Learned about something called a "glimmer" recently. It's the opposite of a trigger. A tiny moment that makes you feel good. Coffee hitting right. Sun on your face. Your dog losing its mind when you walk in the door. Most of us are trained to scan for threats all day. Flip that. Start scanning for glimmers. Same exact life starts feeling completely different.
I rarely post anything even close to political, but this has been on my heart.
It honestly boggles my mind that with everything coming out around the Epstein situation, this has not become the global bombshell it should be. If you step outside of X for even a moment, you barely see it being discussed anywhere. Not on Instagram. Not on Facebook. Not on mainstream media. Not even on most podcasts. A few are willing to talk, but the majority seem to avoid it completely.
We are talking about serious allegations of rape, pedophilia, cannibalism, exploitation, and darkness at a level that should shake humanity to its core. And yet it feels like people have just moved on. The news cycle shifts to celebrities, sports, or whatever the next distraction is, and something this serious just fades into the background.
It breaks my heart because if anything even remotely similar surfaced in another country involving powerful leaders or high profile people, there would be global outrage. There would be nonstop coverage. The US and the UN would likely be involved immediately. There would be talks of intervention or even invasion to put a stop to it. The reality is that countries have been invaded for far less serious things than what is being discussed here. Yet when it is happening here, there is silence.
I am not making a political statement. This is a moral and human one. If we claim to believe in truth, justice, and God, then standing up for what is right should not depend on convenience or headlines.
Even if the truth is uncomfortable. Even if it implicates powerful people. Even if it shakes systems. Truth is still truth.
And I will say this clearly. Any politician, media outlet, podcast, or public figure who refuses to even acknowledge or speak about issues of this magnitude does not deserve blind loyalty or attention. Silence in the face of serious wrongdoing is not neutrality. It is complicity.
This is bigger than politics. This is about what we as a society are willing to tolerate and what we are willing to ignore.
Just something on my heart today.
So there we have it. Reform UK want to repeal the Equality Act.
This is the law that:
Stops your boss sacking you for being pregnant.
Protects disabled workers who need adjustments to do their job.
Backs up equal pay for women.
Stops people from being harassed at work because they’re LGBT+.
Makes it illegal to refuse someone a job or a service because of their race or religion.
And THIS is what they’ve decided is the problem in Britain?
Not the cost of living.
Not NHS waits.
Not wages. (They said they’d actually them CUT for young people)
But YOUR rights.
THEIR culture wars would TEAR UP protections that millions of hardworking Brits rely on every day.
NO THANKS ❌
@foodforcat we also don’t know that he didn’t cheat though, they’ve said alcohol caused problems and led to destructive behaviour, so they’ve not confirmed either way whether he cheated or not
#LooseWomen Starmer changed the law so that victims had to be believed He prosecuted more abusers than anyone else ever. Please get the facts before spouting nonsense. The prev inquiry cost £188m not £88m and the Tories ignored ALL the recommendations. Also victims were involved
364 MPs voted against holding another 10 year inquiry, into something that already had an inquiry into it, which released its results 4 years ago and was completely ignored, by the people who are currently calling for another inquiry.
Survivors of the Telford abuse scandal have criticised Elon Musk’s attack on Jess Phillips, stating she has “devoted her life to fighting for women and girls.”
In a letter shared with the Guardian the seven women, including three survivors of the Telford sexual abuse scandal, came to the Labour MP’s defence and said that there was “no one in public life who has done more to support victims and survivors and to advocate for their interests”.
The other four signatories – Julie Devey, Carole Gould, Emma Ambler and Nour Norris – have lost a female relative to gender-based violence or have suffered domestic abuse.
In their response to Musk, coordinated by the campaign group @KilledWomennw, the women said that those who “weaponise our pain for their own ends or political gain” should “hang their heads in shame”.
“We write as victims of extreme male violence,” the letter said. “What connects us all beyond our shared trauma is the support and kindness we have received from Jess Phillips over many years, personally and as activists fighting for change.
“We know there are those who would weaponise our pain for their own ends or political gain; who speak out with new-found interest, not to tackle the horrendous crimes that stole so much from us, but to further their own agenda. They should hang their heads in shame.
“As campaigners and activists, we fight every day to stop what happened to us or our loved ones happening to anyone else. We stand by Jess, knowing she has devoted her life to fighting for women and girls.”
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I was teaching a class 'How to love your neighbour who is sad'. To illustrate 'secret sadnesses', I shared that our dog has just died, and started to well up a bit. One girl came up to me afterwards, looked me in the eye and gave me a piece of paper. "This is for you," she said.