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Isabel Ravenna

@theravennareport.com
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Journalist. Words in Nat Geo, Business Insider, LA Times, SFGate, Complex. writing history, culture, power, accountability & neurodiversity. (💌 isabel@) theravennareport.com Opinions mine ☎︎ isabelravenna.44 beacons.ai/isabelravenna

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Isabel Ravenna @theravennareport.com · 12h
Anthropic’s new Usage Policy begs users not to act “needlessly” cruel with “no discernible purpose.” It doesn’t define cruelty, nor does it answer who or what determines that. You cannot act cruelly toward a machine that doesn’t suffer. What is Anthropic trying to prevent?
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Isabel Ravenna @theravennareport.com · 08/10/2026
Sympathizers of the Cornell 7 don’t realize that, beneath their slut-shaming and victim-blaming, what they’re saying is that — so long as the patriarchal paradigm remains in place — women don’t have room for error on this planet… www.theravennareport.com/p/if-she-sho...
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"She Should Have Known Better"
Trust men. But never enough that you can be blamed for what they do to you.
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elias isquith @eliasisquith.blog · 08/10/2026
lmao this is awesomely vicious: “If social media has made us more stupid, the movie treats us accordingly.”
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The Social Reckoning film review — Facebook sequel is Jaws if the shark ate everyone and kept swimming
Follow-up to ‘The Social Network’ covers how the company was exposed for profiting from misinformation and doing users harm — but falls frustratingly flat
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Isabel Ravenna @theravennareport.com · 07/10/2026
So Meta’s cute lil AI agent dissects & analyzes your relationships… To my friends using it: Don’t let him turn you against me bc my ADHD makes it difficult to regularly communicate online & occasionally disappear for long stretches of time! tinyurl.com/3e4wt36h
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Isabel Ravenna @theravennareport.com · 07/10/2026
Turns out meritocracy was only the goal when the outcome was white Americans
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 06/10/2026
interesting that conservatives were militantly “we must reward hustle” when the target was affirmative action at elite universities and now, when faced with the success of south asians and other groups, it is “i think we are too meritocratic”
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Isabel Ravenna @theravennareport.com · 06/10/2026
I know POTUS is incompetent, ignorant & loves to shift blame, but can we all agree on this general rule of thumb?: If the president’s official social media account posts it, we treat it as a statement; if the he says it, we assume he meant it; and if he does it, we assume it was on purpose.
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Isabel Ravenna @theravennareport.com · 06/10/2026
Gulp www.skydance.com/news/press
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Press Releases | Skydance
Skydance is a diversified media company founded by David Ellison in 2010 to create high quality, event-level entertainment for global audiences. The Company brings to life stories of immersive worlds ...
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Isabel Ravenna @theravennareport.com · 06/10/2026
Enter the largest media bohemith in history: “Skydance” David Ellison now owns: CNN, CBS, HBO, MTV, Comedy Central, TBS, the Food Network, CBS Sports, TNT Sports, HBO Max & Paramount+ and Paramount Pictures + Warner Bros — two historic, century-old studios and their production lots.
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Isabel Ravenna @theravennareport.com · 06/10/2026
Well… on that note. Getting tf out of dodge
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Isabel Ravenna @theravennareport.com · 06/10/2026
Whenever I fly I think about how Kristi Noem might’ve pursued out one of the most brutal attacks on immigration in American history but at least I don’t have to take my shoes off when I go through TSA anymore
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Isabel Ravenna @theravennareport.com · 05/10/2026
In order to be safe from men, move with the knowledge that, even the ones you trust (even enough to be intimate with), could at any given moment, do something like alert their brotherhood to encroach on your body and attack you in tandem. And celebrate it.
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Isabel Ravenna @theravennareport.com · 05/10/2026
Can any Polaroid SX-70 pros tell me what I’m doing wrong? Previously, I used 600 film & an ND filter and they turned out dark with 3 dots and eventually printed onto the filter. For these: I cleaned the roller, set exposure compensation to standard, used 600 film & ditched ruined filter.
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Isabel Ravenna @theravennareport.com · 05/10/2026
Gone to my nearest bookstore
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Forrest Gump's Iconic Run
ALT: Forrest Gump's Iconic Run
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Isabel Ravenna @theravennareport.com · 05/10/2026
Since the role was created, no administration has left the White House without a spokesperson for so long. Well, except for Donald Trump’s first term. Though the role wasn’t technically vacant — Stephanie Grisham just didn’t hold a single formal press briefing for an entire 10 months :p
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Isabel Ravenna @theravennareport.com · 05/10/2026
Uno reverse bsky.app/profile/ther...
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Isabel Ravenna @theravennareport.com · 05/10/2026
It’s come to my attention that the original owners of what became the elitist LA grocery store, Erewhon, named it after the satirical 1872 dystopian novel in which poor health is punished like a crime, while actual crimes are handled with medical treatment
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 04/10/2026
NEW: I have obtained descriptions of NINE FBI training videos showing agents were instructed to flag Trump's name in the Epstein files for supervisory review. My latest: www.muellershewrote.com/p/exclusive-...
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EXCLUSIVE: MSW Media has Obtained Descriptions of NINE Epstein Files Redaction Training Videos in FOIA Lawsuit
Sources confirm that two videos instructed agents to flag documents including Trump’s name for supervisory review.
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Isabel Ravenna @theravennareport.com · 03/10/2026
After nearly two years of an extraordinarily… eventful… second term, polling finds farrrr more Trump voters regret their 2024 choice than Harris voters; while remarkably few Harris voters say they’d switch to Trump.
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Isabel Ravenna @theravennareport.com · 02/10/2026
After surviving Tennessee’s second botched execution attempt this year, Christa Pike is hospitalized in critical condition as her lawyers again seek commutation.
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Isabel Ravenna @theravennareport.com · 02/10/2026
Can anybody tell me why Trump always taps his thigh with his hand? I’ve noticed it increasingly over the last year or so. Can that mean anything or is it just a self-soothing gesture?
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Isabel Ravenna @theravennareport.com · 02/10/2026
Get em
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Isabel Ravenna @theravennareport.com · 02/10/2026
And New York law has been wrong on rape before: “The only issue on which the jury did not find in Carroll's favor was whether she proved that Trump ‘raped’ her within the narrow, technical meaning of that term in the New York Penal Law… In Any Case, Carrolls Statements Were Substantially True.”
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Isabel Ravenna @theravennareport.com · 02/10/2026
Says the guy found liable for sexual assault in civil court and was found, by a judge, to have raped a woman and still became president of the United States
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Isabel Ravenna @theravennareport.com · 02/10/2026
If you read those messages & reports and then make excuses for those boys while judging that girl… true, the verdict isn’t yet in. But if that she doesn’t get hers, it’s nothing but a stark reminder that sexual assault can be legal and explained away. “But NY law says…” that law is damn wrong.
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Isabel Ravenna @theravennareport.com · 01/10/2026
THIS IS A performance to distract from the fact that at least 20% of high-ranking military & civilian officials have quit while critical munitions increasingly deplete during wartime under Pete Hegseth’s leadership
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Isabel Ravenna @theravennareport.com · 01/10/2026
Congrats @lataco.bsky.social on launching vol. 02! Thank you for an evening of important stories, whimsy tales & good journalism
Copies of L.A. TACO publications arranged on a dark tabletop, including an L.A. TACO Magazine and the L.A. TACO POST newspaper with the headline “MAGA Billionaire Invades Our City!” Accompanying a satirical/grotesque/accurate depiction of Rupert Murdoch  Lexis-Olivier Ray, Ariel Rucker, Lars Keseth & Ivan Ehlers sit at a table with microphones during an event inside a bookstore. Bookshelves fill the background, and a screen behind them displays an illustrated presentation slide.
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Isabel Ravenna @theravennareport.com · 29/09/2026
this has the same energy as "I'm on a drug... it's called Charlie Sheen!"
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Isabel Ravenna @theravennareport.com · 29/09/2026
They’ll care about the Cornell frat boys today, but they’ll forget — like they did about the others — scoff, and say, “Not all men,” before pointing at undocumented immigrants and Muslims to blame for the worst of them instead of addressing the real common denominator: men.
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Isabel Ravenna @theravennareport.com · 29/09/2026
The headlines at the top of the “Cornell” search at FoxNews.com btw
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Isabel Ravenna @theravennareport.com · 29/09/2026
What the fuck is wrong with you people @nypost.com ??? nypost.com/2026/09/28/u...
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Isabel Ravenna @theravennareport.com · 29/09/2026
It’s so tiring that when women “inadequately” police our attire, behavior, the way & place we drink, we’re to blame for our rape and/or murder. even more, in order to be granted an oz of seriousness —if lucky— we’re required to describe any such experience with utmost precision.
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Isabel Ravenna @theravennareport.com · 29/09/2026
Visiting home on the West Coast while working in news is scary because you’re three hours behind Washington DC in the morning. And apparently a lot can happen in merely three hours. Goodnight <3 don’t let the existential dread bite
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Isabel Ravenna @theravennareport.com · 28/09/2026
If this GLP-1 craze has taught me anything it’s how many people look better a little chubby. Not everybody needs to be a size 2 with sunken eyes.
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Isabel Ravenna @theravennareport.com · 28/09/2026
The idiocracy comparisons are uncanny. But seriously, if intelligent people don’t start taking one for the team and reproducing… this could be the smartest version of America today’s society and it’s successors will ever see.
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Isabel Ravenna @theravennareport.com · 27/09/2026
Homeless people need help and that’s probably a huge part of it but COVID changed the city in a way that hasn’t recovered. Its most historic streets are held together by a solemn & passionate few and most of the city looks like a past that’s been forgotten.
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Isabel Ravenna @theravennareport.com · 27/09/2026
My heart is absolutely aching since I’ve returned back home to LA this time around. Restaurants are closed. Bars are empty. Streets look abandoned. Signs are falling apart. The glistening, glamorous LA that once was is begging for support and I hope something can be done b4 it’s too late.
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Isabel Ravenna @theravennareport.com · 24/09/2026
this morning in📍Tarzana, CA
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Isabel Ravenna @theravennareport.com · 23/09/2026
My boyfriend (white) and I (Latina) met while living in a predominantly black & brown neighborhood & have moved 2x since. Each time (white) people ask “isn’t that area dangerous??” We say absolutely not, but you must meet our neighbors, eat their food & hear their music!
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Isabel Ravenna @theravennareport.com · 23/09/2026
People that haven’t lived in brown immigrant communities don’t know that beyond crime rates, they’re dancing at the park, church outreach, being gifted free treats by your local cafe because they see your face so often & the warm hug of a family member after being away for some time.
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Isabel Ravenna @theravennareport.com · 22/09/2026
I don’t wanna be mean but
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Isabel Ravenna @theravennareport.com · 21/09/2026
A major reason current geopolitical discussions in the US are so inflammatory is a complete lack of cultural understanding from both sides. Because, newsflash: our politics often look and sound very different from those abroad. TLDR Our western judgment isnt always appreciated the way we think it is
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Isabel Ravenna @theravennareport.com · 21/09/2026
ouch. Even Fox found the culture war dribble redundant
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Isabel Ravenna @theravennareport.com · 21/09/2026
I thought the evil part about communism was that it’s never been successfully actualized in coexistence with democratic values; that the surveillance state stuff was an “inevitable byproduct” of communism? Now apparently the communist dictator thing is cool if you just make him capitalist.
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Isabel Ravenna @theravennareport.com · 21/09/2026
Absolutely wild that today’s “don’t tread on me” anti-commies are now in support of full-blown mass surveillance in the name of law-and-order.
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Isabel Ravenna @theravennareport.com · 21/09/2026
Did they forget that we sat through entire chapters about the Red Scare throughout school? So offensive they think they can just run the same book over and we won’t notice.
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Isabel Ravenna @theravennareport.com · 21/09/2026
Super good stuff happening over here
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Isabel Ravenna @theravennareport.com · 19/09/2026
The 800-acre Harris Feeding Company lot, feeding up to 250,000 cows/year before sending them to the nearby slaughterhouse—the Harris Ranch Beef Company—which produces >200mill lbs of beef/yr. And if you don’t mind the smell of cow dung and death, visit the luxury Harris Ranch Resort & stay a while!
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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I always enjoy when Obama gets in on the imagine if Obama did that game
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Isabel Ravenna @theravennareport.com · 19/09/2026
stop giving attention to this woman simulator. Each time I see it make an appearance, I want to explode because why is CNBC basically playing that ‘90s game “Girlfriend Tracy” live on air & calling it an interview?? Also nobody cares because it’s so inconsequential atp & therefore simply boring
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