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MyNameIsTrue

@alisontrue.bsky.social
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Edited the Chicago Reader during what you might call its “heyday.” Currently editing ReckonReformRepair.org and other freelance projects.

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Molly Roberts @mollyroberts.bsky.social · 4h
"You know why I'm furious right now? I was hearing from everybody on plaintiffs' side that this was going to happen and I said repeatedly, no, I trust the government. I trusted you all not to do precisely what you have done."
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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 2h
Seems relevant to me that the new White House press secretary, who supposed to convey accurate information, believes that elites in the Democratic Party and Hollywood are sexually trafficking kids and eating people. 24 hours later, it hasn’t made it into mainstream coverage of Zacharia.
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New White House press secretary is a Pizzagate conspiracy theorist
Katie Zacharia, who was appointed White House press secretary by President Trump on Friday, repeatedly promoted the debunked Pizzagate conspiracy on social media, accusing elites from the Democratic P...
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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 16/07/2025
you say "i asked chatgpt" i hear "i asked [an improv comedy group]" an improv group wrote this report instead of a therapist i use an improv comedy group
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Robyn Pennacchia @robynelyse.bsky.social · 1h
And some of us are happy he's not attending on the grounds that Columbus Day is gross for everyone and embarrassing for us. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/11/n...
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Mamdani Will Skip Columbus Day Parade. Some Italian Americans Are Glad.
City Hall confirmed that the mayor would not join Monday’s procession up Fifth Avenue, but would host an Italian American heritage reception soon.
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Dante Atkins @danteatkins.bsky.social · 2h
When Dems talk about the Ilhan Omar situation, they need to stop using language that implies that Omar might have done anything wrong. Trump is not "investigating" Omar. They are trying to denaturalize and deport a sitting Congressmember by scrutinizing decades old paperwork from when she was a kid
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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 4h
Just thinking about this as the state harasses Ilhan Omar over 40 year old paperwork.
washingtonpost.com
Elon Musk, enemy of ‘open borders,’ launched his career working illegally
Investors in Musk’s first company worried about “our founder being deported” and gave him a deadline for obtaining a work visa.
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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
This is how you write a headline.
Telegraph headline:

Trump backstabs Zelensky for five minutes of midterm relief
Deal with Putin for Russia’s oil might soften the markets but Ukraine will pay the price
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 10/10/2026
Okay, but have you considered how much water chestnut groves consume.
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One of America's Last Remaining Chestnut Groves Could Soon Be Wiped Out to Make Room for an AI Data Center
One of the few remaining chestnut groves in the US may soon be bulldozed to make room for a massive hyperscale data center.
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MyNameIsTrue @alisontrue.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
I did not go to Carleton.
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MyNameIsTrue @alisontrue.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
The paper at Carleton College published an op-ed by the alums documenting years of sexual misconduct and institutional betrayal there. Apparently it’s causing a stir. There’s a campus reset every four years, so they didn’t even know. thecarletonian.com/21060/viewpo...
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A Carleton we’d be proud of: a letter to current students from Alumni
In 2024 a recent graduate sued Carleton in federal court alleging she had told administrators that her dance instructor had groomed her and sexually assaulted her at his house near campus. The instruc...
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Kate Clancy @kateclancy.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Some day they'll pretend to be proud of the encampments, just you watch.
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MyNameIsTrue @alisontrue.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
“Cover”
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MyNameIsTrue @alisontrue.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Here’s the project, by the way. A longitudinal presentation of original articles about cases and timelines with assaults, institutional failures, and student activism on sexual misconduct. All from Carleton College, a microcosm of rape culture. ReckonReformRepair.org
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MyNameIsTrue @alisontrue.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Here’s the project, by the way. The school is Carleton College, and the institutional betrayal is heavy. Don’t miss the new “Spotlight” for the 2020s, about a teacher on student case that may be settled next week—or may not. www.reckonreformrepair.org
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Billie Jean Sweeney @billiejsweeney.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Ryan is the same nyt executive who has directed a yearlong, racially tinged vendetta against Mamdani. In one notorious instance, the nyt used an unnamed eugenicist with hacked material as its source for a nothing burger attack on Mamdani
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Joshua Failé @joshuafaile.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
The President of the United States, in front of a crowd of his supporters, during a televised rally, admits to a Quid Pro Quo pardon, which is a felony and impeachable offence. And absolutely nothing will happen, because his party, which controls congress, are fascist collaborators and sycophants.
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MyNameIsTrue @alisontrue.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
When I tell people I'm working on a project documenting decades of institutional betrayals by a small, highly esteemed liberal arts college, they inevitably ask, "Doesn't that happen everywhere." Yes. Yes, it does.
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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 07/10/2026
Hats off to the user who reported the Eva Marie Saint trending topic for sexual content. Lady, you've still got it
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Erica Ifill @wickdchiq.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
The French police are so militarized they blew up a 15-yr-old’s hand and took the eye of another one. Why are grenades being used to quell student protestors who are unarmed? Now the labour unions are stepping in to protect the students
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Horrifying: Arizona Democratic congressional candidate Bernadette Greene-Placentia was raped by a man after he knocked her out. Another man approached her to do the same. “She began swinging her foot at him. ‘Not even worth it,’ she heard the man say as he moved away.”
phoenixnewtimes.com
Congressional candidate is raped while repairing her campaign signs
Embarrassed, she initially didn’t want to report attack. Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office's investigation is ongoing.
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MyNameIsTrue @alisontrue.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Not the Onion?
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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 07/10/2026
"Knudsen says Seid's nut-spreading activities have expanded in recent months"
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Sande @sande0724.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Fact.
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Stacey Burns @wentrogue.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
NPR: Wait, prison staff are actually told to check wikipedia for the correct dosage? And that pentobarbital is stored in an unmarked mason jar in the fridge? On the one hand, I don't want to hear details about executions. On the other, the more people know, the more they oppose the death penalty.
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MyNameIsTrue @alisontrue.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
*Talarico *El-Sayed
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Elizabeth Anne, PhD @lacksauthority.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
never the wrong time for this classic
Screenshot of a tweet by @RobbtKraft reading “scientist: "does everyone here know what Watson and Crick discovered?" 
me from back of room: "Rosalind Franklin's notes"”
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Steve Mullis @stevemullis.net · 05/10/2026
Reuters with the properly-framed Hastert headline www.reuters.com/world/us/for...
Reuters headline: OBITUARY-Dennis Hastert, former US House speaker and admitted child molester, dies at 84
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MyNameIsTrue @alisontrue.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
That’s what I’m talking about. Didn’t realize he was dead or I’d have named him too.
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MyNameIsTrue @alisontrue.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
*to work as their editor
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MyNameIsTrue @alisontrue.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
They’ve been compiling the evidence with diligence and rigor. Nonjournalists doing kickass journalism. I’ve been proud to help as their editor.
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MyNameIsTrue @alisontrue.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I’ve been working for several years with the alums assembling data on Carleton College’s failures toward its sex assault victims. Turns out history does repeat itself.
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MyNameIsTrue @alisontrue.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
And the people who got their buddy the rapist wrestling coach elected to Congress and promoted to Speaker? No consequences.
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MyNameIsTrue @alisontrue.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Of course, he got prosecuted not for child rape but for trying to bribe a victim to stay quiet.
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MyNameIsTrue @alisontrue.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
“Disgraced by Child Sex Scandal.” Now those are some choices. Would you call the rape of your child “sex”? If the guy got sent to prison would you call it a disgrace?
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MyNameIsTrue @alisontrue.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I work as an editor with some Carleton alums a project that presents timelines and features describing decades' worth of sexual misconduct by students and faculty, along with a pile of stories about administrators' weak-sauce (and worse) responses.
reckonreformrepair.org
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Is this the Carleton College you’re proud of?
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MyNameIsTrue @alisontrue.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
This student sex assault case likely heads to trial in a week or so. This stuff is not getting better, and it’s not going away.
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Kathryn Tewson @kathryntewson.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I mean probably not, it just feels dead symbolic
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
We murdered four more people in a boat today
U.S. southern Command: On October 4, under the direction of #SOUTHCOM, Joint Task Force Western Hemisphere executed a lethal, kinetic strike on a go-fast vessel operating along established narco-trafficking routes in the Caribbean. Confirmed intelligence revealed the vessel's active involvement in narco-trafficking. The operation killed four narco-terrorists. @DeptofWar
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Laura Chapin @laurachapin.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I work with abortion providers in Colorado. One of them had a patient whose water broke at 4 1/2 months, was told by a Houston hospital they couldn't help her until she went into labor or went septic, so *she got on a plane & flew to Denver mid-miscarriage*. There's no respectful disagreement here.
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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
There are eerie parallels between what’s happening in Irkutsk and what happened in Wuhan in early 2020. Doctors claiming the government was hiding the extent of the spread. Masks being mandated. Schools being closed. Pay attention. Listen to independent journalists & locals:
cnn.com
Researcher at Russian plague laboratory dies of ‘unknown’ infection | CNN
Russian authorities are responding to an incident in which a dangerous infection was released as a result of a laboratory accident in Siberia and a researcher died.
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David Gerard @davidgerard.circumstances.run.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026
henstomper

oh my god the slot machine company says i have to keep putting coins in their machine or Im Gonna Get Left Behind. thats so scary. and it has to be true because they know more about slot machines than i do

oh my god the slot machine company says if we dont give them money to build the world's biggest slot machine the chinese are gonna build it first and win all the prizes. and then there wont be any prizes anymore
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MyNameIsTrue @alisontrue.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
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Chris Sprigman @cjsprigman.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Cornell’s new era of transparency should begin with this guy admitting he hit Gaza protestors with his car on purpose and then lied about it. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/03/n...
nytimes.com
Cornell President Calls Rape Inquiry ‘Defining Moment’ for Campus
Michael I. Kotlikoff said in a video the university would be more transparent, hold Greek groups accountable and improve sexual assault prevention.
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MyNameIsTrue @alisontrue.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
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Daniel Kay Hertz @danielkayhertz.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
What on earth is this statement? She accomplished complex projects, so we’re going to sue you if you repeat her allegations that she was sexually harassed?
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
This is actually a big part of why the Title IX fight is shifting to gender segregated sports, actually. It’s partially about preserving rape culture. People who won’t overly defend rapists will defend the locker rooms where violence happens.
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MyNameIsTrue @alisontrue.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
And if so, ask yourselves why that is. Are administrators rewarded for making Title IX cases disappear?
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MyNameIsTrue @alisontrue.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
It's not just Cornell. It's not just Carleton College. Could a similar dossier be compiled about every college and university in the Western world?
reckonreformrepair.org
2010s: Heard but Unheeded
2010s Carleton Spotlight
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MyNameIsTrue @alisontrue.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I work as an editor with some Carleton alums a project that presents timelines and features describing decades' worth of sexual misconduct by students and faculty, along with a pile of stories about administrators' weak-sauce (and worse) responses.
reckonreformrepair.org
Home
Is this the Carleton College you’re proud of?
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MyNameIsTrue @alisontrue.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The Carleton College alums who published this op-ed in their alma mater's student paper are demanding that that their college finally try to get it right on campus sexual assault, and Carleton student journalists have got coverage of the case now in court. thecarletonian.com/21060/viewpo...
thecarletonian.com
A Carleton we’d be proud of: a letter to current students from Alumni
In 2024 a recent graduate sued Carleton in federal court alleging she had told administrators that her dance instructor had groomed her and sexually assaulted her at his house near campus. The instruc...
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