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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 2h

A truly heinous man has doxxed the Cornell victim on X and the comments are predictably vile. Based on countless interviews I’ve done with survivors, the trauma they are subjected to for coming forward is oftentimes even worse than the initial trauma they experienced. There is no real justice system

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Anne Helen Petersen @annehelen.bsky.social · 5h

This 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.com

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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Brendan Davey @brendandavey.bsky.social · 8h

New insane example of brigading comments in r/nyc just dropped. The mayor releasing an entire plan to combat antisemitism, is… antisemitic. 🤷‍♂️

reddit.com

From the nyc community on Reddit: Mamdani unveils roadmap to combat antisemitism in New York City

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New Kings Democrats @newkingsdems.bsky.social · 9h

There is too much at stake in November — it’s time for a fair vote for chair, and for @juliopenabk.com and the new majority coalition to get to work building a party that delivers real wins for our Brooklyn communities.

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New Kings Democrats @newkingsdems.bsky.social · 9h

It is time for this absurdity to end. The election took place in June. The attempts to overturn it have run their course and the legal matters are settled. Every statewide and national elected official who has weighed in has called on the outgoing chair to respect the results.

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New Kings Democrats @newkingsdems.bsky.social · 9h

No rules amendments were presented to or voted on by the County Committee. Lawyers for the Brooklyn Can’t Wait coalition have asked for a stay of tonight’s meeting, to clarify that the voting members of the Exec Committee are the 42 elected District Leaders.

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New Kings Democrats @newkingsdems.bsky.social · 9h

They will claim these same illegal rules changes were passed by the full Kings County Democratic County Committee last week. This is false. Members voted to ratify the current party rules, now re-affirmed by the court to be the rules in place at the time of the June election.

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New Kings Democrats @newkingsdems.bsky.social · 9h

We are worried that, instead of accepting this decision, the outgoing Party Chair and her allies will keep trying to reverse the election result.

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New Kings Democrats @newkingsdems.bsky.social · 9h

Now the newly-elected leaders should finally meet to elect a new party chair. @juliopenabk.com has the support of the majority coalition, and as chair he will make sure that every District Leader and every community has a voice in our Democratic Party.

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New Kings Democrats @newkingsdems.bsky.social · 9h

Brooklynites voted to elect new District Leaders with the power to elect a new party chair. No one has the power to overturn that election result, and certainly not the outgoing district leaders who just lost their seats. We are glad to see democracy validated in court again.

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New Kings Democrats @newkingsdems.bsky.social · 9h

The Appellate Division ruled today that “the amendments that passed on August 25, 2026, are invalid” — the Brooklyn Democratic Party can’t change its rules to reverse an election result. This is a victory for democracy and for common sense. www.nycourts.gov/courts/ad2/H... 1/🧵

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Brendan Davey @brendandavey.bsky.social · 8h

Seldom do court rulings on political corruption go the way of people who want less corruption. Celebrate this! And then let’s immediately get back to work actually winning elections. There is so much work to do that is not having to thwart disgusting power grabs.

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Brendan Davey @brendandavey.bsky.social · 14h

At a fundraising convention in Columbus, OH and in the first hour “Here’s a new AI tool to help you fundraise” has been uttered over 20 times. Shoehorning everything into one way of not-thinking and “producing,” no matter the cause, or organization. This is what we’re doing everywhere.

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Brendan Davey @brendandavey.bsky.social · 15h

It’s not uncommon for terrible people to spend hours & hours doxxing a victim in order to protect predators. Imagine if they used that effort for good? There is a reason the concept of “believing women” was the main target of the anti-Me Too movement. Too much in this country runs on misogyny.

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Ben Alpers @benalpers.bsky.social · 15h

Democrats do not only need to "go all in" on higher education. The party needs a genuine reset on its understanding of it. The last three Democratic administrations contributed to creating the crisis that higher ed is facing today.

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Anna O. Law @unlawfulentries.bsky.social · 18h

Of course I agree with Kevin as we limp along at CUNY hobbled by decades of under-funding. It hasn't been costless. I am not feeling sanguine given the Dems even in blue states have decided public higher ed = vocational training. But will I stop pushing the Dems on it? No.

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New Kings Democrats @newkingsdems.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Let us be clear: Brooklyn needs a fair vote by the elected District Leaders. The Chair attempting to pick her own successor after she lost an election isn’t democracy, it's cronyism, and the illegal rules changes she has fought to enact would permanently end democratic oversight of our party.

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Brendan Davey @brendandavey.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Story time 🧵: Back when I first moved to NYC, my friend and I were hungover AF in a “Pizza Hut & Combination Taco Bell.” As I was housing a chalupa this huge dude came over to us and said “Y’all smoke?” Perplexed, we kind of gave him a “yeeeah?”

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Brendan Davey @brendandavey.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This is true, and it’s why we need more people observing and watching these atrocities unfold. The amount of people who joined groups like this skyrocketed after the Minneapolis surge, but people have dropped off a lot, even though ICE arrests are continuing to increase.

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Brendan Davey @brendandavey.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Yet another instance of a judge ordering that what I and so many others have witnessed at 26 Federal Plaza in NYC is heinous and criminal. I’m still waiting for the day where ICE is actually punished for this. It’s a touch read but the actual opinion in its entirety provides horrific details…

gothamist.com

Judge rules ICE sought to 'inflict punishment' on immigrants held in NY

A federal judge ordered rules put in place to end 'inhumane' conditions at 26 Federal Plaza be made permanent.

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Brendan Davey @brendandavey.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

It’s only been out for a day but I think this is already my album of the year. Nothing beats a band you’ve loved for a decade exceeding all your expectations with a new album:

gillaband.bandcamp.com

Pugnello, by Gilla Band

10 track album

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

People sleep on CUNY but it is one of the absolute JEWELS of U.S. Higher Ed and has been for decades. And what's the thanks the system gets??? It has to fight for its life every single year because it has been systematically defunded.

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James Ryan @jdryan08.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The combined undergraduate and graduate student populations of all Ivy League schools is about 140,000 students. The CUNY system alone is 250,000.

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 24/09/2026

If you wanna help the @newkingsdems.bsky.social fight the Brooklyn Democratic Party in court, you can donate here: www.newkingsdemocrats.com/legal_fees_d...

newkingsdemocrats.com

Help Us Fight In Court!

Working for a more progressive Brooklyn

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PSC-CUNY @psc-cuny.org · 25/09/2026

A hundred PSC members just took to the streets in Manhattan to picket outside the arbitration hearing of our unjustly fired colleague - the "Fired Fourth" - who has been blacklisted by @cuny.edu due to their advocacy for Palestinian human rights.

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dr. thrasher, an american writer in ex(archia)(xile) @thrasherxy.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

in 2017, a trans reporter was fired at @marketplace.org for writing a blog post abt the need for journalists to resist rising fascism, racism and transphobia. @kairyssdal.bsky.social, the host of the show, said nothing & let his colleague's career be murdered. judge his hr tips accordingingly.

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Brendan Davey @brendandavey.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Always grateful than whenever we take our fight to the streets, that @dianaforqueens.com shows up. So many of our elected officials claim they want to fight for the educators, but so few actually show up and do it, and even fewer do when the fight is as dire as reinstating the "Fired Fourth."

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Jeanne Theoharis @jeannetheoharis.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

We’re here to tell @cuny.edu and @brooklyncollege.bsky.social to stop blacklisting and rehire the Fired Fourth!

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Brendan Davey @brendandavey.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Being from Connecticut, you learn to never take a cool scrappy homegrown sports franchise for granted. You get tired of it though. Screw Houston.

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Brad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This ruling affirms what we've long known to be true. The holding room conditions at 26 Federal Plaza are completely deplorable.

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Brendan Davey @brendandavey.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

🗃️ An important caveat about this war: The Republic of the Rif was successfully resisting TWO empires simultaneously, so they resorted to using chemical weapons. This was, on the heels of international agreements to make these weapons illegal. Imperialism: Rules for thee but not for me. Always.

By mid-October, when operations stopped for the winter, the Rif was sealed off. Yet even in early January the government still functioned inside the cordon: criminals were arrested, the road was open, the telegraph worked. But the Rifis had 3,000 men at most; the French and Spanish had 123,000 and 150 aeroplanes that dropped poison gas. In April Rifi forces in the Jibala could not be supplied and they began to leave. Bin Abd al-Karim told the qabilas to prepare their own defence.

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Brendan Davey @brendandavey.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Misogynists be normal about women challenge: Impossible.

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Brendan Davey @brendandavey.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

It is loooong past time for Columbia and NYU to pay up. Unis that primarily function as real estate portfolios should be anathema. Instead, all of higher-ed gets castigated as part of some "Ivory Tower" conspiracy. When, if you look at who makes up CUNY, that couldn't be further from the truth.

cityandstateny.com

Opinion: New York’s wealthiest universities need to finally pitch in

It’s time to revisit Mamdani’s proposal to have NYU and Columbia help fund CUNY.

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 24/09/2026

This Brooklyn Democratic Party County Committee meeting was an anti-democratic disgrace. Shame on the leaders of the party, who ignored legitimate questions from reformers, tried to get the cops to eject people, insulted dissenters, and pushed through Bichotte-Hermelyn's power grab. 📷🧵

Rob Robinson, Anthony Beckford, Renee Collymore, and Alan Rokoff presiding over the Brooklyn Democrats meeting. Banner on their table reads "Brooklyn Democrats / Kings County Democratic County Committee"

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Hell Gate *subscribe today!* @hellgatenyc.com · 24/09/2026

The committee that makes up the Brooklyn Democratic Party held a chaotic meeting Wednesday to elect its leadership team using controversial new voting rules, as an appeals court deliberated on the legality of their actions mere blocks away. hellgatenyc.com/brooklyn-dem...

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Brendan Davey @brendandavey.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Yesterday we saw a post go viral because a woman got stuck in Icelandic aviation purgatory. Today, there are hundreds of county committee members and local journalists trapped in Kings County Democratic Party Purgatory. Godspeed to all my waylaid travelers and civic servants.

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New Kings Democrats @newkingsdems.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Today, BK Dems vote on a new chair to represent the 1M+ Dems in Brooklyn. The choice is clear: Respect the June election and elect @juliopenabk.com, or keep a party that runs a patronage mill while sitting on the sideline for general elections. #BrooklynCantWait

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Brendan Davey @brendandavey.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Everything they do is designed to confuse, isolate, and break you. I’ve seen this newest form of chaotic dehumanization in person. It’s only the newest tactic, and it won’t be the last. But take note of how broken this entire system is.

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Brendan Davey @brendandavey.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I witnessed part of the rollout for this new tactic and I really can’t emphasize enough how: A) Disorganized and confused all the people who work in this courthouse are because of this stuff. B) Just how badly DHD doesn’t want us to document how awful and impersonal these hearings are.

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Brendan Davey @brendandavey.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Although it's from 2016, this holds up shockingly well today. But maybe that isn't all that surprising given it's the same tired Western cliches of the last century that are driving the manic belief in a "superintelligent AI" in the first place.

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Brendan Davey @brendandavey.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Historically speaking, we're keen to remember huge instances of corruption as earth-shifting and era-defining. Yet, it's often the petty corruption, for things so trivial sounding it doesn't even seem like a big deal, where all the rot in a society stems from. The BK Dems, are the perfect example.

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Brendan Davey @brendandavey.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

A friend in college used to say that if you ever met some new all you had to say was “fuckin’ Obama man…” And it would immediately spark a conversation revealing that they were either a racist POS, or literally anyone else who was disappointed in what he had or hadn’t done. It never failed.

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Brendan Davey @brendandavey.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Between this and the “everyone in AI is in a Harry Potter fanfic sex cult” I’m increasingly convinced that the reason most of us are poor or aren’t in power is because we’re just not horny enough.

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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 21/09/2026

This will make it nearly impossible to file habeas petitions, because attorneys won’t even know what federal district their client has been moved to to stage for their removal. Something like a third of all people in ICE custody. apnews.com/article/ice-...

apnews.com

AP Exclusive: ICE hides locations of thousands of detainees with final removal orders

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has stopped publicly revealing where it is holding most detainees who are subject to final deportation orders, in a move that has made it harder for lawyers an...

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

If you are a member of NYC-DSA, please consider co-sponsoring a proposed resolution to support 1% for Parks and 0.5% for Libraries in the city expense budget: convention.socialists.nyc/proposals/08...

convention.socialists.nyc

Member Login | 2026 NYC-DSA Convention

Convention 2026 planning tools.

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Brendan Davey @brendandavey.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Exactly. Cults prey on people with a big emotional hole they need to fill. And, unfortunately, very smart people are often full of holes. Belittling people who get into a cult only deepens the sunk-cost fallacy keeping them in there. Fuck the cult leaders though. They’re always actual ghouls.

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Brendan Davey @brendandavey.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Whenever I think "Man, music just keeps getting more and more stale" I try and find things from around the world where people are innovating much more, with a lot less. This is a good example of that. Haven't heard a lot like it, but now I want more. Thanks for the rec.

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