Historian Thomas A. Foster discusses his new book Rethinking Rufus: Sexual Violations of Enslaved Men.
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Black Men Endured Sexual Exploitation Under Slavery. Their Story Is Rarely Told. Read Post »
A group of survivors of abuse by Jeffrey Epstein released an advertisement on Super Bowl Sunday imploring for the full release of millions of government files revealing the connections between Epstein and many famous politicians and celebrities. The ad was posted on X by journalist Jim Acosta. It comes a day before Congress is expected […]
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President Donald Trump’s legal team submitted false information to the Supreme Court in his ongoing legal battle against author E. Jean Carroll—who he was found liable for sexually assaulting in a Bergdorf Goodman dressing room in 1996—according to documents reviewed by Mother Jones. Justin D. Smith, Trump’s lawyer in the case, misrepresented the plot of […]
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This comes just days after a DOJ memo revealed plans to dismantle prison rape protections for trans and intersex people.
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Trump Admin Leaves Data About Trans People Out of Prison Sexual Violence Reports Read Post »
Megyn Kelly is known for offering absurd takes that nobody asked for. There was her insistence that Santa Claus is white, for example, and her claim that wearing blackface used to not be so bad (that one got her fired from NBC News). Wednesday, on her eponymous SiriusXM show, Kelly picked another hill to die […]
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Megyn Kelly Suddenly Finds Pedophilia Very Hard to Define Read Post »
Ghislaine Maxwell has delighted MAGA loyalists by asserting that she never saw the man she is hoping will spring her from a 20-year prison sentence “in any inappropriate setting” throughout the years he spent hanging out with the late convicted sex trafficker and pedophile Jeffrey Epstein. But Maxwell, convicted of sex trafficking minors and conspiracy, […]
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Ghislaine Maxwell Absolves Trump, and Everyone Else, in DOJ Interviews Read Post »
Last week, top officials in Donald Trump’s version of the Justice Department, including Todd Blanche, the president’s former personal criminal attorney, paid a visit to Ghislaine Maxwell, the socialite turned sex trafficker. Maxwell is currently serving 20 years for her role in helping the financier-pedophile Jeffrey Epstein sexually abuse women and girls; according to a […]
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How Does the Epstein Scandal End? Read Post »
On Tuesday, House Speaker Mike Johnson, in a departure from his previous calls for transparency, announced that he would not ask for a vote on whether the files pertaining to accused sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein should be released. Only a week before, on the right-wing podcast “The Benny Show,” he had said, “It’s a very […]
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Did Christian Nationalist Leaders Prompt Mike Johnson’s Epstein Flip-Flop? Read Post »
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