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I wrote a background on what’s happening in Sudan a couple of weeks ago. I think I’ll start uploading some of those articles to the @badandbitchy.com site

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After a hiatus we’re back for 2026! We’re whetting your whistle with an update on what happened in Luigi’s court case this week

At this rate college now has to be considered by doing a cost-benefit assessment

“The Education Department will begin collection next month on student loans that are in default, including the garnishing of wages for potentially millions of borrowers, officials said Monday” apnews.com/article/stud...

Toronto cops are shooting people again

the only real discrimination period, for these folks, is against hard-right conservative christians, whose religious beliefs give them a kind of super-citizenship that allows them to either discriminate, opt out of common obligations or dictate to others

Crossing into the United States has become increasingly dangerous for digital privacy. Here are a few steps you can take to minimize the risk of Customs and Border Protection accessing your data.

I spoke with @rachelgilmore.bsky.social for @badandbitchy.com last year and we had a great discussion about this

There are many veterans with disabilities. They are included in DEI. Americans with disabilities warn protections are vanishing in Trump's DEI rollback www.axios.com/2025/02/23/t...

Number of Americans who identify as LGBTQ+ hits record high

This is land theft

I know this is just the grumpy Linux user talking, but for the love of god, everyone. Stop giving out information that you absolutely do not have to. Don't do those ancestry DNA tests. Don't have smart home devices. Don't let your car insurance company track your driving.

Trump's crusade against "wokeness" is co-opting the language of the civil rights movement to undo its legacy.

The Canadian establishment that lost its mind over a protest passing by Mount Sinai hospital has been entirely quiet over a Canadian company selling Nazi T-Shirts for the English world's most famous, out Nazi. I wrote about this and asked the question: why? noraloreto.substack.com/p/instrument...

Also I’m sure that his baby mothers get ridiculed more than him because society still hates single mothers. They are blamed for everything that went wrong in the relationship and having children without a man in the house

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This was just done at the University of Cincinnati. The administration are also requiring RAs to inform on any potential trans students to assign them to separate dorms.

Spanish court finds ex-football chief Luis Rubiales guilty of sexual assault for kissing player Jenni Hermoso without consent after the 2023 Women’s World Cup Final. Read here: aje.io/3vwiiu

They never truly get cancelled

He's a weak willed white supremacist.

“Pierre Poilievre is not running to become the prime minister of Canada, he’s running to become the governor of the 51st state of the United States of America. Poilievre and the Conservative Party are not like us.” ☠️

We are intersectional feminists

Everyday the Trump administration remains in power, women's rights and safety deteriorates further. Andrew Tate wears his misogyny like a badge of honour and encourages men to view women as inferior. It's astonishing that this request 👇is even being made; what message does that send to men?

When we talk about the latest iteration of the segregation movement it’s important to be clear that it’s about transphobia AND misogynist racism. “The bills flow from a fundamental belief that whiteness — both the category and those who occupy it — is under threat.” truthout.org/articles/the...

This is why we need to fund intersectional feminist media

This article touches on it, but this seems like the grimmest result of the larger trend of social media degradation that @edzitron.com has been covering so well. These dating apps have "gamified" to keep people forever scrolling. That is well-suited for rapists. 19thnews.org/2025/02/dati...

Musty 🤝🏻 Poilievre

The always on-point @wickdchiq.bsky.social just wrote this about Polio Pierre. And as always, she is ON POINT.

Pitchforks are still out for Monica Lewinsky in 2025? Misogyny is a helluva drug

Big news: Attorney Tony Buzbee has dropped the rape lawsuit against Jay-Z. "Counsel for Plaintiff have discussed his matter with counsel for each Defendant, who acknowledge and consent to this submission."

You can’t spell Stonewall without the T

NEW: Anti-abortion groups want to enforce a 150-year-old law to ban abortion pills, which would be deeply unpopular. Now they're trying to rebrand the Comstock Act as an anti-drug trafficking statute, a move one expert compared to Nixon's manufactured War on Drugs. Me in @jezebeldotcom.bsky.social:

We should give love to all the activists who are fighting for a better society and economy We should give love to Stonewall

Brazen is where we are as a society. The masks are off 👹

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More excuses to further marginalized vulnerable communities with police violence. With this excuse police will have the power to pre-emptively kill people. And of course it will happen in racialized and homeless communities

They need a revolution

Insane how quickly the racist regression is happening in this country. Decades of progress being undone in weeks, without even any laws having to be passed. Just sheer intimidation from Trump and the right, and sheer cowardice from the corporations.

Rather than fascism or single-party dictatorship, the US is sliding toward a more 21st-century model of autocracy: competitive authoritarianism—a system in which parties compete in elections but incumbent abuse of power systematically tilts the playing field against the opposition. 🎁 gift article

You know who else played themselves? White women. They thought they were beyond DEI and often used their whiteness to punch down and pull up the ladder behind them. They thought they were exempt. They thought they had more power than they do. Now look at them. They’re the DEI hire too

First, Google removed events like Pride & BHM from Calendar. www.theverge.com/news/608858/... Now, they come for our maps. A harsh reminder that default settings aren’t just re: convenience—they’re a form of control that shapes user behaviour & choices. Welcome to the Gulf of Digital Imperialism.

Iconic

Shopify selling Kanye’s Heil Hitler Swastika t-shirts seems about as good as any for a thread on Shopify’s role as a far-right political business venture disguised as a typical tech company and their reputation for not taking down hate merch. 🧵 ⬇️

It is dangerous to think you’re free when you are not, especially when your enemies are winning. One of the most stubborn myths about the U.S. is that people here think they are freer than they actually are. It is a particularly dangerous myth for women. www.feministgiant.com/p/essay-who-...

Maybe the Biden administration using the Patriot Act to jail activists while looking the other way as police assassinated the rest wasn't the bulwark of freedom that liberals believe it to be. This is how liberals collaborate and enable fascists. This is how they kill democracy.

Here is Project 2025 which should be a guide for the next 4 years in 🇺🇸 🦅 static.project2025.org/2025_Mandate...