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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 7h

So basically Trump has only been slightly less disastrous for international tourism than COVID.

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among other things, musk is the #1 donor to the Republican Party in 2024 and 2026, now appointed to a board where he can steers contracts to his businesses. Bought and sold. Thieves.

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Lindsay Beyerstein @beyerstein.bsky.social · 8h

WHAT?!

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 9h

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

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geri katz @gerikatz.bsky.social · 11h

Might as well light the Constitution on fire at this point.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 8h

"For decades, we've provided election coverage that's based on in-depth political reporting by an experienced team of journalists backed by commentary from political leaders. But now we're throwing that aside so we can tell you what some of the most irredeemable uninformed gamblers are guessing."

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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 9h

Vote: -he’s really an alien like the guy in Men in Black - he’s really an animatronic Disney robot and he’s malfunctioning -it’s a glitch in the Matrix; after all the AI generated weird anatomy we should’ve expected this -he’s really 3 Gremlins in a trenchcoat and the one on the bottom can’t see

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Fiona Taylor @fionataylor.bsky.social · 9h

Jesus, we’re f*cked.

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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 9h

Everyone’s gonna memory hole this like they do her racism and antisemitism but this is your regular reminder that Joyce Carol Oates fucking sucks and just because she sometimes makes a funny tweet doesn’t erase how much she fucking sucks.

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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 10h

The common thread in Pete Hegseth's rant to the troops, JD Vance suggesting Talarico is a pedophile, Brendan Carr calling the Trump ads aired with tax dollars "normal force PSAs," and Eric Schmitt fabricating a Jack Smith conspiracy is the whole GOP is incentivized to be performatively evil.

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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 11h

This

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Jessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 11h

BREAKING: Republican attorneys general from Louisiana, Alabama, and Arkansas have filed two sweeping lawsuits targeting dozens of providers who ship abortion pills—and the blue states that protect them.

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 12h

this is all awful but by far the most diagnosable part of this is his obsession with beards as destructive to unit cohesion. having a beard is as bad as being a communist to Pete.

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One of many David Ss @deathmetaldavid.bsky.social · 16h

Someone out there in Republican land is listening 🎧

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 18h

Tech industry is laser focused on solving the problem of humans enjoying each other’s company bsky.app/profile/down...

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Anthony Pignataro @apignataro.bsky.social · 20h

LMAO they misspelled United States

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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 30/09/2026

Jesus Christ Cornell

What use was it to bring the writer and activist Chanel Miller to campus in the spring just for fraternity brothers to scroll, bored, on their phones as she movingly shared her experience as Emily Doe, the victim of Brock Turner? As I wrote at the time, I was floored and dismayed as I sat in the audience with one of my brilliant undergraduates; we heard Miller’s shattering account of being sexually assaulted by Turner behind a dumpster at Stanford University after a fraternity party. Her talk was riveting, and there was so much to learn from it. And yet many of the male students who hailed predominantly from fraternities — 15 percent of each chapter was required to be in attendance — were so tuned out that Miller commented ruefully: “You know, this has been my hardest gig, because they didn’t turn down the house lights. I’m not sure how you professors do it, because it’s so hard looking out at this sea of mildly disgruntled faces. I mean, I’m sure you’re all very moved, but …,” Miller smiled. The implication being, it didn’t seem like it, from her angle.

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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

And, look who is promoting this campaign. Also, there is a name floating around X. No one has any idea if the name of that person is truly this Jane Doe.

Benjamin Ryan @ @benryanwriter • 42m
Journalist Michael Tracey is looking to disclose the identity of
Jane Doe, who filed the lawsuit against seven Cornell men,
alleging they gang raped her in a frat house.

The suit names the men but not the plaintiff.

Should Jane Doe's name be made public? Why or why not?

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Michael Tracey
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If you happen to know who this Cornell "Jane Doe" is,
get in touch and I would be happy to publish her

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Kate Manne @katemanne.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I wrote for @thecut.com about the Cornell case and what it says that, at my institution and many others like it, protesters are often punished more harshly than sexual assailants www.thecut.com/article/what...

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What It Feels Like at Cornell Right Now

As a professor at the Ivy League school, Kate Manne has known many, many victims. There’s a palpable feeling on campus, she writes, that this is big.

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Dave Weigel @daveweigel.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I'm not the audience for the Smith hearing, but the main political issue here is that Republicans want the world to know that Smith subpoenaed congressional phone records as he investigated Jan. 6 etc, and nobody outside the Senate can explain to you why that's bad.

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Lindsey Boylan @lindseyboylan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This man is a monster. He seeks out women survivors because he hates them. And he hates them because he hates himself. He has harassed me and other women survivors many times over the years. It must end. He should never have a job anywhere.

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Morgan L. Ventura (they/she) @morganvl.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This is egregiously common. I was doxxed by a journalist who was kicked out of the Science Writers’ union for his behavior towards survivors of SA around the #MeToo movement. He published private messages revealing where I was, knowing I’d received death threats. This behavior destroys lives

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

For me, the hardest thing about stories like the Cornell gang rape case isn’t reading the initial details—although that is hard. What’s even harder is when men online, especially the journalists and pundits, start trying to combat the feminist outrage by purposefully seeding doubt and victim-blaming

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DSA (((Spreadsheet Campaign))) Caucus, MSW (NOT A MAN) 🥯🌹 @acabcalloway.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

He's trying to deliberately wreck the grand jury and get the victim SLAPP-ed. Vile stuff.

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Long Beach Watchdog @lbwatchdog.com · 29/09/2026

Police are asking for the public's help in identifying a vehicle and driver involved in a hit-and-run crash in Wrigley that killed a man earlier this month. Read more from @apignataro.bsky.social on the Watchdog. lbwatchdog.com/police-ask-f...

Police ask for help identifying hit-and-run driver who killed man in Wrigley.
Police believe the driver of a black sedan was one of three vehicles that hit the pedestrian earlier this month.

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

One of the Cornell students accused of gang rape, Scott Kretzschmar, denies it and says through his attorney that they are going to “confront” the survivor through the court system. I can already tell you that means victim-blaming, DARVO, and smears. She is going to need a lot more of our support.

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Dan Diamond @ddiamond.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Russell Brand, who's awaiting trial in London next month on rape and sexual assault charges, will moderate a panel at DC's MAHA summit tomorrow on reforming a U.S. health agency

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Anthony Pignataro @apignataro.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This thread is why I tell people I’m a good writer but a terrible author.

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Julie DiCaro @juliedicaro.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I recently had an agent tell me that I torpedoed my marketability by deleting my Twitter account. I wish the rest of the world would get on board with leaving. Too many normal people are still hanging out over there.

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Ben Prunty @benprunty.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I don't love dunking on folks but it's so fucking funny to me that Trump was convicted of 34 felonies 2 years ago, faced no punishment, and went on to win the presidency a second time and journalists are still like, "hmm, I have an inkling that maybe he believes he's above the law for some reason."

Post from NYT reporter Eric Lipton

"What an odd moment in United States history.

A U.S. president is running an overtly political campaign advertisement, right before midterm elections, paid for by the U.S. government.

Trump appears to believe he is immune from any kind of legal limit."

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Anthony Pignataro @apignataro.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

For those keeping track, this is the 43rd traffic fatality reported by the LBPD in 2026. There were 56 last year, which was the highest number since at least the early 1990s. The LBPD reported 45 traffic fatalities by this time last year.

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Long Beach Watchdog @lbwatchdog.com · 27/09/2026

Police are investigating a hit-and-run crash in West Long Beach that killed a woman Friday night. Read more from @apignataro.bsky.social on the Watchdog. lbwatchdog.com/west-long-be...

West Long Beach hit-and-run kills woman, police say.
The woman was in a crosswalk Friday night when she was hit by a truck, which then fled the scene, according to authorities.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I like that in becoming a nazi, you get glowing coverage as a brave iconoclast, and then when you stop being a nazi, you’re get glowing coverage as a brave dissident. Money coming and going. Only way you lose is having normal opinions like “racism bad” bsky.app/profile/trac...

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 27/09/2026

Imagine hearing these screams, breaking this window, and going home at night believing what you are doing is right and good.

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Long Beach Watchdog @lbwatchdog.com · 26/09/2026

The city has seen the first West Nile virus fatality in nearly a decade, city health officials said Thursday. Read more from @apignataro.bsky.social on the Watchdog. lbwatchdog.com/long-beach-r...

Long Beach records its first West Nile virus death since 2017.
There have been 41 cases in Long Beach since June, the highest number in 12 years, health officials said.

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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Don’t ever let it be said that they don’t know *exactly* who they are.

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Long Beach Watchdog @lbwatchdog.com · 25/09/2026

Police are investigating the death of a man killed by a hit-and-run driver in West Long Beach Thursday morning. Read more from @apignataro.bsky.social on the Watchdog. lbwatchdog.com/man-killed-i...

Man killed in West Long Beach hit-and-run, police say.
The man was on Anaheim Street near the 710 Freeway Thursday morning when he was hit, according to authorities.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

There are too many people in congress who would be happier doing this, and that's part of why our politics is so stupid bsky.app/profile/avit...

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

So much of schools "responding to rape" is preventing the legal system from doing so. This is a report on seven adults who committed serious felonies for which there is a legal system to remind them and their pals that they are felonies.

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Long Beach Watchdog @lbwatchdog.com · 25/09/2026

Police arrested a Long Beach man last week for building and selling firearms without a license, police said Thursday. Read more from @apignataro.bsky.social on the Watchdog. lbwatchdog.com/man-arrested...

Man arrested for illegal gun sales, police say.
Roger Triplett, 34, of Long Beach was allegedly building firearms in his home and selling them, according to authorities.

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Buying into a ludicrous fantasy vision of how immigration stops function in the real world is a moral choice, not a matter of cognitive horsepower. You don’t have to be terribly bright to grasp that’s not actually how things work; you just have to care.

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Rev. Angela Denker @angeladenker.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I swear if I have to engage in another conversation, interview, or see a huge conference focused on the problem of "polarization" without naming Christian Nationalism + rising authoritarianism ... I will scream. I have been reporting on the Christian Right for more than a decade ...

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Soraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 24/09/2026

I'm a big believer in "you teach people how to treat you" and the president is teaching us that he would like to be treated like a Nazi.

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Jacob Schriner-Briggs @jschrinerbriggs.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This point has been exhausted, but it really is worth sitting with: under any other administration in recent memory, the ejection of disfavored news outlets followed by flagrant disregard of court orders would get wall-to-wall coverage and end political careers.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 24/09/2026

every time i see tom cotton i think about the fact that he just buys grocery store birthday cakes to eat as a snack. for most people this would be charming. not for this dude.

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Peter Orlowicz @peterorlowicz.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

This is particularly stupid because going after wage theft and getting employers to pay up also tends to increase the amount of FICA payroll taxes that get collected, part of what goes to fund -- *checks notes* -- Medicare's trust fund.

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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

We can’t allow this man to get within striking distance of a viable presidential candidacy.

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Long Beach Watchdog @lbwatchdog.com · 23/09/2026

Police arrested a 46-year-old Long Beach man for allegedly fatally shooting a woman experiencing homelessness earlier this month. Read more from @apignataro.bsky.social on the Watchdog. lbwatchdog.com/police-arres...

Police arrest suspect in killing of homeless woman.
Cedric Frank Barnes, 46, allegedly shot Madison Coldiron, 31, to death earlier this month, according to authorities.

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