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f you order up coffee on a mobile app while scrolling your social feeds, or can’t stop watching videos and reading news articles on your phone at bedtime, listen up!

Researchers studied what happened when people agreed to block the internet from their smartphones for just two weeks. And turns out, 91% felt better after the break.

“What we found was that people had better mental health, better subjective well-being and better sustained attention,” says Adrian Ward, a psychologist at the University of Texas at Austin.

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Talk to your kids. NOW.

President Trump’s Attorney General Pam Bondi on Friday teased plans to release bombshell documents in Jeffrey Epstein’s case — which could include his client list.

Bondi said there are “a lot of documents” related to the dead pedophile’s case sitting “on her desk” waiting to be reviewed during an interview with Fox News’ “America Reports.”

She said she was briefed on the materials shortly after being confirmed to her high-profile post in the Trump administration — and that looking at them was a “directive” from the president himself.

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he notorious Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua, the brutal MS-13 organization, and half a dozen Mexican cartels have been designated as foreign terrorist organizations by the State Department.

The announcement, dated Feb. 6 and published in the Federal Register on Wednesday, prohibits Americans from providing “material support or resources” to the organizations — and allows the US to deport those involved in the gangs.

In addition to Tren de Aragua and MS-13, the cartels given the designations include Cartel de Sinaloa, formerly led by notorious drug lord “El Chapo“; Cartel de Jalisco Nueva Generacion, Carteles Unidos, Cartel del Noreste, Cartel del Golfo and La Nueva Familia Michoacana.

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Kevin – Metcalf – William Shakespeare’s words in Macbeth capture a profound sense of despair and futility: 

“Life’s but a walking shadow; a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more: it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.” 

At first glance, these words might seem like a resignation to meaninglessness. But when applied to the fight against human trafficking, exploitation, and abuse, they take on a different meaning—one that acknowledges the enormity of the battle, yet refuses to yield to despair. 

We cannot end human trafficking any more than we can eliminate poverty, mental illness, bad parenting, or people who exploit others for personal gain. The world has always known suffering, and it always will. But the goal is not to achieve some mythical final victory; it is to fight for the next one. 

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This report seeks to shine a light on a consistently overlooked dimension of commercial sexual
exploitation: the sex buyers who fuel this destructive system. The report features sex buyer quotes
from across the country to expose the ways in which these men view and discuss the individuals
they purchase for sex acts as well as the overall act of sex buying. By showcasing sex buyers in
their own words, highlighting key trends among their attitudes, and revealing demographic data of
sex buyers versus sex trade survivors across the U.S., we argue that current prostitution policies
must be reformed to address these realities and offer possible solutions to end sexual exploitation.
By examining case studies of Australia, New Zealand, and Rhode Island, we conclude that current
calls to decriminalize “sex work” are a failed approach because they result in an expansion of the sex
trade, offering more women and youth up to the very men we highlight in these pages, while frustrating
efforts to hold sex traffickers and other exploiters accountable.
Instead, we offer the Survivor Model—a policy framework that provides services and legal protection to
those engaged in prostitution while holding accountable those who exploit them for profit and sexual
gratification. By analyzing data from Sweden, Norway, France, and other jurisdictions, we provide
evidence that not only is the Survivor Model extremely effective at shrinking commercial sex markets
and by extension, reducing sex trafficking and sexual exploitation, but it has also facilitated a cultural
shift towards gender equality in nations that have adopted this approach. Moreover, the model’s
legitimacy is bolstered by endorsements from significant international bodies, including the European
Parliament and the UN Special Rapporteur on violence against women and girls. Finally, we cite
promising programs in the U.S. that have implemented innovative sex buying reduction strategies that
foster community accountability and restorative justice principles. By offering examples of success
from multiple jurisdictions from across the globe that have effectively implemented the Survivor Model,
as well as the positive impact it has had on cultural norms, we argue that more U.S. jurisdictions
should adopt this survivor-centered model that prioritizes victim services, community accountability,
culture change, and ultimately violence prevention.
At a time when misogyny and male violence against women and girls are pervasive, it is more
important than ever to commit to a future that upholds safety, justice, and equality as our collective priorities.

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