Reposted by MyNameIsTruecooperativescience.bsky.social @cooperativescience.bsky.social · 3hI've said it before and I'll say it again: US police actively prevent consequences for rapists by hitting victims with a wall of demoralizing hostility and skepticism, and then using their institutional credibility to undermine victim testimony and sabotage evidence and process steps. 03414
MyNameIsTrue @alisontrue.bsky.social · 10hCase in point: "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." (Manne in the Cut) 011
MyNameIsTrue @alisontrue.bsky.social · 10hKate Manne: "Under New York State law, voluntary intoxication does not preclude consent unless it is completely immobilizing — a disturbing legal loophole that many of us, including me, were previously unaware of." Archive.org link below. 000
MyNameIsTrue @alisontrue.bsky.social · 20hSome of you kids are probably too young to remember that John Wayne Gacy’s execution was botched, too. The state needs to get out of the business of killing. 160
MyNameIsTrue @alisontrue.bsky.social · 21hSometimes she left the party, sometimes she left the college. Maybe she went to another one or maybe she decided college or grad school wasn’t for her after all. Maybe she decided that career wasn’t it, and lowered her expectations for her whole damn life. 316125
Reposted by MyNameIsTrueRic Fouad @ricfouad.bsky.social · 24/10/2025"From this day forward, I no longer shall tinker with the machinery of death.” (Justice Harry Blackmun) 022
Reposted by MyNameIsTrueMike Sacks @mikesacks.bsky.social · 24/10/2025The recent history of SCOTUS on capital punishment 1963-1987: Is the death penalty constitutional? 1988-2018: It’s totally constitutional but not for some people and maybe not by certain methods? 2018-Present: One way or another you’re gonna die. 2326
Reposted by MyNameIsTrueSteve Held @peoplesfabric.bsky.social · 29/09/2026“prosecutors had also obtained roughly three hundred [‼️] photographs of Martinez’s and Ruiz’s cars from Flock ALPR cameras throughout Cook County,” over a 30 day span. 08031
Reposted by MyNameIsTrueHeidi Kitrosser @heidikitrosser.bsky.social · 30/09/2026I still can't get over the fact that SCOTUS (minus Sotomayor, Kagan & Jackson) did this yesterday *on the shadow docket.* Nary a word of justification. Not even a nod to the lower court opinions finding it unlawful to deport to 3rd countries w/o due process to flag torture & persecution risks. 35317
Reposted by MyNameIsTrueJason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 30/09/2026New: Through a series of complex agreements with cities, the White House built a massive license plate camera database accessible to the feds. The program aggregates data across license plate companies (Flock, Axon, more) & is searchable by many agencies: www.404media.co/how-cities-a...404media.coHow Cities Are Forced to Funnel License Plate Data to a Massive Federal Surveillance ProgramHow the federal government built a massive database of license plate reader data through an anti-drug trafficking program. 8177132
Reposted by MyNameIsTrueSanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Google and Apple immediately update their maps. 382471544
Reposted by MyNameIsTrueunraveled @unraveledpress.com · 29/09/2026New: We obtained witness videos and surveillance footage showing ICE parking their cars, arresting an observer, and transferring detainees in parking lots across 4 of Chicago's police districts. Local officials have tried banning ICE from city property. But incidents in the lots keep stacking up:unraveledpress.comIn plain sight: a year of ICE using Chicago police parking lots for its operationsVideos and witness testimony show immigration agents continue using Chicago police station parking lots despite a ban on their access to city property. Records obtained from the Civilian Office of Pol... 8650357
Reposted by MyNameIsTrueWonkette @wonkettemedia.bsky.social · 29/09/2026We Found The Voter Fraud — It Was In The Moms For Liberty All Along www.wonkette.com/p/we-found-t... By Robyn Pennacchia @robynelyse.bsky.socialwonkette.comWe Found The Voter Fraud — It Was In The Moms For Liberty All AlongFormer Republican mayoral candidate Gaea Powell found guilty on eight counts related to voter fraud. 927799
MyNameIsTrue @alisontrue.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Denied equal access to education—slam dunk if Title IX had any teeth. 000
MyNameIsTrue @alisontrue.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Really feeling for Chanel Miller right now, not to mention the thousands of survivors whose names we don’t know. 012
Reposted by MyNameIsTrueSherrod Brown @sherrodbrownoh.bsky.social · 29/09/2026NEW AD: Listen to this sh*t. 37689952807
Reposted by MyNameIsTrueemptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Jack Smith: Donald Trump preyed on party loyalty and fear. One of the reasons he [failed] is bc Republicans stood up. I personally find it hard to understand how our investigation could be viewed as partisan when our strongest witnesses were Republicans. [Names Rusty Bowers and Mike Pence.] 161965608
Reposted by MyNameIsTrue404 Media @404media.co · 29/09/2026CEO who wants to add facial recognition to Flock cameras says it's "the way the world will have to be."404media.coSurveillance Finds a WayCEO who wants to add facial recognition to Flock cameras says it's "the way the world will have to be." 2512563
MyNameIsTrue @alisontrue.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Ok, this one is ugly, but all I can think about is how he felt about his employer’s coverage of trans issues. He was trans *and* a director there. 011
MyNameIsTrue @alisontrue.bsky.social · 29/09/2026You know something has broken containment when your 92-year-old mother is sending you insta poetry about it. www.instagram.com/p/Ddzkck3vDN...instagram.comInstagramCreate an account or log in to Instagram - Share what you're into with the people who get you. 010
Reposted by MyNameIsTrueDouglas Reyes-CeroÑ @dreyesceron.bsky.social · 29/09/2026The Star Spangled Banner being played by the Mariachi Herencia de Mexico band before the Bears-Eagles game in Chicago on Monday Night Football was a deeply cool thing to see tonight 17124242609
Reposted by MyNameIsTrueSaeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 28/09/2026*looks directly at camera* 1442654
MyNameIsTrue @alisontrue.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Critical moments for understanding current (degraded)Title IX policy. It has been weaponized against those whose equal access to protection it was supposed to protect. 🧵 011
MyNameIsTrue @alisontrue.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Studies vary, but the general consensus is that it’s one in for or five, and the conversation has been going on a lot longer than that. 010
Reposted by MyNameIsTrueKylie Cheung @kylietcheung.bsky.social · 28/09/2026I think its important to understand the campus sexual assault crisis is way worse than you think. universities suspend just 1/12,400 students each year for sexual misconduct & expel 1/22,900. once you read title ix administrators in their own words, you get a sense why that is:jezebel.comNot Only Do Campus Sexual Assailants Go Unpunished, They Often Get Special TreatmentSince 2007, Jezebel has been the Internet's most treasured source for everything celebrities, sex, and politics...with teeth. 1757271
Reposted by MyNameIsTrueKat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 28/09/2026There’s something to be said for how most of the political spectrum can unite around hounding some lesbians over niche drama in their spaces but huge segments of society are silent about pervasive campus rape impacting a huge population of primarily youngwomen 252851657
Reposted by MyNameIsTrueEmily Gorcenski @emily.gorcen.ski · 28/09/2026Here’s the most incredible story you’ll read today. A small plane with four people aboard crashes in a field. Another pilot witnesses it. That pilot happens to be flying a bunch of skydivers. They offer to jump to assist, are given permission. The skydivers happen to be EMTs. Everyone survives.wisn.comSkydivers alert emergency crews, assist after plane crashes near East Troy airportFour people were aboard the single-engine plane when it went down in a cornfield near Carvers School Road in East Troy at about 1:30 p.m. 122102872665
Reposted by MyNameIsTruescreaming until the void tells me to shut up @mutedscreaming.bsky.social · 27/09/2026I'll never forget the student journalists at Columbia who continued to cover the university bringing in an army of cops to dismantle the Pro-Palestine student encampments. Even when the folks at the SCHOOL OF JOURNALISM were prohibited from covering it, they stayed and kept covering. Amazing kids 5722120
MyNameIsTrue @alisontrue.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Absolute must read. I canceled after that heinous menopause story, but I was able to listen via the player at the top. 🤫 000
Reposted by MyNameIsTrueemptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 27/09/2026It seems like Todd Blanche and Mike Waltz got to tell lies about CNN on the Sunday shows, as a reward to them for banning the press. 20709178
Reposted by MyNameIsTrueJared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Just helping with editing here. These bots aren’t sentient. They’re doing what they’re programmed to do. OpenAI, a private company supposedly bound by laws, committed federal crimes. 16892923064
MyNameIsTrue @alisontrue.bsky.social · 26/09/2026From the thread: “Immigrant rights groups will tell you they’ve heard from immigrants that they’ll be left overnight on buses for 10, 15, 24 whole hours, often at an airport, and often with no bathroom. I’ve heard this myself many times.” 010
MyNameIsTrue @alisontrue.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Ew. Hacky to include the substance of your meal in any interview (I said what I said), but in the first sentence? Moral failure. 010
Reposted by MyNameIsTrueNathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 26/09/2026ICE has abducted Senegalese WBB player Aminata Seck and won't release her. DHS 'policy' is to provide medical care to prisoners at intake, yet they admit to denying her care for an ACL injury for 1.5 months. The NCAA is letting it happen, despite its predatory recruitment of ICAs. We explain.theguardian.comICE has abducted a college athlete. What are the NCAA and universities going to do about it?Aminata Seck’s detention shows the bargain facing international college athletes: universities eagerly recruit them, but support can disappear when their immigration status becomes precarious. 10886511
Reposted by MyNameIsTrueSteve Mullis @stevemullis.net · 25/09/2026Lordy. Not sure if there is a less important thing the NYT could ask Zuckerberg about right now. 3122
Reposted by MyNameIsTrueJay Edidin @edidin.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Don't pretend brands are people. Don't pretend politicians are texting me directly. These seem like very basic integrity things. 2416
Reposted by MyNameIsTrueJeff Lazarus @jlazarus.bsky.social · 25/09/2026This is Nazi rhetoric. Not similar. Not Nazi-like. It’s straight up lebensraum. 362976916
Reposted by MyNameIsTrueRadley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Raskin made a holy shit observation on MS Now this afternoon: Since taking office, Trump has made a million dollars per hour for himself. Every hour, he has made more than twice the president’s annual salary. 8141881737
Reposted by MyNameIsTrueMark Follman @markfollman.bsky.social · 24/09/2026NEWS: My new investigation uncovers the horrific ChatGPT history of the Tumbler Ridge school shooter. OpenAI’s chatbot fueled the shooter's violent fantasies and plans up to the day of the massacre. Chats about guns, timing of attacks, becoming infamous, and more. www.motherjones.com/media/2026/0...motherjones.comChatGPT helped the Tumbler Ridge school shooter focus on guns, tactics, and terror, our investigation revealsOpenAI’s chatbot fed the shooter’s violent fantasies and planning up to the massacre. 421470807
Reposted by MyNameIsTrueYouDon'tWantToKnow @idontthinksomate.bsky.social · 24/09/2026"But there are limits." This ruling, if it survives all appeals, can be leveraged for civil rights violation lawsuits from those held there. It's not like they'd have to prove their rights were violated, the judge ruled that they were. That's a done decision/declaration. 041
Reposted by MyNameIsTrueErin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 23/09/2026Political winds do not only flow from voters to politicians, they go in reverse as well. Democrats running ads like these signal to the general public and their voter base that this issue now has support by both parties, and that hating trans people is publicly acceptable. They do harm to us. 301888466
Reposted by MyNameIsTrueAugust J. Pollak @augustjpollak.bsky.social · 24/09/2026I feel what’s lost in the “Ellison asked Musk for money to buy WBD” story is this implicitly suggests Ellison *cannot afford to buy WBD* which you would think in a normal world would be the very first thing that kills a deal to buy WBD 131110295