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Sherrod Brown @sherrodbrownoh.bsky.social · 15h
NEW AD: Listen to this sh*t.
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Jessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 10h
I know we’re all thinking about what happened at Cornell. But I also can’t stop thinking about Emma Sulkowicz and all the other young women forced to carry that weight. Read my column at the newsletter 💜
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Read this by @sorayachemaly.bsky.social: "Rates of violence against women are significantly higher on Division I campuses than at Division II, III, or universities with no athletic programs. Game days at top college football schools are associated with a 28 percent increase in area reports of rape."
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Talking about male supremacy, conservative backlash, managing tetchy feelings, and embracing joyful feminist refusal. Click to read Unmanned, by Soraya Chemaly, a Substack publication with thousands o...
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Bodily autonomy, still a thing @boendercarol.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This is so satisfying. Wish I was there so I could leave.
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Bodily autonomy, still a thing @boendercarol.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Really and truly loling over here! NOT IN THE AIRLINES!
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Bodily autonomy, still a thing @boendercarol.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
British Airways looking really incompetent here
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Joe Flynn @chinajoeflynn.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Hi folks. If you saw this, you know the administration plans to only accept white South Africans next year. Tomorrow is Congress's formal say before the determination is signed. Please check this brief thread on why I'd like you to speak out for the Afghan people still in limbo...
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I have a heavy fundraising lift. I am trying to raise $40,000 for REBUILD to help keep it going: www.mightycause.com/story/Rebuil... There's so much to say about the people who are being supported through this program. I co-founded it and am an advisor. I believe in this work.
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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
He is not wrong. "There are reasonable grounds to believe that the reported 68 attacks that killed 223 people constituted crimes against humanity of murder under customary international law" - United Nations Special Rapporteur on U.S. Killing “Narco-Terrorists” at Sea www.ohchr.org/sites/defaul...
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Bodily autonomy, still a thing @boendercarol.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Egg E. Pantaloons found a perfect pillow. #caturday
Grey and white kitten folded up inside the hole of a neck pillowGrey and white kitten making a pretzel inside a neck pillow.
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Bodily autonomy, still a thing @boendercarol.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
This is top of my list for vengeance. Give me human rights candidates to vote for.
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Important: the USPS rule that SCOTUS blocked tonight was Trump’s big plan to control and restrict mail voting. But a separate policy remains in place: USPS is no longer postmarking mail as soon it gets it, which is hugely important for deadlines. So people must mail back with plenty of time.
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In an Intense Election Year, New Post Office Rules Could Trip Up Voter Registration - Bolts
A change in how mail is postmarked could lead some voters to miss key deadlines, including voter registration. Advocates worry the people most affected will be those already facing voting barriers.
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Bodily autonomy, still a thing @boendercarol.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
I know there are differences in comma use in American English vs British English and that South Asian English is another flavor of British English but why oh why did the editor have to add so many commas in my report? There's no verb in half of those phrases. No verb!
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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Mamdani's channeling of Indian retail politics upending the entire US political framework is hilarious to watch, this is literally what you always do in desi politics, hug the person who called you names to show you're a saint and he's a piece of shit that voters should look down on- and it works
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 11/09/2026
“HRL has assessed based on ground reports from human sources, UN figures, media reports by Sudanese journalists, and the analysis of over 150 piles consistent with clusters of human corpses that at least as many as 60,000 people may have been murdered between October and November in El Fasher.”
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 09/09/2026
NEW: Our analysis found that from 2020 to 2025, the rate of deaths involving ectopic pregnancies nearly doubled compared with the previous six-year period. The uptick was steeper in states with abortion bans.
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Ectopic Pregnancy Deaths Have Nearly Doubled. It’s Worse in States With Abortion Bans.
With prompt and appropriate medical care, experts say, people shouldn’t die from an ectopic pregnancy. Women in Texas and Oklahoma have sued over delays in care, which, coupled with our new analysis, ...
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Bodily autonomy, still a thing @boendercarol.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
@solomonrmissouri.com I just learned the word zaftig. Do you know this word? Seems like a useful word for you.
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Randy Braun @randbot.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
From what I can find*, the NUMBER of food recalls is more or less in line with historical trends. But CASES are way up! so as you said, I think it's a matter of our capacity to get ahead of/stop outbreaks having degraded significantly * pirg.org/edfund/artic... among others
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Are we seeing more food recalls these days?
Proof of one problem: 4 weeks after Chipotle pulled jalapeños, the FDA is still announcing new jalapeño recalls. High-profile outbreaks have many wondering whether our food is less safe.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
(NBC News) — It is now the least rewarding time to be a worker in the U.S. economy since the government started keeping track. @nbcnews.com www.nbcnews.com/business/eco...
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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Published in The New England Journal of Medicine. Peer-reviewed. Large sample size. Sound methodology. An antiviral pill has, for the FIRST time, been shown to PREVENT COVID-19 in individuals exposed to SARS-CoV-2. Ensitrelvir blocks the enzyme coronaviruses need to make new copies of themselves.
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Bodily autonomy, still a thing @boendercarol.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Fucking Silo. How am I gonna get through this episode.
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Bodily autonomy, still a thing @boendercarol.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
This Gloria Steinem essay found me exactly when I needed it to - If Men Could Menstruate
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 03/09/2026
Hey, so based on what other people have said, and what I have now myself experienced, it appears to me that publishers are, um, how do I say this... Not doing a good job (or possibly any job) of checking to see if rights have reverted on a work before claiming them in the settlement.
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Bodily autonomy, still a thing @boendercarol.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
@owillis.bsky.social Please do another edition! I have your book The Deepest State and it is still satisfying. Maybe a sequel? The Wokest State? Even a thread is cathartic.
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
this is correct: the USPS rule is about mailing *to* voters (not *from*) we have an explainer on this! boltsmag.org/mail-voting-...
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Al Yankovic @alyankovic.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
“Lost media” no longer! I finally got permission to upload “AL’S BRAIN,” an 11-minute educational 3-D film attraction which ran at the Orange County and Western Washington fairs, and hasn’t been seen publicly since 2009. You can watch the whole thing here: youtu.be/2xujU87ZHt4
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Doctor Memory @blank.org · 26/08/2026
This is the sucker punch. The wind-up leading to it was the decision that green card applicants had to return to their home country to submit the application. The goal was to convince a huge number of _legal immigrants_ to leave the country and then strand them there.
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Bodily autonomy, still a thing @boendercarol.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Seeing the videos from Nepal is bringing back second hand trauma from the big tsunami. A friend in Phuket outracing the wave on his motorbike. Another was on the beach and knew what the water receding meant but couldn't convince others to run.
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Bodily autonomy, still a thing @boendercarol.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Too real
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Bodily autonomy, still a thing @boendercarol.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Third time's the charm, Reaper.
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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 25/08/2026
[Exit Queen.]
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Imani Gandy @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 25/08/2026
Dolly Parton and Patti LaBelle playing their acrylics. Two icons.
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Bodily autonomy, still a thing @boendercarol.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
I'm in denial. Dolly's not gone. Nope.
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Bodily autonomy, still a thing @boendercarol.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
The best shows should drop on Mondays. Give us something to look forward to at the end of the hardest days.
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Sonia Sulaiman @soniasulaiman.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Hi, I’m in need of help with bills this month both for me and my mom who is in long term care. Phone and utility bills are behind already. I’m also offering art commissions. Anything you can do helps and it is very much appreciated. Thank you. ko-fi.com/soniasulaiman
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Bodily autonomy, still a thing @boendercarol.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
No no no no no no no no no no no no no no
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Bodily autonomy, still a thing @boendercarol.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
I can't count the number of times I received advice to create a behavioral management plan for my daughter. They never work bc you can't reward and punish your way through sensory overload and executive functioning difficulties. And that related attitude that she just needs training or discipline um
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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
The first new tuberculosis vaccine in a century is heading for mass production. TB still kills 1.23 million people a year. WHO estimates a vaccine with this efficacy profile could prevent 76 million cases and save 8.5 million lives over 25 years. Reuters buff.ly/fI5mDxR #ShareGoodNewsToo
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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Not to be some wild-eyed innocent, but I think it should be slightly bigger news that The Lancet have crunched the numbers and found that Musk's USAID cuts will kill 14 million people. And that's just by 2030. That's 9,600 people a day, every day, until the next world cup rolls around.
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Bodily autonomy, still a thing @boendercarol.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Are all flight aggregating websites useless now? Last night Kayak tried to sell me on a Frontier flight that didn't exist and Expedia gave me an itinerary that changed from pm to am only on the very last page with the 'purchase' button.
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Secretary of Defense Rock @sodrock.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
The longest deployment for an air group in the pacific during WWII was 8 months, the carriers would do 6 months before rotating back to Hawaii or the states. Once you go past 6 months, the combat effectiveness of a ship and planes degrades pretty rapidly, the Lincoln just hit 8 months deployed…
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Bodily autonomy, still a thing @boendercarol.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
This is such an awesome ad
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Josie Glausiusz @josiegz.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Wow. Writing in eClinicalMedicine, part of the Lancet group of journals, scientists describe drying a licensed tetanus-diphtheria vaccine into a powder with trehalose, storing it at room temperature for a year, then reconstituting it with water and injecting it.
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Bodily autonomy, still a thing @boendercarol.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Little Bo Peep is in and out of the hospital (and my jacket) but she remains committed to hygiene
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Lindsay Beyerstein @beyerstein.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
These third country deportations are among the most evil acts of the Trump administration. They're trying to extrajudicially punish people for seeking asylum, up to and including with death.
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Bodily autonomy, still a thing @boendercarol.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
AI is making the internet suck so hard. Has everything interesting been turned into repetitive summary articles? Certainly topic A, kitten health, and topic B, patinas on copper, have been.
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Bodily autonomy, still a thing @boendercarol.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
We got two teddies
Two diluted tortie kittens
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Football is here Dan @jacketdan.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Dudes rock
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Some good news!
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