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Helen E C Schubert @helenec-schubert.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

"This isn't a conflict between religion and secularism. It's a conflict between constitutional governance and the coercive use of military authority to impose one commander's end-times theology on the troops beneath him." www.facebook.com/share/1CXghv...

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Helen E C Schubert @helenec-schubert.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

"The air vibrated with that very specific end-of-empire energy where your brain says this is insane but your soul says don't stop, this is sacred." www.facebook.com/share/p/1D2P...

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

Off to a good start

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Helen E C Schubert @helenec-schubert.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

open.substack.com/pub/lucid/p/... 🧵①“On Thursday, November 6, I gave the David, Markert, Nickerson lecture. This is an annual lecture on academic and intellectual freedom…[the] series’ origins go back to the McCarthy era. In 1954 the University of Michigan suspended three faculty members for..."

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Intellectual Freedom in an Authoritarian Age

My Davis, Markert, Nickerson Lecture at the University of Michigan

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Helen E C Schubert @helenec-schubert.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

open.substack.com/pub/lucid/p/... 🧵①"Autocrats don’t recognize boundaries between public and private, and they don’t see democratic ideas of conflicts of interest or accountability as legitimate or applicable to them. Only fools are in office to serve the people: rather, the party and government

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"Both Sane and Insane": Autocratic Visions of Governance, and Chaos as a Strategy

Plus gratitude practice and a discount on paying subscriptions as a thank you

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

Oh hey — you know that big Chicago raid where Stephen Miller said the building was “FILLED” with gang members? @propublica found 0 evidence of Tren De Aragua, the men weren’t charged with any crimes. 🤔 (sound familiar Tennessee?) All for show. www.propublica.org/article/chic...

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BryanMichael @piquedinthe80s.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

On the difference between a pedophile, hebephile & ephebophile: "... it's very hard to explain the difference without sounding like a pedophile." Yup. Me, I'll take "Things I wish I hadn't learned for $1000, Alex."

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Helen E C Schubert @helenec-schubert.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

🧵①"So successful has white supremacist patriarchy been at convincing white women that they’re lucky to live in the U.S. and not Saudi Arabia or Iran, that so many white women did not pay enough attention to the theocracy that white supremacy was building right here at home. It was being...

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

“They came into the building understanding it was a daycare. They did not have a warrant. It is a violation of our rights. It is a violation of these children’s rights. They are terrorizing our community.” Trump’s ICE goons raided a damn daycare.

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Helen E C Schubert @helenec-schubert.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

🧵①"The amount of food that SNAP provides has been estimated to be nine times larger than the entire food bank network combined, so to think that we at food banks alone can be the sole resource to pick up this slack for government’s failure in this moment, it’s very unreasonable,” said George

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Helen E C Schubert @helenec-schubert.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

🧵①“The fact that I am regularly sent clips of medical misinformation from a variety of popular podcasts just reaffirms my belief that many of them are simply infotainment, and that medical content is especially valuable for translating fear into clicks, and hence into money from advertising...

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The Hormone IUD Doesn't Cause Bone Loss

How Steven Bartlett’s “Diary of a CEO” turned a safe contraceptive into clickbait

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Helen E C Schubert @helenec-schubert.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

Absolutely—Positively—Emphatically 💯❤️‍🔥✊🏻🫡 open.substack.com/pub/lisaleec...

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Radically Pledging Allegiance to the Fight Against Hate

One nation, indivisible?

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Larry Tenney @larrytenney.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

THIS!!! A letter to Benjamin Netanyahu

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Helen E C Schubert @helenec-schubert.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

"Women’s fear of that violence demands her constant deference, to all men. Not all men might be rapists or abusers, but enough are to fuel women’s constant deference and fear." open.substack.com/pub/feminist...

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Essay: Home is Where the Hurt is

Dylan Martinez | Credit: REUTERS

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

This is Antifa. Which, I guess, makes Republicans Profa.

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Helen E C Schubert @helenec-schubert.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

🧵①"Sanitation conquered waterborne killers like cholera and typhoid. Vaccines defeated airborne killers like measles and polio. Antibiotics rescued children from bacterial complications. Nutrition and housing...

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Why I Shower After Flying (And Why That’s Not Enough)

RFK Jr. Is Right About Sanitation—But That’s Only Part of the Story

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Helen E C Schubert @helenec-schubert.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

🧵①"[K]eeping the government going meant keeping all the priorities included in the big ugly bill that all Senate Democrats opposed. Which is why Senate Democrats refused to sign on unless most of the big ugly’s cuts to Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act were restored, so health insurance...

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This shutdown is different

Here’s what’s at stake, and why Dems must hold the line.

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Helen E C Schubert @helenec-schubert.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

🧵①“[T]he most chilling revelation has gotten little media attention: Trump has signed an executive order ‘to provide training for a quick reaction force that can help quell civil disturbances’ by ‘the enemy from within.’ He appears to be describing...

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A Holistic Plan for an Authoritarian Military

Trump and Hegseth unveil a plan to make the military an authoritarian institution and adapt the notion of the battlefield and the enemy for domestic use.

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Stace RN Resists 📎💙 OR @stacernresists.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

Reposting this because the crimes against humanity by this fascist regime are mounting up on the daily! If you agree like many others, please repost as well!

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Helen E C Schubert @helenec-schubert.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

🧵①“‘You kill people and break things for a living. You are not politically correct and don’t necessarily belong always in polite society,”…But then Hegseth, [former] weekend host on the Fox News Channel, complained that…’We became the woke department…We are done with that sh*t.’ He is...

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September 30, 2025

Last Thursday, September 25, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth suddenly announced he was calling about 800 of the nation’s top military generals and admirals, along with their top enlisted advisors, to m...

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Helen E C Schubert @helenec-schubert.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

"Because, history may be written by the victors but the songs are sung by the survivours."~Lina Ferreira Cabeza-Vanegas open.substack.com/pub/steady/p...

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You Can’t Rewrite Facts

Trump is trying to gaslight the country by whitewashing January 6

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Helen E C Schubert @helenec-schubert.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

"Let’s introduce some facts into the discussion. Mifepristone is one of the safest drugs that we have. The risk of death is 5per1 mil prescriptions. In comparison, the risk of death from a drug, like Viagra, that treat ED (phosphodiesterase inhibitors), is 49per mil. prescriptions..."🧵①

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The FDA Plans to Review Mifepristone

When junk science shapes policy, it's fascism

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Helen E C Schubert @helenec-schubert.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

👩‍🍳🤌🏻💋 Beautifully eloquent 🥹

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Helen E C Schubert @helenec-schubert.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

"What autistic people & their families actually need: ▪︎Adequate funding for special education support to help children thrive ▪︎Insurance coverage for evidence-based therapies🧵①

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The Day Our Government Told Mothers They Caused Their Children's Autism

"Don't take Tylenol, tough it out." Yesterday's press conference wasn't just bad science—it was dangerous advice wrapped in mother-blaming

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Helen E C Schubert @helenec-schubert.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

"Once, to show that diagnoses were constructed was to resist reification, to remind psychiatry of its entanglement with culture, politics, and values. Now, the same refrain is repurposed by movements that reject the reality of disability..." 🧵/①

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Helen E C Schubert @helenec-schubert.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

"[Y]esterday 4 of 5 justices...of the Brazilian Supreme Court found former pres. Bolsonaro, a close ally of D. Trump, guilty of plotting a coup, attempting to overturn the country’s '22 election, & committing violent acts against state institutions. They sentenced him to 27 yrs & 3 mos in prison."

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September 12, 2025

Since a gunman murdered right-wing activist Charlie Kirk at an outdoor event at Utah Valley University in Orem, Utah, both social media circles and the political sphere have been alight with accusatio...

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Helen E C Schubert @helenec-schubert.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

"The worst among us who are still alive must know that we will remember the worst in him, that he will be known for the worst things he said and did, and that we will not succumb to political amnesia." open.substack.com/pub/feminist...

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Essay: Speak Truth of the Dead

Turning Point USA Co-Founder Charlie Kirk speaks during a campaign rally, Oct.

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