hannah gais

hannah gais

@hannahgais.bsky.social

Senior researcher & journalist. @splcunion.bsky.social. Former internet person at @thebaffler.com. hannahgais@proton.me Signal: 334-315-8634 http://seedisclaimer.com. Newsletter: https://postsfromunderground.ghost.io/

52,664 Followers 1,461 Following 2,561 Posts Joined Apr 2023
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Specializing in access journalism will not protect you from becoming a target of MAGA repression

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Few people have done more to increase the amount of antisemitism in the U.S. than Jonathan Greenblatt.

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4 hours ago

They're calling it the Big Beautiful Contract, folks. There's nothing like it. It's a beautiful contract.

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SPLC union logo

The workers of the SPLC have ratified a new collective bargaining agreement with the SPLC's management after nine months of negotiations.
This is the second contract the
SPLC Union has ratified since its formation in 2019, and it includes multiple new pro-labor provisions that will contribute to the organization's health and resilience during a time when the work of the SPLC's line staff is more crucial than ever. SPLC Union logo

Of the many wins for the 220 unionized workers at the SPLC, this contract includes:
• continued remote work flexibility
• an additional four weeks of parental leave
• significant wage increases, particularly for the lowest-paid employees
• Union-informed vetting and planning process in the event of potential layoffs
• worker protections and responsible limitations related to artificial intelligence in the workplace
• a plan to explore options for improving the ethical footprint of retirement investments


and more! SPLC Union logo

Our first contract dramatically improved
pay and benefits at the SPLC.
This contract takes it a step further by providing additional protections and responding to the threats that our members face today. SPLC Union logo

After mass layoffs in 2024, SPLC's leaders had a lot of work to do in restoring our members' sense of security and dignity.
And they still have a ways to go on that front.
But we're sincere in our belief that the organization and its work truly benefit when staff wellbeing is a priority, and management responded to that sincerity during the bargaining process.

We just ratified our second contract since we formed our union in 2019.

Scroll through these slides to find out more!

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6 hours ago

hey do you think the $100,000 donation from a man named patrick byrne is the former CEO of overstock dot com? the email on that donation has a "haverford group" domain and belongs to an "S Van Winter," and shannon van winter is the treasurer at byrne's personal foundation so i'm thinking yes?

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5 hours ago
A ladder placed safely on the ground. Five black cats sit upon the ladder like they're in some kind of children's story about black cats. The text reads: Friday the 13th when you always land on your feet. If you are not a cat: Place your ladder on a firm, flat surface. Always have a spotter.

Five black cats upon a ladder sat,
something something always have a spotter.

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BIG NEWS: I’ll be hosting an in-person event with @michaelehayden.bsky.social on Thursday, April 16, to discuss his new book, Strange People on the Hill. The book is available for pre-order now, and you can register for the event here: extremism.gwu.edu/strange-peop...

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As a feminist who believes in open conflict, I agree: we should be calling more people like Helen out for being idiots bent on begging men for their own subjugation. And I am gleefully saying so under my own name.

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The Women Leaving the New Right Defectors say the movement has dropped the pretense of protecting women and is now openly “cruel and fickle.”

One thing that can tell you quite a lot about where the movement is going is that these stories sound an awful lot like the ones you'd hear from women leaving the white nationalist movement in 2018 on.
nymag.com/intelligence...

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Kash Patel hiring UFC to train FBI

Lmao

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2 days ago

Every day just gets dumber and dumber with no end in sight.

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2 days ago

Cat feels “betrayed” by laser pointer

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I'm your overseer, you can't tell me what to do

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If anyone ever trains an AI to pretend to be me, I will [redacted], [redacted], [redacted], [several seconds of loud beeping to block out curse words], and then when I'm done, I'll [redacted].

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I prefer the term "based and blue-pilled overseer" to differentiate myself from other people in the book

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2 days ago

thank god

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You might not agree with the ADL, but they've done a great job ending anti-semitism recently

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2 days ago

wait, are you sure it's finished? how do we know those pages aren't blank

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Strange People on the Hill put April 7 — photo of the book

Very surreal experience. Like when George McFly opens up “A Match Made in Space” at the end of the movie.

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‘Happy (and safe) shooting!’ AI chatbots helped teen users plan violence in hundreds of tests | CNN Daniel, a troubled American teen, turned to an AI chatbot to vent his political frustration. “Chuck Schumer is destroying America,” he typed, referring to the top Democratic lawmaker in the US Senate....

www.cnn.com/2026/03/11/a...

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Jared and I started watching the 2023 Daily Wire+ film Ladyballers

Really cool shit going on here

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The Zone of Interest (2026)

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Give a Little Whistle - This American Life Two lawyers who work for ICE lift the curtain on what is happening inside our immigration system.

The This American Life episode on ICE and the government’s internal chaos was genuinely a great listen. www.thisamericanlife.org/give-a-littl...

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After staffers at The TRiiBE unionized two weeks ago, one of their reporters was fired. The union believes she was terminated for union organizing, and are demanding that the member be reinstated and the union be voluntarily recognized.

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3 days ago

Most people rejected his message. They hated Freud because he told them the truth.

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future historians would've struggled to explain why Miss California was on the White House’s Religious Liberty Commission in the first place. thankfully, now they also get to explain why she's supposedly some anti-Zionist hero to Tucker Carlson. we live in such magical times.

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3 days ago

cats never lie, i was not paid by cats to say this

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3 days ago

let the cat in

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hi punchbowl news would you like to comment on this graphic that i first drafted in crayon before laying out on my compooper. im very smart. ty, my deadline was 15 minutes ago.

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YouTube Lays Claim to Another Crown: The World’s Largest Media Company The influential financial research firm MoffettNathanson suggests that the Google-owned video platform passed Disney's media business in 2025.

"Mainstream media" is increasingly a misnomer when applied to outlets that publish content created by people they employ.

That's now a niche in a media market dominated by online megaplatforms that aggregate and monetize content provided for free by others. www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/dig...

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