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Destiny Sugarbuns

@destinysugarbuns.bsky.social
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She/her. Sex worker, historian, writer. Former foster kid. Profile ID: Photo of path between trees and flowers & text reading, "We are the wayside / community is a journey."

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persephone @jomaselli.ca · 16h
When I was in school, one of my male friends invited me over to watch a movie. I got super tired while I was there & ended up falling asleep on his futon. I woke up surprised to find a blanket on me & him sitting on the floor so that I could be comfortable. This is what is supposed to happen.
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Whitney Curry Wimbish @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social · 6h
Their open letter is heartbreaking. It quotes the Declaration of Independence and says they are not asking for special treatment, just the chance to complete their cases in freedom. "We hope someone will hear our voices." Read it here: drive.google.com/file/d/1TmwM...
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FIPC Open Letter - English version
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Whitney Curry Wimbish @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social · 6h
45 asylum seekers imprisoned in Georgia's Folkston ICE detention center went on hunger strike today. Some have been in this concentration camp for three years. They demand immediate release into the US, protection from re-detention and deportation, and reunification with loved ones.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 8h
3/ 100+ Americans have been held after agents questioned their citizenship. Nearly all of them were people of color. They say they were profiled — detained because of their skin color, accents or jobs. “ICE isn’t looking for criminals. They’re looking for Latinos,” one said.
100+ U.S. citizens held after agents questioned their citizenship
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 8h
The government *still* isn’t tracking how often immigration agents detain U.S. citizens. We are. 500+ Americans have been handcuffed, held at gunpoint or held against their will in Trump’s second term. Our tally is almost certainly an undercount. THREAD (content warning: violence) ⬇️
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Destiny Sugarbuns @destinysugarbuns.bsky.social · 2h
@swopbehindbars.bsky.social @swop-usa.bsky.social An End Demand group has been trying to gin up resentment against this petition calling for decrim in Cambridge, MA. MA's state legislature is considering an End Demand bill that increases criminalization of sex workers instead.
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Petition to the Cambridge City Council for the Decriminalization of People Engaged in Consensual Adult Sex Work
Cambridge is a city that is home to many, and some of our neighbors and loved ones are sex workers. However, because sex work is criminalized in Massachusetts, sex workers in Cambridge live in fear th...
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Bilbo Yaga @bilboyaga.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Disabled people are over twice as likely to experience sexual assault than non-disabled people. In the US specifically, 2 in 5 women who experienced rape are disabled. Among US men who experienced sexual violence, 1 in 4 are disabled. Sexual violence is an issue of disability justice.
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a Mae of blood @eversonpoe.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
it's almost like spewing hate constantly affects people negatively huh, who would have thought?
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 03/10/2026
The White House’s proposal to penalize nonprofits that help disabled people vote is just part of the Trump administration’s broader attempts to restrict voting access, especially among groups that have historically faced disenfranchisement.
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This White House Plan Threatens Funding That Helps Disabled Americans Vote
A new rule from the Office of Management and Budget would prohibit anyone from using federal grant money for voter registration drives. It’s part of the Trump administration’s broader efforts to restr...
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Karma is patient but I am not. @karmaispatient.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Why is this story not getting more coverage? #georgia #shooting
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 03/10/2026
UPDATED: The Trump administration’s push for mass deportations has now resulted in more than 83,000 challenges in federal court from immigrants claiming their detention is illegal. We are continuing to track the increase in these cases:
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Tracking the Historic Rise of Habeas Cases Filed by Detained Immigrants
ProPublica is tracking the historic rise in challenges filed by immigrants claiming their detention is illegal.
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Holly ⏸️ Elmore @ilex-ulmus.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
My ex-husband is one of the rapists at Aella’s simulated rape orgies that John Wentworth, Nate Soares, and I’ve heard Eliezer Yudkowsky also attended. He was an emotionally abusive partner and, until I left EA/rationality, he used the cult to keep me trapped. Journalists please DM.
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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Incarcerated women report rampant sexual abuse by guards and the guards retaliate by spraying them with chemical agents and sending them to the hospital as a warning. Rape culture and brazen misogyny from the highest institution to the lowest.
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Kari Dru @karidru.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I'm reading this book about a kid with a post viral condition and it is very readable and relatable. Except I keep wanting to yell "GO BACK TO BED!" right into the pages. I want to keep reading but Ironically I am very tired. www.goodreads.com/en/book/show...
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Not Quite a Ghost
From the award-winning author of The Troubled Girls of …
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
In the age of technology, we all expect that every conversation will be recorded. But that isn’t true. A lot of records come from the recollections of someone in a position of power. And we know that investigators—including police and Title IX—severely overestimate the amount of false allegations.
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Destiny Sugarbuns @destinysugarbuns.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I'm old enough to remember when USA Today tried to get Ijeoma Oluo to write that MeToo means getting rid of due process. They keep trying to pull this shady shit in defense of rapists. theestablishment.co/due-process-...
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Due Process Is Needed For Sexual Harassment Accusations — But For Whom?
After USA Today asked me to write about not believing in due process, I wondered: How often are we being suckered into a side of a debate that we shouldn’t even be having?
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
And that led to my words appearing in a victim-blaming article written by a journalist I have never met about how Jane Doe's story was "inconsistent."
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Dhruv Mehrotra @dmehro.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
NEW: DHS agents tracked people observing ICE arrests, photographed them, ran their plates, pulled personal information, and added them to a Palantir database, according to newly unsealed court filings. w/ @regret.bsky.social
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ICE Has Been Dumping Protester Photos Into a Palantir Database
DHS agents not only tracked and intimidated people observing ICE activity in Maine, but stored information about them in a Palantir-built database, newly unsealed court filings say.
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Chantzy @chantzy.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Reading the news this week & all the posts from women & keep thinking about the times I've told men in my life, "This guy is causing me problems and making me feel unsafe," and heard, "Cool. I like him, though"
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Elana Levin @levin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
When has there ever been a pandemic that didn’t create more disabled people in its wake? That’s just not a thing. Viruses are bad. I’m sure a lot of people newly IDing as disabled always have been but many people have post viral illness or a minor pre-existing issue turned unignorable by long covid
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Lex McMenamin (they/them) @lexmcmenamin.com · 02/10/2026
just wanna re-up the part where I wrote that many immigrants in Maine have been sheltering in place since January for their own safety, with ICE still operating in the area. it is October.
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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
DA Matthew Van Houten has been going on a bizarre press tour lying about the facts of the case and smearing the victim as having “changed her story” and “not previously alleged that she was raped.” It is absolutely the correct move to remove him from this case but it’s hardly enough of a consequence
County DA Matthew Van Houten, white man in his 50s or 60s with gray hair, blue eyes, blue suit
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Louisa @louisathelast.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
So my wonderful wife, @tekla.bsky.social, is one of the workers who was laid off Wednesday. The article is honestly too fair to A4TE leadership, who have handled this with a baffling level of hostility and callousness. And yes, they were notified with a one-sentence email starting “Dear Employee”
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Workers fought to save jobs at a national trans rights group. Then came a one-sentence layoff email
Advocates for Trans Equality says a $2.4 million deficit forced painful cuts. Its union says management rejected alternatives that could have saved jobs.
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october "pre-order The Struggle Is Always Worth It now!" krausch @octoberk.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
People w Long COVID are stigmatized & ignored throughout society. In prison, it's a situation of almost total silence. Despite very high COVID infection rates, there's no talk abt Long COVID cases. That's a result of the way prisons treat medical needs in general. thesicktimes.org/2026/09/29/i...
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I interviewed five people with Long COVID in prison. They are invisible in the system. - The Sick Times
While there are no data sources on Long COVID in prison, experts suspect rates of the disease may be higher there than in the general population. They face high reinfection risks and poor access to me...
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Destiny Sugarbuns @destinysugarbuns.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Please stop anthropomorphizing computers. They cannot go "home" because they do not live anywhere.
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wariziles @riziles.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Please stop anthropomorphizing computers. I cannot "turn on" a computer because I just don't have that dog in me.
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Gender Liberation Movement @genderlib.com · 01/10/2026
As hospitals across the country cave to the Trump administration’s threats to cut federal funding and abandon trans youth, actor Elliot Page speaks out. In New York City, NYU Langone, Mount Sinai, and NewYork-Presbyterian abruptly ended care for trans kids in response to these threats.
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Authors Against Book Bans @authorsabb.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
So many different people, groups, and organizations have come together to push back against the attack on the freedom to read, including students themselves. Read more about what students in Florida are doing here:
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No more book bans: how Florida students are pushing rightwingers out of school boards
Local communities are fighting back against the influence of conservative groups like Moms for Liberty in education
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Destiny Sugarbuns @destinysugarbuns.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I've heard people talk about toxic fan cultures but it really seems like some people can't tell the difference between aesthetic pet peeves and actual heinous abuse, the way they keep jumping out of the woodwook, "Is it important NOW that the bitch eats crackers wrong?"
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Falling Outside the Normal Moral Constraints @moralconstraints.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Too many people are convinced they've been Pervert Nostradamus the whole time and need to brag about it
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Funny Karate Bear (But Festive) @thedimpsler.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Probably bad to make a rape allegation coming out about how you thought Jacob Geller was cringe, who the fuck cares about fucking YouTube why are people like this the dude hurt somebody!
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Jessica Cogswell 🌸 @jessicogs.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Exactly. I am tired of seeing the “I always knew”/“their work was actually bad” takes whenever allegations emerge. Sometimes—often, actually!—bad people find their way into good spaces and make good things. And you’re not better than the folks who were taken advantage of for “always knowing”
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 30/09/2026
NEW: California is teeming with black-market dairies, propped up by consumer demand fueled by misinformation. With evidence against one raw goat milk farm, regulators could have sought punitive action. But that’s not what happened.
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A Girl Nearly Died After Drinking Raw Milk. The State Did Little to Punish the Unlicensed Farmer Who Sold It.
California is teeming with black-market dairies, propped up by consumer demand fueled by misinformation. With evidence against one raw goat milk farm, regulators could have sought punitive action. But...
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Jen Jennings @jenjennings.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
stop treating the culture wars as an exogenous shock. political actors made strategic choices to create and weaponize them. they are not a curious weather condition public schools failed to dress appropriately for.
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Anne Lutz Fernandez @lutzfernandez.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Recos: First They Came for the Schools: One Town's Fight Over Race and Identity, and the New War for America's Classrooms, @mikehixenbaugh.com The Privateers: How Billionaires Created a Culture War and Sold School Vouchers, @joshcowenmi.bsky.social Southlake, Hixenbaugh & @ahylton26.bsky.social
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Destiny Sugarbuns @destinysugarbuns.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Do they think, when leftists say class war and Trumpists say marxism and both say elites ruined everything, that they are not talking about economics? Do they think those railing against mythical welfare moms or declaring themselves advocates of a mythical middle class are not talking about culture?
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Anne Lutz Fernandez @lutzfernandez.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Heritage was publishing dozens of articles on CRT specifically in the schools for years before this alleged moment of realization. Before that, it was just plain Marxism. And of course, the voucher movement itself was founded decades earlier in the desire for segregation.
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Anne Lutz Fernandez @lutzfernandez.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The pretense is that the voucher moment including the fine folks from Heritage, innocently standing by, saw the "culture wars" happening around "woke," and decided to then push aggressively for vouchers. First of all, Heritage *created* the CRT panic.
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Anne Lutz Fernandez @lutzfernandez.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
JFC this is some tremendous ahistorical bullshit. Another Atlantic piece blaming the "woke left" for the actions of the right. The argument hinges on a lie: that Heritage and the voucher movement simply recognized an opportunity in the 2020s "culture wars" to push for vouchers.
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How the Culture War Put Public Schools at Risk
Allegations about “woke nonsense” imperiled a crucial source of Americans’ common identity.
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Paste Magazine @pastemagazine.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Macklemore's "Free Palestine" tour sells out immediately
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Macklemore's "Free Palestine" tour sells out immediately
The rapper's three-day tour includes stops in Dublin, Paris, and London, all scheduled for the last week of October.
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Maggie Astor @maggieastor.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The 988 suicide prevention hotline's Press 3 option — which provides specialized services to LGBTQ callers — has been restored more than a year after the Trump administration shut it down. Confirmed by HHS and the office of Senator Tammy Baldwin, who led on legislation that forced its restoration
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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
One thing that i don’t see people noting about the Cornell Sun’s reporting on the rape case is that everyone who decided to take the risk and made the core decisions about what would be published is a woman
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Destiny Sugarbuns @destinysugarbuns.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Wait... is Minecraft just digital doll houses?
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Kristin Meekes @kmeekes.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
It’s never too late to start masking again, even if it’s just sometimes
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Spencer Sunshine @transform6789.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
My “A Short History of Nazi-Satanism,” the first comprehensive overview of Nazi-Satanism, is finally out! Runs from the 1970s alliances b/t the Church of Satan & neo-Nazi groups thru today’s Order of Nine Angles and NVE. Link for PDF download. (captcha req) escholarship.org/uc/item/1f57...
image of 6 pentagrams around the text "A Short History of Nazi-Satanism - see link above"
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MJ @discountfaramir.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Many people on the so called left need to brush up on their disability studies, bc the last couple weeks i have been seeing ableist rhetoric that would make rfk jr’s heart sing
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Erin Grievances @erinbartram.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I had avoided learning too much about the Cornell case but finally read Kate Manne's piece. I haven't taught in a college classroom in eight years but it all came back so vividly. So many women asking if they could close the door, they wanted to tell me something.
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Important to note that this data is only available to us because New York passed a law that requires all colleges and universities to share it. Maryland has a similar law. But that’s it. Schools in every other state can and do keep these records to themselves.
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Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
GoFundMe was a lot more effective when it was called taxes.
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Kelly @justkelly.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
She was doxxed by a Chi Phi alum who implored his followers to “help a Chi Phi.” Just in case anyone thought that organization was remotely redeemable.
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