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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 28/09/2026

The data also strongly suggests that campus rape is perpetrated by a small number of actors. Put differently, most men on campus don't rape, but the ones who do rape a lot of women. Getting rid of those guys would make campus way safer . psycnet.apa.org/record/2020-...

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Jonathan Jarry @jonathanjarry.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I was interviewed by Sam Woodson for @theguardian.com. Excellent piece on how testosterone is being used by the U.S. government as regressive propaganda. Vaccines are liberal and TRT is MAGA. The needle is apolitical but.... Cc @caulfieldtim.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

Quote from me: "The needle is apolitical but the content of the syringe is decided by who you vote for.”

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É preciso dar um jeito, meu amigo @tela.myatproto.social · 28/09/2026

I was on jury selection for a rape trial where one of the women during Voire Dire stated that if her son was accused "I would want somebody like me to advocate for him." Selected for the jury & shocker that the case was dismissed 2 days later.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 28/09/2026

ICE IS ABOUT TO MAKE YOUR GROCERY BILL EVEN WORSE Cattle groups in Texas, Oklahoma and Kansas say ICE raids are creating a “massive chilling effect” on legal, documented workers, disrupting meatpacking and delaying the processing of thousands of cattle. They’re reporting millions in losses.

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Good times for Ken Paxton and Roger Marshall

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Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Today is World Rabies Day, and here is something to celebrate in the fight against this terrible disease: “Bhutan became the first country in the WHO South-East Asia Region to receive validation for eliminating dog-mediated human rabies as a public health problem” @jackiantonovich.bsky.social

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World Rabies Day 2026

2026 year’s World Rabies Day theme is: “Stronger Together”.

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Caitlin Rivers @cmyeaton.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

It looks like we may be headed for an early flu season, especially in the Western region, where test positivity is climbing quickly. www.forceofinfection.com/second-look-...

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Second look at flu

Early signs of flu increase in Pacific states

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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 27/09/2026

Been avoiding this but it’s Super Important to have access to knowledge & experience w neurodivergence ASAP. A big source of lifetime torture among people with ADHD roots from inability to contextualize & put into words what we are experiencing both within & from how the outside world responds to us

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Big Art Thread @bigartthread.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Sculpture by multidisciplinary Indian artist Tarini Sethi, 2020s, whose practice pulls from Indian art history to address themes of gender, eroticism, repression, and inequality.

Metal wire sculpture depicting an abstracted female figure holding up a curvy vase. The sculpture casts a shadow outline onto a white wall.

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Chris Conaton @conatonc.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

A familiar story for anyone who follows @volts.wtf. “The Chronicle spoke to more than half a dozen grid experts…to try to understand why Texas’s notoriously unreliable grid had a remarkably reliable summer. The answer was unanimous: solar panels and batteries.”

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Texas shattered energy demand records this summer. Here's why the grid held up.

Texas repeatedly broke electricity demand records this summer, but ERCOT avoided emergencies as booming solar and battery capacity helped keep the grid stable.

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emily fraser 🌿🐌✨ @emilyesfraser.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I’m only seeing people with ME or Long Covid sharing this. If you’re not affected, can you please read it & share? Ableist propaganda goes viral all the time, which encourages outlets to publish more of it. Can we please make the truth go viral instead?

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The Gurgling Cod (he/him) @thegurglingcod.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

A reminder that it costs nothing to tell a young person that you believe in them.

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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The meaningful divide in the Democratic party for the foreseeable future is going to be a lot less about center vs left ideology and a lot more about people who grasp this vs people who don’t.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

context. sentiment. inferences. People seriously cannot do these things anymore. That’s why they angrily demand you spell out every joke, every reference, super duper promise you mean something only this one prescribed way. They cannot do it for themselves or tolerate the any ambiguity.

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The Sick Times @thesicktimes.org · 25/09/2026

Study: More evidence of reduced blood flow to the brain of people with Long COVID Analysis: The U.S. is ill-equipped to respond to LC and future mass disabling events Preprint: Assessed over 700 LC clinical trials and found that they emphasized treating symptoms thesicktimes.org/2026/09/22/r...

A visual shows functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) of the brain, which allow researchers to visualize the activity of the brain. Three scans surround a 3-d image of a human head with a view into their brain. The text reads, “The Sick Times. Long COVID research updates. A small study found more evidence of reduced blood flow to the brain of people with Long COVID. New analysis: The U.S. is ill-equipped to respond to Long COVID and future mass disabling events. A recent preprint assessed over 700 Long COVID clinical trials and found that they emphasized treating symptoms.”

A small study in NeuroImage: Reports has found more evidence of reduced blood flow to the brain of people with Long COVID. The authors concluded that this abnormality was linked with fatigue, after they assessed brain imaging results of 22 people with Long COVID and compared them with 19 controls. Participants of the study performed a 20-minute cognitive test called psychomotor vigilance task (PVT), while undergoing a type of MRI that tracks blood flow. People with Long COVID reported much higher fatigue than controls both before and after the task, and “exhibited significantly longer reaction times during the PVT,” the authors concluded.

The U.S. is ill-equipped to respond to Long COVID and future mass disabling events, a new analysis argues in The Journal of Medical Humanities. Author Philip Finkelstein evaluated the disease through the lens of securitization, or, how public challenges are viewed as existential security threats. He found that modern security strategies remain “shortsighted and poorly attuned to threats that operate insidiously, eroding societies from within.” He stated that to properly address the security of Long COVID on society, the U.S. would need to invest in long-term care, workplace accommodations, and social support, but that these solutions are not “geopolitically advantageous.”

A recent preprint shared in Research Square assessed over 700 Long COVID clinical trials and found that they emphasized treating symptoms. Only 57 of the 714 trials addressed post-exertional malaise (PEM), prevalent in a subtype of Long COVID, and only eight of those trials used PEM as primary endpoint. “There is a substantial unmet need for well-powered, mechanism-based, disease-modifying trials with biomarker-driven designs and objective, exertion-based endpoints,” the researchers concluded. Still, researchers stated they used a conservative research strategy, which may have missed some studies.

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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

As of today, the CDC has changed (reverted) their Covid guidance to make the vaccine recommended for all people over 18. In addition to being a smart public health move, this recommendation also means insurance must cover it. Read more here: www.cdc.gov/covid/hcp/va... Listen to a breakdown here:

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DJ Plague Mouse 💎🐁 @rhinestonemice.wtf · 25/09/2026

The Last Ditch bar posted this on their Instagra/m asking to help support a patron who is being harassed bc of misinfo in the globe article, and it is misinfo because its fascist hype garbage. Support a community member: Cashapp- $soetheartist Venmo-@ Soenoire

Screenshot of an instagram post: Support a community member: Cashapp- $soetheartist Venmo-@ Soenoire
Our community should expect more details in the future. Today we need to address the safety of the community itself. Stop harassing Soe Noire. It is neither productive, progressive, nor valiant to attack and harass a black patron. He has been a collaborator and performer of Last Ditch for a while, and he deserves to speak his mind about accountability and repair from the bar. There are so many misconceptions due to the disorganization of the Globe’s article. He did not call for a shutdown, nor did he call for the bar to be firebombed. Further, he did not disparage the owner for being homeless. As a result of this abysmal journalism, Soe has been getting additional threats, slurs, and harassment, and now he is being reported to the police over something he did not do. This is not supporting us at Last Ditch, and it is at its core, anti-blackness hysteria.

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CZEdwards @czedwards.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

If 1 in 10 are admitting it, the number is more like 4 or 5 in 10, and the other 3-4 are self-punishing for not being good enough or in denial, or in some other way pushing themselves towards collapse and devastation. It’s a known problem in HCW mental health, too.

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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The truth is, you can belittle maskers, shrug off disabled people, and call us all crazy a million times, but you’re going to have to live in the world you’re building with these choices, and outcomes don’t care that your views are popular right now. www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/mor...

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More than 1 in 10 US healthcare workers report ongoing long-COVID symptoms, study finds

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saracuda @mostestghostess.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

For memorizing both parents' numbers.

I'm holding the little, simple smartphone badges in my palm. The bodies and screens are felt and the display, which is of a simple phone dial pad, is made with fabric paint.

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Allison 🎃🍁👻 @allisonzee.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I literally thought he was being sarcastic because this is such a ridiculous thing to admit to thinking. Seems he means it.

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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I think the "debate" about bringing iced coffee to job interviews is effective at distracting people from the really bad job market, the high unemployment rate for Black women, ongoing mass layoffs in tech and media, and how Gen Z workers are refusing to adopt many toxic aspects of corp work culture

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Andi Zeisler @andizeisler.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

A woman was drugged, raped, and sexually trafficked to members of a fraternity. Two of the men involved were expelled. Five were given the opportunity to mitigate suspension by *writing an essay.* The dozens of other men who knew this was happening and said nothing? You already know the answer.

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EDITORIAL | Cornell Won’t, We Will

The Editorial Board demands that Cornell stops protecting the alleged Chi Phi rapists through the University's opaque sexual assault policies.

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Anne Lutz Fernandez @lutzfernandez.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

And voucher pushers love this. They are ecstatic that they can pretend to offer a way for the "exceptional few" (they believe there are few) to escape underresourced (they don't call them this) schools. They stopped pretending a few years ago that the goal was to uplift the disadvantaged as a class.

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Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

the future tech bros are dreaming of

4 panel comic

Panel 1:
Purple Guy panicking in a room full of flames. He screams “Oh God! I’m going to die!”

Panel 2:
Purple Guy is now on the phone (still surrounded by flames). He yells “Fire Service!! My house is burning down”

Panel 3:
Purple Guy (still burning to death) is now hollering “My address? Shit I don’t know! Lemme check my phone”

Panel 4:
Close up on Purple Guy’s phone screen. It reads: Emergency call detected. Pay £45.50 to view address.

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Natasha Devon @natashadevon.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

George will be coming on my show this weekend to discuss this very important article.

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

For those of us who've been following PRECISELY this issue for decades, it's like the regularity of bird migrations. Obviously bogus claims (migrating north), fully & categorically debunked (migrating south) a month later. In the old days it was John Fund at WSJ oped page. Now it's DHS/DOJ.

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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 24/09/2026

If you’ve been considering getting or reupping an IUD or other long-term contraception for yourself or your daughters, don’t wait. Now is the time

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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Also! If you forget the antihistamines until you are already feeling like liquid death, you can take them afterwards and they probably will help way more than the Tylenol that's the usual recommendation.

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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Boosting again for people getting COVID vaccines (thank you for getting vaccinated!!) because my mentions are full of people finding it helpful. There is way more detail (and citations!) in the thread both up and down but this is the key info!

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LunchCounterPunch @theultrasecret.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

A firefighter compromising with an unrepentant arsonist is going to be putting out fires in perpetuity.

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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This guy!!!!!!!!!!!

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Ande[']s Candies @abobandrea.myatproto.social · 24/09/2026

Yeah I think I'll just let this loop for a while

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Maggie Astor @maggieastor.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Upsetting how long this has been a reasonable cover photo and how long it will continue to be

Someone texts me "What a time to be alive huh"

I respond at 10:02pm:
"Ugh sorry missed this
Was distracted by being alive at this time"

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GorgonGoddess_The🐍 @avngmedusa.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Healing is harder when you are constantly navigating walls of ableist apathy dressed up as…¿intellect? Society needs to soften. You’re not disabled, Until you are!

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Karen Wants The Orcas In Charge @riceboilsover.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

This whole thread. I've been mostly staying away from the discourse around that article for the sake of my blood pressure and my sanity but fr the way many people on the left's principles don't include disabled people is really... something.

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Allison 🎃🍁👻 @allisonzee.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Excellent piece to read or listen to, as there's a "listen" option. @mskellymhayes.bsky.social reads aloud her writing & has such a soothing voice, despite the topic being the opposite of soothing. If nothing else, it's soothing to hear some trenchant analysis rather than typical AI hype. ❤️

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Do note that the NYT push alert tonight is not six *new* hospitals ending gender-affirming medical care for minors. It is the cumulative six since mid-May, the most recent two of which DOJ announced — and I covered at Law Dork — last Friday.

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As Trump loses ground and lashes out, some remain willing to capitulate when it comes to anti-trans hate

More alarming settlements from medical providers in states that have laws aimed at stopping anti-trans discrimination. On Friday, it was NYU Langone and UPMC.

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✪ Gray Skies Ahead ✪ @jongraywb.blacksky.app · 21/09/2026

These are never suicides and the fact that they are quick to say so before anything else is telling. Black people don’t hang ourselves from trees, y’all.

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emily fraser 🌿🐌✨ @emilyesfraser.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

This kind of misinfo/disinfo gets published *all the time* regarding ME & Long Covid. Thread on the amount of effort & persistence it takes to get the record corrected ⬇️ Patients are amazing but they shouldn’t have to do this work! And a reminder that some trusted outlets aren’t actually trustworthy

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Long Covid Advocacy @longcovidadvoc.com · 22/09/2026

Thanks again to George for writing about ME with clarity & precision. And there is definitely room for a story about ME & capital - it's the reason the BPS model stays strong especially since Blair's adoption of it in the 90s to punch down on the disabled - & not pay benefits.

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Allison 🎃🍁👻 @allisonzee.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

'Tis the season! 🧹 🪄🕸️🧝🏼‍♀️👻🍁🎃

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Elizabeth Bennett @elizabethbennettjd.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

This is the single best quote from any @mcsweeneys.net article. It’s brilliance cannot be overstated. “Felonies and gourds have one very important commonality: they’re both extremely fucking real. Sorry if that’s upsetting, but I’m not doing you any favors by shielding you from this anymore.”

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Allison 🎃🍁👻 @allisonzee.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Bonus points that every "healthy" person they kick off the ACA is only one infection or accident away from needing immediate healthcare & they will have none. The cruelty is the point.

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Allison 🎃🍁👻 @allisonzee.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

That's MY goddamn mayor! 👀❤️

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Benin Roots @beninroots.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Le Yobou est une danse rituelle du peuple Waama du Bénin. Elle est associée à une cérémonie initiatique précédant la circoncision

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