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Ok, this may look like the more likely scenario now, but it also still makes Schmitt and his staff look very incompetent. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/what-happe...

Another possibility, consistent with Schmitt’s statements was that the Hawks game was the only NBA or NCAA mens game on at that time, and so when his staff googled basketball games on that date, they focused on the Atlanta game. In this theory, there was no confusion between the Hawks and Hawkeyes, just a coincidence. A reporter who has seen the texts say there was no mention of the Hawks or Hawkeyes.

If so, the Schmitt team just looks more incompetent. There five other NBA games on the same date. (It also reflects the point that Schmitt’s team could not imagine Smith went to a women’s game, even though Clark we mentioned elsewhere in texts between staff). The Hawks game started at 7.30pm but other games started at 8.00 or 8.30, so if the texts were timestamped for around 7.30, that hardly seems definitive. After all, the game Smith actually attended started at 8pm. There were also mens NCAA games, including a Duke-UNC game that started at 6.30.

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Jose @josendhelp.bsky.social · 10h

Have you seen Werner Herzog watching and discussing skate clips? www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQLI...

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Discussing Skateboarding with Filmmaker Werner Herzog

YouTube video by jenkemmag

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Kiyone @kiyonescarlet.bsky.social · 13h

It’s wack as hell that Five Nights at Freddy’s stuff isn’t anathema yet.

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AntiNickname @antinickname.bsky.social · 9h

That was so fun! I screamed!

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Ant @agramuglia.bsky.social · 20h

...this won't go over terribly.

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elias isquith @eliasisquith.blog · 01/10/2026

just ban frats. everyone knows that’s the answer and no one seriously denies what frats are actually for, just as no one seriously denies that playing football can lead to CTE.

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Balls & Strikes @ballsandstrikes.org · 01/10/2026

"For a Supreme Court as unpopular as this one, it helps to have loyal friends in prominent places assuring people that it is good, smart, trustworthy, and ultimately nothing to worry about."

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The Conservative Takeover of SCOTUSblog Is Just What the Supreme Court Needed

SCOTUSblog used to cover the Supreme Court. Now, it cheers for it.

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Prof Gavin Yamey MD MPH @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Yup. We can try estimate RFK Jr’s body count, including, of course, about half a million kids in low & middle income countries who will die because he froze US funding for global vaccine delivery ($600M that Congress had appropriated!). But he is just getting started & he wants much higher numbers.

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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 01/10/2026

The “states’ rights” people in the past knew it was bullshit back then too, because slaver states wouldn’t let free states pass laws protecting self-emancipated people within their borders.

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Phil McDuff @mcduff.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

We've been subjected to "it's not necessarily racist to have genuine concerns about migration" my whole life. This is technically true, in theory, but I have never once observed it in practice.

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Phil McDuff @mcduff.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The social stigma is all backwards. We're so afraid of the possibility that some unicorn who has really "genuine concerns" for non-racist reasons might get called racist, we think it perfectly reasonable to whitewash the actual National Front.

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Phil McDuff @mcduff.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

It is obviously better to have a social stigma *against racism* and for people who may, very rarely, get caught up in being accidentally accused of it to simply get over themselves and change their behaviour. But this does not allow racist middle class people to obfuscate their bigotry.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

do men understand the extent to which women are ready to burn it all down right now

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ryan fae @ryanfae.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

i don't believe this got enough attention: The Needle issued a retraction to an investigation from two weeks ago, following __EIGHT ERRORS__ that were uncaught before publication the single editor on the story was their "fiction and satire editor" (what the fuck? why?), who has stepped down god

Retraction: Adam Proffitt is Not Personally Investigating Trans People in Bathrooms
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The Needle is issuing a voluntary retraction for our article “Kansas’ Investigations of Trans People in Bathrooms Personally Overseen by Democrat Appointee Adam Proffitt,” which was published Aug 22. We regret these mistakes.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

if you know anything about senator schmitt's monumental fuck up in the jack smith hearing, i implore you to reach out. can be anonymous. signal: marisakabas.04 email: marisa@thehandbasket.co

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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Same story with a friend of mine, who is now actually quite famous. She dropped out after my university refused to discipline the two men who raped her, and made her sit in the same class with her in her specialized major. Her planned entire career path ended immediately.

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Jessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

you are self-soothing, getting to imagine being a hero what we need is for you to become sensitised enough that the everyday stuff makes you uncomfortable and then to MAKE OTHER MEN UNCOMFORTABLE not kicking down doors just saying WOW THAT SOUNDS KINDA RAPE-Y *hard stare*

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Jessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

What are you doing in everyday situations to make it real uncomfortable for other men to say misogynist stuff? what have you done to learn what everyday misogyny actually looks like? because if you say you don’t encounter it, you’re either lying or have chosen not to learn to see it

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Jessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

95% of college-age men admitted to using coercive tactics to get women they already knew did not want any to have sex with them to have sex. When men say they don’t know who these creeps are, all it tells me is that either they’re lying or they’ve chosen not to learn about rape culture.

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Craig Calcaterra @craigcalcaterra.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I'm not saying that a guy who sprints to the front to defend every rapist and attack every victim is himself a rapist because I have no information upon which to base such a claim. But I would bet a million bucks that this guy would risk his life to keep any of us from seeing his hard drive.

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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Michael Tracey is actively attempting to dox Jane Doe in the Cornell 7 rape case

Michael Tracey : If you happen to know who this Cornell "Jane Doe" is, get in touch and I would be happy to publish her name and identifying information. And yes -- this is 100% permitted under the First Amendment, whatever threats or emotional blackmail people might want to deploy

"Report" me for what, exactly? Save your breath, scumbag. Sorry you hate the First Amendment so much. Her identity is obviously newsworthy at this point, and I will take extreme pleasure in reporting it. (Not "doxing" -- that's a total canard)

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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 29/09/2026

"Charlie Brown should not criticize Lucy for pulling the football away. He should say he is disappointed that some stakeholders have chosen not to participate in good-faith autumn recreation." buff.ly/X2RjqP5

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“Charlie Brown Must Stay the Course”: A Football Kick Autopsy Report by the Democratic Party

“While Charlie Brown did once again accelerate toward the ball, miss the ball entirely as Lucy pulled it away, flip backward through the air, and land violen...

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WIRED @wired.com · 28/09/2026

Six of the nine independent experts on the advisory board of the Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism—a consortium run by several of the biggest US tech companies—resigned on Monday, according to a letter seen by WIRED and interviews with three of the people.

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Meta-Led Anti-Terrorism Group Faces Mass Resignation of Expert Advisers

Meta and other tech giants are pushing through structural changes at the Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism that outside researchers allege will weaken oversight of an already embattled consor...

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

so much of what's wrong with right now is rebranding things which were always understood as vice as being a type of virtue

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Solomon @solomonrmissouri.com · 27/09/2026

THERE HAS NEVER BEEN ANY POINT IN HISTORY WHERE IT HAS BEEN IN THE BEST INTEREST OF WOMEN TO DEPEND UPON THE BENEVOLENCE OF MEN

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Noel Healy @drnoelhealy.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The assault on US universities didn't start in 2025. Our new paper traces the decades of corporate capture that made it possible, and why climate research is a primary target. Open access: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Sydney Bauer @sydney-bauer.com · 28/09/2026

"The issue with our model is it hacked your account because we told it to resolve issues but did not think it would not keep going when it hit the slightest roadblock" is an incredibly terrible excuse made by people who want no responsibility for their actions.

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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026

So uhhhhhh… Apparently meta's muse "AI" is just straight up doxxing people to strangers on FB marketplace??? This has the potential to hurt so so many people, and I genuinely wonder how long before they roll out a fix for it.

Screenshot of a tweet from Ray Wong @raywongy:
Deleted Muse after seeing this post on Threads about how it told some Facebook Marketplace sellers the guy’s address and they showed up at his door

Dangerous and creepy

This would have been 1000x worse if the person was a woman
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Novelty Cistern @noveltycistern.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

"how am i going to explain gay people to my kids" my man I was on a hike with my family and my wife mentioned "grizzly man," I had to explain grizzly man to my kids. you need to get onto my fucking level. we must have talked about grizzly man for forty five minutes and i felt every one

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K.C. Clyburn, Author @kccomplainsalot.blacksky.app · 27/09/2026

wild how we had a whole moral panic about pedophiles sex trafficking minors in secret under a restaurant which somehow evolved into an attack on trans people and meanwhile some senior AI engineer on X is like "yeah we let 13-year-olds come to our sex cult parties" on main and its crickets.

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 27/09/2026

Every three weeks it’s like but white supremacists who mostly care about testosterone and killing minorities were supposed to fix the economy

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 27/09/2026

Women trying to succeed in Silicon Valley AI and effective altruist spaces are reporting feeling serious social pressure to attend sex parties - where people have reported being sexually assaulted, like below. Events like Aella’s “Slutcon,” which is happening again this weekend.

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I am disheartened by this as well. I already lost a bunch of followers for agreeing with @tautologer, but it's saddening to see local nerdy women being caricatured as Karen-like outsiders and getting pushed out of the scene. This is exactly why you hear so few concrete, names-attached stories of sexual harrassment and assault. I'm told there is a history of discrediting these because the "slut normalization" thing is top priority and these stories get inconveniently in the way of spreading this ideology.
I got roped into attending last year's Saturday Slutcon party because so many local and out-of-town friends were there (to echo sentiments @tautologer expressed about "slut events becoming central to the larger scenes). Mostly I hung out with people I knew and that was great. But in the course of my 3-ish hours there, there were 2 times my "no" was not accepted by a man I didn't know, and I was physically pushing a huge guy off of me who was rubbing his penis on me, who continued to do it despite my physical force against him, and after I finally wriggled away from him, told him I wanted to dance alone etc., he came back and did it again.
This was scary and bad, but it didn't even cross my mind to report this because one of the other people who didn't accept my "no" earlier in the night was the bartender (an officially sanctioned authority at the event), and I knew the event was organized exclusively by women into CNC (who are vocal about how rapey behavior turns them on), so I figured this sort of thing would just get me laughed at. And anyway, I heard there were a lot of other incidents like it. Later though, someone encouraged me to report this story to the organizers, and despite my embarrassment I did, so *they know* that this and other incidents happened. This is why they cut the Saturday night party this year and created a larger training program for the flirt girls - *because* of things like this last year. Yet the narrative bein…

People who haven't been to Slutcon are saying "it's just group therapy," "it's just innocent flirting." But the environment is much like a sex party in that many people are nude, there is making out and sex acts happening out in the open. I think it's pretty unreasonable to expect that every nerdy girl who likes rationalist bloggers or is into EA/AI safety should automatically be comfortable with this! That if she's not, there's something wrong with her, we don't want her in our scenes, etc.
Not to mention, it's explictly an event *for men*, where men are the clients and the "flirt girls" are the product. Last year I overheard an exchange where a man felt "led on" by a flirt girl and was trying to get her punished/kicked out. (A dynamic that seems inevitable in this context!)
Anyway- it does sound like they've upped their consent education a lot this year, are more organized, and that's good! As I've told my friends who are attending: I hope they have fun!
I heard several accounts last year of women who had no problems and really enjoyed the event. That's great!
Just... can we live in reality about this? There are real reasons why male-female sexual dynamics are tricky.
Encouraging autistic men who can't yet read body language to go around asking to see womens' boobs is maybe a bit ill-advised. Maybe not everyone should be/identify as a slut; maybe it's not for everyone.
And yeah, filtering the Bay Area Al safety scene down to only women who are super comfy with this eliminates *most* women - including many of the really smart, nerdy, weird women who've been in the larger scenes for years. What a loss for humanity.
I absolutely understand why people with a minority sexuality would want to create belonging, would want to create spaces for people like themselves. But why do it like this/at this cost?

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The people who spent 15 years saying that society was George Orwell’s 1984 because rappers could say the N word but you can’t are now saying you must love the great machine that knows all of our wants and desires

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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 27/09/2026

It should really bother everyone more that these "AI" companies and the people that run them are always— ALWAYS— looking for ways to trick or coerce us into giving up more and more ourselves to them.

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Movies Silently @moviessilently.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

A lot of these “country” people aren’t even all that rural and I wouldn’t gatekeep but they sing and brag about their wee yeehaw upbringing and whatnot, so I figure I have a right to sneer. Get your “city of 200,000 with a Costco, 18 Starbucks and a Whole Foods“ outta here, city slicker

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Denny Carter @dennycarter.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

This kind of take made a Rolling Stone writer so mad they wrote a whole piece about it.

At this point, though, if someone contends they've never even heard of
"Choosin' Texas" or Langley, it may say more about the listener than the song.
Or, for that matter, what they want to project to the world. With incessant news coverage alongside chart and playlist presence, it's pretty difficult to still claim total ignorance on this one.
Perhaps there is a deeper reason why people say they haven't heard the song and feel the need to make it known: cultural cachet.

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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

WELL NOW, would you look at that? A massive, 26-YEAR-LONG study of MORE THAN 2.4 MILLION people in Sweden found NO EVIDENCE to support a causal link between acetaminophen (the API in Tylenol) use during pregnancy and increased risk of autism, ADHD, OR intellectual disability in children.

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Chicago White Sox @notwhitesox.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

"The Tamale Guy" delivered tonight's game ball in celebration of Hispanic Heritage Night!

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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Twitter not laughing at your jokes, buy Twitter. HBO owns streaming rights to an unflattering exposé, buy a piece of HBO. Government regulations threaten your businesses, buy the government. Elon Musk seems determined to be a case study in the problem with unfettered wealth.

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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Still unfathomable to me given the horrendous destruction of DOGE and how unfathomably heinous he continues to be on his social media duchy, that he can shovel cash to Republicans, go to a state dinner, and the press still doesn't treat him as remotely problematic as Hasan Piker.

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

“Beyond two parking tickets for not moving his vehicle during snowstorms, Abdullah has no criminal record in Minnesota and was working legally as a mechanic while his asylum application was pending. He arrived in the United States in early 2023.”

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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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ProPublica @propublica.org · 26/09/2026

15/ There’s much more to the story — which you can read here — but I came away with one overarching takeaway: the “responsible gaming” prompts DraftKings served me were no match for the product design and promos pushing me to do more gambling.

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I Deliberately Bet Like a Problem Gambler. DraftKings Made Me a VIP.

Amid growing public health concerns, operators like DraftKings have touted “responsible gaming” tools and prompts. But as I went off the deep end, I found they were no match for the incentives and pro...

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 26/09/2026

Hey, ProPublica reporter Jake Pearson here. I’m taking over the account to tell you about my new story. For months, I posed as a problem gambler on DraftKings to test the company's "responsible gaming" safeguards. Spoiler alert: They made me a VIP — and I lost $10K. Here's how it all went down. 🧵

Selfie taken by ProPublica reporter Jake Pearson, a man wearing a backwards baseball cap and an orange T-shirt.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 26/09/2026

7/ An expert explained that losers like me are the bettors that sports betting companies are most interested in. A small group accounts for a large portion of revenue. And what keeps losers loyal? VIP programs. The more you bet, the more you get: free bets/swag/fancy dinners.

Screenshot of article from the Philadelphia Inquirer. Headline reads: FanDuel sent a personal message from Phillies star Bryce Harper to a customer with a gambling addiction.

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