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Luke Baumgartner @lbaum94.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

“Pete Hegseth appoints national security threat and Nazi owner of CSAM machine to important position.”

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Hannah Vardit @hannahvardit.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

i worry that men think being A Good Guy is dramatically and heroically intervening on behalf of an endangered woman and then being publicly rewarded on a grand scale when actually being A Good Guy is just usually saying, “hey man that’s not funny” or “wow that’s fucked up” and there is no reward

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 27/09/2026

Women trying to succeed in Silicon Valley AI and effective altruist spaces are reporting feeling serious social pressure to attend sex parties - where people have reported being sexually assaulted, like below. Events like Aella’s “Slutcon,” which is happening again this weekend.

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I am disheartened by this as well. I already lost a bunch of followers for agreeing with @tautologer, but it's saddening to see local nerdy women being caricatured as Karen-like outsiders and getting pushed out of the scene. This is exactly why you hear so few concrete, names-attached stories of sexual harrassment and assault. I'm told there is a history of discrediting these because the "slut normalization" thing is top priority and these stories get inconveniently in the way of spreading this ideology.
I got roped into attending last year's Saturday Slutcon party because so many local and out-of-town friends were there (to echo sentiments @tautologer expressed about "slut events becoming central to the larger scenes). Mostly I hung out with people I knew and that was great. But in the course of my 3-ish hours there, there were 2 times my "no" was not accepted by a man I didn't know, and I was physically pushing a huge guy off of me who was rubbing his penis on me, who continued to do it despite my physical force against him, and after I finally wriggled away from him, told him I wanted to dance alone etc., he came back and did it again.
This was scary and bad, but it didn't even cross my mind to report this because one of the other people who didn't accept my "no" earlier in the night was the bartender (an officially sanctioned authority at the event), and I knew the event was organized exclusively by women into CNC (who are vocal about how rapey behavior turns them on), so I figured this sort of thing would just get me laughed at. And anyway, I heard there were a lot of other incidents like it. Later though, someone encouraged me to report this story to the organizers, and despite my embarrassment I did, so *they know* that this and other incidents happened. This is why they cut the Saturday night party this year and created a larger training program for the flirt girls - *because* of things like this last year. Yet the narrative bein…

People who haven't been to Slutcon are saying "it's just group therapy," "it's just innocent flirting." But the environment is much like a sex party in that many people are nude, there is making out and sex acts happening out in the open. I think it's pretty unreasonable to expect that every nerdy girl who likes rationalist bloggers or is into EA/AI safety should automatically be comfortable with this! That if she's not, there's something wrong with her, we don't want her in our scenes, etc.
Not to mention, it's explictly an event *for men*, where men are the clients and the "flirt girls" are the product. Last year I overheard an exchange where a man felt "led on" by a flirt girl and was trying to get her punished/kicked out. (A dynamic that seems inevitable in this context!)
Anyway- it does sound like they've upped their consent education a lot this year, are more organized, and that's good! As I've told my friends who are attending: I hope they have fun!
I heard several accounts last year of women who had no problems and really enjoyed the event. That's great!
Just... can we live in reality about this? There are real reasons why male-female sexual dynamics are tricky.
Encouraging autistic men who can't yet read body language to go around asking to see womens' boobs is maybe a bit ill-advised. Maybe not everyone should be/identify as a slut; maybe it's not for everyone.
And yeah, filtering the Bay Area Al safety scene down to only women who are super comfy with this eliminates *most* women - including many of the really smart, nerdy, weird women who've been in the larger scenes for years. What a loss for humanity.
I absolutely understand why people with a minority sexuality would want to create belonging, would want to create spaces for people like themselves. But why do it like this/at this cost?

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Erika Hall @erikahall.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I read something recently quoting Miyazaki's hatred of the Hollywood narrative of fighting evil by killing villains. He is so right on. Killing an individual doesn't fix the system that gave rise to that individual. Our conventional narratives are so "we just need a good guy to kill the bad guys"

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Late Night Anti-Fascists @latenightafa.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Some of the most well-known NoBlogs sites belong to researchers who solely report on far-right hate and radicalization, never doing anything aside from showing you what exists. Using speech to to shine a light and hold people accountable IS effective. Never let them try to convince you otherwise.

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Doug Lindner @douglindner.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Even after It Happens, the fight for American democracy and sanity will not be over. The next leader of the Republican Party will be worse, somehow. And the Roberts Court isn’t giving up power unless we take it from them.

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Boze Herrington, Library Owl @sketchesbyboze.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Dolly Parton rose from poverty to stardom. She gave $500 to every student in her hometown who finished high school; she built hospitals & bald eagle preserves; her Imagination Library has gifted 300 million books to children. Roger Ebert met her and came away thinking she was a literal angel. RIP.

“In Dallas for the premier of '9 to 5', I had an uncanny experience, and on the plane home to Chicago I confessed it to Siskel: I had been granted a private half hour with Dolly Parton, and as we spoke I was filled with a strange ethereal grace. This was not spiritual, nor was it sexual. It was healing and comforting. Gene listened and said, "Roger, I felt the exact same thing during my interview with her." We looked at each other. What did this mean? Neither one of us ever felt that feeling again. From time to time we would refer to it in wonder.”

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Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

"Israel, Iran, Russia, Ukraine, the US and more are merging into a mega-war run by robots. They used to call these World Wars. They used to call people on the phone. The most common call I get today is from someone named 'Scam Likely.'" sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/quicksand

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Quicksand

Gen X was right after all.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

I try not to overdo this bit but ... my man is begging for it. Let's go.

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Maria W. Norris @mariawnorris.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

Hi, expert on far-right extremism here, a history of domestic violence and misogyny is one of the strongest predictive variables for violent extremism, especially on the right. We've been raising the alarm on this for DECADES but no one cares.

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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Between this and the national guard in Memphis it’s kind of disturbing me (yes I know I’m a member of the media) the degree to which these killings aren’t really breaking thru rn

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The Cassandra Report @cassandrarprt.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

It's disturbing how much mainstream press platformed Patriot Front in DC this weekend... After ignoring the self-immolation in front of the UN on Thursday.

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Rob Sheridan @rob-sheridan.com · 30/06/2026

The thing about social media age restrictions is that it treats today’s internet as an inevitability we all just have to deal with. The internet (and the WORLD) wasn’t like this until like four dudes were allowed to own & monetize as much tech real estate as they wanted. Fix THAT problem.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Know what TV show actually wouldn’t get made today? The Twilight Zone. Half of these fuckin’ episodes are about fascism.

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The Cassandra Report @cassandrarprt.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

I volunteer to fight any of these bitches in a cage.

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LEFT COAST RIGHT WATCH @lcrw.news · 15/06/2026

NEW from @azrww.bsky.social: This year's TPUSA women's conference saw someone defending burning women at the stake, a guy who calls his followers "buttercups" and Erika Kirk telling women to "have more babies than you can afford." Experience the traditional feminine fury at the link below

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Raw Milk, Witch Trials, and Forced Birth: Inside a Fascist Women’s Conference | Left Coast Right Watch

This year’s TPUSA women’s conference saw someone defending burning women at the stake, a guy who calls his followers “buttercups” and Erika Kirk telling women to “have more babies than you can afford....

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Fascism's a fever you break with shit like what happened in New York last night. Create more excuses to feel things like that together.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 14/06/2026

The UFC fight hasn’t even started yet, and the official White House Twitter account just posted the most complete, surreal proof of the total 4chan-weeb takeover of federal power that I’ve ever seen, or likely ever will see:

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MISSION ACCOMPLISHED. 🇺🇸⚡️🦅 https://t.co/2drxQlsnRn

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The Cassandra Report @cassandrarprt.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

This. The man is painfully insecure. Play to that. Talk about how he sucks at video games, has no friends, and maybe has a botched penis enlargement. Give his psyche no quarter.

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Zach D Roberts @zdroberts.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Wild to write such a lengthy piece about a white nationalist and not mention that he in fact is a white nationalist who is friends with a violent bigot named Tommy Robinson. Here's a better piece of journalism about one of sports worst people. www.irishtimes.com/world/uk/202...

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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

This doesn't "resemble" nazism, as is sometimes said of salutes and tattoos. It's full bore death's head fascism, men in skull masks attacking houses door to door. That's what's being celebrated here. That's what's desired here.

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 08/06/2026

a glaring omission from much of the convo about the Delaney Hall labor and hunger strike imo is the fact that *these people shouldn't be laboring in the first place* this is slavery, & even the 13th Amendment's 'punishment for a crime' exception doesn't apply! ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...

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The Delaney Hall Strike Is Exposing a Massive Thirteenth Amendment Crisis

The Delaney Hall Strike participants haven’t been convicted of anything—and are still being forced to work for nothing.

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The Cassandra Report @cassandrarprt.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

So... How does this work with US based prison labor? Asking for a friend.

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The Cassandra Report @cassandrarprt.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

There definitely needs to be more focus on the labor strike, as it underlines the primary reason they keep building more of these facilities - to secure slave labor.

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Zach D Roberts @zdroberts.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

So it looks like I am going to have to retain a lawyer to fight off this ridiculous $50million lawsuit from Armed Forces Brewing Company. If you can support this fight in anyway it would be incredibly appreciated. This is an attack on the 1st Amendment and against journalism. gofund.me/d7d265b3a

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Donate to Stand with Journalist Against $50million Lawsuit, organized by Zachary Roberts

Hi, I'm an award winning investigative journalist and photographer an… Zachary Roberts needs your support for Stand with Journalist Against $50million Lawsuit

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Paul Waldman @paulwaldman.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

There are a hundred "Is Mamdani Being Insensitive to Jews By Acknowledging that Palestinians Are Human?" stories in outlets like the NY Times, meanwhile multiple Republican politicians LITERALLY say that all Muslims are terrorists who should be expelled from the U.S. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/22/n...

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Disconnect Widens Between Mamdani and Pro-Israel Jewish Leaders

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Zach D Roberts @zdroberts.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Ok, I'll add one more thing which was weird that it wasn't noted in this piece - that this lawsuit is a specific and desperate attack on a journalist to try and shut him up and get back at him for printing his own words. It's also an attack on community organizing as an idea.

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🎃 scarecrowcialism 👻 @swolecialism.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

much like how the maduro kidnapping led to the iran disaster, increasingly convinced that winning the election after overturning of roe convinced the roberts court that they could just bring back the confederacy by judicial fiat without any pushback

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The Cassandra Report @cassandrarprt.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

This is so good, and has needed to be said for a while.

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Caroline Baxter @convergingriskslab.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

I’m beyond stunned that, out of all the people this article interviewed, not one was a constitutional law scholar who could opine on whether this was even legal. “We are focusing on our heritage as a Judeo-Christian nation.” Establishment Clause? Anyone? www.washingtonpost.com/religion/202...

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White House to host 9-hour prayer festival focused on Christian roots of U.S.

Pete Hegseth, Marco Rubio and Mike Johnson will speak at the event, which centers on the idea that the founders wanted the U.S. to be explicitly Christian.

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The Cassandra Report @cassandrarprt.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

White people are not angry enough about the blatant reinstitution of Jim Crow.

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ve, the ghost of info past @vortexegg.com · 08/05/2026

It’s straightforwardly the case that “AI” is an excuse to turn every US citizen into a walking networked ring door cam to feed into a privatized national surveillance security state partnered with eugenicist fascists

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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 02/05/2026

swear to god nothing has radicalized like me like watching rich men burn our planet, dry up our freshwater and poison our kids to invent the world’s most powerful technology — a robot chick who laughs at all their jokes

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

PHIL WILLIAMS: “Lots of people are lying about the SPLC indictment.” www.hatecomestomainstreet.com/p/the-splc-i...

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The Cassandra Report @cassandrarprt.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

Press folks, this is how you push back on the shitty disingenuous narrative behind the DOJ report on FACE Act prosecutions. They have done all the work for you, and linked all the critical details. www.justsecurity.org/136275/separ...

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Separating Fact from Fiction in FACE Act Enforcement

The Trump administration claims DOJ targeted religious Americans under the FACE Act — but the facts don’t support it.

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The Cassandra Report @cassandrarprt.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

While we are talking about why people don't report sexual assault to the police, there is a massive backlog of tens of thousands of untested rape kits, but the FBI managed to pull it together to quickly DNA test a half eaten burrito to prosecute someone who vandalized a crisis pregnancy center.

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The Cassandra Report @cassandrarprt.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

An excellent reminder that, to many of the people in charge, not everybody is as white and god fearing as they think they are.

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Late Night Anti-Fascists @latenightafa.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

Really good cause to help out 👇

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Mike (beep boop era) @latimeriidae.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

Look I’m an old leftist punk that brawled with nazi skins and I have literally nothing in common with these people but when I see a soccer mom with a Trans Kids Belong sign screaming FUCK ICE at the top of her lungs I whole heartedly welcome my unlikely new comrade

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ghost malone ergo propter bones @proptermalone.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

not the biggest thing but just an FYI: the most likely place we wind up from here, in my view, is that if you the client feed documents to e.g. Claude you’ve blown attorney-client privilege on those documents

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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

Donald Trump letting you know how the authoritarian capture of the media is going, in case you missed it. Unlike other authoritarians in places like Hungary and Poland he has no worries about advertising his authoritarian take over of the media.

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Abortion Access Front @abortionfront.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

📉New Studies Show Abortion Bans Tax EVERYTHING Two studies just dropped and they show what we have been scream-yodelling for years: ABORTION BANS AFFECT EVERYTHING. bit.ly/4roNGct bit.ly/3NeVmA0

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Dane Owens @owendanes.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

Pretty crazy how important the blockade of a trade route is right now

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