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Maybell Romero
Maybell Romero
@maybell.bsky.social
McGlinchey Stafford Associate Prof/Research Dean at Tulane Law. Writing on criminal law, rural legal systems, sexual assault, and cultural criticism. Atrevida y obstinada. https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=2292637
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How will we ever explain to future generations that this monster was twice elected president?
Beyond disgusted by even more rape allegations against the President of the United States. "In total, more than 25 different women...have independently accused Donald Trump of rape, sexual assault, or other sexual misconduct." Report w/ new details: democrats-judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-su...
H/t @rmfifthcircuit.bsky.social. This kicks ass.
Time for this weekend’s ‘elephant done by a medieval artist that had never seen one’ - 10th century, Morgan Library & Museum, MS M.644, f. 79r
@brianlfrye.bsky.social askede to take this. I made sure to include the "Ladies Room" signage.
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Somewhere in June 2026, I said @scolom.bsky.social has a better chance to be in the US Senate than Graham Platner and you should give your anger money to him. Hotty Toddy, MF’ers.
Seven months ago, we shocked the world in the primary. In just 10 days, we are going to do it again. It’s winning time.
This sort of rhetoric--that SA abuse victims are "flawed" somehow--is the natural endpoint when we describe them as being broken or destroyed or ruined, sometimes in an effort to be empathetic, sometimes to justify outcome severity. Read about it here: www.law.georgetown.edu/georgetown-l...
NEW: Vivek Ramaswamy says Amy Acton being a victim of childhood sexual abuse makes her “flawed” while defending his ad featuring her estranged mother. “In politics sometimes it's a tough sport.”
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Even if you accept this explanation, the ad relies on a woman who believed her child sex abuser husband over her 12-year-old daughter - so, maybe she isn't the best person to assess someone's truthfulness and crediblity (especially someone she has had no contact with since they were 12).
Vivek Ramaswamy defends his ad featuring Amy Acton's estranged mother: "We ran an ad about lying…They are lying about an ad that is about lying. That is the truth of the matter. It had nothing to do with childhood abuse, which I will be the number one governor to prosecute."
I'm slightly lighter than I was almost seven years ago when @brianlfrye.bsky.social and I got together, so if you haven't seen me since pre-pandemic, well, not a lot has changed. But people who haven't seen me in a year or a little more sometimes don't even recognize me.
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“I’d Like to See a Social Worker Do What I Do,” Says Cop Who Does Nothing thehardtimes.net/culture/id-l...
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Whiskey Pete wanted to play with Eisenhower's famous globe, but his dipshit staffers dropped it while moving it and ripped a big hole in the side. christ www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
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Women have been more than half of J.D. graduates since 2016. So who’s leading the deals? Over a decade of deal teams, only one in five team leaders was a woman, find Tracey E. George, Mitu Gulati, and Albert H. Yoon in #ThePractice: clp.law.harvard.edu/article/law-...
This makes me think of a law professor who told me that I should stop talking or writing about being SA'ed as a child or my experiences flowing from being a victim because I "need to move past bad things that happened [to me]." Fucking gross.
Unearthed footage of Vivek Ramaswamy mocking Amy Acton for being a survivor of childhood abuse: "She has no vision other than to complain about what someone else did to her"
Yes, that is the assumption that some people make about us. That because we (and I mean Acton, me, and others SA'ed as kids) were abused, we must be crazy. That we must be mentally ill. That we must be broken or somehow rendered nonfunctional.
he's doubling down because if she was sexually abused as a kid she must be cray-cray. is i assume the strategy
I still look around for him sometimes. Brian and I go on Moe's favorite walk that he'd do twice a day and I know that Moe would enjoy that it's finally starting to cool off and would start pulling on his leash more if he were around. He's very much missed in our house.
Moe Romero March 31, 2015 - September 2, 2026 Mr. Food and I will love you always, and you’ll always be my baby. This photo was from just yesterday.
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NRO obtained court records showing Acton did in fact face abuse and her mother and Vivek are just straight up lying www.nationalreview.com/news/amy-act...