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Pierce @pierceah66.bsky.social

With how many sources exist for this article & the fact the one relationship was evidently a concern for YEARS, it becomes a fair question to ask how many people sat on these ethical violations for continued access.

aug 29, 2025, 4:31 pm • 10 2

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Call me Trixie @trixienorton.bsky.social

Our reporting class just does not care about sexual abuse, and you can't force them to care. They always take the side of the abusers. It's pathological.

aug 29, 2025, 5:33 pm • 0 0 • view
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Pierce @pierceah66.bsky.social

This is about consensual affairs with military lobbyists while voting as a member of the Armed Services Committee, not about her history as an abuse survivor, any work relating to abuse, or her opposition of the 2019 renewal of the Violence Against Women Act prior to Dems reauthorizing it in 2022.

aug 29, 2025, 5:38 pm • 1 0 • view
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Call me Trixie @trixienorton.bsky.social

Her relationships as outlined in the article were inappropriate romantic relationships that she knew perfectly well were inappropriate. And as you said, many people knew and kept her sex antics quiet for access.

aug 29, 2025, 5:43 pm • 0 0 • view
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Pierce @pierceah66.bsky.social

Inappropriate does not automatically mean abuse. There is nothing in the reporting suggesting she did not have agency nor that the lobbyists did not have agency nor that either was abusing the other. She is a survivor of sexual abuse. Calling her inappropriate relationships abuse is inaccurate.

aug 29, 2025, 5:52 pm • 1 0 • view
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Pierce @pierceah66.bsky.social

She is not accused of sexual abuse. She is a survivor of sexual assault & harassment. The sexual misconduct here is not rape the president has been found liable for in civil court nor the behavior of say Franken & Cuomo, or Gov Newsom back when he was a mayor & had an affair with his scheduler.

aug 29, 2025, 5:52 pm • 1 0 • view
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Call me Trixie @trixienorton.bsky.social

I thank you for clarification. I hope I was not accusing her of rape. I was thinking inappropriate workplace sex and of her having more power in the relationship, Clintonesque. I do really appreciate you telling me about her background.

aug 29, 2025, 6:27 pm • 1 0 • view