Norma Buster

cubana / sex-positive victims rights advocate. chief of staff @cagoldberglaw. listen to my pod #OralArguments + sub to my OF. opinions=mine

[Norma Buster @normabuster]

It’s my birthday 🎂 and I have an announcement!!! 🥳

I launched my OF! 🍾🎊

This has been something I’ve been considering + talking w/ my therapist (lol) for a long time now. As a public survivor of image based sex abuse for a while I felt this was “off limits” for me 🧵 1/6

[Carrie Goldberg @cagoldberglaw]

Thursday 11am Brooklyn

[Norma Buster @normabuster]

Reminder that no matter how much we don’t like someone, this is image-based sexual abuse

[lindsey @RealityLindsey]

After seeing West’s nudes- I’m mad the summer house girls are fighting over that little thing. Ciara get up sister you can do better

[Norma Buster @normabuster]

@pilgrim2where Anyone can be blackmailed. We all have things we keep secret or private. The problem would be if she is revealing confidential information to this person, which would be an issue regardless of nature of the relationship

[Norma Buster @normabuster]

Hot take?: being a sugar baby (or any other SW) shouldn’t disqualify you from holding a government position…

[Louise Bagshawe @LouiseMensch]

This is incredible. The Trump administration hired an alleged “sugar baby”, imo just a hooker, as a senior counterterrorism official.
After Noem and her ‘husband’ and lover is Trump’s admin full of perverts? WHERE IS THE VETTING?

[Carrie Goldberg @cagoldberglaw]

My article in USAToday about Epstein using Tinder and Hinge to meet women and cozying up to Barry Diller. No surprise they let Dr. Stephen Matthews use their rape apps for his spree of drugging and assaulting women throughout Denver.

https://t.co/CejsIUGydZ

[Michael J Bustamante, Ph.D. @MJ_Busta]

My personal politics put me close to progressive Democrats on most issues. I am a long critic—or at least skeptic—of US sanctions on Cuba, including most recent measures that exact collective punishment.

But this statement is extremely disappointing in its reductionism.

[Andrés Pertierra @ASPertierra]

For perspective on Sandro Castro's purchase of a $50,000 nightclub, most Cubans live on salaries that go from $15 a month to maybe $40-50, and all of that goes to immediate needs.

Taking all their income and consuming none of it, it'd take 277 years at $15 a month and 87 at $50

[Ricardo Herrero @ric23]

Vietnam liberalized prices, decollectivized agriculture & reformed its banking system all before 1995. All before the U.S. lifted its embargo. The embargo wasn't a precondition to launching Doi Moi. Nothing is stopping Cuba from adopting transformative macro reforms other than a lack of political will.

[Norma Buster @normabuster]

Chief of Staff at a victims rights law firm and OnlyFans creator over here. It IS fab. 💁🏻‍♀️

[alex @cujadf]

I love it when people have a really intense job like lawyer, investment banker, et al. But then they’re insane online, or do onlyfans, or like have a drinking problem. I think it’s fab

[Andrés Pertierra @ASPertierra]

My main problem with this line of argument, which I've grown up hearing for decades, is that activists are not only quite selective about what they talk about but *also* actively diminish valid criticisms, white wash problems, or claim things even Cubans don't privately argue

[Norma Buster @normabuster]

Hasan traveled to Cuba to be a puppet of the dictatorship. Literally using his platform to spread misinformation on lives.

It's disgusting and anyone who supports the regime doesn't give a fuck about human rights.

[Taylor Lorenz @TaylorLorenz]

They're livid that independent media figures like Hasan traveled to Cuba to report directly on what's happening and expose the amount of blatant propaganda in the US media ecosystem. This is why independent media/journalism that challenges MSM narratives is so crucial

[Norma Buster @normabuster]

@sab_magic @xo__sophia Both Batista and Castro were bad. My great uncle was with Castro getting ready to fight for the revolution until he was ordered to kill young innocent people from his village. That’s when he and my grandparents on that side fled. They needed a revolution but not the one they got

[Benito hasn't denounced the genocide 🇵🇷 @midnucas]

A foreigner who will leave after a few days romanticizing the experience of a prolonged general blackout, as millions of residents' lives are reduced to a neverending struggle to keep going just one more day, really does make me see red. That and the fucking word "resilience"

[Ben @BenHanan_]

Did CodePinks humanitarian festival cause a blackout in Havana, Cuba?

[Yoani Sánchez @yoanisanchez]

Ante los micrófonos rechazan "la política de asfixia" contra la Isla y, sin embargo, abrazan a quienes nos amordazan, se toman fotos con quienes nos reprimen y sonríen junto a los que destruyen nuestra nación, haciendo emigrar a nuestros hijos y ahogando nuestra esperanza.

[Andrés Pertierra @ASPertierra]

'I spent a week in your country on a guided tour and now have expertise' syndrome is undefeated across time and space

One of humanity's most ancient traditions, it will last until our end as a species

[Norma Buster @normabuster]

And the doctors they send earn a tiny fraction of what the Cuban gov gets.

[Katie Halper @kthalps]

“Cuba invades countries with doctors and love” - #ConvoyNuestraAmérica speaker

[Norma Buster @normabuster]

It's a slap in the face to the Cuban people to say it's a "problem" to separate support for the people vs the state. It's disgusting to see people consistently promote political views & ideology over listening to the human beings suffering at the hands of both governments

[Stu Smith @thestustustudio]

🚨 At CUNY’s Cuba Conference, DSA's Danny Valdes Says Cuba Dictatorship Question Is “Completely Irrelevant,” Mullin Says Activists Must “Defend the Cuban Revolution”

Before Corinna Mullin jumped in, DSA organizer Danny Valdes dismissed the question of whether Cuba is a dictatorship as “completely irrelevant” to what is happening on the island.

That line is revealing on its own. In a room full of activists eager to defend Cuba, even raising the nature of the regime itself was treated as beside the point.

Then Mullin took it a step further, arguing that it is “a problem for us to separate out our support for the people versus the state,” praising the Cuban Revolution for having “expropriated the wealth of the expropriators,” and insisting that “we must in our messaging defend the Cuban revolution.”

Valdes did not resist the escalation. He nodded along as Mullin argued that activists should openly defend the revolution itself.

[Andrés Pertierra @ASPertierra]

I fully agree the embargo is both bad, primarily impacts everyday civilians, and that Trump's oil blockade at present is killing people (again, mostly civilians). Have advocated its end for decades.

It's also just flatly not true Cuba's system works well

[Norma Buster @normabuster]

Slavery was abolished in Cuba in 1886. Castro wasn’t even born for another 40 years. WHAT are people talking about

[twerk 4 kirk @bigsnugga]

at the height of the batista regime over half of the farmland in cuba was owned by americans. many slaveowners took their operations down there after the civil war. castro kicked them all out. cuba was a giant epstein island, they want "their" land back