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Sarah Robinson 💙 retweeted
Cressida Dick working for Palantir raises the same concerns I’ve expressed about Tom Watson.
What does a company gain when it recruits a former Labour deputy leader or a former Metropolitan Police commissioner? Their experience, yes. But also their contacts, influence and the authority associated with the offices they held.
This ‘revolving door’ corrodes confidence in politics, public service generally and in institutions such as the police.
Read more here: thebureauinvestigates.com/st…
@TBIJ
Sarah Robinson 💙 retweeted
At 19, Evan Rachel Wood starred in 38-year-old Marilyn Manson's music video for "Heart-Shaped Glasses." She says he fed her absinthe and had sex with her for real in front of the crew.
Years later, after she named him publicly, Manson sued her for defamation. He ended up dropping his own lawsuit and paying over $300,000 for her lawyers.
In the video below, she tells it herself, starting with the shoot.
They met at the Chateau Marmont when she was 18 and he was 37, still married to Dita Von Teese.
On the music video set, she was the youngest person in the room. There was no nudity clause and no closed set. She didn't think her clothes were coming off that day.
Before the cameras rolled, she was given absinthe. Someone on set later told her Manson had privately asked wardrobe for underwear that could be easily ripped off.
When the scene started, she froze.
"His hands are around my neck. His face is pressed into my face. Even if I wanted to say no, I couldn't say no."
The video has been watched tens of millions of times. It is still up on YouTube.
At home, whenever Manson put on his stage makeup, she knew he would trash the house. She locked herself in the bathroom so often that she strung lights and put music inside. Once, she ducked as he swung a heavy cane at her head. It hit the doorframe beside her and snapped in half.
She tried to leave seven times before it stuck.
In 2021, at the peak of her run on HBO's Westworld, she named him on Instagram. Manson sued her for defamation and fraud.
After a judge threw out most of his claims, Manson offered to pay her a settlement to end his own case.
She refused to take a cent for herself. She demanded only the $300,000 she had spent on legal fees, and rejected his gag order that would have banned her from speaking about him again.
"You're not taking one more thing from me, and you'll never have my voice."
He paid her legal bill and walked away.
People still ask what she expected dating Marilyn Manson at 18. Why does nobody ask what a 37-year-old man expected when the cameras were rolling?
Sarah Robinson 💙 retweeted
What defenders of Brand can’t seem to get their heads round is he was unable to call a single witness to testify on his behalf. No-one to contradict the prosecution’s case other than himself & his wife. While former friends & employees were prepared to testify against him. It was this that damned him. It wasn’t ‘he said/she said’. People who knew him well spoke *against* him. None for him.
Sarah Robinson 💙 retweeted
On the upside, the £36bn the Tories plan to take away from the sick and disabled will just about cover the £37bn they gave Dido Harding to run the Test and Trace XL spreadsheet
Sarah Robinson 💙 retweeted
Russell Brand found safe haven in MAGA and Evangelical Christianity for the same reason Donald Trump did: they are movements that run on misogyny, see women as less than, and are filled with men who are dangers to the women around them.
Predatory birds of a feather...
Sarah Robinson 💙 retweeted
Criminal activity seems to be a requirement to become a Reform Party Ltd councilor.
Sarah Robinson 💙 retweeted
Why is there intelligence information in the Epstein files? Were these people giving that information to Epstein and return for favors that needs to be investigated then so it should all be released stop covering things up Republicans. Your shit has hit the fan.
Speaker Mike Johnson claims the Epstein files can’t be released unredacted because they contain intelligence-agency material that falls under national security.
He says it’s dangerous to force the DOJ to declassify documents they didn’t create, especially when they involve other agencies like the CIA or NSA.
Johnson warns that releasing the Epstein files unredacted would put national security at risk.
Sarah Robinson 💙 retweeted
From Grifter To Martyr: The Final Con
From ‘revolutionary’ to holy roller, the grift keeps changing, but the stench remains. And now his defenders mistake accountability for persecution. Apparently, consequences are a conspiracy when your favourite fraud runs out of masks.
Sarah Robinson 💙 retweeted
In August 2014, porn actress Christy Mack was found crawling naked on the street outside her Las Vegas home with 18 broken bones, severed ear, missing teeth, and a ruptured liver. Her ex-boyfriend, MMA fighter Jon "War Machine" Koppenhaver, had broken in and spent hours beating her and a friend.
She was 23. She had been dating him for over a year. He had told her he would kill her if he ever caught her with another man. He caught her with a friend watching a movie.
The video below is her testimony from his trial in 2017, under her real name Christine Mackinday. The Las Vegas Review-Journal filmed it. She is calm. She points at Koppenhaver across the courtroom.
She describes him beating the male friend unconscious first. Then turning on her. Making her undress. Trying to saw her hair off with a kitchen knife. Punching her until she couldn't see out of her left eye. Telling her he was going to make her ugly so nobody else would want her.
He tried to rape her. She told him she had to go to the bathroom first. She jumped from the second floor window and ran naked down the street until a neighbour found her.
Her injuries: 18 broken bones, broken nose in two places, fractured rib, ruptured liver, leaking spinal fluid, missing teeth, cuts requiring staples. The ear had to be surgically reattached. She has had multiple reconstructive surgeries since.
Koppenhaver fled to Simi Valley, California and was arrested a week later after being recognized at a hotel. The jury took 4 hours to convict him on 29 counts. He was sentenced to life with possibility of parole after 36 years.
Christy quit the industry in 2017. She now lives privately, does voice acting, and speaks about domestic violence when asked. She has said the hardest part was not the attack but how many people, including other performers, told her she had provoked him.
She survived. Most women in that situation do not.
How does an adult man beat a woman like this for hours and tell himself the whole time that she deserved it?
Sarah Robinson 💙 retweeted
Ten women reported the same man at Cornell. TEN. And nothing was done to stop him. Then people turn around and ask why women don't report. Maybe start asking why nobody listens when they do.
Sarah Robinson 💙 retweeted
It's so weird how the people who say "Muslims and Asians are raping our women" have come out in support of white Christian Russell Brand, isn't it? x
Sarah Robinson 💙 retweeted
How TF is this still happening?!
10 years on from that bloody Brexit vote, and a senior Reform leader thinks we can go and do our own trade deals with EU countries! 🤯🤯🤯
We can't.
We never could.
Trade with any of them = a deal with all 27
…and this lot want to run the country.
Sarah Robinson 💙 retweeted
To understand what's at stake, take a look at this brilliant diagram (h/t Bloomberg) with Nvidia at the dead heart of the AI bubble. I wrote this exactly a year ago when only @GaryMarcus & @edzitron aside from niche business press were talking about it
Sarah Robinson 💙 retweeted
When my rapist was sentenced, his lawyer said it was in injustice that I had done well in life and that my rapist was just in love with me. So I took a disciplinary case against him and won. But I shouldn’t have had to fight so hard. The system should do the work, not survivors.
Sarah Robinson 💙 retweeted
Russell Brand has been sentenced to 10 years 6 months. At his trial his lawyer invited the judge to conclude the offences were 'the consequence of that level of fame.' No. They were the consequence of him being a rapist who thought fame meant he could do it and get away with it.
Sarah Robinson 💙 retweeted
"Whatever women wear, wherever they go, whatever they drink, they retain the right to say no and demand justice in the criminal courts when sexual predators act without their consent"
Mr Justice Bennathan, while sentencing Russell Brand to a decade in prison for rape and sexual assault.
Amen.