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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 2h

Maybe time for those who don't experience this directly to return to this thread (which I posted when PTSD was being weaponized to relieve Graham Platner of responsibility for his actions).

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Casey Explosion @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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Dom Ervolina @dominicervolina.com · 14h

No bear has ever doxxed a rape victim

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 15h

The jackals are out, as they usually are for a woman who speaks up in a way that challenges patriarchy. (And a lot of why victims don't come forward or withdraw--as a Weinstein victim did--is because the misogynist public and legal system launch their own punitive assaults.)

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Spokane Rising @spokanerising.com · 29/09/2026

Send Stephen Miller to The Hague.

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Lindsey Boylan @lindseyboylan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This man is a monster. He seeks out women survivors because he hates them. And he hates them because he hates himself. He has harassed me and other women survivors many times over the years. It must end. He should never have a job anywhere.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 21h

I got one of those. Do not get into their greedy maw. Just sorting out my Anthropic settlement stuff now. (It's complicated, at least if you're me.)

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 22h

The cleansing of the blood of the nation must continue, as it says in the constitution bsky.app/profile/stev...

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 23h

The RAGE I feel every time something horrible happens to someone(s) and then suddenly a white dude puts up a website with a newsy URL that's like "Here I'll put accountability stuff in a second, coming soon but in the meantime DONATE HERE"

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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Rare opportunity to invest in no future.

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Constantine @ajaxsinger.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

We are within a hairs-breadth of a gov't council on physical fitness summit about the benefits of rape for men.

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Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 28/09/2026

Gone are the mass raids and militarized metro operations. Gone are the pomp and pageantry. But ICE arrests have hit record levels. ICE operations are no longer concentrated in large American cities. Immigration enforcement officials are also working in suburban and rural areas, all across the US.

A map of the United States that shows immigration arrests per 100,000 people since ICE's new enforcement strategy began under DHS secretary Markwayne Mullin.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

@jkbjournalist.bsky.social reopened the Epstein case; Heidi Blake seems to have restarted the UK prosecuting Andrew Tate; Ronan Farrow, Megan Twohey and Jodi Kantor made the system finally go after Weinstein for real. Journalism has again and again made the justice system do its job.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Campus rape is really widespread; statistics suggest a significant percent of women who go to college will be raped there; feminism opened up a good conversation about it around 2012-13; it's weird when people treated Cornell like an isolated rather than dramatic example of a pervasive problem.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 27/09/2026

Women trying to succeed in Silicon Valley AI and effective altruist spaces are reporting feeling serious social pressure to attend sex parties - where people have reported being sexually assaulted, like below. Events like Aella’s “Slutcon,” which is happening again this weekend.

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I am disheartened by this as well. I already lost a bunch of followers for agreeing with @tautologer, but it's saddening to see local nerdy women being caricatured as Karen-like outsiders and getting pushed out of the scene. This is exactly why you hear so few concrete, names-attached stories of sexual harrassment and assault. I'm told there is a history of discrediting these because the "slut normalization" thing is top priority and these stories get inconveniently in the way of spreading this ideology.
I got roped into attending last year's Saturday Slutcon party because so many local and out-of-town friends were there (to echo sentiments @tautologer expressed about "slut events becoming central to the larger scenes). Mostly I hung out with people I knew and that was great. But in the course of my 3-ish hours there, there were 2 times my "no" was not accepted by a man I didn't know, and I was physically pushing a huge guy off of me who was rubbing his penis on me, who continued to do it despite my physical force against him, and after I finally wriggled away from him, told him I wanted to dance alone etc., he came back and did it again.
This was scary and bad, but it didn't even cross my mind to report this because one of the other people who didn't accept my "no" earlier in the night was the bartender (an officially sanctioned authority at the event), and I knew the event was organized exclusively by women into CNC (who are vocal about how rapey behavior turns them on), so I figured this sort of thing would just get me laughed at. And anyway, I heard there were a lot of other incidents like it. Later though, someone encouraged me to report this story to the organizers, and despite my embarrassment I did, so *they know* that this and other incidents happened. This is why they cut the Saturday night party this year and created a larger training program for the flirt girls - *because* of things like this last year. Yet the narrative bein…

People who haven't been to Slutcon are saying "it's just group therapy," "it's just innocent flirting." But the environment is much like a sex party in that many people are nude, there is making out and sex acts happening out in the open. I think it's pretty unreasonable to expect that every nerdy girl who likes rationalist bloggers or is into EA/AI safety should automatically be comfortable with this! That if she's not, there's something wrong with her, we don't want her in our scenes, etc.
Not to mention, it's explictly an event *for men*, where men are the clients and the "flirt girls" are the product. Last year I overheard an exchange where a man felt "led on" by a flirt girl and was trying to get her punished/kicked out. (A dynamic that seems inevitable in this context!)
Anyway- it does sound like they've upped their consent education a lot this year, are more organized, and that's good! As I've told my friends who are attending: I hope they have fun!
I heard several accounts last year of women who had no problems and really enjoyed the event. That's great!
Just... can we live in reality about this? There are real reasons why male-female sexual dynamics are tricky.
Encouraging autistic men who can't yet read body language to go around asking to see womens' boobs is maybe a bit ill-advised. Maybe not everyone should be/identify as a slut; maybe it's not for everyone.
And yeah, filtering the Bay Area Al safety scene down to only women who are super comfy with this eliminates *most* women - including many of the really smart, nerdy, weird women who've been in the larger scenes for years. What a loss for humanity.
I absolutely understand why people with a minority sexuality would want to create belonging, would want to create spaces for people like themselves. But why do it like this/at this cost?

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

So is the White House, the Kennedy Center, and for that matter the Supreme Court, Congress, the executive branch, the rule of law, the military, public health, and.... Let's hope for a midterm landslide and thereafter some memory in the electorate of who broke what.

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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Instead of a thousand words. Pavlo, a Ukrainian Defender who has returned from Russian captivity, takes down his picture from a wall of missing and captives. He spent 50 months in Russian captivity. That's over four years.... 📷: iamslimaa/Threads

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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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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Climate change affects everything. "These threats are not regarded as some far-off or remote contingency: disastrous impacts, for instance on the UK’s food supply, could be expected as soon as 2030, it warns."

What is the report?
In the first report of its kind, the UK’s spy chiefs set out stark warnings of the catastrophic risks to the UK from the collapse of vital ecosystems around the world, driven by the climate crisis and our failures to protect nature. The Guardian has seen part of the report and has spoken to a large number of people familiar with its contents, which warn of food shortages, conflicts, mass migration and other threats to the UK’s national security, including going as far as the risk of nuclear war or the breakdown of society. These threats are not regarded as some far-off or remote contingency: disastrous impacts, for instance on the UK’s food supply, could be expected as soon as 2030, it warns.

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Daniel Swain @weatherwest.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

For the record: The University of California has never asked me for anything like this. But I am seeing this line of questioning arising in a rapidly growing number of American contexts. It has been asked of me, personally, elsewhere. And that is very, very alarming.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I think of the climate harm AI poses the same way: the threats are not theoretical or in the future, but unfolding all around us now.

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

AP Stylebook warns against anthropomorphizing AI systems: “Avoid language that gives them human characteristics… Instead, explain what a system does, how well it performs, who built it and who could be affected by it.”

APStylebook @APStylebook
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Artificial intelligence systems do not think, feel, want or understand. Avoid language that gives them human characteristics. This is called anthropomorphizing, when we ascribe human traits, emotions or behaviors to non-human things, such as animals or inanimate objects.
Instead, explain what a system does, how well it performs, who built it and who could be affected by it.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

What gets you booted from Substack? Andrew Tate still seems to have a newsletter there while charged with: 10 counts of rape, 3 of trafficking for sexual exploitation, 3 of assault occasioning actual bodily harm, & making/distributing indecent images of a child. possessing extreme pornography.

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Adam Rogers @jetjocko.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

A lot of things make me feel kind of dumb, including how to take at face value the logic of “we are a multibillion dollar transnational industry building a vengeful elder god, and we definitely won’t stop unless you regulate us the way we want, which is a secret.”

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

If the awards are all white, it's because white people are better. But if they're not all white, that's racist. bsky.app/profile/mari...

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

"The disappeared*" was a term for those the military dictatorship in Argentina imprisoned/tortured/murdered during the dirty war. *"detenidos-desaparecidos" (detained-disappeared)

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Elon Musk wants child pornography in Minnesota and everywhere else; he sued the state to overturn its law blocking Elon Musk's nudification app.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21/09/2026

LMFAO -- Trump is holding an event at the White House right now but there's no audio because the press pool isn't there. The Newsmax host notes that this is an example of Trump's attacks on the press "backfiring just a little bit"

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BungalowBill @opinionsarelike.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

“While the word intelligence is constantly deployed in these circles, the word stupid often seems applicable.” 👌

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Congressman Greg Casar @repcasar.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

The horror has come to our city: ICE has shot a person in Austin this morning. As the facts emerge, I am demanding a full, independent investigation, immediate release of the body camera footage, and accountability for any ICE officer who broke the law.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Stories like this have, for ages, treated men's desire to harm women as a sort of background noise, a weather we just normalize and accept and try to work around. Feminism is among other things a process of denormalization.

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James Murray @james-bg.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I know almost everything is terrible, but this year really could be world-historic in a good way. It’ll be several more years before it can be definitively called, but there are encouraging signs emissions really are peaking. www.businessgreen.com/news/4535893...

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Study: Global fossil-fuel emissions to fall 0.5 per cent this year

Strait of Hormuz crisis has led to lower oil and gas demand that should more than offset any increased emissions from higher coal power generation, Carbon Brief calculates

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Imani Gandy @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 20/09/2026

I just honestly can't get over that Save Women Sports, an anti-trans group could only find five trans athletes competing K through 12. Five. The NCAA president testified a year and a half ago or so that there were less than 10 college level trans athletes. What the fuck are we doing, people

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Max Granger @maxgranger.info · 15/09/2026

Endangered species stop border wall construction in the San Rafael Valley, near Lochiel, Ariz.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

It would commemorate no particular triumph except petulant President Augustus Gloop getting his own way, and stuffing it full of military supplies would make it an easy target. Could be the Arc d'Defeat in Iran, though. Arc d'Midterms Bloodbath. Arc d'Mission Accomplished Make America Weak.

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Patti Olivier 💙VOTE BLUE @patti3333.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

NIGHTS OF BLUE SKIES DAY 18 SEPTEMBER 2026 🚨THE AMERICAN PEOPLE RISE UP 🚨 This afternoon & tonight Massive crowds show up at the Kennedy Center in DC This is so AWESOME ..Kerry Kennedy, niece of JFK called out & the people came....even a human chain around the center This is how it's done

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

The NY Times is in “but her emails” mode regarding Abdul El-Sayed and Hasan Piker. Relentless and unfair. Where’s the big story about a Republican megadonor who is a white supremacist? Maybe NYT has heard of him. His name‘s Elon Musk.

NYT headline: A provocative streamer creates headaches for El-Sayed in key Senate race

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Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 18/09/2026

We're in the midst of an illegal war that's costing Americans $1 billion a day. Gas is over $4/gallon. AI companies are warning of threats to humanity. And the President is trying to demolish the Kennedy Center because he can't put his name on it. Sums up the Trump era.

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Judge says Trump’s board may not demolish Kennedy Center without warning

Rep. Joyce Beatty asked a federal judge to clarify that the center cannot be torn down after images surfaced of the president reviewing what appeared to be a printout related to the institution.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Biked over and got my covid and flu shots this morning. Think of it as a salute to this guy. But really a salute to science, herd immunity, public health, and survival.

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