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jourdain searles @judysquirrels.bsky.social · 17h
I had a panic attack writing this and setting it up because I have a million things on my plate, and it never stops. I really really need money to move and sign a new lease. www.gofundme.com/f/a-fresh-st...
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Donate to A Fresh Start: Help Jourdain Move, organized by Jourdain Searles
I desperately need money to move and sign a lease on a new apartment. My … Jourdain Searles needs your support for A Fresh Start: Help Jourdain Move
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 19h
A federal court struck down a California rule that required voters to sign and return vote-by-mail ballots on paper, rather than doing so electronically. The ruling is a victory for disabled voters—but it probably won’t change things much until the next election cycle.
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California's mail ballot system excludes disabled voters, court rules
Requiring people with print disabilities to obtain assistance to vote "denies them meaningful access to the vote by mail program," a federal judge wrote.
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Andrew Deck @andrewdeck.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
ChatGPT is adding the signatures of real New Yorker cartoonists to its AI-generated images. So far, I've found the signatures of more than 15 contributors. "It’s slop, and unlike the other slop that I’ve encountered, this is slop that’s pretending to be me." www.niemanlab.org/2026/10/chat...
Left: A cartoon generated by ChatGPT and signed with Emily Flake’s signature that was posted to a Reddit forum in June. Right: A real Emily Flake cartoon published in The New Yorker on August 20, 2026 and licensed via The Cartoon Bank.
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Julia Métraux @juliametraux.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The drinking age in the United States being 21 gives frats a lot of power. Sexual assault absolutely happens in other settings, but being able to get booze legally elsewhere at 18 makes Greek life have a bit less power.
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Julia Métraux @juliametraux.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Just completed what I believe will be my last work travel of the year
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Blissful Golden Cat Enjoying Moment
Alt: An orange cat looking like it's sleeping while standing up while another cat walks behind him
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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I understand that paywalls are annoying, but the grim reality for everything right now, is if you want something to exist, you have to put money towards it. Every creative person is having their life's work hoovered up by AI companies. Layoffs never end. Private equity keeps making things worse.
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I emailed top USA Today editors on Friday, in the hopes that there was some misunderstanding. No response. Unilaterally feeding entire interviews into an AI slop machine is not OK. It has to stop.
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Meg Elison @megelison.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Please remember that for every VE Schwab and Stephen King, there are a lot of banned Black, queer, and POC writers you've never heard of, to whom it is maybe not a badge of honor but a denial of their voice. Being banned is not a marketing opportunity, unless one is already rich.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Just a reminder that early last year, the Free Press and other MAGA-adjacent outlets ran fawning stories about how the Trump administration was “saving” migrant kids from sex trafficking.
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NPR @npr.org · 01/10/2026
Starting Oct. 1, many immigrants who are here legally lose their Medicaid coverage because of the Republican budget bill passed last year. n.pr/4z0FPpq
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'It's a nightmare.' Former refugee, professor on Trump's new Medicaid policy
Starting Oct. 1, many immigrants who are here legally lose their Medicaid coverage because of the Republican budget bill passed last year.
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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 04/10/2026
100 nursing homes across the country are at extreme risk of flooding. If you don't have an evacuation plan, people are going to die.
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These 100 Nursing Homes Face Perilous Flood Risk. Minnesota Shows What Can Happen. - KFF Health News
Staff raced against rising floodwater to evacuate 36 residents from a nursing home in New Richland, Minnesota. It’s one of 100 facilities KFF Health News identified as facing some of the nation’s wors...
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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
With Musk tweeting autism supremacy stuff again today, good time to read @juliametraux.bsky.social’s piece on the subject www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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The 4chan-coded ideology behind Elon Musk's war on normies
Musk thinks autism makes him superhuman. Just don't call it that.
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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Lucien Lazare, Jewish fighter in the French Resistance, has died at 101. After fighting the Nazis, he was rejected by his synagogue later in life for translating an article saying “Israel, today, is nothing but a formless mass of corruption, oppression and injustice.” www.nytimes.com/2026/10/01/w...
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Lucien Lazare, Jewish Resistance Fighter in Occupied France, Dies at 101 (Gift Article)
He and a small troop of French Jews worked with the Allies to distribute supplies and fight the Nazis, ambushing a German train and liberating a city in the south.
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The Breach @breachmedia.ca · 02/10/2026
Avi Lewis is a Jewish politician refusing to be silent about Israel’s genocide—and now he’s being threatened with violence. @judred.bsky.social writes that the lack of uproar reveals just how powerful the pro-Israel consensus remains among Canada’s elite. breachmedia.ca/im-familiar-...
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I’m familiar with death threats. They show Avi Lewis is having an impact ⋆ The Breach
The National Post has suggested violence is the way “to deal” with the NDP leader for his outspoken criticism of Israel
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Mike Hixenbaugh @mikehixenbaugh.com · 02/10/2026
Scoop: At a secret meeting this summer, an aide to Stephen Miller laid out Trump administration's plan to make it easier for states to round up and institutionalize mentally ill homeless people — by pushing a drastic policy change that would weaken the rights of millions of disabled Americans.
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How Trump’s homelessness crackdown became a sweeping retreat from disability rights
After issuing a memo making it easier to institutionalize homeless people, the Justice Department began abandoning cases protecting disabled people’s right to live in the community.
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Julia Métraux @juliametraux.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
"I'm supposed to be a tough guy," Curtis confided. "I can hold your hand," the mayor offered "What happens if I faint?" Sliwa asked. "I've got you," Mamdani assured him, grabbing his hand as Sliwa received his flu shot. abc7ny.com/post/nyc-may...
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Mayor Mamdani holds hands with one-time rival Curtis Sliwa to get flu shot
An apparent bromance has continued to blossom for the one-time political rivals.
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Rose Broderick @rosebroderick.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The CDC wants to redesign its annual health survey. Their proposed changes would make people with intellectual and developmental disabilities "invisible." www.statnews.com/2026/10/01/c...
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As CDC redesigns annual health survey, it removes questions about disabilities
Proposed changes to the federal government’s health survey would undercount Americans with disabilities, advocates say.
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TechCrunch @techcrunch.com · 01/10/2026
California governor vetoes bill banning use of ‘pervert glasses’ to secretly record people
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California governor vetoes bill banning use of ‘pervert glasses’ to secretly record people
The California state bill would have penalized people who secretly recorded people in public with wearables equipped with cameras and microphones.
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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
If only anyone could have predicted that the candidate accused of sexual assault would be *checks notes* accused of sexual assault www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/d...
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Mayor Lurie pulls endorsement from Manny Yekutiel in wake of new sexual assault allegations
Lurie had just thrown his weight behind Yekutiel three weeks ago, and he said in a Thursday statement that he thought Yekutiel was “the best candidate to represent District 8” at the time.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 01/10/2026
Trump has been obsessed with "good genes" for decades. If you need proof, check his record of eugenicist and ableist comments he has espoused all the way back to the 1980s.
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Donald Trump's decades-long obsession with eugenics
A timeline of the president's thoughts on "good genes," IQ, and which disabled people should "just die."
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I've gotten a lot of requests from faculty about how to talk to their students about the Cornell 7. I'll post a few resources I've built over the years that I've heard are the most helpful:
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Julia Métraux @juliametraux.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
To support @womenjournos.bsky.social, please bid on these two vases for our online auction, which happen to be created by mother! Starting bid is at $25 (which is lower than she sells them at craft fairs). Vase 1: givebutter.com/c/jaws-camp-... Vase 2: givebutter.com/c/jaws-camp-...
A white vase with a floral design on it.A blue and light blue design on a vase
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public health guy @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
rural health folks have been hearing nonsense and hype about how AI and medtech will fix everything for YEARS. if these coastal elites had bothered to talk to anyone instead of imposing their corrupt deals on everyone...
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 29/09/2026
“This is about stepping up where the federal government has failed.” On Tuesday, California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a bill into law banning law enforcement officers in the state from using electrical shock gloves.
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California bans ICE's favorite shock gloves
A DHS spokesperson has said that the agency "will not abide" by any state ban.
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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.
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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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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
imagine being a historian in the future trying to make sense of the characters in the right wing blogosphere lol
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Julia Métraux @juliametraux.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
College newspapers breaking a major story is not surprising to me, and it shows that college newspapers are a part of–not separate from–a crucial local news ecosystem.
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october "pre-order The Struggle Is Always Worth It now!" krausch @octoberk.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
this investigation on long COVID inside of prisons is out today at the Sick Times! I worked on this piece for months and am so grateful to the folks who shared their experiences with me. I'll write up a real thread a little later, but you can read it now: thesicktimes.org/2026/09/29/i...
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I interviewed five people with Long COVID in prison. They are invisible in the system. - The Sick Times
While there are no data sources on Long COVID in prison, experts suspect rates of the disease may be higher there than in the general population. They face high reinfection risks and poor access to me...
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I 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.
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Sophie Hurwitz @hurwitz.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Are you a nurse working in a hospital that’s using Palantir technology? Do you want to talk about how that affects your work for @motherjones.com ? Reach out on Signal at shurwitz.18–your anonymity will be protected
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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?”

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“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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Julia Métraux @juliametraux.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Per a memo from House Democrats' healthcare working group, their first recommendation if they gain back the House is to undo Medicaid cuts/work penalties and get ACA enhanced tax credits back. Title is frustrating bc wooing MAHA people doesn't come until section 7. www.politico.com/news/2026/09...
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House Dems to Jeffries: Woo RFK Jr.’s followers
If they win in November, Democrats want to roll back Trump’s megabill, expand access to care, and win over the Make America Healthy Again movement.
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Julia Métraux @juliametraux.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
That phrase reads like "I don't have any friends with serious health issues." I know a lot of people who mask on public transit as it's a high risk area (small space, you don't know people) even if they don't mask everywhere.
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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 27/09/2026
There have been a lot of jokey jokey about this but it is actually not funny. EA and AI bros are scummy and trying to destroy the world and coercing people into sex is very much a core part of their ethos.
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Julia Métraux @juliametraux.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
To support @womenjournos.bsky.social, please bid on these two vases for our online auction, which happen to be created by mother! Starting bid is at $25 (which is lower than she sells them at craft fairs). Vase 1: givebutter.com/c/jaws-camp-... Vase 2: givebutter.com/c/jaws-camp-...
A white vase with a floral design on it.A blue and light blue design on a vase
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Jessica Luther @jessicawluther.com · 26/09/2026
My family of 3 showed up to get our flu and COVID shots at the CVS, and we’ve had to wait for the 3 people in line in front of us. Love seeing people get their vaccines!
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Garnet Henderson @garnethenderson.com · 25/09/2026
Fun fact: Some insurance carriers wouldn’t even give us a quote because of the subject matter we cover. Drop a little something in our tip jar to help us keep doing fearless reporting!
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Michelle Cohen @docmcohen.medsky.social · 26/09/2026
It's been a rough week, and ranting is my therapy. I wrote about the seemingly COVID conspiracist-inspired shooting at my local synagogue and the simultaneous promoting of COVID conspiracism by Jesse Brown. medium.com/@michelle.co...
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Guns, Threats, and the Clown King of Jewish Safety
It’s been a bad week. It’s been a weird week. I awoke Monday to photos of bullet holes in the beautiful stained-glass windows of my local…
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S.E. Sinkhorn @sesinkhorn.com · 26/09/2026
if you think this is just a trend puff piece, it isn't, I have literally had seven-year-olds running around my house going THAT'S SO AI
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Julia Métraux @juliametraux.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Sharing this GoFundMe for a survivor of one of my colleagues at The Mighty. Autumn's public Instagram shares details of how her ex blamed abusive rages on his ADHD diagnosis. www.gofundme.com/f/after-abus...
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Donate to After Abuse: Help Me Find Safety & Rebuild My Life, organized by Autumn Aurelia
I never imagined I would have to write something like this, but he… Autumn Aurelia needs your support for After Abuse: Help Me Find Safety & Rebuild My Life
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Julia Métraux @juliametraux.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
This isn't surprising to me as someone with a European conservative father. My dad agrees with like 95 percent of what I write because he agrees there should be a social safety net.
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High Country News @highcountrynews.org · 26/09/2026
Disability is the one marginalized identity that anyone at any point can join. Many people, at some point in their lives, will be disabled if they live long enough. Why not look out for our future selves by making things more accessible now? buff.ly/qJLtRwq
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‘Everyone deserves to have a good quality of life’ - High Country News
#iamthewest: Giving voice to the people that make up communities in the region.
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Matthew R Francis @bowlerhatscience.org · 25/09/2026
this @juliametraux.bsky.social piece addresses a question I genuinely wanted to know about: what do *actual* people with disabilities think about the way Meta claims their perv glasses are for them? www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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Is Meta using disabled people to promote its glasses?
AI glasses are a double-edged sword for disabled people, who face unique risks from surveillance.
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Lex McMenamin (they/them) @lexmcmenamin.com · 25/09/2026
this is 100% true AND this story has esp pissed me off w/ the gutting of "mainstream" LGBTQ media + journos. there is a version of this story we could giggle at without Ted Cruz seeing but the LGBTQ newsrooms left are either all owned by same company or self-funded and struggling so instead, this
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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
in your next zoom interview have not only a cup of ice coffee but seven or eight different cups of various beverages just off camera and casually drink from each of them throughout the interview the drinks should have fancy straws or colorful parasols or large pieces of fruit on the edge of the cup
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Thinking Person's Guide to Autism @thinkingautism.com · 19/09/2026
Beware Meta smart glasses: “Certain companies have used accessibility & disability rights as a Trojan horse for a tool that poses significant privacy & security threats—& the privacy concerns affect disabled people too.” Mother Jones's @juliametraux.bsky.social: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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Is Meta using disabled people to promote its glasses?
AI glasses are a double-edged sword for disabled people, who face unique risks from surveillance.
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public health guy @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
that’s a confirmatory “no comment” if i’ve ever seen one
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 25/09/2026
Between 2015 and 2025, at least 15 children in an Idaho faith-healing sect died of treatable conditions. State law allows that to happen: Parents who say their faith prohibits giving their children lifesaving medical care can’t be prosecuted.
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Idaho Law Protects Faith Healers. It Wasn’t Always That Way.
From at least the 1880s through the early 1970s, it was illegal for parents in Idaho to choose prayer over medical care when a child’s life was at stake.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 24/09/2026
In today's speech, Netanyahu appeared particularly eager to defend settlers in the West Bank, whose state-supported violence against Palestinians and international observers is extremely well-documented by reporters, activists, and international human rights groups.
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Netanyahu's UN speech was a full-on defense of Israel's settlements
“Peaceful settlers, honorable people” are being smeared, Israel's prime minister said.
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Julia Métraux @juliametraux.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Doing my yearly, "Huh, wonder what happened to Ariel Sobel, the white Jewish writer who allegedly faked being a Black person online to send themselves a rape threat" online search and coming up empty. It's truly interesting how some people can disappear off the face of the earth.
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