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Dean Obeidallah @deanobeidallah.bsky.social · 2d

Activist @lindseyboylan.bsky.social spoke to me about Andrew Cuomo's sexual harassment of herself and other women. Lindsey slammed corporate media platforms including The View that invites Cuomo on the show but doesn’t press him on the women he harassed. youtu.be/2J7RbQogs4g?...

Lindsey Boylan talks Andrew Cuomo's sexual harassment of herself and other women

YouTube video by The Dean Obeidallah Show

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Professor Euan Ritchie @euanritchie.bsky.social · 1d

And still people wonder why more women don't report sexual assault www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

Linda Reynolds launches bankruptcy proceedings against Brittany Higgins

Former senator Linda Reynolds launches bankruptcy proceedings in the Federal Court against her ex-staffer Brittany Higgins as she tries to recover damages awarded to her for defamation.

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Dr Phoenix CS Andrews @thatdocphoenix.com · 2d

We’re too smart and abortion rights are too embedded and socially accepted for the ADF to succeed here, say guys who’ve uncritically promoted anti-trans activists funded by the same people and using the same lawyers for a decade

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 2d

Don't forget to spend your FSA money. Lots of things that you can purchase using those funds will be of great use and interest to places like homeless shelters, domestic violence organizations, mutual aid groups & more.

Consider buying menstrual products for one thing.

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 1d

As a feminist I’m maybe more invested than most in the idea that major figures of history cannot be neatly categorized as “bad, therefore nothing they did was good” or “good, therefore nothing bad they did matters.” But Columbus is an unusually unambiguous case. His only achievement was an accident!

Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 2d

The notion that those who took part in slavery or conquest were merely abiding by the moral standards of their time necessary excludes those they targeted and kidnapped from those standards; *they* were never confused about this. But other white people were frequently disgusted by this stuff too!

George Gantsoudes @pedsortho.bsky.social · 2d

Please remember that the disgust people have over Christopher Columbus is not based on some modern, 21st century “woke” ideology, but rather on contemporaneous accounts of atrocities that make many modern genocides appear quaint in comparison.

Below, are the accounts of Bartlomé de las Casas.

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Jaimie G @jlpmcphail.bsky.social · 18h

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 4d

They finally acknowledged Melissa Hortman but are using her to justify their ongoing suppression of dissent, skating over the fact that her killer was not Antifa but a Trump supporter who had a long list of other Democrats, abortion rights advocates and health care officials he planned to target.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4d

Bondi: "We've been living through a horrific cycle of political violence in this country ... night after night antifa wrecks havoc on the streets of our cities. In Minnesota, a gunman murdered a state lawmaker and her husband."

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Edward @eddietheteacher.bsky.social · 4d

October 11, 1991 – Prof. Anita Hill delivers her televised testimony concerning sexual harassment during the Clarence Thomas Supreme Court nomination

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Jaimie G @jlpmcphail.bsky.social · 18h

LOVE it!

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Seána @grantsana.bsky.social · 3d

Ian Watkins’ ex girlfriend reports him multiple times to the police for what he was doing and they treated her as if she was hysterical in every sense of the word. Misogyny is dangerously and deadly, it played a huge role in those poor children’s torment. Hope he went roaring

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👁️🍄🪸 @bloomfilters.bsky.social · 3d

cis men love making books and tv and films about how the most horrific thing on earth is transfeminine existence even to add it in when it has nothing to do w/ the topic to avoid thinking too hard about what kind of everyday misogyny goes into the continuous pursuit of maintaining their own manhood

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Jaimie G @jlpmcphail.bsky.social · 18h

A hole big enough to drive one of their Big-T monster trucks!

Kaitlin Kal Lee @kaitlinkallee.bsky.social · 1d

Nearly 40% of young men don't see sexual assault as domestic violence. This shocking statistic from a national survey highlights a dangerous gap in understanding abuse.

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Jaimie G @jlpmcphail.bsky.social · 18h

A**hole! 👊

David Ryan Miller @davidryanmiller.com · 21h

The toxic misogyny has been a reliable throughline of the Trump Era since 2015.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21h

Trump ignores a question from a woman reporter but says, "I just like to watch her talk. Good job. Thank you darling."

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Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 2d

This guy gives the game away with the misogyny but man—this attitude (if you have a lot of followers you should just let people be assholes to you) drives me nuts.

You walk into my dojo looking for a fight you’re gonna get it lol

@[email protected] on Mastodon @electricheadpt2.cryptoanarchy.network · 3d

This guy rocks (derogatory). You’re apparently a “thirst trap white woman” and were just all simps for thinking he’s a dumbass.

The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.... • 18m
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As much disdain as I have for Large Accounts that do a bunch of venting on main like they're smol beans, I have a ton more for the army of followers who swarm people like "they're a human being, don't police their expression of emotions!" This is the same as simping for favor from the rich.
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The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.... • 14m
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Just because you're simping for a leftist conventionally attractive thirst trap white woman doesn't make you any different from the people who spend all day doing the same on X for Elon Musk.

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Jaimie G @jlpmcphail.bsky.social · 18h

#FossilFuel Please sign, help Federal Parliament (Bill C-372) prohibit oil and gas companies from promoting fossil fuels (with a few minor exceptions). It would also prohibit the industry from promoting its products in a way that is false, misleading, or deceptive.

Fracking is draining B.C.’s freshwater: Act now before it’s too late

Despite B.C.’s Peace River Region facing an ongoing severe drought, last year oil & gas companies set a new record high for freshwater extraction, with an alarming 50% increase over the year before. J...

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Jaimie G @jlpmcphail.bsky.social · 18h

#GHGs Agriculture releases 1/3 of all planet-heating gases emitted by human activity, meat 2x plant production - 17.3 Billion metric tonnes of greenhouse gases a year! "To produce 1kg of wheat, 2.5kg of greenhouse gases are emitted. A single kilo of beef, meanwhile, creates 70kg of emissions."

Meat accounts for nearly 60% of all greenhouse gases from food production, study finds

Production of meat worldwide causes twice the pollution of production of plant-based foods, a major new study has found

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Jaimie G @jlpmcphail.bsky.social · 19h

#Climate #Permafrost Frozen for >2.5 Million years, in a few months of thawing they start churning out GHG's!
If they do so for even a part of the year, scientists warn this could trigger a feedback loop that would accelerate permafrost thaw and global warming! Could majorly to climate change.

Scientists 'reawaken' ancient microbes from permafrost — and discover they start churning out CO2 soon after

Researchers incubated permafrost samples from Alaska at different temperatures and found that microbes from the last ice age can reactivate and resume breaking down carbon.

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Jaimie G @jlpmcphail.bsky.social · 19h

#FossilFuel #Carney Now Carney is waffling on his commitment on emission cap! Only the O&G sector has increased emissions last year, up 1.9%, offsetting reductions from other sectors, the CDN Climate Institute says. Canada is not on track to meet 2030 target, its emissions 8.5% below 2005 numbers.

'It Depends': Carney Shifts Stance on Maintaining Emissions Cap

Prime Minister Mark Carney said Friday the fate of the federal emissions cap on oil and gas producers depends on other efforts to lower emissions, suggesting his government might be open to scrapping ...

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Jaimie G @jlpmcphail.bsky.social · 19h

#FossilFuel #Carney Poilievre, eat your heart out! Carney is seizing your constituency by doing everything & more you claimed you would do.
What a rat Canada voted in! 😡

Carney Pitches Keystone XL Restart in Exchange for Progress on Aluminum, Steel

Prime Minister Mark Carney raised the prospect of reviving the Keystone XL pipeline project with U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday as part of a larger pitch on linking energy co-operation and sup...

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Jaimie G @jlpmcphail.bsky.social · 20h

#FossilFuel #Carney #UCP Please sign to block this horrible pipeline! Carney's stripes are showing!

Prime Minister Carney: Reject Smith's BC Pipeline - Leadnow

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Jim Wald @citizenwald.bsky.social · 1d

#Columbus Day remains a federal holiday, but many other jurisdictions have declared the Monday holiday #Indigenous Peoples Day

Here in Amherst, Massachusetts @TownOfAmherst
@townofamherst.bsky.social school children successfully urged Town Meeting to make the switch in 2016
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on low stage with curtains in orange and yellow panels in the background

a young girl (dark curly hair, brown skin; wearing a blue-and-white patterned dress) stands holding a sheaf of papers

while a young boy (blond, wearing plaid shirt in shades of orange, blue, and white) speaks at the rostrum

another boy sits on the steps in the background, waiting his turn to speak

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Austengoals @austengoals.bsky.social · 1d

The #indigenous peoples of #Wisconsin via Wisconsin @pbs.org

Happy Indigenous Peoples Day ☀️

#history #geography

Wisconsin map listing the indigenous peoples lands

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Jaimie G @jlpmcphail.bsky.social · 1d

#UCP #tRumpfangirlSmith MAGA’s Project 2025 has become blueprint for undermining Canada’s schools in the name of profit & privilege. UCP pushes even more school privatization at higher costs, less equity & worse teaching, as proven in other jurisdictions! Danni's creed - the Rich over the majority!

Inside the Right-Wing Attack on Alberta's Public Education | The Tyee

MAGA’s Project 2025 has become a blueprint for undermining Canada’s schools in the name of profit and privilege.

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Jaimie G @jlpmcphail.bsky.social · 1d

#Indigenous A growing set of voices says reconciliation is impossible. They tell a story of winners & losers, w Indigenous rights unsettling society, unraveling the political & legal system & threatening prosperity. But there is another tradition of coming together in respect and interdependence!

As Denialism Grows, Look to Our History of Coming Together | The Tyee

We can choose which traditions to uphold. Here’s my choice.

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Jaimie G @jlpmcphail.bsky.social · 2d

Makes me so mad and sick! 😡

Cathy Devine @womensportfeminism.bsky.social · 2d

Handful of violent protesters & bloke with megaphone attempt to stop largest grassroots feminist conference in Europe where 2.5k women discuss women's global political & legal rights.
Organised by aptly named 'Bash Back' dripping with male violence vibes.
Male entitlement & men's rights activism.

BASH BACK @bashback.bsky.social · 5d

BREAKING: BASH BACK TARGET FiLiA ANTI-TRANS CONFERENCE

The conference, whose alumni include J.K. Rowling, this year hosts hate groups LGBAlliance and Transgender Trend, along with the director of Scottish Lesbians, one of the groups responsible for April's segregationist Supreme Court ruling.

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Jaimie G @jlpmcphail.bsky.social · 2d

Try to catch them ASAP!

Helen 🏳️‍⚧️✊🏻💕 @mimmymum.bsky.social · 2d

‘Gender critical’ transphobes are the puppets of the anti-bodily autonomy/ anti-gender right-wing US Christo-Fascists

See the FiLiA conference this weekend - all about removing bodily autonomy and consent from trans people, surrogates, sex workers … yet somehow they call themselves “feminists”? 😖

Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 2d

The right-wing campaign group that helped topple Roe v Wade in the US is now working to roll back abortion laws in the UK, with the help of Nigel Farage.

Its first step? Trying to create a debate around "free speech"
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