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Chris Maliga

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Photographer whose work explores themes of psychology and the passage of time. www.chrismaliga.com

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Time for this classic again.
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Rainesford Stauffer @rainesford.bsky.social · 18h
The victims are always expected to be perfect, but the abusers certainly never have to be.
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Nicole Munro @nicolemunro.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
With the evolving Cornell University story, I have been reflecting on my fourth and final year at St. Thomas University in 2015 in Fredericton. One of my professors, Jan Wong, wanted some of our class to work on an investigative series on rape on campus.
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Chris Maliga @chrismaliga.com · 30/09/2026
Eating pomegranate and washing it down with pomegranate juice.
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Anne Helen Petersen @annehelen.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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...
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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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Chris Maliga @chrismaliga.com · 29/09/2026
Your life will be much better without this kind of "friend" in it. A fantastic reward in and of itself.
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Hannah Vardit @hannahvardit.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
i worry that men think being A Good Guy is dramatically and heroically intervening on behalf of an endangered woman and then being publicly rewarded on a grand scale when actually being A Good Guy is just usually saying, “hey man that’s not funny” or “wow that’s fucked up” and there is no reward
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
All of this is happening to college students at the very beginning of their adult lives. It shapes everything that comes after. And it shapes society for the rest of us too. Imagine what our world would look like if all of those women had been able to complete their educations, free from violence.
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Kat is right about all of this. One of the reasons that college sexual violence is uniquely devastating is because it changes the victim’s entire future.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Campus rape is really widespread; statistics suggest a significant percent of women who go to college will be raped there; feminism opened up a good conversation about it around 2012-13; it's weird when people treated Cornell like an isolated rather than dramatic example of a pervasive problem.
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Rainesford Stauffer @rainesford.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
“Why were these men allowed to “pursue their education in a secure and nourishing environment” and she was not? Why was she not informed of the outcome of her own Title IX investigation? Who benefited from the 23 months of elapsed time when the public knew nothing?”
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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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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Have you ever tried to read a scientific journal article and been told “you don’t have access, pay to download this article?” Did you know that the author of that article gets $0 if you pay? Instead, you can email the author and ask for a free copy! I’d be delighted to help and answer questions!
Screenshot of a scientific journal paywall
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John Timmer @jtimmer.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
So, I turned my chaotic little developmental biology rant into an actual article that is hopefully somewhat less chaotic and a bit more approachable.
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Julia Serano @juliaserano.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
...Assumption #4 has been driving me batshit, yet no one seems to realize it: if you're worried trans ppl might potentially harm your Dem candidate's chances, then YOUR CANDIDATE MADE A BAD DECISION! so why not join us in trying to get them to reverse position? juliaserano.medium.com/on-democrats...
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Assumption #4: The elephant in the room that no one is talking about
There is a striking disconnect between Talarico, Turek, et al. — who have clearly made a political calculation that abandoning trans rights will help them more than it will hurt them in this election — and the many cisgender liberals I’ve encountered online who are absolutely freaking out over the possibility that trans people’s critiques and protests will ultimately tank said candidates.
Both of these things cannot simultaneously be true!
If you think your favorite candidate enacted the correct political strategy, then there is no reason to berate trans people for protesting it, as those protests should already be baked into your candidate’s calculations. So why are you berating trans people then? (Unless, of course, you enjoy berating trans people just for the sake of it.)
Alternatively, if you think trans people *are* capable of tanking your favorite candidate via our criticisms and protests, doesn’t that imply that your candidate (and their consultants and strategists) totally fucked up in their political calculations here? And if they did fuck up, shouldn’t you be reaching out and complaining to *them* (rather than berating trans people), in the hope that they might reverse their bad decision?
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Julia Serano @juliaserano.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
NEW ESSAY on last week's deluge of Dems embracing anti-trans positions. let's stop fixating on trans ppl & instead recognize that Dems have a cisgender problem. pls share! Medium (friend link): juliaserano.medium.com/on-democrats... & Substack (no paywall): juliaserano.substack.com/p/on-democra...
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On Democrats Who Cave in Response to Anti-Trans Attack Ads
and more importantly: a response to all the cis people responding to the way that trans people are responding to said Democrats’ responses
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Gwendolyn Ann Smith @gwensmith.com · 17/09/2026
New Transmissions! "Standing for nothing, receiving nothing" On Seth Moulton and other anti-trans democrats. www.ebar.com/story/170331...
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Transmissions: Standing for nothing, receiving nothing
I wanted to write about Congressmember Seth Moulton (D-Massachusetts) this time out, and how his recent primary loss was an object lesson for Democrats.
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Megan Greenwell @greenwell.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
The way Annie Dillard reframed the idea of the role of “discipline” in writing really shaped my understanding of the job — work, she wrote, “does not require discipline. It creates its own discipline.” I cannot recommend The Writing Life highly enough. RIP to the best. bookshop.org/a/109816/978...
How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives. What we do with this hour, and that one, is what we are doing. A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days. It is a scaffolding on which a worker can stand and labor
with both hands at sections of time. A schedule is a mock-up of reason and order
—willed, faked, and so brought into being; it is a peace and a haven set into the wreck of time; it is a lifeboat on which you find yourself, decades later, still living. Each day is the same, so you remember the series afterward as a blurred and powerful pattern.There's a common notion that self-discipline is a freakish peculiarity of writers—that writers differ from other people by possessing enormous and equal portions of talent and willpower. They grit their powerful teeth and go into their little rooms. I think that's a bad misunderstanding of what impels the writer. What impels the writer is a deep love for and respect for language, for literary forms, for books. It's a privilege to muck about in sentences all morning. It's a challenge to bring off a powerful effect, or to tell the truth about something. You don't do it from willpower; you do it from an abiding passion for the field.
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Chris Maliga @chrismaliga.com · 14/09/2026
Spent some time updating my website for the first time in years. You can now view images from my current body of work, Fragile Hours. www.chrismaliga.com
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Chris Maliga – Fine Art Photography
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donni saphire @donni.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
If I ever told you “I know what you mean,” I was lying. I have no idea what anybody means
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
I resigned from ExxonMobil today. I spent the last three years doing fossil fuel extraction research at both BP and ExxonMobil. Neither company is acting responsibly. They are racing to maximize extraction while the window to act closes, and gambling with our lives. More below.
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Lex McMenamin (they/them) @lexmcmenamin.com · 05/09/2026
my latest: Massachusetts is one of the safest states for trans people—but multiple hospitals preemptively ended youth trans care over Trump admin threats to cut fed funding. on Wed, trans activists took their HRT at a govt office and refused to leave without a commitment to fight those hospitals.
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Even in safe-haven Massachusetts, trans care is at risk. Young people are fighting to protect it
Activists are calling on the state attorney general to take action against hospitals that have ended gender-affirming care programs after Trump retook office
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Shaily Patel @vox-magica.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
one day, this administration will be effectively over. and we’ll probably do some collective pondering on what’s next. colleges could seize that opportunity to reassert the value of college as a public good as opposed to career prep. i think the ones that do will be the future of HE.
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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
marks in my whale-books
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Jessica Luther @jessicawluther.com · 10/09/2026
Really proud to have had the Texas Observer's cover story earlier this year about why trans inclusion in sport is good, actually.
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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
It is not down in any map; true places never are.
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Chris Maliga @chrismaliga.com · 08/09/2026
Lol I completely forgot that Picard exists.
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Chris Maliga @chrismaliga.com · 08/09/2026
It's the 60th anniversary of Star Trek. Here is my favorite episode from every series: The Doomsday Machine (TOS) Yesteryear (TAS) Chain of Command (TNG) Rocks and Shoals (DS9) Equinox (VOY) The Andorian Incident (ENT) If Memory Serves (DISCO) Wej Duj (LD) Last Flight of the Protostar (PRO)
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Space Witches, Esq. @popelizbet.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
kill the MAHA in your head, a non-exhaustive list: -stop using the word "chemicals" in a derogatory way. When criticizing specific types of chemicals, be specific. -stop saying "clean eating" for whatever diet you're on. food you're avoiding isn't dirty or bad just because you are avoiding it.
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shaun @shaunvids.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
the most sophisticated large language model is no closer to artificial general intelligence than an alarm clock, and it will never get any closer
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Rainesford Stauffer @rainesford.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
"And a passing grade cannot account for an education system devastated by war, cannot give back the missing teachers, the stolen hours, the schooling Gaza’s children should have had."
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Gaza’s Class of 2026
Gaza’s 2008 babies were born during an Israeli assault, grew up under blockade, and completed their final high school exams this summer during a genocide.
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Steve @snark.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Every week the richest man in the world, who is both an unambiguous white supremacist and the largest Republican donor, posts heinous racist and antisemitic slop to the social media network he controls. Every week, reporters fail to treat this as a scandal worth their readers' time.
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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
I looked at the donors above $5K for every ballot question committee in MA this cycle. 9 statewide ballot questions. Don't know of "no" committees for Q1, Q2, Q4, Q6, and Q7. docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
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Funders > $5K for Ballot Q Committees (2026)
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Dr. Laci Brock 🪐 @stellerarts.com · 04/09/2026
Look at my tiny Moon painting! I photographed the Moon with my telescope, then used it as my reference
Small clay disk painted like the Moon Photograph of nearly-full Moon
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Chris Maliga @chrismaliga.com · 03/09/2026
William Shatner finally decided to ask them some questions.
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Andy Adams @flakphoto.news · 03/09/2026
What a legend. RIP — Gloria Steinem, Personification of the Women’s Movement, Dies at 92 www.nytimes.com/2026/09/03/u...
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Gloria Steinem, Personification of the Women’s Movement, Dies at 92
She challenged sexist assumptions, helping women develop a sense of self-worth and gain a measure of equality at work, at home and in society at large.
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Murshed Zaheed @murshedz.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
“After receiving an ankle monitor, Bel could no longer play soccer without it beeping. He couldn’t be fitted for an ROTC uniform like his peers. At school, he was bullied and called a criminal.“
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A Casualty of a Cruel Immigration Policy - The American Prospect
Pierre Damas Bel, 20, committed suicide after being fitted with a tracking device by ICE. “That ankle monitor is what killed him,” a family friend said.
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Andy Khouri @andykhouri.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Something we’ve lost in those 25 years is what Adult Swim really defined, a thrilling sense of weirdness where you really believed the bosses must have no fucking idea what’s actually on their network in the middle of the night. More than any one show, that FEELING was most influential on me.
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Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Hey, Joan Vennochi: Ed Markey didn't "turn" Seth Moulton's tranpshobic comments into a human rights issue -- they *were* a human rights issue! Comments he never apologized for, by the way. www.bostonglobe.com/2026/09/01/o...
He could never get past the remarks he made after the 2024 presidential election, when he said, “I have two little girls, I don’t want them getting run over on a playing field by a male or formerly male athlete, but as a Democrat I’m supposed to be afraid to say that.” There has to be a better way than that to debate the issue of transgender athletes. Markey skillfully turned Moulton’s words into a “human rights” issue, as he told the New York Times.
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Drew @brewsif.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
The dunks on Seth Moulton are delicious and I hope Dem operatives see this as a clear signal that the change voters want isn’t inherently generational; voters want Dems who they feel will actually FIGHT for them and not preemptively compromise with an imaginary “centrist” voter a consultant made up
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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
It's not the only reason he fucking sucks but all my Massachusetts homies love and support trans people and rightwing Democrats can eat shit with this losing strategy.
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Evan Urquhart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Moulton tried to use our faces as a stepping stool into the Senate. He tried to leverage fear and hate to advance himself. The New York Times did everything they could to help him. But it doesn't work that way. Not in Mass. Get bent, asshole.
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
you truly do love to see it
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Chris Maliga @chrismaliga.com · 02/09/2026
It's interesting how standing up for the rights of all people turns out to get people really excited to vote for you.
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A Tea Walks Home Alone at Night @teaberryblue.net · 02/09/2026
ONLY LOSERS ABANDON TRANS FOLKS
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Craig Calcaterra @craigcalcaterra.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
I wrote about J.D. Vance and how he is responsible for the death of Pierre Damas Bel, a 20 year old Haitian who was building a beautiful and inspiration life in Springfield, Ohio before Vance's disgusting, hateful slander upended his and hundreds of thousands of others' lives.
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Blood on J.D. Vance’s hands
A young Haitian man walked in front of a truck. His blood is on J.D. Vance’s hands
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Chris Maliga @chrismaliga.com · 01/09/2026
That magical time of the year when I have to work long hours to wrap up the physical labor of getting everything ready for classes to start and also have to be vibrant and cheerful to greet the new students for orientation events.
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Pile Of Garbage @pileofgarbage.net · 01/09/2026
I love how Werner Herzog is ALWAYS like this:
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 01/09/2026
the press has gotten completely habituated to the ugly and hateful behavior of the people in this government so i will be surprised if anyone ever asks hegseth why he thinks it is appropriate to mock children for wanting to learn, grow and maybe serve their country
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 31/08/2026
NEW FROM ME: On a hellish third-country removal flight last month, passengers say ICE-contracted guards got drunk, teased and beat them, tied them up, refused to let them use the lavatory. One says he witnessed an ICE agent admit to illegal chain refoulement. prospect.org/2026/08/31/w...
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‘What America Did to Me Is Wrong’: Inside One of the Largest Third-Country Removal Flights So Far - The American Prospect
On July 31, an estimated 71 detainees were expelled to various countries on a hellish flight to Africa. Many were then illegally returned to their home countries.
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A Tea Walks Home Alone at Night @teaberryblue.net · 31/08/2026
This is one of the biggest reasons I’m opposed to means testing for things like free school meals. I grew up in a community with a lot of kids from wildly wealthy families who were abused & neglected by their parents. Kids of wealthy parents need to be protected, too
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