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People are what they eat, and if born in an abusive environment, they can internalize that abuse and perpetuate it, shaping their behavior and outlook on life. – Christen Kuikoua	added by ChristenKuikouafans 1 month ago
AI can only fool the fool who wants to be fooled. While AI can help to create an expert persona, product and presence… those that vet, double check and look for substantiated proof will find out the truth or see red flags and issues revealing questionable AI use and abuse. – Loren Weisman	added by anonymous 4 months ago
TRUTH” You can bend it and twist it… You can misuse and abuse it… But even GOD cannot change the TRUTH. – French Proverb	added by sunilarora_aai 7 months ago
While each of those stories is unique, together, they reveal themes and behaviors typical of adults who abuse children, and those who enable that abuse by concealing it, what was consistent throughout the stories was the absolute authority and power these abusive priests and the church leadership held over survivors, their families and their communities. – Maryland Attorney General Anthony Brown	Found on CNN 1 year ago
The House of Representatives will hold Alvin Bragg and his unprecedented abuse of power to account. – Kevin McCarthy	Found on CNN 1 year ago
We will continue to take action against the regime, which perpetuates abuse and violence against its own citizens— especially women and girls. – Brian Nelson	Found on CNN 1 year ago
The footage of this massacre, coupled with the ongoing killing and abuse of countless Syrians, serves as a sobering reminder for why countries should not normalize relations with the Assad regime absent enduring progress towards a political resolution, the United States calls on the Assad regime to cease all violations and abuses of human rights, including but not limited to extrajudicial killings, arbitrary detention, enforced disappearance, and torture. – Antony Blinken	Found on CNN 1 year ago
We take very seriously the idea of separation of powers and that power should be divided to prevent its abuse. – John Roberts	Found on CNN 1 year ago
The fact that our traditional methodologies were developed for people with White skin meant that these nurse practitioners could not detect reported abuse accurately, there is a better methodology out there for women with dark skin pigmentation and we need to distribute it throughout the country so that there’s no excuse to not use the right equipment for the right women. – Nancy La Vigne	Found on CNN 1 year ago
The evidence of abuse would have been buried with Tony Mitchell but for the bravery of a lone corrections officer who made a video of what really happened to Tony and shared one of them. And, they fired her for exposing the truth of this abuse, there needs to be a federal statute requiring bystanders to report inmate abuse and providing statutory whistleblower protection to those who do. I sent a letter to the jail before we filed this case telling them to preserve all of their electronic recordings – if they have destroyed them then I can only imagine the horrors they have hidden. – Jon Goldfarb	Found on CNN 1 year ago
I have seen in real time what … sexual violence and sexual abuse and other types of abuse can do to an individual, men in this case have to take individual responsibility to really push back against … the way other men behave towards women. – Ayo Khalil	Found on CNN 1 year ago
The reasons for this span from the expensive cost of new hardcovers to the fact that many memoirs deal with heavy topics like abuse, addiction, and other less feel-good subjects. – Rutger Bruining	Found on CNN 1 year ago
We are closely following relevant developments, china firmly opposes the United States’ generalization of the concept of national security, abuse of state power, and unreasonable suppression of Chinese companies. – Mao Ning	Found on CNN 1 year ago
It was clear that he is the only person to take on this role, lionsgate did not directly address one of the most controversial aspects of Jacksons story - his trial on child sex abuse charges in 2005 and additional allegations against the singer featured in the 2019 documentary. – Graham King	Found on Reuters 1 year ago
This is some Bakersfield BS, it’s Kevin McCarthy weaponizing his ability to commit this political abuse, because he perceives me, just like Mr. Schiff and Ms. Omar, as an effective political opponent. – Eric Swalwell	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Over the years Metropolitan Police Service’ve had a series of blows to policing, around the policing of violence against women, metropolitan Police Service’ve had the kind of collapse in rape prosecutions which has been an ongoing issue for a while and then Metropolitan Police Service have had the emergence of this phenomenon of police perpetrated abuse. – Sarah Everard	Found on CNN 1 year ago
We had been receiving a number of reports from women who were victims of police officers, usually victims of domestic abuse who did n’t have the confidence to report or if they did report felt that they were massively let down or victimized and sometimes subject to criminal action against them themselves for reporting. – Even Wistrich	Found on CNN 1 year ago
It is also one of the root causes of substance abuse and misuse, which is fueling the national epidemic that we have. We’re also concerned about, of course, rates of suicide and what we can do to alleviate and lower those rates, this is very much also a primary public health crisis of concern and leads to many other public health issues that need to be addressed: homelessness, food insecurity, substance misuse, and poor health outcomes. – Lori Tremmel Freeman	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Determining who gets to speak or who gets to have an account on Facebook or any other social media platform based on the mood of the country is a policy or a prescription that is ripe for abuse, i ca n’t think of what that rigorous standard would be that would make this policy be applied fairly, not just to former President Donald Trump, but to any politician. – Nico Perrino	Found on CNN 1 year ago
I think that because it [the abuse] was happening for so long, it’s frustrating because it doesn’t really feel like anything has changed. – Alyssa Mendez , 20	Found on CNN 1 year ago
No one did more to successfully address the problem of priestly sexual abuse than Joseph Ratzinger. – Bill Donohue	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Biden created this crisis by terminating successful Trump-era immigration policies, including Remain in Mexico and safe third country agreements. Tennesseans will not stand for this flagrant abuse of law and order. – Marsha Blackburn	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
People like these 18-year-olds that have had their bodies altered in unnatural ways, and now they live to regret it. She is saying they don't exist. And, you know, this was a committee meeting about combating violence against LGBT people. Well, I have to say, people like this woman are the reason why people that detransition get hate, they get bullied. They get abuse because people like her in a position of power that say these people don't exist. You know, that shows that these people don't care about detransition. They don't care about it. They just care about the dream being sold that everyone who is trans is happy. And it's simply not the case. – Oli London	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
He certainly needs better judgment in who he dines with, i know he’s issued a statement and said he did n’t know who those people were, but, at any rate, my focus is going to be investigating the current administration as the next chairman of the House Oversight Committee and try to get a handle on the massive amount of waste, fraud, and abuse in our federal government. – James Comer	Found on FOX News 1 year ago

People are what they eat, and if born in an abusive environment, they can internalize that abuse and perpetuate it, shaping their behavior and outlook on life.

– Christen Kuikoua

added by ChristenKuikouafans
1 month ago

AI can only fool the fool who wants to be fooled. While AI can help to create an expert persona, product and presence… those that vet, double check and look for substantiated proof will find out the truth or see red flags and issues revealing questionable AI use and abuse.

– Loren Weisman

added by anonymous
4 months ago

TRUTH” You can bend it and twist it… You can misuse and abuse it… But even GOD cannot change the TRUTH.

– French Proverb

added by sunilarora_aai
7 months ago

While each of those stories is unique, together, they reveal themes and behaviors typical of adults who abuse children, and those who enable that abuse by concealing it, what was consistent throughout the stories was the absolute authority and power these abusive priests and the church leadership held over survivors, their families and their communities.

– Maryland Attorney General Anthony Brown

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The House of Representatives will hold Alvin Bragg and his unprecedented abuse of power to account.

– Kevin McCarthy

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We will continue to take action against the regime, which perpetuates abuse and violence against its own citizens— especially women and girls.

– Brian Nelson

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The footage of this massacre, coupled with the ongoing killing and abuse of countless Syrians, serves as a sobering reminder for why countries should not normalize relations with the Assad regime absent enduring progress towards a political resolution, the United States calls on the Assad regime to cease all violations and abuses of human rights, including but not limited to extrajudicial killings, arbitrary detention, enforced disappearance, and torture.

– Antony Blinken

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We take very seriously the idea of separation of powers and that power should be divided to prevent its abuse.

– John Roberts

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The fact that our traditional methodologies were developed for people with White skin meant that these nurse practitioners could not detect reported abuse accurately, there is a better methodology out there for women with dark skin pigmentation and we need to distribute it throughout the country so that there’s no excuse to not use the right equipment for the right women.

– Nancy La Vigne

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The evidence of abuse would have been buried with Tony Mitchell but for the bravery of a lone corrections officer who made a video of what really happened to Tony and shared one of them. And, they fired her for exposing the truth of this abuse, there needs to be a federal statute requiring bystanders to report inmate abuse and providing statutory whistleblower protection to those who do. I sent a letter to the jail before we filed this case telling them to preserve all of their electronic recordings – if they have destroyed them then I can only imagine the horrors they have hidden.

– Jon Goldfarb

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I have seen in real time what … sexual violence and sexual abuse and other types of abuse can do to an individual, men in this case have to take individual responsibility to really push back against … the way other men behave towards women.

– Ayo Khalil

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The reasons for this span from the expensive cost of new hardcovers to the fact that many memoirs deal with heavy topics like abuse, addiction, and other less feel-good subjects.

– Rutger Bruining

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We are closely following relevant developments, china firmly opposes the United States’ generalization of the concept of national security, abuse of state power, and unreasonable suppression of Chinese companies.

– Mao Ning

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It was clear that he is the only person to take on this role, lionsgate did not directly address one of the most controversial aspects of Jacksons story - his trial on child sex abuse charges in 2005 and additional allegations against the singer featured in the 2019 documentary.

– Graham King

Found on Reuters
1 year ago

This is some Bakersfield BS, it’s Kevin McCarthy weaponizing his ability to commit this political abuse, because he perceives me, just like Mr. Schiff and Ms. Omar, as an effective political opponent.

– Eric Swalwell

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Over the years Metropolitan Police Service’ve had a series of blows to policing, around the policing of violence against women, metropolitan Police Service’ve had the kind of collapse in rape prosecutions which has been an ongoing issue for a while and then Metropolitan Police Service have had the emergence of this phenomenon of police perpetrated abuse.

– Sarah Everard

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We had been receiving a number of reports from women who were victims of police officers, usually victims of domestic abuse who did n’t have the confidence to report or if they did report felt that they were massively let down or victimized and sometimes subject to criminal action against them themselves for reporting.

– Even Wistrich

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It is also one of the root causes of substance abuse and misuse, which is fueling the national epidemic that we have. We’re also concerned about, of course, rates of suicide and what we can do to alleviate and lower those rates, this is very much also a primary public health crisis of concern and leads to many other public health issues that need to be addressed: homelessness, food insecurity, substance misuse, and poor health outcomes.

– Lori Tremmel Freeman

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Determining who gets to speak or who gets to have an account on Facebook or any other social media platform based on the mood of the country is a policy or a prescription that is ripe for abuse, i ca n’t think of what that rigorous standard would be that would make this policy be applied fairly, not just to former President Donald Trump, but to any politician.

– Nico Perrino

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I think that because it [the abuse] was happening for so long, it’s frustrating because it doesn’t really feel like anything has changed.

– Alyssa Mendez , 20

Found on CNN
1 year ago

No one did more to successfully address the problem of priestly sexual abuse than Joseph Ratzinger.

– Bill Donohue

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Biden created this crisis by terminating successful Trump-era immigration policies, including Remain in Mexico and safe third country agreements. Tennesseans will not stand for this flagrant abuse of law and order.

– Marsha Blackburn

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

People like these 18-year-olds that have had their bodies altered in unnatural ways, and now they live to regret it. She is saying they don't exist. And, you know, this was a committee meeting about combating violence against LGBT people. Well, I have to say, people like this woman are the reason why people that detransition get hate, they get bullied. They get abuse because people like her in a position of power that say these people don't exist. You know, that shows that these people don't care about detransition. They don't care about it. They just care about the dream being sold that everyone who is trans is happy. And it's simply not the case.

– Oli London

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

He certainly needs better judgment in who he dines with, i know he’s issued a statement and said he did n’t know who those people were, but, at any rate, my focus is going to be investigating the current administration as the next chairman of the House Oversight Committee and try to get a handle on the massive amount of waste, fraud, and abuse in our federal government.

– James Comer

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

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