DrNotta
@drnotta.bsky.social
#ActuallyAutistic. White cishet femme (she/her) but doing my best to center more marginalized perspectives. Disabled is not a dirty word. Use AltText or ask others to write it for you.
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DrNotta
@drnotta.bsky.social
· Dec 29
Ableism is not welcome in my feed.
No eugenics.
No ableist slurs and ESPECIALLY no defending them with "well they're an awful person so it's okay to use a bigoted slur about them."
No images without alt text or a request for someone to write it.
My feminism is intersectional or it's bullshit.
No eugenics.
No ableist slurs and ESPECIALLY no defending them with "well they're an awful person so it's okay to use a bigoted slur about them."
No images without alt text or a request for someone to write it.
My feminism is intersectional or it's bullshit.
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AP finds a secretive Border Patrol intelligence program detains Americans for “suspicious” travel. Critics call it mass surveillance.
Border Patrol is monitoring US drivers and detaining those with 'suspicious' travel patterns
The U.S. Border Patrol is monitoring millions of American drivers nationwide in a secretive program to identify and detain people whose travel patterns it deems suspicious.
bit.ly
November 20, 2025 at 2:00 PM
AP finds a secretive Border Patrol intelligence program detains Americans for “suspicious” travel. Critics call it mass surveillance.
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I will never forget having to edit Jamal’s final, posthumous piece for the Washington Post, after he was murdered.
He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here :
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...
He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here :
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...
Opinion | Jamal Khashoggi: What the Arab world needs most is free expression
The Arab world needs a modern version of the old transnational media so citizens can be informed about global events.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 18, 2025 at 6:48 PM
I will never forget having to edit Jamal’s final, posthumous piece for the Washington Post, after he was murdered.
He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here :
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...
He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here :
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...
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mr president sir theres a story coming about how you intervened to help a sex criminal. no sir, not that sex criminal you helped….no not that one either…sir, please stop guessing sex criminals that you helped. ill give you a hint sir, hes a trafficker. no sir, not that trafficker a different one
NEW: When Andrew Tate landed in the US, Customs & Border Protection seized his electronic devices. But @propublica.org found that a White House official told DHS to return the devices, emphasizing that the request came from the White House.
By @robert-faturechi.bsky.social & Avi Asher-Schapiro
By @robert-faturechi.bsky.social & Avi Asher-Schapiro
The White House Intervened on Behalf of Accused Sex Trafficker Andrew Tate During a Federal Investigation
Federal authorities were chided for seizing electronic devices from Tate and his brother, and told to return them, records and interviews show. Experts said the intervention was highly inappropriate.
www.propublica.org
November 18, 2025 at 1:10 PM
mr president sir theres a story coming about how you intervened to help a sex criminal. no sir, not that sex criminal you helped….no not that one either…sir, please stop guessing sex criminals that you helped. ill give you a hint sir, hes a trafficker. no sir, not that trafficker a different one
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no we are not retconning marjorie taylor greene she is evil what is wrong with people
November 18, 2025 at 3:43 PM
no we are not retconning marjorie taylor greene she is evil what is wrong with people
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Hey authors! Check to see if Anthropic stole your book to train their slop generator on. You’re entitled to $1500 per stolen Work.
Look up your work, and if you’re in the database, file a claim
secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/lookup/
Look up your work, and if you’re in the database, file a claim
secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/lookup/
Submit a Claim
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November 18, 2025 at 7:39 AM
Hey authors! Check to see if Anthropic stole your book to train their slop generator on. You’re entitled to $1500 per stolen Work.
Look up your work, and if you’re in the database, file a claim
secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/lookup/
Look up your work, and if you’re in the database, file a claim
secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/lookup/
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IF YOU READ NO OTHER PORTION OF THE EPSTEIN FILES TRANSPARENCY ACT, read this one.
EVERY SINGLE DOCUMENT THEY WITHHOLD has to be indexed, published in the Federal Register, and submitted to Congress with an explanation.
And scroll down to understand why THEY ARE NOT PERMITTED TO WITHHOLD IT ALL.
EVERY SINGLE DOCUMENT THEY WITHHOLD has to be indexed, published in the Federal Register, and submitted to Congress with an explanation.
And scroll down to understand why THEY ARE NOT PERMITTED TO WITHHOLD IT ALL.
November 18, 2025 at 11:32 PM
IF YOU READ NO OTHER PORTION OF THE EPSTEIN FILES TRANSPARENCY ACT, read this one.
EVERY SINGLE DOCUMENT THEY WITHHOLD has to be indexed, published in the Federal Register, and submitted to Congress with an explanation.
And scroll down to understand why THEY ARE NOT PERMITTED TO WITHHOLD IT ALL.
EVERY SINGLE DOCUMENT THEY WITHHOLD has to be indexed, published in the Federal Register, and submitted to Congress with an explanation.
And scroll down to understand why THEY ARE NOT PERMITTED TO WITHHOLD IT ALL.
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I think a lot of people (whyte) still think they’d be at brunch if Kamala had won.
October 26, 2025 at 1:15 PM
I think a lot of people (whyte) still think they’d be at brunch if Kamala had won.
I mean, why do you think such a high percentage of grassroots activists are retirees? We're the only ones with the time and the commitment to our local communities.
I try to avoid "real organizers vs. fake/keyboard organizers" framings for the most part but one thing you learn quickly from organizing is how difficult it is to get people to do anything at all, how much you're competing against sociologically. people are overworked and tired
November 18, 2025 at 3:05 PM
I mean, why do you think such a high percentage of grassroots activists are retirees? We're the only ones with the time and the commitment to our local communities.
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it is almost as if accommodating and conceding to far right ideas legitimizes them and signals to voters that the far right is a legitimate choice for governance
The Danish Social Democrats are currently on course for their worst election result since at least the Second World War, despite their brand of far-right accommodationism being touted as a blueprint for other centre-left parties.
Oh
November 18, 2025 at 2:24 PM
it is almost as if accommodating and conceding to far right ideas legitimizes them and signals to voters that the far right is a legitimate choice for governance
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“It’s 40 members that we’re hosting from the AfD,” Luna said in an interview with Welt, which is a sister publication of POLITICO in the Axel Springer Group. “And it’s not just going to be me, it’s going to be other members of Congress as well.”
www.politico.eu/article/larg...
www.politico.eu/article/larg...
Large far-right German delegation to visit Washington, Trump ally says
The invitation to the capital comes as Alternative for Germany politicians seek to build closer ties to the U.S. government.
www.politico.eu
November 17, 2025 at 2:28 PM
“It’s 40 members that we’re hosting from the AfD,” Luna said in an interview with Welt, which is a sister publication of POLITICO in the Axel Springer Group. “And it’s not just going to be me, it’s going to be other members of Congress as well.”
www.politico.eu/article/larg...
www.politico.eu/article/larg...
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BREAKING: Stand up for Science endorses @aftynbehn.bsky.social (TN-07) for Congress. From speaking at our Nashville rally in March, to advocating for our health and hospitals, Behn is a fighter for science!
Tennessee — election day is December 2nd! In-person early voting runs from now until 11/26.
Tennessee — election day is December 2nd! In-person early voting runs from now until 11/26.
November 17, 2025 at 2:30 PM
BREAKING: Stand up for Science endorses @aftynbehn.bsky.social (TN-07) for Congress. From speaking at our Nashville rally in March, to advocating for our health and hospitals, Behn is a fighter for science!
Tennessee — election day is December 2nd! In-person early voting runs from now until 11/26.
Tennessee — election day is December 2nd! In-person early voting runs from now until 11/26.
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Is it bad if a sitting federal judge was (allegedly) part of a conspiracy to commit murder? It seems bad ....
OMFG-ex DOJ official (& now federal judge) Emil Bove was involved in the administration's plots to murder individuals via lethal strikes
"At a DOJ conference ... Bove told drug prosecutors the ... administration wasn't interested in interdicting ... Instead... the U.S. should "just sink the boats."
"At a DOJ conference ... Bove told drug prosecutors the ... administration wasn't interested in interdicting ... Instead... the U.S. should "just sink the boats."
November 17, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Is it bad if a sitting federal judge was (allegedly) part of a conspiracy to commit murder? It seems bad ....
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Another Trump/Hegseth murder
Trump has executed another three civilians in a small boat off Venezuela. Death toll now stands at 83.
November 16, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Another Trump/Hegseth murder
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I don't know who needs to know this, but Pro Publica has an online thing that will format a letter to your US health insurance company to demand the records behind a claim denial. (which the insurance is then legally required to provide in most cases)
projects.propublica.org/claimfile/
projects.propublica.org/claimfile/
Find Out Why Health Insurance Denied Your Claim
You likely have the right to access records that explain why your insurer denied your claim or prior authorization request. Use ProPublica’s free tool to generate a letter requesting your claim file f...
projects.propublica.org
December 11, 2024 at 2:39 AM
I don't know who needs to know this, but Pro Publica has an online thing that will format a letter to your US health insurance company to demand the records behind a claim denial. (which the insurance is then legally required to provide in most cases)
projects.propublica.org/claimfile/
projects.propublica.org/claimfile/
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ACIP has posted a draft agenda for their upcoming meeting on 12/4 and 12/5.
Alarm bells are blaring. They are going to spend the entire first day talking about the vaccine schedule.
There is no evidence whatsoever that there is any danger whatsoever with the current vaccine schedule.
Alarm bells are blaring. They are going to spend the entire first day talking about the vaccine schedule.
There is no evidence whatsoever that there is any danger whatsoever with the current vaccine schedule.
November 16, 2025 at 7:53 PM
ACIP has posted a draft agenda for their upcoming meeting on 12/4 and 12/5.
Alarm bells are blaring. They are going to spend the entire first day talking about the vaccine schedule.
There is no evidence whatsoever that there is any danger whatsoever with the current vaccine schedule.
Alarm bells are blaring. They are going to spend the entire first day talking about the vaccine schedule.
There is no evidence whatsoever that there is any danger whatsoever with the current vaccine schedule.
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How she was bullied to protect Dershowitz
To be very clear, Virginia Giuffre was made to say she mistakenly identified Alan Dershowitz as one of the people who sexually abused her. Here is the proof from this week's Epstein files dropped by the House Oversight Committee.
November 15, 2025 at 8:30 PM
How she was bullied to protect Dershowitz
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I can reassure the New York Times that networks of mutual protection, and misogynist retaliation efforts that benefit abusive men at the expense of the young women they prey upon, are very much still intact post-Me Too.
This is nauseating: “As the emails stretch through the years, they show how that protected realm vanished into the mists of time, pulled under by the rising forces of the internet and the #MeToo movement.” A “Gone With the Wind” framing for sexual abuse and harassment.
Seriously, what is wrong with these people?
November 16, 2025 at 2:13 PM
I can reassure the New York Times that networks of mutual protection, and misogynist retaliation efforts that benefit abusive men at the expense of the young women they prey upon, are very much still intact post-Me Too.
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From a reddit post discussing ICE moving into Charlotte
November 16, 2025 at 2:57 PM
From a reddit post discussing ICE moving into Charlotte
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I told you they were coming. You can ignore me but it won't stop it
www.backpacker.com/news-and-eve...
www.backpacker.com/news-and-eve...
Hikers Who Smoke Weed on Federal Public Lands to Face Prosecution Again
U.S. attorney says people caught with cannabis in national parks and other federal lands will once again face "rigorous" prosecution after DOJ rescinds policy of ignoring low-level offenses.
www.backpacker.com
November 16, 2025 at 2:55 PM
I told you they were coming. You can ignore me but it won't stop it
www.backpacker.com/news-and-eve...
www.backpacker.com/news-and-eve...
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do you know WHY actors and athletes are so well compensated today that it’s hard to look at them as “labor”
because they organized and negotiated for it
because they organized and negotiated for it
beyond just being wrong on the merits, the thing that bugs me about people dismissing actors and athletes as labor is that, historically, they’ve been at the forefront of a lot of labor victories that have helped labor more broadly
November 16, 2025 at 2:26 AM
do you know WHY actors and athletes are so well compensated today that it’s hard to look at them as “labor”
because they organized and negotiated for it
because they organized and negotiated for it
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In this Ohio diner, it was a tradition: waffles and eggs, big cup of Folgers, then fire up the old laptop to get email dating advice from a convicted sex trafficker. But now the woke mob is taking all of that away.
November 16, 2025 at 2:38 AM
In this Ohio diner, it was a tradition: waffles and eggs, big cup of Folgers, then fire up the old laptop to get email dating advice from a convicted sex trafficker. But now the woke mob is taking all of that away.
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I can't believe we had to go through MeToo only for a bunch of people who think they are liberal to never re-examine whether or not it is actually funny when the most powerful person on earth does workplace sexual harassment against interns
November 15, 2025 at 6:00 PM
I can't believe we had to go through MeToo only for a bunch of people who think they are liberal to never re-examine whether or not it is actually funny when the most powerful person on earth does workplace sexual harassment against interns
Since I heard this heartbreaking news, I've been thinking about the life expectancy of Disabled people. "Medicine" offhandedly promotes the idea that our lives are shorter because of our disabilities. They refuse to accept responsibility for shortening our lives by ableism & by withholding services.
Alice Wong, Writer and Relentless Advocate for Disability Rights, Dies at 51
Born with muscular dystrophy, she received a MacArthur “Genius” grant in 2024 for her decades of calling attention to the need for equal rights for disabled people.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/15/u...
Born with muscular dystrophy, she received a MacArthur “Genius” grant in 2024 for her decades of calling attention to the need for equal rights for disabled people.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/15/u...
Alice Wong, Writer and Relentless Advocate for Disability Rights, Dies at 51
www.nytimes.com
November 15, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Since I heard this heartbreaking news, I've been thinking about the life expectancy of Disabled people. "Medicine" offhandedly promotes the idea that our lives are shorter because of our disabilities. They refuse to accept responsibility for shortening our lives by ableism & by withholding services.
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when RWers say "grooming" they mean "threatening my patriarchal sexual authority, corrupting my property, damaging my goods." they don't actually mean anything to do with sexual abuse, which they see as perfectly permissible under the right circumstances.
November 14, 2025 at 5:02 AM
when RWers say "grooming" they mean "threatening my patriarchal sexual authority, corrupting my property, damaging my goods." they don't actually mean anything to do with sexual abuse, which they see as perfectly permissible under the right circumstances.
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when you understand that patriarchy views children as sexual property it all makes sense. there's no hypocrisy. exposure to queerness & transness threatens to "corrupt" the father's property, to "lead them astray" into self-determination, to taint their future sexual value. CSA is permissible as >
Thatcher's government did this with Section 28, banned the "promotion of homosexuality" as a danger to children, while actively protecting Jimmy Savile and who knows how many other pedophiles. It's the same damn playbook.
I cannot begin to properly articulate how upsetting it is to have had people baselessly accuse trans people of being groomers and pedophiles only for it to come out that they were deliberately doing this as part of a project to provide cover to actual groomers and pedophiles in positions of power
November 14, 2025 at 4:56 AM
when you understand that patriarchy views children as sexual property it all makes sense. there's no hypocrisy. exposure to queerness & transness threatens to "corrupt" the father's property, to "lead them astray" into self-determination, to taint their future sexual value. CSA is permissible as >