Reposted by Janet SternbergBrandy Alexander🍸 @brandyalex7.bsky.social · 8hI’m also really sick of men talking about rape like it’s some rare thing. They say “well I don’t know anyone who’s been raped.” Yes you do! Virtually every man knows a woman who’s been raped or sexually assaulted. You just don’t know that you know a woman who’s been raped. Ask yourself why that is. 0212
Reposted by Janet SternbergKat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 15hI literally don’t know a single woman who hasn’t been raped, stalked, groped, harassed, or sexually violated in some way at some point in their life. If you choose to doubt and dox survivors, just know every woman in your life is disgusted by you. 610218554567
Reposted by Janet Sternbergmiles - comms open @deimosphoibus.bsky.social · 23hto anyone still confused as to why brazilians would be worried about the US meddling with their politics, here's the first paragraph of the wikipedia page for the military dictatorship in Brazil. 18318
Reposted by Janet SternbergMike Elk @mikeelk.bsky.social · 12hSad, I can’t find anywhere to freelance stories about the Brazilian Presidential election. No outlets are interested in Brazilian presidential elections. If anyone wants coverage, let me know. 2138
Reposted by Janet SternbergLindsey Boylan @lindseyboylan.bsky.social · 18hThis 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. 10269851739
Reposted by Janet SternbergThe Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 28/09/2026Donald Trump’s rush to deport as many immigrants as possible is creating a new family-separation crisis, @caitlindickerson.bsky.social writes. She reports on the babies left behind in America:bit.lyThe Babies Left Behind in AmericaThe United States is deporting parents without their children, creating a whole new family-separation crisis. 914071
Reposted by Janet SternbergQasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 28/09/2026To the people complaining these sex abuse cases have created a world where men now have to think 10 times before they touch a woman. Yes, that's the point. It's called consent. Welcome to human decency. 297151283533
Reposted by Janet SternbergEriko Christy @erikochristy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026what a strange coincidence that every woman has friends who have been sexually assaulted (and quite possibly has been herself) and no man seems to be friends with any rapists! 201114215
Reposted by Janet SternbergMayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 29/09/2026Today, we opened the Jobs NYC Center at 2 Lafayette Street — a walk-in hub where New Yorkers can find city job opportunities, get application support, and connect with hiring agencies. 8864241323
Reposted by Janet Sternbergnick @unionnick.bsky.social · 27/09/2026On the *same day* the Cornell Seven drugged and raped Jane Doe, Cornell banned four students (including the President of Cornell JVP) from campus for three years for nonviolent, pro-Palestine protests. The same Cornell officials let the rapists off with apology essays. 3647231837
Reposted by Janet SternbergWajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 29/09/2026We're witnessing the Rapist-to-President and/or Rapist-to-Supreme Court Justice pipeline with this Cornell scandal. 13972031766
Reposted by Janet SternbergRuth Watson @ruthwatson.eurosky.social · 20hMeta, the company that brought you: Election interference, Spying software, Metadata abuse, Damage to children, Pervert glasses.... Mark Zuckerberg knows Meta is doing terrible things but he makes a lot of money from it, so... The question is, why do we keep feeding the beast? 02311
Reposted by Janet SternbergMar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Actually, I can’t find confirmation of the exact number in the group chat. But only one said anything—after the fact. The Cornell student newspaper is doing critical work breaking this story & making sure it doesn’t get buried. www.cornellsun.com/article/2026... www.cornellsun.com/article/2026...cornellsun.comCornell, Chi Phi Sued by Victim of Alleged Gang Rape, Drugging in 2024A former Cornell student filed a lawsuit on Monday, alleging that she was gang raped after being coerced into consuming drugs by several men at the Chi Phi fraternity house at Cornell in 2024. 27225
Reposted by Janet SternbergDan Diamond @ddiamond.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Russell Brand, who's awaiting trial in London next month on rape and sexual assault charges, will moderate a panel at DC's MAHA summit tomorrow on reforming a U.S. health agency 22325701042
Reposted by Janet SternbergRothaí @rothaiocht.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Women are supposed to carry pepper spray, whistles, and special ice cubes, and let friends know where we are at all times. Men don’t even have to have scripts ready for turning down invitations to mass rapes. Make every man a mandated reporter, and prosecute them for standing by. 311022
Reposted by Janet SternbergEmily L. Hauser (she/her) ❌👑 @emilylhauser.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Every woman you know 📢EVERY 📢WOMAN 📢YOU 📢KNOW has a story of sexual harassment &/or assault; most of us have more than one. I've been -grabbed & street harassed x infinity -dehumanized, grabbed, & harassed by men I thought I cld trust -stalked/followed at night -threatened (online & IRL) w/ rape 533666
Reposted by Janet SternbergEmily L. Hauser (she/her) ❌👑 @emilylhauser.bsky.social · 28/09/2026I managed to mostly not know any of this until today. This detail is new to me. The horror coursing through my body feels like poison. My God, men. Decide RIGHT FUCKING NOW what you'll do if a woman is sexually harassed or assaulted in your vicinity. Ask another man to do the same. TALK ABOUT IT. 221042300
Reposted by Janet SternbergJessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · 27/09/2026“It’s not ALL men.” None of the 50+ men the Cornell rapists invited to come join them in raping a woman they’d drugged went to the authorities or tried to stop it. Not all men would rape an unconscious woman, but where are the men who’d try to stop it, or EVEN FUCKING OBJECT? 322009643
Reposted by Janet SternbergBeshearStan @beshearstan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026God I love Angie Nixon. I hope she wins 4458831073
Reposted by Janet Sternberg@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026In two weeks, Russell Brand goes on trial in the UK on rape and sexual assault charges in cases involving six women. Tomorrow in DC, he's appearing at a MAHA gathering to 'moderate' a discussion with Dr Oz about medicare and medicaid. What the hell? 46733288
Reposted by Janet SternbergKat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Just a remember of what rape can entail after the fact: permanent psychological damage. Permanent physical damage and disability. Hundreds of thousands of dollars in medical care, relocation fees, lost work, lost educational opportunity. A marred reputation. Broken trust, lost relationships. 21197129
Reposted by Janet SternbergKat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 28/09/2026One of the Cornell students accused of gang rape, Scott Kretzschmar, denies it and says through his attorney that they are going to “confront” the survivor through the court system. I can already tell you that means victim-blaming, DARVO, and smears. She is going to need a lot more of our support. 423046686
Reposted by Janet SternbergKaren Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 28/09/2026If children had any political power, instead of being treated like property, we wouldn't be in such a mess. Exhibit A: Attacks on Critical Race Theory started in schools as "parents' rights" and book bans-- within 7 years, this morphed into an anti-DEI purge of adults in workplaces and academia. 936199
Reposted by Janet SternbergKaren Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 28/09/20261) Power will find a way to dominate-- and find any reason to justify itself--- including claims that women are weaker, or that women are powerful and must be controlled. 2) What keeps most women confined isn't discussing biological differences. It's the threat of male violence and poverty. 19522
Reposted by Janet SternbergElectronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 28/09/2026Everything you do online is tracked, saved, and shared for what feels like a lifetime. But there are some steps you can take to minimize what data is out there. ssd.eff.org/module/how-...ssd.eff.orgHow to: Manage Your Digital FootprintSearch for your name in any search engine and you’ll likely encounter dozens of results, some of which might include personal information like addresses, email accounts, usernames, or family members. Each piece of information is often public and not typically seen as harmful. But together these parts of your identity... 111051
Reposted by Janet SternbergTressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Yes, the precondition for regular AI agent use is changing your culture to speak in middle America white bureaucratic language to make it work. You can’t put “the good collards“ on an optimized shopping list, much less account for what some call familect: www.nytimes.com/2026/09/03/m...nytimes.comEvery Family Has Its Own Private Language. What Does That Tell Us About Ourselves? (Gift Article)“Familects” emerge out of in-jokes and mispronunciations, but they reveal something about how all language evolves. 1142771
Reposted by Janet SternbergDr Katie Twomey @k2mey.eurosky.social · 28/09/2026This is quite cool. My university is the first organisation in the world to force Microsoft to allow us to turn off copilot summaries in Word 365, after a backlash against it from staff (including, very vocally, me). That cannot have been easy for our heroic IT people so hats very much off to them! 895373910
Reposted by Janet SternbergChanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026Part of the testimonial injustice in the situation is believing that the harm to accused men is worse than the rape and worse than the harm caused to advocates and survivors everywhere when men are let off easy 240355
Reposted by Janet SternbergKylie Cheung @kylietcheung.bsky.social · 28/09/2026By nature of being enrolled at a university, student rapists dont fit the caricature of a rapist—ie a "dangerous" stranger in an alley, a false narrative meant to frame rape exclusively as a street-based crime justifying ever-more police funding. So they face no consequences: 022544
Reposted by Janet SternbergKylie Cheung @kylietcheung.bsky.social · 28/09/2026I think its important to understand the campus sexual assault crisis is way worse than you think. universities suspend just 1/12,400 students each year for sexual misconduct & expel 1/22,900. once you read title ix administrators in their own words, you get a sense why that is:jezebel.comNot Only Do Campus Sexual Assailants Go Unpunished, They Often Get Special TreatmentSince 2007, Jezebel has been the Internet's most treasured source for everything celebrities, sex, and politics...with teeth. 1661226
Reposted by Janet SternbergAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 28/09/2026Mamdani: "It's always surreal to see a depiction of yourself on Saturday Night Live. I had no idea it was coming. But to be featured on the same episode as the king of New York, as well as OG getting to relive the glory of the tip in, was incredible" 332661289
Reposted by Janet SternbergKendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 28/09/2026The data also strongly suggests that campus rape is perpetrated by a small number of actors. Put differently, most men on campus don't rape, but the ones who do rape a lot of women. Getting rid of those guys would make campus way safer . psycnet.apa.org/record/2020-... 5644161
Reposted by Janet SternbergRebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 28/09/2026One thing I end up going back to over and over again is: while the criminal justice system could do so much better in protecting rights, the only thing that can adequately address a pervasive problem like this is social/cultural change. Rape arises from and reasserts rape culture/patriarchy. 5670113
Reposted by Janet SternbergKaren Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 28/09/2026I've been reading bell hooks, and she talks about children being the most oppressed class in society. To this end, the United States has not ratified the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child-- I wrote about this years ago www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-p...washingtonpost.comWhy won’t the U.S. ratify the U.N.’s child rights treaty?The non-ratification of the Convention on the Rights of the Child is hypocritical. 334990
Reposted by Janet SternbergUrvi @theurv.com · 28/09/2026There were more men in a single documented gang rape at one school than the number of competitive trans athletes nationally. But I’ve heard a lot more politicians being asked about protecting girls from one of these scenarios and not another… I’ll let you guess which is which. 142458845
Reposted by Janet SternbergLindsey Boylan @lindseyboylan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Slut-shaming is rape culture 016425
Reposted by Janet SternbergJson Momoa @jotatx.eurosky.social · 28/09/2026Watch the entire piece, but this is actually the core message. "Dark Horse" finances is just the tip of the iceberg. for all that we know about Bolsonaro, electing his son will be, with no exaggeration, the death of democracy in Brazil. 1143
Reposted by Janet SternbergJson Momoa @jotatx.eurosky.social · 28/09/2026John is doing the Lord's work here www.youtube.com/watch?v=MIYC...youtube.comBrazil Elections 2026: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)YouTube video by LastWeekTonight 1349
Reposted by Janet SternbergMark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 28/09/2026US social media companies are interfering in the Brazilian elections in favour of the Far Right’s Flávio Bolsonaro. Meta is the latest. It’s just blocked the campaign account of President Lula in the final stretch of the election.elespectador.comMeta restringe la cuenta de Lula y su partido alerta por posible injerencia extranjeraDe cara a las elecciones en Brasil, Lula enfrenta a Meta por restringir su cuenta mientras su partido alerta por posible injerencia extranjera. 421001639
Reposted by Janet SternbergScott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 28/09/2026JUST FILED: Sitting behind her desk in central North Carolina, Amy Beros warned me: “It’s really hard for people in the United States to understand the scale……” of what’s about to unfold macfarlanenews.substack.com/p/they-dont-... 851848937
Reposted by Janet Sternbergpost malone ergo propter malone @proptermalone.bsky.social · 28/09/2026i predict that someone is going to make some money insider trading off of whatever this is 431190134
Reposted by Janet SternbergDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 27/09/2026The fact that this was *previously used as a campaign ad during the presidential campaign* removes any real defense as to its purpose. Its not a public service announcement. Its a campaign ad that has become state propaganda. 291083300
Reposted by Janet SternbergRebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Campus rape is really widespread; statistics suggest a significant percent of women who go to college will be raped there; feminism opened up a good conversation about it around 2012-13; it's weird when people treated Cornell like an isolated rather than dramatic example of a pervasive problem. 412400520
Reposted by Janet SternbergMrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 28/09/2026You know, if you *really* cared about the wellbeing of women in college, instead of carping about the statistically insignificant number of trans athletes in sports minding their own business, you’d be railing against these Cornell fraternity cretins who drugged and gang-raped a passed-out women: 39871682840
Reposted by Janet SternbergAllison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 28/09/2026NEW: The Tompkins County DA is re-opening the criminal investigation into the Cornell 7. abcnews.com/US/district-...abcnews.comDistrict attorney reopens case of alleged Cornell University 'gang rape'Prosecutors in central New York say they are reopening the case of alleged gang rape at a Cornell University fraternity. 25047281241
Reposted by Janet SternbergRebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 28/09/2026@jkbjournalist.bsky.social reopened the Epstein case; Heidi Blake seems to have restarted the UK prosecuting Andrew Tate; Ronan Farrow, Megan Twohey and Jodi Kantor made the system finally go after Weinstein for real. Journalism has again and again made the justice system do its job. 111568370
Reposted by Janet SternbergMoira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026You know when public attention can reverse a prosecutorial decision like this you almost get the sense that the decision to shrug it off in the first place was not based on an assessment of the quality of the evidence so much as an assessment of the seriousness of the crime. 363570824
Reposted by Janet SternbergClara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 28/09/2026AOC goes to Ithaca and denounces rape culture: www.cornellsun.com/article/2026...cornellsun.comAt Ithaca Town Hall, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Denounces ‘Culture of Rape’ at Cornell Amid Chi Phi LawsuitRep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said the 2024 alleged gang rape at Chi Phi was part of a "culture of rape" at elite institutions, including Cornell, during a Sunday visit to Ithaca. 535481