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Who knew that Natalie could chase 100mph in heels and still get home looking spiff? / coming up like a cheetah

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This is an quick-informative graphic. I don't know Daniel Reed is, but it seems to check out. Despite *overwhelming* public interest in this case, SCOTUS seems set to let yet another election go by sitting on its hands...

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I'm afraid to look into the Cornell sitch, b/c the commentary is gone wild. Who was it that wanted to the NYT to get involved? LOL. We have this _within the same story_. *boggle*

NYT's reporters accusing the University of secrecy ("The school has said little.")

pointing out that the University is bound by privacy laws, so... "no comment".

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Full Name @amicusopus.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

adding this sharable tableau on crime to this thread so it's readily available /6

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Honestly terrifying that some of these people have a front row seat to such a project…

Full Name @amicusopus.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Folks will recognize this two-step from employment law, but here it is showing up in another context. msmagazine.com/2024/01/24/s...

“The Hillsdale College policy gives the impression that it was written by people who are familiar with the issues sexual violence victims care about, but they have reserved discretion for the school every step of the way,” said Nancy Chi Cantalupo, Wayne State University law professor and Title IX expert. ‘Those reservations make clear that they are also saying, ‘You have no rights under this policy and cannot demand particular treatment from the college.’ By having a policy that gives no actual rights to students, Hillsdale College attempts to appear like it will take care of students, but in actuality, they have no rights under the policy.”

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Full Name @amicusopus.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

While flunky Senator Schmitt got all fiery before and after flameout and won the week, it was a close RUD with Darline Graham pulled hard for The Weakest Link in the game of 'let's try to politicize Our Deceiver's wrongdoing'.

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Full Name @amicusopus.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

We pass shield laws and also laws to protect the integrity of an investigation for Title IX, kinda so what you say won't "end up on the front page of the NYT". Now we have this...

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Full Name @amicusopus.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

It's important for those who don't know that this kind of change in law is not "revolutionary". It's been done before by other states. Some of those jurisdictions also change severity to contrast involuntary versus voluntary. See here for reference: jaapl.org/content/50/4...

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Full Name @amicusopus.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Well, the NYPost has backed off from the "ratted" out his frat bros stuff... *eyes roll* .. and decided to tabloid Cornell (as if it's Title IX investigators as blind and bogus as a Trump appointee). Meanwhile, this howler in their opinion piece like a bit from Inception, as if Murdoch himself

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Full Name @amicusopus.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

[parody photo] Did someone hang the flag upside down? When your Princeton Tory has lost the confidence and is so desperate about having stepped into an escalation trap and then a forever-war that he starts angry-blaming 20% of the general staff, you know it's leadership that is the problem.

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Hillsdale student be calling for impeachment of "look the other way", dishonorable leadership of the redHats.

Why do rural voters say they 'hate all politicians', yet empower those who attack public servants that show integrity, honesty, and a patriotic-service unwillingness to be 'bought off'? It's time to re-root civic pride in something more inspiring than rides in the beast around the Nascar track.

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When you look at the fact-pattern of this horrific case in Missoula (a book that was so disturbing I had to put it down...) and compare it to what happened in 2024 at Cornell, they are very different. For instance, Chi Phi was put on temp suspension the same day as the allegations were made (Nov 8).

What's a good emphasis weighting on prevention vs. root causes? 50/50? Does it depend too much in 'initial conditions' to say generally?

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With polls showing people waking up, Democrats need to press the advance. Let's reclaim rural-red instead, not for this election, but as a project for a generation or more. Who has ideas on how to get a *sustained* message across, unravel the GOP weave?

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...runners whom the race outran... / when one war closes, God opens another window for Conservative-Spasm to jump through

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For the bright-lights, big-city irregulars (you know who you are):

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Because of the sheer arrogance of Schmitt here, one leans toward censure. The speech-and-debate clause is not permission to defame people. / ears that hear only Their Deceiver

John Fetterman and Dave McCormick have U.S. Marines in harms way in the Gulf because they blanket-think they are "pro-Israel" (which turns out to be a simple appeal to shut-down your rational mind?). Pennsylvanians need some better choices on offer. www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/9/...

In a statement, the Israeli military said more than 100 settlers rioted in Jalud overnight, preventing Israeli forces from facilitating the return of a displaced Palestinian family to their home by blocking roads, setting tyres on fire and throwing stones at security forces.

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Senators McCormick and Fetterman of Pennsylvania team up with John "Golden Eared" Thune to get Monongahela coal across the plains and rivers to feed the Iowa Steel blast furnaces at Lake America.

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Pennsylvania is very interested in the emerging picture of "Iowa Steel"...

The gilt-ears fiddled with themselves while Rome burned... / when it gets this bad, you have to get rid of them *all* and start over

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His sidekick, Dave McCormick, ... and the magic of 'precision bombing' nearly everything.

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[parody] To own Iran, to win the peace, I'm going to re-name Omaha to "Lake America".

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John Thune and the gilt-eared MAGA horse-Senators let the good times roll for Trump-Kushners and their failed diplomacy.

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Full Name @amicusopus.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I want you to remember this next time you hear the standard-issue spew about "job creators"...

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Always keep weighted blankets to give as presents to those in your life who have this huggy-crushy thing going on (and not platonically!).

Full Name @amicusopus.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Friday nite jazz... (but I think I'm in the mood for the blues?) In the Middle of a Kiss, with Zoots www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uajx...

What if the problem per se isn't 'models', but the entire VC-poisined industry *structure* and race-to-the-bottom incentives? What if bio-link research should not be done by crowdsourced 'psychopathy money' start-ups?

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We're pretty far along. Multi-billion dollar bets have already been laid down on "AGI" and 'the one ring to rule them all', so...penny ante regulation ain't going to do the job. thehill.com/opinion/tech...

We all know how the current Spasm-War of The Conservatives ends, because we've seen this picture before: you tear up your lies about the birth certificate and say, 'now, we never talk about this again', while dishonorably pushing it to all others to clean up an intractable mess.

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I'm ashamed to admit that I did literary tourism once in my life.

That and grand larceny for stealing a loaf of bread...

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Made it to Friday, but at what cost?