The U.S. State Department is scaling back on what it considers human rights abuses in its annual reports that critique international civil practices. Read more from @npr
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https://www.yahoo.com/news/judge-considering-blocking-trumps-order-193200625.html

#CW: talk of abuse, control, and food.

This morning at breakfast my partner apologized for leaving the heel* of the bread loaf for me, and I was reminded of how much my ex used to control my eating.

*there was another loaf thawing, so I could have easily eaten that instead of the heel.

I used to get a "talking-to" for:
- eating the last of anything my ex might want.
- not eating the last of anything my ex didn't want.
- asking for things I wanted (like Swiss cheese**).
- cooking something for myself that they liked.
- cooking something for myself they didn't like.
- not cooking things just the way they liked.
- eating "too much".
- being "too thin".

**earlier in my relationship with my current partner, while we were at the grocery store, they asked if there was any cheese I wanted. I said "I like Swiss" as I broke down crying, following up with "but I'm not really allowed to get it".

My current partner is amazing, and my ex is my ex for a lot of good reasons, and I'm happy-sad crying a bit this morning, and I just want anyone who this list resonates with to know they aren't alone—that's abuse, plain and simple—and you can get out too.

Here's some info on coercive control (just ignore the ad for BetterHelp, because fuck them):

https://psychcentral.com/health/coercive-control

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A thought for this Holy Week.

Crucifixion was not about execution; not really. There are much easier ways to accomplish that. It isn't even about torture, though it was torturous.

Crucifixion is a means of shaming someone into oblivion. It is an extreme form of bullying: one in which the Roman goons assert dominance by publicly degrading their victim to death.

There are several clues in the gospel stories that the shame of crucifixion was far worse than we imagine.

I say this not to dwell on suffering. But if you have suffered shame and degradation; if you have been disposed of and mocked and your reputation destroyed; you are in the best of company. They did this to Jesus. And the shaming of this righteous man is turned right back on his bullies in the crucifixion. The mirror Jesus holds up to our lives, that we might see ourselves more truly, now casts that shame back on them.

God is the bullied one, and the one who stands against all bullies. He endures even this for our sake; and in the end, his Father raises him from the grave to new life. He is vindicated. And in him, so are you.

The secret state - enabled by Westminster, blue and a red blue tinge

https://www.theregister.com/2025/04/14/opinion_secret_state_security/?td=rt-3a

As this case will rest on two impossible things, 1) that any backdoor can be kept secret and 2) that state cybersecurity guarding it will be perfect, sinking our teeth into that nugget of truth will be tasty.

Which is good. Secret courts have no place in a democracy.

Processing #narcissisticAbuse requires you to upheave your entire world. It requires you to recontextualize the entire relationship you had with the person who abused you. It requires looking at things again and realizing that this situation was in fact abusive. That making you feel confusion, hurt, sadness, and especially fear, were not a mistake but the intention.

You need to do all that while grieving the loss of the person you thought you loved. They were never real. And I really mean never. They were a fabrication created by a predator that exploited your psychological weaknesses to devour you like a lion.

This will sound crass to some of you. Many will think I'm exaggerating. But those of you who survived narcissistic abuse know: what I wrote doesn't even come close to capturing the horror of realizing that the person you loved never loved you back but instead only sought to dominate and exploit you as a source of narcissistic supply.

Hey look what a bunch of cishet White People got up to......

https://news.sky.com/story/how-did-one-of-britains-most-shocking-paedophile-rings-get-away-with-it-for-so-long-13344456

"This is the United States #government, at the highest levels, reveling in its #abuse of #immigrants, flexing its willingness to dispense #humiliation and apply #violence, and sending a clear message it will defy our country’s #laws and #judges when it pleases." https://www.liberalcurrents.com/kristi-noem-made-a-lynching-postcard/

This Is What a Digital Coup Looks Like | Carole Cadwalladr | TED
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZOoT8AbkNE

Hedgehog (2018) [4 min] by Vaibhav Keswani, Jeanne Laureau, Colombine Majou, Morgane Mattard, Kaisa Pirttinen and Jong-ha Yoon | #France

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6enc2cfZFl4

another comic strip based on vaguely realistic situations that might not communicate what i mean it to

You have the right to consent to a conversation.

I learned this with my abuser, who didn't think I had this right. I also didn't think I had this right, part of my childhood conditioning, but once I realized I did and started to assert boundaries, I quickly learned that he didn't think I had this right. He accused me of all kinds of things (like abuse, manipulation, avoidance, punishment) when I said things like, "I don't want to talk about this right now. We can discuss it tomorrow when I'm feeling better." I was drinking his kool-aid, so he did manage to pull me back in many times, until I fully absorbed that I DO in fact have the right to withdraw my consent to talk.

You can consent to touch. You can consent to sex. You can consent to being in the presence of someone. You can consent to talk to someone. Anything else is coercion.

If someone does not like you withdrawing consent (for anything), and this is a dealbreaker for them, then the responsible thing for them is to make decisions about their own damn self. Maybe they need more sex, or more talk, or whatever than you can consistently give them. The mature thing is for them to accept the situation and decide their own boundaries. Maybe even, "I need someone who wants the same things I do, so I will find a different relationship." No fuss, no drama.

It's also ok to discuss this with them, not as a threat or as a way to change their behavior, but in order to negotiate the needs of both in the relationship.

That isn't manipulation, so long as you're not trying to *control* someone's behavior... that's just you accepting someone as they are and withdrawing your own consent or setting more distant boundaries of your own.

Ultimately it comes down to: Are you trying to make someone do something or be a way they don't want to be? Or are you accepting themself as they are and making your own choices for your own life?

I am a struggling person looking to form (or find) a serious crisis network with others focused on dealing with serious life struggles for the outcasted and discriminated of us.

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