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L Laiken

@broaden.bsky.social
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Native brooklynite; what the world needs now is facts, sweet facts; tv fiend. Broaden.substact.com

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Joe Adalian @tvmojoe.bsky.social · 2h
Update: The NYT and WaPo both are leading their home pages tonight with stories about this hearing, with the Times centering Schmitt’s shenanigans. But stunningly, Schmitt’s stunt was not mentioned at all on any of the three network newscasts. CBS and NBC didn’t cover the hearing at all.
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Anne Helen Petersen @annehelen.bsky.social · 6h
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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Jen McGowan @iamjenmcg.bsky.social · 5h
School security is to universities what Human Resources is to companies They are there to protect the institutions Fuck them for misleading victims otherwise
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Adam Rogers @jetjocko.bsky.social · 7h
In France they call it "a Royale with Intelligence"
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Adam Rogers @jetjocko.bsky.social · 7h
It's ironic, because this is super dumb.
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your friend oriana @schwindter.bsky.social · 7h
going to sue mark z for copying this
stickers of an anthropomorphic popcorn bag cheekily showing us his butt
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Jen McGowan @iamjenmcg.bsky.social · 7h
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
theguardian.com
How Senate Democrats can stop Trump from stealing the midterms | David Walbert
Republicans could lean on congressional procedure to defy the will of voters. But if they try that, the Senate has a clear way to fight back
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Matt Mitovich @mattmitovich.bsky.social · 8h
I have to wonder if today's "Vance's running mate" leak was to coincide with what they thought was gonna be some epic and public "Gotcha!" moment vs Jack Smith. OOPS.
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 10h
It's inconceivable to me how someone who lost in a free & fair election can incite an angry mob to attack his own government, (the very definition of treason) & be allowed to run for any office ever again.
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 9h
The corruption never stops.
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Blue Dot in Red State @bluedotin.bsky.social · 10h
What a great phrase: "While fear may be contagious, courage is as well." So perfect for a man like Mr. Smith dealing with the duplicitous Trump. Also a role model for organizations in Law Firms and universities. Quite a hero for us.
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Matt Zoller Seitz @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 13h
There should be penalties in this country for posting photorealistic GenAI imagery of things that never happened and claiming the image is proof that they did 
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Alisha Grauso (She/Her) @alishagrauso.bsky.social · 11h
New penguin. New cat. The world is fucking amazing, you guys. Stop assuming it's lost.
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Matt Zoller Seitz @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 11h
GET THEIR ASSES
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your friend oriana @schwindter.bsky.social · 10h
silicon valley looked at scalper culture and decided we should make society out of it
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Lacy Baugher Milas @lacymb.bsky.social · 10h
Wow, maybe he should watch an actual episode of Doctor Who, since the show literally just did a story about the dangers of AI and the oppressive threat (to women and society) it represents!?!?
deadline.com
'Doctor Who': BBC's Matt Brittin Says He Has Watched AI Episode
An artificial intelligence 'Doctor Who' was sent to the BBC's Matt Brittin and he said it was "pretty good"
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 11h
“What if we released malware represented in the form of a cute avatar” is an actual business plan now.
engadget.com
Dots are OpenAI's new personal agents and soon you'll be able to control several of them - Engadget
Sure, seems safe.
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Kristen Baldwin @kristengbaldwin.bsky.social · 11h
“Furthermore, we will be running all submissions through an AI detector to prevent anyone from taking the easy way out.”
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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 29/09/2026
Seriously, just do not use muse
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Abby Olcese @abbyolcese.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Black Mirror (2026, Charlie Brooker)
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Jen Mercieca @jenmercieca.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I don't usually write about the economy, but I got interested in the "affordability" discourses. I'm wrapping up a longish article today and, it uses exactly this visual.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
When they get back in power, Democrats need to go all-in on higher education. We need a campaign of reinvestment in public universities across the country that makes the Morrill Land-Grant Act look like nothing by comparison *and* a GI Bill of Rights-style program of tuition grants.
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Kim Masters @kimmasters.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
They hate normal women.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
the horrific cornell gang rape case has me thinking about emma sulkowicz who alleged she was raped as a student at columbia in 2014 and never got any justice. it has me thinking about the physical and mental weight young women are forced to carry while their safety is subsumed by male potential.
Emma Sulkowicz carrying around a mattress on the Columbia campus in 2014 to raise awareness of her alleged rape and the university's inaction.
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Liz Shannon Miller @lizshannonmiller.com · 28/09/2026
I may not end up doing anything with this, so here's a spreadsheet breaking down the network/gender/race representation of the NY Times 100 Best 21st Century TV Shows (feel free to ask about any of my classifications here): docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
docs.google.com
NYT Best 21st Century Shows Demographic Breakdown
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Adam Sternbergh @sternbergh.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
heartening that a Democrat finally claimed the lane of “what if I just explain in plain English what the current administration is doing”
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Walter Chaw @mangiotto.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Here was the next time I interviewed him; this time for @ebertvoices.bsky.social upon the 4K release of LONE STAR at @criterion.bsky.social : www.rogerebert.com/interviews/w...
rogerebert.com
We’re So Short on Time: John Sayles on Lone Star
An interview with the legendary writer/director on the eve of the Criterion release of one of his best films.
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ringa ringa roses @zyla.top · 28/09/2026
HEY IM BAWKIN HERE
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L Laiken @broaden.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Alternative hed: A Trump 2024 Campaign Ad Returns. This Time, You Paid For It.
A Trump 2024 Campaign Ad Returns, Now Brought to You by the Government The ad, which experts said could break federal law, shows President Trump vowing to "expel the warmongers" from the government, even as he wages a war with Iran.
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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Whoa. 1st item on the list: "Larry Ellison first became a Wall Street darling by co-founding Oracle in 1977. But in 1990, the database software company nearly went bankrupt when it was revealed that its aggressive sales team booked more than $100 million in 'phantom revenue.'" It only gets worse!
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💠𝑺𝒄𝒉𝒖𝒍𝒕𝒛𝒊𝒆𝑷𝒊𝒆💠 @schultziepie.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Please share. #Pinks
girlyfeminist girlyfeminist
l've been a SA advocate for decades:
NEVER go to campus resources for a SA. Call a rape care hotline/program (off campus), get a SA advocate (they're free), go to a SART hospital for care (and evidence collection if you choose).
They activate the police. Schools have NO business in this process and will minimize and bury it. It's a criminal matter, not an administrative matter.
Period. No exceptions.
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Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
this feels like another liberation day where trump talks about doing this and maybe announces it but backs away immediately because everyone with a brain in industry starts screaming at him
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Christopher Irving @clirving.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
What do socialist Democrats have? SOLID messaging, presenting a problem with cold, hard figures, and then a solution.
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Jen McGowan @iamjenmcg.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
lataco.com/phone-survei...
lataco.com
The U.S. Government Quietly Just Made It Legal to Go Through Your Phone at the Border ~ L.A. TACO
An Appeals Court panel has ruled that federal agents can legally search through travelers' cell phones without reasonable suspicion, probable cause, or a warrant when they cross an international borde...
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Matt Zoller Seitz @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
It's like they looked at every garden on earth and concluded that what they all needed was weeds
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Andy Dehnart @andydehnart.com · 27/09/2026
So impressed by the student journalists at The Cornell Sun who wrote this editorial (content: SA) and, in their words, "ask the questions the University has left unanswered" and "refuse for this victim to be reduced to just another story."
cornellsun.com
EDITORIAL | Cornell Won’t, We Will
The Editorial Board demands that Cornell stops protecting the alleged Chi Phi rapists through the University's opaque sexual assault policies.
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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
“From Bordeaux to Paris, via Rennes in Brittany and Die in the southeast, thousands – 120,000, according to organizers – turned out ‘for the climate, for life, for peace, for social justice.’”
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Matt Zoller Seitz @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
"We call on Cornell to publish the standard by which a suspension in a sexual assault case is lifted [and to] state [if] an allegation of sexual assault is eligible for emergency suspension. Finally, we expect the University shares with the complainant the outcome of her own investigation."
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Jen Mercieca @jenmercieca.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
For-profit medical care is a crime against humanity.
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Alisha Grauso (She/Her) @alishagrauso.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
theintercept.com
Flock Wants the Most Detailed Map of Its Surveillance Cameras Taken Offline
A new map shows Flock has more cameras in the U.S. than was previously known. The company wants the map taken down.
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Kate Hagen 🦂 𓋹 🦂 @thathagengrrl.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
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Matt Zoller Seitz @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
"A university's obligation to the physical safety of its students is not one commitment among several, to be weighed against reputation or litigation exposure. It is antecedent to everything else the institution does." -- I wish our "professional " media had the guts of this student paper. 
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Soraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 27/09/2026
every day feels like humanity needs to collectively stop the world on its axis and ask just take a beat to ask ourselves wtf are we doing here
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Eviction of 87-year-old puts Spain’s deepening housing crisis in the spotlight
Images of Maricarmen Abascal being forcibly removed from her home sparked protests and a reckoning over the country’s soaring real estate market
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Adam B. Vary @adambvary.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
And people say Bluesky doesn't have the juice.
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Eric Deggans @edeggans.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The Hollywood reporter, owned by Penske Media, broke the story. Several other outlets, including The Daily Beast and The Wrap, have followed up: www.thewrap.com/creative-con...
thewrap.com
YouTube, Meta Restore Ads for 'Musk' Documentary: 'This Was an Error'
Advertisements for Alex Gibney's Elon Musk documentary will come to YouTube and Meta after all. The platforms had previously rejected them.
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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Glad about the result, but I don’t think it speaks well of us as a country that after two years of human rights violations, war crimes, naked gangster corruption, and contempt for the Constitution, he’s finally unpopular because gas got expensive.
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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 27/09/2026
It should really bother everyone more that these "AI" companies and the people that run them are always— ALWAYS— looking for ways to trick or coerce us into giving up more and more ourselves to them.
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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
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Joe Adalian @tvmojoe.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The best time to have made Ben chairman of the DNC was last year. The next best time to make him chair is the day after the midterms, no matter the results. The party needs this sort of energy at the national level
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