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Feminist, reader, crocheter, knitter, cook. Discernment honed, and yet, I laugh…

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Aldus Manutius, meet Benoit Mandelbrot:
This piece is just wonderful.

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The Morality Pageant
On Helen Andrews’ Feminization piece
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October 21, 2025 at 3:01 PM
"Florence lost its brilliance when dukes replaced dealers, when commerce bent to control.

America toys with that same transmutation."

reboottherenaissance.substack.com/p/werent-rep...
Weren’t Republicans Supposed to Be Supply-Siders? Businesses Bear the Brunt of Trump’s Cartel Profit Politburo
Cultural Updates Now Available Brought to you by HumanistFreeAudio
reboottherenaissance.substack.com
October 16, 2025 at 5:35 AM
"…the service of one person is disposed of or coerced for another’s benefit which is…involuntary servitude,’ and subordinate one group of people, based on a biological trait…which, by … birth, is subjected to special duty to serve others and not themselves.’

www.reprotruth.com/p/abortion-b...
Abortion Bans Constitute Involuntary Servitude
Part III of How to Talk About Abortion Bans
www.reprotruth.com
September 29, 2025 at 12:19 PM
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If you are experiencing a miscarriage or are having an abortion, there's a confifential helpline you can call for advice from actual healthcare providers.
(833-246-2632)

But Meta keeps censoring it online.
www.eff.org/pages/silenc...
The Abortion Hotline Meta Wants to Go Dark
BY KENYATTA THOMAS | September 26, 2025This is the sixth installment in a blog series documenting EFF's findings from the Stop Censoring Abortion campaign. You can read additional posts here. When we ...
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September 26, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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🦴 Microplastics and bone health

A new review finds microplastics can accumulate in bone tissue, altering cells, weakening structure, and potentially linking to diseases like osteoporosis.

🔗 link.springer.com/article/10.1...

#SciComm #Health #Plastics 🧪
Effects of microplastics on the bones: a comprehensive review - Osteoporosis International
A growing role for the skeleton in human health and longevity emerged recently. However, knowledge regarding the effects of new risk factors, linked to modern life, for bone diseases is not documented...
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September 20, 2025 at 2:44 PM
This thread apples to ALL censorship:
ON CENSORSHIP: A THREAD

I recently published a four-part series on the historical tenets of censorship campaigns, past & present, like the one unfolding before us in real time.

If you want to know what's driving the current attacks on free speech, this thread is for you!

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September 19, 2025 at 5:49 AM
Re-imagine Veronica Franco, brilliant woman and poet:

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The Serenissima’s Sibyl: When Veronica Franco Became Venice’s Diplomatic Oracle
Because history doesn’t repeat itself—it remixes.
reroutedbyhistory.substack.com
September 8, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Listening to the Epstein survivors and I am in tears or rage and admiration.
September 3, 2025 at 2:10 PM
"The city that should have been a feast became a fast. The civic body starved itself because the ruler who arrived made every act of celebration an act of danger."

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The Banquet of Fear: How Trump’s Occupation of Washington Killed The Medici’s Invention of Civic Culture Celebration
Hubris Kills The Heartbeat of the City
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August 20, 2025 at 4:20 AM
Anti-abortion playbook, flipped: Arkansas abortion fund opens its own "crisis pregnancy center"

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Anti-abortion playbook, flipped: Arkansas abortion fund opens its own "crisis pregnancy center"
The dismantling of Roe v. Wade has prompted new approaches to what it means to be pro-choice.
www.motherjones.com
August 19, 2025 at 5:09 AM
"It is now MS NOW—”My Source for News, Opinion, and the World”—and it has declared, in Renaissance terms, that the Republic still breathes."

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MS NOW or Never: The Free Press Has a New Acronym & Refreshed Raison d’être
Cultural Updates Now Available Brought to you by HumanistFreeAudio
reboottherenaissance.substack.com
August 19, 2025 at 3:55 AM
This was especially elucidating to me. I missed much of the 1980s and 1990s because I was busy being a radical feminist. I barely know who Madonna is. This was a great explainer of what I missed.
August 14, 2025 at 4:08 PM
"Hegemony is not sustained by muscle alone. It is sustained by the web of obligations that muscle supports… teaches another ally that Washington’s word is neither predictable nor permanent."

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When the Lion Lets Go of the Leash: Trump’s Soft Grip and the Rise of a World Unbound
Cultural Updates Now Available Brought to you by HumanistFreeAudio
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August 11, 2025 at 3:17 PM
"The truth — one only The Medici and a handful of bankers will admit — is that the Schism is more about liquidity than it is of liturgy. Rome and Avignon are both insolvent."

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The Gonfaloniere of God’s Conclave Conspiracy: From Schism to Signoria on the Road to the Renaissance
A Series Of Little Known Inheritance Conflicts. War of Spanish Succession? Heard it. War of Austrian Succession? So done. How about…
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August 10, 2025 at 3:54 AM
"Grain was food, to be certain. It was also ritual. It was currency. It was empire itself, crushed and stored and shipped and consumed."

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The Grain of Empire: When Aetius Returns to Scipio’s Shore
Because history doesn’t repeat itself—it remixes.
reroutedbyhistory.substack.com
August 8, 2025 at 4:57 AM
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New Absolute Units episode is here!

We continue chatting with @museumofmump.bsky.social about his art depicting countryside signs and folk culture – and explore the larger history of making sense of the countryside through crafts and objects.

Listen now wherever you get your podcasts!
August 7, 2025 at 10:54 AM
"The Trumpian strain of realism pretends to honor strength. But what it honors is fear. Fear of the future. Fear of pluralism. Fear of accountability. It wraps itself in sovereign rhetoric, but its goal is universal: control without question."

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Scorched Earth, Sealed Borders, Silenced Allies: The Realism Racket of How Autocrats Found a Prophet in Trump
Cultural Updates Now Available Brought to you by HumanistFreeAudio
reboottherenaissance.substack.com
August 7, 2025 at 5:00 AM
"Anyone arguing that women seeking safety endangers men en masse ignores society's baseline deputization of men to enjoy and enforce unchecked access to women's in homes, streets, schools, at work, and online."

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12. From Ghislaine Maxwell to The Tea Hack
Both show that everything is about regulating men's access to women, not keeping women safe
sorayachemaly.substack.com
August 6, 2025 at 5:18 PM
"Really, Poe could have benefited from a righteous punch in the head by a puritan. Cotton Mather could have done the job."

virginiaheffernan.substack.com/p/the-goth-c...
The Goth Conservatives
Trump v. Poe
virginiaheffernan.substack.com
August 6, 2025 at 2:10 AM