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D L Newton

@oldladyinhershoes.bsky.social
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Writer, plays & poetry. Runner. Resister of all things orange &/or maga. NY Rangers fan. Seething.

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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 13h
Aaron Swartz, coding prodigy and hacktivist who helped develop RSS and was a co-founder of Reddit, died by suicide after facing $1 million in fines and 35 years in prison for felony charges, just for downloading pdfs of research papers with the intention of making them accessible to the public.
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
It seems like a very bad idea to run your own actual writing through these "AI detection" sites because it will just make your writing even more legible to AI.
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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I wonder if men realize what the experience is like of being someone who was raped having to read about rape, the details of rape, every new rape, men justifying rape, universities complicit in rape, a democratic candidate being raped, day after day after day.
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Tragic news: Curtis Flowers, who faced an extraordinarily ordeal by being prosecuted six times for the same crime by a Mississippi DA over decades before SCOTUS sided with him in 2019, just died at 56. Flowers' case was core to the 'In the Dark' podcast.
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Wrongly imprisoned Curtis Flowers dies
After Flowers was convicted in a sixth trial, the U.S. Supreme Court overturned it and a state judge dismissed capital murder charges against him.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Part (but far from all) of what's horrific here is: a woman weighing the consequences of speaking up about being sexually assaulted, because speaking up imposes burdens and costs (and so does not speaking up).
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Congressional candidate is raped while repairing her campaign signs
Embarrassed, she initially didn’t want to report attack. Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office's investigation is ongoing. A Phoenix New Times exclusive.
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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Once in college, I was in the window seat on a flight talking to a lovely older woman who had just come back from Greece. We talked the whole flight in large part because I didn’t want her to turn and see that the man across the aisle was jacking off the entire flight.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Time for this classic again.
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🎃 Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 30/09/2026
"What? Filing a lawsuit with the Supreme Court?" It's rare. But when states are bitch slapping each other, that's how it gets sorted. Abortion-ban states are really angry that abortion-friendly states won't extradite doctors providing care to patients in the ban states. Shit just got real.
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🎃 Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 30/09/2026
I literally said to Portia this morning, there's gonna be a shield law lawsuit soon. I didn't think it would be TODAY. Louisiana, Arkansas, and Alabama have filed a bill of complaint with the U.S. Supreme Court against New York, Massachusetts, and California. Hold on to your butts.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
So much of schools "responding to rape" is preventing the legal system from doing so. This is a report on seven adults who committed serious felonies for which there is a legal system to remind them and their pals that they are felonies.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 07/09/2026
Not BREAKING NEWS because the Trump admin has been deleting and altering federal datasets for over a year. You can argue about policy. But when the government starts eliminating the data we use to determine whether those policies are actually working, that deserves a hell of a lot more attention.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
BREAKING: A U.S. Postal Service official has filed a whistleblower report alleging the agency is pushing ahead with a “secretive, rushed” effort to implement Trump’s order giving the federal government more control over mail voting, despite a court order blocking the plan.
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 27/08/2026
The CIA director’s brief and unannounced trip to Moscow was anything but routine—and might be a sign that Vladimir Putin is getting more dangerous, Thomas Wright argues. theatln.tc/chjYqXzh 📸: Will Oliver / EPA / Bloomberg / Getty
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Malena-PRO-CHOICE 🌊 Fighting Tyranny! @malena.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Republicans are torturing women! There's a #RepublicanWarOnWomen & people aren't mad enough about it! This woman's baby died inside of her & medical professionals are prohibited from saving her life & treating her because of inhumane Republican laws. Volunteer 4 Democratic candidates: mobilize.us
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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Instagram is packed with footage of bulldozers just destroying Big Bend at Trump’s behest and it is so upsetting. There are glyphs there dating back thousands of years and we will never get back what he’s done here. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/15/u...
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Trump Backed Away From a Wall at Big Bend. But the Bulldozers Are Here.
Over the objections of environmentalists, local sheriffs and some state leaders, the Trump administration appears to be moving ahead with border infrastructure in one of Texas’ most beloved parks.
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Rewire News Group @rewirenewsgroup.com · 13/08/2026
Having the right to an abortion doesn't mean you can afford one. Medication abortion funding is usually the first thing Democrats give up when votes get tight. This week on B*tch, Listen, @angryblacklady.bsky.social breaks down what Michigan shows us about how quickly "protected" becomes negotiable.
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The Right to an Abortion Doesn’t Actually Pay for An Abortion (Podcast) – Rewire News Group
Fifty years after Henry Hyde first decided to target poor women and eliminate Medicaid coverage for abortion, abortion funding is still an aspect of reproductiv
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iWillVote.com Pollock ➡️ turn 🔔 on @willpollock.com · 11/08/2026
one outlet in particular, @starsandstripes.bsky.social, should be commended for covering this ENRAGING scandal *WHILE ALSO* sustaining attacks by hypersensitive fascists allergic to true things appearing in print www.stripes.com/theaters/us/...
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USS Abraham Lincoln families press Navy leaders over sailors’ mental health
Family members say the roughly 5,000 service members aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln have endured food and water shortages and little time off.
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Randi Mayem Singer @rmayemsinger.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Remember when we learned our POTUS withholds EMERGENCY AID to states that "didn't vote for him" and everyone was like oh well, that's just what happens now I guess?
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Jemele Hill @jemelehill.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
The WNBA has never had a trans woman play in the league’s 30-year history and now the right and other anti-trans activists are hammering the league over something that has never been an issue, proving once again it isn’t about protection but exhibiting cruelty toward trans people.
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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 19/07/2026
"A.i." is a tool pushed by racist, fascist billionaires for racist, fascist purposes.
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
When it happens, please remember that those of us who published lengthy books about January 6 explicitly said that month—and every month after—that the Insurrection never ended and Trump would eventually move to end our democracy permanently. We've been saying it for five years.
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Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
In the well-over 100,000 documents written by founders included in the Founders Online database from the National Archives, no one uses the phrase "God's noble experiment." No one.
Chuck Schumer: "The founding fathers called America God's noble experiment. I believe in all three words to this day: we are one nation under God, we have clung to noble ideals for longer than any other nation, and we are an experiment always changing, trying to make ourselves better.
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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Once you kill a child, or your policies and actions lead to the death of children, whatever the case may be, it doesn't matter how many satellites you put into space, what anyone says you are or aren't, or how much wealth you amass. At the end of the day, you are a child killer.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
"You know, I'm automatically attracted to beautiful verdicts... I just start enforcing them. It's like a magnet. Just lien. I don't even wait. And when you're a successful plaintiff they let you do it. You can do anything. Grab him by the bond."
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NTPumpkin_Nate 🎃 @ntpnate.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Run ads pointing out that 4 Justices of the United States Supreme Court would have disallowed this goal.
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
I look at pictures like this and am convinced this was ALWAYS just intended as a money laundering vehicle. Trump, and also Trump's special events people, have the ability to put on a decent show, even with the partisanship. Here they didn't bother wasting the money to do so.
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HCR HQ @hcrhq.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
Letters from an American June 27, 2026 Read the full letter: heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p…
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Senator Sheldon Whitehouse @whitehouse.senate.gov · 28/06/2026
When Moody’s is posting trillion-dollar flood loss warnings, might it be time to start paying attention? Insurance markets are already staggering. Mortgage and real estate markets follow. The warnings are real and many.
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US flood: $375bn-$1tn in aggregated uninsured exposure raises credit risk
Aggregated uninsured US flood loss exposure from extreme events reveals widespread protection gaps, shifting recovery costs to federal aid, households, and local governments.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 21/06/2026
Oh. So Tulsi Gabbard wrote a report showing that voting machine vulnerabilities didn’t flip any votes. And now she’s not the DNI anymore. Hmm. www.reuters.com/world/white-...
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EXCLUSIVE: White House delays release of US voting machine study as midterms near
The report does not say the vulnerabilities have led to votes flipping.
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
A federal judge has just ordered DOJ to turnover five categories of items from the Epstein Files that it previously failed to disclose by July 2 in a lawsuit brought by Katie Phang. Read the details here: joycevance.substack.com/p/finally-a-...
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D L Newton @oldladyinhershoes.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
The reflecting pool: where a narcissist sees his soul. A putrid, peeling, rotten disaster of his own making. If only the Epstein Files might metaphorically float to the surface. The ugly, ugly truth.
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Truly embarrassed for some people during this NYC election cycle. Stop saying you want change but sticking with status quo candidates.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
On behalf of parents of special needs children everywhere, I would like to invite Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent to go fuck himself.
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WeRateDogs @weratedogs.com · 19/06/2026
Here are the top 5 dogs of the week!
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Ashton Pittman @ashtonpittman.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
We're hearing reports that police have tear gassed a group of protesters outside the Senatobia Walmart where an officer shot and killed 1-year-old Kohen Wiley.
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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Listen, I just cannot say this loudly enough: if there is a detention center near you or planned to be near you, please get trained immediately in rapid response and get connected to your local immigration action network. It is the primary way to know exactly what's happening and how you can help.
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Status Coup News @statuscoupnews.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
Soto's wife, Gabriela, was threatened by a guard yesterday with having her visitation cut off for talking to media and loudly publicizing that prisoners were fed worms. Her husband, Martin, has lost 30 pounds in 4 months of imprisonment. Gabriela is pregnant with their third child...
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David Rothschild @davmicrot.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
It is insane that person who is funding the world’s white supremacist movement & is daily spewing racism, who killed 100,000’s last year by yanking USAID without warning, is regularly discussed in Corporate Media as an industrialist, without any mention of the white supremacism or mass murder.
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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
This is fucking horrifying.
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D L Newton @oldladyinhershoes.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
EVERYTHING reeks of corruption because IT IS CORRUPTION. The whole thing has been a grift since this POS was born. Every POS born since then has been mainlining the corruption koolaid. We keep begging electeds to make it stop instead of folding hot air into little puffs of smoke.
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Freedom 💙Bluewave @freedom2323.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Why is the media completely ignoring the Epstein survivors' first public testimony happening today? We won't let their heroic act and Trump's criminal coverup of crimes against them go unnoticed. If the media won't step up, we will.
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
“…the forces that stand today against …political representation for Black people won’t stop there…They seek a one party political system ruled by authoritarians. The political oppression of Black people is not the end. It is the conduit.”
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D L Newton @oldladyinhershoes.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
This is tragedy looming #climatechange
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
The U.S. has spent billions to lose a war that enriches its oligarchs, impoverishes the citizenry, sabotages its alliances, and strengthens its enemies. Empires have risen and failed before, but to my knowledge no state has ever chosen to kill its own power. snyder.substack.com/p/on-superpo...
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On Superpower Suicide
And the recovery of justice
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Andi the butch abolitionist (she/he/they) @andi.publichearth.com · 10/05/2026
“Stop talking about the thing that is going to cause us & our children mass suffering & probably kill us” is WILD
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Science Magazine @science.org · 09/05/2026
Breaking news: Indiana University plant microbiologist Roger Innes has been locked out of his laboratory by the school in response to a request by one of his federal funders. The move comes after Innes complained about the government’s prosecution of Chinese postdocs. scim.ag/4tsDqRr
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After USDA request, Indiana plant biologist locked out of lab by school
Move comes after Roger Innes complained about the government’s prosecution of Chinese postdocs
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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
I know there's a lot going on, but it's odd to me there isn't more of an intense social focus on the wide epidemic of sexual abuse scandals in evangelical churches. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
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Christian missionary hailed as ‘holiest man alive’ pleads guilty to abusing boys in Texas
Daniel Savala, who preached for decades in an Assemblies of God-run college ministry, was sentenced to 30 years in prison without the possibility of parole.
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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
I don't give a damn what any possible 2028 presidential candidate thinks about 2028. Show me the work you're doing *now* for the Midterms. What are you--aspiring leader of the party--doing to win back Congress? Show me that work, and I'll give a damn re: your thoughts on 2028 after the Midterms.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 08/05/2026
This clip is chilling. The Andes strain of the Hantavirus is airborne and appears to spread more easily between humans than previously suggested. Might be time to restart social distancing and break out the N95 masks.
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Robert Downen @robertdownen.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
Tomorrow morning, we will be dropping a ~12,000 word story on Paul Pressler, the alleged sexual predator who remade the Southern Baptist Convention and helped ordain the marriage between the GOP and white evangelical voters. There is *a lot* in there and I hope you'll read it.
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