Emeritus Prof UC San Francisco.

Hawaii, USA
Joined September 2011
Yes, Coercive Control Violence Prevention is now part of Hawaii state law. #reptarnas and I credit our role models in Scotland who guided our work through the years. @gordonmccreadie @MAVscotland @DirectorVRU @willlinden #DomesticAbuse #DomesticViolence #coercivecontrol
Hawaii introduces new domestic abuse legislation: inspired by steps taken in Scotland. Professor @BarbaraGerbert & Representative @reptarnas put “coercive control” violence prevention into state law. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇺🇸 #Skotia
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Barbara Gerbert retweeted
Not only was @AbdulElSayed Dr El-Sayed valedictorian at UofM, he was also a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford. It is awarded to only around 100 student GLOBALLY each year!! This man is smart!
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Barbara Gerbert retweeted
Justice is coming for Renée Good 💙 The 37-year old mother did not deserve to be gruesomely lynched in front of her partner and dog. The video of the aggravated murder sparked nationwide outrage, with the majority of Americans arguing that deadly force was NOT necessary and that she was simply trying to leave the scene, not kill anyone. After she was shot point blank in the neck and face, Agent Ross can be heard saying, "Fucking bitch." Don't look away. Look at her son. Look at her. And when MAGA tries to say she shouldn't have tried to use "deadly force" against Agent Ross, who stepped in front of car that was driving 0.5mph, pls tell them to kindly go fuck themselves all all their MAGA friends. 7 days...
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Barbara Gerbert retweeted
Ramaswamy gets what he deserves after running a disgusting, vile ad on his opponent, Amy Acton. Both Democrats and Republicans have denounced the ad and venues have dropped his appearances! Amy will mop the floor clean with his dirty ass! 🎉 Vote for Amy Acton! 💙💙🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 #VoteBlue2026 rawstory.com/ramaswamy-suffe…
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Barbara Gerbert retweeted
28 women have accused Donald Trump of sexual assault. It’s pretty clear that Donald Trump is a serial rapist.
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🚨 BREAKING: Travis County judge granted Gina Hinojosa's request to inspect Greg Abbott's unredacted Musk emails. Judge Mauzy set Thursday 10 AM as the DEADLINE for Abbott to let her see them. Abbott tried to keep them hidden, calling them "intimate and embarrassing."
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Barbara Gerbert retweeted
So not only did a Russian Oligarch connected to Putin pay for Don Jr.s wedding party- they went on a Mongolian honeymoon hunting trip together too. I chose a more traditional family values honeymoon in Hawaii with my wife. (08/26/19)
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Barbara Gerbert retweeted
BREAKING: AMEN! Rep. Jamie Raskin says that future historians will say that this "miserable period" really started when MAGA voters chose to ignore all of the women that Trump sexually harassed and abused. Our country went off the cliff after that... "Her mother sided with the rapist stepfather and Vivek Ramaswamy made an ad about it. JD Vance didn't hesitate or flinch in the same news cycle that it comes out," MS NOW's Nicolle Wallace said, setting the stage for the discussion. "He doubles down. He said, run the ad harder, run the ad longer, put more money behind it. Trump said the same. What does it say about the culture around these men?" Ramaswamy's vile ad featured the mother of his Democratic opponent Amy Acton urging voters to reject her daughter at the ballot box. He dumped millions into the ad, despite the fact that Acton's mother previously sided with Acton's stepfather, who raped her. Vivek and Vance's defense of the ad has been disgusting, and proves that these Republican men view women as nothing more than disposable objects. "Well, it's completely contaminated and toxic, and you know, when historians look back on this miserable period of our history, they might say that the first problem was disregarding all of those women who told us back in 2016 that they had been sexually harassed or assaulted by Donald Trump," said Raskin. "But he got elected even after he was adjudicated civilly responsible for sexually penetrating and attacking E. Jean Carroll in a dressing room in a department store in New York City," he continued. "And there are there are reports in the report that we just released, the Democrats on the Judiciary Committee. "There are accounts by specific survivors and victims which very much resemble this, that is at a kind of public event or public place, cornering someone in something like a dressing room or a hotel room and then sexually attacking them," said Raskin. "And that's precisely what Beatrice Keul says in her account of what took place back then." A new report released by Democratic staff on the House Judiciary Committee revealed yesterday that former Miss Switzerland Beatrice Keul alleged that Trump raped her at the Plaza Hotel in New York in 1993. Not only that, but Jeffrey Epstein introduced himself to her as Trump's best friend and offered to arrange for her to travel to Mar-a-Lago. The report states that the two predators used the "Donald J. Trump American Dream Pageant" as a "hunting ground" to prey on young women and girls. The new allegation, as horrifying as it is, is unfortunately unsurprising. We have long known that Trump is an unrepentant rapist in addition to being a pedophile. His voters chose to ignore those facts because they were so excited by his racist rhetoric and cruelty. Now, they're paying the price because (surprise, surprise!), the sociopathic, serial rapist isn't actually interested in improving the lives of average Americans. He's getting richer while the country burns. "So look, the evidence is certainly enough to justify an investigation," said Raskin of Keul's accusation. "It's overwhelmingly likely it's enough to justify going to a grand jury to see if a grand jury agrees. But it certainly is not reconcilable in any way with sweeping the whole matter under the rug. And I just want to thank these survivors, these victims of these terrible events when they were mostly girls. Some of them were young women, but mostly they were girls. They were minors." "For coming forward and hanging tough and saying this really happened and the country's got to pay attention to it," he went on. "So my responsibility is the ranking member in the House Judiciary Committee and our responsibility as Democrats on the Judiciary Committee is to make certain that the Department of Justice is not able to sweep this under the rug." "And we also show evidence in this report about how the White House was actually calling all the shots and was essentially dictating or editing the statement that there was nothing to see here and that there was no basis for further investigation," added Raskin. "And it's just scandalous that that took place. In fact, the White House had to order them to use Department of Justice and FBI letterhead because they didn't want to. Nobody wanted to be associated with this extraordinary act of cover up in the service of Donald Trump and against the service of justice and the rule of law." Accountability is coming. After the midterms, Raskin will get sweeping subpoena powers and you can be damn sure he'll put them to use! Please ❤️ and share if you support prosecution!
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This is deeply troubling. We just learned that Pete Hegseth’s Spiritual Advisor said that “separation of church and state does not exist” Pete Hegseth is a threat to American democracy and must be fired immediately.
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Dan Rather Here is my message to every eligible voter, whatever your political affiliation: If this worn and battered old journalist at age 94 can get to the polls, then surely so can you.
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OUR 44th president. Let's finish what he started and guarantee healthcare for every American. 🇺🇸
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🚨BREAKING: Democrats asked a federal judge Monday night for a restraining order and temporary injunction to halt President Donald Trump and his administration from interfering in the upcoming midterms. democracydocket.com/news-ale…
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Barbara Gerbert retweeted
This is Republican Pig Mike Rogers staring at Nicki Minaj's butt after Trump sexually harassed her. Make sure Michigan voters see this.
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Barbara Gerbert retweeted
CBS News polling shows 75% of voters feel the Trump administration hasn't put enough focus on lowering prices – one factor driving Democratic leads in some competitive Senate races. Traders on Kalshi, our prediction market sponsor, have Democrats as favorites to win the Senate.
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FORMER FIRST FAMILY.... "THE OBAMAS" 🤞🏾🔥 I Love Them 🙏🏾
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Barbara Gerbert retweeted
BREAKING: A petition calling for Democrats to subpoena all of Jared Kushner's financial and communication records at 12:01 PM on January 3rd, confiscate his laundered treason bribes, and deport him to Israel just gained 25 million signatures in two hours.
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Barbara Gerbert retweeted
🚨The Epstein files have leaked again !! As Jeffrey Epstein, Trump and Beyonce are all seen chilling on board. Woow!! It's crazy that after all the efforts they put in place to create diversions, the files are finding their way out again. It's shocking that Beyonce is also part of this mess🫥
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Barbara Gerbert retweeted
food and drinks consumed in a movie theater doesn't really go into your body. it goes into your movie theater body which is separate & holy and harm-proof
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Barbara Gerbert retweeted
This should be the largest story in the news. It should be everywhere in the media. Kushner should wind up in prison because of it. But you won’t hear about it and nothing will happen to him.
Holy shit. Dutch intelligence has uncovered Jared Kushner’s role as a Mossad agent.
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