Reposted by Ardison-GardnerDieselbrain @dieselbrain.bsky.social · 12hFA is being very up front about both the cost of hosting the site [it aint cheap] and how advertisers theyd been relying on prior are pushing all the same puritan bullshit weve been seeing other platforms push FA is one of very few Old Internet spaces around. Support em while we CAN 1122451616
Reposted by Ardison-GardnerShani 🫧 (Bluesky hates Palestinians) @mom4medicare4all.blacksky.app · 10hwww.democracynow.org/2026/10/2/he...democracynow.orgNew Jersey Data Center Ran Unpermitted Gas Generators for Nearly a Year, Driving Air PollutionIn New Jersey, an investigation has revealed that a Microsoft-linked data center emitted large amounts of toxic air pollution for nearly a year before state regulators stepped in. According to public ... 085
Reposted by Ardison-GardnerMelinda's century of humiliation @melindamagpie.bsky.social · 16h“People moved to NYC because of its shield law for trans kids. These hospitals have completely left them behind and shirked responsibility. They have not even been told whether they can receive continuity of care.” Eliel Cruz, a co-founder of Gender Liberation Movementindypendent.orgActivists Picket New-York Presbyterian as Hospitals Continue to Block Access to Gender-Affirming Care for YouthLGBTQ+ Activists are continuing to pressure hospitals to not give in to the Trump administration, in the wake of Mount Sinai’s settlement and agreement to suspend care for trans youth. 010834
Reposted by Ardison-GardnerNicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 16hAnd that led to my words appearing in a victim-blaming article written by a journalist I have never met about how Jane Doe's story was "inconsistent." 61854155
Reposted by Ardison-GardnerNicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 16hEarlier this week, I agreed to interviews with two USA Today journalists. They wrote fantastic articles about the Cornell case that I'm proud to have been a part of. What I did not know is that their employer considers interviews to proprietary and opens up recordings to be used by any journalist. 433123956
Reposted by Ardison-GardnerPaul Kingsley @paulkingsley7.bsky.social · 11h🧪 “The National Science Foundation, one of the biggest sources of federal research funding, withheld $1.4 billion that Congress had intended for research over the course of the past year, according to internal data reviewed by The New York Times.” www.nytimes.com/2026/10/02/u...nytimes.comNational Science Foundation Diverted $1.4 Billion in Science Funds Mandated by Congress (Gift Article)The move, affecting about one-fifth of the National Science Foundation’s primary research budget, is the latest sign of how the White House is asserting more control over grants. 38261
Reposted by Ardison-GardnerChad Loder @chadloder.dev · 10hYou can't build a massive, multi-billion-dollar network of private detention camps and state-contracted prisons without a projected market that justifies the investment. Bodies in cells. They plan to fill every single bed and cot. 235366
Reposted by Ardison-GardnerChad Loder @chadloder.dev · 10hICE builds more prisons because the goal is explicitly to warehouse surplus labor, criminalize poverty, and assert total control over all of society. When Stephen Miller claims there are 25, 30, or even 50 million "illegal immigrants" in the US, he's betting on how many of us he'll need to imprison 12775249
Reposted by Ardison-GardnerTim Carvell @timcarvell.bsky.social · 01/10/2026I want to believe that someone at the Times knew what they were doing here. 111118168
Reposted by Ardison-Gardneranti-leaf blower account @eboldy.bsky.social · 01/10/2026we have strayed so far from god’s light 127043
Reposted by Ardison-Gardner404 Media @404media.co · 30/09/2026BREAKING: The Trump administration is using a grant program from the 1980s to force cities around the US to funnel their ongoing collection of Flock, Axon, and other ALPR data into large federal surveillance centers that fall under the White House’s jurisdiction, 404 Media has learned404media.coHow Cities Are Forced to Funnel License Plate Data to a Massive Federal Surveillance ProgramHow the federal government built a massive database of license plate reader data through an anti-drug trafficking program. 6213631079
Reposted by Ardison-GardnerSemafor @semafor.com · 30/09/2026Meanwhile, China is attracting more visitors with its visa-free entry policies, and Japan’s weak currency is drawing in a record number of tourists. Read more: www.semafor.com/article/09/2...semafor.comDecline in tourism hits US economyOverseas visitors to the US are on track to drop by almost two million year-on-year. 1673597
Reposted by Ardison-GardnerSemafor @semafor.com · 30/09/2026Visitors to the US are on track to drop by almost two million year-on-year. “We’re the only major country in the world losing visitation,” the head of the US Travel Association said. “It’s mind-boggling.” www.semafor.com/article/09/2... 62731241104
Reposted by Ardison-GardnerPrisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 01/10/2026said chart: open.substack.com/pub/derektho...open.substack.comYou Are No Longer Invited to DinnerWe’re witnessing the death of hosting in America. The share of adults who say they regularly have friends over has declined 70 percent since 1975 5446
Reposted by Ardison-GardnerGarrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 30/09/2026We don’t spend enough time talking about just how WEIRD all these people are. This is just an incredibly weird and insecure thing to say. Imagine any other SecDef ever being this weird and insecure?! 2964407930
Ardison-Gardner @ardison-gardner.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Who besides a lot of people could have foreseen this coming. 010
Reposted by Ardison-GardnerErin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 30/09/2026Transgender girls have a biological advantage at... winning homecoming queen? That's apparently what Clayton County Public Schools in Georgia believes. They have blocked a transgender girl from running for homecoming queen in her high school Subscribe to support our journalism.erininthemorning.comGeorgia School Blocks Trans Homecoming Queen, Citing Title IXA Georgia school district is saying Trump’s Title IX crackdowns means only cisgender women can run for Homecoming Queen. 541466305
Reposted by Ardison-GardnerJulian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 30/09/2026As far as I can tell the idea of schools putting kids on hormones is just a complete fantasy. How or why would the school be involved with that? 2124628
Reposted by Ardison-GardnerNathan Grayson @nathangrayson.bsky.social · 30/09/2026the brand safety panopticon has come to twitch 111142444
Reposted by Ardison-GardnerDragon Cobolt @dragoncobolt.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Speaking as a college graduate, I never joined a frat and I still had an active social life and lots of friends, so, like, the kids will fucking survive not having the 101s on how to roofie women 1454
Reposted by Ardison-GardnerDragon Cobolt @dragoncobolt.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Based on the stats I've seen, the majority of sexual violence is done by a minority who are then protected by a majority, so, shutting down their support structure and the training camps that teach men to value other men over women...sure seems like a real good start! 17216
Reposted by Ardison-Gardnershaun @shaunvids.bsky.social · 30/09/2026i know a lot of people really, really want gaza to be a two-sides issue that maps cleanly onto US electoral politics, but it isn't. the mainstream of both parties supports the genocide, because the US as an institution supports the genocide. i know that's uncomfortable but you can't run away from it 141541198
Reposted by Ardison-Gardnershaun @shaunvids.bsky.social · 30/09/2026& 5 minutes later when the next shipment of weapons arrived as scheduled, netanyahu concluded that biden was a weak bluffing fool who he could completely ignore to zero consequence 111949215
Reposted by Ardison-GardnerAnne Helen Petersen @annehelen.bsky.social · 30/09/2026This is *the* piece. Kate Manne, professor of philosophy at Cornell, speaks truth to the totality of failures at the university — and why students protesting the war in Gaza have faced far harsher consequences than any of the Cornell 7: www.thecut.com/article/what...thecut.comWhat It Feels Like at Cornell Right NowAs 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. 5030631078
Reposted by Ardison-GardnerYonah Freemark @yonahfreemark.com · 29/09/2026617 days into his 2nd term, Trump's Department of Transportation has *still* not approved a single new transit project for full funding. The problems I highlighted in March—how this lack of funding only makes projects cost more & delays completion—have only worsened www.urban.org/urban-wire/r... 6234101
Reposted by Ardison-Gardnerali alkhatib @ali-alkhatib.com · 30/09/2026shutting down frat houses won't end rape culture, but it will disorganize a lot of rapists, and i think that's probably worth doing if only to destabilize what is apparently an ecology of organizations that functionally exist to rape women per the whole "purpose of a system is what it does" insight. 83994760
Reposted by Ardison-GardnerHell-a Bambust 🏳️⚧️ (alleged transsexual)(spooky) @ela-bambust.bsky.social · 07/08/2025The problem with Civ IV's main theme being Baba Yetu is that every Civ after it has felt like it's missing something 512625
Reposted by Ardison-GardnerCay @caymanwent.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Let’s be real they’re using “furry” as a visibly queer subculture as a stand-in for queerness at large. Their goal has been to remove queer people from public life, and they’re testing different vectors to do so. Hence the all caps “MENTALLY ILL,” which is how they want to reclassify all queers 15932461
Reposted by Ardison-GardnerJustin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Most state attorneys general released Meta from Cambridge Analytica-related claims as part of the child safety settlement. New Mexico wasn't part of that deal, and a jury there just found 26 of 29 past claims about Cambridge Analytica, hate speech and misinformation willfully deceptive.techpolicy.pressEight Years On, Cambridge Analytica Scandal Catches Up With Meta in Santa FeA jury found that Meta—then Facebook—misled the public in statements about Cambridge Analytica and its policies on hate speech, violence and misinformation. 9917295
Reposted by Ardison-GardnerNicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 28/09/2026In a Title IX context, “emotional damages” was interpreted to mean any damages resulting from trauma. That decision is in a long legacy of treating women as “hysterical” for being hurt by sexual violence. 128341
Reposted by Ardison-GardnerNicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 28/09/2026And in 2022, SCOTUS ruled on an ADA case with huge ramifications for Title IX. In Cummings v. Premier Rehab Keller, PLLC, SCOTUS ruled that even if an individual’s civil rights are violated, they cannot seek “emotional damages” from the discriminating institution. 126539
Reposted by Ardison-GardnerNicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 28/09/2026(There’s a separate thread to write about why Biden’s Title IX regulation was also very bad. It was written by schools, not survivors, so it actually expanded perpetrator impunity and increased surveillance of survivors. We’re honestly better off without it—even though we’re still in a bad place.) 232546
Reposted by Ardison-GardnerNicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 28/09/2026There was also a sense that Trump losing re-election would fix everything. But Biden dragged his feet on undoing the damage of Title IX. And then HE lost re-election and his Title IX regulation was vacated before it ever really went into effect. 136960
Reposted by Ardison-GardnerNicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Trump’s Title IX regulation went into effect in 2020, where it received almost no media coverage during the pandemic. There were also few students on campus to participate in or protest the process. Schools went above and beyond in implementing hostility toward survivors. 133766
Reposted by Ardison-GardnerNicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 28/09/2026At the time, the draft received an unprecedented amount of comments raising concern about violations of survivors’ rights and the risk of turning Title IX into a vehicle of gender discrimination. They were systematically ignored. Only pro-perpetrator recommendations were accepted.spssi.onlinelibrary.wiley.com 133141
Reposted by Ardison-GardnerNicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 28/09/2026The main reason you haven’t heard about campus sexual violence in a few years is because Trump and SCOTUS have made it much, much harder for survivors to come forward. You might vaguely remember that Title IX was a big battleground in his first term. And that we lost. 31868637
Reposted by Ardison-GardnerSheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 30/09/2026I'm serious btw. We need to make this a demand of progressive state level electeds. I'd love to see @justicedemocrats.com champion this. 111120
Reposted by Ardison-GardnerPrisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 30/09/2026NY voters are usually terrible but man oh man am I grateful to the young people in particular who vanquished Cuomo. 11717
Reposted by Ardison-GardnerKat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 29/09/2026I literally don’t know a single woman who hasn’t been raped, stalked, groped, harassed, or sexually violated in some way at some point in their life. If you choose to doubt and dox survivors, just know every woman in your life is disgusted by you. 767286305976
Reposted by Ardison-GardnerKat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 29/09/2026A man replied to this saying in earnest that women need to get organized and fight for our rights and men will follow. We did that. We do that. We mobilized the largest single day protest in global history on every continent and yet I have fewer rights than my mom did at my age. 15284501513
Reposted by Ardison-GardnerBen Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 29/09/2026wow they really got him 1302733206
Reposted by Ardison-GardnerAlex Burness @burness.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Over a 20-year period, people were sentenced to prison more often, and for longer terms, in years when prosecutors were up for election, a Northwestern Law study finds. In other words, prosecutors were more eager to rob people’s freedom when they thought it would help them politically.news.northwestern.eduPrison admissions rose 3% in district attorney election years during 'tough on crime' eraNew research from Northwestern Pritzker School of Law suggests that public sentiment associated with “tough on crime” politics may be tied to increases in the number of people admitted to state prison... 07639
Reposted by Ardison-GardnerDavid M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 29/09/2026And it might even be good business - www.startribune.com/iowa-republi...startribune.comPerry: Republicans fought ‘indoctrination.’ Now they’re telling students what to study.The conservative attack on higher education in states like Iowa is hard to watch. But it also provides an opportunity for blue states like Minnesota. 416834
Reposted by Ardison-GardnerKPM @kpmcgrath.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Every mayor in America should be asked what they are going to do to ensure civilian control of our police forces, and what they will do to officers or departments that break the law. 4456123
Reposted by Ardison-GardnerI Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 29/09/2026Also speaks to how much social power is assigned to random white dudes with a gripe. 0477
