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Knitting Cult Lady

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Daniella Mestyanek Young; Scholar of cults, extreme groups, and extremely bad leadership. Author of UNCULTURED. Combat veteran; TEDx Speaker; Organizational psychologist, Harvard MA

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Knitting Cult Lady @knittingcultlady.bsky.social · 8d

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@knittingcultlady.bsky.social does this SITREP every week.
I find them calming with facts versus feelings and reminding me that there are more of us than there are of them.

Appreciate the ways she is sharing her journey with us.

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Weekly Cult SitRep, 10/24/25: Keith Raniere Wants Out, Cults & Medical Neglect, Join or Die!

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Knitting Cult Lady @knittingcultlady.bsky.social · Apr 19

When you’re wearing pictures of the guy’s face…

Cult scholar: welcome, welcome my children, let me explain.

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Knitting Cult Lady @knittingcultlady.bsky.social · 24d

But it’s so fun and totally worth it 🫡

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Knitting Cult Lady @knittingcultlady.bsky.social · 24d

Yes, find YouTube channels that teach children, because they have the best explanations.

Get some yarn that excites you, any yarn is fine. Just not too fuzzy.

And then just start.

It’s really about learning the language, it’s its own language, and learning what to do with your hands.

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Knitting Cult Lady @knittingcultlady.bsky.social · 24d

Oh, I’m taking the next week to record my audiobook, and letting people leave ideas, and then the planning will begin.

I figure I can give 30 minutes to an hour A day of organizing to help save my country.

And please stay tuned, because I will definitely definitely let you know how you can help!

Knitting Cult Lady @knittingcultlady.bsky.social · Oct 1

I don’t understand why you just sent me a video of a man recapping things that I have said since the election

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Knitting Cult Lady @knittingcultlady.bsky.social · Oct 1

This is called sexual terrorism, by the way!

Cat Herder @herdingkitties.bsky.social · Oct 1

It's worse than that. They want the threat of rape to drive women out of the military.

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Knitting Cult Lady @knittingcultlady.bsky.social · Oct 1

This is called sexual terrorism…

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Knitting Cult Lady @knittingcultlady.bsky.social · Oct 1

And we hate being called “female” because they used it as a slur.

Thanks for coming to my second TED talk 🫡

Oh, here’s the best selling book I wrote about how shitty it is to be a woman in the United States military: knittingcultlady.com/products/unc...

https://knittingcultlady.com/products/uncultured-autographed-by-knitting-cult-lady

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Knitting Cult Lady @knittingcultlady.bsky.social · Oct 1

And it’s because we are literally erased in every single conversation by civilians and military, left and right.

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Knitting Cult Lady @knittingcultlady.bsky.social · Oct 1

When you talk about the military, it’s “our men and women” every time.

“And women”… Every time!

Women veterans are referred to as “invisible veterans” and we suffer from the veteran problems at much higher rates than the men.

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Knitting Cult Lady @knittingcultlady.bsky.social · Oct 1

Yes!

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Knitting Cult Lady @knittingcultlady.bsky.social · Oct 1

He’s like “inconceivable!”

(in a world of all American fascists…Be this guy.)

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Knitting Cult Lady @knittingcultlady.bsky.social · Sep 30

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Knitting Cult Lady @knittingcultlady.bsky.social · Sep 30

And today we had to hear that mediocre man that we all had to be better than, tell all of the military leaders that as “Secretary of War” (talk about little Dick energy), he is not gonna allow “mistakes” to ruin dudes careers.

And we all know…

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Knitting Cult Lady @knittingcultlady.bsky.social · Sep 30

Every woman veteran that you know is probably raging deeply tonight.

Because we all had to serve next to that guy, that toxic masculinity, barely disguised white nationalist, misogynist to the core, guy-who you-know-raped-somebody-or-held-them-down…

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Knitting Cult Lady @knittingcultlady.bsky.social · Sep 30

Yes

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Thomas E. DeCaulp @decaulp.bsky.social · Sep 30

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Greatly analysis on kegsbreath and love you knitting. I'll be purchasing your books The Culting Of America and Uncultured. Deep up the great work 👏

Maybe This is All Cause Nobody Would Respond to Hegseth's Emails?

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Knitting Cult Lady @knittingcultlady.bsky.social · Sep 30

Secretary of War is giving “I wanna pick my own nickname, mom!”

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Knitting Cult Lady @knittingcultlady.bsky.social · Sep 29

Today I unbaptized the spirit of the newly departed Mormon prophet/profit, seer, and revelator true, into atheism.

Please respect my choice. It is my religious freedom.

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Craig Browning @cbmusasd.bsky.social · Sep 29

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My Mormon Mom reached out for the first time in YEARS!

YouTube video by Life, take two!

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Knitting Cult Lady @knittingcultlady.bsky.social · Sep 28

This is an all-American fascism. Maybe start talking about all of the American reasons why we’re here.

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Knitting Cult Lady @knittingcultlady.bsky.social · Sep 28

I honestly have no patience for creators who compare us to Germany or other dictatorships, without also listing the differences.

Your threat analysis is not valid if you’ve only looked at one side.

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Knitting Cult Lady @knittingcultlady.bsky.social · Sep 27

I just think this is gonna be one of the more heavily secured meetings in history, that would probably not make a great target for an attack

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Knitting Cult Lady @knittingcultlady.bsky.social · Sep 26

I would be 0% surprised