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Noah Zazanis

@noahzazanis.bsky.social
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Oakland-based researcher, communist, lumpenprole. Sex worker organizing & trans marxist theory. "Toda mi obra es contra la policia." Words: linktr.ee/communoah Orgs: @national-nsu.bsky.social & @eastbaydsa.bsky.social.

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Caræsten 🇵🇸 @cara.city · 03/10/2026
beginning to see things shifting in this direction but this whole “idk why anyone would choose to be a woman” train of thought emerges from deeply rooted misogyny and is also TERF shit
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worm boy autism MPH @gosuperdonnie.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
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TikTok (?) screenshot of a Diagram labeled: “Avoidance abuse: The covert power and control wheel”

Diagram is a large circle divided into 8 sections with a smaller circle labeled “covert power and control” at the center. Labels for each of the eight sections, clockwise from top, are: 

1. Withdrawal
Conflict avoidance
Surface-level only
Turning away

2. Refusing repair
Placating
Selective tears
Empty plans

3. Entitlement
Refuses influence
"Don't change me"
Sex as a condition

4. Invalidation
Dismissing 
Minimizing
Punishing feelings

5. Gaslighting
Rewriting events
"Too sensitive"
Tone policing

6. Reversing blame
DARVO
Needs as attacks
Plays the victim

7. Double standards
Overreacts to minor things
Uses her openness
Covert power and control

8. Exits & outlets
Work, gym, golf 
Doing, not being 
Busy as a shield

Text under the diagram: 
Held in place by: Calm as the standard of health, the "dismissive avoidant" label, male socialization, childism and misogyny

Kate Gray, LMFT
Adapted from Dr. Omar Minwalla's ten steps and the Duluth Model Power and Control Wheel
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hammancheez but spooky @hammancheez.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Yall wanna see a 2 hour old highland cow
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Elizabeth Lopatto @lopatto.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Judith Butler Apology Form
Date:
Reason for behavior:
( ) The media convinced me that feminism was solved in the 1980s
( ) I miss not thinking about gender
( ) I was jealous of their nonbinary swag
( ) I never actually read their work
( ) I didn't realize how much of society is built on gender
( ) Mercury was in retrograde
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( ) I will hereby respect Judith Butler and I will NOT talk down on the best feminist thinker of our lifetimes
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Noah Zazanis @noahzazanis.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
This makes me deeply uncomfortable ngl but I was always the kind of kid who cried when people threw my stuffed animals against the wall and I think it's kind of like that
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abdullah @ashihipar.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
4.5 years ago I wrote this article for gawker (rip) about all cats being Muslim. I’m happy to report that alhamduillah - some day has arrived. www.gawkerarchives.com/culture/all-...
Still, all cats are Muslim and maybe someday, inshallah, I'll have one to be Muslim with me.A big chunky cat girl with a mixed coat in a kennel in an adoption agency
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Noah Zazanis @noahzazanis.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Turns out covert signs of abuse including "placating", "overreacts to minor things", "refuses influence", "work, gym, golf" Am I missing something or does half of this just sound like abusive logic itself?
Avoidance abuse: the covert power and control wheel. Categories include:
- Withdrawal
- Refusing repair
- Entitlement
- Invalidation
- Gaslighting
- Reversing blame
- Double standards
- Exits and outlets.


Unfortunately I can't transcribe it all right now
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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 01/10/2026
AirTags make that noise "because you cannot make a tracker that does not alert a thief without also making ... a tool for stalking,” EFF’s @evacide.bsky.social told @sixcolors.com. “I think these people have, in fact, considered the implications and decided that they don’t care.”
sixcolors.com
Silencing AirTags enables stalkers and domestic violence
ElevationLab has released an AirTag product I find appalling, and I strongly urge they immediately withdraw it from sale and recall all inventory. The AirTag Silencer is a simple device: remove the…
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Noah Zazanis @noahzazanis.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
V last min invite but—link if you want to see me present some of my art, 6PM EST 9PM EST, for my organizing group of low income sex workers/trafficking survivors & sex workers/trafficking survivors who use drugs :) Respectful allies welcome, being late is a-ok! Cameras off meet.goto.com/716723813
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lottie "frog k" lovely ⚧️🏴‍☠️ @vaporlight.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
at *barely* enough to make rent, and yesterday slipped in bathroom and seemingly broke leg. if you can help, please do, i have insurance so this isn't instant death, but it's a "slowly reimburse if paid for at all" situation on orthotics and the like & being able to use the toilet by myself is nice
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Mae Evil-yn @noxyba.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
a YouTube comment from TheMrdangles16 that says "it couldn't be going worse Keith"
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Amelia Carhartt @theschwall.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
We're not allowed to point out that the liberal justices on the Supreme Court helped pave the way for this when they voted unanimously that trans women are not women under Title IX
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UPDATE: U.S. Department of Education ends Title IX protections for LGBTQ+ students
The latest education news updates from EdSource.
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CJ Ciaramella @cjciaramella.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Everyone knows that staff are the biggest source of prison contraband, but banning books is way easier than pissing off the correctional officer unions.
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Kirby Conrod @kirbyconrod.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
there was an article in the inquirer today about a far-right group sueing a school for failing to tell a trans kid's parents they're trans. buried in the middle of the article is a throwaway line that acknowledged the parents wanted to do conversion therapy. I'm really frustrated and disappointed
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Noah Zazanis @noahzazanis.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
(notably this guy did not even win!)
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Noah Zazanis @noahzazanis.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Invented a new word to describe my class strata ("lumpenPMC")
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lumpenpoledancer @daturabombs333.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Seriously, just please help with some food? I can show a receipt and take applicable gift cards too (uber eats and DoorDash). Even a few dollars will help. Really hungry but scared of breaking bank again. There’s also been a stall for over a day In a lot of pain. fundraising is taxing fee
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Lilliana for B-Town Council @lillianayoung.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This is the behavior that's led tens of millions of Americans to no longer see discernable differences between major parties. It's not just about trans rights, it's about the dogma of putting party before people, and more people see through it than the major parties seem to understand.
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Noah Zazanis @noahzazanis.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Watching Crazy Ex-Girlfriend and it's soooo funny how this season came out not even 10 years ago and there's all these punchlines about how millennials are young and oversharey and say "literally" and "goals" but now we're like, walking urns who fuck
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Casey S. Pumpkins 🎃 @caseyexplosion.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
The Heritage Foundation laid out how they were going to rescind Title IX, the law that prohibits sex discrimination in education, by first targeting trans people's participation in sport. Capitulating on the human rights of transgender people is catastrophically falling at the first hurdle.
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nick @unionnick.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
On 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.
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Noah Zazanis @noahzazanis.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Years of "vote blue no matter who," left-punching, "spoilers" and "privileged Bernie Bros", all to lead us here
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Noah Zazanis @noahzazanis.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
A comrade from my harm reduction organizing needs (pro-bono) help w/ an eviction case in Porter County, IN. Legal aid didn't take her case, and she's been having an exceptionally hard time navigating trial pro se due to a TBI. She specifically needs someone who can be present in person.
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Liliana Segura @lilianasegura.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This week Tennessee plans to execute Christa Pike, a woman who became so infamous at 18, her own defense attorney was planning to write a book about her while failing to adequately represent her at trial. New from me @theintercept.com:
theintercept.com
The “Satanic Panic” Made Her a True-Crime Obsession. The Truth Is More Haunting.
After 30 years on death row, Christa Pike faces execution for a grisly murder she committed at 18.
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Susan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 28/09/2026
NEW: The signs are everywhere that FBI and DOJ are gearing up investigate distributors of abortion pills. While Anti-abortion zealot Andrew Bailey may be leaving, Todd Blanche is Comstock-curious and FBI Director Kash Patel recently told Josh Hawley he's open to criminal probes. @autonomynews.co
autonomynews.co
What Was This Anti-Abortion Zealot Doing at the FBI?
Andrew Bailey has always been hellbent on eradicating abortion access. As the FBI’s No. 2, he may have set the stage for investigations into abortion pill providers.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I can’t say strongly enough that these are not realistic scenarios for the people I observed and, based on data about family lives, almost anyone else we might consider normal and/or not rich.
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Noah Zazanis @noahzazanis.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Lol the node where "Democratic Trans Rights strategy" connects to "Bisexual & Queer Identity" is "Boston Globe Lesbian Bar Controversy" Just in case we were still wondering about whether that article should ever have been written!
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rochel 🃏 @pronouns.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"X is better than ever"
News headline from X: "Rumors Swirl Over Sydney Sweeney's Possible Conversion to Judaism"
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Carta Monir @cartamonir.com · 27/09/2026
Open Letter to the Board of @tomoffinland.org, from former Artists in Residence We are deeply concerned by the lack of transparency and abrupt interruption of several programs, including the artist in residence program, by the current administration. archive.is/GvKuL
Open Letter to the Board of the Tom of Finland Foundation, from former Artists in Residence

https://archive.is/GvKuL
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Noah Zazanis @noahzazanis.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Sucks how if you've—hypothetically—been leading anticarceral antitrafficking work for years & have a kinda encyclopedic knowledge about it, you still gotta legitimize your arguments w "I traded sex for resources at 16" But the carceral groups can just go "Jesus told me to free the child sex slaves"
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Noah Zazanis @noahzazanis.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Can't believe my parasocial icon John Darnielle would let me down like this. Sure things have gone downhill since Miranda Lambert and Blake Shelton got divorced but there's still a lot of good shit in the genre's post-9/11 opus
Pixelated Boat tweeted: "Are people who don't listen to modern pop country better than people who do listen to modern pop country? Yes obviously." 213 reposts, 9 quotes, 2k likes, 18 saves, liked by Lauren and the Mountain Goats
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 28/09/2026
“i woke up every morning and name searched myself on twitter. i am normal by the way”
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Noah Zazanis @noahzazanis.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
As a rule, I don't believe in surveilling what people post. The problem is publications + algorithms, not just individuals. but if you're posting about COVID-conscious dyke bar drama in MA + not the loss of fed. independent living protections, I really am not liking you rn dredf.org/protect-504/
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Texas v. Kennedy (formerly Texas v. Becerra): What it is and How You Can Help Stop the Attack on Section 504 | DREDF
This page explains what the lawsuit Texas v. Kennedy (previously Texas v. Becerra) is, how Texas v. Kennedy threatens Section 504, and why Section 504 is important. Learn what you can do to help prote...
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Nathan Tankus @nathantankus.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Support Trump having a third term but also assert Biden should have a third term after "for fairness". After crosstalk i pitch "can't trump and Biden do their third terms together?" I never acknowledge people "correcting" me saying Biden only had one term.
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Nathan Tankus @nathantankus.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Having unfortunately increasingly socialized with people in elite circles in the last 8 years its a pattern you can't help but notice. A poor, struggling working class person becomes elite as soon as they dye their hair blue.A guy who owns five establishments is working class when he dons a MAGA hat
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Alice Miranda Ollstein @alicemiranda.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This is a big deal. As I explore on my book, confusion/misinformation about IUDs led to coverage of the contraceptives being cut from government programs in a bunch of states after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade.
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
used to hang out at this bar whose other regulars were mostly straight middle aged men and my god their drama. most of em were banned for pissing on the floor or stealing fistfuls of cash from the register. for some reason no one acted like it was a referendum on straightness maleness or ‘the left’
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Kara Buchanan 🏳️‍⚧️ @magicariot.com · 24/09/2026
I just think that when a reporter stirs up shit about some random dysfunctional lesbian bar people ought to check out how said reporter hangs out online with monsters like Jesse Singal and Chris Rufo before sharing it to mock all the dysfunctional drama shit
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Der Spekter @derspekter.org · 24/09/2026
Preorder this book edited by Nathan and translated by DS editor @eyshe.bsky.social
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Gaius (from Tribunate) @gaius.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This puts mainstream Democrats in a real pickle. Should they support their incredibly popular mayor or a foreign leader who is best friends with Trump and works overtime to get Republicans elected. No easy answer here
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Esther @mahoniaaquifolium.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
the other place is having some incredible discussions
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BedWords @snacklesbian.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
there's some crucial details in the main piece. example: "A hotline cannot create safety if calling it risks arrest, exposure, child-welfare involvement, deportation, or retaliation. A witness cannot assist an investigation if she expects to be treated as a suspect, a liar, or disposable evidence."
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Zohran’s Mommy Dommey @loridiletto.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Nothing unites people across the political spectrum like deciding an invisible illness that disproportionately affects women is actually hysteria
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lumpenpoledancer @daturabombs333.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
unhoused disabled queer SWer. Can somebody please help with dinner? Can do receipt and willing to take applicable gift cards. Also see sending food. Horrible weekend - anything helps. Still need hotel too. Ko - fi pinned paypal: nachash358 cash app: doriangrey358 #homelesssky #mutualaid
OP in heart shaped glasses. A pink pentagram collar. A puffy pink furry jacket, and tulle skirt.
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James Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Republicans, in their infinite wisdom, left a big gambling loophole in the Medicaid work requirements. I'm no fan of the gambling industry, but if you are on Medicaid and struggling to deal with the work requirements, taking a $580 bet on both sides of an outcome is one way of getting around them.
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Stellbound: Stellraiser II @antlervel.vet · 25/05/2025
you naive rubes think you can help people by posting. smart and wise people like me know that you can't effect any change by posting. and now I am going to change your mind and save you from your clueless bleeding-heart nature. I am going to do this by posting
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Filter | harm reduction journalism @filtermag.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
"Emerging evidence suggests violence perpetrated against women who use and inject drugs may be worse than previously expected," writes Samantha Colledge-Frisby, describing her own research. Yet anti-violence policies reflect "the invisibilization of women who use drugs."
filtermag.org
We Need to Focus on Violence Against Women Who Use Drugs
Our research illustrates its shocking scale—and yet this population is not identified and prioritised in policies to end violence.
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Julia Serano @juliaserano.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
...also flabbergasted than many cis ppl can't see how contradictory Assumptions #7 & 8 are. didn't get into it in the piece, but the absolute glee with which some ppl say #8 ("well, enjoy the camps Republicans are going to put trans ppl in") is bone chilling... juliaserano.medium.com/on-democrats...
screenshot from linked-to essay that reads:
Assumption #7: Trans people are selfish and only thinking of themselves
Assumption #8: Trans people will be way worse off if the Republican wins
I am grouping these together because they are both common responses, sometimes espoused by the same person, even though they are inherently contradictory. The former tacitly recognizes that protesting the Democratic candidate in question is in trans people’s best interest, while the latter suggests that it’s not in our best interest. So which is it? It can’t be both!
While contradictory, Assumptions #7 and 8 can both be used toward the same end goal, namely, dismissing trans people’s perspectives. They are both “polite” ways of telling trans people to “shut the fuck up.”
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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
TRADE IS BAD - Trump
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Innsmouth Looksmaxxing @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
But what if he ends up only eating one kind of food, engaging in repetitive rituals and never talks
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