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dr. caitlin m. green

@caitlinmoriah.bsky.social
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linguist, discourse/pragmatics podcaster @halftheanswer.bsky.social author & associate editor at liberalcurrents.com singer with the Wild Lilacs www.instagram.com/thewildlilacs?igs… she/they substantively unserious

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dr. caitlin m. green @caitlinmoriah.bsky.social · 12h
wearing a shirt from a hate group trying to lecture us about polarization, how about you get a fucking grip youtu.be/JIyQzBtsCwA?...
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Political Polarization Across the U.S.A. and Europe w/Aurelien Mondon
YouTube video by Liberal Currents
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dr. caitlin m. green @caitlinmoriah.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
you can hear my incredulity at this information
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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
If you want "personalized music" made just for you pick up a fucking guitar. Or else break the heart of someone who already has.
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dr. caitlin m. green @caitlinmoriah.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
jesus christ i forgot cathy young was a mattress girl denier. today she’s using the cornell gang rape story to drag that story up to mock emma sulkowicz who has done nothing to her. calling her later musings “pure gold,” eliding her strangulation and assault. completely disgusting
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There is a ton of fascinating information about the Emma Sulkowicz story here, on the Substack of @jessicaraimi (former Columbia administrator). It's basically a serialized book.
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This, from a talk Sulkowicz gave in 2015, is just pure gold.
... A victim may say yes to all sorts of violence, and really mean yes with all their heart, but may later come to realize that the reason they had said and felt yes was because of a history of coercion within the relationship. An imbalanced power dynamic, such as seen in some boss/underling, teacher/student, or warden/prisoner relationships can, in some cases, also make consent impossible.
So, back to me and Paul. I say it was rape. Paul says it was all consensual. Who speaks the truth? ...
... I was nineteen years old, a woman of mixed race: of my four grandparents, one is Chinese, one is Japanese, and two were Jewish Holocaust survivors. Let's say that Paul wanted to enact violence upon my body. Did he have the power to do it without my consent? Paul was German, from Berlin, male, either 20 or 21 years old, and a member of the varsity rowing team. Was it possible for me to own my body in this context? Was it possible for me to give consent?
3:10 PM • Sep 29, 2026 • 23.7K ViewsCathy Young ...
So we've basically gone from "a prisoner cannot meaningfully consent to sex with a warden" (agree) to ... a mixed-race Jewish student cannot meaningfully consent to sex with a German guy who is 2 years older and a member of the varsity rowing team? WHAT?
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Gosh, I dated for several years a guy with a German background (in fact very distantly related to Albert Speer!) and he was a few years older & a staffer at a publication for which I occasionally wrote.... serial rape?
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Men, it’s never too late to leave your fraternity. Membership is lifelong. And these segregationist institutions use your name to uphold the power they abuse. This is what your fellow alums are doing. Do you really want to be associated with that?
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dr. caitlin m. green @caitlinmoriah.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
remember how michael tracey (human worm) reacted when graham platner was found out? @marisakabas.bsky.social and @trentrichardnelson.bsky.social and i remember! it was fucking disgusting
Michael Tracey @mtracey

Good luck being a heterosexual male Democratic candidate anymore with even a whiff of anything but the most pristine romantic/dating history, because wherever you might fall on the party's ideological spectrum, the minute you hit national notoriety, the knives are coming out hard
2:28 AM • Jul 7, 2026 • 684.6K ViewsMichael Tracey
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One weird trick for getting Democrats to take bold, decisive action: Manufacture a sex crime

5:30 AM • Jul 8, 2026 • 444.3K ViewsMichael Tracey
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Everyone must accept that American political affairs will be fundamentally dictated by a constant parade of rape claims — always and everywhere, rape rape rape — but also, you must not ever think too critically about it, or you will be declared as complicit in the constant raping
4:40 PM • Jul 8, 2026 • 21.6K ViewsMichael Tracey
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The defenestration of Platner is one for the ages.
Received the highest Dem primary vote in Maine history less than a month ago. Then, BOOM: skeevy PR operatives get everyone to scream RAPE!!!! — and switch off their brains — and now Party chieftains get to pick their own nominee
6:17 PM • Jul 8, 2026 • 25.7K Views
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dr. caitlin m. green @caitlinmoriah.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
a lot of very annoying men have been going on about “restoring trust” in universities, by which they mean increasing “viewpoint diversity,” by which they mean privileging evidence-free conservative beliefs. but it seems like a bigger deal that students and faculty can’t trust their school this way:
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Hagen Blix @hagenblix.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Look, the solution is obvious. Hold the execs accountable for the crime that the committed by their greedy negligence. Who cares about "superintelligence", what's rogue here is a number of companies with unsafe business practices which knowingly endanger the public
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OpenAI Ignored Employees’ Warnings About Safely Testing A.I. Models
Employees and security researchers said they had cautioned the company on safely testing its A.I. models and strengthening its corporate infrastructure, but OpenAI did not listen.
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dr. caitlin m. green @caitlinmoriah.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
jeff helfrich, in a third car this time, where are you getting all these cars from!!!! leave me alone jeff i hate you
an old white man in a white tee shirt rants into a camera while sitting in a car
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dr. caitlin m. green @caitlinmoriah.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
and a little bit of dolly for your trouble
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dr. caitlin m. green @caitlinmoriah.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
hollywood led me to believe that sensitive white elder millennials scream into the quarry
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dr. caitlin m. green @caitlinmoriah.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
are the straits okay
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dr. caitlin m. green @caitlinmoriah.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
captain rational has a different idea
Steven Pinker
@sapinker Sep 13 
Worth watching: "It is not a genocide; it is a counterattack in a war."
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John Spen... 
(Screenshot of bill Maher looking constipated and bitchy next to an image of a smoking tower)
@SpencerG... • Sep 12
This should be pushed far and wide.
Watched in every college class in the U.S.
Thank you @billmaher The moral confusion is gross. "It is not a genocide, it is a counterattack in a war...Gaza equals ...
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
In response to people going after him for this, Friedersdorf claimed that he genuinely had no idea Rufo had anything to do with the Haitians in Springfield slurs and then got mad at people for acting like he was being a complete rube.
BillielsTheOne 9/20/26 “Rufo? The dude who earnestly repeated the lie about cats and dogs being eaten in Springfield? He believes in colorblind equality?”

Conor Friedersdorf • 9/20/26

“I'd missed his involvement in that and agree that, whatever it says about his beliefs, it reflects badly on him.”@josephgfrancis, 9/21/26
“just incredible how people paid to write about politics for major publications can be more ignorant than random twitter users who didn't have to search hard to find this”

Conor Friedersdorf, 9/21/26 “Maybe I saw it and forgot. Or maybe I wasn't on X that week. You people are unbelievable--as if anyone has perfect recollection of every post relevant to something they do a quick x post about. Of course the hive mind of X collectively recalls more things than I do individually.”
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dr. caitlin m. green @caitlinmoriah.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
what a fun anecdote, professor
It contrasts with mere kinship, which peters out as relatives become more distant, leaving it a matter of opinion who counts as a relative. (My profile on a personal genomics website lists more than five thousand "relatives" varying in the amount of DNA we share from 0.07 to 16.79 percent, including dubious kinfolk such as the columnist David Brooks, the lawyer Alan Dershowitz, and the actress Mayim Bialik. But it lists exactly 116 men who share my Y chromosome, inherited from a common great-great-etc.-grandfather. A patrilineal descent group also contrasts with
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 28/09/2026
IT'S OFFICIAL. The progressive members of the Chicago City Council (looking at you, @andrefor40th.bsky.social) stopped ICE's cruelest, most notorious charter airline, Omni Air International. news.wttw.com/2026/09/28/f...
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Firm Set to Buy Chicago’s Parking Meters Sells Airline That Carried Out Deportations
More than a dozen progressive members of the City Council said they would not vote in favor of the deal unless the firm sold Omni Air, threatening the completion of the deal involving the city’s 36,00...
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dr. caitlin m. green @caitlinmoriah.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
i am the president of the united states. i like to summon governors to come compliment me while i fall asleep on tv. that’s what being the president is all about babyyyy
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dr. caitlin m. green @caitlinmoriah.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
here’s a clip of “one little word,” which you can find on katie’s album along with many other hauntingly beautiful songs katiefitz.bandcamp.com/album/a-ligh...
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Willard @climateball.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
tidal.com/album/561273...
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Katie Fitz - A Light in the Window
Listen to A Light in the Window on TIDAL in exceptional sound quality, or on your choice of service
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dr. caitlin m. green @caitlinmoriah.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
they’re really really real!!!
CDs in a small clementine box on a blue nightstand with an old suitcase and a washboard leaning against it
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dr. caitlin m. green @caitlinmoriah.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
“i will be totally vindicated in 5 years” is such a funny thing for all these reactionaries and aspiring oligarchs to believe but it’s literally everywhere. the flip side being “everything i hate was invented ten years ago”
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dr. caitlin m. green @caitlinmoriah.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
nobody is responsible. an openAI-involved leaking
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dr. caitlin m. green @caitlinmoriah.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
and the second story is the portland lesbian bar that didn’t let transphobes start shit on their premises, oh sorry i mean “mouthy women” lol
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Jason Lemieux @jaylemeux.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Spot the weasel words
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dr. caitlin m. green @caitlinmoriah.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
why did i agree to read this fuckin thing im so annoyed pinker says both sides have extreme unverifiable beliefs:
easily verified beliefs.4 A prominent coali-tion-signaling belief among the American right is that the 2020 presidential election was stolen from Donald Trump. Prominent belief signals among the young educated left are that being a man or a woman has nothing to do with biology and that America is saturated with racism.Steven pinker book: when everyone knows that everyone knows… 

COMMON KNOWLEDGE
AND THE MYSTERIES OF MONEY, POWER, AND EVERYDAY LIFE
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dr. caitlin m. green @caitlinmoriah.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
ATTENTION this is very important to me!!! my incredible bandmate katie fitz is honestly one of the greatest songwriters i have ever known and her album drops today. PLEASE please give it a listen. music.apple.com/us/album/a-l...
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A Light in the Window by Katie Fitz on Apple Music
Album · 2026 · 12 Songs
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Toby Buckle @polphilpod.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
remigration is what today's right call ethnic cleansing
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dr. caitlin m. green @caitlinmoriah.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
yes i snuck a pirates of the caribbean reference into the summary. what are u going to do about it
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dr. caitlin m. green @caitlinmoriah.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
oh my god that’s so many
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Aurelien Mondon @aurelmondon.com · 23/09/2026
The far right in France has accused Thélyson Orélien, a Haitian writer whose novel has been widely acclaimed, to have used AI to write it The accusation is, unsurprisingly, based on shaky grounds as described in this excellent article but the damage is done www.mediapart.fr/journal/cult...
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Thélyson Orélien : mécanique d’une polémique
La campagne accusant l’écrivain canado-haïtien d’avoir eu recours à l’IA est orchestrée depuis l’extrême droite médiatique. Mais elle prend aussi son essor dans le vertige de ce que l’usage des outil…
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dr. caitlin m. green @caitlinmoriah.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Randall the purple salamander character from monsters inc, with a speech bubble indicating he is speaking the words in the quoted post
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dr. caitlin m. green @caitlinmoriah.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
so the good news is i managed to achieve a really realistic bloodstain effect on this year’s halloween costume. the bad news is we’re dressing up as monsters inc this year
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dr. caitlin m. green @caitlinmoriah.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
having an arizona phone number means periodically getting text messages reminding me that the socialists want to take my money to pay for stuff people need. yes. that is why i like them.
Text message 
Socialists have a dangerous plan that would make life worse.
Some want to provide free rent and legal fees for illegal immigrants.
You work hard for your paycheck.
But socialists want to spend more of it.
Register to vote by October 5th and help keep socialism out of Arizona. https://itxt.tv/4hi6KWG?
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WE CAN'T AFFORD SOCIALIST POLICIES
REGISTER
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dr. caitlin m. green @caitlinmoriah.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
the theory that these guys don’t believe the rest of us have real minds continues to bear out they took the “NPC” meme too literally and they think we’re just getting fed the wrong thoughts, swap out the guy at the top and we’ll all just start having more convenient thoughts for them
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jj skolnik @supremenothing.myatproto.social · 22/09/2026
just want to say that when a politician campaigns on/publicly states transphobic positions it will actually be reflected in policy and is not some sort of 4d chess electoral rhetoric move
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dr. caitlin m. green @caitlinmoriah.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
jd looks like he’s headed to shake down the nearest available human for sugar (in water)
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dr. caitlin m. green @caitlinmoriah.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
we played this at mcmenamins edgefield over the weekend and when i finished someone yelled “FUCK ICE” this song could have been so much shorter 😭 so inefficient
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Kevin Bird @stairwaytokevin.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
And the basis for that argument was misunderstanding heritability and getting mad about Lewontin and Gould
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dr. caitlin m. green @caitlinmoriah.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
if you’re at all curious about the petition incident referred to early on in the piece, some of the witnesses to that debacle wrote up what happened. he leveraged his anti-woke network to facilitate a full-bore attack against the signatories journals.linguisticsociety.org/proceedings/...
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The Open Letter: Responses and recommendations | Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of America
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Dr. Sarah Parcak @indyfromspace.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
He is, in addition to having been close buddies w Epstein, a raving rancid POS. At TED (when he spoke) years ago a very jr (female) scholar in a related field brought up serious issues with his talk/work, which others backed up, and he verbally attacked her+ smeared her behind her back.
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sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
i'm traveling and can't sit down to write out the portland police's history of using town halls, press conferences, and leaks to campaign against elected officials but they are repeat offenders and we should call it what it is: election interference by a cartel of armed washington state residents
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Rebecca Sear @rebeccasear.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
If you read the replies you’ll see that Pinker was always a race science supporter, it’s just that nobody paid any attention. Maybe we should start noticing when celebrity scientists are fans of pseudoscientific ideas, and adjust our opinion of their competence accordingly
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Mallory Harris, PhD @malar0ne.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
This is nuts AND...290 people attended in-person (with another 230 online). Pathetic showing from a small & unpopular but very loud group that has hijacked American public health to our deep detriment.
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dr. caitlin m. green @caitlinmoriah.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
am i a monster for giving bean a $2 bill? am i out of touch
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dr. caitlin m. green @caitlinmoriah.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
everyone’s always debating what counts as “middle aged.” its so simple actually! you just have to do a little math. “middle age” is my age + 5
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dr. caitlin m. green @caitlinmoriah.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
being in congress means maintaining a residence in your home state and in DC, which is costly. that’s why i propose a publicly funded big ol’ dormitory for them in DC. maybe put some cameras in there for our entertainment too. and a big siren with lights so everyone knows someone hooked up.
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dr. caitlin m. green @caitlinmoriah.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
this is one of those episodes where someone has written a book i like so i just turn into chris farley asking paul mccartney if he remembers when he was in the beatles “remember when you wrote that thing about the billboards? that was awesome”
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El Çid @trentrichardnelson.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
@caitlinmoriah.bsky.social & I caught up w the great @adriandaub.bsky.social the other day on @halftheanswer.bsky.social to talk his book What Tech Calls Governing, Gary, Indiana, why the Silicon Valley dorks are so obnoxious & detached from reality & who the billboards in California are for.
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dr. caitlin m. green @caitlinmoriah.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
here’s a hot take that might alienate some people, but i have to speak my truth and let the chips fall where they may: i fucking hate being sick
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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Shout out to the student journalists at The Daily Iowan for reporting on the travesty that is Iowa's Center for Intellectual Freedom. With quotes from me dailyiowan.com/2026/09/15/u...
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Uncertainty in leadership, curriculum surrounds UI Center for Intellectual Freedom
In the barren walls of his Calvin Hall office, where the Center for Intellectual Freedom resides, interim director and University of Iowa economics professor Luciano de Castro shuffles a stack of pape...
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