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FLAVOR FLAV ⏰ @flavorflav.bsky.social · 3h
Know their names: Scott Kretzschmar, Scott Norris, Diego Sarabia, Gillio Lopes, Winston Lee, Johnathan Newell and Matthew Ingalls #Cornell7 But also, everyone in the group chat, the administrators, university, and DA. SHAME.
Cornell 7Disgusting chat
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jj skolnik @supremenothing.myatproto.social · 3h
like i say every time this comes up, the term for what awaits survivors who go through the official system (cops, rape kit at the hospital, the hell of a trial where you as the victim get to be cross examined by yr rapist’s defense) is called “the second rape”
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Kelly @justkelly.bsky.social · 6h
These men make me feel sick to my stomach. Men like Michael Tracey and the rape-defending scum of the earth on that website need to burn in hell. I just hope she’s safe. Fuck.
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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 3h
Any institution that still hazes people can fuck off forever.
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 3h
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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Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 8h
Also, all the zingers in the world don't change that in the Biden blinked, which imo gets into the messy thing where the Admin's threats weren't treated as credible because the "what are you gonna do, stab me?" was met with not being stabbed.
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#StupidSuez @diplomatofnight.com · 8h
Phil Gordon, the National Security Advisor to Kamala Harris who in late 2024 insisted that the VP was categorically opposed to the suspension of any more weapons to Israel and would never change policy, says Brett McGurk is wrong in his assertion that the US was too mean to Israel.
Harris was hardly the only U.S. official to warn, publicly and privately, that an Israeli assault on Rafah would be a “huge mistake” with potential "consequences." Biden had by then already called it a "red line" and later went on CNN to threaten to withhold offensive weapons over it. And he was right to do so to prevent Israel from launching a ground offensive without a plan for the more than one million civilians sheltering there. It is implausible that a U.S. green light would have unlocked a favorable hostage offer from Hamas, which made no such offer even after Israel went into Rafah (or for eight months after that) or that Netanyahu would have agreed to end the war with Sinwar still alive. Whatever the administration's “biggest mistakes,” pressing Israel to change its Rafah plans was not among them.
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Secretary of Defense Rock @sodrock.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
Propaganda works
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Micah @rincewind.run · 15h
the right spends an inordinate amount of time whining about the birth rate and while making our system more parent-friendly won’t actually change that - it turns out wealthy countries just have less kids - they could absolutely put real money behind their preferred lifestyle but they won’t
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 14h
BREAKING: Israel snatched an American teen from his West Bank home in the middle of the night — just days before his birthday and during his critical national exams. He's now been held for 3 months, with no charges. Netanyahu just came to the US for the *eighth* time since Trump took office.
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First Draft: Israel Has Kidnapped Another American Teenager
Abdalkareem Issa Ahmed Safi has Texas roots but languishes in a notorious jail, one more victim of Benjamin Netanyahu’s cruel impunity. Donald Trump, meanwhile, is losing some of his most ardent fans.
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Ryan Nanni @celebrityhottub.bsky.social · 14h
listen i'm not gonna link to it but "stay at home parents would simply have no use for universal daycare" is some of the most "oh you've never actually talked to anyone" shit i've ever heard
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 14h
A lot of Trumpism boils down to the belief that accurately pointing out facts to a man caught up in emotion and false conspiracy theories is a terrible wrong, one that demands retribution.
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Perry Bacon @perrybaconjr.bsky.social · 16h
"The idea that you can easily separate 'economic' and 'cultural' issues is nonsense. It’s very expensive for transgender Americans to move to blue states so they can live freely. It’s harder to buy a house in a neighborhood with rising home values if you are Black." newrepublic.com/article/2159...
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Why Democrats Should Stop Using the Phrase “Culture Wars”
Texas’s Gina Hinojosa and others slamming the party for focusing too much on so-called cultural issues are pushing a flawed electoral and policy strategy.
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Jeffrey Vagle @jvagle.me · 16h
When journalists have looked into the actual numbers behind claims like "incredibly effective," Alpha School has been less than forthcoming with actual data. My forthcoming book has a chapter on the tech ideology and education, and their vision of the future (for us, not for them) isn't pretty.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 18h
Talking recently to family members of people snatched up and expelled to third countries by ICE, I learned: 1) All of those captured were in 287(g) jurisdictions; 2) None of the family members had known what 287(g) was and had erroneously thought people with no arrests were safe.
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Sarah Rees Brennan @sarahreesbrennan.bsky.social · 18h
This is a GREAT article. Mind you, I agree that corporations should stop lying to us but… they are not going to.
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Anna O. Law @unlawfulentries.bsky.social · 19h
Of course I agree with Kevin as we limp along at CUNY hobbled by decades of under-funding. It hasn't been costless. I am not feeling sanguine given the Dems even in blue states have decided public higher ed = vocational training. But will I stop pushing the Dems on it? No.
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Don't forget that @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social wants to let the GOP get away with all of this. He said let's turn the page and get on with business. He's on the side of the Nazis if he thinks this kind of thing is acceptable in the United States of America. This can't be allowed to slide. It can't.
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Amy Hoy @amyhoy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
as somebody who used to work building custom software for normal small-time local business owners, 100% this they’d have “an idea” and it would be, like, one sentence. that’s it. between that one sentence and an actual product, you (read: me) must first invent the universe
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#StupidSuez @diplomatofnight.com · 29/09/2026
I think it's bad that I have to explain the plain letter of the Foreign Assistance and Arms Export Control Acts to people on here, why are people under the impression that a Congressional military assistance package automatically overrides US arms transfer law?
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Katelyn Oldham *Abolish ICE. Defund DHS.* @katelynstarrpdx.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
College athletes need unions to prevent this kind of horrendous abuse. This solidarity and push to remove this dangerous man from coaching them is very brave.
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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Exceptional solidarity from ASU hockey players who have demanded their coach be placed on leave for essentially overseeing the murder of their teammate and have disputed the university’s findings. www.nytimes.com/athletic/764...
Seven Arizona State men’s hockey players asked the university’s president to place the Sun Devils’ coaching staff on administrative leave pending further investigation into the workout that left sophomore transfer Matthew Mayich on life support.

In a 26-page letter sent to ASU president Michael Crow on Monday and obtained by The Athletic, the players disputed numerous findings from the university’s initial review of the Aug. 20 workout, writing that Mayich did not receive water and was provided inadequate medical care after his collapse.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
When they get back in power, Democrats need to go all-in on higher education. We need a campaign of reinvestment in public universities across the country that makes the Morrill Land-Grant Act look like nothing by comparison *and* a GI Bill of Rights-style program of tuition grants.
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Sure, the 2024 election was one too, but 2026 might be the clearest intelligence test ever presented to the American electorate. Taken at face value, he's saying he stole hundreds of billions from the gov't, hid it somewhere Congress can't reach, and he pinky swears he will give you a piece. Really.
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Phil Plait @philplait.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
It feels to me that war crimes and crimes against humanity are just happening all the time and nothing is being done about it. I'm not sure how to enforce international law, especially against nuclear powers like Russia and the US, but it could use a little help.
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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 28/09/2026
he can’t do this, it’s completely illegal, it would cause inflation to spike even more, and even promising to do it is an impeachable offense, which is how this should be reported
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Read Settlers da Silva @cyberstalin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
its not simply about boycotting meta. one company has made their products indispensable for communication in the modern world. they blocked lulas electoral ads the week before the election. theyre trying to sway public opinion against the victim of a gangrape. states need to intervene.
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Josh Rosenau @joshrosenau.org · 28/09/2026
Can’t believe the software manufactured by people who all met at rape kink orgies and encourage new employees to explore nonconsensuality would create software that gives out your address online without asking first.
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Christen Rexing, PhD, MPH @christenrexing.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
A must read. “A civilization in which 1 in 3 women are sexually assaulted, in which 98% of rapists face no consequences, in which nine out of ten women murdered by men are killed by someone they trusted—that civilization is not stable. It is not healthy. It is not just. It is destroying itself.”
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huck mason @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
we really need to start calling out these conservative christians for just straight up not believing in christianity. if you don’t believe christian teaching, nobody is forcing you to call yourself a christian! free yourself!
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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
You know when public attention can reverse a prosecutorial decision like this you almost get the sense that the decision to shrug it off in the first place was not based on an assessment of the quality of the evidence so much as an assessment of the seriousness of the crime.
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Akela Cooper @akelacooper.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I’m reading More Everything Forever (great book and insight into the delusional weirdos of Silicon Valley) and Yudkowsky is featured a lot. Dude didn’t even finish middle school. He dropped out. And yet somehow a guy who didn’t make the 8th grade is now a “thought“ leader in tech.
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ellie lockhart (she/they) @eleanor.lockhart.contact · 28/09/2026
I think it's underdiscussed how much "listen to marginalized communities" rhetoric on the left is *not* actually listening to marginalized communities, but rather tenured academics who have made marginalized communities into mouthpieces for ideological projects
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#StupidSuez @diplomatofnight.com · 28/09/2026
Half of Obama's own party threw a tantrum over his novel "don't do stupid shit" doctrine in relation to Iran. Trump then immediately tore the JCPOA up to little resistance. The next president did next to nothing to try and revive it and instead spent 3 years begging Saudi to be friends with Israel.
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#StupidSuez @diplomatofnight.com · 28/09/2026
Any analysis of the Iran War that doesn't start and end with the fact that an entire cottage industry of think tankers and lobbyists and their friends in Congress were frothing at the mouth for literal decades for this got exactly what they wanted and it failed immediately and totally is wrong.
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Here’s your periodic reminder that Howard Lutnick is still Commerce secretary despite blatantly lying to the public about his personal and business ties with child molester Jeffrey Epstein.
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Greg Greene (he/him/his) @greene.haus · 27/09/2026
You hear a certain type complain about “Dem HR ladies,” and have to think: have they _seen_ what happens to an industry culture without them?!
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The chipping away at citizenship, which started with Shamima Begum, is utterly poisonous. Anytime now, Restore will support the removal of citizenship on the basis of race or religion.
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☆Jennїe S Jonzen☆ Is He Dead Yet?! 🖖LLAP🤟🍀✴️✳️🌟☘️🗽🇺🇸🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈🌈🗿🌻💙💛⭐️ @astartiel.substack.com · 27/09/2026
So tired of news articles that tell about how bad it is for the Trumpstain. As far as I can tell, he is still in power, he's still has billions of dollars he made in the presidency, & he's still alive, so things aren't bad enough for him. People can stop publishing how horrible things are for him.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 27/09/2026
reading this, it does seem as if “rationalism” is an elaborate intellectual architecture designed primarily to support the idea that if you were born white, male and clever then you are the genetic elite and entitled to rule.
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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
A couple quick observations here, which should be obvious. 1) insurance “risk pools” work by requiring younger/healthier people who make few or no claims to sign up and pay premiums alongside older/less healthy people who do, essentially covering their costs.
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Musicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
incidentally i think these guys are the patron saints of bluesky
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 26/09/2026
The rationalists and effective altruists all love demanding that you read their actual writing before you judge them, and so I am in fact doing that. if they were as smart as they think they are, they’d have figured out that telling critics to actually read their work is a *terrible* strategy.
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Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
A rich person can never be held accountable. Therefore, a rich person must never make a societal decision
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
If you’re a random person and you have to deal with death threats and harassment from internet stalkers, it’s my understanding that the FBI basically ignores you in most circumstances. But the Millers are so powerful they can demote the head of the FBI’s DC field office for investigating too slow.
The orders from the bureau's DC chief Darren Cox stemmed from frustration shared by the Miller family that the field office was moving slowly in probing allegedly harassing phone messages left with prominent conservative podcaster, Katie Miller, added the people, who spoke anonymously to avoid retaliation.
Several of the individuals said Director Kash Patel was also displeased with the office's progress on the case.
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ffrf.org @ffrf.org · 26/09/2026
There was no “retreat.” Christian nationalists have spent decades trying to take over Hollywood, media, universities and public education. They didn’t voluntarily surrender that ground. Their attempts to impose a “biblical” worldview have been rejected.
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Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
David Quammen's essay in The New York Times today closes with this paragraph. It's both a scientific falsehood, and an incredibly dangerous narrative. If you're willing to give me five minutes of your time, I'd like to explain why.
The Ebola virus doesn’t need to spill back. It abides in its reservoir host, and awaits its next opportunity. A virus can’t climb out of a bat or a monkey and fly off in search of human prey. It can only spill over. If humans left the reservoir host alone — not hunting it, not capturing it, not eating it, not exporting it live, not disturbing its forest habitat — the virus wouldn’t re-emerge in humans. It would remain where it is, harming no one. But of course that’s not what happens. And when viruses spill, they often spill into us, because the human population is such a big, busy target.
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Prof Gavin Yamey MD MPH @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
MAHA is a project built on vanity, grifting, racism & survival of the fittest A colleague of mine has a friend in Los Angeles who went to the gym, &, um, RFK Jr was there, working out, surrounded by a HUGE ENTOURAGE of security dudes & snipers Black infants *MUST* suffer so RFK can get big pecs!
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T. Greg Doucette @gregdoucette.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Shadow docket is at it again Time to repeal the Judiciary Act of 1789 and start over
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
We’re at the “shipping container courts” stage of ICE’s mass expansion of the enforcement system.
Each detention unit would sit on asphalt or concrete behind an office's existing security fence, with a counter for processing people and a separate holding area fitted with a toilet and sink for detainees according to the draft work statement.
The agency also wants a 300-square-foot unit for interviewing people in custody and a 60-square-foot "Virtual Immigration Court Unit" for hearings run by the Executive Office for Immigration Review, the Justice Department agency that operates the immigration courts.
Both must also be designed for their purpose before delivery.
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