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Ms. Diamond retweeted
Ten women reported the same man at Cornell. TEN. And nothing was done to stop him. Then people turn around and ask why women don't report. Maybe start asking why nobody listens when they do.
Ms. Diamond retweeted
We don’t talk enough about what happened to our parents’ pensions during the hyperinflationary period(s), or what it means for the next generation.
Some of our parents are still working into their 70s & beyond because the pensions they counted on lost their value. When people can’t afford to retire, some senior roles take longer to open up. That can mean fewer chances to move up and fewer openings for young people trying to get their first job.
Two generations are still living with the cost of those lost pensions.
Ms. Diamond retweeted
Michelle Knight was 21 when her friend's dad offered her a ride. She spent the next 11 years chained in his Cleveland house. Each time she got pregnant, he beat the baby out of her. Bugs ate at her skin. After 8 months without a shower, she didn't recognize herself in the mirror.
His name was Ariel Castro. She still refuses to say it. She calls him "the dude."
August 2002. She got in his car. Then into his house. Then into a room she wouldn't leave for over a decade.
8 months in, he let her near a sink and a mirror for the first time. Her white skin had turned brown. Dried blood, dirt and urine all over her body. Her hair stood up in every direction. Her eyes were bloodshot from months of crying. Deep purple and yellow bruises on both sides of her face from all the times he punched her in the head.
"Is this really happening? Will I spend the rest of my life here?"
She would.
Chained. Starved. Beaten. At night the bugs crawled on her and ate at her skin while she lay there.
In the video below she reads what she saw in that mirror.
Did anyone look for her? Barely.
Did she survive? Yes. 11 years later, in 2013.
Did he pay? He got life plus 1,000 years. A month later he hanged himself in his cell.
Some people will say he got off easy.
Others will say the real question is how a whole street never noticed three women locked in one house for a decade.
She walked out at 32.
How do you even begin to live after that?
Ms. Diamond retweeted
apartheid-era spatial planning deliberately placed black people far from economic centres and opportunities. Decades later, we’re still living with the consequences of that planning. They were very intentional
