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they_paved_paradise @treemuseums.bsky.social · Jun 25

"a man is 230 times more likely to be raped than to be falsely accused of rape."
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FactCheck: Men are more likely to be raped than be falsely accused of rape

According to the best data available, a man is 230 times more likely to be raped than to be falsely accused of rape.

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eva (scary) @eva.town · 3h

things you don’t want to hear from a virologist

Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 4h

I don’t know who needs to hear this but the CDC is being eviscerated right now. America is not going to have any kind of outbreak response capacity after tonight. Americans’ health data is no longer secure. Say goodbye to federal public health in any capacity. It’s a disaster. We won’t recover.

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Alicia Warne @aliciawarne.bsky.social · 1h

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Includes my series starter, Death on the Loper, for 99c.

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cozyfantasysale.promisepress.org
#cozythedayaway 📚🌍 🪐📚🌈🚀💫 💙📚

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Leah Greenberg ❌👑 @leahgreenberg.bsky.social · 1d

fun fact: I was trying to find an old tweet I made about journalists accidentally quoting me as Leah Ghostberg during halloween season. instead, I got a fully hallucinated anecdote about me dressing up in a ghost costume with my husband that absolutely, 100% never happened

humanity is so cooked

A false google AI summary: "Based on social media activity, the "leahgreenb ghostberg halloween" query appears to reference a humorous, improvised Halloween costume made by political activist Leah Greenberg in 2024.
On October 26, 2024, Greenberg posted on X (formerly Twitter) asking for help with a last-minute Halloween costume she could make with items she had at home.
The final result, which she and her husband shared, was an improvised "Ghostberg" costume. It consisted of two people with sheets draped over their heads, with her husband standing slightly behind her and visible through the sheet. The name "Ghostberg" is a play on her surname.
The post went viral and the joke was widely shared on social media. "

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SuzyQ @suzyqfit4u.bsky.social · Nov 17

Family includes everyone! ❤️

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 4h

You know he absolutely did say it in his head though and then cried into his burger crusted pillow

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9h

Trump: "The person who actually got the Nobel Prize called today, called me, and said 'I'm accepting this in honor of you, because you really deserved it.' A really nice thing to do. I didn't say 'Then give it to me, though.'"

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 5h

“Largely ceremonial” does feel like the most honest way to talk about the U.S. Congress in 2025

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 5h

“.. Inside the White House, top advisers joke that they are ruling Congress with an “iron fist,” according to people who have heard the comments. Steve Bannon, the influential Trump ally, likened Congress to the Duma, the Russian assembly that is largely ceremonial.”

www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

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Ruth Ben-Ghiat @ruthbenghiat.bsky.social · 5h

A diseased population is easier to control

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 5h

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 4h

Terrorism. There’s no other word to describe what we’re witnessing.

Jenn Budd @jennbudd.bsky.social · 5h

WHEN THE FUCK ARE THESE GOVERNORS & MAYORS GOING TO START CHARGING FOR STATE CRIMES?

YOUR LOCAL & STATE POLICE ARE LEGALLY REQUIRED TO INVESTIGATE THESE USE OF FORCE CRIMES BEING COMMITTED BY FEDERAL AGENTS! CALL YOUR MAYORS, GOVERNORS & PROSECUTORS & DEMAND THEY START ENFORCING STATE LAWS.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 4h

Douthat is laundering hard core white Christian supremacy into the mainstream, with the NYT's blessing.

Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 6h

Ross Douthat treats this guy like they're having some deep conversation about the relationship of Christianity and the government, but the dude is a garden-variety dull, shallow, hateful, worthless bigot with nothing interesting to say, just endless riffs on "God hates everything/everyone I do."

Douthat: So that’s the first purpose of your political project, for America to stop making God angry.

Wilson: Yes. And most people think that when they are confronted with that project, they think that we want to get our tentacles into everything and start controlling everything. I actually think we need limited government. The government should be significantly smaller than it is, and we need to curtail a lot of the busybodyness that we have. That’s why I would call myself a theocratic libertarian. There is a true libertarian element in this, and yet, the transcendent grounding for what we’re talking about means that we acknowledge the authority of God.

We have racked up quite a body count of awful crimes, and I believe the only way out is for us to repent and turn to Christ. This would be things like no more Pride parades, no more drag queen story hours, no more abortion on demand, no more legalized same-sex unions — all of that, done. That’s the repentance part.

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Errol 🦇 🏳️‍🌈 @eerieseymour.bsky.social · 1d

The Orphan Crusher is here to stay. If we don’t feed more Orphans to the Crusher the Orphan Crushing industry will die. It’s time to wake up to the reality of the Orphan Crusher. The Orphan Crusher is worth billions. We need to teach people to use the Orphan Crusher. It’s here to stay.

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AmeriKraut @inchargeofthegirls.bsky.social · 1d

sherman, for the love of god!

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Daniel Laurison @daniellaurison.bsky.social · 13h

Two things about fascism I didn't really grasp until it became our reality:

1) it's not all-or-nothing. You can have more or less fascism. (Which means even though that's where we are, we can still push back, resist, make many things less bad for many people.

2) It isn't *everywhere* +

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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 10h

It’s true that some MAGA supporters are losing faith in Trump and expressing frustration. But evidence and trends suggest they’re flocking to explicit Fascists and growing more radicalized.

We can’t just sit back and hope. We have to fight.

jaredyatessexton.substack.com/p/where-its-...

Where It's All Heading: The Fascist Right Post-Trump

Watching parts of the Right grow weary of Trump might be hopeful, but without needed change the situation will only worsen

jaredyatessexton.substack.com

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Jenny Frecklington-Jones #IStandWithWatermelon🍉🍉 @joneshowdareyou.bsky.social · 5h

Dr Assal Rad—

"Israel assassinated Hossam Shabat over 6 months ago. But his name barely made the headlines.

"He would’ve turned 24 years old today. 24."

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dr. caitlin m. green @caitlinmoriah.bsky.social · 1d

there are SO many more inflatable costumes tonight. clearly we have settled on a motif

Wide shot of many people in inflatable costumes

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Robin (she/he-ella/él) @merryrobin.bsky.social · 5h

Today, an International Lesbian Day thread 🧵
-two days later, but it's ok because I have time blindness and also because lesbians are eternal and should be celebrated every day! ✨

Robin (she/he-ella/él) @merryrobin.bsky.social · Sep 3

The Ladies of Llangollen, Eleanor Butler (1739–1829) and Sarah Ponsonby (1755–1831), were two upper-class Irish women who lived together as a couple.
The pair moved to a Gothic house in Llangollen, North Wales, in 1780 after leaving Ireland to escape the social pressures of conventional marriages.

The Rt. Honble. Lady Eleanor Butler & Miss Ponsonby 'The Ladies of Llangollen' Illustration by James Henry Lynch
The two women are depicted in formal black dresses, wearing top hats, and walking together with a small dog by their side. They are set against a natural landscape backdrop with rocky terrain and possibly a distant view of an abbey or ruins.

Sarah Ponsonby (left)and Lady Eleanor Butler, recluses known as the Ladies of Llangollen, seated in their library. Lithograph by R.J. Lane, ca. 1832
This is a black-and-white lithograph or engraving showing the Ladies of Llangollen, Lady Eleanor Butler and Sarah Ponsonby, wearing masculine outfits and seated together in an ornate room. A sleepy cat is also sitting at the table. They are surrounded by various objects and books, indicating a scholarly or intellectual setting. The room's interior is richly detailed, emphasizing their domestic life.

Susan Murray Tait: Ladies of Llangollen 1819
This is a watercolor painting that depicts the Ladies of Llangollen walking together. Both women are wearing dark cloaks with short, white wild hairstyles, giving them a cool androgynous appearance. They are shown on a pathway, emphasizing their close companionship as they walk side by side.

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 5h

I'm going to start calling essays like this "odes to whiteness" because the underlying premise is that they are like this because they don't anticipate any social cost to smelling bad.

This one is v. frustrating because it tries to lump in perfumes with the broader (problematic) beauty industry

I’m turning 50 next year. I rarely wear deodorant anymore. Many women I know have stopped, too. We don’t talk about it, but I catch it in the air — a faint musk of onion, goat, curry, mustard, salt, sage, fennel, ozone, and the muddy wet marrow of the earth itself. I’m kind of obsessed with this collective stink: the animal symphony of skin, of women being women, punk and unfiltered, taking up space with their scent. Raw, unapologetic BO. The more I live among it, the more I see it not as a hygiene failure but as a radical act of self-acceptance. It’s not polite, but it’s honest — and that feels hot. Hotter, even, than anything a Guess ad ever promised.

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s. eek smith 👻 @sesmith.lol · 5h

'At home, as a Palestinian in Jerusalem and Haifa, I trained myself to be silent. Expressing Palestinian identity can carry material costs: a police summons, disciplinary action at work or university, interrogation over a Facebook post, open-ended detention without charge, or worse.'

Between a revolution and a whisper

For Palestinians in Israel, our silence is the condition of our citizenship. Abroad, I forgot what it feels like to speak freely.

www.972mag.com

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Tom Red @tomredmemes.bsky.social · 9h

BREAKING: PISSED-UP SEX PEST SAYS BRING BACK ONION-CRUNCHING JESUS FREAK
#auspol #LibShamble

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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 6h

“I want us to retvrn to a time when people who looked like me could do whatever they wanted in the name of god, and I don’t understand why so many of you are against that”

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 7h

I like how the news will be like “while the President claiming Portland was ruled by a giant skeleton named Mr Nibbles is not strictly true, it does speak to the anxiety of many Americans”

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Jonathan Green @greenj.bsky.social · 1d

This is utterly … what’s the word? Oh yes … fucked.

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Former Wallabies star David Pocock booted from parliamentary sports club

Exclusive: Senator accused of bringing social club into disrepute after raising concerns about its association with betting lobby

www.theguardian.com

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they_paved_paradise @treemuseums.bsky.social · 5h

Incredible how Labor manages to find new depths

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Jenny Frecklington-Jones #IStandWithWatermelon🍉🍉 @joneshowdareyou.bsky.social · 6h

Please explain to me, @senatorwong.bsky.social, exactly how a GENOCIDE committed with impunity by Israel with mostly weapons and bombs and other artillery provided by the USA "has been the greatest contribution to peace in the Middle East."

I'll fucking wait. #auspol #GazaHolocaust

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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 5h

Trump Sells Out MAGA and His America First Agenda

The America First agenda is on sale to the highest foreign bidder. Qatar receives an air force facility in Idaho, Israel continues its genocide, Trump's son-in-law gets billions, and Putin laughs.

thelefthook.substack.com/p/trump-sell...

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