Willy Pete
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Willy Pete
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He/They, Disabled, queer, and so very tired.
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JFC. Nearly a third of people who have left their church have done so because of scandals involving clergy or other religious leaders.

That’s not incidental, that’s endemic.
🧵 The Pew Research Center has some fascinating details on religious switching. Only 56% of American adults are in the system they were raised in.

Very important info on switching from various groups, too.

Why do people say they leave? The biggest reason is that they stopped believing the claims.
December 23, 2025 at 2:00 AM
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A graduate teaching assistant who gave a University of Oklahoma student a failing grade on a psychology essay will no longer be teaching at the university
Graduate instructor who gave failing grade to Samantha Fulnecky no longer teaching at OU
A graduate teaching assistant who gave a University of Oklahoma student a failing grade on a psychology essay will no longer be teaching at the university.
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December 23, 2025 at 1:29 AM
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One of the more important stock-taking moments to watch a bootlegged news program censored in your country.
December 23, 2025 at 12:12 AM
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It's 2025, and we're sharing bootleg 60 Minutes segments broadcast in other countries because our own country is being run by fascists and their billionaire-owned state media helpers, just as the Founding Fathers intended, of course.
December 23, 2025 at 1:49 AM
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Felon47 is the deranged one...
December 22, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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I’m old enough to remember when CBS News would never have surrendered to a demagogic president or any other politician. Remember Edward R. Murrow?
December 22, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:
December 22, 2025 at 3:37 AM
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The articles in this issue didn't just use Nazi imagery, they actively called for mass execution of people they view as immoral, abortion and gender affirming care providers, sex workers, LGBTQ people etc. It's blatantly fascist propaganda that has no place at Harvard.
Ross Douthat was the EIC of this publication when we were in college.

“variations of a racial slur used casually in a group chat of members; an unpublished issue featuring a call for mass executions; and draft versions…that included two images of swastikas and a Nazi slogan in the subtitle.“
Racial Slurs and Nazi Symbols: Inside the Complaint That Shut Down The Harvard Salient | News | The Harvard Crimson
Screenshots and message logs obtained by The Crimson appear to show Salient leaders casually using racial slurs, defending extremist rhetoric, and dismissing internal concerns — conversations that lat...
www.thecrimson.com
December 21, 2025 at 3:33 AM
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"RFK Jr. likes to pretend that we need to run tests on already-tested, already-proven-safe vaccines to see if they're safe; the idea that we need to see what's in the files to know if Trump is a predator and a criminal and a misogynist has some of the same agenda of delay and decoy."
Feminism Versus Trump and Epstein
We already knew that Jeffrey Epstein had sexually assaulted and exploited dozens of girls and young women, that he had done so openly, that his dehumanization of the vulnerable had not prevented a who...
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December 21, 2025 at 3:09 PM
@asherelbein.bsky.social I have finally worked down my TBR, started reading, and am now 61 per cent through Ghost Days. It is wonderful! Genuinely having a hard time putting it down so I can sleep but I am forcing myself to put my Kindle down and send this message before I sleep.
December 21, 2025 at 8:17 AM
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There should be a moratorium on straight romance stories fo at least five years

It’s time for everyone to consume queer content
"my least woke opinion is---"

That's enough. We've had enough people indulging in the "thrill of a little conservatism", as a treat. Of considering reactionary thought to be a salacious and taboo in a world descending into reactionary mania.

Give me your MOST woke opinions. We're bringing it back.
December 20, 2025 at 9:05 PM
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HUGE NEWS from the new Epstein files:

Records show that Maria Farmer, who worked for Epstein, filed a "child pornography" report to the FBI in 1996.

The FBI has never before acknowledged that complaint. The case went nowhere, and mass abuse followed.

www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/u...
Epstein Files Include 1996 Child Porn Complaint That F.B.I. Ignored
www.nytimes.com
December 20, 2025 at 12:07 AM
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Do people realize that this is also happening with case law?

Like Do You Understand What That Fucking Means???
December 20, 2025 at 2:48 AM
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"Has feminism failed women brought to you by bank of america" is my MKULTRA sleeper agent activation phrase
December 19, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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periodically I'll see a backlash that goes a little too far or seems kinda unfair. i never say anything because i think we need to be kinda unhinged and zealous in our response to this shit. I'd take an honest-to-God crusade against this stuff over letting it proliferate.
We can do even more.
December 18, 2025 at 7:40 PM
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At the HHS announcement yesterday announcing proposed rules to ban GAC, they said trans people are "at the root of the evils we face" and are "a hatred for nature as God designed it and for life as it was meant to be lived.”

Just in case you thought it was about concerns for proper healthcare.
December 19, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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Yeah I'm SUPER shocked the DOJ is violating the law and not releasing all the Epstein files. WHO COULD HAVE GUESSED they'd continue to protect pedophiles??

Everyone. Everyone guessed.
December 19, 2025 at 7:19 PM
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The British Press caring so much for “women and girls” that they’ve covered up abuse by a yet another sex pest for decades…

…to make space for their transphobic moral panic
December 19, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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Hey! Remember when Barr (Bondi) withheld the Mueller (Epstein) documents for weeks so he (she) could mischaracterize what was in the Mueller (Epstein) Report and spin the findings for three weeks and then over-redact them? I sure do!
December 19, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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If they have any kind of power at all—journalist, politician, healthcare commissioner—your position on DIY HRT is, “What’s that? A new kind of hammer? For DIY? Can I get it on Amazon?”
Don't talk to journalists about DIY HRT.
December 19, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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It is 2025. The EHRC in the UK keeps trying to materialize a trans bathroom ban out of a muddled UKSC opinion third-sexing all trans people. A bill to criminalise those who provide trans minors with transition care passed in the US House of Representatives.

And cis "allies" still think this helps.
December 18, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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Sen. Andy Kim is a force to be reckoned with.
December 18, 2025 at 11:30 PM
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Once again a reminder: We can have trans rights, bodily autonomy, gender nonconformity, and freedom of expression, or we can have none of these things.

There’s no third option.
In addition to this administration trying to kill kids, and they're also coming for our binders? OUR BINDERS.
December 19, 2025 at 1:55 AM
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Good look at what would happen if S230 gets pulled

medium.com/wikimedia-po...
If Congress Repeals Section 230, What Will that Mean for Wikipedia?
This is the first installment in our three-part series about Section 230.
medium.com
December 18, 2025 at 9:51 PM