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Stephanie Theakston

@stephanietheakston.bsky.social
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20+ years in domestic and sexual violence policy and prevention. Coercive control. Court and media accountability. Systems that claim neutrality while making choices. Writing Default Settings.

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Hunter @hunterub.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
This is how you get frustrated voters to haul themselves to a midterms voting booth. When ppl see you fighting, it makes them want to join in. They want to be associated with Guy Who Takes No Crap. They're going to think of this moment when filling in the little oval and they're going to _smile_.
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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
“If you don’t like public executions just don’t watch it” says the crowd trying to ban drag shows and books
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Eric Levai @ericlevai.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Now THIS is how you write a story. Devastating.
Screenshot from this article: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/08/us/politics/fort-hood-execution-streamed-public.html?unlocked_article_code=1.HVE.Rw7O.Sj-0_s5YONzL&smid=nytcore-android-share
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Anthropic banning “abusive or cruel behavior” toward Claude in its new usage policies is proof to me that tech companies are going to moderate violence against AI before they ever moderate violence against women and minorities
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Stephanie Theakston @stephanietheakston.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
It has become a rare occasion when leaders actually lead. Recognizing the humanity of survivors shouldn’t be difficult or political and yet so few act. Glad to have this example for others.
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Statement from Mayor Cantelmo on Campus Sexual Violence & Future Community Safety
Statement from Mayor Cantelmo on Campus Sexual Violence & Future Community SafetyLate last week, I learned of the heinous and sickening allegations made against the Cornell students who, according
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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 22/09/2026
this country will not survive if democrats cannot find tough leadership capable of standing up to oligarchs, media consolidation, and propaganda it simply won't
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Stephanie Theakston @stephanietheakston.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
We need universal definitions of intimate partner and sexual violence. Otherwise you get terribly misleading statistics like this. At the very least researchers and journalists reporting on research should be required to state the definition used for the study at the beginning of the article.
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Stephanie Theakston @stephanietheakston.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Oh you know. Just totally normal things like listening to the Canadian Prime Minister talking about protecting his country from the US government and US aggression.
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Silence Equals Death @tapati.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
DV homicides increase while federal dollars to help women leave dangerous husbands have been cut. President indicates DV shouldn’t be a crime.— Alarm as US domestic violence killings remain high despite drop in homicides www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Alarm as US domestic violence killings remain high despite drop in homicides
Non-profits say requests for legal help and housing on rise amid Trump funding cuts for prevention and response
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Stephanie Theakston @stephanietheakston.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Saying “the system is broken” is the quickest way to get me to stop listening. The system is not broken. It is working exactly as intended. We cannot keep the same design and treat its predictable results as accidental failures.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 18/08/2026
we'll see how it shakes out but I strongly suspect that running as the Consequences President is going to win you more votes than any policy proposal
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Stephanie Theakston @stephanietheakston.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
This is the greatest thing I have seen in a very very long time.
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
They don’t care about fertility any more than they cared about women’s sports. They want to own women and children as property. The only real fascist goal is domination. They have no other. The rest is just whatever lie they’re currently telling to disguise that fact.
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Teeklin @teeklin.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
It's always stunning to me how many problems we could easily solve and just...don't. Like, for the cost of a single day of war in Iran we could build a factory that produces enough insulin to give every diabetic free insulin. All rationing, costs, and deaths gone overnight. We just...don't do it.
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Chantal James @chantalalive.blacksky.app · 19/02/2026
People can say it’s utopian or dreamy but it’s a fact that you have to believe new things are possible, fundamentally, in order to make them real. You have to make the choice to believe that more than this is possible & not be resigned to this being the way things have to be because it’s not at all.
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Stephanie Theakston @stephanietheakston.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
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Stephanie Theakston @stephanietheakston.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
What will it take for people to understand and care? STOP letting these men off the hook! This wasn’t a one time mistake. This is a belief system. You don’t change a belief system with a small fine.
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Stephanie Theakston @stephanietheakston.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
We don’t have enough information on this, but please don’t assume it’s a “tragic” issue of mental health. It very well could be the mind of a domestic abuser and if that is the case his actions were deliberate. No reason to provide excuses before more facts.
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