“The reason so many of yesterday’s free-speech champions transitioned so easily into today’s pro-Trump censors is that their definition of free speech never included the right of others to talk back.”
Some passages from an excellent Rebecca Solnit essay on the relationship between feminism and the significance of exposing Epstein and Trump and others.
“The missing photo adds to the mounting inconsistencies in the DOJ’s release of all the materials it had gathered over the past two decades through investigations into Epstein’s sexual abuse of young women and underage girls.”
Had coffee with a friend and fellow activist today. We talked about how different things pres different people‘s very specific buttons. My friend is upset, and was surprised at how upset, over Trump renaming the Kennedy Center. She wasn’t so upset about the illegality of it – – though that bothered her. As we talked, she realized it was the sheer insolence and vulgarity of Trump associating himself with a slain President. 1/
