Prominent feminist writer drops off social media after rape threats against her 5-year-old daughter

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I am sick of this shit. Sick of saying over and over how scary this is, sick of being told to suck it up.


On Twitter, popular writer Jessica Valenti wrote: “This morning I woke up to a rape and death threat directed at my 5 year old daughter. That this is part of my work life is unacceptable.”

Valenti, author of 2007’s Fill Frontal Feminism and co-author of Yes Means Yes: Visions of Female Sexual Power and A World Without Rape in 2008, becomes the latest in an increasingly long line of women who have been harassed and threatened online by anonymous stalkers from SNL cast member Leslie Jones to Gamergate targets Anita Sarkeesian, Briana Wu and Zoe Quinn.

In a series of tweets, Valenti lamented the daily barrage of attacks and threats online by people who are threatened by feminism, while also slamming law enforcement for not taking online threats seriously.

She also hammered social media companies who did little to police vicious and threatening commenters.

movableteacher's avatarMadrid Journal

Even with a woman about to be president, women and their family are still in danger of rape and murder. These cowardly American men need to know the world has passed them by, and they will never get it back.
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Porto Alegre, Brazil: Biblioteca Kaos squat facing eviction – Call for resistance

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DSC0118_largeReceived and translated on 27.07.16:

Biblioteca Kaos (Chaos Library) facing eviction on August 4th 2016
An invitation to resistance

Greetings comrades and friends.
Projects that are built from a position of confrontation and conflict travel through waters of constant change and innovation.
Since the beginning of Biblioteca Kaos, we knew that when you build an occupied space, you choose this possibility.

A few days ago, they arrived at our door with the order to evict the home where we live, and where we run the library, the natural pharmacy and many other activities where we meet and conspire together. The eviction is scheduled for August 4th, with a judicial order authorizing the police to make effective the reintegration of ownership.

This year, two other squats were evicted – Semente and Kuna, others were born, and others resisted the eviction attempts with various strategies. The context is becoming more and more…

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British petition for Blair accountability on Iraq war lies

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petrel41's avatarDear Kitty. Some blog

This January 2015 video from Britain is called Tony Blair Not In Jail? I Literally Don’t Understand: Russell Brand The Trews (E235).

By Zoe Streatfield in Britain:

Blair petition passes 10,000 signatures

Tuesday 26th July 2016

Milestone means government must respond

A PETITION calling for MPs to hold Tony Blair to account for misleading the public in the run-up to the Iraq war reached a significant milestone yesterday.

The online parliamentary petition now has over 10,000 signatories, which means the government will have to make an official reply.

Stop the War vice-chair Chris Nineham told the Star that it was “no surprise” that people had already signed in such numbers.

Mr Nineham said: “The act of lying to take us into the Iraq war, more than any, other embodies the contempt for democracy that plagues our politics.”

He said it was “essential” that Mr Blair “faces some…

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IN PHOTOS ~~ PALESTINIAN LIVES MATTER

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desertpeace's avatarDesertpeace

New Yorkers took to the streets yesterday in front of the Israeli Consulate to demand Freedom for Bilal Kayed and all other (7,000) Palestinians held in illegal administrative  detention.

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72% of aid money intended for Palestine is stolen by israel

$40 billion aid package to Israel is ‘largest ever’ to any country.. but still the Israelis steal from the Palestinians, among other apalling crimes.

This is how 3 Palestinian women stopped an Israeli soldier from arresting a boy. 1000's are held indefinitely without trial in so-called 'Administrative Detention'.
This is how 3 Palestinian women stopped an Israeli soldier from arresting a boy. 1000’s are held indefinitely without trial in so-called ‘Administrative Detention’.

michaellee2009's avatarUPROOTED PALESTINIANS: SALAM ALQUDS ALAYKUM

Israel Lines Its Pockets With Palestinian Aid — And The US Helps Israel Keep It That Way     

Complicity with Israel’s occupation and corruption in Mr. Abbas’ PA play into another major roadblock on Palestine’s path to recovery: International funds meant for reconstruction efforts in Gaza and other forms of humanitarian aid are routinely diluted by Israel.

A Palestinian boy looks from his family's destroyed house at workers rebuild a house which was destroyed during the last summer's Israeli bombardment of Gaza City on Thursday, July 23, 2015.

A Palestinian boy looks from his family’s destroyed house at workers rebuild a house which was destroyed during the last summer’s Israeli bombardment of Gaza City on Thursday, July 23, 2015.

KITCHENER, Ontario — (Analysis) From severely limited water supplies to a blockade on even the most basic supplies, Israel’s continued illegal occupation of Palestine has destroyed even the most basic infrastructure Palestinians need to survive, forcing residents of Gaza and the West Bank to struggle through a humanitarian disaster.

This was intensified in 2014 during Israel’s most recent genocidal attack on the…

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THE “BIG BANG” IS JUST RELIGION DISGUISED AS SCIENCE

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Fernando Kaskais's avatarWebInvestigator.KK.org - by F. Kaskais

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UPDATE: Dark matter still MIA after most exhaustive search yet

UPDATE: No Big Bang? Quantum equation predicts universe has no beginning

UPDATE: Universe is Not Expanding After All, Controversial Study Suggests

by Michael Rivero

Let me preface this by saying I come from a science background myself, but all too often science gets hijacked and distorted for political or economic gain, or simply makes goofs which are perpetuated by arrogance!

Why should we not just blindly trust science?

Alchemy, for one.

Phlogiston Chemistry, for another.

Prior to the 14th Century Astronomers thought the Earth was the center of the universe, because, well, that’s what the church wanted, and spent hundreds of years of scientific research on the theory of Epicycles; which holds the record for longest running scientific goof!

17th Century doctors thought rubbing chicken dung into your scalp would cure baldness! They also thought leeches sucked disease…

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Julian Assange Claims New Leaks Will Send Hillary Clinton To Prison Over Campaign To Destroy Bernie Sanders

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