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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 4h
the Cornell case should make us question prosecutors and police all the time: the same DA offices discounting college students’ sexual assault cases (the lacking investigations, the disbelief) are happy to jail countless women for far less, day in and day out, when most people aren’t watching
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cate @buny.bsky.social · 06/11/2024
i’m gonna just watch this at least once a day and i recommend everyone do the same
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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 9h
Catching measles does not make your immune system stronger… it does the exact opposite. It can wipe out your immunity (both natural and vaccine related) to all kinds of diseases. It’s a deadly and disabling disease that we know how to prevent. Get your vaccine. It saves lives.
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 6h
I definitely think it possible Trump would be so shameless as to appoint Aileen Cannon. Which makes the current timing of the hearing on lawsuit to liberate the stolen documents report, November 2, of interest.
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 9h
I don’t think everyone realizes how bad things are for US science: For the fiscal year that just ended, the Trump regime withheld $1.4 billion from the National Science Foundation’s research budget, which is about 1/5 of its primary research budget.
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National Science Foundation Diverted $1.4 Billion in Science Funds Mandated by Congress (Gift Article)
The move, affecting about one-fifth of the National Science Foundation’s primary research budget, is the latest sign of how the White House is asserting more control over grants.
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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 5h
He's continually calling for the murder of anyone he doesn't like He keeps saying that in 10 years you will have no money and ????????? And he wants to build dirty data centers wherever he can And Democrats still want to let him spend hundreds of millions & not make him an issue in the campaign.
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It's US v. Musk
My vote isn't for sale. Make your sign.
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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 5h
This is why I know that Marcy's Ball of Thread series is so crucially important right now. America is selling out Ukraine and all our allies, and the only Americans who will benefit are named Trump and maybe Wikoff.
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How Putin grabbed Trump by his balls
YouTube video by emptywheel
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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 13h
This ghoul administration is responsible for deaths in more places than anyone can keep track of.
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John Collins @logicallyjc.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
This one hits hard.
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 13h
The NY Times says it’s “not clear“ why Trump is using taxpayer funds and not money from his super PAC for his self-glorifying ads. But it’s clear to me. It’s because HE‘S A CROOK.
It was not clear why taxpayer funds, and not money from the super PAC, were used for the spots.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 13h
Cruel and unusual.
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
All of this. I also want to add that, in my research, I found that a lot of “inconsistencies” in a victim’s story actually came from gender bias affecting investigators’ record keeping and interview methods.
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The way the Cornell victim is being publicly disbelieved by a lot of journalists, officials, and online posters is also a warning shot to every other victim not to dare to actually pursue a case against your rapist lest you suffer the same fate. It’s a means of protecting the status quo
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 17h
How could those ads NOT be illegal? Argh! presswatchers.org/2026/09/the-polit…
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The political equivalent of Trump shooting someone on Fifth Avenue | Press Watch
Trump using tax dollars for a campaign commercial should trigger every thinking American, even White House political reporters
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Chicago Todd @chicagotodd.bsky.social · 12h
What do you say @duckworth.senate.gov ? Look forward not back and no repercussions, or prosecute this illegal behavior?
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 16h
I dare AG Sulzberger and Joe Kahn to read this paragraph and tell me any of it is inaccurate — and then tell me they still think both-sidesing is a morally defensible thing to do and that history will look kindly upon them.
Partisan polarization is not the greatest threat to U.S. democracy, but a symptom of a deeper struggle over who belongs and deserves equal rights. Rapid gains by racial minorities, women, and LGBTQ citizens have produced an ethnonationalist backlash whose adherents now wield
disproportionate power through the Republican Party. This conflict has intensified partisan animosity and moral disengagement, but a "both sides" diagnosis obscures the asymmetry between a faction seeking to reverse social progress and those resisting it. Polarization is therefore less the disease than democracy's immune response to an unpopular, antidemocratic movement.
Suppressing that response in the name of civility would only strengthen the movement and imperil pluralistic self-government. The United States can still become its most inclusive democracy, but only if leaders defend equal rights and voters hold accountable those who will not.
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Journal of Democracy @jodemocracy.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Americans have never been angrier with one another. But polarization is not the disease—it is the response to a revanchist movement seeking to roll back sixty years of social progress. 🆕 by @lilymasonphd.bsky.social muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/a...
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 13h
If USA Today is indeed unilaterally putting source interviews in some sort of database, in their entirety, allowing them to be cherry-picked by other reporters—and *AI*(!!)—that is journalistically indefensible and no one should ever talk to them again. Is this true? Is it Gannett wide?
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 15h
As an expert on sexual violence, I have to add that these ethical violations are a nightmare for interviews on sensitive subjects. I would never recommend ANY survivor goes public with their story at an outlet that would do this to them.
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Jenn Budd @jennbudd.bsky.social · 13h
DHS is simply buying local cops’ support with our tax dollars. Like I’ve been saying, they own a lot of these cops. www.wsj.com/us-news/immi...
Even if Boring's deputies don't take any others into custody, his department is eligible for a payment equal to more than a quarter of its annual budget. Those are the terms of a Department of Homeland Security task force program that enlists local police as paid partners in the Trump administration's immigration crackdown.
Jurisdictions similar to Doddridge County-sparsely populated with few immigrants-make up the majority of new recruits to the
DHS task force program, which has become a cash cow for state and local law enforcement agencies nationwide. After turning over a single deportable immigrant, departments qualify to receive $60,000 a year for each deputized officer, regardless of additional arrests.The Venice Police Department in Venice, Fla., tallied one federal immigration detention in September 2025 and has since requested a total of $895,000. The department can continue collecting funds every quarter as long as it remains on the task force.
The program is most profitable for large departments. The Miami-Dade Sheriff's Office in Florida signed up more than 970 deputies, making it eligible for roughly $14.5 million in DHS funds from April to June, state records show. That pencils out to more than $2 million for each of its seven immigration arrests in that quarter.
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 17h
"Police said the bicyclist was not wearing a helmet." Who cares? A bicycle helmet isn't designed to protect cyclists against cars. "At this time, speed, drugs or alcohol do not appear to be contributing factors in the collision, police said." Speed is absolutely a factor, to the 2nd power.
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Bicyclist, 40, dies in collision on Sand Island Access Road | Honolulu Star-Advertiser
A bicyclist died this morning after being struck by a vehicle on Sand Island Access Road near the Keehi Marina Boat Harbor in Kalihi, according to the Honolulu Police Department.
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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 18h
BREAKING: A federal judge has ruled for the first time that a Flock search was unconstitutional and violated a woman's Fourth Amendment rights. Oklahoma cop pulled over a woman and searched her in Flock "because he saw her license plate was from California" www.404media.co/federal-judg...
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Federal Judge Rules a Flock Search Was ‘Indiscriminate Mass Surveillance’ and Unconstitutional
Flock’s nationwide network is quickly “approaching dragnet-type law enforcement practice” and the cop should have got a warrant, the judge wrote.
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Chicago Todd @chicagotodd.bsky.social · 21h
Hey @duckworth.senate.gov - I can only think you're just another sociopath that doesn't give a shit about human beings and instead want look forward not back on the heinous crimes against humanity like this. Your staff never called back about my no impeachment inquiry. Obviously you don't care.
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elias isquith @eliasisquith.blog · 02/10/2026
these stories about how biden was totally ready to do something - he was so mad you guys seriously - but had no other option than to let bibi dog walk him into assisting in the mass slaughter of civilians … i’m not sure they’re helping on the legacy front.
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Joshua Foust 🪖🎮 @joshuafoust.com · 19/09/2026
Like this gives the Saudis a content veto power over EA, Bioware, Paramount, CBS, Nickelodeon, Showtime, and BET, and if the newest merger gets approved they’ll also have content veto power over HBO, CNN, the whole WB universe, Discovery, TBS, TNT, plus the PGA and ATP. It’s pretty stunning.
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Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · 02/10/2026
Motherfucker is on a roll lately bsky.app/profile/lati...
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Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · 22/09/2026
Newsom is a dipshit, a thread:
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Chicago Todd @chicagotodd.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
There's no bottom to the greed.
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Kevin Collins @kwcollins.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Legal folks, how is this "defying Democrats" and not "illegally misappropriating funds"?
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 01/10/2026
This ICE flight has landed in Ghana, a possible third-country removal. Immigrant passengers onboard have been shackled for at least 18 hours.
An FR24 map showing N59JE landing in Accra
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Chicago Todd @chicagotodd.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Golly gee gosh willikers, too bad we don't have anything but a strongly worded social media post from Durbin to do something about this.
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Chicago Todd @chicagotodd.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The legacy media will find away to portray this as far left as they've always done.
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Zack Whittaker @zackwhittaker.com · 30/09/2026
As data breaches go, this is pretty sizable, significant, and also bafflingly bad in terms of time it took to discover and that the stolen data was unencrypted. News of this breach comes weeks after a huge theft of FBI agents' personal data. Bypass for ad-blockers: web.archive.org/web/20260930...
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Hackers stole millions of US military personnel records during months-long data breach | TechCrunch
The Department of Defense notified millions of current and former U.S. military personnel that their personal information had been stolen in a months-long breach.
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
"We are losing our soul as a nation," warns Cardinal McElroy, as he urges us all to rise up against Trump’s "evil" immigration policies. www.headsupnews.org/p/we-are-los... New on Heads Up News.
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‘We are losing our soul as a nation’
Catholic clergy call for action against Trump’s ‘evil’ immigration policies
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Jon Phillips @jowiph.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Imo the next administration should raze every ICE detention facility to the ground except for the two worst. Make the worst one a museum like Auschwitz, and use the second-worst one to imprison these ghouls.
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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 30/09/2026
I'm positively obsessed with corporate journalistic simulacrum. It looks and smells like journalism, but it exists exclusively to prop up the agenda of an extraction class that wants to accumulate wealth completely free of ANY meaningful public interest guardrails
a collection of headlines falsely claiming the new AI accord is "morally binding" and "almost like a constitution"
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Chicago Todd @chicagotodd.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
And @duckworth.senate.gov isn't willing to challenge Trump on this. She thinks it is possible to work with him. 🙄🤬
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 30/09/2026
NEW: California is teeming with black-market dairies, propped up by consumer demand fueled by misinformation. With evidence against one raw goat milk farm, regulators could have sought punitive action. But that’s not what happened.
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A Girl Nearly Died After Drinking Raw Milk. The State Did Little to Punish the Unlicensed Farmer Who Sold It.
California is teeming with black-market dairies, propped up by consumer demand fueled by misinformation. With evidence against one raw goat milk farm, regulators could have sought punitive action. But...
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
If you didn't already hate Meta, Mark Zuckerburg, and data centers, Meta is using the latter to cheat on their taxes. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/30/t...
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How Meta Uses A.I. Data Centers to Avoid Billions in Federal Taxes
Meta is exploiting a lucrative tax break intended to support research and experimentation. Its own accountants say the gambit is risky.
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Meredith Shiner @meredithshiner.com · 23/09/2026
this administration illegally shut down federal agencies, impounded money from Congress, set up for-profit concentration camps and sent children there. They dismantled our public health infrastructure and children died of measles. Doing accountability for crimes against our Constitution is the work.
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
It’s like when I hear people rhapsodizing over Tim Russert and I remember Cheney selling aluminum tubes bullshit on Russert’s Meet the Press.
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Timothy Burke @bubbaprog.xyz · 27/09/2026
"Obama tried to freeze Fox out" is a complete lie and it's incredible that Jake Tapper feels the need to both-sides this
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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
With Data Center Don deciding to marry the GOP to AI by whatever name you call it, Democrats have the opportunity of the century. And they need to seize it by standing up for local communities, clean water, and stable power grids instead of letting corporate tech giants pillage the public good.
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Data Centers Isuse Hurts Trump—If Democrats Pounce
AI. Crypto. Trump. All three are the same con with different wigs.
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
One thing that might or might not be obvious is that making one block "pedestrian only" reduces car traffic over a much larger area. I'm staying in the same neighborhood where I lived a few years ago, and the decrease in motor vehicle traffic is astounding.
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Clumsy Ninja 📚 @clumsyninja.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Cornell University Police treated the victim like trash.
“My client went to the Cornell University Police because a crime was committed. It was the obligation of the police to investigate the complaints. They were given the group chat inviting the members of the fraternity to rape my client. This was a critical piece of evidence supporting that a crime had occurred. Despite this there was no follow-up with Ms. Doe either by the Cornell Police or the Tompkins County District Attorney,” he said.
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John Robinson @jrobin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
“The Media and Democracy Project is gathering signatures for a letter intended for the eyes of newsroom leaders around the country. The project has also compiled a 27-point list of election guidelines for the media.” - @sulliview.bsky.social Sign it! margaretsullivan.substack.com/p/how-you-ca...
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How you can demand better media coverage as the midterms loom
Examples of what is working and what must stop. Plus: some great reporting and two scary developments
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 28/09/2026
You can learn how to track aircraft on my @bellingcat.com Stage Talk, wherever you get podcasts!
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Xela Hart @xelahart.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
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