Reposted by rad uncleRadley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 5hJust a reminder: Tillis persuaded the woman Hegseth allegedly raped to come forward with her story, and told her that if she did, it would sink the nomination. She did. At great risk to herself. Tillis then cast the deciding vote for Hegseth. Because he’s a goddamned coward.ms.nowOutgoing Sen. Tillis regrets pivotal vote for Hegseth: ‘He’s an actor. He’s not a manager’Outgoing Sen. Thom Tillis spoke to MS NOW about regretting his vote to confirm Pete Hegseth and his strained relationship with Trump. 18365272052
rad uncle @raduncle.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Please please please will someone hand Trump a piece of paper with the word "ontological" written on it and ask him to read it. 240
rad uncle @raduncle.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Not even out of hatred of Lee. Just out of support of moms having fun. 020
rad uncle @raduncle.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Not just Job. Imagine being one of the children who was killed. Imagine the god you worshipped your whole life saying "yeah you're just an NPC in your dad's story, so I'm letting Satan merc you". 000
Reposted by rad unclemaura quint @mauraquint.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Yes every woman has been harassed, many assaulted. But every woman has also experienced invisible loss from moments she avoided harassment. She felt a space becoming unsafe, so she left, while men stayed on. And in leaving, she lost: opportunities, experiences, learning, promotions, even simply fun. 168186454679
rad uncle @raduncle.bsky.social · 30/09/2026No, but he's being a piece of shit in a way that has nothing to do with mental illness so I'm not even sure why it needed to be brought up. Nobody was insulting him for being depressed. They're insulting him because he's being shitty to rape survivors. 100
rad uncle @raduncle.bsky.social · 30/09/2026doesn't make much difference when the military is currently run by the worst tools 000
rad uncle @raduncle.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Sure but Michael Tracey is clearly not a depressed person; he is an asshole who is doxxing a rape victim. I myself am a depression-prone person who occasionally lets my hygiene lapse if I'm overwhelmed with work. I took no collateral offense from anyone insulting Tracey for looking like dogshit. 261
rad uncle @raduncle.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Well maybe but his looks like an actual child wrote them, is the point. Like, that's how he puts his name to an official government document intended for mass publication? It just underscores how pathologically unserious these people are. 200
rad uncle @raduncle.bsky.social · 30/09/2026You're not wrong but there's a difference between "having a body" and "willfully forsaking bodily hygiene". 170
rad uncle @raduncle.bsky.social · 30/09/2026The AI read it for them (and no, it didn't notice either). 1122
rad uncle @raduncle.bsky.social · 30/09/2026jesus, did Ms. Teacher have to guide his hand as he signed? 102837
rad uncle @raduncle.bsky.social · 30/09/2026ok maybe he did in fact get his shit rocked by Maxine Waters 063
rad uncle @raduncle.bsky.social · 30/09/2026I wonder if the hair & makeup team let him go on the air looking like this on purpose, as a strategy. If so, genius. 4820
rad uncle @raduncle.bsky.social · 30/09/2026man looks like he just read all the qt's on this post 000
rad uncle @raduncle.bsky.social · 29/09/2026It's the legit babysitting service who objects. Ashleigh the nursing student will never unsee those YouTube videos. 040
rad uncle @raduncle.bsky.social · 29/09/2026dude just ran here with his hand up like "OOH, ME! ME! SHE'S TALKING ABOUT ME!!" 0621
rad uncle @raduncle.bsky.social · 28/09/2026I thought they were just trying to galaxy-brain their way out of a dead-end argument. 1370
rad uncle @raduncle.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Oh this absolutely radiates "speaking from experience". 000
rad uncle @raduncle.bsky.social · 28/09/2026This absolutely isn't the point but imagine calling yourself a Democratic Socialist while using "lives in [nonprestigious place] working mediocre jobs" as an example of an indignity. 0171
rad uncle @raduncle.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Well of course Sen. Husted's not going to insult Nazis when he's got one right there as his bodyguard. 061
rad uncle @raduncle.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Sure, but when people look back on said punishment and justifiably say he got off lightly, what is the point in contradicting them if not to say "hey now, hasn't this rapist been punished enough?" 010
rad uncle @raduncle.bsky.social · 28/09/2026And good riddance! The option of "heavy on jail AND extremely heavy on post-jail punishment" was there, but he lacked the courage. We're talking about rapists, after all. The question should *never* be "haven't we punished them enough??" 000
rad uncle @raduncle.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Yeah I hope everyone realizes there is a very obvious answer to my question and the only reason I didn't say it is that it'd get me suspended. 080
rad uncle @raduncle.bsky.social · 28/09/2026What then do you propose to keep the convicted rapist from reoffending? Because you keep arguing against everyone who says he should be incarcerated. 1100
rad uncle @raduncle.bsky.social · 28/09/2026He's a danger to the community. He shouldn't be free to *go to* restaurants. He should be eating all his meals off a tray slid through a door. It shouldn't be incumbent on the community to protect themselves from him when we have a goddamn carceral system that, for all its evils, works as intended. 0220
rad uncle @raduncle.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Again, is it so much to ask that he have been made to live it out *in prison*? 020
rad uncle @raduncle.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Except the answer for Brock Turner is "he deserved worse than what actually happened". He faced up to 14 years in prison. Judge Persky* gave him 6 months - later knocked down to just 3 months for "good behavior". *Persky got recalled for this. Even his constituents saw that Turner got off light. 110
rad uncle @raduncle.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Lifetime registration is to *protect other people from him*. It's not the punishment. *Jail* would be the punishment. Look, there's definitely a conversation to be had about prison/punitive reform. Brock Turner belongs as far from that conversation as possible. 1521
Reposted by rad uncleNicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 28/09/2026The main reason you haven’t heard about campus sexual violence in a few years is because Trump and SCOTUS have made it much, much harder for survivors to come forward. You might vaguely remember that Title IX was a big battleground in his first term. And that we lost. 31872636
rad uncle @raduncle.bsky.social · 28/09/2026hey man have you thought about why you've looked at a convicted rapist and concluded "I am indifferent to this man". 050
![qoute tweet by @acabcalloway.bsky.social which claims "The actual purpose of the [sex offender] registry is to collectively punish a registrants close female relatives and sentence them to a lifetime of unpaid bureaucracy navigation with a side of death threats."
[For context, my original post to which they were responding:
"Lifetime registration is to *protect other people from him*. It's not the punishment. *Jail* would be the punishment.
Look, there's definitely a conversation to be had about prison/punitive reform. Brock Turner belongs as far from that conversation as possible."]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:n5acmwcogkppub3pq6g4knfr/bafkreihhgauqzrbsp7ggu777psc5czy5lmixrjtlzt3ttbwecnrnre5vpi)
