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Sarah Weinman @sarahweinman.com · Feb 25

At long last, I’m thrilled to announce that my new book, WITHOUT CONSENT: A Landmark Case and the Decades-Long Struggle To Make Spousal Rape a Crime, will be published on November 11, 2025 and is available for pre-order wherever books are sold! www.sarahweinman.com/book/without...

The cover of my new book WITHOUT CONSENT: A Landmark Case and the Decades-Long Struggle To Make Spousal Rape a Crime, out November 11, 2025, which shows a dark wood bed headrest, white sheets and pillows, a green backdrop, and the title in white bold capital letters and my name in black bold letters

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Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 20h

“All my friends murdered and raped, sometimes they hung out at my house. Get over yourself.”

RFK Jr. explains why socializing with Jeffrey Epstein wasn't such a big deal for him:
...l ran into everybody in NY. I mean, I knew Harvey Weinstein, I knew Roger Ailes, I knew
-- O.J. Simpson came to my house. Bill Cosby came to my house."

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slate @pleasebegneiss.bsky.social · 20h

they are so close to understanding the entire point of trade

Unusual Whales @unusualwhales.bsky.social · 1d

BREAKING: The US is rolling back tariffs on “products that cannot be grown, mined, or naturally produced in the United States," per WSJ

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𝐿𝒥 ∙ ☾𝑀𝑜𝑜𝓃 @southsideofheaven.bsky.social · 23h

Need…

I will not explain why. You see it lol

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Leah Petersen @leahpetersen.bsky.social · 1d

Though I don't think they were sure I was on their side. Half of them looked confused.

(I was on a motorcycle?)

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Leah Petersen @leahpetersen.bsky.social · 1d

I passed through a tiny town in western NC that had about 30 people. I waved and cheered.

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sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 1d

I'm genuinely shocked at the turnout this weekend. I think the Oregonian lowballed crowd estimates and that it was probably way more than my own initial estimate. I would not be surprised to learn later that one in five people across the city protested on Saturday.

sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 1d

saw crowd in portland and my brain just shut down when I tried counting. 50k just downtown maybe? tens of thousands for sure. turnout at no kings in june might have been the biggest action in portland in decades but this one is bigger several times over

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Leah Petersen @leahpetersen.bsky.social · 1d

Cowards.

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James O'Malley @jamesomalley.co.uk · 1d

Films: We need to hack a keycard, obtained by seducing one of the guards. We then need to drop in from the skylight after jumping from a plane, and dodge all of the lasers and traps, carefully switching the jewels for fakes that weigh the same to avoid tripping the alarm.

Real life:

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Nick @nickduza.bsky.social · 1d

Here are some actual photos of actual protesters taken by actual people in Detroit yesterday.

People in an inflatable chicken, octopus, and unicorn marching in Detroit

A protester in an inflatable dinosaur costume holding a sign that says “we dumped a king in 1776. Stop digging him back up!! Dino says: ‘Even I know fossilized leadership stinks’l

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onekade @onekade.bsky.social · 1d

Major props to the organizers of the Boston No Kings event yesterday. There were tens of thousands of people and it went off without a hitch. Some things I particularly want to highlight:

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Gabrielle A. Perry, MPH @geauxgabrielle.bsky.social · 1d

General strikes are BUILT up to. You dont know that because the US killed off every major labor leader in the last 100 years and dont even teach about the labor movement in this country.

Community members organizing childcare, transportation, etc. Organization of mutual aid for medical needs, etc

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Corey S. Powell @coreyspowell.bsky.social · 1d

Wild! A meteorite may have struck the windshield of a 737 flying over Colorado, according to early reports.

Whatever the object was, it cut a pilot's arm but did not seriously damage the plane. 🧪

avbrief.com/united-max-h...

Photo of a pilots wounded arm, cut by broken glass.

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Merewolf Smith 💀 @evilgalprods.bsky.social · 1d

a VIOLATION is not a test, jfc

where have all the outlets gone?

The Associated Press @apnews.com · 1d

BREAKING: Israel strikes southern Gaza in test of ceasefire.

Israel strikes Gaza in first major test of ceasefire

Israel said it struck Hamas militants in Gaza on Sunday after they shot at Israeli soldiers who were inside the area that is still under Israeli control, according to the conditions of the Oct. 10 ceasefire.

bit.ly

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Parker Molloy @parkermolloy.com · 1d

My mom texted me with a picture of her at one of the No Kings protests. Her first protest ever. The normies have awakened.

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 1d

if the president does something so awful it would be indecent to describe and ask about then you very obviously need to describe and ask about it, thats the entire job

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 1d

Finally came across video of an arrest at a #NoKings event yesterday. 🙄

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Fear Captain @cheercaptain.wang · 1d

I wasn’t exaggerating it rules so hard

Pin from today’s No Kings protest showing Barney and Friends and the phrase “Join Antifa”

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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social · 2d

live your life so millions of people are not inspired to march in the streets to express their disgust with you.

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 1d

Dutch intelligence suspends sharing arrangements with the US after concluding that high level intel was routinely being shared by the White House with their friends in the Kremlin. www.volkskrant.nl/binnenland/n...

Nederlandse diensten delen minder informatie met de VS: ‘Soms vertellen we dingen niet meer’

Het aantal dreigingen dat op Nederland afkomt is groot, zien de hoofden van de AIVD en de MIVD elke dag: niet alleen Russische agressie, maar ook de opmars van China als digitale macht en binnenlands ...

www.volkskrant.nl

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Lord Guardian of Gastown @darkdementus.bsky.social · 1d

I looked at 38 papers. The NYT was one of only a few not to have it as the top story and photo

The handful of exceptions were pretty much all places with a big D1 football game

I genuinely don't understand why the NYT is so reticent to give coverage to one of the largest protests in history

NYT on the protests: sixth headline and third photo down. This is Saturday at 8pm

WSJ: protests are the top story and photo

Wapo: protests are the top story and photo

Chicago Tribune: protests are the top story and photo

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Matt Mason - One Chaotic Author @chaoticauthor.online · 1d

Happy Ace Week everyone!

Matt Mason - One Chaotic Author @chaoticauthor.online · Jun 8

Now The Residents of James Hotel is out, I get to add it to the banner.

Looking to read a book with asexual representation this Pride Month? I now have a collection with Booklinker for that!

Amazon links: mybook.to/acerep

Other links in replies (running out of space)

Banner showing four books until the heading Books With asexual representation. The ace pride flag is in the top corner (black, grey, white and purple stripes)

Book covers for Phobetor's Children, cover shows a mosaic against a dark forest (marked ace and demi rep) Roman science fiction horror

Shadows of Cathedral Lane, cover shows a silhouette of a woman inside a woman's head (marked demi rep) a contemporary humorous paranormal mystery

Angel's Mass, cover shows a simple sketch of a medieval church (marked ace rep)

The Residents of James Hotel, cover shows a simple sketch of a manor house (marked demi rep)

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Leah Petersen @leahpetersen.bsky.social · 1d

And nobody believes him.

Leah Petersen @leahpetersen.bsky.social · 1d

I was cringe before it was popular. 🤣

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Leah Litman @leahlitman.bsky.social · 1d

LOVE this

Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 1d

👍 www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Cringe “implies a kind of naïveté that so often gets coded as feminine,” wrote the New York Times columnist Lydia Polgreen, “a silly belief that human beings, through sincere effort, might actually improve themselves and the world.” Such a belief might seem uncool. But it can be a powerful tool with which to cut through the nihilism of Trump and those around him, which draws its power from its insincerity, its refusal to distinguish between truth and falsehood, its willingness to mock and degrade previously treasured beliefs. As one protest sign put it at a demonstration early in Trump’s second term: BE CRINGE. SHIT MATTERS.

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