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Ruth E. Kastner

@rekastner.bsky.social
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Philosopher of physics; opposing genocide no matter who is doing it. "Denial of the opportunity for participation is the denial of human dignity and democracy."- Saul Alinsky

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Ruth E. Kastner @rekastner.bsky.social · 3h
STATE-SPONSORED BARBARITY: AMERICAN EXCEPTIONALISM ON DISPLAY cfordlaw.substack.com/p/state-spon...
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STATE-SPONSORED BARBARITY: AMERICAN EXCEPTIONALISM ON DISPLAY
Tennessee attempts to execute a woman, badly botches it, then sends her to a hospital and may try to kill her again. OTOH, the vast majority of Western hemisphere countries eschew capital punishment.
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Ruth E. Kastner @rekastner.bsky.social · 8h
rachelolearycarmona.substack.com/p/me-too-or-...
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Me too or fuck you
To anyone who isn't ready to fight for our lives and our right to not be raped, it's fuck you.
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Ruth E. Kastner @rekastner.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
@karenattiah.bsky.social laments the betrayal of basic humanitarian and journalistic principles, as well as the elevation of the those who smeared this victim of state violence by a powerful 'educational' institution who cancelled her for speaking out against murders like this:
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Ruth E. Kastner @rekastner.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Remembering Jamal Khashoggi + Note to Readers. karenattiah.substack.com/p/rememberin...
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Remembering Jamal Khashoggi + Note to Readers.
Jamal Khashoggi was murdered by Saudi agents on Oct. 2nd, 2018.
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Ruth E. Kastner @rekastner.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
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PM pushes step towards his ‘Zionist Palestinian state’ - Yves Engler
Mark Carney is doubling down on a colonial force in the West Bank with barely a peep from pro-Palestinian forces. In fact, some are supporting a security initiative that highlights the scope of Canadi...
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Sane Lunatic @sanelunatic.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Trump is stealing our taxpayer money Congress budgeted for Europe and the Middle East - and using that money to support fascist governments in South America.
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Ruth E. Kastner @rekastner.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
@rbreich.bsky.social worked for those same robber barons. Dem leaders are all oligarchs. The Clinton Administration, for whom Reich served, set the stage for Trump's cruel ICE deportation machine. truthout.org/articles/the... Corruption/fascism is bipartisan, but Dems routinely get a pass.
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The US’s Immigration Crackdown Began Decades Ago Under Clinton
To stop Trump’s crackdown, we must repeal immigration laws from 1996.
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Rep. Robert Garcia @robertgarcia.house.gov · 02/10/2026
This corruption must be investigated.
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ebisback.bsky.social @ebisback.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Seriously 💥
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Ruth E. Kastner @rekastner.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
In case you are still suffering from the illusion that the USA is any sort of civilized or compassionate country: truthout.org/video/christ...
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Christa Pike Hospitalized in Critical Condition After Botched Execution
“I’ve never seen anything like what we saw Wednesday night,” said one reporter who witnessed the execution attempt.
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dc2daylight.bsky.social @dc2daylight.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
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Ruth E. Kastner @rekastner.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
@cornelluniversity.bsky.social www.instagram.com/p/DdzcVFFyjt...
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Josh Gad on Instagram
1M likes, 0 comments - joshgad on September 27, 2026
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Ruth E. Kastner @rekastner.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
So for @cornelluniversity.bsky.social , you can mitigate your gang-rape of a victim by writing an essay: "Cornell...afforded [the attackers] the opportunity to mitigate their conduct by submitting essays to Cornell."
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Ruth E. Kastner @rekastner.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Ban the Fucking Frats—and in the Meantime, Avoid Them katemanne.substack.com/p/ban-the-fu...
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Ban the Fucking Frats—and in the Meantime, Avoid Them
My open letter to a seventeen-year-old female college applicant
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Ruth E. Kastner @rekastner.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
For the education of NY DA, Matthew "Rape Enabler" Van Houten: getting 'shit-faced' does not license rape. And I'll wager that if it were an intoxicated male getting gang raped, you would've gone after his attackers with both barrels. #Misogyny #RapeEnablerVanHouten (quote below from Kate Manne)
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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The government legislation affirms they know they’ll kill these orcas. Why else would they need ministerial abilities to ignore laws that prevent projects from driving a species to extinction/extirpation AND to ignore conditions put in place to protect these orcas from this specific port expansion?
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 02/10/2026
Calling all NYC artists — painters, filmmakers, poets, musicians and more! Did you know our city provides grants to support your work every year? And this year, we're DOUBLING the amount — from $5,000 up to $10,000 per artist! Deadlines are approaching fast — apply today at nyc.gov/artistgrants.
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Ruth E. Kastner @rekastner.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
A CEO tried to bully a journalist into silence. He failed. on.substack.com/p/a-ceo-trie...
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A CEO tried to bully a journalist into silence. He failed.
This week, we notched another win for free speech
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firmwareupdating.bsky.social @firmwareupdating.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The people who wrote this new rule did so while sitting in their office in DC.
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Alexandrian Apologist @goldenslowpoke.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
American culture has always been people punching down. Even the original colonists were religious minorities punching down at the natives so they wouldn’t punch up at the crown.
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Matthew Stockhausen @jmstockhausen.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The bosses watching the cams, of course, were sitting. Modern American society is more than anything about people who love abusing those they class as inferior.
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 02/10/2026
Ok what’s the real story here? Union busting? Trying to get higher paid people to quit?
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Ruth E. Kastner @rekastner.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Disgusting sexist trolls online are trying to expose the identity of Jane Doe, the brave former Cornell student who reports she was drugged and sexually assaulted by seven members of Cornell's Chi Phi fraternity. If they want a name, they can have mine.
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Left Of Center Orange Hater @leftocorangehater.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
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ebisback.bsky.social @ebisback.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Exactly 😤😡
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Ruth E. Kastner @rekastner.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Political Suicide: The West’s New Normal reason2resist.substack.com/p/political-...
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Political Suicide: The West’s New Normal
This week, the Western corporate media issued an avalanche of reports touting Mark Carney as a serious contender for the Nobel Peace Prize and Time Magazine's Person of the Year.
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Ruth E. Kastner @rekastner.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
#GavinNuisance
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Ruth E. Kastner @rekastner.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Cruelty, Deprivation, Indignity: My 22 Months in Israeli Prison open.substack.com/pub/dropsite... @paramountplus.com this is the brutality you are supporting with your Zionist propaganda shows. I'm 100% Jewish by descent. Zionism is not Judaism, but its opposite. Stop supporting racist genocide.
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Cruelty, Deprivation, Indignity: My 22 Months in Israeli Prison
Palestinian journalist Mujahed Al-Saadi documents his harrowing experience in Israeli detention two years after being arrested from his home in Jenin.
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Ruth E. Kastner @rekastner.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
In this post, I raise specific objections to the currently fashionable notion of "quantum relativism", which is based on very tenuous (at best) or even absent foundations. transactionalinterpretation.org/2026/10/01/q... @physicsworld.bsky.social @physicsmagazine.aps.org @physicstoday.aip.org
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A critique of the dogma of "quantum relativism"
Pushing back on the recent dogma of "quantum relativism" and the "no go theorems" that are assumed to support it.
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Ruth E. Kastner @rekastner.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Border Agents Are Randomly Seizing Phones of US Citizens Who Support Palestine truthout.org/articles/bor...
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Border Agents Are Randomly Seizing Phones of US Citizens Who Support Palestine
Miami lawyer Jalal Shehadeh is the latest supporter of Palestinian rights to be hassled after returning from abroad.
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Ruth E. Kastner @rekastner.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Way more than Attny Genl Ellison @ag.state.mn.us or Governor Tim Walz @governorwalz.mn.gov ever did. The refusal of the above MN politicians to pursue charges against the murderers of Good and Pretti constitute complicity in their murders, IMHO.
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FOR DEMOCRACY VETERAN @honorwillprevail.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
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Ruth E. Kastner @rekastner.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
An Emergency Dispatch [On the Cornell gang-rape case] katemanne.substack.com/p/an-emergen... @cornellupress.bsky.social
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An Emergency Dispatch
On Cornell’s handling of a horrific case of alleged rape on campus
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Jillian @bookworm17.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
We need more men calling out misogyny, willing to stand with women, and take action. goodlawproject.org/s/748822
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It’s time for men to speak up - and act | Good Law Project
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Ruth E. Kastner @rekastner.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Finally, it's being figured out that fascism is 100% bipartisan in the USA: "Clinton-Era Laws Passed 30 Years Ago Enabled Trump’s Anti-Immigrant Agenda" truthout.org/articles/cli... BlueRoad.info
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Clinton-Era Laws Passed 30 Years Ago Enabled Trump’s Anti-Immigrant Agenda.
Clinton’s ‘96 laws provided the legal foundation for mass detention, rapid deportations, and the evasion of due process.
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Ruth E. Kastner @rekastner.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Amazon Is Deploying AI to Spy on Its Workers and Bust Unions Before They Form truthout.org/articles/ama... #BoycottAmazon and #DoNotWorkForAmazon We need to just kill the beast at this point.
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Amazon Is Deploying AI to Spy on Its Workers and Bust Unions Before They Form
Internal company documents obtained by a Canadian labor board show how Amazon is tracking workers’ every move.
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Ruth E. Kastner @rekastner.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
wordsaremonuments.org/events/he-sa... He Sapa ["Black Hills"] was guaranteed to the Oceti Sakowin under the 1868 Fort Laramie Treaty, then illegally seized by the United States after gold was discovered. -- from the Natural History Museum
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Welcome to He Sapa: A Living Legacy of Resistance - Words Are Monuments
Held in conjunction with the billboard campaign “Welcome to He Sapa. You’re on Stolen Land,” this roundtable brings together Lakota artists, activists, and knowledge-holders to connect present-day min...
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 30/09/2026
Cool to see work in the world that builds on and is in conversation with work I did with my former PhD student Dr. Nathan Rutherford (now at @fqxi.org) and @profannawatts.bsky.social! 🔭
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Bayesian Constraints on Bosonic Dark Matter in Neutron Stars within a Covariant Density-Functional Equation-of-State Ensemble
We investigate neutron stars admixed with repulsively self-interacting bosonic dark matter (DM) using current multi-messenger observations. The dark component is modeled as a complex scalar field coup...
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🌺HippiesRule🌺 @teresa555.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
They just don't care.
Drawing of a woman standing - head bowed -  in front of a row of men - behind a long desk with papers in front of them.
One man is saying: "It's not that we don't believe your story, it's that we don't care."

David Hayward 
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Tomorrow, on October 1, the biggest transfer of wealth from the working class to the wealthy hits a critical milestone. Many of the provisions from the Big Ugly Bill will go into effect, harming hundreds of thousands of Michiganders in order to create tax cuts for the richest people in America.
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Chicago Council of Lawyers @chicouncillawyers.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Chicago Council of Lawyers President Rob Held warned ICE agents and federal officials that they must uphold the law. He spoke at a press conference about the civil lawsuit he filed a lawsuit against Adam Saracco, the ICE agent who recently pleaded guilty to battery for his attack against Held.
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dc2daylight.bsky.social @dc2daylight.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 29/09/2026
To be fair, the single most publicly-accessed example of "AI" in the world can't find its ass with a flashlight and it's right on top of the search listings, where the most accurate search result used to be. Every LLM suffers from token drift over time so it's only a question of WHEN they're wrong.
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Ruth E. Kastner @rekastner.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I just signed a petition telling social media companies including @discord.com : stop online ID checks! Sign here: www.stoponlineidchecks.org/companies/?s...
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ONLINE ID CHECKS = SURVEILLANCE AND CENSORSHIP
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Ruth E. Kastner @rekastner.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The Cornell 7 were given a pass by NY DA Matthew Van Houten because, he argues, it's perfectly legal to gang-rape someone if they're drunk. Oops correction: you only have permission to gang-rape a drunk person if that person is female. Thanks NY DA Van Houten for clarifying that.
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Ruth E. Kastner @rekastner.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
And all this was brought to us by The Blue Road to Trump Hell: BlueRoad.info
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 29/09/2026
All it's missing is: “Please note, no support for Palestinian rights shall be articulated. Discovery of human rights advocacy and opposition to genocide will result in immediate, nonnegotiable expulsion, and where applicable, deportation.”
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Ruth E. Kastner @rekastner.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
"When Jesus healed the sick, he didn’t ask for a deductible." jamestalarico.substack.com/p/on-biblica...
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On biblical grounds
I am tired of politicians corrupting my religion to protect their own power — and the profits of their billionaire and corporate mega-donors.
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Ruth E. Kastner @rekastner.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Zionist calls for the murder of Jews who dissent from genocide: yvesengler.com/2026/09/30/d...
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Did prominent Zionist really call for NDP leader’s death? - Yves Engler
The assassination threat must be condemned. But we also need Avi Lewis to stand up to the genocidal Jewish supremacist bullies. In “Jewish law tells us how to deal with Avi Lewis” Yoni Goldstein effec...
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Ruth E. Kastner @rekastner.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Gene Roddenberry spinning in his grave as Paramount desecrates the very premise of Star Trek w/ new series on a Zionist fighting the evil Hamas threat after Netanyahu long supported Hamas, knew about their planned attack, let it go on, then used it as a pretext for genocide. @paramountplusnews.com
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