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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsGhislaine Maxwell raped and trafficked countless children. I don't take her word for anything.
Anyone who does is a moron.
This was a dog and pony show from the start. Except she is lower than any dog I know.
SheltieLover
(81,709 posts)Maxwell & her ilk are in another universe.
efhmc
(16,991 posts)malaise
(297,940 posts)Rec
Bluestocking
(794 posts)canetoad
(21,021 posts)Whales of all shapes and sizes play a significant role in the health of marine ecosystems. About 50% of the air humans breathe is produced by the ocean, thanks to phytoplankton and whale waste. The Whale Poop Loop is the foundation of the marine food web and the planet's lungs.
Packed with nutrients, whale waste is a super fertilizer that supports phytoplankton, which produces oxygen and is food for zooplankton, fish, and other marine species. The marine creatures phytoplankton support then provide food for shorebirds and humans.
https://phys.org/news/2025-07-whale-poop-loop-ocean-humans.html
Link says a blue whale, but that's a humpback, like my avatar.

niyad
(134,030 posts)canetoad
(21,021 posts)Bettie
(19,873 posts)review her case and make her conviction go away.
Then, she can move back to her old occupation: supplying young girls for nasty rich men.
Wiz Imp
(10,410 posts)Paladin
(32,354 posts)...of trump and his degenerate associates, making us eat shit on a daily basis?
LisaM
(29,685 posts)They should all be in therapy at the very least and many of them should be locked up. Yet we're letting them run our lives.
hamsterjill
(17,749 posts)What is she expected to say about Trump when he's offered her (l) a move to a cushier prison, and most likely (2) a pardon down the line when the dust settles.
I mean, come on people!!!! We are not that stupid.
Hekate
(100,133 posts)VTderry
(137 posts)to let anyone one else hop on over.
And she's a "victim" now, don't you know? So she must be believed!
Won't be the least bit surprised if she's set free and made Teen Tsarina of the Trump Admin, in charge of recruitung young girls for service jobs in the White House ballroom.
UTUSN
(77,795 posts)Ilsa
(64,569 posts)Pacifist Patriot
(25,216 posts)May she rot.
myohmy2
(3,723 posts)...trump is once again proving just how impotent and fragile our political and legal structures are...
...we're being governed by gangsters and fascists and nothing can be done about it...
...maybe our democracy has become a suicide pact...
...
Johonny
(26,601 posts)when a rich person is being oppressed by serving time for the crime they were convicted of. The American media, the worst free media in the world.
Scrivener7
(60,067 posts)Scandal in the 80's. Similar situation: child exploitation ring with deep ties to Republican politicians. Covered up by everyone and no one ever faced justice for it. In fact, one of the accusing children went to jail for perjury for allegedly making the story up. But there is documentation out the wazoo that the ring existed and hundreds of children had their souls stolen.
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