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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 8h

Things Gavin Newsom has vetoed this week: -A ban on secretly recording people with smart glasses -A ban on ICE agents working for the state government -A ban on websites selling your data -A bill giving native tribes more say over water rights -A bill protecting transgender healthcare providers

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The Road Jess Travelled @jesspected.bsky.social · 10h

Is Clearsky just not a thing anymore? Enshittification complete? Every time I've tried to use it for months it's just ads then freezes.

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Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 11h

The Keynote Speaker at the Annual National Catholic Prayer Breakfast in March, folks.

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The Road Jess Travelled @jesspected.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The Cornell case, particularly the school & DA's response, demonstrate why rape victims need an advocate to protect them. The system is hostile to victims & looking to discredit & vilify them. She did everything right but it wasn't just the rapists looking to harm her.

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The Road Jess Travelled @jesspected.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Men are doxxing the wrong women because they're so hungry to terrorize a rape victim into further tragedy, they don't care if they violate & destroy other women. They just want to join in men's sexual violence like the 8th in line to a gang rape, any woman will do.

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Grumpy says "FREE THE PALESTINIAN HOSTAGES! @grumpyoldleftygit.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Might I add 15yo Audrie Pott? Together with Daisy Coleman, the subject of the 2016 documentary "Audrie & Daisy". Both gang raped by teenaged boys in 2012, both doxxed & bullied. Nude photos of Audrie were posted.on-line. She hanged herself 8 days after the rape. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicide...

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Suicide of Audrie Pott - Wikipedia

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Grumpy says "FREE THE PALESTINIAN HOSTAGES! @grumpyoldleftygit.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

TY, @jesspected.bsky.social, for bringing the Daisy Coleman story to my attention! bsky.app/profile/jess... Also 2012: 15yo Audrie Pott hanged herself 8 days after being raped & cyberbullied. HuffPost named Coleman in "13 Most Fearless Teens of 2013". It didn't keep her from suicide 7 years later.

Poster of the documentary "Audrie & Daisy”, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2016.

The poster features the line SHAME IS TRENDING & the hashtag #EVERYONEKNOWS

The 2-tone photo shows an adolescent girl sitting on the ground and hugging her knees in a school hall while other students mill around her at a certain distance.

Do their stories presage that of Michael Tracey and the Cornell 7 ?

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The Road Jess Travelled @jesspected.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

These sorts of replies from men are so tedious because they're meant to embarrass women as being traumatized for objecting to systemic oppression. Just stay out of spaces/conversations critiquing power & oppression if you're not interested in bettering society. You're not parasites becoming pearls.

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Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

One 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.

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Studies dating back to the 80s have found that men are not just “confused” about consent. They just don’t prioritize consent over things like power, domination, and sexual gratification. Men participating in a gang rape know they don’t have the victim’s consent.

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

THIS. Consequences are meant to enforce a moral code. We need boys and men to internalize a moral code of gender equality.

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Another 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.

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Libby 🎃Stink Gourd🎃 @libbystigaard.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Good 🧵. My conversations about consent with my kid were kicked off by him REALLY wanting to pet other people's dogs. He understood having to ask first, but wanted to ignore anything other than an outright no. ("He's not really friendly.") We had a lot of convos about recognizing soft no's and

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

There are a lot of parents focused on getting gentleness *for* their sons, but not expecting their sons to show gentleness to anyone else. And that’s just male entitlement in liberal window dressing.

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Researchers find that one-time trainings about consent can actually increase perpetration. In my interviews with young men, they told me that they knew no one believed what they were saying because it hadn’t come up before—and no one actually held men accountable anyway.

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The Road Jess Travelled @jesspected.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

This is the problem. We can never address patriarchy because simply pointing out privilege, how it's enforced, & the entitlement it creates in men is disingenuously labeled as hatred of vulnerable white boys to silence liberation. We can't raise better men if naming the problem is "hate."

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The Road Jess Travelled @jesspected.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Also thinking about Chelsea Perkins currently serving 22.5 yrs for doing just that, more time than most rapists & even many men who kill their victims. She hunted her rapist, Matthew Dunmire, & gave him the justice our patriarchal systems deny rape victims. She should be free.

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The Road Jess Travelled @jesspected.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Dr. Ford had to go into hiding. Terrorizing rape victims in hopes they recant or suicide is more sexual terrorism & class protection.

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Why is a woman still not safe @treemuseums.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

(screams internally) do men (& teen boys) realise how much empathy & cognitive flexibility women & all victims of men &teen boys sexual violence have to employ to be able to live with, love, respect, work &study with them while living under a rapist celebrating, women hating patriarchy 👇 (no)

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The Road Jess Travelled @jesspected.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

When I was in undergrad I thought frat bros were douchebags & looked down upon greek life. I was considered a buzzkill & judgy for not going along & had friends who considered these networks important to their future. Women can't win. If they shun these spaces, they're penalized, if they don't, rape

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The Road Jess Travelled @jesspected.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

This. These male-dominated, hypermasculine dominance spaces aren't just dangerous to women. Men are often the first victims. Stigmatizing victims & normalizing dominance also makes male victims vulnerable. When men do it to men, it's called "hazing" or "pranks."

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The Road Jess Travelled @jesspected.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

They burned down her house her family had been driven out of because a 14yo reported being raped. This is what men like Michael Tracey hope to accomplish by doxxing Jane Doe.

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themboy insomniac @riotliturgist.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

it's effectively the logic of revenge porn. an assertion of power over the victim by exposing her to the gaze of others, with the intention to terrorize, humiliate, and display

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Demy @demytra.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

This is rape culture, full stop. An unrelenting and vicious hatred for women and rape victims by people who are protected by power and privilege and in turn are supported by so many people who would want to do much the same if they had the opportunity.

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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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The Road Jess Travelled @jesspected.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Ret. NYPD. These are the people rape victims are expected to report being raped to & find empathy, support, & justice from. No surprise almost no rapists go to prison with these accomplices gatekeeping justice. If 40% of cops self-report beating their wives, what % are rapists?

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The Road Jess Travelled @jesspected.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

This is also sexual terrorism, every bit as effective as rape. This is yet another way men identify with rapists & worship the violence of other men. This is men acting as a class to defend their violent enforcement of the oppression of women. But why don't women report, eh?

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The jackals are out, as they usually are for a woman who speaks up in a way that challenges patriarchy. (And a lot of why victims don't come forward or withdraw--as a Weinstein victim did--is because the misogynist public and legal system launch their own punitive assaults.)

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Andrea Grimes @andreagrimes.com · 29/09/2026

I asked America.gov whether Donald Trump is an adjudicated rapist and it responded: basically, yes so that clears that up at least

Andrea's prompt for America.gov reads "is donald trump an adjudicated rapist" and the bot response is:

In civil litigation brought by writer E. Jean Carroll, a federal jury found Donald Trump liable for sexual abuse and defamation, awarding damages.

Regarding the specific legal term:

The jury did not find him liable for "rape" under the narrow legal definition used in New York penal law at the time, but instead found him liable for "sexual abuse".
The presiding judge later clarified in post-trial rulings that the jury's verdict established that Trump had forcibly sexually assaulted and digitally penetrated her, which meets common understandings of rape even though it did not match the specific statutory elements required for that charge under New York criminal law.

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The rape and pedophile party specifically use transphobia as a wedge to make *all* their intended victims more vulnerable, and Jeff Epstein literally advised them in many, many, many barely literate emails to do this.

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The Road Jess Travelled @jesspected.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Remembering this part of that Tate article where they brag about getting away with beating & raping girls. Yes, the system protecting abusers absolutely encourages them & other men to abuse. It is deliberate conditioning of abusers & enforcement against victims.

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The Road Jess Travelled @jesspected.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

They don't follow through though. It's performance art for male approval & to center themselves in women's stories. It's why men cling to a case from 1984 (which was more about homophobic rage, an "honor killing," than "protection") because it's so nonexistent for men to do shit.

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The Road Jess Travelled @jesspected.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Speaking of the bear, I keep seeing similar rape apologism like this screenshot so I want to point out what it's stating about men. Because her "friend" was the man who lured her there & gang raped her. So it declares that men can't be friends & all are rapists. But then they cried over the bear.

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The Road Jess Travelled @jesspected.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

When men say flashing (like getting your dick out, ordering doordash, then feigning sleep), dick pics, & other sexual harassment are no big deal, it's part of an escalating spectrum.

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The Road Jess Travelled @jesspected.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Whenever I post about men abusing women or kids & women vent a violent fantasy, I'm fine with that because I know women don't have that option but genuinely would like to. When men do it, I know it's entirely performative for male approval & you wouldn't even tell your bro "not cool."

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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

(Today I want revenge.)

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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This is one of those moments to consider right now what you are telling your son(s) about what it means to be a good man. Because in addition to the seven who did it, there were 57 men in that group chat who stood by and did NOTHING. NOTHING. My god.

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The Road Jess Travelled @jesspected.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I can't think of Blasey-Ford without remembering her own father sided with the man who tried to gang-rape her. Stop asking men "what if that were your daughter?" Proximity to women doesn't make misogynists value, protect, or love them.

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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

It was the Cornell student paper, with an editorial board that appears to be all women, that first named the rapists and REFUSED to let the story die.

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I Travel Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 29/09/2026

Killer part is all of this was very predictable. If people took the theories they dismissed as woke nonsense half seriously every step could be foreseen.

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I Travel Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 29/09/2026

The fact that the preferred political movement of the free speech set immediately set about establishing “western civics centers” while gutting the rest of the humanities and supports for marginalized students really does tell you what the source of their concerns really were

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I Travel Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 29/09/2026

Essentially people are willing to admit that Rufo is a gutter racist and anyone who ignores that is a dupe but also his anti-CRT push was generally right. Okay.

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I Travel Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 29/09/2026

This is the guy people are still doing the whole “well you had to hand it to him on woke 1” bit with…

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

In response to people going after him for this, Friedersdorf claimed that he genuinely had no idea Rufo had anything to do with the Haitians in Springfield slurs and then got mad at people for acting like he was being a complete rube.

BillielsTheOne 9/20/26 “Rufo? The dude who earnestly repeated the lie about cats and dogs being eaten in Springfield? He believes in colorblind equality?”

Conor Friedersdorf • 9/20/26

“I'd missed his involvement in that and agree that, whatever it says about his beliefs, it reflects badly on him.”

@josephgfrancis, 9/21/26
“just incredible how people paid to write about politics for major publications can be more ignorant than random twitter users who didn't have to search hard to find this”

Conor Friedersdorf, 9/21/26 “Maybe I saw it and forgot. Or maybe I wasn't on X that week. You people are unbelievable--as if anyone has perfect recollection of every post relevant to something they do a quick x post about. Of course the hive mind of X collectively recalls more things than I do individually.”

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Jonathan Howard @joho.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Behold his brilliant intellect

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 28/09/2026

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The Road Jess Travelled @jesspected.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Thinking about Daisy Coleman & her mother Melinda. Both died by suicide because Matthew Barnett decided to get 14yo Daisy drunk, rape her, then dump her body in the snow to freeze to death. Rapists & their apologists say rape is no big deal but it causes lifelong trauma & death.

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The Road Jess Travelled @jesspected.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Also worth remembering these studies:

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