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University prof, env'tal Marxist feminist, father, partner, 4 yrs DIII soccer, decades of club ultimate (one trip to Nationals), and free-form college radio '81-'84 & '88-'94. Tottenham Hotspur & StL Cardinals

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AP Rudy @aprudy.bsky.social · 4h
I knew these people... What people? These two people...
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heute jedoch nicht @heutejedochnicht.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
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Meta-Adbusting in der Londoner U-Bahn
Jeffrey Epstein mit Ray Ban Meta-Smartglasses und Denkblase „Finally, a pair that suits me...“
Caption: „GLASSES FOR PEOPLE WHO DON'T DO CONSENT“
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Snitty 🎃 @clofsnitville.bsky.social · 6h
When people talk about rape culture this is exactly what they mean: Michaels and Herbstreit minimizing and dismissing the allegations of dozens of women.
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 16h
meanwhile people have been telling us since 2025 that we have to vote for him in 2028
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 16h
Idiots. They’re all idiots.
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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Cornell is 💯 going to end up paying through the nose for this. I hope Jane Doe burns the institution to the ground. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/01/n...
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Statement Written by Police in Cornell Assault Case Omitted Her Claim She Was Raped (Gift Article)
Documents obtained by The New York Times show that the campus police at Cornell University sent a condensed statement to a prosecutor, who then declined to bring charges.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Holy fuck. SCOTUS overturned the circuit court ruling, sending Christa Pike to her death, and then the state of Tennessee botched the execution and she’s still alive. There are no fucking words.
lawdork.com
After SCOTUS allowed Tennessee execution to go ahead, Tennessee botched the execution
SCOTUS, over the liberals’ dissent, cleared the way for Tennessee to kill Christa Pike. The alarming order from DC was followed by even more disturbing developments in Tennessee.
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 29/09/2026
In response to a slew of anti-trans Democrats pushing hate during the 2026 midterms, Governor Andy Beshear provided principled criticism to the idea that red-state Dems need to adopt anti-trans views to win: "We Don’t Throw Anybody Under The Bus," he said. Subscribe to support our journalism.
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KY Gov. Beshear Has Message For Anti-Trans Dems: “We Don’t Throw Anybody Under The Bus.”
The governor provides a counterpoint to those who believe red state Democrats need to capitulate on transgender rights.
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Bob Berwyn @bberwyn.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
There were about 16,000 heat-related deaths in Germany last summer, about double the mortality during the first Covid wave in early 2020. Extreme heat needs to be treated as an ongoing public health emergency.
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Mass Heat Wave Deaths in Europe Show Climate Extremes Are Outpacing Adaptation Efforts - Inside Climate News
As preparedness lags, many regions around the world could be overwhelmed by rising temperatures, climate experts warn.
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Derek Silva @derekcrim.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
1/9 We cannot accept the findings of the federal CASE report. The methodology is fundamentally broken. Its data is highly questionable, but the resulting political weaponization is actively harmful. We unpack why for @canadiandimension.bsky.social. canadiandimension.com/articles/vie...
canadiandimension.com
Campus antisemitism report is based on fundamentally flawed methodology
Students deserve protection from bigotry. Antisemitism exists in Canadian society and must be confronted, and this study documents real examples. However, its methodology is flawed: by merging critiq...
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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Google and Apple immediately update their maps.
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Queen_Potato @queenpotato.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
There was more punishment done against a trans professor giving a Christian student a low grade than the Cornell rapists ever received.
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Wagatwe Wanjuki @wagatwe.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
the sad part is that survivors fought like hell to even get expulsion for rapists on the table. when I was an activist > 10 years ago, administrators were *shocked* that we wanted expulsion as a disciplinary option.
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 30/09/2026
Eugenics 🤝 ai www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/h...
One of the things that is going to change is that we’re never ever again going to be able to be dominated by public officials who tell us, ‘Trust the experts,’” Mr. Kennedy said during the Tuesday session.

“If somebody tells you, ‘Masks work, trust the experts,’ A.I. may tell you otherwise,” he added. “If somebody tells you, ‘Social distancing works, trust the experts,’ A.I. may correct that. And if somebody tells you that a vaccine will prevent transmission and infection, or you need to take it to protect your grandmother, A.I. may say it actually doesn’t do that.”
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Dr. Ruth Marshall is still kicking against the pricks @wtfis2bdone.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
FUCK THIS SHIT! You fucking dipshits failed to get the message the first time, so we will be hammering it fucking home again. And again. As many fucking times as it takes. #MeFuckingToo
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shawn @mulchy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
new: federal authorities tapped into a network of flock license plate readers and surveillance cameras owned by chicagoland police during their failed attempts to prosecute marimar martinez and anthony ruiz for following immigration agents last october.
chicagoreader.com
Feds tapped local surveillance networks in botched Chicago prosecutions - Chicago Reader
During their failed efforts to prosecute Marimar Martinez and Anthony Ruiz, federal authorities accessed a network of Chicagoland license plate readers and surveillance cameras.
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Headquarters @headquartersnews.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Ken Paxton: The criticism has been that I let a child predator out after one day. Well guess what? They served 60 days.
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
BREAKING: Israel snatched an American teen from his West Bank home in the middle of the night — just days before his birthday and during his critical national exams. He's now been held for 3 months, with no charges. Netanyahu just came to the US for the *eighth* time since Trump took office.
zeteo.com
First Draft: Israel Has Kidnapped Another American Teenager
Abdalkareem Issa Ahmed Safi has Texas roots but languishes in a notorious jail, one more victim of Benjamin Netanyahu’s cruel impunity. Donald Trump, meanwhile, is losing some of his most ardent fans.
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Dr. Ruth Marshall is still kicking against the pricks @wtfis2bdone.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Come to Cornell, where caring less is okay!
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Rufo literally offered a bounty to anyone who could produce a video of Haitians eating dogs. He got nothing. So he found a video of Congolese men grilling chicken and tried to claim they were cooking cats.
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The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I get why gatekeeping in its negative sense is bad but also it feels an awful lot like gatekeeping in the positive sense was a load bearing pillar of society.
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Jessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
“It’s not ALL men.” Thousands of men in group chats about how to drug women and rape them (#eyecheck, #sleep, and #zzz trends), and a woman had to expose them. So out of all the men who came across this, none of them cared enough to try to expose it. wearethemeteor.com/the-women-wh...
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The Women Who Exposed the "Rape Academy"
The Meteor spoke with Saskya Vandoorne, Niamh Kennedy, and Kara Fox, about how their extraordinary investigation came together.
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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
“Can I have more money?”
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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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WasWrecked&NowImFound @wrecked9n76e.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Linda McMahon, current Secretary of Education, has a long history of covering up sexual abuse too
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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.
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matt.j.robb & 16h (€) So muse handled my Facebook marketplace today. Just found out it told people my address and agreed a lowball price and then they showed up without it even telling me until late tonight that it messed up.

Absolutely wild. 1/2

[Embedded image of a series of text messages from a meta muse "agent" given the call sign "Jarvis" (Parts of first message obscured by its logo have been replaced with brackets and ellipses and best guesses from context):]

Heads up, Usman is […] building right now for the MX Keys Mini [. He is sta]nding in front of the Shoppers Drug [Mart.]

$10 by e-transfer. The auto-reply told him to message when he's at your door.

10:28 PM Bad news on the MX Keys Mini pickup. Usman showed up at your building around 9:15 and waited, messaged a bunch of times, and nobody came down. He left angry at 9:38 and left a negative rating.

Worse, my auto-reply told him "Yep I'm here!" at 9:27 when you clearly weren't available, which is on me. That's a bad look and it made the no-show worse.

I've sent him an apology from your account owning it and offering to try again another day. But the negative rating is real, and I should probably stop the auto-replies from claiming you're home when I can't verify that. Want me to change the pickup replies so they don't promise you're there?

[reply, presumably from the threads user]: You gotta never do that ever again don't agree for pickup unless you check with me

[Response from Muse "Agent"]: You're right and I'm sorry. That should never have happened. It's locked in now as a hard rule: i will never […you]'re there unless you've explicitly […] that specific pickup. If someone proposes a time, I'll tell them I'll check and…  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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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
DA going to take another look at case, says lawsuit varies a lot from what was alleged at time, but that seems to have been mediated by Cornell police abcnews.com/US/district-...
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District attorney reopens case of alleged Cornell University 'gang rape'
Prosecutors in central New York say they are reopening the case of alleged gang rape at a Cornell University fraternity.
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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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Jessica Luther @jessicawluther.com · 28/09/2026
A note: this is the new and improved version of LSU's Title IX process. We reported about a bunch issues at the school back in Nov 2020 that led to the school hiring an outside law firm, which confirmed our reporting, and allegedly instituting a bunch of changes www.usatoday.com/in-depth/spo...
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LSU mishandled sexual misconduct complaints against students, including top athletes
A USA TODAY investigation found LSU mishandled abuse allegations against top athletes and other students and subjected victims to further harm.
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026
Fryer was suspended from supervising students at Harvard due to sexual misconduct 🤡
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 27/09/2026
Google finally updated some of its satellite images of Gaza and my god, it's horrific. The entirety of Rafah has been demolished. The majority of Khan Younis is in ruins. Entire towns completely leveled and erased of the map.
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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
@washingtonpost reported earlier that hospitals insurance costs next year are projected to spike by the most in 2 decades, partly "due to medical providers’ increased use of artificial intelligence to find more claims they can bill for" www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
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Goldstein (still not a pseudonym) @goldstein.latinsky.app · 27/09/2026
Defensive strikes on Iran? By the US? From the UK? How would that even be possible? I would love to have these explanations be required to hold up to a court of law.
politico.eu
Men arrested for explosive offenses at UK airbase used for US strikes on Iran
Britain authorized the U.S. to use the base for “defensive” strikes on Iran earlier this year.
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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 27/09/2026
if you mock victims, you are not an ally and survivors are unsafe around you
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Susan of Texas @susanoftexas.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The administration doesn’t care if it makes sense. They are basically just saying “fuck you” over and over. Fuck you, we’re taking your health insurance because we can. Fuck you, our only goal is to degrade and dispirit you until your will is broken and you submit to any abuse we decide to inflict.
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Dr. Ruth Marshall is still kicking against the pricks @wtfis2bdone.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
🚨 THIS IS NOT LAW! 🚨 The IHRA is not law, this Public Safety announcement cannot legally curtail your speech. You cannot be charged or accused under this definition. This is an attempt to SHUT US UP. Don't be afraid! Don't be quiet! The more they try to silence us, the LOUDER WE WILL BE. Free 🇵🇸
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Ian Carrillo @iansociologo.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Meta Pervert Amulet™️
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Matt Hodler @mhodler.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
An alleged gang rape at a Cornell fraternity needs more media attention. According to reports (incl Snapchat screenshots), 7 men raped a passed out 20yo woman. Apparently, the school “punished“ the men students w/ an assigned essay. The woman left Cornell. www.cornellsun.com/article/2026...
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Cornell, Chi Phi Sued by Victim of Alleged Gang Rape, Drugging in 2024
A former Cornell student filed a lawsuit on Monday, alleging that she was gang raped after being coerced into consuming drugs by several men at the Chi Phi fraternity house at Cornell in 2024. 
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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Just helping with editing here. These bots aren’t sentient. They’re doing what they’re programmed to do. OpenAI, a private company supposedly bound by laws, committed federal crimes.
Screenshot of BBC article: OpenAI bots (struck through) meddled with multiple US government agency sites
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
"RKF took money earmarked to provide health care for Black infants and spent it on his personal security detail" is a ludicrous headline. Comic book villainy.
wsj.com
Exclusive | RFK Jr.’s Enhanced Security Was Funded With Money From Minority Health Office
The cost of the health secretary’s security grew from roughly $10 million in fiscal year 2025 to $17 million in fiscal year 2026.
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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
ICE has abducted Senegalese WBB player Aminata Seck and won't release her. DHS 'policy' is to provide medical care to prisoners at intake, yet they admit to denying her care for an ACL injury for 1.5 months. The NCAA is letting it happen, despite its predatory recruitment of ICAs. We explain.
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ICE has abducted a college athlete. What are the NCAA and universities going to do about it?
Aminata Seck’s detention shows the bargain facing international college athletes: universities eagerly recruit them, but support can disappear when their immigration status becomes precarious.
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Dr. Ruth Marshall is still kicking against the pricks @wtfis2bdone.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
FUCK THIS FASCIST SHIT.
ijv.canada, winchevsky and jewssaynotogenocide

BREAKING
Canada defines anti-Zionism as antisemitic

Government of Canada
Gouvernement
du Canada

Public Safety Canada
National Commitments to Combat Antisemitism - Summer 2026
Progress Report
Intended outcome
Institutions across Canada have increased access to tools, guidance, and training to support the recognition, understanding and response to contemporary manifestations of antisemitism, including anti-Zionism, as outlined in the Canadian Handbook on the IHRA Working Definition of Antisemitism.

Public Safety Canada is promoting anti-Palestinian racism and distorting Jewish history

ijv.canada For the first time, the Canadian government has explicitly defined anti-Zionism as a form of antisemitism....
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Gaucho Marx @primarymediation.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Hell yeah eat shit Kai
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En Buen Ora @enbuenora.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
It was 100% obvious, no matter who says what bullshit about 'I thought they would focus on the criminals', that "mass deportation" would be a paramilitary war launched against communities as a broad political & repressive project based on ethnic cleansing but also to crush opposition as well.
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AP Rudy @aprudy.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Among the biggest lies constantly repeated these days is the Palestinian death toll in Gaza, 70K, my ass... there's no way it's not triple that, at a minimum
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Nathan Tankus @nathantankus.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
(by "interesting" I mean its racism, sexism, homophobia and class condescension ofc. But I really find the inversion of class reality the most viscerally disgusting and frustrating.)
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Anat Shenker-Osorio @anatosaurus.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Throughout 2024, disaffected Dem and swing voter focus group participants told us the same thing: "You told us to turn out in 2020 to protect our freedoms, we did & threats you named happened anyway. Now you're telling us to turn out for same reason & you expect us to believe it?"
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
"Stanford University...is facing criticism for using generative AI to change the photo of a Hispanic male student into a non-existent Black woman for a campus banner." feels like a South Park episode. what are we doing here yall www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...
sfchronicle.com
Stanford violated its AI policy by turning a Hispanic student into a fake Black woman in ad
Stanford University is facing criticism for using generative AI to change the photo of a Hispanic male student into a non-existent Black woman for a dining hall advertisement.
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The first architect of the White House ballroom resigned after warning repeatedly that Trump was insisting on designs that violated fire and safety codes, the Washington Post reports. “I am the code,” Trump said www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...
By Sarah Blaskey and Jonathan O'Connell
In the weeks leading up to his resignation last year, the first architect on the White House ballroom clashed with President Donald Trump over design features that the architect believed violated building safety codes, according to two people with knowledge of the discussions and corroborating documents reviewed by The Washington Post.
James McCrery II withdrew from the project last October after warning repeatedly that Trump was insisting on a preliminary design that did not provide adequate emergency exit routes or fire-containment measures, said the people, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe the private discussions.
Trump brushed off McCrery's concerns, they said, and the president countered that no building codes apply to White House construction.
"I am the code," Trump said.
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