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Freya.

@dragnflite.bsky.social
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Accidental owner of multiple dogs. Feeder of two lovely pasture ornaments. My favorite quote "Some things need to be broken" by PC Hodgell.

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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 4h
Trump’s ICE expansion received over $100 billion as arrests and detention surged. Watchdogs were gutted, courts documented repeated violations, deaths mounted, and DHS’s own inspector general accused the department of obstructing oversight.
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Miller set the arrest target, a former GEO executive took over ICE and DHS gutted its own watchdogs
Congress gave ICE more than $100 billion and Miller set the arrest target. DHS cut its civil rights office, closed its detention ombudsman, stopped reviewing deaths after release and was accused by i...
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Freya. @dragnflite.bsky.social · 4h
I believe most women are sick of this shit. But I do not believe enough women are willing to kick the men on their lives to the curb over it. & that is really what it will take. A line in the sand that no you will not support abusers and rapist, even if that support is merely tuning in to TV.
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Pinks📨 @pinksglobal.net · 13h
JUST IN: Gov. Kathy Hochul said she had signed an executive order appointing the office of New York Attorney General Letitia James as the special prosecutor on the Cornell University sexual assault case. Accountability is coming! #Cornell #Pinks
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NPR @npr.org · 6h
The dark side of the prediction market boom is becoming more clear: Experts say the sites have become go-to outlets for gambling addicts to relapse as the companies avoid state consumer protections. n.pr/4hzSuJ0
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He was banned by betting sites, and filed for bankruptcy. Then he relapsed on Kalshi
The dark side of the prediction market boom is becoming more clear: Experts say the sites have become go-to outlets for gambling addicts to relapse as the companies avoid state consumer protections.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 15h
Last year not a single refugee fleeing religious persecution was admitted to the US.
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 13h
How many cases broke bad for Trump in court today? I count a number of them today in this piece, which I hope you’ll take a moment to read. joycevance.substack.com/p/another-ba...
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Another Bad Day in Court for Trump
Today, as Trump was busy trying (and failing) to convince his own people that “affordability” is a word made up by Democrats, the courts were having a field day with him.
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Suri Crowe 🥷7️⃣ @suricrowe.bsky.social · 19h
did you know that 98% of rapists never face accountability for their crimes? yep. i fact checked it. here’s my report on the cornell jane doe case for @meidastouch.com please share youtu.be/KtBKwVnZxP0?...
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SHOCK Cornell Case Just TOOK a MAJOR TURN...
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Freya. @dragnflite.bsky.social · 18h
Most of us are Jane Doe or we know her. I'm fucking furious. The replies to this Facebook post. I can't even. www.facebook.com/share/r/19y1...
Screen shot of women posting to a Facebook video, describing their assaults and stating they are Jane Doe.
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eggnogenjoyer @patrickhostert.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Beating Trump was the best hope to avoid more genocide. Trump gave carte blanche to Netanyahu. Voting Harris was one of the most powerful (but not only) actions one could take to tilt history away from the continued genocide of the Palestinian people
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Scott Lincicome @scottlincicome.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
"Done deal? Despite White House claims, major hurdles remain for Iowa’s $15B steel plant" www.kwqc.com/2026/09/29/t... Hahaha:
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AdotSad @adotsad.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The guy came out and lied that the Charlie Kirk shooter was "indoctrinated with leftist idealogy" so he could get some play on Fox News.
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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
“Cutting this much from the university budget will mean that some of the core functions of the university will be lost. It’s not possible to just do more with less — to work smarter, to trim around the edges. We’re going to have to do less with less.” Gift link: www.startribune.com/umn-cuts-sta...
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Perry: What we lose if the U cuts $225 million
"Austerity doesn’t work. Instead, it creates a death spiral, where reduction in services leads to reductions in revenue, which lead to reductions in services, which leads to reduction in revenue, whic...
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Wilber Rafael Garces Perez was shot by ICE 10 days ago. The bullet is still lodged in his back. He’s been forced to sleep on the floor and hasn’t been given medication, according to his attorney. Now DHS is claiming he assaulted an agent. Can we trust anything DHS says given its track record?
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Freya. @dragnflite.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Lots of barbarism on display in the world tonight. I used to think the world was becoming a better place. The barbarians aren't at the gate, they are in the house with us. No, They are us.
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Freya. @dragnflite.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The target was their idiot base.
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Freya. @dragnflite.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I hope there's enough of us.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
My podcast today explores the case of five friends who went to a basketball game in 1978. None made it home. Their car was found abandoned on a remote mountain road where they had no reason to be. Months later, four were found dead under deeply mysterious circumstances. The fifth was never found.
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The Yuba County Five: The Road to Nowhere
Podcast Episode · Echoes of the Unknown · September 29 · 48m
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Freya. @dragnflite.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
A roller-coaster literally killing people is so 2026.
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Tim White @twmcltd.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Ukraine's Intel says Russia is moving propaganda film crews into occupied Oleshky. Residents will be forced to say on camera how everything is rosy under occupation and they are not cold and starved at all. #SaveOleshky
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Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 30/09/2026
Tonight, 47 Senators supported my resolution to get accountability for the 9 Americans killed on the West Bank & for Palestinians who face injustices daily. That's more support than we've ever had in this fight. Republicans blocked us, but we won't stop until we get justice.
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Tina Vasquez @tinavasquez.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Neither the state of NC nor federal OSHA has a heat standard that requires employers to establish standards for access to drinking water, rest breaks, and temperature control. With no law mandating these basic protections, employers will continue to subject workers to deadly conditions.
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Tina Vasquez @tinavasquez.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
NEW: H-2A worker Carlos Vargas Moreno experienced a catastrophic heat stroke when his employer, Florida Orange Gold, subjected him to unsafe working conditions. The same company was cited two years prior for the heat-related death of H-2A worker Carmen Sebastian Hernandez Mosqueda.
prismreports.org
Despite farmworker death and another disabled by heat stroke, employer keeps sending people to fields
Florida Orange Gold has exposed workers on H-2A visas to extreme heat, but continues to bring hundreds of migrants to North Carolina
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ex-Lethality Jane @lethalityjane.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
IRGC hasn't heard about the literacy crisis
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Freya. @dragnflite.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
They took to the time to make a posterboard without fact checking it.
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Lindsey Boylan @lindseyboylan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This man is a monster. He seeks out women survivors because he hates them. And he hates them because he hates himself. He has harassed me and other women survivors many times over the years. It must end. He should never have a job anywhere.
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Lindsey Boylan @lindseyboylan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Of course he is. Abusers convention in D.C. presiding over the health of our most vulnerable people. Rape. Culture.
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Freya. @dragnflite.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I've been called all of these but witch, and frankly think that may be because the men around me in my life lacked imagination.
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Lorenzo Salgado, jr. @oznezol.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
One step closer to justice for my dad, Lorenzo Salgado Araujo.
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Spokane Rising @spokanerising.com · 29/09/2026
Send Stephen Miller to The Hague.
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Matthew Downhour @matthewdownhour.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I will go so far as to say Jamelle has more followers on here than Rahm Emanuel will get votes
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026
Mamdani on what he was thinking about while he stared off into space as Trump ranted and raved next: "In that moment, I'm just thinking about 12,000 homes, 30,000 jobs, largest housing development since the early 1970s... we also spoke about Haitian NYers... they're a part of the fabric of the city"
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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The raw visceral hatred some men have for women, at least women who step out of line, is shocking. I know it sounds like some sorta "one of the good ones" ploy but I am genuinely taken aback when I see it because I think: I had a fairly normal socialisation as a man in the west, how did I miss this?
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Gareth Watkins @garethwatkins.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
There's a weird puritan streak to how this article is written where the writer keeps noting that the people who run the business side of porn are normal - they wear gilets and work in 'nondescript offices', as opposed to what? A building shaped like a giant cock? www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
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‘Online sex workers literally have to bare it all’: why Patricia Nilsson is exposing the world’s biggest porn bosses
As a business journalist, Nilsson began rigorously reporting on the power players of the adult industry, who prefer to remain in the shadows. Along the way, she uncovered how porn has shaped the inter...
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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 28/09/2026
Pupdate: foster pups are still very shy and timid, but they're *slowly* warming up more. Getting better at playing with each other, and today were happy to just chill on the couch with humans... really timid one is finally just *starting* to explore on her own.
Puppies running around playingTwo puppies curled up next to each other and next to me on the couch.
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Susan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 27/09/2026
NEW: A Texas woman died after being denied an abortion and her family sued the state and her doctors for violating her right to life. They say the ban should be struck down. It's one of several cases challenging abortion laws under state constitutional rights to life and liberty @autonomynews.co
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New Lawsuits Argue That Pregnant People Also Have a Right to Life
Lawyers are fighting abortion bans in state court by establishing that pregnant people have a right to life and liberty—or at least self-defense.
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Freya. @dragnflite.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
If they say they've never heard of Jerry.....
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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
no this is great, we have come full circle to getting angry at things that don't matter, this is the sign of happiness, I yearn for a time I don't have to be friends with people who hate my fav bands because we are both against nazis running our country
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Freya. @dragnflite.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The most wholesome thing you will see today. Her smile is priceless.
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Freya. @dragnflite.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
And public stocks and floggings.
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Freya. @dragnflite.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Unbelievable they have to commit resources to feeding people in areas Russia pretends is theirs.
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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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Rachel Chatrooms @crabitha.slutmo.de · 27/09/2026
Gee I wonder why the nerds would be trying to filter out the ones who don’t want to be sluts
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Micah @rincewind.run · 27/09/2026
it’s bad, actually, that much of the industry is gatekept by people whose standard for hiring a woman is “are you a Cool Girl who is into weird men doing sex stuff at her all the time?”
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Freya. @dragnflite.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Controversial truths? Who determines the truth? Jfc, the hubris of these people.
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Don Zeko @donzeko.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
If we're going to do this I would like the right to opt out of having my kids taught by anyone who agrees with the Thomas Moore society.
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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
There need to be penalties for the companies and individuals who bribed Trump, not just the Trump family for taking bribes.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Vought is breaking the law but he is not “going rogue.” At his confirmation hearings, Vought told Republicans he would do this and they voted for him anyway. If they want to stop him, they still can via impeachment. They won’t.
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CavsKermit @cavskermit.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Vought should be impeached and removed for this.
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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I find it fascinating that so many estranged parents view the estrangement as an incident, not as a process. So it's forums full of Boomers going "She stopped talking to me because I said her haircut was bad! She's so UNREASONABLE!", when, in reality, they've been shitting on their kid for decades.
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