# cynthia (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 5 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover cynthia. Page: Feed: --- ## [The Fatigue Is Real: America Is Exhausted by the Never-ending ‘War on Trump’](https://patriotfreedomproject.substack.com/p/the-fatigue-is-real-america-is-exhausted) _2026-08-20 · Weaponization Watch_ After more than a decade of nonstop outrage, I think politics has swallowed far too much of ordinary American life. ## [Was I Censored? Women & Sexuality](https://thornfieldhall.blog/was-i-censored-women-sexuality/) _2026-08-20 · Kat · Thornfield Hall_ It started when I mentioned Cynthia Heimel’s humorous book, Sex Tips for Girls. She includes a six-page section on how to give a blow job. And then Ellen mentioned “fellatio” in a comment: the comment disappeared. I found it in the trash; I rescued it. It disappeared again; I rescued it again. And then the \[…\] ## [Can’t Get Trump? Smear Natalie Harp Instead...](https://patriotfreedomproject.substack.com/p/cant-get-trump-smear-natalie-harp) _2026-08-19 · Weaponization Watch · Weaponization Watch_ I know Natalie Harp. Watching politicians and the press weaponize her loyalty, family and private life into political ammunition tells me a lot about where our media culture has gone. ## [In Which We Go to a Club: Who Were Those Men with the Boat?](https://thornfieldhall.blog/in-which-we-go-to-a-club-who-were-those-men-with-the-boat/) _2026-08-18 · Kat · Thornfield Hall_ It started at the grand opening of a club. I was given two tickets, and what else was I doing on a Friday night? I begged Captain Nemo to come with me, but the only club he liked was a dingy warehouse where we had once heard 10,000 Maniacs and Talk Talk for free. Anyway, \[…\] ## [Who’s on Prozac, Who’s Not?](https://thornfieldhall.blog/whos-on-prozac-whos-not/) _2026-08-16 · Kat · Thornfield Hall_ I used to think I could walk down the street and identify people on Prozac (by which I mean antidepressants in general). It turned out I was wrong. The handsome, impeccably dressed middle-aged man who held the bus door open for us appeared on the street corner one morning wearing “beggar clothes” (tattered jeans, a \[…\] ## [Women and Sexuality in 20th-Century Literature: Cynthia Heimel, D. H. Lawrence, Mary McCarthy & Erica Jong](https://thornfieldhall.blog/women-and-sexuality-in-20th-century-literature-cynthia-heimel-d-h-lawrence-mary-mccarthy-erica-jong/) _2026-08-15 · Kat · Thornfield Hall_ Why, one wonders, this sudden interest in sex? As a woman of a certain age, I already feel I could write an instruction manual. But as I laughed over Cynthia Heimel’s Sex Tips for Girls (1983), I was astonished by her detailed instructions on how to give a blow job. There’s no casual hopping into \[…\] ## [Cynthia Heimel’s Humor Columns & Essays](https://thornfieldhall.blog/cynthia-heimels-humor-columns-essays/) _2026-08-14 · Kat · Thornfield Hall_ “The eighties weren’t our fault.” – Cynthia Heimel (1947-2018) Rearranging my bookcases is one of my favorite pastimes. I never know what I’ll find, and today I ferreted out a treasure trove of Cynthia Heimel’s humor books, Sex Tips for Girls; But Enough about You; If You Can’t Live without Me, Why Aren’t You Dead \[…\] ## [Pollution in the Midwest: Booth Tarkington’s “The Midlander”](https://thornfieldhall.blog/pollution-in-the-midwest-booth-tarkingtons-the-midlander/) _2026-08-13 · Kat · Thornfield Hall_ We are experts on polluted cities. We learned from living in cities plagued by air and water pollution, the smoke from the factory stacks, the chemicals lobbed into the river, the destruction of inner-city neighborhoods, and flight to the suburbs and exurbs. Suburban life is complicated. There were no trains or buses from the far \[…\] ## [Unwinding the Great Tech Power Grab](https://rebeccawilliams.info/unwinding-the-great-tech-power-grab/) _2026-08-12 · Rebecca Williams · Rebecca Williams_ Movements to reclaim power over technology are springing up, from Neo-Luddism to Permacomputing to Rewilding the Internet. Alongside these approaches, we must discuss how tech has atrophied the exact civic muscle we’ll need to reclaim power over it. ## [The Dangerous Two-Tiered System Has Moved Beyond the Courtroom and Into Everyday Life](https://patriotfreedomproject.substack.com/p/the-dangerous-two-tiered-system-has) _2026-08-12 · Weaponization Watch_ When politics starts deciding who gets grace, who gets condemned, and whose life can be destroyed, the double standard is no longer confined to the justice system. ## [Realtime AI Arbitrage Terminal (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/mgWxOfdzIRRQ) _2026-08-12 · **Sponsored**_ Realtime auto-trading across exchanges with scored setups, backtesting, and risk controls. ## [How Many Times Does DOJ Have to Lose the Same Sanctuary City Fight?](https://patriotfreedomproject.substack.com/p/how-many-times-does-doj-have-to-lose) _2026-08-11 · Bradford J. Karony · Weaponization Watch_ Four jurisdictions have already rejected DOJ’s sanctuary-city strategy, but the Department keeps dragging the same losing theory back into court. ## [What Happened to the Clamshell iBook? The Age of the Cute Computer](https://thornfieldhall.blog/what-happened-to-the-clamshell-ibook-the-age-of-the-cute-computer/) _2026-08-11 · Kat · Thornfield Hall_ Before everyone emailed and texted, before the invention of the talking refrigerator, most of us lived more or less off the grid, Our idea of high tech was the princess phone. But until I got a laptop computer, my life revolved around the typewriter. I happily typed papers, articles, essays, reviews, letters, and lists on \[…\] ## [Air or Water? Living in Polluted Cities](https://thornfieldhall.blog/air-or-water-living-in-polluted-cities/) _2026-08-10 · Kat · Thornfield Hall_ When we moved into a 100-year-old bungalow in a lovely midwestern town, I was delighted.. The sun was brighter and the sky bluer than in the bustling post-industrial city where we used to live. That city was referred to as “the big dirty” by truckers. And the air was dirty, sometimes filthy, though the water, \[…\] ## [Welcome to Hairdo Hell: A Memoir](https://thornfieldhall.blog/welcome-to-hairdo-hell-a-memoir/) _2026-08-09 · Kat · Thornfield Hall_ Several years ago, I won an award for an essay. It’s lovely to win an award, even if you just get a plaque or certificate, which you immediately lose, and which surfaces years later in a filing cabinet. Later, I won an award I’d never heard of. Of course it was an honor, as all \[…\] ## [Date Night: The Wardrobe](https://thornfieldhall.blog/date-night-the-wardrobe/) _2026-08-09 · Kat · Thornfield Hall_ Last night I went on a date. We went to a movie, or you could say two movies. At the first theater they wouldn’t let us in because we were 30 minutes late. At the second theater we were an hour late and still got tickets. “Now it’s date night,” I said to Captain Nemo.. \[…\] ## [J6 Defendants Are the Forgotten Pieces of Fauci’s COVID Puzzle](https://patriotfreedomproject.substack.com/p/j6-defendants-are-the-forgotten-pieces) _2026-07-30 · Weaponization Watch_ Any honest accounting of Fauci’s COVID legacy must include what happened to January 6 detainees and their families. ## [Soulless: Mainstream Media Unleashes Its Most Heartless and Cruel War Yet](https://patriotfreedomproject.substack.com/p/soulless-mainstream-media-unleashes) _2026-07-28 · Weaponization Watch_ Clemency is supposed to be one of the last places mercy still exists in our justice system. But because President Trump is the one offering it, the media is treating compassion like corruption. ## [Another J6 Suicide: The Pardons Weren’t the End of the Story](https://patriotfreedomproject.substack.com/p/another-j6-suicide-the-pardons-werent) _2026-07-16 · Weaponization Watch_ The prison doors opened, but the damage to families, careers, and lives didn’t disappear with the pardons. ## [Meet the Nonviolent Army Reservist Biden’s DOJ Crushed](https://patriotfreedomproject.substack.com/p/meet-the-nonviolent-army-reservist) _2026-07-07 · Weaponization Watch_ After 12 years of service, Timothy Hale-Cusanelli lost nearly everything. Now the Jason Watson case is testing whether the same military standards apply to everyone. ## [Honoring America at 250: A Tribute to History, Heritage, and the Presidency](https://patriotfreedomproject.substack.com/p/honoring-america-at-250-a-tribute) _2026-07-03 · Weaponization Watch_ As America turns 250 years old, Cynthia Hughes reflects on the leaders and principles that helped shape the republic, and why respecting the Office of the President still matters. ## [PixelRift — Platforming with Level Editor (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/fC5h8geYkIKC) _2026-07-03 · **Sponsored**_ Includes a built-in level editor, campaign with elemental heroes, and boss encounters. ## [America at 250: Beautiful, Bruised, and Still Worth Saving](https://patriotfreedomproject.substack.com/p/america-at-250-beautiful-bruised) _2026-07-03 · Weaponization Watch_ On America’s 250th birthday, Cynthia Hughes reflects on freedom, division, and the responsibility we all share to protect the republic. ## [They Never Stood Trial. So Why Are They Serving Hard Time?](https://patriotfreedomproject.substack.com/p/they-never-stood-trial-so-why-are) _2026-07-02 · Weaponization Watch_ Cynthia Hughes on the forgotten families, excessive sentences, and why clemency is part of justice, not a rejection of it. ## [Classification, Deservedness, & Gatekeeping](https://rebeccawilliams.info/classification-deservedness-gatekeeping/) _2026-06-17 · Rebecca Williams · Rebecca Williams_ If the shadow of every ID check is permission, then the shadow of digital ID systems is the ability to deny permissions in more places, more often, and with less friction. ## [Digital ID or Democracy?](https://rebeccawilliams.info/digital-id-or-democracy/) _2026-06-08 · Rebecca Williams · Rebecca Williams_ Co-authored with Cynthia Conti-Cook and published by the Surveillance Resistance Lab, this report examines the technologies, institutions, and incentives driving digital ID expansion and outlines urgent demands needed to protect human dignity. ## [Welcome to Tech Shadow Work](https://rebeccawilliams.info/welcome-to-tech-shadow-work/) _2026-01-07 · Rebecca Williams · Rebecca Williams_ Tech Shadow Work launches in 2026 as a periodic newsletter. Each issue follows the shadow of a technology or tech policy concept to uncover deeper questions of politics, power, and society. ## [INFO 619: Information & Human Rights](https://rebeccawilliams.info/info-619-information-human-rights/) _2025-11-26 · Rebecca Williams · Rebecca Williams_ Taught at the Pratt School of Information, this seminar introduced students to the foundations of information rights, the harms produced by information systems, and the creative and political strategies communities use to push back. ## [Mayor-Elect Mamdani Can Build a Tech Agenda for New York and a Model for the Country](https://rebeccawilliams.info/mamdani-nyc-tech-agenda/) _2025-11-05 · Rebecca Williams · Rebecca Williams_ Published in Tech Policy Press, this piece shows how Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani can make New York a model for people-centered technology by resisting surveillance and investing in affordability, dignity, and justice. ## [Who Age Verification Laws Really Benefit & How to Resist](https://rebeccawilliams.info/who-age-verification-laws-really-benefit-how-to-resist/) _2025-08-25 · Rebecca Williams · Rebecca Williams_ Co-authored with Cynthia Conti-Cook and Pratika Katiyar and published in User Mag, this piece unpacks how age verification laws serve Big Tech profits and political theater while undermining rights for everyone online. ## [Burner Phone 101](https://rebeccawilliams.info/burner-phone-101/) _2025-08-16 · Rebecca Williams · Rebecca Williams_ Hosted by the Brooklyn Public Library, this Burner Phone 101 workshop introduced participants to phone-related risk modeling, privacy-protective smartphone practices, the full spectrum of burner phone options, and when to leave phones behind entirely. ## [Digital IDs Put Health Care Privacy at Risk](https://rebeccawilliams.info/digital-ids-put-health-care-privacy-at-risk/) _2025-08-04 · Rebecca Williams · Rebecca Williams_ Co-authored with Cynthia Conti-Cook and Sawyeh Esmaili and published in Convergence Magazine, this piece describes how digital IDs (and expanding mDL programs) threaten to expand government power to police people’s movement and reproductive care. ## [From any door to your door (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/W7z38VSvT8ES) _2025-08-04 · **Sponsored**_ Book rides, errands, deliveries, groceries and home help in one app ## [Digital ID Resistance Resources](https://rebeccawilliams.info/digital-id-resistance-resources/) _2025-05-29 · Rebecca Williams · Rebecca Williams_ Published by the Surveillance Resistance Lab, these resources include a live state-by-state status tracker, actionable organizing strategies, and a rights-based framework outlining key demands to resist digital ID systems. ## [Acceleration Hyrdra (2025)](https://rebeccawilliams.info/acceleration-hyrdra/) _2025-05-27 · Rebecca Williams · Rebecca Williams_ The perfect accelerationist: a hydra of data, capital, and violence. ## [How Congress Can Delete DOGE](https://rebeccawilliams.info/how-congress-can-delete-doge/) _2025-02-26 · Rebecca Williams · Rebecca Williams_ Published in Tech Policy Press, this piece explains how budget loopholes and cybersecurity authorities enabled the rise of DOGE’s parent agency, the U.S. Digital Service. It outlines how Congress could defund DOGE to reclaim oversight. ## [Digital Identity Crisis at RightsCon 2025](https://rebeccawilliams.info/digital-identity-crisis-at-rightscon-2025/) _2025-02-25 · Rebecca Williams · Rebecca Williams_ Check out my talk, "Digital Identity Crisis: How Digital ID Threatens Democracy, Safety, and Our Humanity—and Just Alternatives " which succinctly describes harms created by historic IDs and new harms created by digital IDs, ways to resist digital IDs, and how to begin thinking beyond IDs. ## [The Power of Positive Thinking](https://ecofeminism.substack.com/p/the-power-of-positive-thinking) _2024-11-08 · Cat McGuire · Ecofeminist Visions Emerging - EVE_ A rich tableau of Americana as seen through the lens of spiritual development ## [The Shamanic Dimensions Of An Ecofeminist Narrative](https://ecofeminism.substack.com/p/the-shamanic-dimensions-of-an-ecofeminist) _2024-11-08 · Cat McGuire · Ecofeminist Visions Emerging - EVE_ By Gloria Feman Orenstein, ecofeminist pioneer ## [Beijing 95: A Pale Green](https://ecofeminism.substack.com/p/beijing-95-a-pale-green) _2024-11-08 · Cat McGuire · Ecofeminist Visions Emerging - EVE_ Reporting from the 1995 United Nation’s Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing, China ## [Response to PeTA's "I'd Rather Go Naked Than Wear Fur" Campaign](https://ecofeminism.substack.com/p/response-to-petas-id-rather-go-naked) _2024-11-08 · Cat McGuire · Ecofeminist Visions Emerging - EVE_ Authentic grassroots animal rights activism . . . or soft core porn? ## [Why Do 8 Million Women Ingest Horse Urine?](https://ecofeminism.substack.com/p/why-do-8-million-women-ingest-horse) _2024-11-08 · Cat McGuire · Ecofeminist Visions Emerging - EVE_ Premarin: One of Big Pharma's best sellers ## [Microcosmos & Angels and Insects](https://ecofeminism.substack.com/p/microcosmos-and-angels-and-insects) _2024-11-08 · Cat McGuire · Ecofeminist Visions Emerging - EVE_ A film review of two buggy movies ## [Give Me A Vegetable Friendly Refrigerator!](https://ecofeminism.substack.com/p/give-me-a-vegetable-friendly-refrigerator) _2024-11-08 · Cat McGuire · Ecofeminist Visions Emerging - EVE_ Discovering "the bottom mount" ## [The Brothers Kaczynski](https://ecofeminism.substack.com/p/the-brothers-kaczynski) _2024-11-08 · Cat McGuire · Ecofeminist Visions Emerging - EVE_ One Hunts, The Other Doesn't ## [Our Blood, Our Selves](https://ecofeminism.substack.com/p/our-blood-our-selves) _2024-11-08 · Cat McGuire · Ecofeminist Visions Emerging - EVE_ Explore the planetary healing power of women’s primordial menstrual wisdom ## [About EVE](https://ecofeminism.substack.com/p/about-eve) _2024-11-05 · Cat McGuire · Ecofeminist Visions Emerging - EVE_ Who EVE was. What EVE did. ## [Fav Online Workshops: Painting, Poetry, and Protest](https://rebeccawilliams.info/fav-online-workshops-painting-poetry-and-protest/) _2024-09-15 · Rebecca Williams · Rebecca Williams_ Self-expression, lifelong learning, and sublimating your technical day job with online art classes.