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National Weather Service @nws.noaa.gov · 23h

Damaging hurricane force-winds are expected over portions of the FL Panhandle, southern AL, and southern MS, and a Hurricane Warning is now in effect from Ocean Springs, MS to the Bay/Gulf County Line, FL. Residents should prepare for the possibility of long-duration power outages.

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National Weather Service @nws.noaa.gov · 23h

Isaias is expected to strengthen and be a strong hurricane when it approaches the northern Gulf Coast on Friday. A life-threatening storm surge is expected along a portion of the northern Gulf Coast, and a Storm Surge Warning is now in effect. Residents should follow advice given by local officials.

National Hurricane Center forecast for Tropical Storm Isaias, issued October 7, 2026, at 10 PM CDT. Isaias has maximum sustained winds of 70 mph and is moving east-northeast at 9 mph. The storm is forecast to strengthen into a hurricane before approaching the northern Gulf Coast Friday evening, with its center potentially moving inland across Mississippi and Alabama Saturday. Hurricane warnings are in effect along portions of the northern Gulf Coast. The cone represents the probable path of the storm's center, not the extent of hazardous conditions.

National Hurricane Center map showing forecast peak storm surge from Tropical Storm Isaias along the northern Gulf Coast. Storm surge of 5–7 feet above ground level is forecast from Ocean Springs, Mississippi, through Mobile Bay, Alabama, to Indian Pass, Florida. Surrounding coastal areas could experience 3–5 feet near southeastern Louisiana, 4–6 feet east of Indian Pass to the Steinhatchee River, and generally 1–3 feet along portions of coastal Louisiana and the Florida Big Bend. Forecast values represent water heights above normally dry ground.

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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 07/10/2026

feels like we should make a larger talking point out of the fact that AI is just another attempt to consolidate wealth for billionaires

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

a little louder for the cheap seats in the back

One of the biggest myths is that men rape by mistake. Like, "Oh, they need consent training." But research is very clear: Sexual violence is not a mistake. It is an intentionally made decision by people who know they don't have consent. They just don't prioritize consent over things like status, power, domination, and sexual gratification.
For my research, I got a certificate of confidentiality from the National Institutes of Health, so my notes couldn't be subpoenaed. One of the reasons I call them perpetrators in my work is because every single person I interviewed confessed in that context. The first question I would ask them was, "When you received that email from Title IX that you were under investigation, did you know what it was about?" Every perpetrator I interviewed said "yes." If sexual assault were a miscommunication, you would be wondering, What have I possibly done wrong? That is not the way that any of them reacted because they knew.

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Former @bardcollege.bsky.social President and friend of Jeffrey Epstein, Leon Botstein, has finally resigned all his college positions after emails emerge in which he asked Epstein if a trafficked woman was “for me.” www.nytimes.com/2026/10/07/u...

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Leon Botstein, Former Bard President With Epstein Ties, Resigns From College Positions

Leon Botstein had already retired from the presidency of the liberal arts college this spring, after emails showed he had maintained a longtime friendship with Jeffrey Epstein.

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Kyiv Post @kyivpost.com · 07/10/2026

Five ballistic missiles. Thirty-nine cruise missiles. 117 drones: Ukraine intercepted or suppressed 161 Russian targets in a massive overnight attack. Strikes hit 18 locations, while debris from intercepted targets fell at five sites. www.kyivpost.com/post/86307

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Ukraine Intercepts 5 Ballistic Missiles and 117 Drones in Massive Russian Attack on Oct. 7

Russia launched a barrage of 178 missiles and drones at Ukraine, with impacts reported in 18 locations across several regions.

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 05/10/2026

I can’t emphasize this enough — “AI” wasn’t born corrupt and toxic. For ~75 years, it was mathematicians and scientists doing interesting, thoughtful work and trying to solve problems, making only the usual human mistakes. What “AI” did to machine learning is as tragic as what it did to artists.

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 05/10/2026

This is your occasional reminder that generative "AI" in particular could have been developed on public domain materials and/or licensed and compensated works but the major players intentionally, methodically and systemically chose to steal labor from working creative folks instead

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Chris Rowan @allochthonous.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Up high in Vermont today it felt like looking down on autumn from winter (the snow had only stuck to vegetation, fortunately, because I was not expecting it at all!).

High view of tree-covered mountain slopes. Many of the trees have golden or orange foliage, which is particularly prominent on the nearest slope where sun is falling. A snow covered pine tree is in the foreground on the left.

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Ann Powers @annkpowers.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Actually puzzles are gyms for the mind. Books are beautiful national parks with winding trails leading to waterfalls and amazing vistas. Some have bears

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14850 Magazine @14850.com · 07/10/2026

Former A.G. Sally Yates will lead independent review of sexual assault handling on campus, says Cornell. Yates previously led U.S. Soccer’s independent investigation into allegations of abusive behavior and sexual misconduct in women’s professional soccer. www.14850.com/100647293-co...

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Former A.G. Sally Yates will lead independent review of sexual assault handling on campus, says Cornell • 14850

Sally Q. Yates, a former U.S. Deputy Attorney General under President Biden and former U.S. Acting Attorney General under President Trump, has been tapped to lead the "comprehensive independent review...

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Andrew Wolf @mrandrewthewolf.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Massive rally in support of Jane Doe at Cornell tonight.

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Cornell AAUP @cornellaaup.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Cornell students, faculty, and staff stand with survivors!

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Alex Reed @salexanderreed.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The crowd of 2000 then all marched to Day Hall and issued their list of demands. A powerful and well-organized demonstration. Here’s hoping it changes an administration more concerned with power and prestige than with justice.

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Alex Reed @salexanderreed.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Cornell protest right now. At least a thousand people out here.

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onno🌻 @onno.cool · 05/10/2026

Rally at Cornell for Jane Doe.

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Eli Friedman @elifriedman.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Cornell, let's go

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Amy @amygalford.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Trying to make a heating oil decision with limited info and the correct answer will depend on unpredictable politicians.

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The COVID-19 History Project @thisdayincovid.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

On this day in COVID history, October 4, 2020: How using an air purifier in your home can and can’t prevent the spread of Covid-19 Source: CNBC www.cnbc.com/2020/10/04/do-portable…

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old roadside pics @roadside.xor.blue · 04/10/2026

big star grocery sign, winona, mississippi, 1986

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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I can’t stop laughing

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Marina Purkiss @marina-purkiss.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Still wondering why some women choose the bear?

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Vermont Public @vermontpublic.org · 02/10/2026

First-time statewide candidate Amanda Janoo, a virtual unknown when she announced her Democratic campaign in March, is within 10 points of a five-term incumbent often hailed as the most popular governor in the country. Watch Vermont This Week: sbrew.link/a9lUcVNs

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Margo Gontar @margogontar.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

So, Russia bombed another bridge in Kyiv today that connects left and right banks . It’s the 5th attack on bridges in Kyiv in these 4 days . People left stranded , can’t get to work or get back home . Nothing military about it . only Russia trying to terrorise us into submission .

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maura quint @mauraquint.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Yes every woman has been harassed, many assaulted. But every woman has also experienced invisible loss from moments she avoided harassment. She felt a space becoming unsafe, so she left, while men stayed on. And in leaving, she lost: opportunities, experiences, learning, promotions, even simply fun.

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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Please please please stop making a big deal out of the G7 reserves release. Yes, it’s 100 million barrels over 4 months. We - the planet - use 100 million barrels of crude every…single…day. Almost literally a drop in the bucket.

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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Not great that parsing the reality of modern tech capabilities involves speaking to an insular priest class who developed a morality around worshiping the gods in the machines, machines that happen to be plugged into all of how the modern web works.

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CBS News @cbsnews.com · 02/10/2026

Text messages and documents from the investigation are providing new details about the night a then-20-year-old Cornell student known as Jane Doe says she was raped by multiple men at a fraternity house in October 2024.

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Jane Doe's account of what happened at Cornell frat, from text messages and investigators' transcripts

A former Cornell student, identified as Jane Doe, filed a civil lawsuit against the school and seven former fraternity brothers she accuses of rape and sexual assault.

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

As an update for anyone who isn’t digging through the comments: I found more articles by USA Today journalists I’ve never met. There are THREE that used quotes from my interview recording—including many quotes that were never publicly published anywhere else.

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Dan Hirschman @asociologist.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Big sigh. Cornell edited its faq after the NYT story about the CUPD omitting details from the victim statement: “Any mention of sharing “all investigatory information” with the district attorney had been removed from the page.” www.wskg.org/regional-new...

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Cornell quietly edits FAQ page about fraternity sexual assault allegations amid public backlash

On Wednesday, the university removed a sentence stating that campus police “shared all investigatory information with the Tompkins County District Attorney's Office.”

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Cornell AAUP @cornellaaup.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The Cornell AAUP Chapter is outraged by the sexual violence that was committed at Chi Phi in 2024. We call for the community to come together on Monday, October 5 at 4:30pm in Ho Plaza, to stand in support of the survivors of sexual violence. Our full statement is here.

We are outraged by the continued culture of misogyny and by the continued pervasiveness of violence against women at Cornell and at universities and colleges across the country. We are outraged that so many women at Cornell have reported experiencing nonconsensual sexual contact.

We are deeply disturbed by Cornell University administration’s response and communications to the community, initially in 2024 and now. Cornell administrators point community members to resources, but do not exercise leadership in creating space to process the harm, the outrage, and to change the culture of misogyny. In moments of crisis such as this, we need leaders, not administrators.

The Cornell administration’s responses reveal its failure to understand and respond appropriately to actual harm and threats to safety on campus. It has used its internal communications to issue elaborate accusations, and it has imposed excessive discipline against students for political protests where there was no threat of harm or violence. And yet, when it comes to sexual violence, Cornell’s communications have been oblique or silent, leaving the community frustrated, fearful, or angry about the administration’s lack of transparency about how it will take effective responses.

We stand in solidarity with victims of sexual violence. We are outraged by the treatment of Jane Doe. We stand in solidarity with student organizations who have been demanding better, with faculty, staff, and students who have been organizing spaces to process and demand change. We do not yet know precisely how or why this case was so egregiously mishandled. What we do know is that it is the most recent example of the systemic failure of Cornell to protect its community — from patients at Cornell Weill to Cornell students — from sexual violence. This system must change.

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vote them out 🗳️🚫🐘🌻 @prowhaledad.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

so is anyone else incandescently furious at the Tompkins County DA that fucked up the Cornell rape investigation going on national television to lie that his office couldn’t prosecute because Jane Doe said she wasn’t raped when she definitely said she was raped the sole time she was interviewed

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NPR @npr.org · 01/10/2026

Counter to what a local prosecutor has claimed, the alleged victim of a 2024 gang rape at Cornell University clearly said in her police statement that she was sexually assaulted, her attorney told NPR. trib.al/Je1VsMK

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Cornell Jane Doe's attorney says she told police in 2024: 'I was raped'

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Creature of Hobbit 🇺🇦 @creatureofhobbit.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Tompkins County D.A. Matthew Van Houten has claimed that the victim's initial statement in the #Cornell rape case was that she had consensual sex with two men & didn't claim S.A. Yet this is the story published in the Cornell student newspaper just a week after the assault:

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Fraternity Suspended After Individual Reported Being Sexually Assaulted by Multiple Males, Coerced Into Consuming Drugs Including Ketamine At House

The Cornell Daily Sun - Independent Since 1880.

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Rachel Cohen @cohen489.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

my bf is a prof at an R1 in a red state and asked to talk through how to bring up the Cornell 7 in class this week and make clear he is someone who is in his students’ corner and we ended up brainstorming how to make clear his allyship includes not just women but any student unsafe in the USA 1/

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Senator Amy Klobuchar @klobuchar.senate.gov · 29/09/2026

Before calling someone a “dirtbag,” the Senator should have had his facts straight. An apology is in order. Glad one of us knew the difference between the Atlanta Hawks and the Iowa Hawkeyes!

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 30/09/2026

This is priceless. Check out how local news is reporting on Sen Eric Schmidt’s clown-show grilling of Jack Smith. They found Jack Smith at the game… “Top corner, section 109, row 1. In fact, that seat doesn’t even exist in Atlanta.”

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All In with Chris Hayes @allinwithchris.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

WATCH: @chrislhayes.bsky.social breaks down how a GOP senator tried to use a supposed Atlanta Hawks game to prove Jack Smith secretly colluded with Trump prosecutors—only to learn the texts were about the Iowa Hawkeyes game he attended 700 miles away in Maryland.

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'COMPLETE DOOFUS': GOP’s Jack Smith ‘smoking gun’ CRUMBLES over Caitlin Clark game

YouTube video by MS NOW

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Time for this classic again.

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brendan @schlage.town · 29/09/2026

FYI for folks looking for a good substack alternative :)

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Seven Days @sevendaysvt.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Two recent polls show that Scott, who is often cited as one of the most popular governors in the nation, finds himself in his tightest campaign since he was first elected in 2016.

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Gov. Scott Leads Janoo by 10 Points in New Poll | Seven Days

The new Vermont poll diverges from one released last week that showed Amanda Janoo leading incumbent Phil Scott.

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feeb | yuritober!! @magicmooshka.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

it’s come to my attention that my tumblr post has been crossposted to bluesky, so I’m posting it on my account here #AntiAI #GenAI

recently my friend's comics professor told her that it's acceptable to use gen AI for script-writing but not for art, since a machine can't generate meaningful artistic work. meanwhile, my sister's screenwriting professor said that they can use gen AI for concept art and visualization, but that it won't be able to generate a script that's any good. and at my job, it seems like each department says that AI can be useful in every field except the one that they know best.

It's only ever the jobs we're unfamiliar with that we assume can be replaced with automation. The more attuned we are with certain processes, crafts, and occupations, the more we realize that gen AI will never be able to provide a suitable replacement. The case for its existence relies on our ignorance of the work and skill required to do everything we don't.

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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 28/09/2026

This is a photo of our home planet taken only a few hours ago! So what? We have photos of Earth taken from space every day. Ah, but *this* photo was taken by a spacecraft ON ITS WAY TO JUPITER.

From the source: "Mostly black space, most of Earth visible at the top right of the image. Part of a spacecraft visible on the left."

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This American Life @thisamericanlife.org · 28/09/2026

Ten years ago, Nikole Hannah-Jones chose a regular public school for her daughter in NYC and challenged other parents to do the same. Now her daughter, Najya, is 16 and has very different views. Hear their conversations. link.podtrac.com/7f47ltjo

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🎃Darin S Pumpkins🎃 @darinself.com · 28/09/2026

The mayor of Ithaca (my friend and former fellow PhD candidate in Government at Cornell) announces a moratorium on permitting Greek Life activities until Cornell produces new standards of addressing sexual assault.

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