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AlisonAF

@alisonaf.bsky.social
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Longtime theater person, everyday climate person. Humans are born with rights, even in these United States.

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Matthew Haugen @mjhaugen.bsky.social · 4h
I haven't read the permitting reform bill yet (seems like there's some good stuff), but I want to once again suggest to fellow clean energy advocates that saying or implying that biodiversity, endangered species, & other non-climate environmental issues do not matter is both detrimental & incorrect
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Uzza @uzzamodea.bsky.social · 1h
* Jeremy Wayne Roberts
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Matthew Downhour @matthewdownhour.bsky.social · 2h
I read this 20 years ago. Highly recommend it - guy who helped introduce lethal injection deeply regretting the way it made execution more palatable for the state www.motherjones.com/politics/200...
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A Guilty Man
He wanted to make capital punishment kinder. Instead, he believes, he made it easier.
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Forever Louise Brooks @foreverlouiseb1.bsky.social · 11h
French actress Alice Delysia in costume for the hit stage musical "Afgar,” 1920.
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Elizabeth Weill-Greenberg 🇵🇸 @elizabethweill.bsky.social · 6h
The Philadelphia Parking Authority is leasing parking spots to ICE. New for Truthout and The Appeal: truthout.org/articles/act...
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Activists Are Targeting One of ICE’s Key Staging Grounds — Parking Spots
Protesters say they are “throwing sand in the gears” of the agency’s deportation and abduction machine.
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Drew McKevitt @drewmckevitt.bsky.social · 6h
There is very serious talk among the Louisiana Board of Regents, which governs higher ed in the state, about dropping La Tech, ULM, and ULL from FBS to FCS in football, because they produce completely unsustainable budget deficits. Let's gooooooo www.shreveporttimes.com/story/news/2...
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Louisiana regent suggests Tech, ULL, ULM drop to lower football tier
University of Louisiana System President Rick Gallot says board will have 'hard decisions' to make about football at Louisiana Tech, ULL and ULM.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 6h
When it comes to the impact of #MeToo, it’s important first of all to recognise that it was not a deus ex machina event out of nothing and nowhere. It was a consequence of the preceding five years of feminist upheaval, which in turn built on earlier feminist work. That upheaval took place as a vast public discourse educating the public about the pervasiveness of gender violence and the fact that it very often does not unfold as “stranger in alley attacks pure young lady”. It got people to let go of a lot of the stereotypes and slanders that protected rapists by blaming victims or portraying them as incapable of bearing trustworthy witness to their experience. It created the editorial willingness to publish stories that exposed movie producer/convicted rapist Harvey Weinstein and a host of other abusers and creeps and unpacked the mechanisms of protection they employed.

That in turn resulted in changed laws. Six years after that 2017 upheaval, two women said, in a talk at the Practising Law Institute, “Prior to #MeToo, only three states had passed anti-harassment reforms.” They counted 70 workplace anti-harassment laws passed, in 40 US states and 3,000 pieces of legislation introduced overall that were impacted by #MeToo. A nationwide law passed in 2021 ended forced arbitration of sexual assault and harassment, giving victims the right to go to court. All this legislation created a lot more accountability and victim protection, but it’s the kind of consequence that often goes unnoticed. Unnoticed because it’s complicated, slow, incremental and, for the most part, legislative reform is not a hot headline.
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paulseesequasis @pseesequasis.bsky.social · 11h
Studio portrait of a father and child taken in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan around late 1920s, early 1930s. Almost certainly Chief Joseph Dreaver (WWI veteran, Military Medal recipient, and Indigenous leader), other photos match his appearance as a young man, of Big River First Nation. The child
Studio portrait of a father and child taken in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan around late 1920s, early 1930s. Almost certainly Chief Joseph Dreaver (WWI veteran, Military Medal recipient, and Indigenous leader), other photos match his appearance as a young man, of Big River First Nation. The child possibly Gladys Dreaver. | Prince Albert Historical Society.
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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 14h
There is a moment at the very very end of Abdul El-Sayed's podcast with Ezra Klein (book recommendation section) where he talks about the idea of "speaking truth to pain" and this will be staying with me for an extremely long time. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/o...
But there’s also something about truth to pain. We talk a lot about truth to power, but I think it’s actually a lot harder to speak truth to pain. I say that as someone who went to medical school, realizing that in a lot of our politics right now, we’ve got to get a lot better at speaking truth to pain if we’re going to get through some of these challenges that we have.

What does “truth to pain” mean?

It’s one thing to look power in the eye and say: You’re wrong about this. But there’s a way in which pain is very difficult to reason with. Because when somebody is in their pain, they’re in their trauma. They see that pain, and they may not see what’s causing it.

I remember just very explicitly being in a trauma ward with a gunshot wound patient and watching this big guy with his hand on his gunshot wound. All the folks are trying to pull his hand off his pain, that point of his gunshot wound, this clear vulnerability.

And this emergency room doctor had the presence of mind to be like: Everyone, stop. And she looks him in the eyes, and she’s like: I get that really hurts, and I’m so sorry that you’re here. You don’t want to be here. We don’t want you to be here. But if you don’t let us fix this, you could die. So I’m going to take your hand, and I’m going to move it off, OK? Because I need to get there so that you can live.

She was speaking truth to pain. He understands he’s at the hospital, he needs care, but he also doesn’t want anybody to touch the wound. Which is a natural thing. And I think it is a really great metaphor for how we think about a lot of these challenges we talked about today.
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FoodPrint @foodprintorg.bsky.social · 11h
After you’ve brought home your groceries, the first step to reduce food waste is to store everything properly, making your food last as long as possible. Check out our guide for storing fruits and vegetables this #FoodWastePreventionWeek:
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The best ways to store fruits and vegetables to reduce food waste
Learn how to store vegetables and fruits properly to keep them fresh longer, reduce food waste and save money.
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Leah Stokes @leahstokes.bsky.social · 13h
“Unlike A.I., climate change’s existential threat is not hypothetical. It is killing people now." Amidst the AI-pocalypse, we can't lose sight of the climate crisis and the urgency of electrification. Gift link! shorturl.at/On4Jk
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The Big Threat Has Been Climate Change. Now Comes A.I. (Gift Article)
Both are human-caused, both are frightening, and one of them has raced to the forefront of the global conversation.
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#StupidSuez @diplomatofnight.com · 12h
🚨 Joaquin Castro will introduce tomorrow the "STOP THE SETTLEMENTS ACT", the first ever bill which would ban trade with all illegal Israeli settlements, as well as impose sanctions on any foreign entity or individual which supports settlements in any way after Sept 30th 2026. It has 40 cosponsors.
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Castro, Dean, Beyer, Casar, Jacobs, Escobar to Introduce Sanctions on Drivers of Settlement Expansion | U.S. Congressman Joaquin Castro
The Official U.S. Congressional website of Congressman Joaquin Castro
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Shay O’Reilly @shaygabriel.bsky.social · 10h
why the fuck are Dems rushing through a “permitting reform” bill that will almost certainly be less favorable than what they could get in six months? When they can also, say, impeach Trump and exercise their legislative power to stop him from fucking with wind projects?
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Truthout @truthout.org · 9h
Amazon employs what it calls the “Atlas” model, inputting into a computerized model a staggering amount of information on workers, their thoughts and behaviors, the workplace environment, and myriad other factors — “hundreds of data points,” according to the company.
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karen ward @kwardvancouver.bsky.social · 9h
absolute must-read here
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Ryan Ottignon @ryaninevanston.bsky.social · 10h
UPDATE ON ICE IN EVANSTON LAST WEEK: I've just obtained the first part of the 911 call from the Evanston resident / U.S. citizen briefly detained and battered by ICE agents. That call went to Skokie 911, and it's quite brief — so brief I can attach to this post. (It cuts off as Skokie hangs up.)
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Ariel Edwards-Levy @aedwardslevy.bsky.social · 12h
There is a lot of "oh dear" to go around in the results of this very thorough Pew study on the issues with synthetic samples, but this strikes me as particularly "oh dear" www.pewresearch.org/data-labs/20...
AI polling results can lean on racial or partisan stereotypes

In many cases, our AI poll took beliefs or attitudes that are reasonably common among a particular subgroup and portrayed them as nearly ubiquitous. For example, our AI poll would indicate that:

    97% of Hispanic adults are at least somewhat likely to follow the World Cup (while the actual share is 43%).
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Silvia Secchi @profsecchi.bsky.social · 14h
This is the tip of the iceberg - a lot of researchers self-censor to avoid this type of problems. And I mean A LOT. (Note the lovely Iowa/ethanol pipeline connection)
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SometimesPDX @sometimespdx.bsky.social · 13h
Here's some clips from the Ron DeSantis speech at the 2026 Oregon GOP Reagan Dinner fundraiser with Christine Drazan and a bunch of Republican candidates. 🧵 DeSantis telling the Republicans to ignore moderates, don't worry about angering the left, and just go for the radical change you want. 1/
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Benjamín Schultz-Figueroa @benjaminschultzfig.bsky.social · 13h
This article lists the specific American AI companies: apnews.com/article/isra...
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How US tech giants supplied Israel with AI models, raising questions about tech's role in warfare
U.S. tech giants have quietly empowered Israel to track and kill many more alleged militants more quickly in Gaza and Lebanon through a sharp spike in artificial intelligence and computing services.
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AI Moratorium for NYC Schools @aimoratoriumnyc.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
We have an ask! Can you email the Panel on Educational Policy and ask them to vote against the evil Oracle contract and to push back on high school pilots? Can you do it today? Can you tell your friends? We have a toolkit here with all you need! 🔥 @climatefamsnyc.bsky.social @comixaction.com
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amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 16h
Received a phone call this morning letting me know they started moving people from Guantanamo Bay to Somalia late last week. Working on getting in contact with them now.
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Craig Pittman @craigtimes.bsky.social · 17h
Over the past 10 years, #Florida utility bills have jumped by as much as 70% —far outpacing inflation. Meanwhile, the 4 utilities that provide electricity to the state made more than $6 billion in profits last year. www.wusf.org/costofpower?... via @wusf.org
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The rising cost of power in Florida — and the system that allows it
Over the past several months, WUSF has researched what's behind rising electricity costs and what — if anything — can be done about them.
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Tove Danovich @tkdano.bsky.social · 15h
I’ve become obsessed with the disappearing night sky. I miss going outside wherever I was and seeing the stars! Glad to be able to write about this for @us.theguardian.com. Thanks to the kind readers who have already sent me emails about their own night skies. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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The night sky is getting 10% brighter every year. We’re forgetting what darkness feels like
If more cities start regulating outdoor lighting, we humans could make the environment better for all living creatures
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404 Media @404media.co · 15h
BREAKING: The Trump administration is using a grant program from the 1980s to force cities around the US to funnel their ongoing collection of Flock, Axon, and other ALPR data into large federal surveillance centers that fall under the White House’s jurisdiction, 404 Media has learned
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How Cities Are Forced to Funnel License Plate Data to a Massive Federal Surveillance Program
How the federal government built a massive database of license plate reader data through an anti-drug trafficking program.
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Maryn McKenna @marynmck.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Fake. USDA. Seals. Used by an NC meat processing plant on 83.5 TONS of meat. Produced entirely outside the federal inspection system, according to news reports. We are pretty close to The Jungle (second ed.) now, no? www.scrippsnews.com/life/recalls...
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Interactive: Meat recall linked to fake USDA labels
Pork, beef and goat products are being recalled after a company allegedly used fake USDA inspection labels. Explore our interactive guide to see which products are affected and what to look for.
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Sam🏳️‍🌈🌊🏳️‍⚧️ @separker.bsky.social · 16h
news.bloomberglaw.com/bankruptcy-l... Such utter BS. #USDemocracy
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Kennedy Center Is ‘Crumbling’ Without Trump’s Name, DOJ Says
The Kennedy Center faces financial and physical collapse unless the decades-old performing arts venue recognizes President Donald Trump by name, Justice Department officials told a federal appeals cou...
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Debbie Iron Bow @ironbow.bsky.social · 16h
This is Annie Ironbow, my mother. She spent from age of 4 to age 13 in Delmas residential school. There are no descriptions worthy to tell of the trauma she experienced there. Today, I honor her, speak of her. She is why I am here today, because she survived the unsurvivable. 🪶
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RESIST | FIGHT™ @resistfight.com · 16h
DHS wasted taxpayer money buying 11 warehouses for about $1.07 billion to expand concentration camps. Now ICE plans to sell seven at a loss after piling up more than $20 million in unrecoverable costs — including zoning assessments, title insurance, utilities, security, and other services.
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Joe Sudbay @joesudbay.bsky.social · 16h
Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser sues to stop ICE detention center in Hudson www.newsfromthestates.com/article/colo...
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Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser sues to stop ICE detention center in Hudson
Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser sued the federal government on Tuesday in an effort to stop or delay the opening of a new immigration detention facility in Hudson, alleging that the agencies in ...
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 30/09/2026
Black text that reads:

229 new affordable homes are coming to the Bronx.

We just broke ground on Sol on Park:
• 80 homes for current NYCHA residents
• 69 homes for formerly homeless seniors
• 79 homes for low- and middle-income seniors
• 8,000 sq. ft. of community space, including a health and wellness center 

This is what’s possible when we invest in NYCHA and use the power of government to build a City where New Yorkers come first.
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Prison Journalism Project @prisonjournalism.bsky.social · 16h
With recent events in the court system, this 2025 story hits in a whole new light.
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To Avoid Deportation, People Want to Stay Longer at My Prison
The thought of ending up in El Salvador’s CECOT, like my brother, makes many people at San Quentin nervous.
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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 17h
ICE's own reviews of cases of immigrant deaths in custody show a pattern of neglect: confiscation and refusal to provide routine medication, lack of follow-up care, even incompetence in reading tests or supplying medication. @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social has this report. prospect.org/2026/09/30/i...
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Disturbing Pictures of Neglect in ICE Mortality Reviews - The American Prospect
The federal government released dozens of mortality reviews of immigrants who died in detention in recent years. They show a uniform pattern of medical neglect.
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POLITICO Europe @politico.eu · 17h
A formal complaint says the European Commission is keeping data center energy and water use under wraps, breaching the public’s right to know. 🔗 www.politico.eu/article/eu-c...
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IFPTE @ifpte.bsky.social · 17h
On this fifth anniversary of the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, IFPTE members across North America honour residential school survivors, their families and communities, and those who never returned home. www.ifpte.org/news/ifpte-h...
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IFPTE Honours National Truth and Reconciliation Day — IFPTE
On September 30, 2026, IFPTE recognizes Canada’s National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, the annual national holiday committed to memorializing the victims and survivors of the Canadian Indian Resi...
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 17h
The comparison to landfill methane emissions is maddening. If that's our baseline for what to hand-wave away, basically most climate action should be considered a nothingburger
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John Hanger @jrfhanger.bsky.social · 19h
Good morning with good news: Sales of EV trucks in China skyrocket 80% in H1 2026! BNEF says EV trucks will be 33% of truck sales in 2026. But Sinopec Research Institute says EV trucks will be ~50% of sales in 2026! EV truck exports more than double! www.bloomberg.com/news/feature... #energysky
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China Has an 18-Wheel Answer to Soaring Global Diesel Prices
Around a third of trucks sold in China this year will run on electricity, furthering Beijing’s goal of bolstering energy security.
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Hagen Blix @hagenblix.bsky.social · 17h
AI is reified anti-intellectualism In chapter 4 of 'Why We Fear AI', we argue that this results quite directly from its political economy as a tool to devalue skills and knowledge
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 29/09/2026
SCOTUS’s shadow docket strikes again. Third-country removals are back on, using a policy that two federal courts have now ruled is unlawful.
CORDER LIST: 609 U.S.)
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 2026
26-426
(26A406)
CERTIORARI GRANTED
DEPT. OF HOMELAND SEC., ET AL. V. D.V.D., ET AL.
The application for stay presented to Justice Jackson and
by her referred to the Court is granted. The February 25, 2026 order and judgment of the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts, case No. 1:25-cv-10676, are stayed.
The application is also treated as a petition for a writ of certiorari, and the petition is granted. The parties are directed to brief and argue the following questions: (1) Whether the district court had jurisdiction over Respondents' claims.
(2) Whether the
district court had
authority to enter classwide
declaratory
relief
and APA vacatur under 8 U. S. C. §1252 (f) (1).
(3) Whether the Government's Guidance on third-country removals
is unlawful under 8 U. S. C. §1231(b), the Due Process Clause, or
FARRA/CAT and its
implementing regulations. (4) Such other
questions that the Government determines are appropriate for the
proper disposition of the case. The Clerk is directed to
establish a briefing schedule that will allow the case to be
argued in the December 2026 argument session. The stay shall
terminate upon the sending down of the judgment of this Court.
Justice Sotomayor, Justice Kagan, and Justice Jackson would
deny the application for stay.
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Nate O @nateo.bsky.social · 17h
We were in shock as we learned management agreed to all of our demands. Everybody started hugging each other, our resident DJ flipped on a victory song, and I remember someone screaming, ‘this is the greatest moment in my life!’ 🥳 Join a union! Get our strike fund back up for the next one! 🥳
Legal 500 workers win full pay claim after strike action

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Dozens of publishing staff at Legalease, the publishers of legal industry-bible The Legal 500, have won a dramatic victory in their industrial dispute over pay.

Staff who had been on strike for two and a half weeks accepted an offer that fully met their original pay claim of a £2000 pay increase for every worker. This was despite the company originally claiming it would not pay such an increase.
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Melissa Nadia Viviana 🐸 @resistrebelrevolt.net · 17h
A couple weeks ago someone said if he hacked into a government system, he'd be put in prison. But when OpenAI does it, they send an "apology letter" & there are no consequences. Our 2-tier justice systems are trash. They enable the development of psychopaths who learn the laws don't apply to them.
OpenAI apologises for hacking Australia's healthcare system and reveals extent of attack.
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Kate Hagen 🦂 𓋹 🦂 @thathagengrrl.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
"Meanwhile, Jane Doe dropped out of Cornell and was denied her request to get her tuition refunded so that she could transfer to a different college. She hence faced more severe consequences than most of the men who she alleges gang-raped her." 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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ProPublica @propublica.org · 18h
NEW: California is teeming with black-market dairies, propped up by consumer demand fueled by misinformation. With evidence against one raw goat milk farm, regulators could have sought punitive action. But that’s not what happened.
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A Girl Nearly Died After Drinking Raw Milk. The State Did Little to Punish the Unlicensed Farmer Who Sold It.
California is teeming with black-market dairies, propped up by consumer demand fueled by misinformation. With evidence against one raw goat milk farm, regulators could have sought punitive action. But...
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UM LEGACY PRESS LTD @umlegacypress.com · 30/09/2026
Mary Louie recalls leaving residential school and why her band marks Orange Shirt Day a day early When Mary Louie was at Residential school she remembers wanting only one thing when she was a young girl at residential school: to get home.
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Mary Louie recalls leaving residential school and why her band marks Orange Shirt Day a day early
When Mary Louie was at Residential school she remembers wanting only one thing when she was a young girl at residential school: to get home.
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Sam Forstag @samforstag.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
We’re up against a lot of money and power, but they’re up against all of us. Help us get across the finish line! secure.actblue.com/donate/sf-driveby#social
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Donate to Sam Forstag
Show your support with a contribution.
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Veronika Meduna @veronikameduna.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The Wilkes Subglacial Basin is a part of East Antarctica that sits well below sea level (like much of West Antarctica). If all the basin’s ice melted, it would raise sea levels 3-4 metres and disrupt vital ocean currents. That's why it's important to study it. theconversation.com/tragedy-stop...
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Tragedy stopped Mawson exploring this remote Antarctic region. We must get there to study its melting ice
If all the ice in the Wilkes Subglacial Basin melted, it would raise global sea levels 3 to 4 metres. It happened before – at temperatures we’re heading towards
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Hunter Dunn @hunterisntdunn.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Oh dang, even Chuck Schumer vote-wait what RAND PAUL?
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Karla Ward @silentscreatch.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
This… Do not surrender your voting rights… 👇👇👇
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Sarah Emily Duff @sarahemilyduff.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
‘“We called up our lawyer and we were like, ‘Can we do this?’” she recalled. “He was like, ‘I mean, it’s kind of a risk.’ And we were like, ‘OK, I guess that’s how we’re going to start the editorial.’”’ All power to the editors and journalists at the Cornell Daily Sun:
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Students at Cornell Daily Sun Pursued Sexual Assault Case for Two Years (Gift Article)
The student newspaper, The Cornell Daily Sun, covered the allegations of rape at a fraternity party since they were first made in 2024 and led the reporting on the case.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 30/09/2026
Buried away and completely hidden out of sight in a dense forest, more than 1,600 immigrants are imprisoned here on any given day in what is the largest immigration detention center in the Northeast.
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Trump’s mass detention machine in Pennsylvania
"ICE is just churning bodies into the detention system."
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