Reposted by Emma Arcadiageoffrey @parsnip.bsky.social · 5hthere are moral arguments against the death penalty in its ideal form but in real life you never need to get there. the prior question is "can the state be trusted to end the life only of the rightly convicted without torture?" and the answer is no 271929481
Reposted by Emma ArcadiaBlackJew 🏳️⚧️ @blackjew.bsky.social · 5hI got to hang out with some of my favorite people and make a video about No on Question 3, No to Jungle Primaries, no to the California system in #mapoli 24315
Reposted by Emma ArcadiaEvan Urquhart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 9hThe "culture" may have "moved on" from #MeToo but men never stopped raping women so here we are again. 212822
Reposted by Emma Arcadiablue @bluebirdofsorrow.bsky.social · 25/09/2026umm actually the cop/mayor dynamic was a lot more complicated that that and a lot of mayors were actually subservient to their local police force. im a pillowmayor btw 219741
Reposted by Emma ArcadiaPiper Paige @pipermintz.bsky.social · 17hI think it's weird when ppl talk about generative AI being good cuz it can produce art/music/video that is completely personalized for the individual consumer. Art is good cuz it speaks to parts of myself I didn't know existed and makes me feel less alone, dipshit 5657
Reposted by Emma Arcadiajulia 🌋 @hypv.bsky.social · 18halso disgusted by the number of people gleefully wishing for the cornell rapists to be raped in prison. viewing rape as a punishment gets you at least halfway to having the rapist mindset yourself. 1162
Reposted by Emma Arcadiautopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 19hdestroying Greek life would be useful for stemming an entire mode of social reproduction which, as I must remind everyone, was born of the confederate south. Greek life prides itself on keeping the tradition of rape alive in more than one form. Sometimes literal. 12874162
Reposted by Emma ArcadiaImani Gandy @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 18h✍🏾 MY LATEST: I wrote about the moral panic Republicans manufactured about trans girls in sports. I decided to turn all my yelling on social media about trans girls in sports into a column.rewirenewsgroup.comThe Panic Over Trans Athletes is Fake: OpinionRepublicans have manufactured a crisis in women’s sports, just in time for the midterm elections. Democrats should find the courage to defend trans children—or at the very least, leave them alone. 220988
Reposted by Emma ArcadiaBrooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 30/09/2026One of the things to come from GamerGate was the gamification of torturing real, live women...hounding them out of their homes, making them look over their shoulders for years. It was treated as a joke, nbd, the work of a few bad apples--as all terrorism against women is--& that failure leads here. 3041721098
Emma Arcadia @emarcadia.bsky.social · 18hThe fact this pretense is maintained at all is sometimes mind boggling to me. If you are perceived to be part of the in group even a little men will trip over themselves to tell you about how much they love violence and dominance under the assumption you're on the same team. 110513
Reposted by Emma ArcadiaTalia "ATTACK DOGS is out now!" Bhatt ⚢ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 19hI'm kind of tired of pretending that "sense of brotherhood" is a real, meaningful term and isn't just a euphemism for men's spaces where they bond over misogynistic humiliation rituals and coach each other on how best to commit sexual assault. 9812182
Reposted by Emma ArcadiaICE must be destroyed 🏳️⚧️🏴 @miawong.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Cw rape Look it is not guaranteed that when you see media guys doing hatchet jobs on survivors that either they've abused someone or their friends have some guys are in patriarchal ideology for the love of the game but god damn are they bad fucking people Moreover, ICE must be destroyed 228546
Emma Arcadia @emarcadia.bsky.social · 20hNot to be rude but Burnham is already in government. People are looking at what Burnham's government is doing and responding to that. The criticisms are responses to real things actually happening. I'm also confused why skeptics need to wait and see but there's no such caution towards the positive? 181
Reposted by Emma ArcadiaKatelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 30/09/2026I actually don't think the Republican Senator mixed up "Hawks" and "Hawkeyes." Going by his own statements, it appears his staff saw he went to a basketball game on that date and googled basketball games and found the only men's game that night in the whole country was in Atlanta. 431444179
Reposted by Emma Arcadiaali alkhatib @ali-alkhatib.com · 30/09/2026shutting down frat houses won't end rape culture, but it will disorganize a lot of rapists, and i think that's probably worth doing if only to destabilize what is apparently an ecology of organizations that functionally exist to rape women per the whole "purpose of a system is what it does" insight. 83908746
Reposted by Emma ArcadiaKat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 30/09/2026A truly heinous man has doxxed the Cornell victim on X and the comments are predictably vile. Based on countless interviews I’ve done with survivors, the trauma they are subjected to for coming forward is oftentimes even worse than the initial trauma they experienced. There is no real justice system 12270351339
Reposted by Emma Arcadiathemboy insomniac @riotliturgist.bsky.social · 30/09/2026it is important to understand that this does not only apply to college fraternities that are literally called "fraternities," but the entire concept of patriarchal in-group solidarity. the nation-state itself. the world is run by old boys' clubs. 211624
Reposted by Emma ArcadiaNicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 28/09/2026I’m seeing a lot of posts about talking to your sons in light of the Cornell article. And yes. Talk to your sons. Here are some things you should say, based on anti-violence research about what they need to hear: 81147537
Reposted by Emma ArcadiaNicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Another big one is teaching your son to see girls as equals. Instead of enrolling him in sex-segregated sports, introduce him to a co-ed team. And help him foster his more “feminine” interests where we can be in mixed-sex spaces, making mixed-sex friend groups. 6916114
Emma Arcadia @emarcadia.bsky.social · 30/09/2026What search engine are folks using these days? Google has become unusable 010
Reposted by Emma ArcadiaDavid Forbes @davidforbes.bsky.social · 29/09/2026I do not care what Leo says into a mic until it's "all the total trans healthcare bans in the Catholic Church's massive hospital networks are immediately repealed." 1347126
Emma Arcadia @emarcadia.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Hello Peter does that mean there were only trans women prior to the late 1800s when we started to discover chromosomes? 150
Reposted by Emma ArcadiaParkrose Permaculture @parkroseperma.bsky.social · 29/09/2026<-- Longtime supporter of prison abolition bc 1. punishment doesn't work 2. We don't "rehabilitate" people in prison 3. The for-profit prison industry makes billions off of taking Black men from their families to be used as slave labor 4. We regularly steal innocent people's entire lives from them. 2699
Reposted by Emma ArcadiaNathan Tankus @nathantankus.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Iran released a 26 page missive to the American people about Trump's war against Iran. I am mostly reflecting on their expectations for American's reading comprehension and stamina img9.irna.ir/d/r2/2026/09...img9.irna.ir 717937
Emma Arcadia @emarcadia.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Looking forward to listening to this on the commute home later! If you're fascinated by the weird little grievances and obsessions and anxieties that produce right-wing politics, like I am, you owe it to yourself to follow Odium Symposium 031
Reposted by Emma ArcadiaKat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 29/09/2026It happens every time. They bring up the extremely rare cases (usually they just bring up the Rolling Stone one) where allegations were fabricated to say we should doubt this victim. They try to poke holes in her story. They try to redefine and restrict the meaning of rape. 583653
Reposted by Emma ArcadiaKat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 29/09/2026For me, the hardest thing about stories like the Cornell gang rape case isn’t reading the initial details—although that is hard. What’s even harder is when men online, especially the journalists and pundits, start trying to combat the feminist outrage by purposefully seeding doubt and victim-blaming 302213413
Reposted by Emma ArcadiaEvan Urquhart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Dueling accusations of abuse are not uncommon in abusive relationships. If the victim fights back or buckles under the pressure and acts in self-destructive or reckless ways this is characterized as them having been the perpetrator all along. Johnny Depp and Amber Heard is one prominent case. 222317
Emma Arcadia @emarcadia.bsky.social · 29/09/2026This is legitimately a fascinating read. Third Way seems to be adopting the McBride strategy kind of in full here, there's at least rhetorically a pretty radical break from their previous anti-trans vice signaling 24511
Emma Arcadia @emarcadia.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Damn some of these red state Republicans are having to campaign for the first tine in their life huh? 020
Reposted by Emma ArcadiaCharlotte @fireantprincess.bsky.social · 29/09/2026I think it’s unlikely that substack will do something about it but he seems to primarily have a substack and what he dies violates their policy. not sure if they include offsite behavior and they are, you know, substack. if a lot of people report, maybe? 15316
Reposted by Emma ArcadiaElizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 29/09/2026You have to wait until the sixth paragraph of this piece before you learn, in the New York Times reporting on the murder of THEIR OWN EMPLOYEE, that the victim was a trans man who had been abused for being trans by the in-laws who murdered him. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/28/u...nytimes.comCouple Accused of Killing Their Son-in-Law in Bay Area Park (Gift Article)Jonathan McKinsey, an engineer who worked in the games department for The New York Times, was fatally shot Saturday in a San Francisco suburb. The police have accused his parents-in-law, both 76. 281746567
Emma Arcadia @emarcadia.bsky.social · 29/09/2026When I wrote about Republicans undermining Democrat aligned blocs while Dems do nothing or even help? Yeah uh Dems helping Republicans pass an attack on primarily poc college athletes is certainly an example assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...assignedmedia.orgConsider the Car Dealerships - Assigned MediaRepublicans have long waged war against Democratic constituencies. What if we turned the tables? 011
Emma Arcadia @emarcadia.bsky.social · 29/09/2026I don't think it's true that most regular Israelis, even as extremely far right as they are, are actually willing to adopt a borderline medieval standard of living for ideological reasons. I think that would likely cause problems for that society. 140
Reposted by Emma ArcadiaYour Friend Temporary Southerner @trt311.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Ok Andy! This proves that 1. Talarico is a coward for his shitty answer on this. To a much lesser extent so is Hinojosa 2. Amy Acton and Marcy Kaptur just hate trans people. 3. No Democrat anywhere needs to run a single anti trans ad and can just say “trans people deserve civil rights” 07221
Emma Arcadia @emarcadia.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Yeah, just let the consultants have their easy payday and enjoy Emanuel getting parted from his money for a little bit 021
Emma Arcadia @emarcadia.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Dang disc horse has independently recreated groypers 000
Reposted by Emma ArcadiaNicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Kat is right about all of this. One of the reasons that college sexual violence is uniquely devastating is because it changes the victim’s entire future. 4488133
Emma Arcadia @emarcadia.bsky.social · 29/09/2026The center between what two points? John Wayne Gacy and the Ustaše? 010
Reposted by Emma Arcadiahelen @homotoptheory.northsky.social · 28/09/2026why are you trans? wrong answers only. men can’t read 1111
Reposted by Emma ArcadiaLee Cicuta @butchanarchy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Reminder that “carceral logic” is literally about state and medical *incarceration* in its various forms. It is NOT a shorthand for “any social consequences happening at all.” If a response doesn’t include involving organized authoritarian apparatuses and agents: it’s not carceral! 419858
Emma Arcadia @emarcadia.bsky.social · 29/09/2026This will 100% be used by the chud-o-sphere to recruit more men to the right through radical misogyny 020
Reposted by Emma ArcadiaMaeve, Degenerate Anarchist @maeve.bsky.social · 28/09/2026yeah this tracks 331
Reposted by Emma ArcadiaNicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 28/09/2026The main reason you haven’t heard about campus sexual violence in a few years is because Trump and SCOTUS have made it much, much harder for survivors to come forward. You might vaguely remember that Title IX was a big battleground in his first term. And that we lost. 31858635
Emma Arcadia @emarcadia.bsky.social · 28/09/2026This is all true but it's worth acknowledging that Emanuel is getting taken for a ride here 100
Emma Arcadia @emarcadia.bsky.social · 28/09/2026I'm not a Foucault stan but Pannekoek was pretty cool 100
Reposted by Emma ArcadiaYankee National Party @yankeenp.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Join the CT Chapter on their 6pm call today - ALL are welcome to come learn, participate, and help our movement grow! #YankeeNationalParty #Connecticut #CT #Organize #newengland www.yankeenp.org/ct.html 011
Emma Arcadia @emarcadia.bsky.social · 28/09/2026I'm pretty convinced that men as a class lack the intellectual capacity to be doctors 010
Emma Arcadia @emarcadia.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Ubiquitous surveillance is a harm unto itself. Not only should the police be "deflocked" but this kind of mass deprivation of privacy should be criminalized. It should straight up be a crime for any entity to engage in dragnet surveillance. 000
Emma Arcadia @emarcadia.bsky.social · 28/09/2026*Explaining US politics* so the neoconservatives, who are the stuffy old guard of the right, have basically been totally routed by the paleoconservatives, who are the new up and comers, of course 000