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The Road Jess Travelled @jesspected.bsky.social · 3h

I've posted quite a bit on Twitter about this. The overwhelming majority of men's support spaces are covers for misogynistic (& other bigotries because they intersect as much as feminism needs to) radicalism. And men aren't taught how to spot their own exploitation.

Case C. Capehart @caseccapehart.bsky.social · 2d

I've always felt like there needed to be sites or some place where men who have healthy romantic and platonic relationships can mentor those who struggle. Instead, we have an ocean of manosphere influencers who blame every problem on women and low testosterone.

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The Road Jess Travelled @jesspected.bsky.social · 3h

And just as women need information to spot predators, men need the same to spot exploitative "support" spaces. But there are few men doing that outreach either.

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The Road Jess Travelled @jesspected.bsky.social · 3h

Yup. It's so sickening. Men don't just prey on women, they also prey on vulnerable men. Most of the pages/groups for lonely men, single men looking for love, divorced/divorcing men, & dads follow the formula of presenting a benign, supportive surface while slipping in poisonous ideology.

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The Road Jess Travelled @jesspected.bsky.social · 3h

If I saw a June bug without my contacts, I'd definitely be like "no way this is a clumsy ass bug that digs through feces." And if I'd had one beer I'd be like "tiny beautiful lady with wings?"

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The Road Jess Travelled @jesspected.bsky.social · 3h

Yes, I'm judgmental of sexual predators & their enablers. All decent human beings are & don't need to be imaginary friends to have such bare minimum integrity. Your fragility about how you'll be remembered is a you problem, but given your defense here I can understand your anxiety.

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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 5h

It's somehow both wildly underreported and just out in the open that the vice president is either a neo-Nazi or, at a bare minimum, a neo-Nazi fellow traveler.

Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 6h

Fascinating. Politico notes that when notified of the texts, many state-level Republicans fired or condemned these cretins. Now Vance emerges to excuse the racism, and calls the reaction to it "pearl clutching."

He seems determined to purge the party of its last enclaves of decency.

‘College Group Chat’: JD Vance Dismisses ‘Pearl Clutching’ Over Young Republicans Leak to Attack Jay Jones

Liberals hit back at Vance's blunt dismissal of racist, antisemitic and misogynistic messages leaked from a Young Republicans group chat.

www.mediaite.com

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 19h

NEW: Pentagon officials are forcing staff to watch Pete Hegseth's "Warrior" speech he forced generals to listen to.

Officials are even "testing" staff to see if they watched — and are threatening consequences if they lie about watching it or if they mock it, sources tell @swin24.bsky.social and I.

The Pentagon Is Ordering Staff to Watch Hegseth’s ‘MAGA Garbage’ Speech… Or Else

Defense Department sources tell Zeteo that staff have been warned that if they don’t watch or read the speech, or if they speak negatively of it, they could face severe consequences.

zeteo.com

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Gail Simone @gailsimone.bsky.social · 17h

I don't talk about it often, but I have social anxiety, big crowds can sometimes be difficult.

But the kindness of readers brings a smile to my face. If you see that smile, you know I mean it.

Please be patient if it seems like I am a little bit inside myself sometimes. I can't help it.

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Black Aziz Anansi @blackazizanansi.blacksky.app · 13h

It looks like orange shades has a swastika on his chest.

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unoservix @unoservix.bsky.social · 13h

ah shit menswear guy is posting horny on main

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The Road Jess Travelled @jesspected.bsky.social · 3h

"College group chat" & it's balding middle-aged men. White supremacy loves adultifying Black children to justify violence against them while infantilizing grown ass white men as wittle babies, a lil fella who did an oopsie all kids do, like putting syrup on the family dog. Sigh, such silly babies.

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Oscar&Felix @oscar-felix.bsky.social · 19h

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 20h

This is no more lawful than if Iran / North Korea / whoever blew up a couple American yachts in the Mediterranean for suspected drug trafficking. On the legal spectrum it sits in the middle of a Venn diagram between overt acts of military aggression, state-sponsored terrorism, and simple murder.

Amarnath Amarasingam @amaramarasingam.bsky.social · 1d

The military has now killed 27 people as if they were enemy soldiers in a war zone and not criminal suspects. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u...

U.S. Military Kills Another 6 People in 5th Caribbean Strike, Trump Says

www.nytimes.com

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Ma$on @masonfromtwitter.bsky.social · 23h

There's actually a reason for that!

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Structured Success @structuredsucc.bsky.social · 1d

Remember: Neurodivergent isn't shorthand for being ADHD and/or autistic.

Neurodivergent is an umbrella term for anyone and everyone who has differences in their neurological structure or function.

This includes mental health issues, brain injuries, and developmental conditions

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Joshua Erlich @joshuaerlich.bsky.social · 23h

i had a client once who was arrested because the cop insisted his signature was a fake signature. he watched the guy sign the summons and insisted he was ... faking a signature?

we lost

T. Greg "Antifa General Counsel (Retired)" Doucette @gregdoucette.bsky.social · 1d

This is yet another reminder that the "you can just walk around with your papers and be fine!" is a lie: the cops routinely claim whatever documentation you provide is invalid

It's racism all the way down

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 1d

"During the encounter, Greeley said they told her she 'doesn’t look like' a Greeley."

www.yahoo.com/news/article...

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T. Greg "Antifa General Counsel (Retired)" Doucette @gregdoucette.bsky.social · 1d

This is yet another reminder that the "you can just walk around with your papers and be fine!" is a lie: the cops routinely claim whatever documentation you provide is invalid

It's racism all the way down

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 1d

"During the encounter, Greeley said they told her she 'doesn’t look like' a Greeley."

www.yahoo.com/news/article...

Chicago Tribune: Greeley, who was born at Illinois Masonic hospital and is adopted, carries a copy of her passport just in case she runs into federal agents.

“I am Latina and I am a service worker,” Greeley said. “I fit the description of what they’re looking for now.”

During the encounter, Greeley said they told her she “doesn’t look like” a Greeley.

“They said this isn’t real, they kept telling me I’m lying, I’m a liar,” Greeley recalled. “I told them to look in the rest of my wallet, I have my credit cards, my insurance.”

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 2d

I don’t think it will, if anything I think people will just get progressively more misinformed and more attached to fake realities. That’s been the trajectory of the internet so far and it’s only poised to continue accelerating

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The Road Jess Travelled @jesspected.bsky.social · 3h

It gives people an excuse to dismiss anything that challenges their biases. They'll just dismiss anything they don't like as AI.

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Oddball — 🇨🇦🇮🇪🇺🇦🚫 @oddb4ll.bsky.social · 2d

The worst part is to build a slop detector you have to use the same tools and burn the planet as well, jfc

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The Road Jess Travelled @jesspected.bsky.social · 3h

The imaginary superhero I made up doesn't have any muscles at all yet destroys their superhero with ease. Then goes & has lunch with a family that actually loves him.

The Road Jess Travelled @jesspected.bsky.social · 3h

I am constantly informed by men that women like "bad boys," a narrative abusive, self-pitying men cling to to justify men abusing women. But men will love Omni-Man & Batman while hating Superman. And give thousands of dollars to Andrew Tate & similar "bad boy" life coaches.

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The Road Jess Travelled @jesspected.bsky.social · 3h

What's especially funny to me is how homoerotic this pic of Omni-Man is, particularly in comparison to Superman, who is fit but normal-looking. Conservative men are absolutely obsessed with homoerotic avatars, whom they insist upon, then blame women for, then vilify women for not desiring them.

DC Updates @updates4dc.bsky.social · 4d

Invincible and The Walking Dead creator Robert Kirkman says Omni-Man could easily take down Superman, adding, “Superman sucks.” (via Collider)

#OmniMan #Superman #Invincible #TheWalkingDead

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David Avallone @davallone.bsky.social · 1d

He’s the boring “evil Superman” trope from Kirkman’s INVINCIBLE.

As someone smarter than me once said, Superman being good IS the inversion of the trope. A powerful man being evil is just the sad real world we live in.

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The Road Jess Travelled @jesspected.bsky.social · 4h

Hoverboarding shark. Can't wait for kids to read about this in the future in illegal history books.

50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 1d

The Portland Frog army has now infiltrated Tulsa, OK and they’ve made an unlikely alliance with the T-Rex infantry and Sharks on Hoverboards mercenary forces.

This is truly terrifying.

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