The Subtext

giving just as much hell as i get

[The Subtext @TrueSubtext]

This is Maga/GOP: “Protect Our Kids” Edition

An aggregate🧵

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@ThatG63286 @AllisonRFloyd Lol no. But thanks for playing

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Huh

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@NoLieWithBTC 🤔

[The Subtext @TrueSubtext]

It took Italy until 1981 to abolish the law that allowed rapists to be absolved if they married their victims.

In 2026 certain people in the US are still trying to make child marriage legal & protecting everyone involved in the biggest child sex trafficking ring in US history.

[Mr PitBull Stories @MrPitbull07]

In 1965, a 17-year-old girl in Sicily was kidnapped, assaulted, and held captive for over a week.

Then her attacker offered her a deal:

Marry him, and everything would be “forgiven.”

At the time, Italian law allowed rapists to avoid punishment if they married their victims.

It was called “reparatory marriage.”

The logic was horrifying:

A woman’s “honor” mattered more than her consent.

If she married the man who violated her, her reputation could supposedly be restored — and the rapist could walk free.

Most women had no real choice.

Families pressured them.
Communities expected obedience.
The law itself encouraged silence.

But Franca Viola said no.

At 17 years old, traumatized and publicly shamed, she refused to marry the man who assaulted her.

That single word changed Italy forever.

Her decision sparked outrage in her town.

Neighbors turned against her family.
Their vineyards and olive groves were burned in retaliation.

But Franca’s father stood beside her and supported her decision to press charges.

In 1966, Franca testified publicly against her attacker in court.

At a time when most victims were expected to stay silent forever, she spoke openly in front of the entire country.

Italy watched in shock.

Her attacker, Filippo Melodia, was convicted and sentenced to prison.

For the first time in Italian history, a woman had publicly rejected “reparatory marriage” and won.

The case became international news.

But the law itself still remained.

For another 15 years, rapists in Italy could technically still escape punishment by marrying their victims.

Then finally, in 1981, Italy abolished the law completely.

And many activists pointed to Franca Viola as the moment the country first began confronting the cruelty of that system.

Years later, Franca married a childhood friend who had stood beside her through everything.

Not because she needed her “honor restored.”

But because she deserved love, dignity, and a life defined by her own choices.

That’s why her story still matters.

Franca Viola wasn’t just resisting one man.

She was resisting an entire culture that treated women’s suffering as something to hide rather than something to fight.

At 17 years old, she stood against her attacker, her community, and even the law itself.

And eventually, the law changed.

Sometimes history moves because powerful people decide to act.

And sometimes history moves because one terrified teenager quietly refuses to surrender.

[Longswordwife @Longswordwife]

Christianity is so funny bc any religion that takes itself seriously would find it insulting to put the Word of God on a piece of cardboard meant to be covered in slop and thrown in the trash

[𝕂ҼⅰԵⅰ™ @DontBotherKeiti]

I find it weird he used his pool guy because as I recall his pool at Mar•A•Lago overflowed into his security room and flooded all his security footage when he was being investigated for stealing top secret documents, hiding them/moving them after the FBI was looking for them.

[D.Radka, #NAFO 🇨🇿🤝🇺🇦 @DakdaR22]

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[The Subtext @TrueSubtext]

@RepLuna You know there’s video, right?

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@FBIDirectorKash Bonus points if your family hands you to us when I can’t find my little fbi jacket

[scary lawyerguy @scarylawyerguy]

Instead of just asking "is Pulte qualified to be DNI?" Can I suggest reporters just READ THE FUCKING STATUTE TO REPUBLICANS, WHICH EXPLICITLY REQUIRES (SHALL, NOT MAY!) THE PERSON TO HAVE "EXTENSIVE NATIONAL SECURITY EXPERTISE."

[Devin Duke @sirDukeDevin]

MAGA: "Liberals who keep calling us Nazis are inciting all of this violence against Trump!"

Also MAGA:

[TPBlue 🇺🇸🦅 @TPBlue4]

This is what MAGAs call “voter fraud.”

MAGAs don’t do decimals.

[Luthen’s Reality 🟢 @RealLuthen]

This is exactly why billionaires can’t exist. This man is burning the entire world down because he cannot accept his daughter for who she is. And he has the money to actually do it. No one can have that power.

[Jesus Freakin Congress @TheJFreakinC]

🚨BREAKING: In Columbus, Ohio, ICE agents hit a U.S. citizen’s vehicle, and then admitted, on camera, that they “do this all the time”… before driving away.

A 17-year-old U.S. citizen was reportedly on his way to church, when multiple officials surrounded his car, backed into his front bumper, and jumped out of their vehicles.

When he rolled down his window, they told him…

“We got the wrong person.”

And walked back toward their cars.

The 17-year-old got out to document what happened, and told an officer they had hit his vehicle…

And the response was:

“You can take a picture if you want. We do this all the time. You’re okay.”

And then they drove off.

The Fourth Amendment protects you from unreasonable searches and seizures. And courts have made clear that a “seizure” isn’t just being arrested, or put in handcuffs.

It also includes situations where law enforcement use their authority in a way that blocks your freedom to leave… or creates an intimidating, forced encounter.

So, when officers surround a car, hit it while backing up, and pull a teenager into a sudden law enforcement interaction, with no valid reason…

At minimum, it’s a reckless stop. At worst, it’s an unlawful seizure, with property damage, and no accountability.

And then there’s the part when she casually said…

“We do this all the time.”

Because that turns an “oops” moment into a pattern.

And when that pattern violates your constitutional rights and due process, it starts to feel a lot like the government is using the Constitution like they use the Bible…

Quoted when it’s useful, ignored when it isn’t.

[The Subtext @TrueSubtext]

It’s already begun

[LongTime🤓FirstTime👨‍💻 @LongTimeHistory]

ICE illegally patrol polling place on election day—with 2 vehicles full of masked agents.

"One of them was outside of their vehicle for at least 30 minutes," said witness.

"You cannot intimidate voters!"

It’s not legal for federal government to have armed officials at voting locations.

Someone inside the vote center called the local park rangers who said they would "deal with it."

The Simi Valley Police Department stated that they were not notified that ICE would be present in the city on Election Day.

Incident occurred at the Rancho Simi Recreation and Park District Activity Center in Ventura County, California.

[Mike Young @micyoung75]

California voters banned gestation crates in 2018. Sixty-three percent. Massachusetts did it in 2016. Seventy-eight percent. The pork industry sued both times and lost all the way to the Supreme Court.

So they did what you do when democracy keeps saying no. They added a provision to the House farm bill to nullify both state laws and preempt any future state effort to do the same thing. One industry. One provision. Millions of votes erased.

The largest pork producer in America is Smithfield. Smithfield is owned by a Chinese company. Congress just passed a House farm bill that overrides the will of American voters in order to protect a Chinese corporation's right to confine pregnant pigs in cages too small to turn around for their entire lives.

This is not a close call on the merits. Eighty-four percent of Americans in polling called that practice unacceptable. Tomi Lahren called the Save Our Bacon provision unprintable things. Mike Cernovich called it demonic. When an industry loses the argument with 84 percent of the public, loses in court, loses at the ballot box twice, and still wins in Congress... that is not democracy. That is a purchasing decision.

The Senate still has a vote. The conference committee still has a choice. The question is whether Congress works for the American electorate or for the National Pork Producers Council and the Chinese company that owns Smithfield.

[The Subtext @TrueSubtext]

@AllisonRFloyd That HAS to mean you can claim a castle though, right? If your distant family has to be a circle you should at least get a castle out of it.

[Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @NotHoodlum]

May the odds be ever in your favor.

Adults on Medicaid will be required to work 80 hours per month. The Trump administration says people who are sick will have to prove they are too sick to work to be exempt from the new work rules.
https://t.co/lcoumaFJkB

[The Subtext @TrueSubtext]

@soupcanarchist @AllisonRFloyd @endofanerajc