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Sophie Gilbert

@sophiegilbert.bsky.social
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Staff writer at The Atlantic: TV, books, culture, women. GIRL ON GIRL is out now: bookshop.org/p/books/girl-on-girl-h…

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
the cornell case has me thinking about christine blasey ford and how she so bravely testified in 2018 about how future supreme court justice brett kavanaugh had sexually assaulted her. i'm thinking about what i wrote at the time and how nothing has changed:
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Dan Diamond @ddiamond.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Russell Brand, who's awaiting trial in London next month on rape and sexual assault charges, will moderate a panel at DC's MAHA summit tomorrow on reforming a U.S. health agency
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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
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But is this really such a great change? After all, the transformation of the Republican party from a Christian culture that prioritized sexual prohibition to a pornified culture that celebrates sexual force has been a stylistic change, not a policy change: Republican politicians are still voting to make casual, premarital, non-procreative sex as dangerous, expensive, and risky as they can possibly make it – at least for women. If the left’s celebration of porn as a free speech issue always somewhat undermined their supposed commitment to women’s equality, the right’s onetime finger-wagging at pornography’s glorification of women’s sexual humiliation always clashed with the reality that the Christian right shared the same message and goal. Sexual prohibition and sexual force, after all, are just two different styles of what is ultimately a single project: the use of sex to subordinate women. At least now we can stop pretending that they’re not the same thing.
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I know that some people don't think these types of things are important but I really do. Cultural change precedes political change. When you don't have the culture, it's more difficult to win politically or to sustain political wins. newrepublic.com/post/215697/...
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MAGA Festival With Kid Rock Canceled After No One Wanted to Go
The “Freedom Fest” is no longer happening after dismal ticket sales.
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Ej Dickson @ejdickson.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
There is a corner of the internet I had never heard of before I started reporting this story. It’s called the “burnerverse”: a network of anon burner accounts ostensibly discussing college sports. But they have another goal: destroying young girls’ lives.🧵: www.wired.com/story/burner...
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A College Girl Was Exploited on Camera. A Network of Anonymous Men Got to Work
Maddie Kowalski is one of countless young women who’ve had their lives destroyed by the burnerverse, a loosely connected online community of sports fans. Now she’s fighting back.
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Sophie Gilbert @sophiegilbert.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
So you know The Atlantic has a feature series where writers get to follow in the footsteps of their literary heroes? Well, I got to do mine and it was the most fun thing I've ever done or will ever do again. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
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Jackie Collins Wrote Her Own Revolution
The novelist imagined women enjoying equality in the bedroom and the boardroom. Are we any closer to living in that world?
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 09/09/2026
NEW: Our analysis found that from 2020 to 2025, the rate of deaths involving ectopic pregnancies nearly doubled compared with the previous six-year period. The uptick was steeper in states with abortion bans.
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Ectopic Pregnancy Deaths Have Nearly Doubled. It’s Worse in States With Abortion Bans.
With prompt and appropriate medical care, experts say, people shouldn’t die from an ectopic pregnancy. Women in Texas and Oklahoma have sued over delays in care, which, coupled with our new analysis, ...
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Sophie Gilbert @sophiegilbert.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
They cannot do this to me
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Bradford Pearson @bradfordpearson.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
I truly don’t see how this country can go on if we don’t ban online sports betting. This story is stomach-turning.
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FanDuel sent a personal message from Phillies star Bryce Harper to a customer with a gambling addiction
Terry Thompson lost $1.5 million on bets he placed with FanDuel. The company gave him VIP treatment — including a personalized video message from the Phillies' All-Star first baseman.
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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Content warning: Multiple men violently assault a female protester at Reform's conference at the Birmingham NEC, to the visible delight of Nigel Farage.
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Sophie Gilbert @sophiegilbert.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Another impossible loss www.instagram.com/p/Dc0dotLOqUN/
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Gloria Steinem on Instagram: "Yesterday, Gloria Steinem passed away peacefully at her home in New York City, surrounded by some of the many who loved her. Gloria’s near-century on earth were years wel...
2,705 likes, 167 comments - gloriasteinem on September 3, 2026: "Yesterday, Gloria Steinem passed away peacefully at her home in New York City, surrounded by some of the many who loved her. Gloria’s n...
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Kelcie Moseley-Morris @kelciemmorris.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Is that...is that supposed to be an argument against healthcare
Darline Graham, new Republican candidate for Senate in South Carolina, told a crowd last night that government-run health care is a terrible idea and then told everyone her parents had to work at their liquor store even if they were sick, and her mother and father died when she was 11 and 12, respectively. Apparently as an argument against healthcare.
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Chris⚖️Justice @chrisjustice01.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Court fillings reveal that Andrew Tate's Bugatti and Aston Martin were rented
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 18/08/2026
What happens to anger when it can’t be absorbed? Sophie Gilbert on the TV series “Furious” and the woman at its center, whose rage has metastasized into something darker:
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A Time for Female Monsters
The crime drama of the year is all about anger that has metastasized into something darker.
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Damon Beres @damonberes.com · 17/08/2026
Extremely clever work @emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social 🫡
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We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility
We placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it, and found an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books.
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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
the concern with the Arday story isn’t the fact of the media coverage, it’s the volume. it’s perfectly reasonable that there would be some coverage of the story, and basically indefensible that there was as much as there was.
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Andrew Pope @andrewpope.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
I hate, hate these pervert glasses. Listen to this guy interrupting the filming of Cunk on Cinema. What an entitled dick.
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Alex Selby-Boothroyd @alexselbyb.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
I thought we were better than this
Google Trends chart showing spiking search interest in "eyes hurt" in the UK just after the eclipse
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Sophie Gilbert @sophiegilbert.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
This has come up at every event I've done over the last year and a half. Women are so eager for in-person discussion and connection, especially when it's intergenerational. www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 10/08/2026
Just a few years ago, the internet was fueling the body-positivity movement. Now rhetoric has swung in the other direction. What happened? @sophiegilbert.bsky.social explains to hosts @julieebeck.bsky.social and Natalie Brennan in this episode of How to Touch Grass:
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The Internet Is More Image-Focused Than Ever
Just a few years ago, the body-positivity movement was going strong. What happened?
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Sophie Gilbert @sophiegilbert.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Loved podcasting with my queen @julieebeck.bsky.social on bodies, beauty, self-worth, all the good stuff. www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/202...
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The Internet Is More Image-Focused Than Ever
Just a few years ago, the body-positivity movement was going strong. What happened?
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Sophie Gilbert @sophiegilbert.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Not in the mood for Ted Lasso at all although I have been binging 30 Rock for weeks; what stage of weltschmerz is this
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Sophie Gilbert @sophiegilbert.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Incredible job alert: atlanticmedia.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Career...
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Senior Editor
The Atlantic is seeking a senior editor to build and lead The Atlantic Book Club, our forthcoming membership-exclusive reading program. This is a rare opportunity to shape one of the most distinctive ...
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Sophie Gilbert @sophiegilbert.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
These kinds of claims are weaponized against victims of abuse all the time, including in court. And they completely ignore how many women behave when under threat. Women are socialized from birth to preserve community ties, to protect and defend the family unit. Their survival often depends on it.
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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
One sign of the rise of male supremacy and the decline in women’s status is the ubiquity of online porn lingo in casual speech.
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Nathan Daniel Hernandez @natedhernandez.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Gotta shut down the factory that makes this kinda guy
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Jennifer Kretchmer @dreamwisp.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
While we are in this Greek Mythology moment, may I remind you that Emma Thompson is adapting Pat Barker’s take on The Iliad, and she’s struggled to get it made bc the focus on what acts of war against women and survival thereafter actually look like (the core of Barker’s narrative) is too intense.
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Emma Thompson adapting feminist retelling of Iliad for big screen
The actress told the Hay Festival she is writing a film version of Pat Barker’s The Silence of the Girls to draw attention to sexual abuse in war zones
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Spike Friedman @spikefriedman.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Christopher Nolan giving Emily Wilson a call today:
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Sophie Gilbert @sophiegilbert.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Whew www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Wrote about the Masculinity Scam, or how selling reactionary ideas about what makes a man helps a small number of bad people profit and makes everyone else (including men) miserable www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
Over the past 10 years, the misogyny of the manosphere has become more open and strident, but the big innovation seems to have been combining that conspiratorial misogyny with earnest self-help advice. Heartbreak and rejection leave people emotionally vulnerable, and the manosphere pitch often comes paired with benign advice about standing up for yourself, being mentally tough, or becoming physically active. But getting yourself together with the expectation that soon everyone you meet will be forced to respect you inevitably leads to disappointment.

When that disappointment sets in, the manosphere has an explanation: Can’t find a girlfriend? It’s because women who make their own living can no longer be forced into marrying guys they don’t like. Can’t find a job? It’s because undeserving women and minorities are being picked instead of you, even though you’re better. Feel bad about yourself? It’s because our feminized society deprived you of a life of meaningful toil, military adventure, and elevated social status. It is a bleak view of the world, a kind of male doomerism in which a meaningful life can be found only in the domination and exploitation of others.
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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
“The world's best AI training data is sitting on a shelf. Books represent curated, peer-reviewed, domain-specific human knowledge, structured in a way no web crawl can replicate. Dense, edited, authoritative." www.404media.co/ai-companies...
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AI Companies Are Buying Tons of Old Books Because They're Free of AI Slop
ISBNdb, a company that sources printed books for AI companies to turn into training data, tells clients “the optics problem is real.”
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Professa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
The fact that VP JD Vance and Richard Grenell went to Romania—on behalf of the Trump Administration— to advocate for Andrew and Tristan Tate, who by all accounts, were rapists running a coercive sex ring, then permitted them to come to Florida, should be a crazy, crazy scandal.
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Sophie Gilbert @sophiegilbert.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
So nice of the BBC to do this for me personally www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/...
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BBC Four unveils landmark season of post-war British and Irish theatre
A landmark collection of theatre adaptations and accompanying documentaries, available in full on BBC iPlayer from 26 July and launching on BBC Four with Samuel Beckett's Not I
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Hannah Strong @hannahstrong.co.uk · 15/07/2026
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Sophie Gilbert @sophiegilbert.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Pedantic king
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Sophie Gilbert @sophiegilbert.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
I’ve cooked this once a week (without burrata) since I first made it. The rare perfect easy dinner.
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Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
It’s been six months since the killings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti. Here is how the federal government has stonewalled investigations, and how Minnesota law enforcement is attempting to push for accountability anyway
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The Death of Renee Good Has Yet to Be Properly Investigated
Six months after she and Alex Pretti were shot on the streets of Minneapolis, little has come of the probes into their killings.
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Sophie Gilbert @sophiegilbert.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Taylor is going to make us buy an album to see her wedding dress, isn't she.
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Roc Ingersol @hwgt9.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
GOAL, TESCO RYAN GOSLING
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Damon Beres @damonberes.com · 05/07/2026
Brilliant writing from @skornhaber.bsky.social here about music and the shifting attention economy
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How Lizzo Became One of Pop Culture’s Great Flops
The singer is experiencing a new form of downward mobility—and she’s not alone.
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Brian Phillips @brianphillips.lol · 01/07/2026
The outer Harry Kane is identical to every other bad-good lower-middle-elite awkward-diffident English player who ever skied a penalty under pressure; the inner Harry Kane is a zero-at-the-bone assassin without a fuck to give; this combination is perhaps the most confounding thing in all of sports
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Sophie Gilbert @sophiegilbert.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
This is so good and I got very emotional at the end!
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Tom Phillips @tom-phillips.com · 19/06/2026
In accordance with ancient tradition, our next Prime Minister is announced to the nation while standing between a furry and a man with a bin on his head.
A victorious Andy Burnham MP (24,937 votes), as the result of the Makerfield by-election is announced, flanked by defeated candidates Count Binface (a bloke in a vaguely sci-fi costume with a large bin for a helmet; 95 votes) and Robert Pownall (who is in a full body fox costume, holding a sign reading "Protect British Wildlife"; 18 votes). There are some other candidates there just out of shot but that's not important right now.

Photo: Jon Super/AP
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Sophie Gilbert @sophiegilbert.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
What is happening over there
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Alona Ferber @aloner.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Incredible work by Heidi Blake, who not only talked to victims of the Tates, but also to the Tates. This is one of those works of journalism that reminds you how little we often know about things or people, like Andrew Tate, who are always in the news. And yet, so much about them remains unreported.
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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
I wrote about the UFC fight at the White House. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Trump presides over spectacles of violence like a dysfunctional Roman emperor | Moira Donegan
The sordid UFC event represents his own efforts to symbolically fuse the federal government with his person, to insist that he is America and is the state, says Guardian US columnist Moira Donegan
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Janine Gibson @janinegibson.ft.com · 12/06/2026
Here is a gift link to Simon Schama's appreciation of David Hockney's life and art which we ran last year. It's an amazing piece and contains, as you might imagine, some spectacular pictures including an absolute corker of Hackney with Lucian Freud as.ft.com/r/f1473f70-0...
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Katie Drummond @katie-drummond.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
SpaceX, the largest IPO of all time, encompasses Grok… a product that *still* generates non-consensual, explicit images and videos of women according to a new @wired.com investigation:
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Grok Is Still Hosting Sexualized Deepfakes of Famous Women
A WIRED investigation found dozens of “nudified” deepfake images and videos on Grok's website, including nonconsensual depictions of celebrities and at least one prominent US politician.
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Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof @evanbernick.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
I do not think that people should be on a website owned by this man
X owner Elon Musk shared a post from Robinson (whose real name is Stephen Yaxley- Lennon) announcing locations of protests, and another from the far-right Restore Britain
party that read: "Do not make peace with evil.
Destroy it."
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Sophie Gilbert @sophiegilbert.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Between this and the Tate story I'm getting my pitchfork www.theguardian.com/media/2026/j...
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Revealed: David Sullivan’s Sunday Sport sold sexualised images of 15-year-old girls
Sunday Sport’s ‘Countdown to 16’ used revealing photoshoots with young girls to trail topless pictures published after their 16th birthdays
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