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Carolyn Ostrander

@clow.bsky.social
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Poet. Editor, The Comstock Review. Rhet/Comp & Historiography. Rural Studies. Linguistics. Multimodal/ Multilingual Acquisition. Disability/Deaf Studies. Educational Equity & Access. Best endorsement to date: my GP reports "Patient is a good historian"

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 6h
Todd Blanche’s motion for summary judgement in my Epstein redaction training video lawsuit is due tomorrow after a short delay. Multiple sources told me there were videos training FBI agents on how to redact Trump from the Epstein files. I’m suing to get them.
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Death Cab for Callie, MS @deathcab4callie.bsky.social · 14h
And trauma responses. We saw this with the victim of that Colorado/ Washington serial rapist that the police falsely accused of lying. A lifetime of trauma meant she asked if she was in trouble when they hounded her. This was used to charge her with filing a false complaint. 1/
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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 6h
Things Gavin Newsom has vetoed this week: -A ban on secretly recording people with smart glasses -A ban on ICE agents working for the state government -A ban on websites selling your data -A bill giving native tribes more say over water rights -A bill protecting transgender healthcare providers
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 9h
It's not even funny what kind of loss I will absorb if I have to create an account to do business with you. I will walk away from a winning lottery ticket, I promise you.
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 9h
The Hill reviewed the texts from which Eric Schmitt invented his conspiracy. They never mentioned the Hawks OR the Hawkeyes. thehill.com/homenews/sen...
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Smith’s game-day texts reviewed by Schmitt never referenced basketball team names
Text messages obtained by The Hill show former special counsel Jack Smith’s staff didn’t reference any basketball team names, adding to the confusion around why Sen. Eric Schmitt (R-Mo.) errantly a…
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Adam Klasfeld @klasfeldreports.com · 8h
Let's not lose sight about the big picture here. Courts keep telling Trump that he's defying the constitution—trying to end-run Congress and the judiciary—to keep his top prosecutors in half a dozen states. All to have loyalists decide who to criminally charge with what in a DOJ under his thumb.
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Adam Klasfeld @klasfeldreports.com · 8h
The disqualified, loyalist US Attorneys pursued Trump's political agenda. * Halligan charged Tish James and James Comey. * Sarcone investigated James. * Habba targeted Dems performing immigration oversight. * Essayli claimed election fraud on TV. Rogoff did none of that — so Trump wants him out.
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Julie A. Su @juliesulabor.bsky.social · 7h
As businesses increasingly use artificial intelligence, algorithms, and other automated technologies to make decisions and deliver services, our agencies are united on a fundamental principle: New Yorkers do not lose their rights when a decision is made or facilitated by technology.
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 10h
The Good Klan lawsuit (as distinct from wrongful death) names Palantir and Clearview as co-conspirators. legacy.www.documentcloud.org/documents/28...
280. At least two private corporations also agreed to and in fact participated in the
conspiracy: Palantir Technologies Inc., the Delaware corporation that designed, built, 
configured, and maintained the targeting application by which the operation’s agents were
directed to the neighborhoods they invaded, and Clearview AI, Inc., the Delaware
corporation whose facial recognition search engine the operation used to identify the
people who observed, filmed, and protested the operation.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 13h
This is crazytown. Why are they taking our money to run illegal ads? www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
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Trump buys ads on CNN, MS NOW as he fights to bar them from the White House
Taxpayer-funded ads denouncing the “deep state” and “globalists” aired locally on the two cable networks Trump has sought to ban from White House grounds.
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WSBT @wsbt22.bsky.social · 21h
For those who visited the Fort Wayne Zoo over the weekend, you might have been exposed to measles. bit.ly/46TIsxA
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Measles possible at Fort Wayne Zoo disease sick outbreak zoo allen county indiana
For those who visited the Fort Wayne Zoo over the weekend, you might have been exposed to measles.Last week the Allen County Health Department reported a child
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Eb @ebthen.bsky.social · 14h
Read a weird thread and like... accountability is about consequences, not about personal understanding.
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Eb @ebthen.bsky.social · 14h
The fear of being held accountable and having to face negative consequences for their harmful behavior is why so many people in positions of social power freaked out about "cancel culture".
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 11h
For the Tompkins County DA to go from "I recognize the reality that it can take years of therapy & healing for victims of sexual assaults to fully process & understand what happened to them" to "the evidence did not support the filing of criminal charges was legally correct" makes my blood boil. 1/
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 11h
Here is the full statement of the Tompkins County DA on the Cornell 7 case. END/ CONTENT WARNING www.tompkinscountyny.gov/News-article...
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District Attorney statement re: Jane Doe v. Cornell University, et al
On Sep. 18, 2026, I learned of the civil complaint filed in New York County Court alleging a series of heinous and despicable acts committed by members of the Chi Phi fraternity at Cornell University ...
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 11h
October 1, 2026 split screen. On the left, what happened to Becca Good after Trump and others slandered Renee (from the family's lawsuit against Stephen). On the right, some calls Katie Miller's parents got. legacy.www.documentcloud.org/documents/28... www.justice.gov/usao-ma/pr/m...
196. Defendants’ public campaign against her and Renee, as pled below,
compounded the injury. Because senior federal officials, including the President and
Defendant Noem, publicly branded Renee a terrorist and a criminal within hours of her
death (as discussed below), Becca lost her privacy along with her partner and has been
made to relive the killing as a subject of national argument. She has received continuous Proia also allegedly sent the following text messages to phones numbers associated with the victim’s parents:

a.    “Good morning [first name of victim’s mother].  Does it disturb you that such evil as [Federal Official] is married to the creature that slithered from your Cunt?”

b.    [Photo of Victim 1]

c.    “My god, how can you be proud of this filth?”

d.    “Hey [first name of victim’s father], how goes it?  Hope your daughter marrying a Jewish Nazi/white supremacist is working out for you and [first name of victim’s mother].  Did you raise her to be trash or did that just happen naturally?”
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 11h
Note: I guess this is what Andrew Bailey didn't want a part of. (He probably hated the slander of Republican MN Judge Patrick Schiltz as well.)
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 11h
Unelected Republicans in Georgia are asking Todd Blanche to declare their voting machines illegal. DOJ has no authority to interfere with state-run elections, but I doubt that will stop them from trying. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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GOP-controlled Georgia election board asks DOJ to declare state’s voting machines illegal
The request represents a major assault on the state's voting system by unelected state officials.
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 12h
Wow. I hadn't actually read the NYT story yet when I wrote this. But what actually happened to Jane Doe is the exact kind of thing that I'm talking about in this thread.
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Statement Written by Police in Cornell Assault Case Omitted Her Claim She Was Raped
Documents obtained by The New York Times show that the campus police at Cornell University sent a condensed statement to a prosecutor, who then declined to bring charges.
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 18h
It’s absolutely true that victims might need time to process what happened to them before they label it rape. It’s absolutely true that trauma can make it harder to access memories—especially in high-stress settings and in the absence of trauma-informed methods.
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 18h
But it’s also true that these systems are just misogynistic. And we’re so busy holding victims to an impossibly high standard that we forget to ask the most basic questions about whether people like police did their jobs effectively.
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 18h
As soon as the police left the room, she broke down crying and told us everything she could remember and that she was certain she had been raped. She said she couldn’t tell the police any of that because they knew she didn’t believe her.
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 18h
Every question from police began with, “Well, IF something happened—and we all hope it didn’t, right?” By the end of the interrogation, she stopped participating.
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 18h
But she had, in fact, warned the investigator about the gaps in their first meeting. They didn’t write it down. And then they blamed her later and used that as an excuse to keep her perpetrator on campus.
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 18h
For my book, I interviewed victims, perpetrators, and school administrators. In some cases, I interviewed multiple people with different perspectives. In one case, a victim was determined “not credible” because she had deleted some of her texts with her abusive ex-boyfriend.
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 18h
In the age of technology, we all expect that every conversation will be recorded. But that isn’t true. A lot of records come from the recollections of someone in a position of power. And we know that investigators—including police and Title IX—severely overestimate the amount of false allegations.
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 18h
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 · 19h
In the legal system and in these mainstream commentary spaces, victims’ post-assault behavior is positioned as evidence of them lying, so that any feminist response to the crisis of sexual assault brought on by these high-profile cases can be deemed hysterical and unnecessary.
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 19h
People are spinning the narrative that the Cornell victim consensually participated in group sex and changed her story later because she faced social ostracism. A lot of this is cherry-picking texts, but in reality a lot of victims initially claim they weren’t abused or raped as a coping mechanism
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 19h
Just a reminder that people don’t always realize they were raped in the immediate aftermath. It can take hours, days, months, and even years to realize you were raped, and it doesn’t make it any less true. There are many kinds of responses, including fawning and trying to appease your rapist
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chibidino.bsky.social @chibidino.bsky.social · 16h
We deliberately disregard that the victim is often socially, financially, familial-ly, etc. enmeshed with the perpetrator and may need time to safely extract, distance, and set up protections for themselves and 3rd parties at risk of collateral damage (esp. children) before provoking a dangerous
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StuffbyStef🐚🌊🪸✍🏻🌈🚫👑 @stephaniebumpus.bsky.social · 14h
No woman wants rape. Men say they’re helping her fulfill her rape fantasy when it’s their fantasy. Victim blaming is baked into law enforcement bsky.app/profile/bamb...
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Ethics Should Matter @ethicsshouldmatter.bsky.social · 19h
My WB cases were all substantiated by independent investigations. Yet people in power chose not to believe me. One thing I learned is that the truth is always the truth even if no one believes you. No matter what exactly happened that night, 1/2
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 19h
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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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 19h
Socially and in the legal system, our understanding of responses to sexual violence is purposefully uninformed and therefore limited to only “perfect” victims (who don’t really exist), so that we don’t have to actually combat sexual violence or believe victims or hold perpetrators accountable.
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Death Cab for Callie, MS @deathcab4callie.bsky.social · 13h
And it looks like, “I’m sorry”, or “It’s not that bad.”, or, “did I do something wrong?”. 6/
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Death Cab for Callie, MS @deathcab4callie.bsky.social · 13h
I don’t know her life, so I’m not saying this is the case here. Abusers and violators seek out the wounded because they’re easy targets. Many survivors are chosen-groomed-because the perpetrator can see that damage. They target it. Trauma responses are common. 5/
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 13h
“Fox Buys Penthouse in Hen House” wapo.st/4rFROq9
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Elon Musk to return his attention to government, advise Pentagon on future of war
Musk will join Anduril founder Palmer Luckey and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich on a panel for what the Defense Department is calling Project Meridian.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 01/10/2026
Xavier Becerra put the Steve Hilton contradiction right on the debate stage: enforce Trump’s federal immigration laws, but ignore California’s own protections? Then he dropped the hammer: “You seem to welcome immigrants who look like you, but deport immigrants who look like me.”
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 18h
So effectively, McCotter and Woodward have filed a judicial misconduct complaint to Steve Colloton about Schiltz bc Schiltz MAY have repeated something he wrote in a public letter to Steve Colloton in an interview--or maybe journo got it from public letter. emptywheel.net/2026/10/01/i...
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In Claiming Misconduct, Trent McCotter and Stan Woodward Fabricated Key Claims - emptywheel
Among the many wildly unethical things Trent McCotter and Stan Woodward do to frame Judge Patrick Schiltz with a misconduct complaint is quote something he said in a document filed in court as if it n...
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 18h
NEW: It's that time of year: time to launch my annual guide to November's elections! I guide you through over *650* interesting elections, & why they matter. Judges, AGs, govs, mayors, lawmakers, AGs, county & school boards—plus many (many) ballot measures. Oh, & Congress. Explore & bookmark!
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Your Cheat Sheet to the 2026 General Elections - Bolts
Congressional races will take center stage on Nov. 3, but they’re just the tip of what to watch. Prosecutors and governors, attorneys general and sheriffs, school boards and mayors, utility... Read Mo...
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 17h
Do yourself a favor and read this for your local elections before you fill our your ballot. It's really useful now and will be really useful after the election.
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Ira 'Bluebeard Homer' Goldman @kdbyproxy.bsky.social · 18h
This is really good, both for its substance and the craft that went into creating it.
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Ariel Edwards-Levy @aedwardslevy.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I think this qualifies you to be time's person of the year
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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 16h
If I went to Switzerland and won a Swiss watch precision contest, I would literally never talk about anything else
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 14h
Sorry: Here's a link to the Klan Act. It effectively says they targeted Somalis and Latinos and Good got (literally) caught in crossfire. I got distracted in a long section on far right propagandists like Nick Shirley. legacy.www.documentcloud.org/documents/28...
legacy.www.documentcloud.org
DocumentCloud
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 14h
Renee Good's family filed two lawsuits today. The first, against, USG, is a standard wrongful death. The second is a Klan Act lawsuit against Jonathan Ross, AND STEPHEN MILLER and Greg Bovino. It names Nick Shirley and Christopher Rufo as non-party co-conspirators for their racist propaganda.
44. At all relevant times, Defendants Ross, Miller, Noem, Lyons, Homan,
Bovino, and the John Doe Federal Agents acted under color of federal law and within the
scope of a joint enterprise with the private actors described below. Defendant
Lewandowski acted in part under color of federal law and in part, as alleged below, as a
private person, his federal status having been limited to a temporary part-time designation
that his conduct exceeded. Shirley, Rufo, and Ben Bergquam, and the other non-party
private actors described below, agreed to and in fact participated in the conspiracy alleged
here: each acted in concert with, and with the knowledge and encouragement of, federal
officials.
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 13h
So if Aakash Singh told Boutros he had to try again to indict the woman his buddy Mike Davis ordered him to charge with a conspiracy charge, then you've hit paydirt.
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Jon Seidel @jonseidel.bsky.social · 13h
Perry says she'll create a list of issues she wants further evidence on. However it's presented, it "has to be under oath, under penalties of perjury. And I'm telling you right now, it will be considered material to the court's decision."
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Jon Seidel @jonseidel.bsky.social · 13h
Perry: "It's often said that the cover-up is worse than the crime."
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