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Protesting matters, but in America, peaceful protest has never led to real constitutional change. C the American Revolution, the Civil War, women's right to vote, & the Civil Rights movement (which didn't lead to an amendment, but did lead to meaningful legislation). All went far beyond "peaceful."

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Kylie Cheung @kylietcheung.bsky.social · 22h

The narrative that Americans are divided on abortion is a lie to hide just how undemocratic bans are—and convince lawmakers to take weaker stances on abortion. ~70% of Deep South voters oppose abortion bans. I wrote about the implications of this:

jessica.substack.com

Poll: 70% of Deep South Voters Oppose Abortion Bans

Plus, Deep South voters are the least likely to say that abortion should never be permitted.

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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 08/10/2026

Crooked Susan Collins took thousands of dollars from a medical company before giving them a $4.5 million contract. This is now her 3rd alleged pay-to-play story in the last 2 weeks. bit.ly/47LYauM

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NEW: Collins Took Campaign Cash From Pharma Executive's Family in Potential Straw Donor Scheme - Maine Democratic Party

Zeteo: Collins <3 Contractor Cash

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Shooti @bambooshooti.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

#ResistanceRoots Hiroshi “Hershey” Miyamura was born on this day in 1925 in Gallup, N.M. He is known for being the only soldier whose Medal of Honor was classified Top Secret while he was held as a POW. His story is one of patriotism, bravery, loyalty and humble service against incredible odds. /1

Hiroshi Miyamura was a Staff Sergeant. This photo was taken after Miyamura’s repatriation during Operation Big Switch in August 1953. After spending 28 months as a prisoner of war, he crossed the Demilitarized Zone into the U.N. command center at Panmunjom’s Freedom Village for medical processing, debriefings and transition out of the theater as a newly released POW. Miyamura’s Medal of Honor citation does not adequately express his dedication and self-sacrifice. His acts of courage were focused entirely on protecting his men. During his 28 months as a POW, he grieved over those he believed were lost and felt guilt for failing to protect them. After receiving the Medal of Honor, he viewed himself as its custodian, stating that he wore it not for himself, but on behalf of all the men who never made it home. When he died in November 2022, he was buried with full military honors next to his beloved wife, Terry, leaving behind a legacy of humility and quiet citizenship.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 08/10/2026

The government doesn’t track how often immigration agents detain U.S. citizens. So ProPublica did. We’ve tallied more than 500 Americans held against their will in warrantless arrests and detentions during President Trump’s second term.

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Abby Chava Stein @abbystein.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The logical conclusion of Zionism: The 96-year-old leader of Haredi (Ultra-Orthodox non Hasidic) Jews is "anti-Semetic" - because he is anti-Zionist That's according to Naftali Bennet, former Israeli Prime Minister, current leader of the 2nd largest "opposition" party in the polls.

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Sandra @cawitches.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Well, it is Saturday and I did my half or more. Wasn't feeling it but came into it the last few miles. #jerseyshore #halfmarathon

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Tad Stoermer @tadstoermer.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

It’s a lesson they should have learned in 1787.

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Jacqueline Antonovich @jackiantonovich.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

In 1974, Cornell lecturer Lin Farley began recognizing a pattern in the experiences women shared in her Women and Work course: women were being pushed out of jobs by men’s sexual behavior. Farley coined the term, “sexual harassment.”

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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

GOOD NEWS! A new cancer treatment has demonstrated unprecedented results in a large trial for cancer patients whose disease has become resistant to chemotherapy AND immunotherapy. Tumors shrank in OVER a third of participants, with 15 patients experiencing COMPLETE eradication of their tumors.

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Pam Keith @pamkeithdc.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Have we gotten to the point now where we should just assume that any guy who is trying to get you inebriated is also planning to sexually assault you?

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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

There is a moment at the very very end of Abdul El-Sayed's podcast with Ezra Klein (book recommendation section) where he talks about the idea of "speaking truth to pain" and this will be staying with me for an extremely long time. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/o...

But there’s also something about truth to pain. We talk a lot about truth to power, but I think it’s actually a lot harder to speak truth to pain. I say that as someone who went to medical school, realizing that in a lot of our politics right now, we’ve got to get a lot better at speaking truth to pain if we’re going to get through some of these challenges that we have.

What does “truth to pain” mean?

It’s one thing to look power in the eye and say: You’re wrong about this. But there’s a way in which pain is very difficult to reason with. Because when somebody is in their pain, they’re in their trauma. They see that pain, and they may not see what’s causing it.

I remember just very explicitly being in a trauma ward with a gunshot wound patient and watching this big guy with his hand on his gunshot wound. All the folks are trying to pull his hand off his pain, that point of his gunshot wound, this clear vulnerability.

And this emergency room doctor had the presence of mind to be like: Everyone, stop. And she looks him in the eyes, and she’s like: I get that really hurts, and I’m so sorry that you’re here. You don’t want to be here. We don’t want you to be here. But if you don’t let us fix this, you could die. So I’m going to take your hand, and I’m going to move it off, OK? Because I need to get there so that you can live.

She was speaking truth to pain. He understands he’s at the hospital, he needs care, but he also doesn’t want anybody to touch the wound. Which is a natural thing. And I think it is a really great metaphor for how we think about a lot of these challenges we talked about today.

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Sandra @cawitches.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The Premier League must fully punish Manchester City. These violations are extreme. They need to lose their titles and be demoted to at least League 2.

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Sandra @cawitches.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

A simple idea that may be a bit difficult for those in the AI industry: train your chatbots better! This really isn't complicated.

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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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Sandra @cawitches.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I do not think anyone here cares but I didn't run my half or more yesterday. The Nor'easter was ridiculous yesterday so I postponed until today. Not as much rain but the wind turned out to be worse. Someone I completed a half. All videos so one person post #jerseyshore #halfmarathon

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Vauhini Vara @vauhinivara.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I wrote a book last year showing how tech companies' values and goals show up in the rhetoric of their products themselves — including through AI chatbots. People questioned that; maybe it seemed too dystopian? Well, I've been collecting other examples in the wild, and here's the latest.

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Sandra @cawitches.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

This essay by @chrishedges.skystack.xyz based on Ece Temelkuran's "Nation of Strangers" is powerful & must listening/reading for us fighting fascism. There is a quote from the book, starting around 8:50, that I think we are starting to see in our movement. youtu.be/hwDtS5d0BnI?...

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Becoming the Stranger

YouTube video by The Chris Hedges YouTube Channel

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 22/09/2026

Sen. Susan Collins helped steer millions in federal defense contracts to Navatek, whose CEO illegally funneled thousands of dollars to her campaign. The FBI sought to launch a probe and was eyeing Collins and other lawmakers. Then Trump gutted the unit in charge. THREAD 🧵

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Sandra @cawitches.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

We did this with abortion. Instead of standing up and fiercely defending a woman's right to choose we were told oh we have to allow other opinions to win. So anti choice Dems were allowed in and the party never found their voice. Giving control to the repubs and look where we are! No money!

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Sandra @cawitches.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

When I heard the AI chiefs start claiming AI was going to kill us I immediately called BS on this, realising they are horribly leveraged so I was happy to see El address this in great detail! youtu.be/kHW3Y0gObU8?...

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AI CEOs Are Broke, Desperate and Lying About Doomsday

YouTube video by House of El: AI

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Sandra @cawitches.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Oh my almost forgot to post my Saturday half or more run. It was windy and a bit chilly. Still got it done. #JerseyShore #halfmarathon #SeaHearNow

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Max from UNFTR @unftr.com · 16/09/2026

Tonight! 8PM EST. The premiere of our cover story / doc on Milton Friedman. This has been months in the making in collaboration with @currentaffairs.bsky.social. If you're wondering how the new world neoliberal order was established and who was responsible, I've got answers.

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Why We’re Still Living in Milton Friedman’s Neoliberal World

YouTube video by UNFTR Media

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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 17/09/2026

“A senior executive at Microsoft said A.I. systems built on the work of others will be seen as ‘an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions’ and possibly the greatest robbery of labor in human history, according to court documents unredacted Thursday in an ongoing Manhattan lawsuit.”

orlandosentinel.com

Docs in A.I. copyright suit reveal startling admission by Microsoft exec over ‘astonishing theft’

The admission appeared in a newly unredacted filing in the landmark copyright infringement legal battle playing out between newspapers like the Orlando Sentinel and tech companies Microsoft and OpenAI...

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Sandra @cawitches.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

A huge mistake... You do not cede ground to republicans on rights!

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Sandra @cawitches.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I asked this question before & not 1 reply. The right knows what they are fighting for & speak about it all the time. What is the left fighting for? It seems the best we have is we are not trump/maga. This will not win!!! We are 50 years since Reagan and still the right dominates! SMH

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Sandra @cawitches.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Go back and study the abortion issue. You will find those voices moving away from an absolute right in the democratic party were the same ones who cut deals too slowly 1) curtail the right and 2) allowed the right to set the debate terms as Dems were afraid to talk about it. Sound familiar?

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Sandra @cawitches.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

A little video from Avon by the Sea

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Sandra @cawitches.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

D'jais, Belmar Surf competition and one of the bridges

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Sandra @cawitches.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Sitting on the sand posting my Saturday half or more. Was a long week (back in the classroom) so it was going to be 13.25 but the bridges had other plans. The pictures are from a variety of locations #jerseyshore #halfmarathon

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Sandra @cawitches.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

No different than the battle for abortion rights. Dems were cowardly and refused to stand up for our rights. Slowly we watched those rights get picked off until Dobbs. Nothing has changed!

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

In an effort to combat childhood hunger, the USDA and the Dept of Ed has partnered with the Faith and Freedom Coalition, and the Idaho Potato Growers to create a new program where public school kids can recite a Bible verse and then get a double serving of tater tots. It's called "Tots and Prayers."

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Sandra @cawitches.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

If you are in NH here is an interview by Chris Hedges with NH Democratic Senate Candidate Karishma Manzur Karishma Manzur

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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 06/09/2026

"Masked activists bring chaos to Dover in protest against migrants" "Trans activists show who they really are: a violent mob"

Telegraph page 5 today - Masked activists bring chaos to Dover in protest against migrants and Who are the disguised protesters who brought port to a standstill?

Telegraph 20 April 2025 - Trans activists show who they really are: a violent mob"

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