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Sophie Gilbert
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Staff writer at The Atlantic: TV, books, culture, women. GIRL ON GIRL is out now: https://bookshop.org/p/books/girl-on-girl-how-pop-culture-turned-a-generation-of-women-against-themselves-sophie-gilbert/21683668?ean=9780593656297
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Sophie Gilbert @sophiegilbert.bsky.social · Apr 29
Girl on Girl is out today! And got the review of my literal dreams from the Washington Post—I am truly a bit emotional at someone seeing what I was trying to do with the book so clearly. wapo.st/3ECIW0t
Review | How 2000s pop culture taught us that sex is a currency
In “Girl on Girl,” Sophie Gilbert turns a critical eye on misogyny without settling into outrage or pity.
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moiradonegan.bsky.social
These technologies can and are being used to create lifelike images and videos of actual living women and girls. For what I think are pretty obvious gendered civil rights reasons, it needs to be a recognized civil cause of action to create an AI image or avatar of a woman without her consent.
zoandbehold.bsky.social Rep. Zooey Zephyr @zoandbehold.bsky.social · 20h
"And I never say no"

We need to have a serious talk about the way "AI companion" apps not only prey on the vulnerable, but are priming their users to ignore consent and to conflate love with control.

We need AI regulations across so many sectors, but this area is particularly horrifying.
December 28, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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Just want to point out that this man was leading the whole Turning Point USA crowd in prayer last week.

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Russell Brand charged with further counts of rape and sexual assault
The alleged offences took place in 2009, the Crown Protection Service said
www.independent.co.uk
December 23, 2025 at 7:53 PM
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“Girls Play Dead” is a “riveting, heartrending analysis of what sexual assault does to women,” Sophie Gilbert writes:
Everything We Know About Rape Is Wrong
"Girls Play Dead" is a transformative analysis of what sexual assault does to women.
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December 23, 2025 at 2:45 AM
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Horrifying www.wiltshire.police.uk/news/wiltshi...
Six men charged with more than 60 sexual offences against woman over a 13-year period
Six men have been charged with more than 60 sexual offences against one adult victim over a 13-year period.
www.wiltshire.police.uk
December 22, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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alexshephard.bsky.social
Earlier this year I gave a talk to the Akron Roudtable about sports gambling. Here's the text of that speech alexshephard.substack.com/p/sports-gam...
Sports Gambling Is Everyone's Problem Now
The text of a talk I gave at the Akron Roundtable on October 16, 2025.
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December 22, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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www.citizensforethics.org/reports-inve...
December 21, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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The women in this 1964 photo of Beatles fans (yes, that's what they used) could not get a credit card at Bank of America without their husband or father cosigning. So, no. The answer, CBS and Bank of America, is no.
gbbranstetter.bsky.social Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 9d
"Has feminism failed women brought to you by bank of america" is my MKULTRA sleeper agent activation phrase
CBS News/Free Press program "Has feminism failed women" brought to you by bank of america and hosted by Liz Plank and Allie Beth Stuckey
December 20, 2025 at 3:56 AM
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sarahwoolley.bsky.social
On David Walliams: The Daily Mail reveals that “showbusiness reporters at The Sun were told to drop negative stories about Walliams because both that newspaper and HarperCollins are owned by Rupert Murdoch's NewsUK, even sharing offices near London Bridge.”

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Screenshot reads “Indeed, for years it wasn't just Schillings that Walliams paid to protect his interests, but also his fearsome publicists at MBC PR, whose client list has included the alleged rapist Russell Brand. I can also reveal that showbusiness reporters at The Sun were told to drop negative stories about Walliams because both that newspaper and HarperCollins are owned by Rupert Murdoch's NewsUK, even sharing offices near London Bridge.”
December 20, 2025 at 4:52 AM
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He's tagging more things in DC than Cool Disco Dan
December 19, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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They booked a bunch of 14 year old models to come to a Mar A Lago party, told them to dress sexy and tried to ply them with alcohol.
donmoyn.bsky.social Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 10d
These are the people who are willing to go on the record.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/u...
Tina Davis, who modeled for Ford in the mid-1990s, said in an interview that her Ford booker instructed her to get dressed up and attend a Mar-a-Lago party in late 1994. Just 14 and new to Miami, she was told to “dress sexy,” according to her mother, Sandra Coleman, who had accompanied her to Florida. Eight or nine other models came along on the bus. “All the girls were really young,” Ms. Coleman recalled in an interview. “Some of them could have been in training bras.” When they arrived at Mar-a-Lago, Ms. Coleman said, her daughter was promptly handed a glass of champagne. She took it away, but waiters kept offering more. Each time one of the middle-aged men at the party approached her daughter, Ms. Coleman would walk over and introduce herself as Ms. Davis’s mother. During a trip to the bathroom, they ran into Mr. Trump’s new wife, whom they had met earlier. Ms. Maples clasped her hands, Ms. Coleman recalled, and looked her in the eye. “Whatever you do, do not let her around any of these men, and especially my husband,” she told Ms. Coleman. “Protect her.”
December 18, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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The new UCLA Hollywood Diversity study finds that almost 92 percent of streaming show runners are white, and 85 percent are male. h/t @sorayanadiamcdonald.com

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A pie chart from a new UCLA diversity study with some text (it finds that nearly 92 percent of streaming show runners are white).
December 17, 2025 at 3:32 AM
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"Some Chinese parents, inspired by Elon Musk’s 14 known children, pay millions in surrogacy fees to hire women in the U.S. to help them build families of jaw-dropping size. Xu ... has more than 100 children born through surrogacy in the U.S." www.wsj.com/us-news/chin...
The Chinese Billionaires Having Dozens of U.S.-Born Babies Via Surrogate
Videogame executive Xu Bo, said to have more than 100 children, and other elites are building mega-families—testing citizenship laws and drawing on nannies, IVF and legal firms set up to help them.
www.wsj.com
December 16, 2025 at 9:42 AM
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As we mourn Rob Reiner, don’t skip this: he was, pretty much, personally responsible for overturning California’s Prop 8 banning same sex marriage.

www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...
How Rob Reiner became anti-Prop. 8 kingpin
Rob Reiner reflects on the critical role he played in getting California's gay marriage ban overturned.
www.hollywoodreporter.com
December 15, 2025 at 1:37 PM
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chriscjackson.bsky.social
This entire weekend
in the pit
December 15, 2025 at 3:58 AM
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jeisinger.bsky.social
Great, insightful thread.

Anyone who goes to Europe can see that living well is not “dying.”
gabrielzucman.bsky.social Gabriel Zucman @gabrielzucman.bsky.social · 17d
Now with the same productivity as the US, “core EU” also has more leisure time, higher life expectancy, less inequality

No matter how you look at it, it is a clearly superior economic performance
December 12, 2025 at 12:43 PM
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adamserwer.bsky.social
I would like the phrase and concept of "common decency" to make a comeback
December 10, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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thorbenson.bsky.social
They keep testing my brain because it's working so well. I'm constantly having my brain tested
December 10, 2025 at 6:25 AM
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December 9, 2025 at 12:33 PM
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Evil. 19thnews.org/2025/12/post...
Her baby was in the NICU. She was in ICE detention.
Before Trump took office, postpartum immigrants were rarely detained by ICE. Nayra Guzmán was detained while her 15-day-old baby was in the NICU.
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December 6, 2025 at 4:05 AM
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helenkennedy.bsky.social
They are beating people who maybe once had a broken taillight and sending them to foreign slave prisons while freeing the worst fraudsters and every corrupt pol. The juxtaposition is so stark and appalling.
kenvogel.bsky.social Ken Vogel @kenvogel.bsky.social · 25d
NEW: The commutation Trump issued to David Gentile wipes away all further fines & restitution.

Gentile had been sentenced to 7 years for his role in a $1.6B scheme that defrauded thousands of investors.

Prosecutors had been seeking $15.5M in forfeiture.

www.justice.gov/pardon/media...
December 3, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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New from 404 Media: ChatGPT told a violent stalker to continue running his misogynistic and threat-filled podcast despite the “haters,” and to visit more gyms to find women. The man stalked women in multiple states, including touching and following from work

www.404media.co/chatgpt-spot...
ChatGPT Told a Violent Stalker to Embrace the 'Haters,' Indictment Says
A newly filed indictment claims a wannabe influencer used ChatGPT as his "therapist" and "best friend" in his pursuit of the "wife type," while harassing women so aggressively they had to miss work a...
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December 3, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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moiradonegan.bsky.social
Of all the indignities and cruelties, today this is the one that got to me.
December 3, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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petersagal.bsky.social
NYT: Is the President tired?

Ms. Leavitt: Would a weary President be able to deliver a racist rant like that one?
Asked whether Mr. Trump fell asleep, Karoline Leavitt, the White House press secretary, said in a statement that the president was "listening attentively and running the entire" meeting. She cited Mr. Trump's response during a question and answer segment at the end of the meeting, when he delivered a tirade against Somali immigrants.
December 3, 2025 at 12:19 PM
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www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/o...
December 2, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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harrywallop.co.uk
Great culture can save lives. Literally.

Amazing letter in today’s @thetimes.com about Tom Stoppard
December 2, 2025 at 8:48 AM