Andrew
@abenesh.bsky.social
Systemic Family Therapy & Behavioral Health Educator Outside interests include reading, native plants & ecological science, amateur radio & morse code, semiotics, language study, & general purpose nerdery he/他/él
“‘If a fire occurs in the cabin ... don’t check on the immigrants. Just make sure that you and the guards and the people that work for the government get off," one flight attendant was told. “It was as if the detainees’ lives were worthless,’” said another. (Published April 2025)
Inside ICE Air: Flight Attendants on Deportation Planes Say Disaster Is “Only a Matter of Time”
Current and former flight attendants for GlobalX, the private charter airline at the center of Trump’s immigration crackdown, expressed concern about their inability to treat passengers humanely and t...
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Once again I am simply appalled at the anti-science sentiments on Bluesky
Evan May@gianttourtiere.bsky.social · 2w agoYou cannot be kidnapping people from across the multiverse to force into your merciless test chambers
Wow. Proponents of the ICE taser gloves are openly saying that one reason they love the gloves is that they doesn’t leave any marks or proof that they were used, making it harder for people to sue when they’re shocked excessively.
Sophie Hurwitz@hurwitz.bsky.social · 2w agoThis story’s got everything: Spiderman-villain weaponry, Black Hawk Down, vaccine conspiracy theories, weird YouTube videos www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
As we dug into a little-known church, we started to see a pattern: women describing similar abuse; a preacher who knew what was going on. And the same prescription for the problem: forgiving and forgetting it happened. Listen to this episode of "Paper Trail":
The Church That Told Sexually Abused Children to “Forgive and Forget”
A man was convicted of abusing young girls in his church. Preachers had known the allegations for years. So why didn’t they report him to the police?
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I'm getting so tired of my favorite authors predicting the future.
Kingfisher & Wombat@tkingfisher.com · 3w agoOnce again, I HANDED IN WOLF WORM IN 2023 IT WASN’T A THING YET
Once again, I HANDED IN WOLF WORM IN 2023 IT WASN’T A THING YET
Ars Technica@arstechnica.com · 3w agoInternal documents and former company executives reveal how Cigna doctors rejected patients’ claims without opening their files. “We literally click and submit,” one former company doctor said. (Published March 2023 w/ @capitolforum.bsky.social)
How Cigna Saves Millions by Having Its Doctors Reject Claims Without Reading Them
Internal documents and former company executives reveal how Cigna doctors reject patients’ claims without opening their files. “We literally click and submit,” one former company doctor said.
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while ponderous planets of unwaning woe revolve round me, deep down and deep inland there I still bathe me in eternal mildness of joy
A mother, a daughter, a granddaughter: For the Peldo family, three generations of women have been victims of sexual abuse. Each woman was told by church leaders to forgive her abuser instead of reporting him to police. with @startribune.com
In This Church, Child Sexual Abuse Has Gone Unchecked for So Long That It Spans Generations
The church's culture of forgiving and forgetting sins has absolved abusers and silenced victims across the country.
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an opium-like listlessness of vacant, unconscious reverie
Horrible new bullshit from the sea every time. It’s never ‘oh we found a new pink fish that is so happy’ it’s always stuff like this, the crush-depth screw-headed dongwongler, and it’s got to have big long creepy bits. Sick of the ocean tbh.
A maternity ward doctor donated his own blood during surgery to keep a pregnant patient alive. One woman gained fewer than 10 pounds over her entire pregnancy. Another collapsed and had seizures during labor. (Published Dec. 2025)
What I Saw at a Maternity Ward in Kenya After the U.S. Cut Off Food and Foreign Aid
Photographs tell a story of two mothers determined to help their babies gain enough weight to leave the hospital — only to face little to no food again.
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Well, sir, I want to see what whaling is. I want to see the world.
A year a half a ago, this professor made a plainly false statement that “an entire literature” existed— it didn’t—and then got multiple justices to buy into the historical fiction he backfilled, covering 800 years in a few weeks. A bastardized history, not in the search for truth, but for power.
Inside a women’s prison, a domestic violence victim began collecting others’ stories of abuse. 156 women answered her call. Together, they became “survivor sisters” — and helped shape a new law offering them a path toward freedom. But would it work? Listen to the full episode:
Convicted of Killing Their Abusers, These Women Got Another Chance at Freedom
A new law gave people sentenced for the murders of their abusive partners a rare pathway to freedom. That wasn’t the end of the story.
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“If you make the least damn bit of noise,” replied Samuel, “I will send you to hell.”
MAKE THE MUMMY BREAD DRINK THE BOG BEER FUCK IT, MAKE CORPSE YOGURT AND DOOM PICKLES AND MONSTROUS MARMITE NOTHING MATTERS ANYMORE
Deeply disappointed to discover the whale tracking account that is following me crypto and not cetaceans.
Thank you, everyone, yes, I know about the screwworms in Texas now. Again, Wolf Worm was finished in 2023! I didn’t mean it!