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Moira Donegan

@moiradonegan.bsky.social

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Opinion columnist covering gender and politics at The Guardian. Writer in residence at the Michelle R. Clayman Institute for Gender Research. Host of the podcast In Bed with the Right. Real piece of work.

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 24d

Every day is like a cross between “Who Goes Nazi?” and “…the Aristocrats!”

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 5h

Donald tonight you will be visited by three ghosts

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 5h

President Fears the Judgement of Angry God

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 5h

He seems to be thinking about the afterlife kind of a lot.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6h

Trump: "I don't think there's anything that's gonna get me in heaven. I think I'm not maybe heaven bound. I may be in heaven right now as we fly on Air Force One. I'm not sure I'm gonna be able to make heaven."

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 7h

It is not difficult for men to express their feelings; they do so all the time. What they mean is that they don’t get the response they hope for—or the one they feel entitled to from women—afterwards.

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 9h

I’m gonna be real with you I have never encountered a tiger in real life

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 10h

They pretty actively reject solidarity in favor of misogyny. It’s not like the former is not available to them.

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 10h

But even pointing this out merely feeds back into the grievance and victimization machine that surrounds young men and tells them that they’ve been unfairly maligned. “FemiNAZI tells young men that their FEELINGS are TOXIC.”

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 10h

A shocking amount of men seem convinced that if they evince enough self pity they will be delivered of respect, status, and the sexual attention of women. Really can’t overstate that this is not how it’s going to work out.

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 10h

Probably the actual advice that most young men need is that no one finds self pity appealing.

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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 14h

What he’s railing against is a profound shift in culture, status… He’s obsessed with the idea that America is controlled by a leftist “ruling elite” - but “elite” isn’t defined socio-economically or by political power, it means something like: Getting to define “real America” and who gets to belong.

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 1d

“What about all the sexual abuse allegations?”

“He was the best guy arounnn”

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 1d

This is how men talk about sex pests youtu.be/P5xjR-M3BsY?...

He's the best guy around

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 1d

Why don’t you stop your Woody Allen apologism?

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 1d

Should have been Woody Allen.

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 1d

I almost followed this post with another one going “some man is going to take this seriously and start explaining to me what has actually happened” but thought it would be too on the nose.

Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 1d

How do regimes do when the soldiers don’t get paid? Does anyone know of any concerning historical precedents that this evokes

Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 2d

Military families on day 9 of the shutdown lining up at the food bank

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Leah Litman @leahlitman.bsky.social · 1d

More judges speak to the press (the NYT) about what a disaster the Supreme Court (specifically the shadow docket) has been - “incredibly demoralizing & troubling”; a “judicial crisis”; a “slap in the face to district courts.” www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 1d

They’d be humiliated and mad, if that’s a plus.

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 1d

They like his vision for the domination of women and want him to win. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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Heather Knight @heatherknightsf.bsky.social · 2d

For years, San Franciscans considered him the rare big-hearted billionaire. But days before his Dreamforce conference begins, Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff said he would support President Trump sending the National Guard to SF and that Trump is doing “a great job.”

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Marc Benioff Says Trump Should Send Guard Troops to San Francisco

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 2d

Lol

Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 2d

Murray Rothbard famously said that his conservatism would “repeal the 20th century”, but these guys seem to be gunning for the 19th.

Stephen West @stephenwest.bsky.social · 2d

Counterpoint:

You absolutely do not have to hand it to enslavers

Wilson: Now, one of the things I want to do is say: I’m really glad that slavery’s gone, and good riddance. And I want to say that the Southern slave owner, who read the books of Ephesians and Colossians and 1 Timothy and treated his slaves decently, remembering that he had a master in heaven who he studiously tried to obey — what Paul said slave owners were supposed to do — I would say he was not an orc, and he is part of the reason why slavery ended. In other words, I would say he’s a good guy.

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 2d

Good to know! Something to look out for the next time I go hiking.

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 2d

Though if they started wearing the tech bro zippered vests it’s possible that I would simply not notice them

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 2d

Gonna be real with you, I have not noticed a feral hog problem in San Francisco.

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · Jan 9

here is the current tactical map of where feral swine populations have consolidated

the major worry is if the Canadian superhogs end up making their way down south and breeding with the American hogs

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