Nicole Bedera
@nbedera.bsky.social
Sociologist studying how our social structures make sexual violence more likely to occur. Author of ON THE WRONG SIDE. Co-founder of Beyond Compliance Consulting. PhD UMich.
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“we need to be nicer to men” bro they didn’t let women have their own credit cards til 50 years ago
November 23, 2025 at 10:39 PM
“we need to be nicer to men” bro they didn’t let women have their own credit cards til 50 years ago
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It’s blowing my mind that schools, universities, public services would run headlong into this. We spent 15 years documenting black boxes. This is a black box in a black hole!
I don't understand how anyone can watch how blatantly Grok is manipulated to answer the way ownership desires it to and then act like the other LLM chatbots couldn't possibly be similarly but less obviously compromised to produce responses in whatever way corporate interests and priorities dictate.
November 23, 2025 at 11:16 PM
It’s blowing my mind that schools, universities, public services would run headlong into this. We spent 15 years documenting black boxes. This is a black box in a black hole!
An underlying dynamic throughout this article is that the risk of deportation doesn’t just come from calling the police. It’s also from trusting a new landlord or seeking medical care.
Institutions that used to offer support become dangerous if they may be cooperating with ICE.
Institutions that used to offer support become dangerous if they may be cooperating with ICE.
“A growing chorus of attorneys, advocates and members of law enforcement are warning that the terror that has taken hold in immigrant communities is causing some people to remain in abusive relationships rather than risk deportation and separation from their families.”
How ICE’s Crackdown Hurts Immigrant Victims of Domestic Violence
Increased enforcement and Trump’s policy changes are causing some people to remain in abusive relationships rather than risk deportation, experts say.
www.themarshallproject.org
November 22, 2025 at 6:44 PM
An underlying dynamic throughout this article is that the risk of deportation doesn’t just come from calling the police. It’s also from trusting a new landlord or seeking medical care.
Institutions that used to offer support become dangerous if they may be cooperating with ICE.
Institutions that used to offer support become dangerous if they may be cooperating with ICE.
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“A growing chorus of attorneys, advocates and members of law enforcement are warning that the terror that has taken hold in immigrant communities is causing some people to remain in abusive relationships rather than risk deportation and separation from their families.”
How ICE’s Crackdown Hurts Immigrant Victims of Domestic Violence
Increased enforcement and Trump’s policy changes are causing some people to remain in abusive relationships rather than risk deportation, experts say.
www.themarshallproject.org
November 22, 2025 at 6:36 PM
“A growing chorus of attorneys, advocates and members of law enforcement are warning that the terror that has taken hold in immigrant communities is causing some people to remain in abusive relationships rather than risk deportation and separation from their families.”
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ICYMI Dept of Education will no longer considers these professional degrees:
Nursing
Public health
Social work
Physician assistant
Occupational therapy
Physical therapy
Audiology
Speech-language pathology
Social work
Counseling & therapy
Health Admin
A smaller health workforce makes us all sicker
Nursing
Public health
Social work
Physician assistant
Occupational therapy
Physical therapy
Audiology
Speech-language pathology
Social work
Counseling & therapy
Health Admin
A smaller health workforce makes us all sicker
November 21, 2025 at 11:14 PM
ICYMI Dept of Education will no longer considers these professional degrees:
Nursing
Public health
Social work
Physician assistant
Occupational therapy
Physical therapy
Audiology
Speech-language pathology
Social work
Counseling & therapy
Health Admin
A smaller health workforce makes us all sicker
Nursing
Public health
Social work
Physician assistant
Occupational therapy
Physical therapy
Audiology
Speech-language pathology
Social work
Counseling & therapy
Health Admin
A smaller health workforce makes us all sicker
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The thing is that it's also ahistorical. Unless something has gone really really wrong, birthing people have always been accompanied by someone who understood how birth happens. Because death. Death is a thing.
This is one of the most horrific and evil things I have ever read. www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...
Influencers made millions pushing ‘wild’ births – now the Free Birth Society is linked to baby deaths around the world
A year-long investigation reveals how mothers lost children after being radicalised by uplifting podcast tales of births without midwives or doctors
www.theguardian.com
November 22, 2025 at 2:56 PM
The thing is that it's also ahistorical. Unless something has gone really really wrong, birthing people have always been accompanied by someone who understood how birth happens. Because death. Death is a thing.
I don’t know why you’re directing this frustration at me—someone who agrees with you!—instead of somewhere more productive.
There is a cost to exhausting each other this way at a time when we’re already up against so much.
There is a cost to exhausting each other this way at a time when we’re already up against so much.
November 22, 2025 at 6:05 PM
I don’t know why you’re directing this frustration at me—someone who agrees with you!—instead of somewhere more productive.
There is a cost to exhausting each other this way at a time when we’re already up against so much.
There is a cost to exhausting each other this way at a time when we’re already up against so much.
Listen. I think it’s fair to see misogyny has always existed in the US and that it’s getting worse, culturally and structurally, in this political moment. That we’re seeing a resurgence in some of the rhetorics and tactics of misogyny that had been deemed socially unacceptable a decade ago.
November 22, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Listen. I think it’s fair to see misogyny has always existed in the US and that it’s getting worse, culturally and structurally, in this political moment. That we’re seeing a resurgence in some of the rhetorics and tactics of misogyny that had been deemed socially unacceptable a decade ago.
I think there’s plenty of room for both of us to be right about this. That things have always been bad and they’re also getting a lot worse very quickly.
November 22, 2025 at 5:50 PM
I think there’s plenty of room for both of us to be right about this. That things have always been bad and they’re also getting a lot worse very quickly.
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Pretty well established finding that immigration raids of workplaces reduce student test performance for nearby schools, including for non-vulnerable students. The general DHS surge appears to be doing the same for student performance. www.nber.org/papers/w34452
November 22, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Pretty well established finding that immigration raids of workplaces reduce student test performance for nearby schools, including for non-vulnerable students. The general DHS surge appears to be doing the same for student performance. www.nber.org/papers/w34452
Yup. All of them are throwbacks to historical logics of oppression that never really went away, but wow are they making a comeback with a vengeance.
November 22, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Yup. All of them are throwbacks to historical logics of oppression that never really went away, but wow are they making a comeback with a vengeance.
I genuinely cannot believe how much the anti-vaxx, parental rights, misogynistic blame-mothers-for-everything logic has seeped into every conversation about children in our society.
November 22, 2025 at 5:37 PM
I genuinely cannot believe how much the anti-vaxx, parental rights, misogynistic blame-mothers-for-everything logic has seeped into every conversation about children in our society.
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Again, I don’t want to get too personal but the most tepidly political, structurally vulnerable people in my life were protesting ICE all week. The juxtaposition here is just wild.
The degree to which the Democratic Party is failing to meet this moment is staggering. And INFURIATING, when contrasted with the courage on display from ordinary people with far, far less power & protection.
November 21, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Again, I don’t want to get too personal but the most tepidly political, structurally vulnerable people in my life were protesting ICE all week. The juxtaposition here is just wild.
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Another—more accurate—description of “scientific orthodoxy” is “fact.” It's shameful that the country’s medical policy is being led by a worm-brained roadkill-eating cook. And it's shameful that the paper of record helps sanitize this.
Breaking News: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said he personally instructed the CDC to abandon its position that vaccines do not cause autism. The move underscores his determination to challenge scientific orthodoxy — in this case, that vaccines save lives — and bend the health department to his will.
RFK Jr. Says He Instructed CDC to Change Vaccines and Autism Language on Website
In an interview, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. cited gaps in vaccine safety research. His critics say he is ignoring a larger point: Vaccines save lives.
nyti.ms
November 21, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Another—more accurate—description of “scientific orthodoxy” is “fact.” It's shameful that the country’s medical policy is being led by a worm-brained roadkill-eating cook. And it's shameful that the paper of record helps sanitize this.
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THIS is why Zohran asked for the meeting.
Q: You have differences when it comes to ICE agents in NYC. How do you reconcile them?
TRUMP: We're gonna work them out. The mayor wants to have a safe New York. We're gonna work together.
TRUMP: We're gonna work them out. The mayor wants to have a safe New York. We're gonna work together.
November 21, 2025 at 9:13 PM
THIS is why Zohran asked for the meeting.
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you know what? good advice.
Reporter: Are you affirming that you think the president is a fascist?
Mamdani: I've spoken about --
Trump: Just say yes, it's easier than explaining.
Mamdani: I've spoken about --
Trump: Just say yes, it's easier than explaining.
November 21, 2025 at 9:21 PM
you know what? good advice.
That is literally not at all what this conversation is about.
November 21, 2025 at 9:21 PM
That is literally not at all what this conversation is about.
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This is one of the worst, most horrifying exposures we have ever seen. It is hard to overstate how bad the things that people are using tools like for are, and it's insane to pretend like these tools are anything other than nonconsensual porn machines
www.404media.co/ai-porn-secr...
www.404media.co/ai-porn-secr...
Massive Leak Shows Erotic Chatbot Users Turned Women’s Yearbook Pictures Into AI Porn
Chatbot roleplay and image generator platform SecretDesires.ai left cloud storage containers of nearly two million of images and videos exposed, including photos and full names of women from social me...
www.404media.co
November 19, 2025 at 5:11 PM
This is one of the worst, most horrifying exposures we have ever seen. It is hard to overstate how bad the things that people are using tools like for are, and it's insane to pretend like these tools are anything other than nonconsensual porn machines
www.404media.co/ai-porn-secr...
www.404media.co/ai-porn-secr...
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This could also be about journalism. The idea of fighting back against the smears was rarely taken seriously, capitulation was widely accepted and treated as both inevitable and right
Few things bug me more than higher ed leaders saying that we lost our mission and lost the trust of the public, when we have actually been the target of a decades-long smear campaign by the right wing that worked. The moment we’re losing our mission is right now, in capitulation.
November 19, 2025 at 10:01 PM
This could also be about journalism. The idea of fighting back against the smears was rarely taken seriously, capitulation was widely accepted and treated as both inevitable and right
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i know we've all laughed about the worm and the affair but this is a profoundly dangerous person who should be expelled from the government.
Breaking News: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said he personally instructed the CDC to abandon its position that vaccines do not cause autism. The move underscores his determination to challenge scientific orthodoxy — in this case, that vaccines save lives — and bend the health department to his will.
RFK Jr. Says He Instructed CDC to Change Vaccines and Autism Language on Website
In an interview, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. cited gaps in vaccine safety research. His critics say he is ignoring a larger point: Vaccines save lives.
nyti.ms
November 21, 2025 at 7:43 PM
i know we've all laughed about the worm and the affair but this is a profoundly dangerous person who should be expelled from the government.
The issue is that there are laws on the books that exempt Internet companies from the regulations that exist for other types of companies.
That’s the main thing that needs to change.
That’s the main thing that needs to change.
November 21, 2025 at 8:39 PM
The issue is that there are laws on the books that exempt Internet companies from the regulations that exist for other types of companies.
That’s the main thing that needs to change.
That’s the main thing that needs to change.
YES. It’s all done in the names of women, girls, and feminism, but the “intervention” is literally designed to punish the people they claim they’re going to protect.
November 21, 2025 at 7:40 PM
YES. It’s all done in the names of women, girls, and feminism, but the “intervention” is literally designed to punish the people they claim they’re going to protect.
That’s an inaccurate framing of what I said.
I’m asking folks to pressure the government to enforce laws around things like child sexual abuse, even in online environments.
No one is mad about the games. We’re mad about illegal activities allowed to take place during those games.
I’m asking folks to pressure the government to enforce laws around things like child sexual abuse, even in online environments.
No one is mad about the games. We’re mad about illegal activities allowed to take place during those games.
November 21, 2025 at 7:39 PM
That’s an inaccurate framing of what I said.
I’m asking folks to pressure the government to enforce laws around things like child sexual abuse, even in online environments.
No one is mad about the games. We’re mad about illegal activities allowed to take place during those games.
I’m asking folks to pressure the government to enforce laws around things like child sexual abuse, even in online environments.
No one is mad about the games. We’re mad about illegal activities allowed to take place during those games.
As opposed to enforcers of oppression.
November 21, 2025 at 7:20 PM
As opposed to enforcers of oppression.
And even in that ideal version you created, there’s still an underlying belief that parents (and specifically, moms) bear ultimate responsibility if their kids are abused.
It’s actually the perpetrators and their enablers that are the guilty parties.
It’s actually the perpetrators and their enablers that are the guilty parties.
November 21, 2025 at 7:19 PM
And even in that ideal version you created, there’s still an underlying belief that parents (and specifically, moms) bear ultimate responsibility if their kids are abused.
It’s actually the perpetrators and their enablers that are the guilty parties.
It’s actually the perpetrators and their enablers that are the guilty parties.