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Beth Gould

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 7h
Men Explain Rape to Me.
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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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Hagen Blix @hagenblix.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Look, the solution is obvious. Hold the execs accountable for the crime that the committed by their greedy negligence. Who cares about "superintelligence", what's rogue here is a number of companies with unsafe business practices which knowingly endanger the public
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OpenAI Ignored Employees’ Warnings About Safely Testing A.I. Models
Employees and security researchers said they had cautioned the company on safely testing its A.I. models and strengthening its corporate infrastructure, but OpenAI did not listen.
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dr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
look we're all making a big bet on AI! and if it pays off as big as we hope, well, it's going to make a handful of people super rich and you're going to lose your job but get to watch mickey mouse fuck geralt from the witcher. if it doesn't pay off well then you get to pay for the bailouts
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Jessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
“It’s not ALL men.” None of the 50+ men the Cornell rapists invited to come join them in raping a woman they’d drugged went to the authorities or tried to stop it. Not all men would rape an unconscious woman, but where are the men who’d try to stop it, or EVEN FUCKING OBJECT?
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Christopher Hale @christopherjhale.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Pope Leo XIV celebrated Mass with an estimated 800,000 people in Paris on Saturday, after spending the morning with migrants, the poor, and adults newly entering the Catholic Church. “For Christians,” he added, “the poor are not a sociological category, but the very ‘flesh’ of Christ.”
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Drawing 800,000 in Paris, Pope Leo XIV Calls on the Church to “Make Room” for Migrants and the Poor
“No one is so poor as to have nothing to give.” Before Mass, the pope sat with migrants and told catechists to respect each person’s pace. Six altar servers with Down syndrome served his Mass.
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VPM News @vpm.org · 26/09/2026
Scott Ukrop said his father Jim's north star was shaped by a sense of competition and a belief in taking care of the customer: “Really trying to treat people to see how you'd like to be treated.”
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Jim Ukrop, who helped grow grocery store into Richmond institution, dies at 89 - VPM
He was a "lifelong innovator" with a strong passion for his community and Richmond's growth.
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
a president planning military operations based entirely on election cycles is actually a giant scandal
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Politics and Health 🗳️ 🩺 @politicshealth.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
So fuc*ing infuriating and sad. The CDC used to be the crown jewel of the world's scientific firmament. Other countries came to us for help fighting deadly diseases. Its disease detectives learned what caused illness and helped change practices to prevent them. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/26/h...
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‘Zombified’ C.D.C., Hobbled by Cuts, Struggles to Fulfill Scientific Mission (Gift Article)
The agency has lost its independence and nearly a third of its staff, as Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and associates have tightened control.
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
What's hard about public policy is weighing the trade offs. For example, something sucks really bad and everyone hates it, but on the other hand several evil trillionaires think it's good. What are you supposed to do in that situation
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Blue Heron Farm @blueheronfarm.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Why doesn't he rely on in his body's natural defenses?
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Monterey Bay Aquarium @montereybayaquarium.org · 24/09/2026
Take our seven-question quiz to meet your otter twin! Are you bold and adventurous? Or do you have the superstar energy who shows off for her fans? Discover if you're most like Selka, Ivy, Opal, Suri, or Willow! 👉 bit.ly/4hJaW30
Two southern sea otters with wet fur sitting next to each other. One otter is holding food in their paws.A California sea otter, or southern sea otter, with wet fur looks at the camera
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Andy Carvin @acarv.in · 24/09/2026
Another preventable death in ICE custody. Meanwhile, hundreds of other detainees have required treatment for frostbite, malnutrition, even starvation.
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Records Raise Questions About Medical Treatment and Conditions in Immigration Detention Facilities - American Oversight
Data detailing offsite medical care shows the urgency of treatment for detainees experiencing many medical conditions.
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Adam Rogers @jetjocko.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
A lot of things make me feel kind of dumb, including how to take at face value the logic of “we are a multibillion dollar transnational industry building a vengeful elder god, and we definitely won’t stop unless you regulate us the way we want, which is a secret.”
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Joe Flynn @chinajoeflynn.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Hi folks. If you saw this, you know the administration plans to only accept white South Africans next year. Tomorrow is Congress's formal say before the determination is signed. Please check this brief thread on why I'd like you to speak out for the Afghan people still in limbo...
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Beth Gould @abgesquire.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
It really boggles my mind how Musk broke the moon a few weeks ago and that's somehow one of the least concerning things about him.
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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 22/09/2026
Tyrannosaurus xkcd.com/3300/
Comic. [Person with long hair pointing to diagram with Tyrannosaurus Rex standing next to a person.] PERSON: We now believe the primary prey of Tyrannosaurus Rex was these humans who kept standing next to it for scale.
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Jon Bois @jonbois.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
lighthouses should be made illegal. those poor rocks cannot be expected to subsist on litter and debris. they need full meals
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❀°。Der Siebenschläfer *.゚✿ ⋆ @sababausa.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Instead of tariff-exempt potash from Saskatchewan (the world's biggest supplier, and which has rail-links directly to the US), Trump thinks why don't we just substitute a landlocked Russian-client-state located 4,500 miles from any US farmer
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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 21/09/2026
I'm sure Elon Musk's heart is riddled with plenty of genuine, personal transphobia, but the real reason he's spending money to scapegoat trans people is to distract the public from the fact that he is the real danger to our economy, our republic, and the world
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Distressing update from Wilber’s lawyer via IG a short while ago:
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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 20/09/2026
"My opponent wants to hire creeps to inspect your daughter's genitals if she wants to play soccer. I wouldn't trust him or any hired weirdo from his pedophile-protecting party alone in a room with any kid." Go on the offensive, you cowards! It's not that hard!
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
every day of my life I think about the people using “she” to describe this computer program who still need to be convinced to use it for trans women
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Beth Gould @abgesquire.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I hope that K9 has the time of his life with all that TP.
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Goad (Legal Expert) @goad.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Hello fellow legal experts. Happening now in Richmond, Virginia Governor Abigail Spanberger announces an executive order against data centers that includes banning NDAs and ending fast tracking permits that has helped the data industry thrive.
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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
“Maria Elvira Salazar did this. She owns all of these deportations, ICE harassment and racial profiling. She voted for all this. She gave Trump the money and the tools to do this.”
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Lisa Guerrero @lisaguerrero.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Not only did I meet Robert Kraft, I worked for him. His kid Jonathan asked me to “remove the black music” from my gameday playlist in ‘94 & I refused so they fired me. I was the cheerleader director at the time.  I sued them for wrongful termination and won. So yes, I know that motherfucker. 
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Jeff (Hot Type) Jarvis @jeffjarvis.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I'm fed up with incomplete, credulous reporting like this. I sent the email below to reporters. Journalists: Google TESCREAL before you write about these dangerous nutters. The Anonymous Math Geek Who Quit Anthropic—and Became the Face of AI Safety www.wsj.com/tech/ai/jaco...
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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 16/09/2026
I don’t listen to ed sheeran’s music, but I’m not listening to it even harder now
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Sunny Moraine @dynamicsymmetry.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Even a lot of people on the left are still way too stuck on the idea that wealthy powerful people got that way by being smart and making plans and forming accurate reads on the world and it’s really just not like that, sorry, the truth is so much stupider
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Joshua Foust 🪖🎮 @joshuafoust.com · 16/09/2026
I know we’re numb to this, but it is really bad that journalists and politicians both feel so comfortable lying. Society cannot sustain itself when its elites just lie like this.
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Average Price: Ground Beef, 100% Beef (Cost per Pound/453.6 Grams) in U.S. City Average
Average Price: Ground Beef, 100% Beef (Cost per Pound/453.6 Grams) in U.S. City Average
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Dan Why-Ner @danweiner.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Tyler Owens with all time teach tape for Special Teams players at every level of football.
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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
The rule they are overturning was predicted to give $120 billion in public health benefits by 2047, with projections that by 2035, it would would prevent up to 1,200 premature deaths, 870 hospital and emergency room visits, 360K asthma attacks, 48K school absence days and 57K lost workdays each year
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Michael Karanicolas @karanicolas.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
If Democrats were serious they would go straight for the jugular of the crypto industry as soon as they take power. There’s public policy reasons to do this (name a non-crime use case), but also it cuts off a major artery for Republican support and corruption.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
After booing him, the crowd breaks out in a loud, “Ted Cruz sucks!” chant.
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Jordan aka Jirdan @slclunk.com · 09/09/2026
Any answer other than “who gives a shit, republicans are using a dozen kids playing JV volleyball as a distraction from looting the county and covering for elite pedophiles” is cowardly horseshit
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
We knew long ago that Giuliani was complicit in the lies about air quality. I talked about that in A Paradise Built in Hell (2009). But this new document dump is great, and it's leading to fresh coverage of an old crime whose impact continues to unfold.
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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
I wrote about the mistrial in the Lindsay Clancy case. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Lindsay Clancy was failed by our warped understanding of motherhood | Moira Donegan
Clancy’s case became a referendum on mothers, healthcare, and the status of women
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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 07/09/2026
Possibly the most American news of all time
local12.com
Prison inmates donate more than $4,000 to pay children's school lunch debt
Residents at the prison contributed $3,810 of their own money, while Kansas Department of Corrections employees added another $457.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Aaaaand he’s been fired (presumably for putting all of this in an email to the victim’s lawyers). www.cbsnews.com/news/ice-min...
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Federal prosecutor fired after investigating ICE officer for civil rights offenses in Minnesota shooting, sources say
A federal prosecutor in Minnesota who was investigating an ICE officer for possible civil rights crimes has been fired, four sources familiar with the matter told CBS News.
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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
For the one millionth time: THIS IS FASCISM. IT'S MORE THAN JUST GRANT FUNDING. SCIENCE IS A CRITICAL PILLAR OF DEMOCRACY. democrats-appropriations.house.gov/news/press-r...
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Defense Officials Attempt to Raid NIH Funds to Cover Department of Defense Activities
House Appropriations Committee Ranking Member Rosa DeLauro (D-CT-03) has learned that officials at the Department of Defense (DoD) are working to divert billions of dollars from the National Institute...
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Not an OG Just a G @wilgafney.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
The violence of this evil can never be undone. It may come to an end one day. Folk may be reunited with loved ones should any survive. But there is no restoration or reparation that can address all of these grievous harms to families, children and communities in all of these places, or here either.
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Cats of Yore @catsofyore.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Screenshot of a tweet from user ceejoyner that says "pick up artists and garbage men should switch names".
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
The media gave more coverage to a totally fake, invented idea that the federal government was withholding aid to Hurricane Helene victims in 2024 than to Trump actually doing it in 2025/26. Why did the fake story get more coverage than the real one?
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 01/09/2026
Trump is trying to sack DC out of spite. the people hate his fucking guts so he's going to impose a Trumperdammerung on everything beautiful he can reach people.com/dozens-trees...
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Dozens of Trees Quietly Toppled in D.C. Without Court Approval Ahead of Trump’s New Golf Course Makeover: Report
Over 60 trees were removed at East Potomac Golf Links before official approval for renovations was granted, the Washington Post reported Friday, Aug. 26. Preservationists argue the plans violate a law...
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 01/09/2026
the press has gotten completely habituated to the ugly and hateful behavior of the people in this government so i will be surprised if anyone ever asks hegseth why he thinks it is appropriate to mock children for wanting to learn, grow and maybe serve their country
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Beth Gould @abgesquire.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
the what you say
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Shangalar @shangalartheblack.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
The venn diagram of people who claim to care about women's sports related to trans participation and those who have been bitching about Title IX at every given opportunity for 30 years is a perfect circle.
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
A 76-year-old green card holder with stage 4 cancer was arrested at his citizenship application interview and has been held by ICE for two months. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
Loreto Javar, a green card holder who’s lived in the United States for over three decades and is being treated for Stage 4 prostate cancer, has been held at the Northwest ICE Processing Center in Tacoma for more than two months. 

A 76-year-old retired hotel worker who lives in Fife with his wife and daughter, Javar was detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials June 23 during an interview for his U.S. citizenship application in Tukwila. He was receiving ongoing cancer treatment when he was taken into ICE custody, his family said, and has missed several medical appointments since his arrest.
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Kevin M. Levin @civilwarmemory.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
The framing of this story is going to do serious damage to the National Park Service. No one in the NPS wants this ridiculous arch. The agency has been forced to comply with the president's wishes because the Interior Secretary is a Trump loyalist. #NationalParks www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...
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Park Service supports Trump's huge arch, despite harms to other landmarks
The report recognizes adverse effects on dozens of other Washington monuments and other historic sites but supports construction of the arch anyway.
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