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Just a small town boy in the city lights The best was yet to come Then lonely days turned to endless nights The best was yet to come (He/Him)

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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 27m
🔴 We asked Tony Blair's think tank about charging businesses £500k for political access at party conferences and why one of its sponsor's logos disappeared after our reporting last week on TBI's alleged cash for access scheme This is what they said
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 9h
I worked on a study about online nonconsensual image sharing. We were shocked by how many women found their images on 8chan forums where men posted challenges to each other like, “Find her workplace and get her fired,” or, “Get a nude photo of one of your girlfriend’s friends.”
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Nick Pettigrew @nick-pettigrew.bsky.social · 2h
They've gone full 'shouting at the judge, claiming to be a sovereign citizen while clutching a carrier bag full of loose papers'. *Never* go full 'shouting at the judge, claiming to be a sovereign citizen while clutching a carrier bag full of loose papers'.
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Dan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social · 2h
We’ve a report coming out soon on the civil and criminal tax implications of the Manchester City shenanigans. To catch it first you can subscribe to our free newsletter buff.ly/QEAHmgK
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Nick Pettigrew @nick-pettigrew.bsky.social · 2h
If the point of sportswashing is to alter people's view of who you are, it feels like being exposed as arrogant liars who don't believe the law applies to them and think they can buy their way out of anything has sort of done the opposite of that.
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Solomon @solomonrmissouri.com · 2h
www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...
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Cornell rarely expels students in sex assault cases | Exclusive
A third of undergraduate women say they've been sexually assaulted. But on average, Cornell reported expelling just one attacker per year.
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Wagatwe Wanjuki @wagatwe.bsky.social · 2h
most schools do not expel rapists often. hell, it was near impossible for college rapists to even be found responsible back when i was in college. things suck so much now and they sucked way more before!!!
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Wagatwe Wanjuki @wagatwe.bsky.social · 2h
the sad part is that survivors fought like hell to even get expulsion for rapists on the table. when I was an activist > 10 years ago, administrators were *shocked* that we wanted expulsion as a disciplinary option.
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Nick Pettigrew @nick-pettigrew.bsky.social · 1h
Latest in 'Pep knew' news:
Guardiola is 100% behind the club who paid his wages for over a decade, to the surprise of absolutely nobody.
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Alex de Campi @alexdecampi.bsky.social · 4h
With alt text. I know someone who actually did this
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On my first big overseas client conference, I was at a dinner seated next to a drunk client who kept trying to fondle me under the table. I was young, distressed, and had no idea what to do. I moved my legs as far away from him as I could, moving into the space of the man next to me, who then started patting my legs! The Regional Manager was a French woman who caught my eye, gestured for me to go to the bathroom and when I came back had switched chairs with me. What happed next was epic. A few minutes after I sat back down, she raised her hand with his hand captured in hers and announced loudly "Does anyone know whose hand this is? I found it in my lap." There was dead silence at the table. She threw his hand back at him and said calmly "next time I pick it up with my fork." Then she started a new conversational thread and things moved on. After the meeting she found me, gave me a hug, and said seriously "Never be afraid to make some noise. It is their shame, not yours."
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RobPatch @2patchitup.bsky.social · 1h
Whats with all these consortium's being headded by ex-footballers buying football clubs? www.bbc.com/sport/footba...
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Consortium including Alexandre Pato completes Northampton Town takeover
The takeover of Northampton Town by a consortium including former AC Milan and Brazil forward Alexandre Pato has been completed.
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HuffPost @huffpost.com · 17h
“Do you not acknowledge that your office dropped the ball by not looking more into what happened?” the CNN anchor asked.
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Jake Tapper Grills District Attorney Over Handling Of Cornell Gang Rape Allegations
“Do you not acknowledge that your office dropped the ball by not looking more into what happened?” the CNN anchor asked.
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Transphobes Can't Read @lordaslan.bsky.social · 8h
"why don't women report rapes"
Tmz tweets "cornell gang rape accusers seeks to keep her identity secret, fears retribution" 

Someone retweets with the caption "the world needs to know who this lying whore is so she can never get a husband" 

And someone replies "no why they need to know who she is so she can't get prosecuted and fucking jailed. They do not deserve to be free"
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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 19h
This is looking more ridiculous by the hour.
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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 4h
Much like the worst problems of the Armstrong era, this is a thread everyone involved is incentivised not to pull.
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Tristan Grayford @tristangrayford.scot · 4h
Political journalists are such marks. All three of these - Europe, Social Care, and electoral reform - are things he's saying will come after the next election. Not now, not when he actually has a significant majority he can use to push through progressive reforms.
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Burnham gambles on radical progressive plan to help Britain ‘rise again’
PM accepts some of his plan could be difficult and admits he ‘may pay a political price’

 Analysis: PM’s promises will take time to come good
 Key takeaways from Burnham’s conference speech
Pippa Crerar Political editor
Tue 29 Sep 2026 19.21 BST
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Andy Burnham has staked his future on a gamble that the public will back radical progressive policies on social care, electoral reform and Europe, telling voters that his agenda will break the mould of the last 40 years and “allow us to rise again”.
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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 7h
It’s a mark of the corruption of our whole way of thinking about the world that trying to meet a planetary emergency is routinely described as “ideological”, while continuing to accelerate it is presented as “pragmatic” and “economic”.
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Finding My Peace @findyourpeace.bsky.social · 4h
Gifting you this NYTimes article on the latest in the Cornell rape case and the concerns around the prosecutors office. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/n...
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D.A. in Cornell Case Hopes to Speak to Accuser as He Weighs New Evidence (Gift Article)
District Attorney Matthew Van Houten said a woman’s report to police in 2024 saying she had been raped at a fraternity did not support a criminal case. But he said he is now reaching out to her.
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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 4h
static.klipy.com
Clown Makeup Transformation
ALT: Clown Makeup Transformation
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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 8h
This is horrifying and exactly what a lot of us have been warning against for years. So fucking frustrating. We could have had better—politically, technologically, socially, and economically. We need far better leadership in all fields, at all levels.
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James Alistair Henry @jamesbluecat.bsky.social · 6h
UPDATE: it was an existing fan script that was fleshed out with AI graphics, so not 'AI generated' at all.
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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 7h
NEW: ‘It’s an implicit threat’. Lord Tom Watson of Palantir writes to one of its biggest critics -Labour MP @labourlewis.bsky.social - to tell him the surveillance firm is watching him. www.thenerve.news/p/clive-lewi...
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They’re saying: we’re watching you’: MP Clive Lewis reveals Tom Watson has warned him over criticising Palantir
In a letter to his former Labour colleague, the peer, who joined Peter Thiel’s AI company this month, writes: ‘You have made the case against the company more or less continuously’. By Carole Cadwalla...
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Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 6h
Man City have shown zero remorse and are still belittling the legal process. Hard to see how they can expect any leniency.
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RobPatch @2patchitup.bsky.social · 5h
Couldn't happen to a shittier guy.
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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 15h
And, look who is promoting this campaign. Also, there is a name floating around X. No one has any idea if the name of that person is truly this Jane Doe.
Benjamin Ryan @ @benryanwriter • 42m
Journalist Michael Tracey is looking to disclose the identity of
Jane Doe, who filed the lawsuit against seven Cornell men,
alleging they gang raped her in a frat house.

The suit names the men but not the plaintiff.

Should Jane Doe's name be made public? Why or why not?

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Michael Tracey 
@mtracey

If you happen to know who this Cornell "Jane Doe" is,
get in touch and I would be happy to publish her
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Elias G Saba @egsaba.bsky.social · 12h
Grinnell has a required writing class for first-year students. As part of the class, we have to teach about academic honesty and avoiding plagiarism. Easy enough, I thought, until I got the first student question: "Why does Grinnell seem to take this so much more seriously than it does Title IX?"
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Kate Manne @katemanne.bsky.social · 15h
I wrote for @thecut.com about the Cornell case and what it says that, at my institution and many others like it, protesters are often punished more harshly than sexual assailants www.thecut.com/article/what...
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What It Feels Like at Cornell Right Now
As a professor at the Ivy League school, Kate Manne has known many, many victims. There’s a palpable feeling on campus, she writes, that this is big.
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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 13h
I actually don't think the Republican Senator mixed up "Hawks" and "Hawkeyes." Going by his own statements, it appears his staff saw he went to a basketball game on that date and googled basketball games and found the only men's game that night in the whole country was in Atlanta.
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 12h
A truly heinous man has doxxed the Cornell victim on X and the comments are predictably vile. Based on countless interviews I’ve done with survivors, the trauma they are subjected to for coming forward is oftentimes even worse than the initial trauma they experienced. There is no real justice system
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I Know What You Did Last Shera @shera-marley.bsky.social · 8h
Ready the withnail memes! BBC News - One of the five men arrested near RAF Fairford called 999 himself www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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One of the five men arrested near RAF Fairford called 999 himself
He made the call almost an hour before a farmer also called police after seeing men in balaclavas.
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The USA Singers @theusasingers.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Mf’er is like Batman.
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Michaela Joffe @joffeorama.bsky.social · 13h
not sure why I made this but now you have to see it
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026
Jack Smith: "History teaches that the rule of law is rarely destroyed all at once. It's often weakened by attacks on the institutions and the public servants sworn to uphold it. Since January 2025, we have witnessed precisely such an effort."
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 16h
Riley Gaines, famous for turning her 5th place tie with transgender swimmer Lia Thomas into a far-right career agianst transgender people, has officially had her lawsuit against the NCAA thrown out by a judge today. The judge found no evidence for her claims. Subscribe to support our journalism.
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Riley Gaines' Title IX Lawsuit Against The NCAA Struck Down After Judge Finds "No Evidence" Of Funding Claims
Gaines’ attorneys argued her civil rights were violated because she competed against a transgender athlete.
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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 19h
Get you "friends" who make fun of your team in their lede graphs, AND THEN TELL YOU that you're not paranoid and the swipe was meant *specifically* for you. :(
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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 18h
I don't mean to be that person but this is a Labour event and Labour are the government and Labour appointed the chair of the EHRC and Labour could stop this all any time they wanted.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 19h
The bozos in question.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 19h
Gobsmacked by the elite levels of not knowing ball in the Senate today, thinking an NBA team is called the Hawkeyes then, refusing to Google it, then accusing a guy of treason because you didn’t know the Iowa Lady Hawkeyes aren’t in the NBA. Somehow I don’t trust these people to Save Girls Sports.
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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 20h
Have now slowly re-read the ruling, and it is even more damning than at first reading. The ruling pretty much sets out Manchester City was fraudulent on a systemic long-term basis. Not just mere non-compliance, but ‘concealments’ and ‘disguises’. Also some MCFC witnesses were ‘dishonest’.
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RobPatch @2patchitup.bsky.social · 19h
Begs the question how they closed the case in the first place. www.bbc.com/news/article...
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US prosecutors reopen case of alleged gang rape at Cornell University
It comes after the woman filed a civil lawsuit alleging she was drugged and raped at a fraternity house in 2024.
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RobPatch @2patchitup.bsky.social · 21h
I want too as well but as a Chelsea fan I can't afford to replace the glass.
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John Muller @johnspacemuller.com · 21h
If City don't respond to sanctions by transferring the entire Man City squad to NYCFC on sketchy TAM deals then what is multi-club ownership even for
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RobPatch @2patchitup.bsky.social · 21h
I wonder if they'll throw the key away once he gets in a cell.
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Brynley Heaven @brynleyheaven.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The threat has been raised to Charlie which is not a barbecue impediment, I hope that is perfectly clear
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 23h
holy shit -- turns out Jack Smith went to a Hawkeyes game in Maryland but Schmitt's team is so reckless they concocted a conspiracy theory that Smith was actually in Atlanta seeing a Hawks game and colluding with Fani Willis. Klobuchar points out to Schmitt, "you have your teams wrong."
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 29/09/2026
OMG: Republican Senator Schmitt accused Jack Smith of being in ATL to conspire with Fani Willis b/c he got a text from JP Cooney about a “Hawks” game (Falcons?). Schmitt had a big visual aid but didn’t keep it up long. BUT smith was at an IOWA HAWKEYES game to see Caitlin Clark in Maryland HAHAHA
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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 29/09/2026
A key component of the Cambridge Analytica outrage was your friends subjecting you to data theft without your consent or knowledge. Facebook is running the same playbook on your text messages. Even if you’re not on Meta properties, they’re ingesting your interactions.
Aten installed Muse on both his iPhone and a Mac mini that he uses to test out various Al agents and tech. It took Meta a single day to begin "helpfully" pitching article ideas based on texts he'd sent to a podcast co-host.
When he asked Muse how it got the information, it said that it read banners from incoming texts. But that's not true, either.
After doing a little digging, Aten says Muse synced 187,000 lines from his Messages database, despite Full Disk Access being Off.Unless Aten is the most popular person on the face of the planet, I sincerely doubt he'd gotten 187,000 lines of text in roughly 24 hours. What happened is that, without permission, Muse went into the app and downloaded the information.
He had not given Muse permission to access Messages, and full disk access was not enabled. It just went ahead and uploaded those texts anyway.
Muse can take "unexpected actions" indeed.
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Wagatwe Wanjuki @wagatwe.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I have a feminist theory book from the 1970s and even back then they knew "sex-based rights" is a trap and doesn't help women. Praying folks don't fall for it 🙏🏾
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Ruth Deyermond @ruthdeyermond.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Now would be a very good time for Trump to implement those "bone crushing" sanctions against Russia. He signed the act, so no doubt they'll be announced any time now.
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