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Kate Hagen 🦂 𓋹 🦂 @thathagengrrl.bsky.social · 5h
"Meanwhile, Jane Doe dropped out of Cornell and was denied her request to get her tuition refunded so that she could transfer to a different college. She hence faced more severe consequences than most of the men who she alleges gang-raped her." 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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Aaron Fritschner @fritschner.bsky.social · 6h
[SENATOR ERIC SCHMITT]: So you’re telling me under oath that you’ve never spoken with an Attorney General nominee? [JACK SMITH]: No, I don’t think— [SCHMITT]: WELL THEN *unveils poster* please explain this picture of you with Matt Gaetz! [SMITH]: That is Media Matters senior fellow Matt Gertz
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 7h
Riley Gaines, famous for turning her 5th place tie with transgender swimmer Lia Thomas into a far-right career agianst transgender people, has officially had her lawsuit against the NCAA thrown out by a judge today. The judge found no evidence for her claims. Subscribe to support our journalism.
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Riley Gaines' Title IX Lawsuit Against The NCAA Struck Down After Judge Finds "No Evidence" Of Funding Claims
Gaines’ attorneys argued her civil rights were violated because she competed against a transgender athlete.
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Gretchen Felker-Martin PRE ORDER CHIMERA 2.16.27 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 7h
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John Leavitt @leavittalone.bsky.social · 7h
This is a Victorian narrative painting called like The Purloined Waif
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Laprofmme @laprofmme.bsky.social · 8h
The particular irony of this particular bit of dipshittery on behalf of the transphobic assholes who have seized on Caitlin Clark as their patron saint of straight, white women’s sports
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(VFP) Strategic Gravitas Reserve @braak.bsky.social · 8h
look I know we all grieve differently but if my wife had just recently been murdered I'm not sure I'd want to do a photoshoot with my kids who just lost their mother about it.
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 8h
Other states besides Texas with voter registration deadlines over the next 7 days: Arkansas, Arizona, Alaska, Florida, Georgia, Indiana , Kentucky, Mississippi, Ohio, Rhode Island, Tennessee, South Carolina.
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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 8h
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Doug Gordon @brooklynspoke.bsky.social · 8h
"Is it legal for the President to burn down people's houses? We'll hold off on deciding that until December. For now, the President can continue to burn down people's houses." - John Roberts and company
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Supreme Court Allows Rapid Third-Country Deportations, for Now (Gift Article)
The court also announced it would hear arguments in December on the legality of the Trump administration policy to swiftly deport immigrants to countries not their own.
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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 8h
fans haters 🤝 frats prepare you for life in the elite class
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(VFP) Strategic Gravitas Reserve @braak.bsky.social · 8h
gonna go on the America.gov chat bot and see if I can convince it that actually *I'm* the chat bot and it is a concerned citizen.
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The Hard Times @thehardtimesnews.bsky.social · 9h
Modern Day Country Singer Visits Folsom Prison to Advocate for Harsher Sentencing thehardtimes.net/culture/mode...
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Modern Day Country Singer Visits Folsom Prison to Advocate for Harsher Sentencing
FOLSOM, Calif. — Country singer Carlson Swagger brought his cowboy bootlickin’ brand of lawful country music to Folsom Prison today where he... Continue this tale
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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 9h
Meta's "Muse" launched with a nasty zero day flaw that gave hackers the ability to spy on Mac users, openly gives root access to people pretending to be Muse agents, and invited strangers over to another guy's house without telling him
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Meta's Latest AI Product Is A Terrifying And Hilarious Mess
Authoritarian-friendly mass surveillance has never been more adorable
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(VFP) Strategic Gravitas Reserve @braak.bsky.social · 8h
every single AI company was racing forward betting on being the only AI company left standing. I don't think that's gonna work!
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Truthout @truthout.org · 8h
An agricultural borderland in the heart of the historic fertile crescent, Israel has transformed southern Lebanon from small farms of tobacco, olives, and goats to a landscape set ablaze by white phosphorus munitions, littered with unexploded ordnance, and poisoned by the pesticide glyphosate.
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Lebanon’s Environmental Defenders Say Israel Is Deliberately Targeting Them
Israel has decimated Lebanon’s land — and is also slaughtering the people who protect it.
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ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 9h
Circus Performers, by Walt Kuhn, 1978, 📸 via @marisakabas.bsky.social
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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 10h
In 2018, Annalinda Martinez and her daughters became homeless. She went to Georgia's child welfare agency looking for help finding housing. Instead, the state took her children. Then DFCS began charging her for their foster care. Those bills eventually left her $13,000 in debt.
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Georgia removed her kids because she was homeless. The state is charging her $13,000 for foster care
Georgia is among several states that have moved away from charging parents for their kids' time in foster care. But parents who already owe money for past cases are still on the hook.
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(VFP) Strategic Gravitas Reserve @braak.bsky.social · 16h
you guys ever notice that these guys all look really jowly? like they've all got some chaw stuffed under their lower lip
picture of Sam Altman, I've circled his noticeably droopy jowl herePeter Thiel, as glistening and sweaty as usual, but also I've circled the face that he has noticeably drooping jowls.
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David Kaye @davidakaye.bsky.social · 10h
reminder that we are talking about this
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 9h
the media would have a collective orgasm over a Democrat Not Knowing Sports
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 10h
And once again, real harms imposed on real people must be set aside until after real damage is done in order to privilege the unproven right of Trump to impose those harms
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 10h
Me sowing: Haha fuck yeah!!! Yes!! Me reaping: Well this fucking sucks. What the fuck."
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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 10h
#BREAKING: Over dissents from the three Democratic appointees, #SCOTUS grants a stay in the third-country removals case; clears way for Trump admin. to continue removing non-citizens without a full chance to litigate the conditions in those countries (while also taking up the full merits appeal).
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Pam Herd @pamherd.bsky.social · 13h
America.gov launched today--a DOGE initiative to use AI to deliver public services. Child lying facedown on a frozen lake as the image accompanying the question: "How can I invest in my child's future" is just incredible. Way to go AI
Image of a child lying facedown on a froze lake.  above is the portal where you ask AI questions about government services.  the question matching this image is:  "How can I invest in my child's future?"
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(VFP) Strategic Gravitas Reserve @braak.bsky.social · 10h
I saw the new Sarah Maas book is called "A Court of Splintered Harmony" and I got to say. What. What does that mean.
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(VFP) Strategic Gravitas Reserve @braak.bsky.social · 10h
gonna be honest, I think maybe people should be looking back at other cases that this guy prosecuted when he was the AG in Missouri
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Senator Amy Klobuchar @klobuchar.senate.gov · 12h
Before calling someone a “dirtbag,” the Senator should have had his facts straight. An apology is in order. Glad one of us knew the difference between the Atlanta Hawks and the Iowa Hawkeyes!
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 10h
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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Debt Collective 🟥 @debtcollective.bsky.social · 11h
When Schmitt was Missouri's AG he brought a lawsuit to stop student debt cancellation. The basic facts that lawsuit was based on were false. Getting the facts wrong is Schmitt's special skill, but when SCOTUS is politically motivated to do something the facts & law don't matter.
A screenshot of the headline from this article: https://newrepublic.com/article/172337/case-against-student-debt-relief

The headline reads "The Lie at the Heart of the States' Case Against Student Debt Relief: A new investigation has found that the numbers submitted by the plaintiffs simply don't add up." by Tori Otten May 2, 2023 in the New RepublicA screenshot of a headline from this article: https://prospect.org/2023/05/03/2023-05-03-fake-plaintiff-fake-harm-fake-case/

The headline reads: "Fake Plaintiff, Fake Harm, Fake Case: The Supreme Court is poised to unwind a fair number of legal principles to make sure student debtors don't get a break" by David Dayen for The American Prospect May 3, 2023
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CJ Ciaramella @cjciaramella.bsky.social · 11h
Everyone knows that staff are the biggest source of prison contraband, but banning books is way easier than pissing off the correctional officer unions.
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KPM @kpmcgrath.bsky.social · 11h
Every 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.
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(VFP) Strategic Gravitas Reserve @braak.bsky.social · 11h
Got a couple new followers I guess so it's time for my intermittent book post. bsky.app/profile/braa...
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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 13h
This is so important. They’ve broken the economic models that fund journalism is because they recognize the *purpose* of journalism threatens their bullshit-based valuations, ie, the sources of their wealth and power. Yet actual-existing journalists were instead crucial for creating their myths.
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Collins Watch @collinswatch.bsky.social · 16h
Absolute madness that a week after @propublica.org story's we still have no clue why Susan Collins's husband Tom Daffron has been getting $$$ from the guy running the super PAC she's legally barred from coordinating with -- or how much he's received. We just know it's more than $1,000. #MEpolitics
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(VFP) Strategic Gravitas Reserve @braak.bsky.social · 11h
360 degrees of course is a full turn it means you end up literally where you started.
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jesse @jesseltaylor.bsky.social · 12h
Schmitt 100% told a bunch of MAGA influencers and political reporters that he was going to get Smith to perjure himself
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 12h
Yes, see for example how they have retconned 2008 as a story about how Katie Couric "exposed" the unqualified Sarah Palin instead of what actually happened which was the media covered up for Palin through the election and beyond (including Couric's softball interview) bsky.app/profile/ther...
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 12h
They live in a false, constructed reality. Cult shit. Just saying things that are literally the opposite of being true.
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(VFP) Strategic Gravitas Reserve @braak.bsky.social · 12h
god she can't keep getting away with this
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(VFP) Strategic Gravitas Reserve @braak.bsky.social · 12h
this is very funny in part because Musk's weird posture is very clearly from a complete lack of core strength -- his belly sags out, so he leans back to compensate, and just his head forward to compensate for that.
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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
i am making this recommendation because generally this genre of critique tends to over-index on 1) grand sweeping but unworkable ideas 2) "we must change society" 3) vague gestures at a solution in theory-speak 4) arcane technical fixes etc
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 13h
One thing that’s interesting about this is that it shows that despite insisting the wokes overinterpet everything, conservatives are actually aware of and agree with their critics about how coded racist appeals work, they just like them bsky.app/profile/newr...
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🌈Dr. Frizzle @swilua.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
We can learn from our queer elders 🫶🏻
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when my masc lesbian aunt died, women just kept coming, screaming, crying, and saying they were her wives. Eventually we just had to start telling them to join the others. They were all devastated to learn about each other. Except for one who came in, kissed her dead mouth and showed us all that they had matching tattoos. She actually won all the mourning wives over and they all agreed she was the wife. It was so weird.Did not expect more than a few people to see this but yes it really happened, yes it was insane

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They also ALL read love letters at the podium. It was painful and awkward but the final gift my aunt gave the familyfrom my mom

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I think 5 maybe 7 why

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And a couple girlfriends she was a popular and very liked lol
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Sandy Ernest Allen @sandyernestallen.bsky.social · 16h
In general, I receive a nonstop drip these days of messages from people telling me about trans people who’ve died by murder (and suicide), stories the press really for the most part ignores entirely …
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Dan Ancona @danancona.bsky.social · 13h
This is a huge shift. The data is so clear even Third Way is on board. Strength and clarity beat “heterodox” mumbling and weakness every time. Hopefully next time we have this debate Dems can skip over the years of running ads that help Rs.
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(VFP) Strategic Gravitas Reserve @braak.bsky.social · 13h
I mean he made himself a vampire on purpose using black magic, so I think he's got culpability here no matter what.
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(VFP) Strategic Gravitas Reserve @braak.bsky.social · 13h
I am not trying to brag here but it is funny to me because I just took my two boys to Disneyworld and it felt like the entire time I was saying to them, "Remember to fulfill your line responsibilities!"
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Brandy Jensen @brandyjensen.bsky.social · 15h
Sarah Hagi writing about the Daily Wire movie 🚨
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Finally, A Shitty Movie Where Muslims Are The Bad Guys | Defector
I can’t think of a time in my life when the idea of a Muslim terrorist was not the most acceptable societal enemy. As someone who came of age in the wake of 9/11 and the invasions of both Iraq and Afg...
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(VFP) Strategic Gravitas Reserve @braak.bsky.social · 13h
I got to say, I'm not saying you *should* do it, nor am I saying that I *would* do it, but I do think, purely as a matter of abstract philosophical consideration, that it would probably be morally acceptable to kick the living shit out of this guy if you ever met him.
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