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@radfem.bsky.social
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Feminist, reader, crocheter, knitter, cook. Discernment honed, and yet, I laugh… Webcammers and OFers immediately blocked.

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RadFem @radfem.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
Two great radical feminist resources: (and if you are too thick to know that "radical means "root," just move along) linktr.ee/ladielabrys radfem.org (all of Andrea Dworkin's books in PDF format, plus other early radical feminists
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Ladie Labrys | Linktree
Radical Feminist Resources (not all mine) + my socials
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RadFem @radfem.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
This is Katie Johnson's story with links and resources. She named Trump as her rapist. substack.com/home/post/p-...
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The Truth Still Means Something.
There is a lot to understand when a Woman is sharing a sexual assault as a child. It takes years to be able to even speak about the shame they felt. They were children, of a kid's mindset.
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ReRouted By History @reroutedbyhistory.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
Was Vlad Dracul a vampire? History doesn’t care. But he was a demon. This isn’t a silly history of him haunting— that’s so played out. This is a Xmas raid that might have killed Mehmed II who was bent on revenge and taking extraordinary risk. Paid. Stay tuned reroutedbyhistory.substack.com/subscribe
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RadFem @radfem.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
Dems need this conversation—and it needs to be an honest one. When 13-year old girls are forced to share changing rooms with males, something is very, very wrong. substack.com/home/post/p-...
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Why We Need to Talk About Trans - Even in Polite Company
Jenny Poyer Ackerman's Bigger Picture Albuquerque talk on finding your voice, becoming the expert, and the absurdity that gave her permission to speak
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RadFem @radfem.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
This was so entirely possible. Imagine how terrified Elizabeth I was at ALL times. reroutedbyhistory.substack.com/p/influenza-...
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Influenza Claims Elizabeth. England Divides: Europe Decides. Winter Took the Crown. Chaos Took the State
Because history doesn’t repeat itself—it remixes.
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RadFem @radfem.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
"TDS" is a devious term. "A dispute over power, legitimacy, and accountability is quietly refiled as a problem of mental health, …and the focus is shifted away from what is being argued to what is allegedly wrong with the person making the argument." therationalleague.substack.com/p/the-lie-of...
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The Lie of Trump Derangement Syndrome
How a Political Label Became a Shield Against Accountability
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RadFem @radfem.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
When the Wealthy Pay First, the Republic Endures: A Full-Throated Endorsement of Mitt Romney’s Call to Tax the Rich—In the Grand Tradition of The Medici open.substack.com/pub/rebootth...
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When the Wealthy Pay First, the Republic Endures: A Full-Throated Endorsement of Mitt Romney’s Call to Tax the Rich—In the Grand Tradition of The Medici
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RadFem @radfem.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
reboottherenaissance.substack.com/p/why-the-ne...
reboottherenaissance.substack.com
Why the Netflix–Warner–Paramount Bidding War Is a Fight for Cultural Custody—Then There’s Trump: Florence Not Rome. Power, Culture, and Control
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RadFem @radfem.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
reboottherenaissance.substack.com/p/maga-make-...
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MAGA: Make Alexander VI Great Again—How Trump Rebuilt the Borgia Court Inside the American Cabinet
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RadFem @radfem.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
This piece is just wonderful. substack.com/home/post/p-...
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The Morality Pageant
On Helen Andrews’ Feminization piece
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RadFem @radfem.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
"Florence lost its brilliance when dukes replaced dealers, when commerce bent to control. America toys with that same transmutation." reboottherenaissance.substack.com/p/werent-rep...
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Weren’t Republicans Supposed to Be Supply-Siders? Businesses Bear the Brunt of Trump’s Cartel Profit Politburo
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RadFem @radfem.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
"…the service of one person is disposed of or coerced for another’s benefit which is…involuntary servitude,’ and subordinate one group of people, based on a biological trait…which, by … birth, is subjected to special duty to serve others and not themselves.’ www.reprotruth.com/p/abortion-b...
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Abortion Bans Constitute Involuntary Servitude
Part III of How to Talk About Abortion Bans
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rePro-Truth @reprotruth.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
If you are experiencing a miscarriage or are having an abortion, there's a confifential helpline you can call for advice from actual healthcare providers. (833-246-2632) But Meta keeps censoring it online. www.eff.org/pages/silenc...
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The Abortion Hotline Meta Wants to Go Dark
BY KENYATTA THOMAS | September 26, 2025This is the sixth installment in a blog series documenting EFF's findings from the Stop Censoring Abortion campaign. You can read additional posts here. When we ...
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Prof Sam Illingworth @samillingworth.com · 20/09/2025
🦴 Microplastics and bone health A new review finds microplastics can accumulate in bone tissue, altering cells, weakening structure, and potentially linking to diseases like osteoporosis. 🔗 link.springer.com/article/10.1... #SciComm #Health #Plastics 🧪
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Effects of microplastics on the bones: a comprehensive review - Osteoporosis International
A growing role for the skeleton in human health and longevity emerged recently. However, knowledge regarding the effects of new risk factors, linked to modern life, for bone diseases is not documented...
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RadFem @radfem.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
This thread apples to ALL censorship:
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RadFem @radfem.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
Re-imagine Veronica Franco, brilliant woman and poet: reroutedbyhistory.substack.com/p/the-sereni...
reroutedbyhistory.substack.com
The Serenissima’s Sibyl: When Veronica Franco Became Venice’s Diplomatic Oracle
Because history doesn’t repeat itself—it remixes.
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RadFem @radfem.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
Listening to the Epstein survivors and I am in tears or rage and admiration.
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RadFem @radfem.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
Teh Bewilderness' The Rules of Misogyny: forwomen.scot/05/02/2025/r...
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Rules of Misogyny - For Women Scotland
Those familiar with the list who tuned in to watch the cross-examination of Sandie Peggie, the nurse at the centre of the Fife Tribunal, would have recognised all too many of them. Ms Peggie was suspe...
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RadFem @radfem.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
thehill.com/policy/healt...
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CVS withholding COVID-19 vaccines in 15 states and DC, citing ‘regulatory environment’
Related video: Changes Atop the CDC CVS Health does not currently plan to offer the updated annual vaccine COVID-19 vaccine in more than a dozen states, citing the current “regulatory environ…
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RadFem @radfem.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
Part I: www.reprotruth.com/p/poor-pro-l... Part II: www.reprotruth.com/p/uterus-exc...
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Uterus Exceptionalism (Part II)
This series on uterus exceptionalism is brought to you by the generosity, partnership, and support of rePro-Truth's amazing subscribers.
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RadFem @radfem.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
"The city that should have been a feast became a fast. The civic body starved itself because the ruler who arrived made every act of celebration an act of danger." reboottherenaissance.substack.com/p/the-banque...
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The Banquet of Fear: How Trump’s Occupation of Washington Killed The Medici’s Invention of Civic Culture Celebration
Hubris Kills The Heartbeat of the City
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RadFem @radfem.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
Anti-abortion playbook, flipped: Arkansas abortion fund opens its own "crisis pregnancy center" www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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Anti-abortion playbook, flipped: Arkansas abortion fund opens its own "crisis pregnancy center"
The dismantling of Roe v. Wade has prompted new approaches to what it means to be pro-choice.
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RadFem @radfem.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
"It is now MS NOW—”My Source for News, Opinion, and the World”—and it has declared, in Renaissance terms, that the Republic still breathes." reboottherenaissance.substack.com/p/ms-now-or-...
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MS NOW or Never: The Free Press Has a New Acronym & Refreshed Raison d’être
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RadFem @radfem.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
Important for women: msmagazine.com/2022/07/14/a...
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Abortion How-To: The Ms. Q&A on Menstrual Extraction With Carol Downer
Before Roe, women self-managed abortions by “menstrual extraction." Activist Carol Downer tells Ms. how she taught the method to women.
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RadFem @radfem.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
This is worth sharing again: newrepublic.com/article/1983...
newrepublic.com
A History of Abortion Undergrounds—and a Guide to Starting One
Journalist Rebecca Grant shifts the abortion conversation away from laws and morals to focus on access: getting people the care they seek.
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RadFem @radfem.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
This was especially elucidating to me. I missed much of the 1980s and 1990s because I was busy being a radical feminist. I barely know who Madonna is. This was a great explainer of what I missed.
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RadFem @radfem.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
"Hegemony is not sustained by muscle alone. It is sustained by the web of obligations that muscle supports… teaches another ally that Washington’s word is neither predictable nor permanent." reboottherenaissance.substack.com/p/when-the-l...
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When the Lion Lets Go of the Leash: Trump’s Soft Grip and the Rise of a World Unbound
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RadFem @radfem.bsky.social · 10/08/2025
"The truth — one only The Medici and a handful of bankers will admit — is that the Schism is more about liquidity than it is of liturgy. Rome and Avignon are both insolvent." reroutedbyhistory.substack.com/p/the-gonfal...
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The Gonfaloniere of God’s Conclave Conspiracy: From Schism to Signoria on the Road to the Renaissance
A Series Of Little Known Inheritance Conflicts. War of Spanish Succession? Heard it. War of Austrian Succession? So done. How about…
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RadFem @radfem.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
"Grain was food, to be certain. It was also ritual. It was currency. It was empire itself, crushed and stored and shipped and consumed." reroutedbyhistory.substack.com/p/the-grain-...
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The Grain of Empire: When Aetius Returns to Scipio’s Shore
Because history doesn’t repeat itself—it remixes.
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The Museum of English Rural Life (MERL) @themerl.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
New Absolute Units episode is here! We continue chatting with @museumofmump.bsky.social about his art depicting countryside signs and folk culture – and explore the larger history of making sense of the countryside through crafts and objects. Listen now wherever you get your podcasts!
A portrait of a very large bull, by Man in the Woods.
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RadFem @radfem.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
"The Trumpian strain of realism pretends to honor strength. But what it honors is fear. Fear of the future. Fear of pluralism. Fear of accountability. It wraps itself in sovereign rhetoric, but its goal is universal: control without question." reboottherenaissance.substack.com/p/scorched-e...
reboottherenaissance.substack.com
Scorched Earth, Sealed Borders, Silenced Allies: The Realism Racket of How Autocrats Found a Prophet in Trump
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RadFem @radfem.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
"Anyone arguing that women seeking safety endangers men en masse ignores society's baseline deputization of men to enjoy and enforce unchecked access to women's in homes, streets, schools, at work, and online." sorayachemaly.substack.com/p/12-from-gh...
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12. From Ghislaine Maxwell to The Tea Hack
Both show that everything is about regulating men's access to women, not keeping women safe
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RadFem @radfem.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
"Really, Poe could have benefited from a righteous punch in the head by a puritan. Cotton Mather could have done the job." virginiaheffernan.substack.com/p/the-goth-c...
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The Goth Conservatives
Trump v. Poe
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RadFem @radfem.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
"Abortion in the United States has moved between eras of criminalization and eras of legality, but at no point have women ever stopped needing them or having them. In this sense, women’s lives have always rendered any abortion bans or restrictions illegitimate. newrepublic.com/article/1983...
newrepublic.com
A History of Abortion Undergrounds—and a Guide to Starting One
Journalist Rebecca Grant shifts the abortion conversation away from laws and morals to focus on access: getting people the care they seek.
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RadFem @radfem.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
It has ALWAYS been in Russian interests to stir up ME tensions. middleeasttransparent.com/the-kgbs-mid...
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The KGB’s Middle East Files: Palestinians in the service of Mother Russia - Middle East Transparent
Secret KGB documents reveal just how deeply involved the Soviet Union was in the spilling of Israeli blood. The Russian spy agency provided Palestinian terror organizations with funds, training and ar...
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RadFem @radfem.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
Remember "health officials" really means Hamas spokesmen when you see casualty and/or starvation counts. It is war. No entity ever tried harder to avoid civilian casualties than Israel. But, it is war. And I do hope it ends soon. x.com/GedaliahBlum...
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Gedaliah Blum 🇮🇱 on X: "The Palestinian national project is the REAL genocidal campaign..." / X
The Palestinian national project is the REAL genocidal campaign...
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RadFem @radfem.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
"Bosses, who were suddenly called CEOs, weren’t exactly taking care of families anymore…Bosses were fluffing shareholders. For workers, they wanted freelancers, adjuncts, temps—what used to be called scabs." virginiaheffernan.substack.com/p/lets-just-...
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Let's Just Quit
AI, have at it. Take my job—please.
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RadFem @radfem.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
"…Canada and Mexico are reportedly moving ahead with what’s now called the Northern Corridor: a multi-billion-dollar infrastructure and logistics pact designed to preserve open commerce between their economies without relying on U.S. cooperation." reboottherenaissance.substack.com/p/the-trade-...
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The Trade That Crosses Without Permission: How Mexico and Canada Are Preserving the Marketplace While Trump Demands a Toll
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RadFem @radfem.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
@madelinepotter.bsky.social, I am on my morning walk and listening to “The Roma.” Last few minutes of Soy Gitano chapter and I may start dancing the remainder of my walk. I highly recommend “The Roma: A Traveling History” Warm, well-researched and well-written. www.amazon.com/Roma-Traveli...
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The Roma: A Traveling History
Amazon.com: The Roma: A Traveling History eBook : Potter, Madeline: Kindle Store
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Big Issue @bigissue.com · 25/07/2025
Romani people have a rich and varied culture that is not easily understood, sometimes even by ourselves, writes Madeline Potter.
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Everything you think you know about Romani people is probably wrong
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RadFem @radfem.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
"Truth should be brutal when the lie is gilded." —Donny Evans iamdonnyevans.substack.com/p/dear-ivank...
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Dear Ivanka: A Letter to a Gilded Daughter
Ivanka Trump stood beside Epstein, Casablancas, and her father’s sins. This letter asks what she saw—and why silence pays so well.
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RadFem @radfem.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
"Sometimes I think the American religion is conversion—or, rather, a religion I call Parental Defiance. My parents were X, but now I’m a none, or a Buddhist, or spiritual not religious." virginiaheffernan.substack.com/p/teen-embar...
virginiaheffernan.substack.com
Teen Embarrassment Is Bionic
And it might save us from Trump's plan to turn us all into morons.
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RadFem @radfem.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
"It’s been reliably reported that Kremlin potentates, people close to Putin, among themselves referred to Trump as a “rooster” (петух), which sounds innocent, but isn’t." topsecretumbra.substack.com/p/codename-o...
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Codename ORANGE ROOSTER
Trying desperately to shift the national conversation to Anything But Epstein, President Trump threatens a constitutional crisis
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RadFem @radfem.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
“Foreign Policy Fractured Under the Strain of Institutional Divorce” open.substack.com/pub/rebootth...
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The Fog of Freedom: Brexit’s Backfire and the MAGA Mirage of Sovereignty
Britain Disassembled Its Empire Long Ago.
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RadFem @radfem.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
"The republic investigates its predators only long enough to formalize their immunity—then entombs them in process and sends the invoice to the survivors." When You Name the Beast, He’ll Sue the Mirror iamdonnyevans.substack.com/p/when-you-n...
iamdonnyevans.substack.com
When You Name the Beast, He’ll Sue the Mirror
Trump’s name appeared “multiple times” in the Epstein files. He answered not with a denial, but a lawsuit.
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RadFem @radfem.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
The Reproductive Punishment of Females, Parts I & II: A view of history, current events and the future of female reproductive rights with Project 2025 in mind. (Yes, males have ALL sexual and reproductive rights…) www.reprotruth.com/p/on-punishi... www.reprotruth.com/p/on-punishi...
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On Punishing Women, Part 1
Once you understand punishment as operant conditioning, the anti-rights movement’s gender-specific forms of punishing women become evident.
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RadFem @radfem.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
"The American Revolution still happens, but the Declaration is co-authored by Abigail Adams, now a recognized scholar of the Twice-Blessed School." reroutedbyhistory.substack.com/p/the-twice-...
reroutedbyhistory.substack.com
The Twice-Blessed City: When Artemis Guarded the Virgin and Ephesus Became the Mother See
Because history doesn’t repeat itself—it remixes.
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RadFem @radfem.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
"Trump presides over a cult of confessionless followers. Allegiance now means shielding the supreme figure from every earthly charge—assault, fraud, insurrection, and now the dark corners of Epstein’s network. The faithful intercede on his behalf instead of investigate." tinyurl.com/bdm8kfv7
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The Borgia Playbook Returns: Mike Johnson’s Midnight Curtain Call
Power gags dissent.
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Reboot The Renaissance @rebootrenaissance.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
“Trump presides over a cult of confessionless followers. Allegiance now means shielding the supreme figure from every earthly charge: assault, fraud, insurrection, now dark corners of Epstein’s network. The faithful intercede on his behalf instead of investigate... open.substack.com/pub/rebootth...
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The Borgia Playbook Returns: Mike Johnson’s Midnight Curtain Call
Power gags dissent.
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RadFem @radfem.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
"To be free—in the term's oldest roots in the Indo-European language—is to be 'among the beloved.'" "…humiliation is not just an unpleasant or unethical act, it is politically important. Politics is—and always has been—significantly impacted by it." www.liberalcurrents.com/the-politi/
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The Politics of Humiliation
The politics of humiliation has moved to the center of the reactionary project under Trump II.
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