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Katha Pollitt retweeted
Fox News is putting Nicki Minaj up telling people to vote red.
Let’s break that down.
Can Nicki Minaj vote? No.
She’s not a U.S. citizen.
Can Nicki Minaj’s husband vote? No, he’s a registered sex offender.
Can Nicki Minaj’s brother vote? No, he’s serving 25 years to life for child sexual assault.
She seems like the perfect spokesperson for MAGA republicans.
Katha Pollitt retweeted
"We have to have something outside the internal bureaucracy of Cornell taking action" – @KathaPollitt on Tish James & Sally Yates investigating the Cornell rape case – on 'Living in the USA' @KPFK bit.ly/47CWV1e
Katha Pollitt retweeted
🚨 BREAK THE SILENCE FOR ALI & MOJTABA AKBARI KERDABADI 🚨
Two brave cousins, Ali Akbari Kerdabadi and Mojtaba Akbari Kerdabadi, face imminent state execution in Isfahan under fabricated political charges.
Expose the regime's secret death sentences and amplify their names globally! #IranMassacre
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🚨 MASS EXECUTIONS PENDING IN ISFAHAN: BREAK THE SILENCE! 🚨
18 political prisoners in the "Kerdabad Isfahan" case face imminent execution. None are charged with murder, yet they have received up to 4 death sentences each!
Stand with the brave people of Kerdabad and demand an immediate halt to these executions! #IranMassacre
Katha Pollitt retweeted
🆘AT IMMINENT RISK OF EXECUTION IN IRAN🆘
Ehsan Hosseinipour Hesarloo
19 years old
Innocent young protester
Arrested during the January uprising in Iran.
Sentenced to death.
His sentence has been upheld by the Supreme Court and his case referred for enforcement.
Severe physical and psychological torture
Forced confession under pressure
Denied a lawyer of his own choosing
HIS LIFE MUST BE SAVED.
@UNHumanRights @ICRC @hrw @amnesty @UN @UN_HRC @IntlCrimCourt @POTUS @HengawO @antonioguterres @drmaisato @UN_Spokesperson
#EhsanHosseinipour
#StopExecutionsInIran
Katha Pollitt retweeted
🆘AT RISK OF EXECUTION IN IRAN🆘
Ali Pishehvarzadeh
28 years old
Champion swimmer, Water polo medalist, Lifeguard
Arrested during the January uprising in Rasht Iran.
Sentenced to death
on the charge of "Moharebeh", i.e., waging war against God.
Torture in detention
Forced confession
Denied a lawyer of his own choosing
His execution can still be stopped.
His life must be saved.
@UNHumanRights @ICRC @hrw @amnesty @UN @UN_HRC @IntlCrimCourt @POTUS @HengawO @antonioguterres @drmaisato @UN_Spokesperson
#AliPishehvarzadeh
#StopExecutionsInIran
Katha Pollitt retweeted
I just learned that he has no mother or father to speak up for him. And now the Islamic Republic wants to hang him.
His name is Ilya Ben Rashid.
He is a young Iranian protester He has a younger sister. Now he is facing a death sentence.
He was arrested during the January 2026 protests in Iran. A Revolutionary Court in Isfahan sentenced him to death on charges of “waging war against God” for allegedly damaging public property.
He is being held in Dastgerd Prison. Reports say he was denied a lawyer of his choice.
Imagine facing execution for demanding freedom.
We must become his voice. We must stop his execution.
Say his name. Save Ilya Ben Rashid.
#StopExecutionsInIran
Katha Pollitt retweeted
On the Cornell Rape case and how "the purpose of the Title IX office on campus is not to enforce Title IX, as Cornell claims. It’s to protect the University from charges of negligence" – @KathaPollitt – on @thenation podcast bit.ly/4dTeyNP
Katha Pollitt retweeted
2018 - 2024, the Title IX office of Cornell received over 1200 complaints of rape, sexual assault, domestic violence and stalking – almost one every day: @KathaPollitt comments – on @thenation podcast bit.ly/4dTeyNP - transcript bit.ly/4zN9x1H
Katha Pollitt retweeted
They broke Eisenhower’s globe because they didn’t want to wait for a team of specialist historians to move it.
I cannot think of a more apt metaphor for Pete Hegseth’s DoD.
Katha Pollitt retweeted
Amy Acton overcame one parent who raped her at age 9 and one abusive parent who ignored the rape and other abuse. Amy Acton overcame being removed from her home by the state when she was 12. She made National Honor Society. She paid her way through college. She became a doctor, and the head of Ohio's Dept. of Health. Now, Amy Acton is overcoming the latter abusive parent AGAIN. In short, Amy Acton is tough as nails.
Vivek Ramaswamy is a pathetic human being who knows that he doesn't measure up.
Katha Pollitt retweeted
From 2018 to 2024, the Cornell Title IX office received over 1200 complaints of rape, sexual assault, domestic violence and stalking – almost one every day: @KathaPollitt comments – on @thenation podcast bit.ly/4dTeyNP
Even convicted rapists flourish, while victims suffer. Mike Tyson for example:bostonglobe.com/2026/10/20/o…
Katha Pollitt retweeted
Attacks on women in politics are unacceptable.
It is attacks such as these that will continue to discourage women from entering into politics and participating in politics equally and fully.
It is such a serious problem worldwide that the mandate dedicated a stand-alone report for it in the past: ohchr.org/en/documents/thema…
States must tackle this type for violence once and for all more decisively, making it clear that there is no place in society for such crimes.
Solidarity with Ms. Haines and her family.
The Australian lawmaker hit by a car in an allegedly deliberate attack has now had both her legs amputated, her husband of 40 years Phil Haines announced. cnn.it/3VYSKtX
Katha Pollitt retweeted
NO SURPRISE…THE TRUMP REGIME IS TRYING TO SHUT DOWN SPEECH THEY DO NOT LIKE. I STAND WITH @JoJoFromJerz
A single mother in New Jersey says a lawyer for President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump warned, in a message relayed to her by another attorney, that she would lose her home, be bankrupted and end up on the street with her kids.
Joanne Carducci, known online as JoJo From Jerz and followed by more than a million people, told the Medias Touch podcast of an ordeal that has lasted months.
She says it began with a letter, several pages long, from the Trumps' personal attorney in Florida, "the same attorney that was handling the IRS case and the ABC case," she told host Ken Harbaugh. It demanded that she retract things she had said online, including a claim that Trump incited a de*dly insurrection against the U.S. Capitol. It also called for a full apology, an admission that she had knowingly lied, and a payment that had not yet been named. It set a deadline of a few days and warned of punitive damages.
Carducci says a prominent attorney first offered to help her for free, then changed course after speaking with the Florida lawyer. His advice, she says, was to meet every demand because the Trumps have "inexhaustible resources." She says she is paraphrasing her attorney's account of his call with the Florida lawyer, but that his exact words to her were: "They're going to take your house. It's the only asset you have. They're going to bankrupt you and you're going to end up on the street with your kids."
She says one million dollars was demanded at one point. Carducci says she once earned $16 an hour as a paraprofessional and rebuilt her life with no credit after a brutal divorce. She says she never considered giving in, and that her children still do not know.
Former New Jersey Attorney General Matt Platkin offered to help with part of her case for free, she says. She decided to go public after hearing Melania Trump on the news congratulating herself for empowering women.
"I'm still terrified, but I'm done being quiet about it."
Katha Pollitt retweeted
Nach 50 Jahren erscheint die letzte Ausgabe der feministischen Zeitschrift »Emma«. Hier erzählt Alice Schwarzer erstmals von den Gründen für den Abschied. trib.al/QgPxh63
Katha Pollitt retweeted
As a child sex crimes prosecutor nothing was more heartbreaking than when a victim’s mother took the side of her boyfriend or husband against her own daughter. And this woman decides to do it all over again to her. Shame on her. And shame on Vivek Ramaswamy for being this desperate for power.
Amy Acton's brother slams Vivek Ramaswamy featuring her estranged mother in a campaign ad.
"After he was arrested and Amy and I were removed from their custody, our birth mother stayed married to Amy’s rapist until he died. This desperate, disgusting attack reveals exactly who Vivek Ramaswamy is at his core – a pathetic excuse for a man who is willing to hurt anyone as long as it gets him what he wants."
ALT Dr. Amy Acton’s Brother’s Statement on Ramaswamy Platforming Their Estranged and Abusive Mother COLUMBUS, OH– Today, Dr. Amy Acton’s brother, Philip Stearns, released the following statement condemning Vivek Ramaswamy’s attempt to platform their estranged and abusive mother: “It’s not surprising that Vivek Ramaswamy has stooped to such a despicable low as to attempt to turn the sexual abuse Amy endured at twelve years old from our birth mother's husband into a political talking point,” said Philip Stearns, Dr. Acton’s brother. “After he was arrested and Amy and I were removed from their custody, our birth mother stayed married to Amy’s rapist until he died. This desperate, disgusting attack reveals exactly who Vivek Ramaswamy is at his core – a pathetic excuse for a man who is willing to hurt anyone as long as it gets him what he wants.”
Katha Pollitt retweeted
Mississippi Attorney General Rules Police Officer Justified in Fatal Shooting of Black Toddler democracynow.org/2026/10/20/…
