First, Jeffrey Epstein and His Collaborators Violated These Women. Now, Republicans Are Violating Them.

The Beautiful Mess by John Pavlovitz Podcast · Sep 4, 2025 · 4m

As I watched a group of survivors of abuse standing outside our nation’s Capitol vowing to release the names of the monsters who collaborated with Jeffrey Epstein in their violation, I had two immediate thoughts:

The first was: the courage of these women is beyond measure.

The next was: this is a second act of violence against them.

Let’s be absolutely clear about what we are witnessing in these moments because it almost defies credulity: women who have experienced unspeakable trauma, women who have largely had to carry their injuries in silence and solitude because of the way our culture so…