk." She became an active volunteer and was integral to their organizing to clean up some mess. He told this story many times to argue against excluding white
racists who will be changed by working with Black people on a shared purpose (as he claims this woman was.)
So, one day I asked him, how many Black people did not join because that woman was a leader?
Andrew Yang stepped in it during the interview, affirming that if white supremacists were willing to work with him toward his goals, they were welcome in the Forward party. I am not surprised.
Bernie Sanders said essentially the same thing a few 1000 times. Remember his complaint that Democrats don't know how to talk to the working class? He admits they are the most important to him.
This is the problem with people who see our politics as economic, first, last, and always. They are always willing to trade away people on the downside of power to get those WWC votes.
Sticking up for trans rights might cost me some votes, so let them pee behind a tree.
My best friend was a Warren supporter in the 2020 primary though not the kind who would ever call herself a "Warren Democrat" with its implication of party schism. She and I did not see eye-to-eye on the senator but Warren's constant social media demands for executive orders have
persuaded her more effectively than I ever was. I was never able to convince her that Warren's Manichean worldview was bad for policy and for the country, but she gets it now. If you see every issue through the lens of campaign finance corruption, you misdiagnose the issues.
Money in politics is a serious issue and dramatically distorts policy-making and elections. The worst is the uncontrolled independent expenditures, many made with undisclosed sources via c4s, frequently called "dark money" organizations, but it's seldom quid-pro-quo despite the s
Maybe it's the experience of being a straight white woman working the majority of my white life in organizations focused on gay rights and anti-racism, but I have very little tolerance for tolerance. Tolerance is not enough.
Yes, there is an agenda.
Take gay rights. Never mind that there still is no ban on housing or employment discrimination, freedom to marry is not enough. None of us are free so long as people merely tolerate LGBTIQA people. They must be liberated from condemnation and judgment.
Take civil rights. First, housing and employment discrimination may be illegal, but it still happens. People may be able to vote, but their right is impinged by regulations, poor equipment, long lines, and other impediments
The defense attorneys in the McMichael/Bryan trial worked very hard to dehumanize Ahmaud Arbery, gambling that eleven white jurors in Georgia would respond to their othering him at every opportunity. It did not work this time. I am thankful for that, but can't help but remember
If that video had not been leaked, McMichaels and Bryan would never have been prosecuted. The cops and prosecutors saw that video and said it wasn't a crime. But local gossip disagreed, so their own lawyer leaked the video to prove they were right to murder Arbery. Think on that
There was no person in the justice system where this happened that thought McMichaels and Bryan needed prosecution. This was not a leak from someone outraged by injustice but by one of the lawyers hoping to shut down local gossip. If not for that misjudgment, no justice ever.
This is because the job of the American police is not to solve or prevent crime. It is to maintain order & generate revenue. It's true, police spend a criminally small percentage of their time on crime. They run licenses, write tickets, and harass the houseless for ORDER, not LAW
It is not people being burglarized, cars being stolen, women being raped, and partners and children being murdered by a family member that gets people het up about crime. It's disorder and disorder is often identified more by skin color than activity.
Portland Police will not respond to a burglary or a car theft other than letting you file a report. Even if you are standing on the street watching your car being dismantled by a crew of thieves. Even if your neighbors have caught the burglar & are holding him for the police.