Heitkamp Apologizes for Outing, Misidentifying Sexual Violence Victims
Tom Williams/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Sen. Heidi Heitkamp (D-N.D.), who is locked in a heated reelection race with Republican Rep. Kevin Cramer, ran a campaign ad in several North Dakota newspapers Sunday that listed the names of numerous women that the ad described as survivors of domestic violence,…
The Attorney Spearheading the “Shitty Media Men” Lawsuit Is a Top Defender of Accused Campus Rapists
Mother Jones illustration; Mbsydor/Wikimedia Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. In the first days of the #MeToo movement in October 2017, journalist Moira Donegan opened a Google spreadsheet, titled it “Shitty Media Men,” and shared it with female friends and colleagues, asking them to add the names rumored or alleged sexual abusers or harassers—and…
Susan Collins Finds the “One Silver Lining” of the Kavanaugh Debacle
Pablo Martinez Monsivais/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. After casting one of two decisive votes to confirm Brett Kavanaugh to a lifetime appointment on the nation’s highest court, Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) said on Sunday that she hopes more women will now be inspired to press sexual assault charges against…
Kellyanne Conway Just Claimed the Media Wants “Every Woman to Be a Victim”
Patsy Lynch/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Presidential adviser Kellyanne Conway claimed this morning “many people,” including journalists and senators, “want” women to be victims of sexual violence. “They want every woman to be a victim, every woman to lock arms with every other woman; every man is a perpetrator,” she…
This Pro-Kavanaugh Ad Says Moms Should Be Afraid of #MeToo Coming for Their Sons
Manuel Balce Ceneta/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Two days before the Senate voted to confirm Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court, a new “Moms for Kavanaugh” video warned that the allegations of sexual assault against him foreshadowed a dangerous new era—for men and boys. “We are mothers,” the ad…
Susan Collins Says She Believes Blasey Ford Was Assaulted—But Not by Kavanaugh
Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine)Alex Edelman/Zuma Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Appearing on CNN this morning Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) said that she believes that Christine Blasey Ford was sexually assaulted—just not by Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh. “I do not believe that Brett Kavanaugh was her assailant. I do believe…