And we can probably cue the Christian nationalist pastors taking to the airwaves to justify sexual violation of children as biblical. I haven’t gone looking for it this morning, but I’d put money that the usual suspects are talking about child marriage being Godly right about now…

Which brings me to ask: how long until red states begin passing legislation to retroactively lower the statutory age of consent to 13 or 14 to absolve Epstein and his very important President of the United States associates of their criminal behavior? 3/

This leads us back to that tired bullshit line that the problem for the Church is not pedophilia but homosexuality. It also sets us up to take rewalk the path of denying victims restitution on the grounds that they have not, in fact, been harmed. Rather, they were small adults just asking for it. 2/

We discussed whether the emails would matter (in terms of there being repercussions for Trump). Consensus: no.

I want to frame this and hang it on my office wall

So grateful to @alexdibranco.bsky.social for having the vision to bring us all together, to all of the IRMS team for making the institute a reality, and for the incredible community that has formed around and through @irms.bsky.social!

That is exactly what it was like, really hope we have the opportunity to do it in person sometime.

*The Trump administration has defied or frustrated the court in more than one third of the 165 cases where the courts have ruled against them.
*Since April, SCOTUS has granted relief to Trump in all 15 of the emergency applications, writing a decision to explain its reasoning only three times.