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Amy Wilson
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Author of HAPPY TO HELP and WHEN DID I GET LIKE THIS? Co-host of @whatfreshhellcast (12M downloads and counting). amywilson.com
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Reposted this yesterday but I’m doing it again because I feel so strongly. Video is much harder on women, who are expected to conform to much higher grooming standards, and also really on anyone who doesn’t look like a conventional white man, who can expect more nastiness bsky.app/profile/youn...
will also add - yes, this is my personal crusade - that turning podcasts into videos implicitly asks women to once again make more effort than men, as the bar for "camera-ready" for one gender is obviously higher than for the other
‘Painful to hear!’ How podcasts’ rush to video is turning them into dreadful listens
December 28, 2025 at 12:29 PM
This. The admin celebrated the cruelty with ample footage. Noem posed in front of men in cages. Now the same people want to kill any story explaining that what we all saw was inhumane? They showed us what they were doing!
Worth noting, I guess, that inside of a year we've gone from administration officials taking selfies of themselves at CECOT and bragging about how it's hell on earth to now getting their horrible little media worms to kill stories about it
December 22, 2025 at 11:56 AM
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Now seems like a swell time to point out that Frontline just released this excellent 11-minute mini-documentary about what happened inside CECOT.
Surviving CECOT (full documentary) | Deported to a Maximum-Security Prison | FRONTLINE + ProPublica
YouTube video by FRONTLINE PBS | Official
m.youtube.com
December 21, 2025 at 10:26 PM
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It is utterly catastrophic that RFK Jr. plans to end CDC recommendations for most childhood vaccines.

It’s a betrayal of science, ethics, compassion, and the people of the United States.

And it was also a specific goal of Project 2025 (page 254).
December 20, 2025 at 12:50 AM
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I encourage people posting to stay mindful of the fact that countless real little girls and young women were horribly victimized by the Epstein network—and there are also MANY other survivors reading what is written here.
December 19, 2025 at 10:22 PM
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Rob Reiner either made your favorite movie, or made somebody you know’s favorite movie. If you’re a Californian, he’s also part of the reason you or your friends can get married. He has changed more lives for the better than this asshole commenting on him ever did.
December 15, 2025 at 7:36 PM
PA had the regrettable "Cherikee Red"
Every state in the United States has a disgusting soda that only they know about and that’s kind of beautiful
December 14, 2025 at 2:52 AM
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"Notably, Trump's threats against Indiana Republicans were immediately exposed as empty. He's said, 'I wasn't really involved, I don't care.' You wish some of these college administrators would've had that in mind."

New episode of @davidnir.com & Rupar is live: www.publicnotice.co/p/we-need-to...
December 12, 2025 at 11:19 PM
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I know we’ve been talking about the 25th Amendment being invoked for years now, but we should probably be talking about it a lot more and a lot more seriously right now.
Couple of things here:

1. Trump says he took another cognitive test recently

2. In front of "large numbers of doctors and experts"

3. He called the examinations "long...and very boring"

4. If you're given 3 cognitive exams in one year by panels of doctors, something is VERY wrong with you
December 10, 2025 at 4:54 AM
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If you are near Philadelphia, have 123 dollars, and roughly 28 cubic feet of space to store 1,600 VHS tapes in reasonably climate controlled conditions until I can get up there, I will retrieve this collection of almost guaranteed vital archival value and digitize its entirety.
December 9, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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By situating the Times as nobly filling the space between the diametrically opposed wants of the “left” and the “right” and suggesting that all of these critiques are ideologically motivated and are equally valid (or invalid), this misses the point of much of the criticism of the paper’s coverage.
December 2, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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Adding alt text to this because this is fucking amazing and everyone deserves to read it.
December 2, 2025 at 9:28 AM
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“There’s a huge opportunity here if Trump acts in a way he has never acted and shows mental faculties he has never demonstrated having” is a very popular genre of think piece
November 29, 2025 at 3:04 AM
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It used to be the case that a mission of forming young people for leadership was understood to be exclusively aimed at boys. That's no longer true. Hegseth wants to get back something that can't be restored—the culture-wide assumption that power and influence should belong only to (white) men.
November 25, 2025 at 1:48 PM
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November 25, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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“There were no cervical cancer cases diagnosed in women aged <25 years in 2021 – the first time that this has occurred in data going back to 1982. This remarkable achievement is almost certainly due to the impact of HPV vaccination.” From report.cervicalcancercontrol.org.au

#vaccinationsaveslives
November 26, 2025 at 10:53 AM
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Just thinking about how “women ruined the workplace” but immature men get to call professional women “piggy.” What a world in which to be raising young children.
November 19, 2025 at 1:44 AM
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For me it's the way the press pool just quietly went along with it because he's the president

The entire point of this country is that we don't have to let some guy do whatever he wants just because of his title. We don't have to respect him or go along with him just because he holds an office
I don't know why the "Piggy" thing is bothering me so much. It's one more unforgivable thing in a list of 20,000 unforgivable things, but I've been mad about it for like 12 straight hours.
November 19, 2025 at 2:26 AM
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it didn't even really provide me with any new information but that one email between epstein and some other random rich elite saying "when will the madness end" about the metoo movement felt like a key unlocking my brain that will explain every unforced institutional capitulation we've seen
November 17, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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"Honestly, we met the frog like twice, tops, and didn’t really remember much about him. That’s why he’s only in the first verse of the song."
We Must Clarify That the Bullfrog Jeremiah Was, in Fact, a Mere Acquaintance
With apologies to Three Dog Night. - - -In the wake of recent events, we feel it’s time to speak up. We’ve heard your calls for a statement on the ...
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November 16, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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PLEASE SHARE!
Border Patrol operations start in Charlotte as officials urge calm - NBC News
November 15, 2025 at 10:35 PM
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Reminder: A lot of great books published this year during absolutely bonkers news & world event times. That squashes people talking about them. Keep buying books please, keep borrowing them from libraries, and for the love of all that's good, talk about them. Post about them. 📚
November 13, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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lol holy shit the 20,000 pages are in a Google Drive account
Oversight Committee Releases Additional Epstein Estate Documents - United States House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform
United States House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform
oversight.house.gov
November 12, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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“The President sent his lawyer to negotiate a settlement with a convicted sex trafficker to provide cushy accommodation in exchange for her silence on his participation in said sex trafficking” is a cold description of the facts of an insane story that the media doesn’t find worthy of scrutiny
November 10, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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Epstein in emails: Trump knew about the girls. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/u...
Epstein Alleged in Emails That Trump Knew of His Conduct
www.nytimes.com
November 12, 2025 at 1:58 PM