Reposted by Bret McCabejamelle @jamellebouie.net · 14hhuh, interesting that vance thinks this is the worst terrorist attack and not oklahoma city 1685083739
Reposted by Bret McCabeA.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 20hIf you do like public executions you should be excluded from polite society. 31881137
Reposted by Bret McCabeMoira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Women who resist rape are punished so disproportionately because men understand that rape is the lynchpin of their social power, and they will go to any lengths to defend it. www.cnn.com/2026/10/08/u...cnn.com‘Shocking’ swatting incident and death threats against Jane Doe | CNNJane Doe’s Attorney Thomas Giuffra tells CNN’s Kaitlan Collins the swatting incident that left Doe’s family at gunpoint was “one of the most shocking things” he’s seen. 2348100
Reposted by Bret McCabeChris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 08/10/2026I've been immersed in research on Reconstruction in Lousiana and it's a very difficult truth to absorb that the white terrorist movement in the South was among the most successful terrorist movements in global history. Took 10 years but it won a total & complete victory through murder and atrocity. 16659631449
Reposted by Bret McCabeThe Associated Press @apnews.com · 20hStudents are still protesting across France for more resources and better conditions in schools after weeks of class boycotts, blockades and demonstrations. 514336
Reposted by Bret McCabeOliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 08/10/2026these people would say it was "unclear" why more people in germany didnt openly identify as jewish in 1942 4140911161
Reposted by Bret McCabeDocumented @documentedny.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Hispanic Heritage Month is meant to honor the contributions of Hispanic and Latino communities, but it also encompasses people with vastly different histories and traditions under one umbrella. documentedny.comBeyond ‘Hispanic’: The Cultures Making New York HomeHispanic Heritage Month is meant to honor the contributions of Hispanic and Latino communities, but it also encompasses people with vastly different histories, traditions and relationships under a single umbrella. 021
Reposted by Bret McCabe🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Everyone is just okay with this capitalbnews.org/the-unseen-t...capitalbnews.orgThe Unseen Toll: Depression, Anxiety Plague Black Women a Year After DOGE LayoffsPart 1 of a three-part series, FIRED: The DOGE Layoffs Hit Black Women Hard, a collaboration between MindSite News, Capital B, The 19th, and The Nation, edited by MindSite News. Photographs by Kuwilil... 211364
Reposted by Bret McCabeJessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 08/10/2026The top three stories in tonight’s newsletter really say it all jessica.substack.com/p/congressio... 517862
Reposted by Bret McCabeStand Up America @standupamerica.com · 08/10/2026Trump just handed Anduril Industries a $2.9 billion contract with the U.S. Navy. Who's invested in Anduril? Don Jr. Who founded it? Republican megadonor Palmer Luckey, who's given $5.9 million to Republican causes since 2017. If you can pay up, the Trump administration will give you the contract. 0127
Reposted by Bret McCabeMoira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Former @bardcollege.bsky.social President and friend of Jeffrey Epstein, Leon Botstein, has finally resigned all his college positions after emails emerge in which he asked Epstein if a trafficked woman was “for me.” www.nytimes.com/2026/10/07/u...nytimes.comLeon Botstein, Former Bard President With Epstein Ties, Resigns From College PositionsLeon Botstein had already retired from the presidency of the liberal arts college this spring, after emails showed he had maintained a longtime friendship with Jeffrey Epstein. 371052387
Reposted by Bret McCabeJoshua Foust 🪖🎮 @joshuafoust.com · 03/10/2026It’s weird to see so many higher education leaders beat their chests about “the decline of trust” from the public while refusing to acknowledge the conservative movement organizing to destroy it. Imagine someone stabbing you repeatedly while you complain about not having enough blood to bleed out. 5447133
Reposted by Bret McCabeMayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 02/10/2026Calling all NYC artists — painters, filmmakers, poets, musicians and more! Did you know our city provides grants to support your work every year? And this year, we're DOUBLING the amount — from $5,000 up to $10,000 per artist! Deadlines are approaching fast — apply today at nyc.gov/artistgrants. 303169475024
Reposted by Bret McCabelauren benet @laurenbenet.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Something I learned just this week: "only 4% of the world’s women and girls live in the U.S., but the U.S. confines ONE-QUARTER of the world’s incarcerated women and girls." www.prisonpolicy.org/global/women... 111353
Reposted by Bret McCabeTressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Thread. (It’s a new world, fellow academics.) 418647
Reposted by Bret McCabedan sinker @dansinker.com · 03/10/2026You'd think that the Democratic party would be making hay over their opposition's biggest donor fighting to let his bot keep making revenge porn. 10244541335
Reposted by Bret McCabeRobin James @robinjames.bsky.social · 03/10/2026SUNDAY from 5-7pm Eastern join me on Inhailer.com for new & classic indie. This week I’ll take a deep dive into the work of Neneh Cherry.inhailer.comInhailer Radio | Cincinnati | Independent Radio | Indie MusicInhailer Radio is Cincinnati independent radio. Founded in 2017 to fill the void left by beloved radio station WNKU. 011
Reposted by Bret McCabeMo Ryan @moryan.bsky.social · 03/10/2026I've been a journalist for 35 yrs &never done anything like this. Esp in this area, I can't think of anyone reputable who'd do this. I hate this happened to you & IMO it's not ethical. IF it were possible they were going to share yr interview internally, you should have been told up front at MINIMUM 1508103
Reposted by Bret McCabeDan Hirschman @asociologist.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Big sigh. Cornell edited its faq after the NYT story about the CUPD omitting details from the victim statement: “Any mention of sharing “all investigatory information” with the district attorney had been removed from the page.” www.wskg.org/regional-new...wskg.orgCornell quietly edits FAQ page about fraternity sexual assault allegations amid public backlashOn Wednesday, the university removed a sentence stating that campus police “shared all investigatory information with the Tompkins County District Attorney's Office.” 210447
Reposted by Bret McCabeMad Scholar Frights @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Most of the commentary about this concentrates on how it's just an asshole move. And it definitely is. But it's also a violation of ADA 15847173
Reposted by Bret McCabeGillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 01/10/2026The “states’ rights” people in the past knew it was bullshit back then too, because slaver states wouldn’t let free states pass laws protecting self-emancipated people within their borders. 4917285
Reposted by Bret McCabeBlock Club Chicago @blockclubchi.bsky.social · 01/10/2026A Chicago mariachi band went viral after playing the Star-Spangled Banner at Bears’ Monday night game. buff.ly/s6Htb23 09316
Reposted by Bret McCabeRacket @racketmn.com · 01/10/2026Throughout my life, I’ve had the opportunity to answer a question posed countless times by workers I’ve met: How will a union help me? racketmn.com/in-the-fight...racketmn.comIn the Fight Against Fascism, Here's Why Minnesota’s Unions Matter - RacketDon't make me tap the graph. 13710
Reposted by Bret McCabeThe Lever @levernews.com · 01/10/2026SCOOP: The SEC just quietly rewrote its own rules so ONE Trump appointee can make decisions for the entire agency, no public comment required. This is right as the SEC preps rules on crypto and AI mega-IPOs like Anthropic’s. www.levernews.com/sec-quorum-r...levernews.comTrump SEC Quorum Rule Lets One Commissioner Act AloneA quiet rule change could signal “the end of independent financial regulators” just as the SEC prepares to deregulate crypto, mega-IPOs, and corporate governance. 9130115
Reposted by Bret McCabeSarah Osment @smosment.bsky.social · 01/10/2026no humanities except for grok 1177
Reposted by Bret McCabeSanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Google and Apple immediately update their maps. 392476545
Reposted by Bret McCabecrying in seafood city @turnpikeghosts.bsky.social · 30/09/2026man. really something to just see it written out so plainly like this. 03214
Reposted by Bret McCabeKathleen @deloebrenti.bsky.social · 29/09/2026I'm very proud of the collaboration my library undertook to work with Raven Chacon to bring his digital scores to the Friedheim Library! We are honored that Raven trusted us with these scores - many of which have not been shared before. Check it out! catalyst.library.jhu.edu/discovery/se...catalyst.library.jhu.edu 143
Reposted by Bret McCabethe Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 29/09/2026fantastic work here, a service to history 431269
Reposted by Bret McCabeA.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Hard to imagine what that would be like 23875221267
Reposted by Bret McCabeAndrea Grimes @andreagrimes.com · 29/09/2026I wrote about the end of the MAGA makeover, the aesthetic normalization of bigotry, and the mall store selling fascist sweatshirts to teenage girls. New for @theflytrapmedia.com!!theflytrapmedia.comThe 'MAGA Makeover' is Over, and Its Replacement is (Even More) TerrifyingFascists are using fashion to normalize radical perspectives and groups into normie society. 310241
Reposted by Bret McCabeSpokane Rising @spokanerising.com · 29/09/2026Send Stephen Miller to The Hague. 21275902509
Reposted by Bret McCabesomedudenamedcarl.bsky.social @somedudenamedcarl.bsky.social · 28/09/2026HEM: "But you'll ruin that young man's life if you report him for sexual assault." ME: Correct. I'd prefer if he didn't get to become a Supreme Court Judge or run for President.static.klipy.comKaren Gillan Points Up: Yes, ThatALT: Karen Gillan Points Up: Yes, That 331570339
Reposted by Bret McCaberax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 29/09/2026i agree with the key point here and will add to it that there IS a reward, it’s knowing you did one right thing instead of walking around plagued by the nameless shame that afflicts all men who are determined to live the most frictionless lives possible 302068313
Reposted by Bret McCabeAllison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 29/09/2026The ICE agent who shot Araujo in a Houston is named GREGORY FEATHERS. Make sure everyone knows. 19791095500
Reposted by Bret McCabeJ.D. Connor @jdconnor.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Since it is late and I have been thinking about Paramount–Warner Bros., and I have a lingering take, I'll dump it here. After the trauma of the integration, the thousands of layoffs, the likely federally subsidized bump in Hollywood production, what will happen with this company? 1178
Reposted by Bret McCabeQasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 28/09/2026To the people complaining these sex abuse cases have created a world where men now have to think 10 times before they touch a woman. Yes, that's the point. It's called consent. Welcome to human decency. 298152513603
Reposted by Bret McCabeAndrea Grimes @andreagrimes.com · 29/09/2026I'm lucky to know many lovely men who will call out bullshit of any kind whenever they see it. BUT I will say that IME white lefty guys have a real tendency to want to be seen calling out racism, esp against other men, who say otherwise very little about sexism. It's a both/and, not an either/or. 213515
Reposted by Bret McCabeMax Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Sure, the 2024 election was one too, but 2026 might be the clearest intelligence test ever presented to the American electorate. Taken at face value, he's saying he stole hundreds of billions from the gov't, hid it somewhere Congress can't reach, and he pinky swears he will give you a piece. Really. 752838763
Reposted by Bret McCabe4fuxake @blueheartedly1.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Every bit of this 👇 579159134117
Reposted by Bret McCabeIndivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 28/09/2026It has been eight days since Wilber Rafael Garcés Pérez was shot by ICE while making a DoorDash delivery in Austin, Texas. He is currently facing a severe medical emergency. The bullet remains lodged in his back, and he is being held at the South Texas ICE Processing Center in Pearsall. 17574311
Reposted by Bret McCabeAsheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 28/09/2026This is why the Vanderbilt/WashU report cannot be understood apart from both institutions‘ massive investments in AI. Their leaders needed to discredit those disciplines and forms of knowledge asking hard questions about the cultural, social, political, and environmental costs of AI. 14411
Reposted by Bret McCabeEmily Gorcenski @emily.gorcen.ski · 28/09/2026Here’s the most incredible story you’ll read today. A small plane with four people aboard crashes in a field. Another pilot witnesses it. That pilot happens to be flying a bunch of skydivers. They offer to jump to assist, are given permission. The skydivers happen to be EMTs. Everyone survives.wisn.comSkydivers alert emergency crews, assist after plane crashes near East Troy airportFour people were aboard the single-engine plane when it went down in a cornfield near Carvers School Road in East Troy at about 1:30 p.m. 123103482689
Reposted by Bret McCabeDr Katie Twomey @k2mey.eurosky.social · 28/09/2026This is quite cool. My university is the first organisation in the world to force Microsoft to allow us to turn off copilot summaries in Word 365, after a backlash against it from staff (including, very vocally, me). That cannot have been easy for our heroic IT people so hats very much off to them! 895443936
Reposted by Bret McCabeAllison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 28/09/2026New @jamestalarico.bsky.social ad just dropped. 58968661937