BREAKING🚨 The woman who accused Harvey Weinstein of r*ping her just walked away from the case — not because it wasn't true, but because the system broke her before it broke him.
Her name is Jessica Mann. She has spent EIGHT YEARS testifying against Weinstein. Two grand juries. Three trials. She told the same painful story over and over, sat through cross-examination about the most traumatic thing that ever happened to her, and never once wavered.
This week, she said she couldn't do it a fourth time. And honestly, who could?
Read what she wrote to the court: "The court gave so many privileges to Harvey Weinstein that it makes accountability nearly impossible. I have not had power or position in any of this. I have not had great wealth, nor have I had my own long-term legal representation."
And then this, which should stop you cold: she said pursuing justice "is better left a pipe dream."
Let that sink in. Not "I made it up." Not "it didn't happen." A woman who told the truth, consistently, for eight years, finally concluded that the system is so stacked toward a rich and powerful man that justice was never actually on the table for someone like her.
To be clear about what this is and isn't: Weinstein is still in prison. He's still convicted of sexually assaulting another woman in New York, and of rape in California. Prosecutors said plainly they believe Mann. They called her brave. This isn't him being cleared. It's him being protected by exhaustion — by a process designed so that a billionaire with endless lawyers can outlast a survivor until she simply can't stand up again.
That's the quiet way powerful men win. Not innocence. Attrition.
Ceire Ní Ghribín, the nurse who went viral after saying, "I was a nurse in Gaza. I volunteered in Gaza. I’ve seen what happens. There is a genocide. Free Palestine" has posted proof as people had been calling her a liar.
The heroine is a registered nurse and a midwife.
Jake Bennett was nails again for six and a third, leadoff bomb for Masa, first big league bomb for Siegler, 2-run double for WC40, another save for 44, Red Sox beat Gerrit Cole again and clinch the series! #GoldBottles
Sophie on her viral pointing meme:
She asked why only CC got a tech and not DB… who didn’t like being pointed. Sophie said “oh you shouldn’t have said that” & continued to silently point at her.
“I think it’s dumb. But it was pissing her off, and I couldn’t help myself”
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Sophie Cunningham on Caitlin Clark being assaulted on the basketball court:
"None of us saw that happen in real time, but if we did we would have had her back. They're definitely targeting her and the league and the refs do nothing to protect her."
Police brutally arrest church going grandma—for helping the homeless.
6 officers surround her car—break window & drag her out for no reason.
Despite visible injuries—she's left handcuffed for hours with no medical attention.
Injuries include—cervical contusion, sprained knee, right shoulder injury, 2 sprained wrists, and multiple bruises & scratches.
She told officers she had a previous injury in her right shoulder and had limited range of motion—they responded by grabbing this shoulder and twisting it further.
Kim Edmond & Magdalene DuPree had just finished dropping off supplies at Virgil’s Village—a private property homeless camp.
Police later claimed that they needed to search her car for "drug paraphernalia"—after she allegedly stopped car with its front tires past the white line at an intersection.
Incident occurred in Polk County, Florida.
They do not have an account on this platform—so posting credited video here first to help raise awareness.
My neighbor's kid just quit the high school swim team after three years of being the slowest in every event. Kid was devastated. Thought he just didn't have it.
His dad, who swam competitively back in the day, couldn't figure it out. The kid had decent form, He trained hard. But his times were consistently 15-20% slower than kids with half his work ethic.
Out of frustration, the dad took him to a sports medicine clinic to get evaluated. Maybe asthma, Maybe something structural.
Doctor runs him through some tests. Watches him swim, Pulls the dad aside after and says: "Your son's goggles are filled with water, He's basically swimming blind and has been compensating by lifting his head every third stroke to see where he's going. It's adding massive drag."
Turns out the goggles were cheap ones from a big-box store. Seal was shot, Had been for over a year. Kid just thought that's how goggles worked, that everyone swam with water sloshing around their eyes.
They bought him a proper pair. First practice back, he dropped 18 seconds off his freestyle time.
Eighteen seconds, Because of a $12 piece of equipment nobody thought to replace.
Coach moved him up two lanes within a month.
The lesson stuck with me, How many people are out there right now grinding themselves into the dirt, convinced they're just not good enough, when really they're just working with broken tools and nobody's bothered to check?
Sometimes the problem isn't you.
“A nuestros hermanos, nuestras hermanas de Venezuela. Todos los latinos en el mundo estamos en sintonía con ustedes. Les enviamos mucha fuerza, ustedes son un país muy fuerte.”
- Bad Bunny le dedica palabras a Venezuela en medio de su concierto en Londres.