My family was ‘deeply’ religious, Church of Christ, Nashville.
My father started grooming me at 12.
It was always “our secret,” “it would break your mother’s heart.”
I tried repeatedly to make it stop.
I left home at 18 with $150 and one suitcase.
Never silence the victims.
I remember the gut wrenching fear of being impregnated by my father. A man who groomed me since I was 12 to welcome his attentions and abuse. A man who said “anything that feels this good can’t be a sin.”
Women must be able to make a choice, when another steals their autonomy.
I am calling the national mainstream news media out on this, and every one of you who sees this should too.
Stop pretending he isn’t what he clearly is.
Just stop it.
MoveOn has just announced that they are investing $2 million in a massive ad blitz across three key Senate states to defeat Martha McSally in Arizona, Susan Collins in Maine, and Lindsey Graham in South Carolina.
Rep. Elijah Cummings of Maryland, said the committee has obtained “direct evidence” that the president’s daughter, Kushner and other top aides were using personal accounts for official business in violation of federal law and White House policy.
Planned Parenthood saved my life.
But my abuser was never held accountable.
Why?
Victims are re-abused for speaking out.
Blamed, shamed, targeted, harassed and forced out of their communities.
Make it stop.
Women and families are suffering under Trump abortion bans: denied life-saving care, worried about criminal charges, forced to carry pregnancies from rape or incest.
They didn’t want this—and they deserve better.
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Looking back on this from the perspective of decades, I remember that I had a full scholarship to a college, walking distance from home, but I choose to leave three weeks before school started because I could not stay in that house
I put myself through college many years later
Also, if other victims see this.
Do the therapy
Write
Write it out as often as you need to
Don’t let other people tell you to “get over it”
Don’t let other people tell you “but they are your family”
Take care of yourself
Do better every single day
At any small thing you care to.
Success is a habit
Praise yourself
Learn to breathe deeply again
Hear the negative language in your head and put it on paper, see it there, now see it for what it is, a lie to keep you silent.
Mastery takes 10,000 hours they say
Give yourself that time.
Be great.
They hate that.
I’ve got news for men in this country.
Woman are pissed and we aren’t afraid of showing it anymore.
And Fani Willis is a shinning beacon for how to express both our anger and our power.
No woman has to smile or make nice just because men never figured out how to deal.
@StevenTDennis
Proving the point that no one should ever trust Mitch McConnell.
EVER.
He is the knife slipped into your back when you let your guard drop and stand near him for a moment.
I want to know why suicidal men have to take their wives and children with them?
Why can’t you just take yourself off the board and let everyone else live?
What brain worm makes you take out your babies and their mother?
@Incog
Freedom goes both ways.
Pro Tip: If your state signals the end of stay-at-home orders; it doesn’t mean the pandemic is over, it just means they currently have room for you in the ICU.
@mitchellreports
@ChuckGrassley
I believe this argument has been tried before.
It has been proved wrong before.
What holds women back are the men in power.
And that is about to change.
@JoeNBC
You should cover the USPS story about ballots being stuck in Miami post office back room.
A journalist would be covering dirty tricks leading into the election and shining a light on corruption.
@Independent
No fucking way.
It is time for Justice.
It is time to uncover all the crimes and corruption and incompetence.
It is time for Consequences.
Nothing else will do.
@JRehling
@TheRickWilson
The CDC issued its first warning on Jan 8.
He was acquitted by the Senate on Feb 5.
Trump held campaign rallies on Jan 9, Jan 14, Jan 28, Jan 30, Feb 10, Feb 19, Feb 20, Feb 21 & Feb 28.
He golfed on Jan 18, Jan 19, Feb 1, Feb 15, Mar 7 & Mar 8.
There are 3 main asks: 1) approve emergency
#USPS
funding; 2) call for a
@OIGUSPS
investigation into DeJoy and his conflicts of interest; 3) repeal the pre-funding requirement of the 2006 Postal Accountability Act 19/
@BillGlauber
@SenRonJohnson
Senator Ron Johnson is a traitor to his oath of office and is deliberately telling lies, because when the GOP loses, all his own dealings will come out.
@funder
I suggest they all start asking him when he plans resign out of shame for killing so many Americans through his incompetence.
That should get a spectacular response.
@LEBassett
Please ask Gov. Abbott if women can claim child support from the impregnating male starting at 6 weeks?
DNA testing and backdating from time of confirmation.
@trish_regan
I know you know this - but here goes.
The United States Postal Service is in the Constitution as a service for everyone in this country. It is not profitable to serve everyone, but everyone deserves service.
The military is also not profitable, nor are elected officials.
@kylegriffin1
Bringing it to the floor for a vote would be a fair process, the fact that he blocks this shows that he is the key authoritarian in government today.
Mitch is the lynchpin.
If there is one thing all of MSM need to know today it is this.
Hillary Clinton would not have done any of this.
Also, more people voted for her.
Also, Chuck Todd sucks.
The Mississippi DOH confirms today that at least 70% of the recent calls to poison control in the state have been related to ingestion of livestock or animal formulations of ivermectin purchased at livestock supply centers.
Where the heck did people get the idea to do that??
@IvankaTrump
@realDonaldTrump
@DanSullivan_AK
So the media is allowed to call the election!
Good to know.
Three electoral votes, so it doesn’t change the outcome.
Except for the fact you fouled up daddy’s narrative on the media.
Good job.
@NBCNews
@djrothkopf
@MeetThePress
@kwelkernbc
Here’s the problem NBC.
When you interview a shameless liar, giving him a platform and reach, nothing you say can take it back, can confront him afterward, sufficient to undo the damage.
You know this.
@NikkiBirnks
@ChloePolitiCat
No
All it took was one guy.
He encountered 60 people.
They traced all but 1 guy.
And then it took off.
No one realized it was loose until people in the assisted living center started dying.
Test, Trace, Isolate.
@mkraju
Remind me what the last four years were like?
Oh right, McConnell blocked over 400 bills from even getting to the floor.
Please feature this daily.
@mkraju
Why does he think it would destroy our government when traitors are walking the halls and trying to prevent the American public from knowing about it?
@samstein
Change the narrative, change the matrix of the moment.
People got out in the streets and danced with joy when they heard.
Biden did an excellent job on the convention and people said “do it that way again, I like it”
Do a pandemic inauguration that is inclusive of all of us.
@jkcarnah
The answer to your question in three parts:
1. No one has immunity to this virus.
2. Highly contagious and infectious before symptoms.
3. Mortality rates of the flu is 0.1%, Covid19 is 3.4% average.
No vaccines, no drugs, and the only way to stop it is to stop sharing it.
Clear?
@kylegriffin1
You know, this is an improvement, but typical of McConnell, he doesn’t tell all GOP members to renounce the Big Lie about the election. This weasel words their own participation in it.
@NikkiHaley
@standamericanow
Do you have the courage to stand up to Trump?
How many will die due to his incompetence and actions to protect himself before this Pandemic is over?
Are you that blind?
I don’t want to hear any noise about it being beneath the office of the Presidency to investigate and prosecute Trump.
We must know what all he did to our government and how deep the rot goes.
@DannyEFreeman
Every woman who has ever had a man take that tone with them recognizes this. It is refusal to allow the other to be an authority on the topic, NO MATTER THEIR CREDENTIALS!
Trump thinks by denying what they say he is asserting his authority. This only works if you let him do it.
@kylegriffin1
@SenSchumer
as there should be.
Mitch McConnell’s actions over the past decades should not be overlooked and he should never be trusted to act in good faith.
@nannburke
The optics of this are very bad.
I hope it is front page of every 📰 in Michigan tomorrow.
It should also headline on the local broadcast stations.
Along with the photos of champagne.
When your opposition is making mistakes...
@Angry_Staffer
Thanks for your steady presence here, I appreciate it.
Do you have any stray thoughts about 60 Minutes and their Pope interview? I’m in a “get out of my government and my autonomy” mood about it.
@CathiBrennan67
The answer to your question in three parts:
1. No one has immunity to this virus.
2. Highly contagious and infectious before symptoms.
3. Mortality rates of the flu is 0.1%, Covid9 is 3.4% average.
No vaccines, no drugs, and the only way to stop it is to stop sharing it.
Clear?