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Prominent athlete tells Alan Jones trial he sent shirtless photo before unwanted kiss he wished 'never happened' https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/sep/17/alan-jones-trial-athlete-sent-shirtless-photo-before-unwanted-kiss-ntwnfb #News #Australia #Assault

A Federal Judge in Washington has temporarily halted an order requiring trump to hand over financial records about his businesses to the BBC, as the broadcaster defends an ongoing defamation lawsuit over its documentary about his January 6, 2021, speech. The pause is temporary, however, and does not resolve the central dispute over whether the BBC's documentary amounted to defamation or whether trump's businesses suffered legally recognisable harm. https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/judge-halts-trump-financial-records-bbc-defamation-case-1813088 #trump #January6th #Assault #BBC #Documentary #FreePress

Justice in Texas:⚡"In Texas, a Border Patrol agent was just INDICTED by a local grand jury for aggravated assault for running down a migrant with his car on January 31, 2025. Video from a homeowner showed🚨the agent driving straight into a man who was calmly walking on the side of the road." -A Reichlin-Melnick #DHS #CBP #StateViolence #Assault #Accountability #Immigrants #Law #Rights #Texas #RacialProfiling #Racism #USPol

I see this headline as part of the problem. How different would it be as ‘Four women killed by men in four days’ or ‘Four women killed by male partners or former partners in four days’ or ‘Four women killed in four days by men who wished to control them’ or ‘Four women killed in four days by men who felt entitled to treat them as objects’ or ‘Four women killed in four days by men who felt entitled to treat them as chattels’. Imagine if men’s violence was always reported like this. Statements that don’t attribute agency can be read as ‘she got herself raped/assaulted/killed’, implying that the woman or girl was in some way at fault. They’re another way of saying ‘look what she made him do’. This default reading runs very deep in our culture & every framing as ‘women dead’, ‘women assaulted’ or ‘woman raped’ supports it. Imagine if we spoke in ways at attribute agency unambiguously to the men who did these things. Imagine. #violence #misogyny #assault #murder #reporting #agency #Australia #imagine