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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Comprehensive sex education does reduce sexual violence perpetration. But the most effective programs are in a K-12 environment. This is a fight we should be having with public school districts and state legislatures.

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Restorative justice also has huge limitations in the context of sexual violence. The perpetrator must confess. There cannot be a structural power disparity between victim and perpetrator. It is not safe for intimate partner violence. It is too time-intensive for victims with multiple perpetrators.

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Just a reminder that people don’t always realize they were raped in the immediate aftermath. It can take hours, days, months, and even years to realize you were raped, and it doesn’t make it any less true. There are many kinds of responses, including fawning and trying to appease your rapist

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The Maybe @themaybe.org · 25/09/2026

@alixdunn.com will be in discussion with some incredible child safety advocates and tech policy experts: - @katejsim.bsky.social, Director of COSPR - Fir Redzuan, Founder of Monsters Against Us - Octania Wynn, Researcher at ELSAM

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The Maybe @themaybe.org · 25/09/2026

We’re hosting a live show at SVRI in Bangkok, Thailand on Friday, October 9th, to explore the tension between free expression and youth safety online, in Asia and beyond.

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The Maybe @themaybe.org · 25/09/2026

These laws carry harms of their own: they restrict young people’s ability to connect, learn, and express themselves, while contorting the shape of the internet in ways that can make it worse for everyone. So what do we do?

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The Maybe @themaybe.org · 25/09/2026

Across Asia, countries are rapidly introducing social media bans for young people. Harms to children online - from adverse mental and physical health impacts to sexual exploitation and violence - have prompted regulators to act. But at what cost?

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Kate Sim @katejsim.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Timely paper from @tomasgna.bsky.social on how T&S workers are reconfiguring online harm "into corporate risks" as the theater of AI safety/xrisk prevails and the project of T&S erodes...

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Digital Child @digitalchildau.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

🚀 New Database Launch: Know Your EdTech What's really behind the educational apps children use every day?

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SUPERRR Lab @superrrnetwork.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Digital violence does not come out of nowhere: it’s a consequence of numerous harmful structures, like patriarchy, misogyny, racism, transphobia and more. Until we address those structures (and the conditions that make them possible) we won’t meaningfully address digital violence, either.

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SUPERRR Lab @superrrnetwork.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

One of the policy areas we highlight on our recently re-launched Feminist Tech Policy site is ‘Digital Violence’. One of our main points is: What if we connected the dots between online and offline violence? feministtechpolicy.org/en/spotlight/digital-violence

purple background, screenshot of website feministtechpolicy.org showing 3 deepdives: digital fairness, digital violence, feminist tech policy, each with colorful illustrations next to them. Arrow pointing at Digital Violence, text "Deep dive on digital violence now on feministtechpolicy.org

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Madeleine Baker @madeleineebaker.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Fantastic review by a fantastic scholar of a fantastic book by a fantastic journalist and writer 🚀 (with a little shout-out to yours truly)

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J. Offir, PhD @joffirphd.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Oops - forgot to post the graphic for this piece, earlier. Where money from US opioid settlements is being spent on Flock & similar camera systems.

Mother Jones graphic by Melissa Lewis, showing areas on a US map where opioid settlement funds have been spent on Flock cameras and other Automated License Plate Recognition (ALPR) systems.

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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 25/08/2026

I know when it’s your kid you’ll employ any and all methods to ensure they’re safe when they leave the house but an existential consequence of starting children early on surveillance is their increasing acceptance of more surveillance as adults and we’re all gonna have to reckon with that.

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Kate Sim @katejsim.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Been asked a few times so putting together the various trackers on age assurance and child online safety bills that I've been using. Do share what you've found useful! Global tracker by Maia Levy Daniel: childsafety-tracker.netlify.app

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Global Child Safety & Social Media Policy Tracker

Laws, bills, court decisions, milestones and research across 40+ jurisdictions. Updated automatically every Monday.

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Ed @notdred.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Kind of hard for Bluesky people to argue this was all about academic standards when these guys are openly crowing that it was about race

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Juliet Shen @julietshen.online · 07/07/2026

the amazing @katejsim.bsky.social is featured here on how young people need support and resources, not broad social media bans youtu.be/EFYO-JmbN_k?...

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How xenophobia went viral in South Africa | The Listening Post

YouTube video by Al Jazeera English

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Tama Leaver @tamaleaver.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

It was a pleasure part of @aljazeera.com's @ajlisteningpost.bsky.social episode this week discussing the Australia's teen social media ban and the global pushes to replicate it, alongside child rights research superstar @katejsim.bsky.social. The ban story starts at 13.45: ▶️ youtu.be/EFYO-JmbN_k

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How xenophobia went viral in South Africa | The Listening Post

YouTube video by Al Jazeera English

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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

BREAKING: The Senate just unanimously banned Senators from trading on prediction markets, effective immediately.

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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Nearly half of American families with young kids live in a "child care desert," according to a new report. The Center for American Progress says there's a dramatic shortage of licensed day care providers. On top of that, the cost of childcare has soared in recent years.

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Nearly half of families live in a "child care desert"

46% of children ages 6 and younger live where there are more than three kids per licensed child care slot.

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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 24/04/2026

🚨ACTION ALERT🚨 The CA Assembly is fast-tracking A.B. 1709, a bill that would ban everyone under 16 from social media. This censorship scheme threatens your data privacy and ignores the First Amendment. Tell your representatives to vote NO on A.B. 1709. eff.salsalabs.org/stopcasocia...

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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

Retirement accounts could soon be gambling on prediction markets. Three firms have filed applications with the SEC to offer "event contracts" for retirement accounts, similar to prediction markets Polymarket and Kalshi. Retirement savings could then be bet on future events.

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Prediction markets could soon be available in your retirement account

Bitwise, Roundhill and GraniteShares have filed applications with the SEC to offer event contracts as exchange-traded funds.

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ghost malone ergo propter bones @proptermalone.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

with zero sarcasm this is good government and we should do this immediately

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Kate Sim @katejsim.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

"Nowhere is it written that a multinational conglomerate with a market cap of roughly four trillion dollars is fated to command our public schools, or to grant fellowships to the leaders of those schools, or to monetize the inefficient children who attend them."

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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

BREAKING: Maryland is about to become the first state in the nation to ban the use of surveillance data and dynamic pricing at grocery stores. The Maryland House has just passed the Protection from Predatory Pricing Act. Governor Wes Moore plans to sign the bill.

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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

A worker died at an Amazon warehouse in Oregon last week. For more than an hour, workers were instructed to continue working as the man lay dead. One worker wanted to help, but a manager told them to “Just turn around and not look. Let’s get back to work," according to @thewesternedge.bsky.social.

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‘Everyone is Replaceable’: Death Rattles Oregon Amazon Facility

A worker died at Amazon’s Troutdale warehouse last week. Employees were told to look away.

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Kim Kelly @kimkelly.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

Did you know that the paperback version of my labor history book for young readers, ‘Fight to Win!’ is coming out in paperback soon, at a very low price point, right in time for summer reading lists? Now you do, and you can preorder it for 25% off here! www.barnesandnoble.com/w/fight-to-w...

Preorder page for my kids book, FIGHT TO WIN!

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Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 23/03/2026

The number of child labor violations has risen fivefold in the last 10 years, but Republicans across the US are continuing to propose and pass legislation that rolls back protections or regulations for workers under the age of 18.

A graph that shows the rising violations of child labor laws in the US since 2015, increasing from under 2,000 per fiscal year to 6,000 in 2025.

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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

Interviewed the journalist who was getting death threats from polymarket gamblers to change his reporting on an Iranian missile strike. Scary stuff in here about how the intense harassment made him (for just a split second) doubt what he saw and reported. Others may not have his conviction/morals.

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A Disturbing New Low in the Polymarket Era

Maybe turning war into a casino was a bad idea?

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Reo Eveleth @reveleth.com · 19/03/2026

Like, well, pretty much everybody, the Cesar Chavez story broke @coyotemedia.org's heart. There's so much to say about it, but @soleilho.com swung big: can we all agree to just... skip the whole hero thing entirely? www.coyotemedia.org/kill-the-her...

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It’s Time To Kill the Hero

On Cesar Chavez, René Redzepi, and all the men we make excuses for in the name of the greater good.

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Kate Sim @katejsim.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

At a time when the right is using racialized/gendered anxieties to attack migrants/workers, the liberal response to claim moral purity by removing chavez' name while refusing to fight for the dignity of workers that dolores huerta and other survivors put before their healing is performative at best

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George Pearkes @peark.es · 17/03/2026

*ARIZONA CHARGES KALSHI WITH OPERATING ILLEGAL GAMBLING BUSINESS

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Labor Tech Research Network @labortechresearchnetwork.org · 16/03/2026

New! Living Trans, a video series featuring trans people working in technology and cooperativism, produced by the Argentine co-operative Alternativa Laboral Trans (ALT), in partnership with DigiLabour, funded by the Queer and Trans Research Lab/University of Toronto www.youtube.com/@alt.coopera...

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ALT COOPERATIVA

Somos ALT Cooperativa, un equipo de diseño, desarrollo y comunicación con perspectiva feminista y de derechos humanos. En este canal compartimos nuestras miradas sobre tecnología, accesibilidad, ident...

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Kate Sim @katejsim.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

Latest from me and @juliapowles.bsky.social for @projectsyndicate.bsky.social on the social media ban and age-checks: It's not just that this proposal is faulty, unreliable, and unfit for purpose. It's actively harmful. www.project-syndicate.org/magazine/onl...

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