Her name is Gina Martin. She was at a music festival in London when a man pushed his phone between her legs and took a photo under her skirt. She reported it to the police immediately. They told her it wasn't a criminal offence. There was nothing they could do.
She went home and decided that was unacceptable. With no legal background, no political connections and no funding she launched a campaign to make upskirting a criminal offence in England and Wales. She petitioned. She lobbied MPs. She spoke publicly about what had happened to her. The government initially blocked the bill.
She kept going. The Voyeurism Act passed in January 2019. Upskirting now carries up to two years in prison. Scotland followed. Other countries are following. A woman at a festival with no lawyer, no funding and no political connections rewrote the law for an entire nation in eighteen months.
Lindsey Graham died Friday & his sister has already been sworn in. Remember when Mike Johnson refused to seat Adelita Grijalva for 50 days after she was elected? That is what we are fighting for in the midterms, a return to democracy & fairness and to remove fascist Republicans.
Today the President of the United States officially paid a woman $5 million for sexually assaulting her. What an absolute disgrace this Nation has become under this administration.
ICE has shot and killed yet another man, this time a 26-year-old Colombian in Maine who was not the target of their investigation.
This comes after they killed a Mexican man, who was also not the target of their operation, in Houston last week.
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No one in a million years expected Madonna to still be selling records like it’s 2005. Sure, the album was heavily promoted prior, but selling over 130K copies in the first week as an artist who’s been in the game for more than 40 years? That’s an absolutely iconic achievement. This is such a gag
Stuff like this is exactly why animation should be respected as a medium, because the animators are doing just as much work as the voice actors, probably even more, to actually bring these characters to life. The Rock IS Maui, but the reason animated Maui had so much energy, personality, and expression wasn't just because of his voice performance, it was also because an entire team of animators took that performance and pushed every facial expression, movement, and gesture to its fullest potential. Take all of that away and suddenly you're left with Dwayne Johnson in a terrible wig trying to recreate a character whose appeal was never solely dependent on him in the first place.
I ran to the bathroom like legit ran, and recorded this walking back to my seat. I think it’s indeed one of my best videos from the Eternal Sunshine Tour 😅 @TeamAriana
It’s 250 years of freedom for white men only.
It’s 106 years of voting freedom for white women.
It’s 72 years of voting freedom for Asian immigrants.
It’s 61 years of voting freedom for Black people.
It’s 51 years of voting rights for Native Peoples, but we all know that’s a farce when their lands were stripped from them and their ways of life were classified illegal.
It’s 10 years of marriage freedom for queer couples.
It’s 0 years of voting freedom for Puerto Ricans.
Let me be VERY clear for those of you in the back. If bringing down the largest child sex trafficking ring in our known history will "collapse the government as we know it," then the government as we know it needs to collapse.
You get married in an arena & shut down half a city on a holiday weekend. You have a Zionist freak marry you. You invite abusers, MAGA’s, the fella who runs the ICE detention centre, a bunch of zios & you walk down the aisle to your own songs.
You could never make me like her!
i once heard someone say “if there are 12 Nazis in a room and they ask you to have dinner with them and you agree, then there are 13 Nazis in that room” and i think a lot of people fundamentally don’t understand that. but it’s 100% true.