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andré crombie @andrecrombie.bsky.social · 7h

in the wake of cornell i can't stop thinking about dan turner's letter to the judge in the chanel miller case. as amia srinivasan writes, "like an animal, brock is imagined to exist outside the moral order."

In 2016, the Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge Aaron Persky sentenced a twenty-year-old Stanford swimmer, Brock Turner, to six months in county jail (of which he served three on three felony counts of sexual assault against Chanel Miller. In a letter to the judge, Brock Turner's father, Dan A. Turner, wrote:
Brock's life has been deeply altered forever by the events of Jan 17th and 18th. He will never be his happy go lucky self with that easygoing personality and welcoming smile... You can see this in his face, the way he walks, his weakened voice, his lack of appe-tite. Brock always enjoyed certain types of food and is a very good cook himself. I was always excited to buy him a big ribeye steak to grill or to get his favorite snack for him. I had to make sure to hide some of my favorite pretzels or chips because I knew they wouldn't be around long after Brock walked in from a long swim practice. Now he barely consumes any food and eats only to exist.
These verdicts have broken and shattered him and our family in so many ways. His life will never be the one that he dreamed about and worked so hard to achieve. That is a steep price to pay for 20 minutes of action out of his 20 plus years of life.2º

The myopic focus on his son's well-being—wasn't Miller's life also
"deeply altered forever"?—is striking. Even more so is the (pre-sumably inadvertent) sexual pun: "20 minutes of action"-healthy, adolescent fun. Should Brock, Dan Turner seems to want to ask, be punished for that? Then there is the food. Brock no longer loves his steak? You no longer have to hide the pretzels or chips from Brock?
This is the way one talks about a golden retriever, not an adult human. But in a sense Dan Turner is talking about an animal, a perfectly bred specimen of wealthy white American boyhood: "happy go lucky," "easygoing," sporty, friendly, and endowed with a healthy appetite and glistening coat. And, like an animal, Brock is imagined to exist outside the moral order. These red-blooded, white-skinned, all-American boys—and the all-American girls who date them and marry them (but are never, ever sexually assaulted by them)—are good kids, the best kids, our kids.

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Amanda Litman @amandalitman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I love the optimism about Dems winning in November - I share it! And: I'm a tiny bit nervous that winning will free folks of the urgency to fix deeper structural problems in our party that will fuck us in the long-haul if we don't grapple with them.

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andré crombie @andrecrombie.bsky.social · 7h

it's criminally underdiscussed that "people who aren't white" and "people who were on the bush 2000 legal team" have equal representation on the supreme court.

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Steph Noh @stephnoh.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

How did Olivia Miles become one of the most creative passers in the WNBA? I asked Miles, along with the people who guided her in her youth. From ancient Greek philosophy to soccer stardom, here are the influences that helped shape a genius: www.sportingnews.com/us/wnba/minn...

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Lessons from Aristotle, Dostoevsky, and a Jersey coaching legend: How Olivia Miles honed her court vision | Sporting News

Olivia Miles' trainers and coaches explain how she developed her unbelievable court vision.

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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 20h

Data center construction has migrated to places of low resistance: poor, often Black areas where corrupt deals are commonplace and the harms to residents invisible. Lowndes County, Alabama, in the heart of the Black Belt, is one of those places. 🧵 prospect.org/2026/10/01/d...

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‘I Know I Couldn’t Live Here’: Standing Up to a Data Center in Alabama’s Black Belt - The American Prospect

Faced with little transparency about a mammoth facility, Lowndes County fights back.

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andré crombie @andrecrombie.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

impossible to overstate the degree to which no one is talking about this

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I think it's very simple, the bosses agreed with Trump about "wokeness" and this was an excuse to purge anything associated with it bsky.app/profile/trac...

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andré crombie @andrecrombie.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

"i'd rather be a pig than a fascist." – porco rosso

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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 17/09/2026

When will the people who argued in April 2025 that Democrats should stay silent on immigration own up to being frankly just disastrously wrong about the politics of mass deportations? Their punditry basically bordered on enablement

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The Onion @theonion.com · 18/09/2026

Trans Teen Hatches Nefarious Plot To Undergo Years Of Medical Treatments And Counseling To Win At Swimming theonion.com/trans-teen-hatches-nef…

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

the experience of COVID really drove this home for me. It wans't the apocalypse, life went on, but a million people died and there were enormous social costs, some of which continue to this day and then when it was done most people were like "let's never think about that again"

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caroline cash @cashbrowns.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Nancy 9/8/26

Nancy’s at school…. Her teacher asks her a math problem: if Nancy had three cupcakes, and Sluggo asked her for one, how many would she have left? Nancy’s reply is “three.”

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I wrote this quickly at a bus stop and didn't realize it would go viral, or else I would have worded it better. But the point is that the media is too credulous about AI killing everyone in 10 years (how?) when climate change is killing people now and will only get worse (we know exactly how).

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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I've spent my entire career reporting on the War on Terror. Many this week have asked me for my extended thoughts on the 25th anniversary of 9/11. Here they are.

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Today We Must Finally Remember What The 9/11 Commemorations Ignore

Righteous victimhood fueled the War on Terror. 25 years later, we also have to remember all of those slain under its banner

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andré crombie @andrecrombie.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

heather mac donald is a great example of the type of person (gutter racists) who should be shunned by polite society, much less interviewed by prestigious newspapers about their views. "teen takeovers," a completely farcical moral panic, is the tell here btw.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Haven't people been talking about a just transition since before Paris/2015? Weird to see it presented like this is some new thing that hasn't been addressed yet. (Of course o.p. is right that fossil fuels leads to its own trouble, including climate catastrophe and global instability.)

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 07/09/2026

worth tying this into the political economy of the slave south as well. from roughly the 1820s onwards, slavery became enormously lucrative in ways that had never been seen before. slave traders became millionaires. large planters had tremendous purchasing power. just huge amounts of wealth.

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Screamer Jim @screamerjim.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Happy Labor Day

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

There's no forgiving this. No living it down. It's a stain on our humanity. When all this is over, the monsters who did this should be pariahs. And the soulless thugs who cheered it on while dehumanizing Haitian immigrants should be reminded of what they did every day of their lives.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Most who vote Democratic this November are voting for opposition. For someone to put more of a check on a lawbreaking, rights violating, power abusing White House. They are *not* voting for compromise to rescue Trump from his mistakes, and some will be disillusioned if that's what their vote gets.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

I shrugged at Jeffries meeting Kushner, for basically the same reason Iran talks to him: meeting adversaries is normal. But the choice to make it secret, followed by surprise that Kushner leaked it, is another sign Dem leaders think they're in normal politics with good faith opponents, not a crisis.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 23/08/2026

here is the thing. if you tell me that you believe that race is a biological category and that it is a guide to the objective superiority and inferiority of groups of people, i am not calling you a racist to *insult* you, i am calling you a racist because it best describes your beliefs.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 21/08/2026

really striking how much centrist commentators basically refuse to engage with political history prior to 2008 in order to prop up tendentious and self-flattering narratives.

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The Onion @theonion.com · 17/08/2026

‘Do You Have Any Idea Who I Am?’ Jalen Brunson Shouts At Librarian Refusing To Move Him Up ‘Lonesome Dove’ Waitlist theonion.com/do-you-have-any-idea-w…

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Serving notice that when you all hatewatch the Beatles biopic that you know is going to be awful, thereby making it successful instead of letting it receive the empty silence it merits, clogging the TL for days with Beatles biopic opinions, I’m gonna be quietly, privately mad at you

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more mr. spice guy @juniorhoncho.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

CNN ANCHOR: As President Trump's approval ratings drop, how can Democrats harness the protest movements we see today? HAKEEM JEFFRIES: Well I call him President Parachute Pants ok? Too much ballroom. Yet he's fumbling the ball of protecting healthcare. So I urge all Americans to obey federal agents.

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HEALTH @health.band · 15/08/2026

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

the actual order of events from 2020-2024 gets strategically jumbled by reactionary centrists all the time. They love to blame 2024 on wokeness while skipping over the fact that Dems won in 2020. They talk about early COVID Iike it was a failure of Dem policy when Trump was in office.

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dave @gloomfather.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

yeah man "woke 1" sucked ass. I "woke 1" morning from uneasy dreams to find myself transformed into a giant insect

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Trump II has profound consequences that will last a century: -destruction of administrative state & civil service -extreme wealth concentration, tech oligarchy -climate rollbacks -end of rule of law w/o pushback incentivizes future backsliding -Iran Pundits hate this because it sounds shrill

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Your Evil Twin, Skippy 🇵🇸 🏳️‍⚧️ @twinskippy.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Golden State Valkyries forward Gabby Williams: “There’s a lot of discourse around trans athletes and what they can compete in. I would welcome a trans athlete on my team or against my team. Anytime. I don’t think it’s a problem in the world, it’s just another way to kind of attack trans people.”

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FLAVOR FLAV ⏰ @flavorflav.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

GOOD PARENTING RIGHT HERE,!!

A kid says his favorite band in public enemy and draws a picture of them

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Insane that democrats keep trying to cave on this issue rather than amplifying the fact that it’s being spearheaded by bigots and freaks

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

can we sometimes be asking "what qualifies this guy to speak on this subject?" or has that ship sailed

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Adam Bremer-McCollum @acbm.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

"Like an angel, standing in a shaft of light Rising up to paradise, I know I'm gonna shine" (John P. Barlow)

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Going to beat this dead horse again: we don’t have to live like this. Social media as it is currently construed in not inevitable. It’s a network that is breakable.

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