Alana Halper
@alanahalper.bsky.social
Childless cat-lady, Aunt, general harasser of anesthesiologists, yarn-craft person
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Okay, you guys wanted some fun tea on Richard Dawkins? Here you go: one reason he may have gotten super duper angry about me talking about misogyny in atheism
skepchick.org/2026/02/epst...
skepchick.org/2026/02/epst...
Epstein Files Reveal How Pathetic Richard Dawkins & Other Men Are
Transcript: Well, it happened again. I’m mentioned in the Epstein files. Again. You probably saw my first video on this topic and you came away thinking that I’ve spent the past decade being as awe…
skepchick.org
February 5, 2026 at 7:09 PM
Okay, you guys wanted some fun tea on Richard Dawkins? Here you go: one reason he may have gotten super duper angry about me talking about misogyny in atheism
skepchick.org/2026/02/epst...
skepchick.org/2026/02/epst...
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I agree with this, but, and this is important, I really also wish we had listened to the law students who spoke out about his sexual harassment, and about his wife (Amy Chua) enabling and threatening those who also spoke out about it.
February 5, 2026 at 4:01 PM
I agree with this, but, and this is important, I really also wish we had listened to the law students who spoke out about his sexual harassment, and about his wife (Amy Chua) enabling and threatening those who also spoke out about it.
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![A tweet from anno domini 2016 by randygdub reading "trump [waving bible in front of them]: you morons love this shit huh
[audience going berserk]"](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:spz7xtxwn7tareapqzouydsh/bafkreiglcy4nei7u5hjhdvuytnepuae2nn5ivdwf6egewmwmjpleptgtue@jpeg)
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Sorry, but rape is something working class men also do. I know people have spent about a decade trying to delegitimize any analysis of women as an oppressed class, but reality can't be mooted for the sake of trends.
February 5, 2026 at 12:21 AM
Sorry, but rape is something working class men also do. I know people have spent about a decade trying to delegitimize any analysis of women as an oppressed class, but reality can't be mooted for the sake of trends.
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Actually starting to feel very allergic to the claim that Epstein's crimes are a function of his class. His money obviously increased the scale of his abuse and granted him additional impunity, but to say that wealth was the genesis of his depravity feels like willful blindness to gender.
I understand the reasons why it’s more jarring and consequential to see it happen among billionaires, but the kind of shrugging disinterest or impishly approving encouragement of sexual abuse among Epstein’s circle is the same dynamic that happens in less powerful milieus.
February 5, 2026 at 12:20 AM
Actually starting to feel very allergic to the claim that Epstein's crimes are a function of his class. His money obviously increased the scale of his abuse and granted him additional impunity, but to say that wealth was the genesis of his depravity feels like willful blindness to gender.
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I'm worried that the broader public isn't really understanding the Epstein Files. The problem isn't that everyone in the files is a secret pedophile, it's that all the people are corresponding with him because they *don't care that he's a pedophile*. It's a story of elite impunity.
You can look at the Epstein files and conclude that only bad people have billions of dollars, but I think it’s also possible that having billions of dollars cauterizes your humanity
February 3, 2026 at 7:26 PM
I'm worried that the broader public isn't really understanding the Epstein Files. The problem isn't that everyone in the files is a secret pedophile, it's that all the people are corresponding with him because they *don't care that he's a pedophile*. It's a story of elite impunity.
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real question is which prominent trump administration figures *aren't* in the epstein files?
January 31, 2026 at 4:35 PM
real question is which prominent trump administration figures *aren't* in the epstein files?
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Theeere it is
Elon Musk had more extensive ties to Epstein than previously known, emails show
Newly released files from DoJ show the pair making plans in 2013 for the Tesla CEO to visit Epstein’s private island
www.theguardian.com
January 30, 2026 at 9:45 PM
Theeere it is
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I just really need people to get clued in to Christian Nationalism and understand that is what underpins SO MUCH of what has been happening the last bunch of years. From local to international policy. It is a plague on the US, and far too many people don't even have a clue what is going on.
Here's the Heritage Foundation all-in on repealing Section 230 so that litigious Christian nationalists can dictate the speech rules for the entire Internet
It's so embarrassing so many Dems are falling for this www.teenvogue.com/story/some-d...
It's so embarrassing so many Dems are falling for this www.teenvogue.com/story/some-d...
January 28, 2026 at 4:35 PM
I just really need people to get clued in to Christian Nationalism and understand that is what underpins SO MUCH of what has been happening the last bunch of years. From local to international policy. It is a plague on the US, and far too many people don't even have a clue what is going on.
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THIS.
I really wish people understood that the fake-ass apology to get you to shut up is part of the abuse cycle and we don't have to fucking participate in this shit.
I really wish people understood that the fake-ass apology to get you to shut up is part of the abuse cycle and we don't have to fucking participate in this shit.
This behavior of theirs is SO abusive.
"Welcome them with open arms, they've admitted they were wrong"
Yeah, I did that with my abuser many times, all it meant was he said one thing to get back into my good graces so he could abuse me more.
Go play your tiny violin, motherfuckers.
"Welcome them with open arms, they've admitted they were wrong"
Yeah, I did that with my abuser many times, all it meant was he said one thing to get back into my good graces so he could abuse me more.
Go play your tiny violin, motherfuckers.
January 26, 2026 at 3:24 PM
THIS.
I really wish people understood that the fake-ass apology to get you to shut up is part of the abuse cycle and we don't have to fucking participate in this shit.
I really wish people understood that the fake-ass apology to get you to shut up is part of the abuse cycle and we don't have to fucking participate in this shit.
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This is why they can’t really make Kirk a martyr outside of the people who were already his fans. You can’t keep treating gun violence as no big deal, allowing scores of school kids to get shot and killed, and then say one guy getting shot was The Worst Most Horrible Thing Ever.
Can’t have it both ways, idiots: if you wanted a populace who rolls over and pisses whenever you pull a gun, you shouldn’t have allowed us to undergo decades of mass shootings.
January 24, 2026 at 5:17 PM
This is why they can’t really make Kirk a martyr outside of the people who were already his fans. You can’t keep treating gun violence as no big deal, allowing scores of school kids to get shot and killed, and then say one guy getting shot was The Worst Most Horrible Thing Ever.
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This. Honestly if you run the full list of “this is the thing that will get the GoP congress a spine” and then nope, it is like lovecraft clawed out of his horrible, greasy grave and inflicted Mike Johnson on all of us as a milktoast horror.
hey I like that we're all posting thru it but I also wanted to say, in case anybody else is feeling it, that I'm pretty scared and genuinely think that we've passed a real rubicon in the past week or so and that being at the mercy of a handful of dumbfuck lunatics really does a number on your soul.
January 20, 2026 at 10:32 PM
This. Honestly if you run the full list of “this is the thing that will get the GoP congress a spine” and then nope, it is like lovecraft clawed out of his horrible, greasy grave and inflicted Mike Johnson on all of us as a milktoast horror.
This is what I'm very worried about.
If we avoid This, we will save an uncountable number of lives, right a thousand wrongs, and be so unbelievably lucky but no one will learn a single goddamned befucked lesson.
If we avoid This, we will save an uncountable number of lives, right a thousand wrongs, and be so unbelievably lucky but no one will learn a single goddamned befucked lesson.
I think a lot of Americans are unprepared for how insanely bad things will get if Trump actually goes for this, but conversely a lot of people on here are underrating how fast things will get memory holed and smoothed over if there’s a climb down
January 20, 2026 at 10:31 PM
This is what I'm very worried about.
If we avoid This, we will save an uncountable number of lives, right a thousand wrongs, and be so unbelievably lucky but no one will learn a single goddamned befucked lesson.
If we avoid This, we will save an uncountable number of lives, right a thousand wrongs, and be so unbelievably lucky but no one will learn a single goddamned befucked lesson.
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haul Bovino’s ass in front of the judge every six hours to explain this shit
keep hauling him in, hold him in contempt, make his life miserable until he tells his goons to cut it out
keep hauling him in, hold him in contempt, make his life miserable until he tells his goons to cut it out
This is what happened in our neighborhood yesterday. ICE snatched a human being off of our streets, roughed them up badly, and then pepper sprayed legal observers as they documented it all. This is a daily occurrence happening all throughout Minnesota right now.
January 19, 2026 at 5:47 PM
haul Bovino’s ass in front of the judge every six hours to explain this shit
keep hauling him in, hold him in contempt, make his life miserable until he tells his goons to cut it out
keep hauling him in, hold him in contempt, make his life miserable until he tells his goons to cut it out
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It exposes directional alignment; you still seek to limit, not expand, who is allowed to be human. Yes, you have set your limitation more inclusively than our fascist gang of white supremacists; it doesn't mean you're not also setting limitations & they'll use your limit as long as it serves them.
I can't trust politicians who are anti-trans. Not because I'm "only searching for perfection" which is what centrists will be accusing me of for the rest of my life, it's because if you're not pro-trans you'll be garbage on lots of other issues too. Being anti-trans NEVER exists in a vacuum.
January 17, 2026 at 12:57 PM
It exposes directional alignment; you still seek to limit, not expand, who is allowed to be human. Yes, you have set your limitation more inclusively than our fascist gang of white supremacists; it doesn't mean you're not also setting limitations & they'll use your limit as long as it serves them.
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Which is especially rich given that his main appeal right now is that he and his staff are pretty good at online trolling. Clearly he doesn't take any of this seriously when you juxtapose that with how he treats the absolut fascist scum on his podcast
This is exactly how Gavin Newsom should have handled Ben Shapiro.
He didn’t.
The man profoundly lacks the cold-blooded hatred for the MAGA scourge that we require right now.
He didn’t.
The man profoundly lacks the cold-blooded hatred for the MAGA scourge that we require right now.
If Ben Shapiro confronts someone on calling ICE "state-sponsored terrorism" the response I am looking for is to lean forward, look him straight in the eye, and slowly and carefully say "and when I'm in charge, I'll be sponsoring them to come after every last fucking one of you."
January 17, 2026 at 1:52 AM
Which is especially rich given that his main appeal right now is that he and his staff are pretty good at online trolling. Clearly he doesn't take any of this seriously when you juxtapose that with how he treats the absolut fascist scum on his podcast
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the fact that Ross's first words after killing Good were "fucking bitch" is one of those things that makes me feel like every attempt to make feminist theory sophisticated was actually pointless. like no apparently there are guys who actually do just want to kill women for inconveniencing them
January 16, 2026 at 9:44 PM
the fact that Ross's first words after killing Good were "fucking bitch" is one of those things that makes me feel like every attempt to make feminist theory sophisticated was actually pointless. like no apparently there are guys who actually do just want to kill women for inconveniencing them
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Breaking NYT:
The Pentagon used a secret aircraft painted to look like a civilian plane in its first boat attack, according to officials briefed on the matter.
The laws of armed conflict forbid combatants from feigning civilian status.
That is a war crime called "perfidy."
The Pentagon used a secret aircraft painted to look like a civilian plane in its first boat attack, according to officials briefed on the matter.
The laws of armed conflict forbid combatants from feigning civilian status.
That is a war crime called "perfidy."
U.S. Attacked Boat With Aircraft That Looked Like a Civilian Plane
www.nytimes.com
January 13, 2026 at 12:05 AM
Breaking NYT:
The Pentagon used a secret aircraft painted to look like a civilian plane in its first boat attack, according to officials briefed on the matter.
The laws of armed conflict forbid combatants from feigning civilian status.
That is a war crime called "perfidy."
The Pentagon used a secret aircraft painted to look like a civilian plane in its first boat attack, according to officials briefed on the matter.
The laws of armed conflict forbid combatants from feigning civilian status.
That is a war crime called "perfidy."
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semi-regular reminder that ICE was only created in 2003
when you are asked to imagine a world without ICE, you're basically being asked to remember where you were when Lilo & Stitch came out
when you are asked to imagine a world without ICE, you're basically being asked to remember where you were when Lilo & Stitch came out
January 12, 2026 at 8:04 PM
semi-regular reminder that ICE was only created in 2003
when you are asked to imagine a world without ICE, you're basically being asked to remember where you were when Lilo & Stitch came out
when you are asked to imagine a world without ICE, you're basically being asked to remember where you were when Lilo & Stitch came out
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honestly, the biggest reason to impeach him whether or not the votes are there to convict is that it clearly bothers the fuck out of him, I don’t know why because his diseased brain is not rational or linear, but he hates that shit and bothering him is genuinely praxis at this point
Can you imagine seeing a headline like this and then NOT trying to impeach this guy?
January 9, 2026 at 11:35 AM
honestly, the biggest reason to impeach him whether or not the votes are there to convict is that it clearly bothers the fuck out of him, I don’t know why because his diseased brain is not rational or linear, but he hates that shit and bothering him is genuinely praxis at this point
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They don't have capacity to terrorize more than 2-3 cities at a time.
Which means they rotate teams to new cities without relief.
Which means consistent resistance by fresh activists in each new city will break them over time.
Which means if you're city's not occupied, rest up and get ready.
Which means they rotate teams to new cities without relief.
Which means consistent resistance by fresh activists in each new city will break them over time.
Which means if you're city's not occupied, rest up and get ready.
"The Department of Homeland Security plans to pause operations in Chicago — where Gregory Bovino, a Border Patrol official, has led controversial arrest efforts — to support the immigration enforcement operation in Minnesota."
Trump Administration Deploying More Border Patrol Agents to Minnesota
www.nytimes.com
January 8, 2026 at 10:17 PM
They don't have capacity to terrorize more than 2-3 cities at a time.
Which means they rotate teams to new cities without relief.
Which means consistent resistance by fresh activists in each new city will break them over time.
Which means if you're city's not occupied, rest up and get ready.
Which means they rotate teams to new cities without relief.
Which means consistent resistance by fresh activists in each new city will break them over time.
Which means if you're city's not occupied, rest up and get ready.
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Yale Law School never beating the “they don’t teach law at Yale” allegations
January 8, 2026 at 7:19 PM
Yale Law School never beating the “they don’t teach law at Yale” allegations
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They're not just doing tyranny, they're doing the *exact* things listed in the Declaration of Independence that the colonists accused the king of. It's surreal
January 8, 2026 at 12:37 AM
They're not just doing tyranny, they're doing the *exact* things listed in the Declaration of Independence that the colonists accused the king of. It's surreal
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glory to the Republic and the martyrs who defended her
10,000 people honoring Renee Nicole Good
at the site of her murder
at the site of her murder
January 8, 2026 at 3:15 AM
glory to the Republic and the martyrs who defended her
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The “prosecute the former regime at every level” candidate has my vote in 2028.
January 7, 2026 at 8:26 PM
The “prosecute the former regime at every level” candidate has my vote in 2028.